jbobs you're forgetting the fact that 2/7 gimps is still much higher than what you are implying, not to mention that a single gimp is enough to completely ruin momentum and lose a match, like in shiz's case vs m2k.
Much higher than I'm implying? The only thing I'm implying is that the commonly held belief that "falco is so easy to gimp" is largely overrated and exagerrated, especially considering a success rate of only 28% from
the best gimper in the history of melee vs shiz (who is likely most gimp-prone falco due to his general playstyle but thats neither here nor there)
"Throw him offstage and he dies" would imply a success rate of 100% and yet that isnt even close to the truth.
If anything, the shiz vs m2k set serves only to further my point that falco's ability to be gimped is incredibly overrated by the community and is skewed towards either single, isolated, famous incidents (as sited) or playing bad falcos (why would we base anything on low level metagame)
The ability to ruin momentum and lose a match are completely outside the context of this discussion, and are balanced/offset by a million other factors which also have the ability to "ruin momentum and lose a match"