Using dsmash as an alternative edgeguard?

[KIngGerudo]

I have been noticing when i play people nowadays that instead of sweetspotting the edge in fear of a stomp or reverse uair, they try to go over my head for some reason. I was wondering what my fellow ganons out there think about using the first hit of the dsmash as a sort of suedo-spike. It has pretty good KB and even if I hit with both hits of it, it sets up nicely. info plawks.

 

[yinn_skitchy]

face the other way when you're edgeguarding

that way you can stomp on them and when they come above you hit them with the end of the uair
:D

 

[KIngGerudo]

face the other way when you're edgeguarding

that way you can stomp on them and when they come above you hit them with the end of the uair
:D

i know thats yinn, but thanks for your advice. im talking about using the down smash to hurl them back out off of the stage when they try to go above me.

 

[DippnDots]

If they go over you, wait till they land and punish them with whatever you want. I don't see how they could get over you, an uair should do the trick to keep them out to an edge.

 

[Tundravalco]

do it when your just sandbagging but when it matters reverse u-air because ledge guarding with d-smash isnt practical.

 

[KIngGerudo]

trust me you guys, i know about uair and the rest of ganons air game, im just askin if this can be used as an acceptable edgeguard

 

[DippnDots]

well, I'm pretty sure that if you know where they're going to be a stomp would be better than a down-smash, or even an up-smash if you can connect both hits. I wouldn't use the down-smash, personally.

 

[Frozenserpent]

I prefer ftilt over dsmash in terms of edgeguarding.
One thing about dsmash is that it sends people a pretty high trajectory, so if it doesn't kill them outright, they are going to recover back, sometimes even closer to the stage, depending on how they DI.
Admittedly, I've never this out, but I like to stick to ftilt if i'm not edgeguarding with an aerial. From all the angles, it covers a good degree of range.

 

[KIngGerudo]

thank you everyone for the advice, looks like i get to stick with tilts and aerials. maybe if something comes up, this might change.

 

[O D I N]

I use the D-smash to spook them from recovering from the ledge. Kinda scares my opponents sometimes, but it's more of a "see-what-they're-gonna-do-next" kind of move. It works nice on opponents who roll up, and is quick enough to where you can chase after someone who jumps up.

I wouldn't recommend doing this all the time, but keep it in your back pocket.

 

[EazyP]

I did win a round in a money match against a Jiggly by accidentally doing dsmash, which sucked him into the wall of FD and got me a stage spike

Good times