I've been feeling like MK vs. Wario is a closer matchup than MK vs. Snake, and definetly at least even.
I personally feel I know both matchups very well, and always do extremely well against either matchup. But It seems like against Wario, the amount of mistakes you can make is SEVERELY limited in comparison to the number of mistakes Wario can make. To kill a Wario you will likely have to get his damage to 150%. For wario to kill you, and Uair at 110% will generally do the trick, and even then, if you get farted on, you'll be dying as early as 50%.
Here are some of my matches as I slowly learned the Wario matchup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEu0vuq60Rc - Me vs. Afro Thundah. I felt extremely pressured in this matchup and didn't know how to approach very well at all. I got Farted on several times and took a lot of damage from Shuttle loops etc...this was the first time I had played a good wario in a very long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zhEGp74Ybk - Me vs. Masky a Wario from Gainesville. This was the first time I got extended practice in the wario matchup. I felt very comfortable with it at this point. I lost one match due to a fart however.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTQhquIqUU - Me vs. Gmoney currently the best Wario in Fl since Afro retired. I felt pretty comfortable in this match as well but I found it annoying that getting farted on could change a match that I was dominating into an even one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ4ZS6wd1vk - Me vs. Reflex - Tourney match from last saturday. From the wario practice earlier in the week I felt very confident and on the first stock played almost flawlessly. But still, I made a few mistakes here and there, and that was enough for me to lose.
Even without the fart Wario seemed to get enough game on MK simply by punishing, but the fart is a psycological annoyance, and can easily turn the tide of the match. If MK were to play flawlessly then Wario would be unable to touch him, but intelligent mixups by the wario player as well as mistakes by the MK player seem to compensate well for this.
The matchup thread currently says its 60:40 but I highly disagree. It seems like a matchup that you can learn but will always come down to the skill of the player rather than any matchup knowledge.
I personally feel I know both matchups very well, and always do extremely well against either matchup. But It seems like against Wario, the amount of mistakes you can make is SEVERELY limited in comparison to the number of mistakes Wario can make. To kill a Wario you will likely have to get his damage to 150%. For wario to kill you, and Uair at 110% will generally do the trick, and even then, if you get farted on, you'll be dying as early as 50%.
Here are some of my matches as I slowly learned the Wario matchup.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEu0vuq60Rc - Me vs. Afro Thundah. I felt extremely pressured in this matchup and didn't know how to approach very well at all. I got Farted on several times and took a lot of damage from Shuttle loops etc...this was the first time I had played a good wario in a very long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zhEGp74Ybk - Me vs. Masky a Wario from Gainesville. This was the first time I got extended practice in the wario matchup. I felt very comfortable with it at this point. I lost one match due to a fart however.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVTQhquIqUU - Me vs. Gmoney currently the best Wario in Fl since Afro retired. I felt pretty comfortable in this match as well but I found it annoying that getting farted on could change a match that I was dominating into an even one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ4ZS6wd1vk - Me vs. Reflex - Tourney match from last saturday. From the wario practice earlier in the week I felt very confident and on the first stock played almost flawlessly. But still, I made a few mistakes here and there, and that was enough for me to lose.
Even without the fart Wario seemed to get enough game on MK simply by punishing, but the fart is a psycological annoyance, and can easily turn the tide of the match. If MK were to play flawlessly then Wario would be unable to touch him, but intelligent mixups by the wario player as well as mistakes by the MK player seem to compensate well for this.
The matchup thread currently says its 60:40 but I highly disagree. It seems like a matchup that you can learn but will always come down to the skill of the player rather than any matchup knowledge.