Social *sigh* oh the life of a Zelda main [A new zelda discussion zone]

[TheLake]

Use em both dart heart!

Naryus out of shield is siiiiick

but yeah you like warrant absolute carnage upon your being

if you fail

ive had so many pepole tell me

every time i lose to a falco (somehow ^_^)

that i should have used it

lol maybe there right?

Zelda is gonna get really popular in tourney eventually

you heard it here first

shieks are gonna use her on icys puff

zelda peach is gonna be even someday

and falco

will

fall

;D

 

[Bing]

brb figuring out a way to Pillar with Zelda

 

[Soloist]

Guys, Feb 9th I'm going to enter a tourney for the first time in 9 months :3

Def still have a strong Zelda

But I've been like playing nothing but spacies

So we'll see

Same here I think. Except it's been like eight months for me, and I'm not entering lmao. Just going to hang out

Spoiler

with my wang out

.

 

[GOTM]

idk if zelda will get popular in tourney haha but i def. think people will start seeing her as a threat in certain matchups.

 

[Griffard]

I want to use Zelda more in tourney, but I'd also prefer to just start performing better/more consistently with my main so I can play more games in the tourney/get that higher level practice in. Soon, though. People will begin to fear the wrath of my Zelda.

 

[odinNJ]

# Zelda for S

Legit though I'm
Going Zelda next tourney, f*** sword characters

 

[Griffard]

Just played Zelda in Project M for the first time.. damn. I wish sooo much Melee Zelda was remotely as good as M Zelda, but alas.

 

[ChivalRuse]

Zelda is so much fun haha. I'm going to start playing her as a secondary.

 

[odinNJ]

Yo, IMO Kirby does work on Zelda, the little a******e is impossible to kick, he can crouch under grab and dash attack, he never dies from dsmash and can easily SDI out of the other smash attacks.

Just my thoughts on this irrelevant matchup

 

[ChivalRuse]

Downward angled f-tilt hits crouching kirby and breaks crouch cancel at pretty low %. The problem is that he can shield grab it if it's not spaced immaculately. Try to figure out the situations when he shields and moves and rising kick him when he dashes or wavedashes.

 

[Dark Hart]

Kirby kinda gets beat in

 

[GKInfinity]

My teams partner is a kirby main and we play fairly regularly. I generally win but it does go back and forth a bit. It's not that hard to hit a crouching kirby honestly

 

[Zone]

Anyone going to EVO?

I am...

But I'm not playing Zelda


But I want to play friendlies with some of you at least. OR atleast old school Zelda ditto just to say we did it.

only person I've zelda ditto'd with are The Lake I think.

Also I want to try my Fox vs you guys

>: )

I know your weaknesses.

 

[Griffard]

Anyone going to EVO?

I am...

But I'm not playing Zelda


But I want to play friendlies with some of you at least. OR atleast old school Zelda ditto just to say we did it.

only person I've zelda ditto'd with are The Lake I think.

Also I want to try my Fox vs you guys

>: )

I know your weaknesses.

I may be going to EVO if money permits/I go to Genesis 3. We live pretty close though, so maybe I'll see you at some LA/ATL south tourney before then.

 

[GKInfinity]

Yeah I'll be at Genesis 3 and Evo. I'm only gonna use zelda against peach, ICs, and maybe puff from now on though. I'm copping out big time... busting out the sheik.

 

[Bing]

I really want to go to Evo, but thats quite the trip, so Im not too sure. Would be enormously expensive to go.

 

[odinNJ]

My teams partner is a kirby main and we play fairly regularly. I generally win but it does go back and forth a bit. It's not that hard to hit a crouching kirby honestly

Yeah but its easy to hit a zelda, just because its not that much of an advantage doesnt mean it isnt one, zelda has to work harder to get damage (kicks) in in this matchup, id still say its kirby's favor.

 

[Dark Hart]

LOOOOOOOL @ that notion

 

[GKInfinity]

Yeah but its easy to hit a zelda, just because its not that much of an advantage doesnt mean it isnt one, zelda has to work harder to get damage (kicks) in in this matchup, id still say its kirby's favor.

If you get the lead as zelda, what's a kirby gonna do? He has to approach and then he gets kicked in the face over and over until he dies. He doesn't have the range to deal with zelda

 

[Articuno61]

:D so happy to see that there are still active zelda's!!

Been maining her in melee for years.. and only recently have i found out about the melee community

 

[ChivalRuse]

Yeah, Zelda's awesome. Her only real defect is her limited ground movement, but rolling gets the job done most of the time.

