What do you think of this video
I don’t think he’ll be the worst in the game, though I agree with him in that characters who can keep up the pressure are Steve’s weakness.
He or whoever was playing Steve didn’t seem to play very well, though; he was kinda slow in most clips, and didn’t fully utilize Steve’s potential and combo game. He didn’t use blocks much either, and just stood there mining when he built a wall even when it was clear his opponent was about to break through; while a wall is good for mining, don’t just stand there by the opponent’s spot, at least get away a bit or try a setup.
Steve’s jab is definitely not the worst, and I find it weird he says that; you can carry an opponent for a moment while moving, and can combo them into an f-air, up-air, or up-Smash. You can also keep up-airing someone; up-air, jump while up-airing, place a block, repeat, and f-air for a combo (haven’t played much recently and haven’t tried this, or if I did I didn’t pull it off, but I saw it in a video and it seemed effective). His jab is very weak with no sword, though, but I guess that’s obvious.
I’m not very good at competitive play personally, and I know most online matches are casual, but based on what I’ve seen, this guy didn’t really do much with Steve, if even scratching the surface. A random dash attack definitely isn’t his only good option (not sure if that’s exactly what he said but it was something like that; I watched the whole video, but I’m sometimes not the best at holding in information accurately >_>), and if your opponent tries to jump over the TNT? If you’re quick enough, you can set it off and catch them. If you think they’ll roll? Send a minecart their way; as their roll ends, it catches them, then boom.
He didn’t mention how you can prevent a lot of characters from recovering if you can get them off-stage, which I think may be important to note(?); while characters can snap to ledge and remove blocks in the way when doing so, that won’t be a thing if the blocks are even just one space below the ledge. You can use the blocks in combination with the TNT or some other moves to do a good setup too, from what I’ve seen, though some characters can still get through (but you may still have a chance to mess them up).
Steve definitely has weaknesses and seems hard to master, and fighting high-pressure characters is a pain in the butt (at least for me, and as I said I’m not that good in very competitive matches (I assume that’s what I end up in when it puts me in a 1v1 against a speedy, combo-hungry player), but even though I got kicked to the curb when fighting a Joker I still think I did at least a little better than these clips tbh), but I don’t think he’s the worst. Maybe I’m wrong, maybe he’ll be low-tier, but even then, there’s always Little Mac for Steve to say “gottem GGs” to
I will admit however that I haven’t seen all that much (just some Steve montages on Youtube and some funny clips where someone gets an epic combo, or basically dunks their opponent off, etc., plus a few videos by another very competitive player I believe), and probably haven’t played enough though I’ve played a good amount of matches (and I’m waiting for a LAN adapter currently as I realized, while I don’t always lag, it’s likely my fault when I do since sometimes there’s an error :S), but I still think there’s no way he’s going to be the worst character even if he’s low tier.
