Hey guys, old school player here looking to come back into competitive Melee. I've recently begun to pick up Falco, but it needs a lot of work. I recently attended an amateur tournament last week which also had a recorded draft crew battle, so I got footage of a couple matches to pick apart at.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...UULTNJKajnb77cLqq_Pqa2lg&v=MgV0jrm5zZw#t=695s
Any critique would be appreciated. I've only been practising Falco's tech skill a week and a half prior to this video, so I know it needs a lot of work, but comments on what I could be applying rather than what I'm screwing up would be awesome.
at the beginning of the match u stale ur lasers by hitting him before he gets rid of his stock...
work on shine out of shield to get out of pressure
work on your laser height, mogwai has a good guide on that with gifs... you kept shooting them too high, just make sure you can control them really well
fox seems decent...
12:19- shine after spotdodging their grab is godlike, jab woulda been worse even if it hit cuz of crouch cancel etc.
13:14- again spotdodge shine woulda worked... its one of the most broken things falco has
lol **** fsmash at 13:17
14:17- coulda dair fsmashed, or something else, not sure why you started moving, just react
you get him to shield a lot with lasers, but then don't pressure the shield... once you get him in shield, go up and grab or shield pressure more
you did well vs the samus not much to say...
try to get more vids up after you practice more tech skill, lack of tech skill is too significant with falco... other than that, try to play a little more reactive, a lot of times it seems like you've already planned what you are going to do and don't adjust it according to your opponent's spacing, and you play to get single hits a little too much... thats not really what makes falco good, if you just wanna space and poke, i would recommend someone else, you should be trying to get solid hits that lead into autocombos (especially against fox) rather than a bunch of single hit bairs/rising dairs etc.