The North Carolina Melee Power Rankings! Updated 8/14/14!

[vZakat]

Well, honestly, I don't feel like my peach would do better against Marth than my ICs anyways sooooo it's not like I'd choose her against you or some random Marth.

I felt like I was having more trouble against your ICs than your peach when I played marth, so yeah...

 

[ZIO]

Adam told me that you said there's a way to never light-shield. Some sort of button combination before the start of battle so it makes PS easier.

Is that true, Alex?

 

[lord karn]

Adam told me that you said there's a way to never light-shield. Some sort of button combination before the start of battle so it makes PS easier.

Is that true, Alex?

Yeah, hold down whichever trigger you use to shield until right before it clicks while you plug it in. If you do it right, that trigger won't light shield, but will just hard shield when it clicks all the way. Just learn to light shield with the opposite trigger. This also has the added side benefit of making it harder to accidentally shield after a wavedash or lcancel. I do this every time I play now.

 

[*P*L*U*R*]

I haven't figured out how to capitalize out of powersheilding with Falcon yet. I think I may just start doing tilts out of them. Like PS Up-angled Ftilt to nair or something. He's tricky.

 

[ZIO]

That's an interesting bit of information.

I'll give it a shot and see how I feel about it.

 

[Diatenshi]

Yeah, hold down whichever trigger you use to shield until right before it clicks while you plug it in. If you do it right, that trigger won't light shield, but will just hard shield when it clicks all the way. Just learn to light shield with the opposite trigger. This also has the added side benefit of making it harder to accidentally shield after a wavedash or lcancel. I do this every time I play now.

hateee this ****

i never click it to sheild, i always "mostly hard sheild" like i go all the way b4 it clicks when i sheild

 

[Foxy]

Yeah, hold down whichever trigger you use to shield until right before it clicks while you plug it in. If you do it right, that trigger won't light shield, but will just hard shield when it clicks all the way. Just learn to light shield with the opposite trigger. This also has the added side benefit of making it harder to accidentally shield after a wavedash or lcancel. I do this every time I play now.

I could see myself about a year ago finding this really really useful for helping my tech and my shield control, but I definitely improved to the point where I have almost nothing to really gain from that except distraction, and I guess it's all more to personal preference than it is to real benfit.

 

[bossa nova ♪]

powershielding, foxy.

 

[Foxy]

...does anyone actually have trouble powershielding normally

almost everyone ive talked to about it including myself

gets almost every powershield if they remember to focus on it in the match

its not a hard technique...

 

[Dr Peepee]

LOL dang guess I need work.

 

[*P*L*U*R*]

Yeah, kevin, you blow.

 

[lord karn]

I'm not that good at it. I just generally suck at reacting to things.

 

[ZIO]

You must be god if you think PS is easy. Like I said, I compare it to Parry in Street Fighter 3.

There are some people who are good at it, though.

 

[bossa nova ♪]

that's a bunch of horse **** foxy.


u must have forgot that you suck *** at this game. stop smoking weed.

 

[DJRome]

ps is not hard, but it's distracting

 

[everlasting yayuhzz]

challenging everyone to mms with my sheik.

Grapes

 

[Moophobia]

I'll take it yay 5$?

 

[Foxy]

dj kind of has the gist

from my experience and all the people i've talked about it or done it with

obv almost no players in nc really try to powershield in melee but if i'm playing with them and spam and talk about powershielding

they usually stop spacing attacks and try to ps and they get it usually 2/3 of the time

and they usually comment that it's surprisingly easy, they just never think about it or think they can do it

but it definitely does stop you from playing your game

you have to work that focus into your overall style of spacing to make it more useful

like overt

 

[Lightsyde]

Chris (Plur), David (Tho) and DJ are the only ones I've seen integrate it consistently in their game without it being more of a hindrance.

 

[Dr Peepee]

Yeah that's absolutely right, but I still think I'd suck at it(or at least not be consistent enough).

I'll train with Twitch on those Puff Bairs eventually.

 

[everlasting yayuhzz]

MOO COME ON DAWG I DON'T WANNA TAKE UR MONEY UR MY FRIEND.

aight

Kevin: mott can PS like 30-40% of my attacks with most characters. grape

 

[Dr Peepee]

What does he do off of the PS'?

 

[Bl@ckChris]

josh, i thought you'd mention meee

even back in june i had you mad/salty when u started spacies cuz one morning i PS'd like all your nairs so i could grab.

you were still winning of course. you just thought it was a broken mechanic lol.

PS'ing is fun. its one of my only ways of getting grabs on spacies. which leads to **** on spacies.

 

[everlasting yayuhzz]

What does he do off of the PS'?

grab, sometimes he's a ****** and will up+b me with marth, wavedash back fsmash...

I forgot the rest. I ps upsmash sometimes with fox if i think about doing it

 

[Dr Peepee]

Hmmm I guess I'll try to practice this one of these days.

Lol Falco's options.

 

[stingers]

Hmmm I guess I'll try to practice this one of these days.

Lol Falco's options.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlZ85p5yyxY

 

[Dr Peepee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlZ85p5yyxY

You realize that I'm not gonna get a Dair off a PS on Puff ever, right?

Also that was me and Cam goofing off LOL.

wtf

 

[Ocean]

no ****ing johns kevin what the ****

 

[Lightsyde]

josh, i thought you'd mention meee

even back in june i had you mad/salty when u started spacies cuz one morning i PS'd like all your nairs so i could grab.

you were still winning of course. you just thought it was a broken mechanic lol.

PS'ing is fun. its one of my only ways of getting grabs on spacies. which leads to **** on spacies.

Yeah, I actually really hate powershielding a lot but I've been trying to reserve my hatred for things in this game lately. Have no fear, it's still a pretty long list.

 

[Sneak8288]

LOL like shine outta shield

 

[Lightsyde]

Yeah. Shine out of shield is extremely annoying but I've gotten better at it and it just makes me more wary of spacies' shields so I don't hate it quite as much.

 

[everlasting yayuhzz]

open up my eager eyes

 

[everlasting yayuhzz]

because i'm mr brightside

 

[stingers]

i've gone for too long
living like I'm not alive
so im gonna start over tonight
beginning with you and

 

[Foxy]

Yeah. Shine out of shield is extremely annoying but I've gotten better at it and it just makes me more wary of spacies' shields so I don't hate it quite as much.

i rarely shine oos with fox just because i play better with most other defensive options, i don't like it that much for beating shield pressure at all. i will do it on an edgeguard if i shield and upb, otherwise not really

i do with falco though, because you can shine-aerial oos

 

[Ocean]

I shined josh oos yesterday. it felt good.

 

[Juno McGrath]

Nothing in this world feels better than wavedash back tipper f smash with marth

:D

 

[Lightsyde]

Nothing in this world feels better than scarjump shine -> Up B for the kill

There you go. I got rid of your whack stuff and I replaced it with some on next level stuff. :]

 

[TheLastCacely]

Nothing in this world feels better than upthrow rest with jiggz

:D

i agree, that **** *****.

 

[DtJ SmithZzz]

Nothing in this world feels better than a Up Air to Firespike on Cam's puff

:D

There you go. I got rid of your whack stuff and I replaced it with some on next level stuff. :]

Fixed for you guys