luke_atyeo
Smash Hero
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With the removal of one of foxes best tools and kill setups, it seems everyone's jumped onto the 'well this sucks fox cant kill at all now what a **** character' train.
So I wanted to put a message out there for all you fox players, dont give up and dont get sad, yes the repeated jab nonsense got removed but there are still some jab followups so jab as a setup tool isnt completely gone, but more than that fox is still a great character with many ways to kill.
Uair still remains a strong move that you can combo into from other moves, uair pressure to get them to airdodge into the ground still leads to usmash kills, fair can still drag people down into usmash kills, bair remains an absolutely amazing kill move thats relatively safe to throw out and is very underused, ledge trumping can lead to bair or dsmash kills, if you get a read on your opponents get up off ledge option you can get a fsmash kill (very good).
And lets not forget that fox is a bait and punish character, as long as he is fast and has usmash he can kill. Use your speed and movement to trick your opponents into whiffing and punish with usmash, this is by far your best kill option if you can learn how to trick opponents into whiffing, hell even the old walk back and fsmash where you just were (the mario special) can work just fine if done right.
Trust, I'm one of the best players in my entire country and I didnt use foxes jab setups that often for kills, bair is my most often used kill move in most matchups.
Its easy to get discouraged when something cool (and kinda easy and reliable) gets taken away from you, but the future for fox is much brighter than you think, stick it out and work hard, hard work will overcome opponents much better than jab setups will
So I wanted to put a message out there for all you fox players, dont give up and dont get sad, yes the repeated jab nonsense got removed but there are still some jab followups so jab as a setup tool isnt completely gone, but more than that fox is still a great character with many ways to kill.
Uair still remains a strong move that you can combo into from other moves, uair pressure to get them to airdodge into the ground still leads to usmash kills, fair can still drag people down into usmash kills, bair remains an absolutely amazing kill move thats relatively safe to throw out and is very underused, ledge trumping can lead to bair or dsmash kills, if you get a read on your opponents get up off ledge option you can get a fsmash kill (very good).
And lets not forget that fox is a bait and punish character, as long as he is fast and has usmash he can kill. Use your speed and movement to trick your opponents into whiffing and punish with usmash, this is by far your best kill option if you can learn how to trick opponents into whiffing, hell even the old walk back and fsmash where you just were (the mario special) can work just fine if done right.
Trust, I'm one of the best players in my entire country and I didnt use foxes jab setups that often for kills, bair is my most often used kill move in most matchups.
Its easy to get discouraged when something cool (and kinda easy and reliable) gets taken away from you, but the future for fox is much brighter than you think, stick it out and work hard, hard work will overcome opponents much better than jab setups will