Shield Cancelled Grabs not as useful as we thought?

[Lovage 805]

When people first found Shield Cancelled Grabs, it was instantly applied to De's chaingrab. I had the import, I've been playing Wifi more than a healthy limit, and I honestly don't see the advantage of using them. A marginal range increase (really marginal) for a button combo that has way more room for error. And I have yet to find a character I can't CG with regular dashgrabs that I can with SCGs.

Am I doing them poorly, or do you guys have a similar feeling.

 

[raichur0xx0rz]

It's true that it's not always necessary for his chain grab, but as an overall technique, it's better than using a standard dash grab. The whiffs for a missed dash grab are really bad in this game. If you keep using SC grabs then you won't mess it up. Kinda like wavedashing was; just keep doing it and it'll become second nature.

 

[limitbreak]

I find that its pretty useful for chain grabbing certain characters (Sonic off the top of my head). Besides, that rolling animation at the end of a dash grab does more harm than good.

 

[Meta_Sonic64]

How exactly do you shield cancel grab for his chaingrab. I've been using his dash grab and it's worked just fine. I've won most of my matches today with D3 on Wi-Fi , but I want to learn the shield cancel grab now so I can minimize my mistakes.

 

[Zenjamin]

M2K said he hasnt really found a use for it and has stopped doing it.

end of discussion.

 

[Locke66]

M2K isn't God. That being said, he's ridiculously good at smash and probably knows what he's talking about. BUT, there are many more pro smashers besides him so his word isn't final.

 

[pyro363]

I would say it is useful because if someone attacks you and you use the shield you could then grab into them and start and onslaught of combos

 

[Lovage 805]

I'm with M2K, I was doing it when I first learned about it, but it seemed to have little or no benefit for a lot more work.

 

[Vegeta214]

I agree with most of you guys that its better than doing a dash-grab because of the horrible roll animation. A SC grab isn't hard to do at all - you just press L/R and A with the right timing instead of Z - no biggy.

 

[I.T.P]

I think that a moving standing grab will allways be better than a normal dash grab, and seeing as I normally grab with R+A anyway, this is allways good for me