This was taken from the social thread.
Aside from practicing just chaingrabs you guys should try this:
Go and find every desynch you don't know how to do or can't do on command(assuming it's reasonable..for example my desynch no one can really do consistently apparently lol) and learn them. I don't care how long it takes or how boring it is but learn all of them. This gives you access to more options, even if some are worse then others you might find a use for them at some point, you never know.
Once you've done this and are practicing against actual players at smashfests instead of playing like you normally would try playing VERY basic. Not TOO basic but pretty much stop your normal desynching and focus on just moving around and using your shield a lot. While playing this way practice some of the more obscure desynchs in situations you wouldn't normally use them in. Just look for places to do stuff that you normally wouldn't or didn't know how to do before. After doing this a ton you will recognize a lot of situations that a lot of different desynchs will work in or lead to different results.
The reason you want to play without your normal desynching game is because your habits may blind you from options you have. If you normally approach someone with pivot desynch into blizz walls in a match-up then try just walking towards them. Mixing up everything you do leads to you finding things that work and allows you to have more options for those future tournament games when people are catching on to what you are doing.
One thing I love about watching different IC players no matter how good they are is that everyone seems to have so different of a style and most of it is revolved around desynching. For example I was watching Future play Fino in a match and saw him do a nice dash dance desynch to IB to grab as a reaction to something fino did. I wouldn't have done the same thing I would have set up IB walls where he was and kept my stage position which he had and possibly gotten a grab a different way from forcing a bad position, but his method worked quite well so I remembered it.
Which leads into my next things: videos.
Go watch some videos of Kakera. Lain. Meep. Me. SG. Cura. Future. Random IC player 1. etc. You don't need to specifically looking for playstyles or things they are doing better for you, but just pay attention to how differently so many people respond to situations, different desynching patterns, conditioning..avoid watching the match as a whole just look for things you can add into your game, and then practice them against people.
Even if things may not seem useful right away you can always change up your game when you need to if you have the options available to you. So go get those options guys.
Oh, and practice CGing.
Aside from practicing just chaingrabs you guys should try this:
Go and find every desynch you don't know how to do or can't do on command(assuming it's reasonable..for example my desynch no one can really do consistently apparently lol) and learn them. I don't care how long it takes or how boring it is but learn all of them. This gives you access to more options, even if some are worse then others you might find a use for them at some point, you never know.
Once you've done this and are practicing against actual players at smashfests instead of playing like you normally would try playing VERY basic. Not TOO basic but pretty much stop your normal desynching and focus on just moving around and using your shield a lot. While playing this way practice some of the more obscure desynchs in situations you wouldn't normally use them in. Just look for places to do stuff that you normally wouldn't or didn't know how to do before. After doing this a ton you will recognize a lot of situations that a lot of different desynchs will work in or lead to different results.
The reason you want to play without your normal desynching game is because your habits may blind you from options you have. If you normally approach someone with pivot desynch into blizz walls in a match-up then try just walking towards them. Mixing up everything you do leads to you finding things that work and allows you to have more options for those future tournament games when people are catching on to what you are doing.
One thing I love about watching different IC players no matter how good they are is that everyone seems to have so different of a style and most of it is revolved around desynching. For example I was watching Future play Fino in a match and saw him do a nice dash dance desynch to IB to grab as a reaction to something fino did. I wouldn't have done the same thing I would have set up IB walls where he was and kept my stage position which he had and possibly gotten a grab a different way from forcing a bad position, but his method worked quite well so I remembered it.
Which leads into my next things: videos.
Go watch some videos of Kakera. Lain. Meep. Me. SG. Cura. Future. Random IC player 1. etc. You don't need to specifically looking for playstyles or things they are doing better for you, but just pay attention to how differently so many people respond to situations, different desynching patterns, conditioning..avoid watching the match as a whole just look for things you can add into your game, and then practice them against people.
Even if things may not seem useful right away you can always change up your game when you need to if you have the options available to you. So go get those options guys.
Oh, and practice CGing.
), it helps your transition grabs as well as the ability to switch from weight to weight. Once I started practicing on them, I went from crap consistency to excellent. I also suggest practicing grabbing with Nana first, so you're not entirely clueless what to do if you drop a hobble and Nana picks it up, or your desynch goes wrong and nana does a supergrab and you happen to catch them.
