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Shulk's Vision counter is that much better than Roy's counter bottom line. See the link info below:
Yeah but you don't have to just n-air or b-air through projectiles (although it works, especially b-air). Power shielding projectiles works too
I have access to a capture card. Will probably test in about a month and come back with results.
Figure out the situations he likes to grab you in. It normally becomes apparent after getting grabbed the first time, but in the heat of battle lots of players overlook the opportunity to download.
Atm I recall that it's 6 frames cycling to a Monado art but itself activating is. . .45 or 46 frames. I think @
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never change locke ;^)
He can b-reverse with the Monado arts
I see.
A: Yes you can B Reverse a Monado art activation airborne and grounded. You're not delusional.
True combos usually include Monado Art Landing Lag Canceling, aka MALLC. When you MALLC an aerial like F-air & say you cycled to Speed art, your running speed transitioning to a Short or Full Hop aerial tends to become true at low to mid-high percentages. If you use an aerial with a higher knockback angle like say, the first hit or both the first & second hits of U-air, MALLCing U-air into U-tilt at low percents, U-air at higher percents, or if you cycled to Jump art, a rising Jump art Air Slash can reach high enough to combo at a wide percentage range.
It's great. I go to a local tournament that hosts Singles & Doubles with & without Customs Specials. I can assure that Shulk's custom arts makes playing him a lot more fun & viable due to that Decisive arts are ideal for Doubles while Hyper arts can also be ideal in that you want large moments to capitalize on with HBuster & HSmash. And with Decisive arts, you can use DSpeed, DShield, & DBuster to stick around the Decisive art for 20 strong seconds whether you're stock tanking to the max, or you're controlling the pace of the match.
Bee ess peee. Long time no see. <3
I wouldn't say that it's going to be much safer, but basically yeah it's at least slightly safer. I won't say it's that much of a difference but yeah.
. Pressing up on the D-pad either results with "The future is ours to decide!", or "I've got a good rhythm going!". Pressing left on the D-pad either results with "I got through that pretty good!", or "This is a good result!". And pressing right on the D-pad either results with "I can feel the power!", or "I can change the future.".
Hello Everyone. I am a former Shulk main. I mained him when the game first came out! I rarely knew anything about Super Smash Bros like Hitboxes, Techs, Spikes, edge guarding, ect.. However I thought I was fairly good with Shulk. I've always been thinking about picking him back up! I know what each Monado Art does I know the advantages but can someone tell me the disadvantages of each Monado art? Thanks it would be deeply appreciated
Destroy clay pigeon before it reaches you with Shulk's aerials. The lateral aerials will do (n-air, f-air, and b-air), but I think b-air works best if you're precise. If DH "activates" the pigeon the shots won't reach you if you cover the entire area with b-air.
This quoted post is being bumped because Kuroganehammer has provided the frame data for the Monado art's intangibility. So now, back to the question at hand:
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Just in case the question in one's head might be, "what arts should I use versus X character", my opinion of the Diddy MU goes like this:
Q:Does Vision countering get harder each time you use it?
Q: How do you deactivate an art?
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Shulk's Uair definitely has the most poor range from beside Shulk, but the vertical range it possesses is fantastic albeit is quite a precise narrow hitbox. Here's a summary about the move found in the Art Management thread:
Well, if there was a good way to summarize how the move functions, it's sort of basically (not really) a vertical f-smash that's done in mid-air. Comes out at frame 14, deals 15% damage if sweetspotted and it has surprisingly insane amount of knockback if you land it. The landing lag of u-air lasts for 17 frames which is bad. This move also lacks a horizontal range or at least, its horizontal range is severely lacking, but it's vertical range is NUTS. It even outranges u-tilt's vertical range
U-air's main saving grace is the reward for landing it because holy crap it deals a lot of damage and it kills at surprisingly fraudulent percentages even without smash art. Its range is also deceivingly amazing vertically. You can contest any aerial with u-air because of this. Anyway, the first hit of u-air has fixed knockback so if you manage to land this (somehow) without landing the second hit, you can combo off from the first hit. With MALLC, you can obviously combo off from u-air even if you connect both hits. U-air is a capable juggle tool but it requires muuuch more precision than u-tilt.