 

[GOTM]

Her OOS game is pretty atrocious if the player knows how to space shield pressure well. I think that's her biggest flaw tbh. Also, her above-character priority is absolutely terribad.

 

[Upke]

Yeah, Zelda's awesome. Her only real defect is her limited ground movement, but rolling gets the job done most of the time.

Hahaha, if only. She's pretty damn slow, jumps slow, almost worthless wavedash (though it still have more uses than some would admit), and she's easily juggled as long as the opponent can get under her.

But who needs anything but donkey kicks!

 

[Dark Hart]

Her ground movement kind ****s her majorly

And Rolling really isn't good, they can just hit you on reaction it's dumb and gets you killed

 

[Bing]

What are Zelda's best stages? In campy match ups I try to stay away from Stages like Dreamland and I prefer to be on stages like Yoshi's and FoD. I have pretty good platform movement which is another reason I try to stick to Yoshi's, FoD and even battlefield.

 

[GOTM]

The closer the platforms the better imo. Stay away from FD.....holy crap, please, stay away from FD. To add to it, she can't recover from below that stage at all.

My favorite zelda stage is FoD because characters tend to get screwed up by the moving platforms and kicked right in the face. The platforms really don't mess zelda up as much because let's face it, there's not much she's jumping around for besides one move.

Yoshi's isn't bad because you can recover from below and hit the side platform if you do it at the right height and some people don't expect it, you can ride the stage a TINY bit too towards the edge because of how it hooks.

BF seems to be the most picked stage nowadays and Zelda isn't too bad on it tbh. Platforms work for her like they work for all characters but you just have to space real well.

 

[Dark Hart]

In terms of camping I don't know how you would like yoshi's, how can a character as slow as Zelda camp on such a small stage?

I personal like battlefield if I'm thinking about camping, it's size is pretty perfect for Zelda to be able to run away effectivily with enough breathing room to react properly

FoD is good too since people love to complain about 'jank' characters on FoD and people think Zelda is 'mad janky' so it just works





Edit: AND YEA NEVER GO TO FD

 

[GKInfinity]

Yoshis is my favorite zelda stage, closely followed by FoD and then Battlefield.

 

[ShroudedOne]

I don't think FD is that bad vs Falco. In general, though, it seems...not ideal.

I'd say FoD > Yoshi's > Battlefield (even though the top platform seems hellish, I can't imagine DL64 or PS being better...) > FD > DL64 > Stadium

 

[Deleted member]

i think zelda dumps on kirby harder than falco dumps on zelda.

 

[ChivalRuse]

Hahaha, if only. She's pretty damn slow, jumps slow, almost worthless wavedash (though it still have more uses than some would admit), and she's easily juggled as long as the opponent can get under her.

But who needs anything but donkey kicks!

Having a slow jump isn't a big deal when you have a 5 frame LIGHTNING KICK. Also, you should already be jumping by the time the opponent is close enough to do anything to you anyway, so jump speed isn't a big deal there. What's a big deal is the amount of time it takes to wavedash. She actually gets decent distance from her wavedash, it just takes way more frames to actually perform the wavedash because of her slow jump.

If you have half decent DI, you're not going to get juggled very much.

Anyway, the first two things you mentioned aren't outside of what I was referring to when I said "her movement".

 

[odinNJ]

If you get the lead as zelda, what's a kirby gonna do? He has to approach and then he gets kicked in the face over and over until he dies. He doesn't have the range to deal with zelda

hes gonna aproach and be a slimely little ninja, his you with his s*** attacks as you try to hit him with zeldas majestic foot.

 

[ChivalRuse]

Jiggs isn't that hard of a matchup so I don't see why Kirby would be a problem.

 

[GKInfinity]

Zelda/puff is a pretty bad matchup at higher levels. Zelda gets destroyed

lmfao

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I56gTKLKyq8

 

[ChivalRuse]

Nah. The key to the puff matchup is to attack where Puff could be and trade hits with her if you can. On a big stage like DL Puff shouldn't be killing you anytime soon. And she can't punish your rolls if you do them safely.

 

[odinNJ]

Lol, I forgot about the roll dodge, also i realise that kirby has limited kill setups, yeah I can see it being in zeldas favor;.

 

[Deleted member]

jigglypuff hasn't been nearly as problematic for me as say falcon has.

 

[GKInfinity]

Man, no one seems to play puff anymore. I swear there are only 2 or 3 active puff players in all of CA

 

[Dark Hart]

NC has never had a puff

Closest we get to that is a Mahone

 

[Upke]

I have a friend that mained Puff back in NC (and coincidentally one here in GA too), but it's been a while since we've played together. I don't know if he plays her anymore.