I picked up Pika and got better over all

My Marth got better even though I play more Pika.
Plus, I have not really had the motivation to get good until I decided I wanted to make my Pikachu really good!
Basically, I luff pikachu :D
Yeah, for some reason people don't understand that learning learning other characters makes you better faster overall because it teaches you about different aspects of the game/characters/match ups, and forces you to learn skills which your main might not be so intensive on.
This brings me to something that I've been meaning to talk about here lately anyway:
This is why I think EVERYONE should learn how to play Fox/Falco/Falcon, to some degree. Last night, my roommate Matt asked me a question while he was watching me goof around with Falco: "What exactly does the shine do?"
It took me 10-15 minutes to fully explain its functionality as a kill move (fox's vs falco's), a combo tool (starting vs ending), shield pressure (pillaring, shine grabs, double shine), a movement tool (shine turnarounds, wavelands, ledge options etc), a stall (momentum alternation, dropping into aerials etc), a defensive option (OoS), a safe approach (SH -> shine -> waveland onto a platform) and probably more.
Just by learning, performing and applying JUST shine stuff, you learn a whole new dimension of the game and you fundamentally understand two of the most common (yet most poorly played) match ups for any character. Couple that with having to learn to SHFFL perfectly (since you tend to get punished SO hard for every missed L cancel), which means reacting to whether your aerial hits them, hits their shield, or whiffs (all of which have different L cancel timings, especially Fox's Dair). There's infinitely more to be learned from them as well, but that would take all day so I'll move on.
And then Falcon teaches you tech chasing probably better than any other character. Falcon's run speed is top notch (which accomodates for a lack luster grab range, compared to Marth/Sheik/Jiggs) but has to react faster/predict more accurately than Fox in order to really get those essential tech chases. Falcon has TONS of different things he can do during tech chases (stomp, knee, raptor boost, regrab etc) that lead to combos which can be death, but if you make an error, a good spacie will shine you into their own combo very quickly. Falcon's entire game against fast fallers is so tech chase intensive that you will develope reaction skills and keep a mental tally of techs more adamantly than you likely ever have before. All his movements need to be so precise (read: Nair spacing is TOO important) overall that it's going to make you a better player.
Kevin: I would like your feedback on this and possibly request this conversation to make it over to HLS, the topic essentially being something like "Overall improvement by diversifying your character selection."
K, back to work.