Practicing powershielding falco's lasers at home

[Jasou]

I've always been wanting to practice my powershielding because when I play falco dittos I find the fact that whoever spams lasers first will get the approach. (at least at my lv of play) Is there a good way to practice powershielding falco's lasers without humans? I can powershield most other projectiles 50% of the time, which is a lot better then my powershielding on lasers. I find spamming lasers kind of bleh, I still use them for edgeguards in the mu ofc.

 

[Squirt]

I heard that if you have action replay you can set an enemy falco to defensive mode in practice mode. Since he's in defensive mode he will hang back and shoot a lot of lasers.

But this is only if you have action replay. OR you can do what I do: Tell my little sister to press the little red B button, while I try to powershield at different distances.

 

[knightpraetor]

does anyone know whether DIing in when you hit shield results in the shield coming up angled or not?

 

[Elyssa Xey Hexen]

Alternatively, you can set the falco to lv 7-9 (forget which) and dash dance out of their range on FD. They will walk towards you and start lasering every few steps.

 

[Jasou]

Alright, thanks for the advice. I'll try the dash dancing out of his range, because I didn't know that would make him shoot again.

 

[Strong Badam]

does anyone know whether DIing in when you hit shield results in the shield coming up angled or not?

shield angling doesn't help PSing; the shield always starts neutral (the relevant PS bubble) then goes to the tilted position if you're holding a direction when you shield.

 

[stelzig]

You don't really need to dashdance to make a level 9 shoot again, he'll shoot again relatively often. I actually find falco's laser to be the easiest projectile to powershield too btw =/

If you play against level 9 falco on a stage like dreamland, then you can also practice stuff like powershielding aerials, shielddropping and other oos options against aerials by camping the left and right platform and abuse the AI (lol, I totally made this up thanks to my excessive experience with cruel melee strategies and knowing AI habits pretty well). Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiH65kh0qgU

 

[Jasou]

You don't really need to dashdance to make a level 9 shoot again, he'll shoot again relatively often. I actually find falco's laser to be the easiest projectile to powershield too btw =/

If you play against level 9 falco on a stage like dreamland, then you can also practice stuff like powershielding aerials, shielddropping and other oos options against aerials by camping the left and right platform and abuse the AI (lol, I totally made this up thanks to my excessive experience with cruel melee strategies and knowing AI habits pretty well). Like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiH65kh0qgU

Yeah it's opposite for me, it's hardest for me for some reason. My teammate I always practice with though has gotten amazing at powershielding falco's lasers because he plays me and another falco so much and I will use my lasers if I want to force an approach (and my other falco friend uses lasers constantly).

and thanks for the tips, I definitely need to practice everything I can.

 

[pkmaximum]

Power shielding is something I'm always trying to improve and become more consistent with. Practicing on AI is not a good idea though in my opinion; since AI doesn't SHL and do different tactics with their projectiles like human players do, you'll be unprepared for power shielding in a human matchup.