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What do you mean by that?Kage please change your name back. Please.
lol.. A swift kick to the face is all I need.i think hydro kirby aka miharu aka kage should've kept his kage name, so we could have a norcal vs canada divine shadow rivalry.
I actually agree with pretty much all of this. When you're fully focusing on a match, and all of that pressure is there, it's hard to think through everything you're going to do(but I think this is supposed to change actually once you become super good so stay tuned on this thought) so people tend to resort to what they already know about the matchup/opponent and don't try to take in more new stuff so much as play off of what they know as best as they can.In martial arts thinking is not supposed to happen because a person who thinks is not fast enough in a fight. As a result (at least in Chinese martial arts) the training consists in conditioning the body so that it will automatically react in a certain way when the fight occurs.
In a similar way, I think people who play instinctively have an easier time dealing with Melee's hardcore speed and the extremely high amount of information they have to process. At least as far as the "technical" aspects of the game are concerned (knowing timings, spacing, priority, etc.).
I've always thought knowledge of the game data is somewhat trivial, and I've been surprised lately by the amount of information the other Italians are, unlike me, aware of. There's no need to know the frames in which Falco can be shield grabbed during pillaring, as long as you know that pillaring is not invincible. And there is no need to know at which % certain comboes can be landed as long as you have the natural skill to follow up an enemy and keep a combo going.
Lately, however, I've started to think that active thinking can be very helpful while playing. If on the other hand it means drawing some of your attention from the "instinctive" side of the game, on the other one I think it might be more effective in preventing stupid behaviour on your part as well as in finding out and exploiting your opponent's habits.
In a nutshell, the way I see it is: Instinct helps you understanding the game (spacing, timings, priorities, etc.), Logic helps you understand your opponent (habits, good/bad decisions, etc.).
Instinct propelled players like Mango and Ken to the top, so I think it's fair to say that instinct-based play can be just as effective as knowledge-based play.I think both instinctual and knowledge based approaches are good. Knowledge based has a better rate of improvement, simply because its easier to analyse what went wrong and find a solution. Instinctual is better in the short term and generally gives you an advantage against someone of the same amount of skill.
As for not having time to think and play at the same time, I somewhat disagree. I have found myself a sort of short hand for playing and thinking at the same time. During downtime of mutual dash dancing and non-active movement I can organize my thoughts of previous conflicts and determine patterns to exploit later.
I have never considered the idea of character-based adjustments for this theory, but I suppose it's possible. With the amount of knowledge about the game expanding, it may be that players these days have to exercise their knowledge-based learning a little more than before in order to keep up with new information coming out(either of their own character or their opponents').because of the nature of ic's, the amount of tactics they can use is constantly expanding. so using them effectively is a matter of dedicated experimentation and application, which really does require just straight up knowledge and having to think a lot. i was always an instinctive player and based myself off chudat vids, and that's great for any starting ic's
but thinking about all their options and just doing things like... inventing new walls/mixups really helps. for ic's it really does require a bit of a balance.
knowing when to wd in = instinct all the way. no one sees that **** coming (unless they do.)
heheThanks everybody for the replies, its been good food for thought ^_^
PP, you'll also be glad to know that right now I hate falco vs marth (as falco), so you can laugh >___>
All my approaches constantly got shut down, it was obnoxious as hell. Then I was like "What would PP do?" and ended up just wavedashing really fast back and forth until marth did something silly =P
=DYa the more you play, the more you get consistent in the warrior spirit's case. It helped me Jv 5 someone today in Ganon/Falcon, I so wish it was recorded omg.. lol.
You can play the game however you want to(within reason obviously) and be effective, but I've always been of the mind that whatever that involves should at least somewhat involve keeping stage control. Camping Marth is interesting in that he's forced to approach since he doesn't have a projectile, but it sucks in that Marth is **** at controlling the stage. Maybe it could work if you found a way to condition Marth to approach only at certain times/spacings though.....That's a problem I constantly have too, in fact in this period I tend to play the match up in a "the more you run, the more you win" way. However I don't feel it to be the best approach to the problem as running away means constantly leaving room to Marth while Falco's strenght is supposed to be in pressure/stage control.
whatlol.. A swift kick to the face is all I need.
