Rargh!!! Baaaaad habit!

[Ophelius]

I don't know what to do. I know what gets me into the most trouble in my matches. I play like plairnkk does easily, it's just that the shield comes as more of a curse to me than anything else right now. I try to stop doing it, but i can't. I need some advice people. How do I fix this?

 

[Tristan_win]

Not trying to sound rude but could you rephrase your question?

 

[Ophelius]

I'm trying to get out of the habit of shielding whenever i get attacked, but, like a bad habit, it ain't goin away that easy.

 

[CopyCat]

When a person is attacking you try to WD back, roll, or just sidestep. You may also be shielding a lot if your constantly being pushed back so either run or attack the character to get space.
This is all I could truly tell you with the info you gave.

 

[Malk]

Just play friendlies without ever shielding. You'll get punished a lot at first by good players without your primary defensive move, but you'll slowly get used to using a wavedash to dodge, spot dodging, or out-prioritizing an attack. Or you'll get frustrated and give up, but that's kinda the only way. Losing friendlies isn't important if you're getting better.

 

[joejoe22802]

Yea I had a similar problem. All you have to do is to replace this with something else. After you find a 2nd option your enemy can exploit that. From there you just get more and more options and it will increase your array of choices

 

[brickman]

I found myself in your position not too long ago. Are you shielding mainly against space animals? Probably. Okay, things to do in this situation. If you do end up shielding just do a n-air out of your shield and then wave land away and reposition yourself. But if you are playing correctly, this wont be necessary.

You should always focus on being aggressive against space animals, otherwise they will easily dominate you. Needles, down smashes, grabs, and tech chase/punishing should dominate your matches. If you do it correctly they should be off the stage with a needle in their face at 70% falling to their death as you quickly get onto the edge with some fast fallen reverse needles.

Just work on being aggressive is all that I'm trying to get across to you.

 

[Ophelius]

Oooh. Nair out of it... hehehe. They won't be expecting that.

 

[Plairnkk]

nair out of shield is too good

 

[The Great Gonzales]

nair out of shield is too good

shien beats it if spce animals time correctly there so ****ing fast

 

[Plairnkk]

shien beats it if spce animals time correctly there so ****ing fast

yeah im gonna stop trying it vs spacies esp falco cuz i got ***** yesterday for trying it vs multishining falcos. lol

 

[The Great Gonzales]

yeah i dint want to play fox but i need to
in order to beat falco

 

[RyNo 86]

You could try crouch canceling some.

 

[Ophelius]

WOOHOO!!! Plank's unbanned! Whatcha do?