Practice vs. multiple CPUs at once

[Wenbobular]

Inspired by seeing Cyrain beat up on a Pichu and a Marth (or something) in FFA and a humorous s2j post involving warming up with 3 ICs on Yoshi's Story I decided to try it out on my own (Marth and Falcon on a team with friendly fire off)

I think it's a good practice for doing moves under pressure if you pretend them walking toward you is a teammate rushing over to save their partner or that Marth ambling over to Fsmash you unless you shorten or do a perfect ledgedash

Also it's incentive to practice moves without watching yourself, but rather focusing on your opponents ... which I think is pretty important if you want to either try to observe your opponents patterns while not worrying about whether or not you're doing moves right, or being more aware of backstabbing Falcons and stuff like that in teams

Thoughts?
Is this like, dinosaur old and I'm behind the times or is it a good idea that not everyone does?
Or am I just full of it haha

Doesn't seem as applicable for practicing other characters because Fox is super speedy and kinda requires your **** to be on point to even get close to playing at optimal speed and I think it's just harder to do Fox stuff without looking at your character (which is what I was having problems with, I watched me do tech skill a little too much)

Specific stuff it helps with:

Lcanceling on different numbers of people (gets you in the habit of doubletapping L to compensate for lag if hit more people than you expected)
Waveshining multiple directions
Not watching your silly Fox as you practice
Ledgedashing under pressure (if you have a good imagination <.< alternatively pretend your opponent is a CPU in tournament )

 

[Cyrain]

Was I drunk when this occurred? I don't usually do that LOL. If I'm warming up tech skill, I'll usually put it on one of a few specific characters and just run basic combo trains on them to get my rhythm going, but I don't usually do it vs. 2 CPUs haha. Seems like a legitimate idea though. I DO, however, enjoy practicing 2v1 matches against real people. It's not often that I can convince people to do it, but I think it's amazing practice. My 4 stocks vs their combined 8 stocks, team attack on, as if it had come down to a clutch 2v1 in teams tournament or something. It's amazing practice.

 

[Wenbobular]

Especially because Fox is fast enough to fight almost on par with a lot of 2v1 teams that don't also involve a Fox

Fox too good @_@

And uhh ... it was at the Sypher's you came to before the ranking tournament (which was like, waaaay back and I only just thought of this now when I got bored of beating up on Marth) so uhh ... I don't think you were drunk then xD

 

[Cyrain]

Hahaha I'm usually drunk. I just don't make it too obvious unless I'm real wasted. >_> Aaannndddd yea, Fox is amazing for 2v1s. It's not like I come down to 2v1's very often (Though I guess it paid off at Zenith ^_~) but it's just a great thing to practice in general. Really, really puts heavy pressure on you and forces you to pay attention to more things than you're used to dealing with. I always take the 2v1 practice very seriously and it teaches you to make extremely safe decisions, to come up with creative gimps/combos on the fly and not to miss any of your technical ****, otherwise you more or less get 0-death'd. I suggest this exercise for anyone who has 2 players at or below his skill level that are willing to kick his *** for a while.

 

[ZetTroxX]

Sweet idea...gonna try that soon.

 

[SpeedyJ]

I'm keen to try this, because I don't have many playmates. xD

Edit: ANY playmates. T^T

 

[Brookman]

I've done this before, with star-men. It's . . . nevermind.

 

[ArcNatural]

Hahaha I'm usually drunk. I just don't make it too obvious unless I'm real wasted. >_> Aaannndddd yea, Fox is amazing for 2v1s. It's not like I come down to 2v1's very often (Though I guess it paid off at Zenith ^_~) but it's just a great thing to practice in general. Really, really puts heavy pressure on you and forces you to pay attention to more things than you're used to dealing with. I always take the 2v1 practice very seriously and it teaches you to make extremely safe decisions, to come up with creative gimps/combos on the fly and not to miss any of your technical ****, otherwise you more or less get 0-death'd. I suggest this exercise for anyone who has 2 players at or below his skill level that are willing to kick his *** for a while.

KDJ was AMAZING at 2v1s. He used to money match as Sheik/Fox/Falcon lol. Good times.

But yeah sticking 2-3 cpus on either via ffa or w/e (even doing 2v2 but turning friendly fire on and hitting your teammate) can be a refreshing way to make sure you hit every l-cancel while at the same time picking very specific spots to attack.

 

[Black Fire]

Idk, I feel like my ability to play real people gets worse when I play computers. they play so much different than people, that my tactics have to change when playing either.

 

[FluxWolf]

Yeah when practicing a lot vs cpu's you never want to get into habits of just running in and doing w.e... gotta imagine in your head what a good approach would be/practice dash dancing even though CPU's don't enforce needing the mindgames much.