This is why I try to keep new topics coming as often as possible for the lazy people. =pi only read this thread when i see a new title up lol.
At the same fest I played tons of special Melee and NC is notorious for goofing off at tournaments half the time(once they're knocked out but sometimes even in tournament) so I get plenty of goof-off matches as well haha. I laugh a ton when I play with these guys here, but I just don't write about it since that isn't what threads in character boards should be about in my opinion. I'm motivated to improve and this board should be more serious so I figure I should keep the mood appropriate if possible.PeePee do you ever play for fun?you seem so serious about this game.
I know thats the best way to improve but you could also just play some other char and not think about how you could've played as falco all the time.
I've beaten Mango in the only Marth ditto we've played. =D Same for M2K. I would love to do more of them though because Marth dittos **** and it's definitely one of my better Marth matchups I feel haha. <3 Marthpp, u and mango should do a marth ditto at genesis. i'd pay to see it haha
My safer style is really good against Ganon, but the newer way I'm playing is more aggressive. Playing Linguini at Pound reminded me of how I needed to fight Ganon so hopefully I'll still be playing the matchup/Kage matchup correctly when we meet again. =)Learning styles... I have to play you again PP, because apparently your style completely counters my style for some reason and I want to know why.
Well I didn't understand because no matter which character you took, you still 3 stocked me like 12 times in a row. So I want to find out if I can use a style which could counter you instead if that's possible. =PMy safer style is really good against Ganon, but the newer way I'm playing is more aggressive. Playing Linguini at Pound reminded me of how I needed to fight Ganon so hopefully I'll still be playing the matchup/Kage matchup correctly when we meet again. =)
more fox. Your matches vs. hbox from a while back were very good and I'd really like to see more of it.Thoughts?
Didn't bring anything to record with, but I'll see if I can get something within the next 2 weeks(not playing anyone besides Twitch until Mango comes....I'll try to get him to record Marth dittos with me though. =p)put up some marth matches so we can help you go over them?
Yeah he posted in the thread saying he was thinking about going lol.Hbox is thinking about going to G6?
Definitely continue experimenting with Falco. You are probably the most exciting Falco player right now considering your recent major wins. If anyone is going to introduce something new into Falco's gameplay, it is probably going to be you. You have already done some interesting things so it would be great to see where else you take the character.Another thing I figure I'd note here:
I am not good enough yet to start learning to have my secondaries become other tournament "viable" characters. I say this because I went to a fest last weekend and played against a Peach main, Dop with my Marth a ton in order to try to bring Marth back(I think too many people think Marth sucks when I think he ***** so I was working on improving him). Dop is good at the Marth matchup and is ranked 3rd in NC(he's no scrub) so I figured he'd be a good way to gauge how I was at the moment with Marth(I play Marth a good amount already). Dop was working me for a bit, and I didn't win much initially. At the end of the night, after some bouts with my confidence, I was able to usually win(majority anyway) vs Dop with some 3 stocks here and there. Still, I wasn't satisfied with my play and realized by the end of the fest that I could have put more time into working on new Falco ideas I had instead of trying to bring a whole character back. I felt like I cheated myself and Dop too(he wanted to play my Falco but wasn't pushy about it). From now until I feel even more confident in my own abilities(where I can take a loss with secondaries better <.<) I'm going to stick to improving my Falco because he is the character that will take me the farthest overall.
Disclaimer: I still plan on playing my other characters vs Twitch at least/in random friendlies as well since those other characters are fun and knowing how to play them helps me remember how to beat them/what a matchup is like from the other side. I just plan on focusing on myself and my own goals before working on things like Marth to help others/my side projects out.
Thoughts?
I wasn't really going to quit working on Falco haha, just put a lot of extra time into a secondary or two for now. I decided against that until later(though I may upload some stuff of them just to see what people think eventually). I definitely want to see what else I can do with Falco because he will take me the farthest obviously haha.Definitely continue experimenting with Falco. You are probably the most exciting Falco player right now considering your recent major wins. If anyone is going to introduce something new into Falco's gameplay, it is probably going to be you. You have already done some interesting things so it would be great to see where else you take the character.
