In 2.6, Ivysaur destroyed Captain Falcon, no questions asked. 60:40 Ivy at the very least. Ivy didn't have to commit with her high priority aerials and good aerial mobility (think of Wario or Puff with that range), piss-easy shield pressure with a non-committal razor leaf, an easymode gimp game on Falcon, and the relative difficulty in Falcon edgeguarding her, which would require him to make hard commitments offstage where half the time she'd still come back. And to some of you saying that Falcon gets guaranteed down throw Knees, if you DI down and away with Ivysaur, you can get out of a lot of those Knee set ups at mid percents and tech the ground or grab the ledge. If you disagree with how skewed the MU was in Ivy's favor in 2.6 then you were a bad Ivysaur player, imo. At least in this MU.
Now in 3.0, it seems like she's much less ridiculous. I don't know all the changes, but she doesn't feel like an impenetrable wall this time and it seems like she does have to make more commitments, which gives her the opportunity for her to be punished more by more characters. I know Razor Leaf was redesigned (this is probably the best form of razor leaf I've seen compared to all others), she has a windbox instead of a 2 frame solar shine on her synthesis now (which was a pretty smart replacement), her aerials are obviously different in some way (I don't know how), but in a way that make them less dumb, and she seems a bit easier to edgeguard now. Maybe down air's properties were changed? Not too sure.
Anyway, the point is that in 3.0, Ivysaur actually has to think now and though I believe that 3.0 Ivy is a shadow of her former self, the match up with Falcon is probably slightly in her favor, though I can understand people who say it's even. Falcon does have an easier time getting in now. And when Falcon gets in, things can get ugly. Falcon doesn't have to get trapped in shield from a move the opponent threw from across the stage anymore. Plus it seems that the strategy of using shield approaches to get under Ivy's fullhop aerials and responding OoS has more merit, so using shield has more utility. She can't mash out of combos with her solar shine anymore (she can still mash out with nair, which I generally don't mind. Falcons should just treat her like Luigi in those situations). And edgeguarding does seem a bit easier, though maybe that's just me. Despite all of these improvements, 3.0 Ivy still excels in nearly all of the aspects she did in 2.6 against Falcon (or at least the ones that matter): Really good aerials and a superb gimp game. However, since Falcon can get stuff started now, Ivy's just need to play smarter which is the direction the character (and all characters) should go.
55:45 Ivy, imo.
