I try to only do it when I know I can't be punished for it lol, it's a habit I do since I used to not be good at the pivot, and I still have in the back of my head, "If I **** up, I'm definitely eating damage". Even though I rarely mess it up now, I still do that as it's guaranteed for me not to mess it up. If someone is fast enough to chase me that quickly, instinct is to pivot. Plus if I use it so often they'll get more used to it.
And as Norn said jab has a farther range and is quick.
from useless jumping in general im going to point out how many times you got punished for it in your mm w/ false who's not even like punishing you every time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK4TRpRKOGA
:31 instead of going under the nair, you jump away onto the ledge /loss of stage control
:35 from the loss of stage control you opt to jump again (not a bad option but you did choose to jump again, and got punished)
:40 instead of punishing his bad landing you jumped, then missed a bair for a punish
:58 you DJumped and false guess the landing afterwards and you got grabbed
1:15 was probably a smart place to try and do it actually, but i felt you where there for no reason. you looked flustered/scared or like not as smart about what you where doing after the edge guard for a bit, but he felt you only lightly, so you only got jabbed though.
1:18 if you where grounded it would have been easier, but you jumped preemptively for no reason and missed a punish on nair and took some %
1:44
Loss of stock
/you switch to zelda and got hit by nades (not exploding) a bunch here for no reason, but honestly i think im like the only person who gets salty about the little percent but it's like 5 or something so gay. so I'll just continue on.
2:29 dash attacked a landing on your zelda
2:33 nades your zelda when you jumped (you could have airdodged but then he also can just hit the landing at the spacing)
2:44 preemptive jump got you weak baired /zelda,
3:03 you fell through the platform then jumped into the nair?
3:11 jumps into nade
3:21 get ftilted
3:25 you get jab-ftilted for doing it to obviously from the ledge
4:00 loss of stock for jumping into bair, you should have recovered at a lower angle
these are not times you should have been punished
or could have been punished
or whatever
these are times you got directly hit for no reason. you had very little overall reward in comparison. you had like some string at 3:40 or something that really looked... well tbh it just seemed like awkward reactions from both players and not a reliable way to start something vs better ones.
im not saying not to jump ever.
but it should be clear that you at least need to think more before doing it if it's getting you hit this often in general regardless of the options you're doing out of it. this isn't sheik specific or whatever, just general basic gameplay and i feel if you learned not to have this problem and when to walk you would be much more consistent as a player.
