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Congrats for breaking that habit, I'm still working on taking care of that one. I roll far too often and I'm really bad at evasive movement (I rely on shield more than I should). I'm currently working on breaking both of those habits. I'm also working on not throwing out an aerial every time I short hop.
What helped me is everytime I wanted to roll I told myself to either throw out an attack or dash. Once I really focused on dashing and dash dancing it changed how I played enough to break the habit. It didn’t work everytime but eventually with enough practice and analysis I got it down. Yeah short hopping without throwing out an attack can be really useful for baiting
The F-Smash habit seems to be a popular one especially with certain characters like sword characters. The thing is you don’t get punished for it at lower level play and then you get into high level play and you’ll get absolutely wrecked. Try using your tilts and aerials more. That’s what helps me. Also set the c-stick to tilt so you don’t have a instant smash trigger
Yeah I keep thinking that I have too much range for them to punish me, especially when I use Shulk or Chrom, and then I get an aerial or jab in my face. I should try to use tilts and such more then just throwing out Smashes hoping to get an early cheese kill.
Yeah, especially with Shulk and Chrom who have great aerials. Everytime you’re thinking of f smashing with Chrom try short hop fairing or nairing. Also dtilt and ftilt with Chrom are where it’s at. Shulk has that great nair too. I don’t think this one will be too hard to break
Thanks for the tips! I'll do my best.
You got this!
That one kind of gets me too but I force myself not to use it and physically short hop than input the aerial. It’s also impossible to do fast fall short hop aerials with the new mechanic so you’re missing out on hitting smaller characters. I hate that they put this in the game because it’s just a bad habit creater
Absolutely. Particularly as Zelda, I have a hard time against Pichus and the like without that FFSH mechanic. But bigger characters are so easy to hit that I've developed such a bad habit of fairing all over the place. Way too predictable.
That's a good idea, I'm going to focus this next week on dashing or throwing out an attack instead of rolling.
Exactly that’s the problem with playing people worse than you. It’s really easy to reinforce bad habits. I use the new short fair mechanic on Ness’s fair chains because it works perfectly but nothing other than that
It really helped me. The thing is rolling backwards in neutral isn’t necessarily bad if you use it once or twice in a game but if you’re using it all the time it becomes super punishable
What character do you use?
Peach and daisy mostly, I don’t realize what character I’m playing sometimes and get to greedy for the kills, even worse I use characters with good recoveries but I end up fast falling into the blast zone lmao
O ya stuff like that is deadly for Peach and Daisy but while you're trying to fix the habit just go for the gimps with the turnips or float over the ledge and use dair
I’ll PK Fire that every time. It’s such a good move and it’s important to keep it fresh so you can pull it out when you need it. It wins games that way
My exact problem, too. It's a terrible habit, and one that I always seem to repeat.
I do this too because somebody told me in Brawl it stops your momentum and helps you DI. Well now I know that’s not true. I’ve pretty much broken this one but I still do it once in a while
Actually, in Brawl, airdodging after being launched canceled your hitstun; it didn't cancel your momentum directly, but it allowed you to do something else that would. This made hitstun in Brawl effectively cap at 13 frames (the minimum amount of time before you could airdodge out of hitstun (the minimum time before you can use an aerial out of hitstun is 25 frames)), which is why Brawl is considered so combo-unfriendly. Hitstun canceling was dramatically weakened for Smash 4 (with the minimum frame threshold for being allowed to do so being dependent on things like knockback velocity); I’m not sure if hitstun canceling is a thing in Ultimate or how strong or weak it is if it exists, but in any case, the limitations on airdodging in Ultimate (as opposed to being able to repeatedly airdodge in Brawl and Smash 4) means that airdodging to (try to) hitstun cancel just hinders your ability to actually dodge things.
Ok that makes sense. That’s where I picked up the habit from because when I could spam airdodge in Brawl it didn’t matter
Edgeguarding isn’t hard to get the hang of at all. You’ve just gotta get out there and start attempting it. Read your opponents recovery patterns a couple times first if you want and then go out and throw around your weight as Ridley. You might die a bunch at first but that’s fine because once you get it down you’ll be a much better player for it
I think something that will really help fix that habit is focusing on what your opponents doing and play around that rather than going straight kamikaze without keeping your opponent or anything else in mind. The more you watch your opponent the more you’ll be able to react to their offensive game plan
