LanceStern
Smash Lord
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It seems lately I have had a lot of time to contemplate spacing and how to control it using Peach. I think it's becausee I've decided to main Peach for my next tournament, and I want to make sure I'm doing the right things to represent her correctly.
It all comes back to her short horizontal range (besides jab) and how I can effectively get around that shortcoming with a fast and long-ranged attack. I don’t feel that Peach users are effectively using a move that could change a few matchups for Peach, and that’s the instant dash attack.
To execute: Input a dash like you’re going to run or dash, and then immediately hit down on the cstick (if cstick is set to smash or attack). You will do a dash attack instantly.
It’s not our fastest move (jab and nair get those honors) but it is the fastest move that has the biggest horizontal range in Peach’s arsenal. With that said, we can use this to punish a LOT of moves that would otherwise be unpunishable, and therefore implement a new level of harassment to frustrate our opponents.
The key is the broken, disjointed hitbox the second hit has. You can't see it, but it reaches out far in front of peach and a little bit above her. Check the hitbubble.
I’ve already used it to drastically change the pace of my matchup vs. Kirby. As you know, Kirby loves to spam bairs when in trouble and to keep you out. I’ve heard you could punish with Jab OOS or Ftilt OOS, but Kriby’s love to space it by retreating the bair so that the tip of his feet hit your shield and you can do NOTHING to hit him unless you have a turnip.
But I have 100% punished Kirby’s perfectly spaced short hop bair with instant dash attack out of shield. It has drastically changed the matchup for me whereas it used to be I had to let him control the pace because I couldn’t get in, he can’t even harass me with bairs anymore because it gets punished everytime.
You can use it to harass marths that like to jump a lot, D3’s spamming bair in front of you or Metaknights fair. If the opponent is staying just out of range on the ground, the deceptive speed and RANGE of the dash attack will catch them off guard more than once. You can even use it to catch those pesky Falco's and force them in a bad position (above you, you under him). Often times they will predictably try to phantasm away, and then you can do it again. What about diddy kong sitting away from you with a banana between you? Instant dash attack will pick up the banana and pop diddy in the face
I'm not saying be predictable and spam it all day, but I see NO peaches using it. And it can change a lot of things. Helps her ground game definitely.
What Peach was not able to punish before – someone just out of her horizontal jab range – she can effectively punish and frustrate with Instant Dash Attack. Please start using it.
Any comments?
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It seems lately I have had a lot of time to contemplate spacing and how to control it using Peach. I think it's becausee I've decided to main Peach for my next tournament, and I want to make sure I'm doing the right things to represent her correctly.
It all comes back to her short horizontal range (besides jab) and how I can effectively get around that shortcoming with a fast and long-ranged attack. I don’t feel that Peach users are effectively using a move that could change a few matchups for Peach, and that’s the instant dash attack.
To execute: Input a dash like you’re going to run or dash, and then immediately hit down on the cstick (if cstick is set to smash or attack). You will do a dash attack instantly.
It’s not our fastest move (jab and nair get those honors) but it is the fastest move that has the biggest horizontal range in Peach’s arsenal. With that said, we can use this to punish a LOT of moves that would otherwise be unpunishable, and therefore implement a new level of harassment to frustrate our opponents.
The key is the broken, disjointed hitbox the second hit has. You can't see it, but it reaches out far in front of peach and a little bit above her. Check the hitbubble.
I’ve already used it to drastically change the pace of my matchup vs. Kirby. As you know, Kirby loves to spam bairs when in trouble and to keep you out. I’ve heard you could punish with Jab OOS or Ftilt OOS, but Kriby’s love to space it by retreating the bair so that the tip of his feet hit your shield and you can do NOTHING to hit him unless you have a turnip.
But I have 100% punished Kirby’s perfectly spaced short hop bair with instant dash attack out of shield. It has drastically changed the matchup for me whereas it used to be I had to let him control the pace because I couldn’t get in, he can’t even harass me with bairs anymore because it gets punished everytime.
You can use it to harass marths that like to jump a lot, D3’s spamming bair in front of you or Metaknights fair. If the opponent is staying just out of range on the ground, the deceptive speed and RANGE of the dash attack will catch them off guard more than once. You can even use it to catch those pesky Falco's and force them in a bad position (above you, you under him). Often times they will predictably try to phantasm away, and then you can do it again. What about diddy kong sitting away from you with a banana between you? Instant dash attack will pick up the banana and pop diddy in the face
I'm not saying be predictable and spam it all day, but I see NO peaches using it. And it can change a lot of things. Helps her ground game definitely.
What Peach was not able to punish before – someone just out of her horizontal jab range – she can effectively punish and frustrate with Instant Dash Attack. Please start using it.
Any comments?
