Starting moves

[HellxBound]

Red, Orange, Orange, Orange, GO.
What do you usually do in a serious match immediately at its commencement, with X character? Eg. if I'm playing kirby, I often Fsmash as soon as I can.

 

[NovaSmash]

i run away from my opponent

 

[ballin4life]

left c b b

 

[The Star King]

I think you mean right.

 

[ciaza]

Jump away>Projectile if possible.

 

[ballin4life]

I think you mean right.

Who jumps with right c?

 

[The Star King]

Thought you meant left on the analog stick.

I thought you were thinking of running away -> pew pew.

 

[ciaza]

He might be, what if he was player 1?

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

Who jumps with right c?

Sometimes, I do!
When is just a jump I use right c to let the others rest a little bit, you know, for DJC, Shine Cancel and SHDL.

And for the starting move, most of the times I do an aerial and sometimes Jab.

 

[Sempiternity]

It's usually a dash, and if on Hyrule, and I'm P1, I run off the little ledge, do an aerial, and cancel it.

it fun

 

[#HBC | ѕoup]

i double jump to the left.

everytime.

 

[DMoogle]

Depends on who I'm playing. If it's a weaker player, I'll just charge blindly ahead. If it's a competent player, then I'll run to a safe spot to re-evaluate my options. If it's a predictable player (whether weaker or stronger), then I'll try to exploit their predictability.

Oddly enough, there's an very good player that comes to mind whose predictable (and thus, exploitable) in his choice of starting moves.

EDIT: Actually, what I do is very dependent on the stage we're playing on. What I wrote above was with Hyrule Castle in mind. On Dreamland, if I start in the middle, then I'll usually charge ahead regardless. If on the platform, then I'll try to move to a safe spot. On Peach's Castle, I'll usually perform a fast, defensive move, but that depends on how far away I start from my opponent.

 

[ballin4life]

Boom ftilts in falcon dittos, right A$?

 

[DMoogle]

Boom ftilts in falcon dittos, right A$?

Heeheehee... after he reads this, I doubt he'll be doing it much vs. me much anymore.

 

[ballin4life]

Well, if you exploited it properly he wouldn't do it against you anyway AMIRITE?

 

[Peek~]

P1 Dreamland: Uair or Usmash
P2 Dreamland: Slide off the right of the platform and do extended PK thunder to ledge......or Dair

 

[blaze3927]

Taunt
10 character

 

[DMoogle]

Well, if you exploited it properly he wouldn't do it against you anyway AMIRITE?

Nope, then it ceases to be exploitable. He has to catch on first. He probably would quickly, I just haven't played him in many Falcon dittos.

Taunt
10 character

Yeah I do this as a starting move if I know that my opponent always runs away at the beginning of a match.

 

[The Star King]

Once I up-smashed at the beginning of a game vs. Boomfan in Zebes Samus dittos, which he ran into, and zero-deathed him like a boss.

Yeah I'm so cool.

 

[Battlecow]

I like to falcon kick

Because I don't care about "winning" like you silly Americans do.

 

[DMoogle]

Ledge-cancel -> Falcon Kick is too good. Gets people every time.

Obv. not as a starting move though.

 

[Sempiternity]

I like to Falcon Kick walls. Hilarity ensues every time.

 

[KoRoBeNiKi]

if Falcon: pivot f-smash
If Yoshi, djc f-air or something similar.

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

if Falcon: pivot f-smash

I find that extremely easy to punish.

 

[ryuu seika]

For me this is entirely stage based.

EDIT: sorry, thought this was Melee. I'm not sure what I do in 64.

 

[asianaussie]

if they play fox they will always jump back and sh laser/double laser

hence i chase after them and they are annoyed

sometimes i jab, it's surprisingly effective

 

[killa k]

F tilt

10Ftilts


Edit: Cool, an infraction for answering the question asked by the thread.

Anyway, depending on what character I'm using, I will either Ftilt or jab or in special cases (DK) a B move.

 

[Froski]

Link

Chunk a **** load of bombs at them (Against scrubs)
or
Right C Down B

Falcon:

Slowly walk

Mario

B B B B B then lead up with the Dair Uair

Samus

Right C Down B Charge beams

DK

Charge Cancel

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

Just to clarify, when you guys talk about B moves, you're refering to what exactly?
Is it actually a move with the B button, or is it a Back move?

 

[ciaza]

B is short for neutral B. So yeah, moves with the B button.

 

[Sempiternity]

I can't think of a reason why anybody would use right-C over down-C, aside from DJC.

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

@ciaza Thanks.

I can't think of a reason why anybody would use right-C over down-C, aside from DJC.

That's just a preference, use the C button you feel comfortable with, there's no need for a why.

 

[Sempiternity]

Well, thinking logically, I would use the jump button that's closest to the attack button to pull off attacks faster. It's just plain inefficient to hinder yourself in such a way. I used to play with the right C button, but conditioned myself to move to down C and it's made so much difference. I don't accidentally hit B when I mean to hit A, I can get attacks off faster, etc.

 

[ballin4life]

I used upC when I was a kid because up meant jump to me. Now I use left for B moves, down for A moves, and right->down for DJC. I wouldn't be averse to a control scheme where upC and rightC were full hop and leftC and downC were short hop or something like that though.

It would mess me up for a little bit but I think that it's a better control scheme for new players than having to distinguish between short hops and full hops by button speed.

 

[Lawrencelot]

When the match starts I do one of three options: jump away, or run towards and grab, or try to attack with an aerial. Not for any reason though

 

[ciaza]

Edit: With post removed I look like an ***.

 

[TheRealColtMaster]

approach at around half speed and look for a quick opening, attack head on, or wait and evaluate. depends who you are playing and what mood i'm in. lol

 

[Blue Yoshi]

Usually I'll short-hop away and see if I can punish whatever the opponent did at the start. Or if I feel like it, I'll just run in and do something completely random and stupid (yeah DK dash attack lol)

 

[Battlecow]

Usually I'll short-hop away

I C wut u did thar

 

[Fynal]

I can't think of a reason why anybody would use right-C over down-C, aside from DJC.

I use left-C for everything (including djc) cept picking other colors (left C has a lot of the best colors for my chars)

in fact i find it pretty much impossible to SH with anything BUT left C

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