danzibr
Smash Cadet
There are a few threads here on controller setup, but I wanted to target this in particular.
I switched from GCC to Pro Controller (well, I played Melee and Brawl and don't yet have the adapter). I used to be somewhat competitive. I was thinking it might be worthwhile to use the Pro Controller with a thumb on each stick, four fingers on the corresponding shoulder buttons, and never have to your digits during gameplay (well, away from their buttons/sticks).
Here was my setup
Tap jump off
ZL Shield
L Jump
ZR Attack
R Special
Right stick Attack*
A couple nights ago I was messing around with it for a few hours. Here are my thoughts.
Merits:
1) You don't have to move anything from one button to another (the entire point of this exercise).
2) You can easily do aerials losing no momentum, even nair.* I'm quite certain setting the right stick to Attack is the only way to do this. With your right thumb on the stick, it's now much more convenient. In particular, since you can hop backwards while not changing your direction if you time it right, as Mega Man you can hop back at full speed while spamming nair.
3) Tilts are very quick and easy to perform.
Demerits:
1) No grab button. Probably the easiest way to grab is ZL+ZR. Or as Pazx suggested, making all A, B, X and Y grab.
2) Have to ZR+direction to smash. No more easy flicking.
4) Nair is kind of hard to do with the right stick. After a couple hours I still messed up sometimes (but practice would obviate this point, of course).
EDIT: This use to be demerit 3: Years of muscle memory. As GdspdUblprzdnt mentioned, this can be viewed as a merit or demerit. The only-shoulders control setup is radically different from from the traditional setup, so your muscle memory shouldn't interfere (mine doesn't). However, you do have all that practice...
There might be other merits and demerits which I'm blanking on. In particular, setting your right stick to Attack rather than Smash or Special might block out some options.
Verdict: I'm going to go for it, and not just for the lulz.
*I set it to attack rather than smash because, it seems, you can't nair when it's set to smash.
I switched from GCC to Pro Controller (well, I played Melee and Brawl and don't yet have the adapter). I used to be somewhat competitive. I was thinking it might be worthwhile to use the Pro Controller with a thumb on each stick, four fingers on the corresponding shoulder buttons, and never have to your digits during gameplay (well, away from their buttons/sticks).
Here was my setup
Tap jump off
ZL Shield
L Jump
ZR Attack
R Special
Right stick Attack*
A couple nights ago I was messing around with it for a few hours. Here are my thoughts.
Merits:
1) You don't have to move anything from one button to another (the entire point of this exercise).
2) You can easily do aerials losing no momentum, even nair.* I'm quite certain setting the right stick to Attack is the only way to do this. With your right thumb on the stick, it's now much more convenient. In particular, since you can hop backwards while not changing your direction if you time it right, as Mega Man you can hop back at full speed while spamming nair.
3) Tilts are very quick and easy to perform.
Demerits:
1) No grab button. Probably the easiest way to grab is ZL+ZR. Or as Pazx suggested, making all A, B, X and Y grab.
2) Have to ZR+direction to smash. No more easy flicking.
4) Nair is kind of hard to do with the right stick. After a couple hours I still messed up sometimes (but practice would obviate this point, of course).
EDIT: This use to be demerit 3: Years of muscle memory. As GdspdUblprzdnt mentioned, this can be viewed as a merit or demerit. The only-shoulders control setup is radically different from from the traditional setup, so your muscle memory shouldn't interfere (mine doesn't). However, you do have all that practice...
There might be other merits and demerits which I'm blanking on. In particular, setting your right stick to Attack rather than Smash or Special might block out some options.
Verdict: I'm going to go for it, and not just for the lulz.
*I set it to attack rather than smash because, it seems, you can't nair when it's set to smash.
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