Up throw or down throw?

[stretto]

I play smash just for fun, against some friends who play peach, doc, sheik and link. When do I use up throw or down throw and how do I get a knee off these? Should I always be aiming to throw as quickly as possible to avoid them DI'ing, or should I just pummel for the extra little damage?

Thanks!

 

[ShrieK1295]

Against all those characters, at mid percent (something like 20-60) uthrow can lead into uair. Around 70%, Sheik and Link can get uthrow --> kneed. At a similar %, Peach will get dthrow --> kneed. Doc is a little trickier, but dthrow is the only one that has the possibility of comboing into knee, which they might be able to DI out of.

 

[Nicco]

You can chaingrab sheik and doc with dthrow at low percent, if their DI allows it. With doc I usually try to follow up with nair at low percents after dthrow. At around 30 percent, uthtow uair is nice. But doc is tricky, it's sometimes hard to get a combo after you followed up the throw.

Nair in general is really good against doc. And try to reverse your upB alot to avoid the cape.