Real Critique

[Squirt]

http://www.twitch.tv/v4extreme/b/335457916

I hate to ask for critique of 9 hours of play...but this is my first real stuffs and I'm super pumped about improving.

My suggestion: click around till you get to the beginning of a random match, reply to this thread with the beginning and end times and critique the match or set of matches.

I'd say don't judge the first couple of hours that hard because by the end of the nigh I was already making improvements.

Keep in mind that this was the first time I am playing real people and for a while I honestly didn't know how to react to some stuff.

I'm P3 the whole time.

 

[Squirt]

I broke it down a bit by taking some matches out to view on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RWRCxpaiyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BeJZLUp3qw

More to come.

 

[Ballin]

I'm a marth main trying to switch to falco.
I didn't watch much of it, but this is the first thing that popped out to me.

First of all, this is PAL right?
I know dair is different in PAL, but you seem to be using the nair too often as an approach even when dair would set up/combo better. But that could be because it's PAL... idk.
You do the same thing every time in neutral game. Your opponent isn't picking up on it, but you seem to shoot a single laser and approach with nair every time in neutral.
Also, pay attention to missed techs. You miss the punishment on those sometimes.
The other thing is, when you're backed up against the edge, you always full jump cause you're mad nervous ( i would be too ), but opponents will usually pick up on that after you do that a couple times and just jump and bair you off the stage and ur dead lol.

But I'm very impressed how well you played.
Last thing... I don't know falco very well, but in dittos, I think you should be keeping your combos longer than what you're doing. You end it with bair a lot when you can string other things to extend it. Also, keep in mind that when you finish a string of hits, try to position yourself to prepare for how they respond.

I'm sure falco mains can add a lot more.
Keep practicing =)

 

[Squirt]

I'm a marth main trying to switch to falco.
I didn't watch much of it, but this is the first thing that popped out to me.

First of all, this is PAL right?
I know dair is different in PAL, but you seem to be using the nair too often as an approach even when dair would set up/combo better. But that could be because it's PAL... idk.
You do the same thing every time in neutral game. Your opponent isn't picking up on it, but you seem to shoot a single laser and approach with nair every time in neutral.
Also, pay attention to missed techs. You miss the punishment on those sometimes.
The other thing is, when you're backed up against the edge, you always full jump cause you're mad nervous ( i would be too ), but opponents will usually pick up on that after you do that a couple times and just jump and bair you off the stage and ur dead lol.

But I'm very impressed how well you played.
Last thing... I don't know falco very well, but in dittos, I think you should be keeping your combos longer than what you're doing. You end it with bair a lot when you can string other things to extend it. Also, keep in mind that when you finish a string of hits, try to position yourself to prepare for how they respond.

I'm sure falco mains can add a lot more.
Keep practicing =)

Thanks for the critique. I don't think this this is PAL, I picked it up at my local gamestop a few months back... so, it should say something different if it is pal right?

I've looked over a lot of this and noticed the same thing. I tend to want to approach after a single laser so it becomes predictable. It comes from approaching lv 9 CPU fox too much (works every time) I read on some other critique about DDing in between lasers to mix it up so my opponent won't know when I am really going to approach.

Full hop from edge: I honestly didn't notice how often I did that, thanks.
Missed techs: Your totally right. v4extreme was watching for all my get up attacks and I almost never picked up on his.
As for longer combos, it'll come. I'm just not used to comboing a real person yet so I tend to take what I know I can get, which usually ends in a quick shinedair or shinebair after barely starting a combo.

Thanks a lot for the response. I grabbed those two clips out of the 9 hours of stuff we initially recorded so I'm going to post more.

 

[Somaiah]

My advice would be to work on punishing and comboing more. A lot of opportunities to continue/begin combos appear, but your shouldn't just wait for a tech - be ambitious!

 

[Ballin]

ambitious = how falco gets gimped =P

 

[Somaiah]

Well, being ambitious and knowing your options is better than not knowing them at all xD

 

[Twinkles]

Being ambitious gets you kills you'd never dream of before!
Being stupid about it though will get you killed. Very, very quickly.