<33333333hello, thread.
goodbye, thread.
heard you beat m2k in marth dittos at WGF.I wasn't really going to quit working on Falco haha, just put a lot of extra time into a secondary or two for now. I decided against that until later(though I may upload some stuff of them just to see what people think eventually). I definitely want to see what else I can do with Falco because he will take me the farthest obviously haha.
Thanks for the input. =)
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You sir are amazing.Well, just one, but it was a 2 stock and yeah I did. Maybe he wasn't warmed up though?
I'd like to play a lot with him for sure either way. =)
I feel like no one really directly responded to you so i figured i might as well...Another thing I figure I'd note here:
I am not good enough yet to start learning to have my secondaries become other tournament "viable" characters. I say this because I went to a fest last weekend and played against a Peach main, Dop with my Marth a ton in order to try to bring Marth back(I think too many people think Marth sucks when I think he ***** so I was working on improving him). Dop is good at the Marth matchup and is ranked 3rd in NC(he's no scrub) so I figured he'd be a good way to gauge how I was at the moment with Marth(I play Marth a good amount already). Dop was working me for a bit, and I didn't win much initially. At the end of the night, after some bouts with my confidence, I was able to usually win(majority anyway) vs Dop with some 3 stocks here and there. Still, I wasn't satisfied with my play and realized by the end of the fest that I could have put more time into working on new Falco ideas I had instead of trying to bring a whole character back. I felt like I cheated myself and Dop too(he wanted to play my Falco but wasn't pushy about it). From now until I feel even more confident in my own abilities(where I can take a loss with secondaries better <.<) I'm going to stick to improving my Falco because he is the character that will take me the farthest overall.
Disclaimer: I still plan on playing my other characters vs Twitch at least/in random friendlies as well since those other characters are fun and knowing how to play them helps me remember how to beat them/what a matchup is like from the other side. I just plan on focusing on myself and my own goals before working on things like Marth to help others/my side projects out.
Thoughts?
My roommate of 2 years is a Luigi main hahai feel guilty because their best matchup becomes puff and they never get to play one in tournament because there are so few puff mains
lol... thats true i guess, I wish i got to play luigi's more... then mabye i could beat Vist... one day.... one day....My roommate of 2 years is a Luigi main haha
I just get to beast on soooo many Luigis in tournament now
It actually helped me make it into round 2 pools of ROM3 because I had Vudujin in my pool and had to 2-0 him to advance me and Copycat instead of having it be a 3 way tie xD
Yay a wall! <3I feel like no one really directly responded to you so i figured i might as well...
I actually have the same problem when i play in friendlies. I will play my falco a lot, partially because I'm just trying to play a different character (and like you said it helps me understand the puff vs. falco matchup more), but I mainly do it because everyone hates fighting puff so much. Even when i play my friends that don't mind playing my puff, i feel guilty because their best matchup becomes puff and they never get to play one in tournament because there are so few puff mains, so i feel like they don't get good tourney practice.
Anyway, every time after i play i go home thinking that i should have just played puff, because I had some new stuff to work out. I feel especially bad when i go to tournaments and my puff isn't warmed up, because ive been playing falco for 80% of my friendlies for the past week before the tournament.
Thats kinda my own situation, so back to what you said, I can understand why you want to show why marth is good. I think too many people see you destroy M2k's marth, and think it is the character. You play the matchup so well that it looks like marth has no options, but he obviously does, however, instead of realizing this and giving you all the credit, they tend to think its the character and claim that falco is the best character in game (of course acknowledge that you are good, they don't give enough credit imo).
But don't worry about them, if you beat M2k in marth dittos, they would have plenty of johns lined up anyway so its not worth it. I think you should continue to push falco and not worry what other people think about the other characters. I was actually arguing with someone yesterday about how Hbox is so underrated because people think its just puff. He was telling me that he beat all of Hbox's secondaries and they are bad and i told him that is because he focused all his time on puff to become better faster. The guy said that its because that was the only character he could do well with....
He said that like it was a bad thing, but i feel like that is what you are supposed to do. Pick a character that suits your style and try to push them to their limit. I feel like thats what you are doing and i don't think you should stop.
tl;dr: I approve of your decision.