The issue with u-air though is that its frame speed is absolute garbage and it's hard to land unless you're in jump or speed art since you have the air speed to somehow land this but even then, it's still quite hard to land. Horizontal range is lacking, comes out too late (frame 14), and basically, it's horrible if you whiff it. Even worse than f-air since you have to be close to the opponent to land this or below the opponent but even if you whiff it below the opponent, they can FF and punish Shulk easily
With jump art, u-air becomes scary because with your jump height and air speed, you can throw and possibly land u-air out of no where and kill them from high up the stage boundary. You can also set up into u-air from jump art u-throw. Speed art, u-air is easier to land against grounded opponents thanks to the increased air mobility and shortened jump height. Shulk also has slightly better (but still bad) air acceleration which also helps, so yeah. Shield art, basically it's a worse vanilla u-air but whatever. Buster art u-air is basically vanilla too but it's a direct upgrade since well, sure, it doesn't kill but that damage is INSANE. Shield pushback and shield damage of u-air is also nuts, and that's what makes buster u-air actually not that horrible. Smash art u-air is disgusting. Hard to land, akin to buster and vanilla u-air, but the reward is arguably more insane since you can end stocks easily at really low percentages
Basically, u-air is a situational aerial. You won't find yourself using this as much as b-air, n-air, f-air, d-tilt, etc. It's pretty good for juggling, and that's one of its solid uses. You can combo with u-air but it's quite difficult to pull off a combo from u-air since you need to either MALLC or strictly land the 1st hit only. Hard to land, good reward, but you won't use it a lot, unless maybe if you're in jump art
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The freedom of choice to use the Buster & Shield monado arts are entirely up to you. That's the beauty of different players despite that they play the same character.
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Shield art is quite a unique art for Shulk. It comes with a LOT of defensive buffs. Your shield health is significantly increased and the same applies for his shield regeneration too. His weight is greatly increased, to the point that he becomes the heaviest character in the game. Shulk also takes 33% less damage so he won't take that much damage from getting combo'd, even if the combo is ridiculously long. Despite all these buffs, Shulk receives 2 really fatal debuffs. One of which is a decrease in damage output by a staggering 30%. This means that most, if not all, of Shulk's attacks are rendered unsafe on shield. The other debuff is that his mobility is gutted really hard. Shulk's offensive potential in shield art is basically non-existent.
There are ways you can smartly utilize shield art. The natural tendency for opponents against shield art is to either combo the living hell out of you or to camp you out/run away from you. You can actually benefit from all the mentioned situations, despite it sounding like crap. The thing with shield art is that with the increased weight, the amount of hitsun you receive from taking damage is significantly reduced. You can actually punish opponents for hitting you or throwing you (example: mario and luigi's down throw combos). This tactic works really well at low to mid-low percentages (~0-50%) but it becomes somewhat useless later on (especially if the opponent has rage). Camping is also a way on how to counter shield art but this can be taken advantage of. You can use shield art to simply tell the opponent to **** off and give you some space to reset the neutral for a while or you can use this to buy time to wait for an art to go off cooldown.
Let's not forget the ONE notable use of shield art that I almost forgot to add. It's known for its sheer survivability. You won't be dying for a long time if you use shield right and you might even find it normal to see yourself in 150%+ most of the time. Shield art allows you to survive some of the hardest hitting attacks and throws in the game like Ness' b-throw, Bowser's b-air, Captain Falcon's f-air/b-air, and Fox's u-smash. Only issue is that although this has absolutely nothing to do with shield art, there are still some of those attacks in the game that are still ridiculously so strong that you can still die fairly early even if you're in shield art (Falcon's f-smash, Mac's KO punch)
From standing on-stage, you have Fsmash angled down hitting with the sourspot which is capable of hitting opponents hanging on the ledge. Nair Fair & Dair can hit underneath near the ledge enough to stage spike them or set up for your edgeguard position off-stage. Usmash's 1st hit has a good amount of hitbox activity to punish ledge-climb's invincibility window, as well as punish ledge-roll, ledge-jump, & ledge-attack. Most of the time if you go offstage to edge-guard, you're going to deal with the opponent airdodging a lot. So find ways of baiting the airdodge with either a well-placed Dair to meteor them, Fair clip them for a gimp, or Nair to outlast their airdodge but only if you reserved your doublejump. Nair offstage is not such a good idea if you're not careful with it.
