yo crush I kinda believe in you so I'll match you vs sinji. he can have a $10 mm if you put in $5.
yo trahh im super terrible against cfal, but I'll point out some things that really stand out:
big things:
1) you FH and DJ too much. its just not useful and is extremely risky. if you're in a situation where you have to DJ to get safe again, you did soemthing wrong in getting yourself there and need to think about it
2) once your opponent has the ledge, let him have it. dont try to force him off. stay on stage to where you can pressure and control his movement whatever he chooses, but not so close that he has options that will kill you if you guess wrong.
3) i like your use of shinegrabs.
4) why the hell did you let him go FD first game? you're clearly way out of your element there.
5) every time you run at him and dont jump you dash attack through his shield except on rare occasion, when you didnt run past your IDA, you DD.
critique:
:07 your run in nair was super not safe. if he had SH naired you would have been ****ed.
:10 dont dash attack heavy characters at 20%!!
:12 bair on shield is only safe if you hit with the tip. you started this out spaced okay and then drifted into him to give him a free shield grab. be more careful; i know it's tempting to just shield pressure CF all day but you cant turn every shield hit into pressure.
Additionally, against CF, an early bair like that is likely to nto ever be safe, because if he sh nairs you fast enough i'm not entirely sure you can land and be safe before you get hit.
:22 uair could not have been the best choice. on any DI he would have had, at worst, a high on-stage recovery situation that he had a good chance of surviving. A nair might have gotten him far enough off stage to reliably edgeguard, and a weak bair might ahve lead to a combo.
:23 dont try to challenge with utilt like that. he's already out of your clutches; let him go and try to retain some stage control or pressure or laser him or something, you can't force winning engagements
:25 getting naired like that should have happened to you way more, BE CAREFUL
:28 you had time to react and not fsmash im pretty sure
:30 you could have grabbed the ledge. your dair thing would have worked too but is harder to time. ledgegrab and then a bair would have been reliable and easy.
:35 two things: one, you need to stop thinking that because you had an advantageous situation 5 seconds ago you need to press for one now. he was free and out of your control and you need to respect that. two, approach with nair - dair has far too little range. you wouldnt have hit him anyway in this situation but it would ahve been way closer.
:45 idj single laser while your opponent is on the ledge? twice?
:48 that shine oos -> bair was nice but risky. shoulda just been in a beter spot. my point here is that you did the right thing but you could have positioned yourself to not need to do something risky.
1:00 this is fun but like, just actually doesnt work. a simple shine -> get back on stage before he does can work, or trying to ledgeguard him, or grab ledge or something. what you did tends to fail badly though
1:07 is just unfortunate
1:13 this didnt work last time either bro
1:25 seems like you just need practice edgeguarding cfal, you had this one. charge fsmash i think would ahve been simplest
1:38 dont dair here!!! if he techs in you dont have time to keep ******. try fair or nair mindgames
first stock of game two: DAMN!
3:54 that uair **** doesnt work man
3:56 standing there waiting and then utilting was awful ballsy. if he had had better spacing/timing you woulda gotten ****ed
4:40 noooo dont laser when they're right there
4:45 nice read! i hate it when silly tech slipups mess things up
5:25ish damn that was some slick movement and good choices.
okay i think that's enough.
you play this matchup as if it's one where you can force situations, which you really can't. CF is worse than you, but nto so much so that you can just do what you want. you will find against better CFs that a lot of the times you try to attack or set up more pressure you will get destroyed.
Interestingly, despite that, you havent learned how to edgeguard him well, which is one of the areas you really can force an advantage to turn into a stock most of the time. you should definitely practice that.
