gallax
Smash Hero
So i recently attended my second tourney ever and played many good players in brawl. i even got a chance to play M2K(who mains MK and won all four smash events with ease). i did pretty good for my second tourney, even though my nerves got the best of me. There were two turning points in my game play though as i progressed more in this tournament. The first was when i realized why pikachu is so unused. The second was when i kept losing with my pika. Let me go through the scenario and then say why the QAC is of utmost importance.
i got paired in a pool with 3 snakes. Two mained him and one had him as a secondary. The beat the guy who didn't main him, but had a little more problems with the other two. The first one was called Nice1. In the end i won the match, but i believe its because he was inexperinced at fighting pikachu. The last one was the best snake out of the three. His name...garbonzo. Everything I did he already knew what to do. He reacted the right way everytime and completely destroyed me. (this is the first game) ESAM watched this match and he can tell you that i did horribly. The second game started off just like the first. When you do a fair against a snake they are able to immediately use a ftilt and punish you greatly. This is one of my main ways to approach and it wasn't till after i played him that i needed to fair in the air and back out of range instead of landing and trying to do a dsmash or grab. So i decided that i really needed to switch my playstyle. The only thing that i could think of that could help me to be this guy was mindgames.
What is it that allows pika to do this? The QAC is what. Now i practiced and practiced before the competition and during on several matches the QAC so i was already prepared to use it and able to efficiently. So this wasn't just a spur of the moment lets learns QAC. This became my tool of survival. When i was on the edge, when i wanted to attack, anything and everything was centered around the QAC. Even though i still lost the match, i put up so much better a fight and gave him such a challenge that anybody who lost would still have been happy cuz the lost still felt like a win after what i had done.
all you people need to start incorportating the QAC as much as you can into your playstyle. it gives you unpredictability and a fighting chance against pika's hardest matchups. i played m2k a little while after i realized this. he has by far the best MK in the country at the moment imho. just look at his brawl record and tell me otherwise. now im not gonna say i won because i still lost. but i got him down to 2 stocks and ended at around 120%. now this may sound bad, but he did the same against florida's best snake player. and snake is supposed to destroy MK!!!!! do you know why i did as well as i did? it was because i was able to incorporate the QAC efficiently into my game. one of the most annoying thinfs MK does is his shuttle loop>A(cancels the landing lag)>dsmash/w.e is fast. the QAC get me behind MK almost everytime and punish this move. it is so essential to your game and i believe that when someone masters this move(that means incorporating into their game too) they will be so goo and so hard to beat that it will send them to one of the top players in their state.
i got paired in a pool with 3 snakes. Two mained him and one had him as a secondary. The beat the guy who didn't main him, but had a little more problems with the other two. The first one was called Nice1. In the end i won the match, but i believe its because he was inexperinced at fighting pikachu. The last one was the best snake out of the three. His name...garbonzo. Everything I did he already knew what to do. He reacted the right way everytime and completely destroyed me. (this is the first game) ESAM watched this match and he can tell you that i did horribly. The second game started off just like the first. When you do a fair against a snake they are able to immediately use a ftilt and punish you greatly. This is one of my main ways to approach and it wasn't till after i played him that i needed to fair in the air and back out of range instead of landing and trying to do a dsmash or grab. So i decided that i really needed to switch my playstyle. The only thing that i could think of that could help me to be this guy was mindgames.
What is it that allows pika to do this? The QAC is what. Now i practiced and practiced before the competition and during on several matches the QAC so i was already prepared to use it and able to efficiently. So this wasn't just a spur of the moment lets learns QAC. This became my tool of survival. When i was on the edge, when i wanted to attack, anything and everything was centered around the QAC. Even though i still lost the match, i put up so much better a fight and gave him such a challenge that anybody who lost would still have been happy cuz the lost still felt like a win after what i had done.
all you people need to start incorportating the QAC as much as you can into your playstyle. it gives you unpredictability and a fighting chance against pika's hardest matchups. i played m2k a little while after i realized this. he has by far the best MK in the country at the moment imho. just look at his brawl record and tell me otherwise. now im not gonna say i won because i still lost. but i got him down to 2 stocks and ended at around 120%. now this may sound bad, but he did the same against florida's best snake player. and snake is supposed to destroy MK!!!!! do you know why i did as well as i did? it was because i was able to incorporate the QAC efficiently into my game. one of the most annoying thinfs MK does is his shuttle loop>A(cancels the landing lag)>dsmash/w.e is fast. the QAC get me behind MK almost everytime and punish this move. it is so essential to your game and i believe that when someone masters this move(that means incorporating into their game too) they will be so goo and so hard to beat that it will send them to one of the top players in their state.