Viability?

[Pete278]

Guys, I have a question that needs a serious (alas) answer: is Olimar viable in a metagame filled with Metaknights? I'd love to play the little slavedriver, but is Mk:Olimar 70:30 hard or 70:30 impossible?

 

[RichBrown]

It's winnable, but it's really, really hard, because 1 tiny mistake against an MK could cost you a stock, while a mistake made by an MK won't hurt him much. So it's possible to outplay an MK and still lose. Pretty stressful.

You can still win though

 

[Pete278]

So I have to be alot better than the Metaknight to win?

 

[Fino]

So I have to be alot better than the Metaknight to win?

Considering he is un-counter-pickable... that's the general rule of thumb

And the MU is definitely not 70:30

<.<

 

[ETWIST51294]

It's JUST LIKE CF vs Sheik in Melee, even if you completely outplay your opponent you might still lose.

 

[Pete278]

It's JUST LIKE CF vs Sheik in Melee, even if you completely outplay your opponent you might still lose.

That sounds like a pretty big reason for me to not pick up Olimar. :< Would you guys recommend for or against it?

 

[Noa.]

Trust me, everyone's making the matchup sound harder than it is.

If you're better than you opponent, you should be fine. It's a hard matchup to learn though. And you have to play very well. But these guys are overexaggerating it a tad bit.

 

[ETWIST51294]

It's just a hard MU, it's not un-winable.

 

[RichBrown]

Rereading my post, I did make it sound a little dramatic, but that stress factor is still there.

I didn't mention though that the other thing I like about Olimar is that he can always bring it back too. There's been numerous times when I've been down in a match and then I'll get a good lineup and nail a 60%+ combo. I did that at Genesis against this snake, it was game 2 and I was up 1-0, and I was on my last stock around 80-90, he was at 0. I latched 2 white pikmin on his back, and he couldn't get them off.... 78%. I went on to win that match XD

 

[asob4]

basically you only need to watch out for the top MKs, like m2k, tyrant, dsf, etc etc
otherwise it shouldn't be too hard

when i played, MKs would just camp with dairs -_-

 

[Pete278]

So, Olimar is a fine character to main? Awesome. I'm fairly bad with him at the moment, but I'll get some videos up from my next tournament for you guys to critique the **** out of.

 

[Mith8]

He is a great character to main. not hard to learn, and has alot of nice tricks up his sleeve. Also, scrubs under estimate him dramtically. Get a nice line up, and you can beat almost anyone your level.

 

[AuraMaster]

I had a hard time against MK too. All I did was find out there weakness and I beat them half the time.

 

[AuraMaster]

What I do is I threw the Pikmin at MK and I do a ton of grabs on him. When MK tries to get the pikmin off I go up to MK and grab him and I do combos on him.

 

[Fino]

this thread just failed so hard XD

 

[Teh Future]

I us3d to have impossible metaknights. then I just took a real hard look at their character amdm now i win somtimes. What I do is see when they make bad spacings i punish it then combo

 

[Cook]

Olimar is bad, use MK. He is good.

 

[Fino]

Wow, Fino, you took out the Oli face that Rauleen had by my name in the results thread and replaced it with an MK one.

Olimar is bad, use MK. He is good.

Cry less, 360 moar?

 

[RichBrown]

Hahaha *****

 

[Pete278]

Olimar is bad, use MK. He is good.

But Olimar is going to be the cure to my MK addiction.

 

[Noa.]

Olimar is cool.

And a post earlier in this thread; scrubs tend to overrate Olimar. They overrate him a lot. Smart players are really the problem.

 

[Tin Man]

Olimar is a gud Character, he is very cool, and Negromar is the best colour, but NOOOOOOOO, don't use him (too many +1's on Olimar mains these days )