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I disagree in a couple ways. While Ryu is the most technical character in the game he's still relatively easy because of the mechanics of Smash 4 (the massive buffer and easy inputs even with Ryu), and if you keep dedicating to a single character your improvement with them will gradually slow down more and more. Most of your improvement will also come from matchup knowledge and your fundamentals getting better which is something that can often better be achieved by playing different characters. I think several mains that you dedicate to equally can serve a real advantage, and if you co-main two characters for instance, it by no means equals to both of your characters being only 50% as good as they'd be if you fully dedicated to one of them. It's probably something more like 90-95%.
I didn't mean that putting work into more characters detracts from your mastery of them, just that it's generally a bad idea to have a secondary that's more technical than the main unless there's a specific niche that other characters can't serve.
I agree with that, however I did specifically say co-main, never secondary. I think secondaries in general are only useful (from a practical standpoint) to cover bad matchups.
Vectoring still exists, though only for moves that hit in angles between 67 and -67 and the same for the left sides (113 and 247).
Utilt is a fantastic anti-air because it's very meaty and makes her hurtbox tiny. It can also kill around 130% fresh, and you can sometimes get it out of jab, and having more kill options is always welcome to Palu
What people think of him ranges from high tier to bottom tier. The world may never know.
as a zoner/anti-zoner all in one due to the nature of his zoning tools(zair going through projectiles and pk fire exploding on them) and the fact he can reflect and absorb projectiles. i think mastery of him is thorough knowledge of his movement and zoning tools(if you're moving even very slightly back with pkf it'll launch you all the way back, almost as if you wavebounced it). i'll expand after school, since i have to go soon.
What? Dude. If you're that close you tether. Else, up b, which you can use from the blastzone if you're scared of getting gimped.
You can be out of tether range and still be gimped. You can be below the stage and still get gimped. Using at blast zone just makes recovering that much harder for you. You have to hit yourself the right way and being in the blastzone masks the thunderbolt.
It doesn't auto cancel, but yes, the landing lag of his teether is really low (8 frames).
Frame 14 is the same as Kirby's u-smash, sooooooooo.... yeah, it's not very fast. Plus the cool down on that move looks awful. (31 frames of endlag)
In jump art, falling nair goes into just about anything thanks to Shulk's increased air speed and momentum combined with Nair's (comparably) low landing lag. Nair -> Fair -> Airslash is a thing, for example, and cancelling his landing lag with Monado Arts can help too. Most don't go beyond two hits but I mean, that's still a combo.
An issue with Lucas's disadvantage which really stuck out to me is he has no good combo breakers, with nothing faster than frame 7 and fairly small or narrow hitboxes on everything except Bair. He has very quick moves on the ground but in the air he has problems when he's not in control.
I'm aware. However, that doesn't automatically mean the matchups now even. Lots of characters have "combos that murder fastfallers" and yet they still struggle against Sheiks and Foxes. Even then, Link's dthrow uair is not true at kill %s and only works when following DI. I mean the dthrow combos do help a lot at early percents when dthrow utilt true combos.
I want to say that the starting assumption of that post is incorrect in the first place. He says that Lucas is a sweetspot/combo based character, but I see 3 specials that are projectiles (2 of which are bad, but PK Fire is very good to make up for this,) a lagless Zair that destroys projectiles, a stick that reflects projectiles, and a magnet that absorbs projectiles, and I think more of a zoner/anti-zoner, or whatever term the kids use these days.
i mean, nairo plays like the whole damn cast so i dont know if i agree that this is an issue for him
In tournament though? Also strictly speaking, Nairo is better by an increasingly wide margin. I guess everyone plays at their own pace, though. I myself play best when I focus on one character of course, but I tend to like mid tier characters and I also get bored of the character if I only play them for a while. So for me, 2 seems to be ideal. For others like Nakat, I guess 4 is the magic number lol
