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I agree with this entirely because her basic design concept doesn't make a lick of sense and she was arguably the worst character in the game when it first game out. WFT is weird but you can see what the developers envisioned for her: someone who may not get kills easily on sheer strength but can easily wrack up damage, is threatening off stage, and is likely going to stick around for a while because of great recovery options and the fact that she can heal herself. Aside from the healing parts, it's largely the same basic concept behind Sheik, Metaknight, and Fox. As things stand, she's not as good as them but I don't feel like her concept betrays her.
which is just... just... I mean... that's a weird combination, ain't it? She's like the Turducken of Smash. I feel like they tried to make her too unique for her own good because she feels like bits and pieces of other characters but doesn't excel at any of their traits. The way her customs are, however, make me wonder if they intended her to be a sort of dress up doll of a character and wanted the player to ultimately make her how they saw fit. Perhaps the developers didn't want the player to use her in her standard form but wanted them to experiment, thus making her standard specials underwhelming.Pikachu seems way to difficult to learn for bandwagoning.
I do know that you can act out of hitstun at different times for different things. Airdodge first, then attack, then jump. I don't know if it can hit before you can jump though.
You will be disappointed. Nobody got as close as he just did. There will be a flood of awful pocket Pikachus just like with ZSS.
Guaranteed combo if they try to jump out (it registers as a true combo in training mode). They can airdodge out though because, in general, you can airdodge out of hitstun earlier than jumping, though not as stupidly early as Brawl.
It's a 50:50 for the first ~20% or so (depending on rage/character) as dthrow->upair enters kill percentages.
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In a way, he's already proven his point. He took off two games off someone who swept EVO so he has absolutely nothing to lose by dropping these finals. He could purposely bomb the final game as Nolimar and people would still agree that it was a fantastic run.
I guess you don't get the reference?
Still pretty esoteric. I follow competitive Smash but I couldn't really give a wet mouse fart for the players (I follow for the characters themselves) so if this is a quote from someone...
I feel like ESAM just gives up all the time, and decides "**** it, I wonder how X would do?"
I think he thought it was over anyways. I don't think he thought he could repeat how he played in the Winners Finals, that it was a one time thing.
Nope, it's now proven, he's not infallible.
*cough* That switch to Brawl Bowser in LTC Grand Finals*cough*
The MU looks pretty even to me. Zero just adapted better and outplayed ESAM in the end. Pika's scary good.
(not ordered)|| who are probably evenish
I've actually been thinking about this recently, and I believe that they were originally planning on making her a zoner. It makes sense since considering she has defense oriented defaults, smash attacks with massive range and windboxes, and being below average in CQC. The main problem with her default however is that there seems to have been many bad design decisions that completelt prevent that gameplan from being effective, such as her overall miserable frame data, having no good ways to end a stock, and autoreticle being better at forcing approaches than stopping them.I agree with this entirely because her basic design concept doesn't make a lick of sense and she was arguably the worst character in the game when it first game out. WFT is weird but you can see what the developers envisioned for her: someone who may not get kills easily on sheer strength but can easily wrack up damage, is threatening off stage, and is likely going to stick around for a while because of great recovery options and the fact that she can heal herself. Aside from the healing parts, it's largely the same basic concept behind Sheik, Metaknight, and Fox. As things stand, she's not as good as them but I don't feel like her concept betrays her.
For Palutena, on the other hand, I don't really know what they were trying to go for. The closet character she resembles is Zelda but, from a basic standpoint, Zelda has better kill and defensive options. Zelda's design makes sense (although isn't very good) because she's slow and usually forces characters to come to her. With Palutena, this doesn't work because she doesn't hit as hard plus she's much faster so she really doesn't need to camp. In a weird way, Vanilla Palutena plays like a mix of
vs is slightly in Sheik's Favor. They both can combo each other hard while they both have a hard-time edge guarding off-stage. However sheik has an easier time killing then Pikachu while also having a projectile that is more convenient then Pikachu's. Just a short summary of the MU
In the area where the sourspot and sweetspot hitboxes overlap, Sheik used to get the sweetspot. Now she gets the sourspot, so to sweetspot she needs to tipper it.
Eh, that's a tricky one. I don't think Rosalina will ever be bad as long as Luma is a thing (and provided its numbers aren't completely gutted) but I can definitely see her falling from grace as people figure out optimal anti-Luma strategies. She just requires a lot of matchup-specific counterplay so unless you have a Rosalina in your area odds are you won't have much practice.
I'm not an expert on the subject, but I imagine sourspot Fairs are good for combos as well, sometimes even better maybe? Tbh my main gripes with Sheik, besides needles and Fair being too lagless, are that Fair and Bouncing Fish seem to have such crazy big hitboxes. I don't know for sure, but it seems like Fair is disjointed, and hits farther out than you would expect. I know BF is disjointed at the end, and usually when I see Fthrow->BF, it looks like it shouldn't connect, but it does because there's a gigantic arcing hitbox up top.
