busken
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Any character's neutral game should be centered around converting into their win condition. Some character's have viable options into getting their win condition making them all the more viable. In this meta, a classic example would be Luigi. Luigi's win condition is obviously the grab because off it he has guaranteed kill-setups. Not only does Luigi have many tools to get the grab(fireball, u-tilt, sour spot nair, jab, etc) but these are all viable options in other aspects of the neutral such as approaching, spacing, and mix-ups. To make matters even worse, grab beats one of the most strongest defensive options in the game(shield).
Pikachu's win condition is converting edge guarding into a kill. If have watched any Pikachu's montages you'll see that more often then not that edge guarding and missed techs are often converted into kills. Pikachu's neutral game should basically consist of getting the opponent off-stage and covering tech options. Utilizing tools to achieve this goal is how to maximize Pikachu's viability as you are playing to your greatest strength.
Pikachu has many mix-ups in the edge guarding department such as QA into ledge trump and special move manipulation. As edge guarding is very MU dependent the most important thing to champion is option select and risk vs. reward. I encourage you to post videos on how you edge guarded a certain character and what options you considered. Getting the opponent out of neutral is the real challenge though. However, with QA ledge cancels,n-air, and d-tilt are great spacing options and can help lead into tech chases where option select and stage positioning are the most important things to consider.
In this thread, feel free on set-ups you use to get the opponent out of neutral, get stage control, and overall option select in tech chases and edge guarding. Character specific scenarios are encouraged as well. Feel free to share spacing options as well as combos that have flowchart formula for option select.
Pikachu's win condition is converting edge guarding into a kill. If have watched any Pikachu's montages you'll see that more often then not that edge guarding and missed techs are often converted into kills. Pikachu's neutral game should basically consist of getting the opponent off-stage and covering tech options. Utilizing tools to achieve this goal is how to maximize Pikachu's viability as you are playing to your greatest strength.
Pikachu has many mix-ups in the edge guarding department such as QA into ledge trump and special move manipulation. As edge guarding is very MU dependent the most important thing to champion is option select and risk vs. reward. I encourage you to post videos on how you edge guarded a certain character and what options you considered. Getting the opponent out of neutral is the real challenge though. However, with QA ledge cancels,n-air, and d-tilt are great spacing options and can help lead into tech chases where option select and stage positioning are the most important things to consider.
In this thread, feel free on set-ups you use to get the opponent out of neutral, get stage control, and overall option select in tech chases and edge guarding. Character specific scenarios are encouraged as well. Feel free to share spacing options as well as combos that have flowchart formula for option select.
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