recovery

[sabbathareking]

I absolutely adore falco, he's fast, powerful, has imo the best projectile in the game, good in the air, excellent on the ground and has plenty of kill options. But there's one thing that always lets me down and that's his recovery, in my experience it's so bad, i can't understand how people can rely on him on a competitive level? are there some secrets to his recovery that i'm not privy to? (only been playing smash for 4 months) any advice on how to get back on the stage with more ease?

 

[ChrisRoxal]

you can always sweet spot your UpB at the edge, this migth be weird at first but with little practice it will become really easy, same goes for the SideB, also I dont know how to do it like the pros but you can also shorten your SideB for mix ups, that one should help alot since I hear you can shorten it 2 times giving you more potions, you can always shine stall and then recover, this will also work for mixing it up, and always mix up your recovery since the recovery, Falco's recovery is bad enough as it is so you really dont want to become to predictable for your opponent, also almost forgot to that wavedashing back into the stage is also a great option, hope this helps

 

[Teran]

Falco is a glass cannon. The key to playing him is overwhelming your opponent with offensive pressure and not giving the breathing room to set up any meaningful offence on you.

Once it happens, you're pretty much dead, which you seem to have figured out. Spacies aren't just difficult because of the tech!

 

[AirFair]

Pretty much the above. Sweetspot if you can, or mix up recovering high and low. Once you start to understand how Falco's pressure is so good, you hopefully won't need to be recovering as often.

 

[7upjawa]

If you are to the side of the stage when hit you can use shine to stop your momentum, jump out of shine, and phantasm as a mixup. Don't do it too often, because its not too hard to punish. Shining into firefox can also help sometimes.

 

[seko08sk]

Di is going help a lot
Also if on dreamland or Yoshi's take advantage of that wall and wall jump .
People l say fox band other can punish this but thats why teching exists to help you
Basically have no habits when you recover so they don't read you as often

 

[MALVM MALVM]

A lot of people forget how strong an option just double jumping to grab the edge is. There are also some places off the stage where you can edge cancel a side b, cancel the side b and grab the edge, up b at a high angle and get on a platform, straight up to grab edge, or down to insta-sweetspot the edge. Finding situations where your opponent can't guess what you're going to do or conditioning your opponent to guess wrong super helps. Honestly, I think Falco's recovery is better than a lot of characters. In terms of distance, yeah it's not that great, but in terms of mixups, it's amazing. Look at Marth; his recovery is way longer than Falco's, but I think it's way more straightforward to edgeguard him than Falco and if he recovers from further than Falco can, you can always just Marth killer and kill him anyway.

 

[Boomhound]

Everything's been covered I think, just remember that no option is bad if you get back onstage safely-
so get comfortable with wall-jumping, shortening sideBs, aerial dodging and even upB-ing straight up in some cases.

Take note of what your opponent tends to cover and work from there.

 

[StealthyPanda122]

A big problem is that if you're below the stage and your double jump won't reach the ledge, you have to firebird, and that is slow and easy to react to.

A little-used but effective option is using the double jump to reach the wall, and wall jump -> bair or airdodge on stage. This is a good mixup and catches people off guard. One can also walljump -> shortened phantasm to the ledge. The momentum will carry you to the ledge and either go under most edgeguard attempts or throw off the edgeguarder's timing.

This doesn't work on battlefield or PS cuz no walls.

I don't have enough posts to post a link but if you look up SSS 28 m2k v westballz and go to 15:20 you'll see westballz use both the bair and airdodge options effectively.

 

[BirdLordMasterBeak]

On stages with walls, I like to try and ride the wall (and either aim for a sweetspot or landing just on the edge of the stage). When you get pretty close to the ledge, hit R (or L) hit the jump button of your choice, and hold the c-stick towards the stage. That way if your opponent tries to edgeguard you, you get ASDI into the stage and have already input the command to wall jump tech It might take a while to get used to doing this but it can be very effective in recovering (especially against a marth who will still be in fsmash lag when you phantasm him out of your wall jump