I'm trying to do some soul searching, but coming up short. I enjoy ZSS, but I feel like they're very similar and share bad matchups.
Let's list some problems:
- Floaties (hard to combo)
- Small characters (hard to approach from the air, many things whiff)
- Disjoints (outranges falcon)
- Solid edgeguarding (falcon's recovery is predictable)
- Projectiles (need to get in before we can do anything)
- Anything else?
Based on the above, here are characters that fit most (not necessarily all) of the criteria:
Yoshi, Toon Link, Diddy Kong, Kirby, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Ness, Villager, DHD(maybe?)
Of those, I haven't had problems with DHD or Kirby yet, so that leaves:
Yoshi, Toon Link, Diddy Kong, Pikachu, Jigglypuff, Ness, Villager
Many of these characters also have combos that do 20-40% at low percentages ( u-tilts
), which makes it even harder. Who does well vs these characters? What do these characters hate to face? Fight fire with fire and play the zoning game? Strong vertical KO potential?
R.O.B looks good on paper, but I don't have enough experience to know for sure. Fox is a solid option I feel, because reflector + blaster can force them to approach, and up smash is a great finisher with many ways to set it up. And that's all I got.
Any thoughts?