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1. I've used Zelda in a lot of tournaments, usually as my back-up character. Not as a secondary, but usually as a "my fox got ****ed up so I'll pick someone who doesn't get ***** as hard by edge guards or chaingrabs". After a while, I just preferred to play as zelda instead.
2. I'd be lying if I said I was any good at melee at this point, but I still understand melee REALLY well and the people that know me well will tell you the same thing. I do have less notable wins vs excellent players such as KDJ, Azen, Chu, forward, vidjo, m2k, DSW, hugs, etc but none of them are all that recent simply because I don't really play that much anymore. I also have some losses vs other excellent players like PC chris, darkrain, mango, and dr pp. My two most recent sets vs good players were mango and dr pp, where I repeatedly lost to both falcos @ 1 stock (pound 5). Point being, I've played and performed well against a lot of talented players, some of which I know you've played against, so I must know at least a little something about the game/character.
3. I usually pick FD For DD practice, I'm personally awful vs dash dance camping, particularly from fox/falcon. I play much better on platforms but I don't need to practice that when I go to like 3 tournaments a year. That's not a zelda thing either, I personally suck against DD camping as any character.
4. I already made concessions that I can't pinpoint your skill because of time/accuracy issues. But if I played or watched you for 10 minutes I could.
5. I don't have much for tournament stats for the last few years as I started to dislike the brawl/melee split and I prefer to just stick to exchanging ideas on the forums. The only tournaments stat I have for you this year is I entered like some teams tournament in late january, and the coolest thing I did was I came back from a 2 vs 1 disadvantage vs plank and boss and I thought that was cool? it felt cool anyway. uhh, I beat renth in roy vs ganondorf? not much to talk about. it's simply been way too long.
I was probably in the wrong to make any assumptions at all regarding you as a player, but I definitely have the best understanding of zelda on this board far and away. understanding zelda isn't about frame data or what you can do because any good character/player combo can debilitate her options REALLY fast and that frame data doesn't matter anymore. Higher level zelda is all about avoiding the **** to the extreme best of your ability and to go for simple punishes or to abuse quick and easy gimmicks with good reward. for example, I don't like cosmo's style because even though he's REALLY, REALLY good at the character, I think he double jumps too much and it leads to those falcon edge guards that he posted about in the first place. I think cosmo would be much better as a player if he left the ground less often and learned the edge hugging up B trick I posted a few weeks ago. understanding zelda also means having a good SHEIK so you can't get shut down like that in the first place, and any zelda that doesn't have a good sheik isn't a good zelda.
