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To clarify, I mean in terms of burst movement, stage positioning, and overall being massive as hell. His top speed is good, yes, but his acceleration is somewhat lacking.
Yeah this is one of my favorite threads. It's only lacking tether grabs and run acceleration among a few other things. What I was trying to say above is that his large hurt box comparable to other characters makes him a difficult character to be nimble & agile with. Everywhere Zard goes, he's like a walking punching bag. It's true he's fast on paper, but in reality, there's other aspects than numbers that come into play. Just look at Peach and Lucas in Brawl: both great characters on paper with a number of advantages, but in high level tournament play suffered from a number of weaknesses.
It depends on the matchup. This works really well against Jigglypuff, who has little in the way of good answers to Zard's pokes in general. Other characters have better answers to ftilt, though (hi Fox) so you have to do more things to keep up.
that doesn't mean they are totally better than dthrow.
Oh god Radiant Dawn is ridiculously hard. Easy plays like Normal, normal plays like Hard and so on lol. And as for Zard, one problem he has is that a lot of his moves are minus on block. His long reach kinda helps with that though
That's because Easy is normal mode, normal is hard mode, and hard is Lunatic. It isn't like in PoR were the completely got rid of Lunatic to make a new easy mode, they simply renamed the difficulties from the Japan version rather then actually taking one out.
It's actually a lot like a grounded Puff bair, or a better Marth dtilt: the move can absolutely serve as the foundation of Zard's neutral in basically every matchup. Obviously there's more to it, but it's so vastly better in basically every way than any of his other 'pokes' (mostly because he has none) and better than other characters' pokes as well -- that there's no reason for Zard players not to force their opponents to play around the ftilt-wall before engaging Zard in any deeper gameplay.
Yeah the one where he swings his lil T-Rex arms around lol
he gets absolutely wrecked against Fox. it is not even close to even at high level whatsoever. and his MU against the other spacies are still hilariously lopsided
Because shinespike? Or just Fox being Fox
Like dedede ivy wrecked? Or like, misconception status quo wrecked where no one is really sure because there are plenty of foxes and barely any high level dks?
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side b is somewhat similar to tornado in that it has predictable start up and extremely punishable end lag. They would have to use it very intelligently, and even then, it doesn't matter, because Fox just needs to hold ledge and wait.
The problem is that because of the lag on Zard's dthrow, these reads never happen. It has (if I'm not mistaken) 19 frames of endlag, which is well within the parameters of reaction techchasing. Jab on neutral/no tech (+7 frames) is acceptable, running after their tech away (+21 frames) might work if they're out of room or have a short enough roll (Zard shouldn't be dthrowing in a situation where they get their full tech away IMO). Dsmash is pretty much inferior to dair on techroll in; no aerial is fast enough to hit them out of neutral tech anyway.
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