remember in the interview on stab's channel where mango said "you bring some tactic back from 2007 and it *****" or something like that? well he did.
from what i observed, he brought back the old style of pillaring where you do differently timed dairs in the middle of someone's shield, rather than the popular 2010~2011 tactic of spacing away from shields with nairs and bairs. like mango said, shield pressure is a beautiful thing. you have to mix it up. he did do the pbody stuff that he always does to bait shield grabs.. most of the time, if falcos do that too much, people won't fall for it. however, mango was doing a LOT of conditioning with his shield pressure this tournament, and those mixups are what got him very destructive wins.
heck, there were times where he would just straight up laser forward smash. sometimes people don't block after getting approached by lasers. mango not only has reads, but very excellent ways to condition his opponent.
i know pp definitely had the sickness johns, and we could see it pretty vividly in the way that he played. however, a lot of viewers at the tournament made comparisons to mango that pp wasn't able to mixup his style at all, and that's another reason he lost so badly to armada. we'll see what he has to say about it when he returns to this thread, though.
