What are dome bad Yoshi habits you shouldn't be oing?

[PineTree2.0]

I've been playing Yoshi for a while now, and have only been able to face CPUs. I feel semi confident in facing a human player, but I'm afraid that I've fallen into bad habits. What are some things that you just shouldn't do with yoshi at all. I know staying in your shield is bad, and never solely rely super armor. What else is there?

 

[kofinater]

When I do a lot of tech practice without playing for a while I'm really reckless with my DJ. Your jump can get stolen a bunch since all of yoshi's movement rely's on DJ

 

[MurphyPrime]

Raw Smashes are the worst for me. Don't rely too heavily on smash attacks for KOs unless you space it properly.

 

[Pabmyster]

The absolute worst part of playing on your own is that you get into the habit of looking at your own character too much and end up going into auto-pilot mode, where you don't actively think as you play and instead do mindless combos on a level 3 CPU that you probably won't implement into your game. You should definitely try to find real opponents who can beat the bad habits out of you until you stop them completely, esp. before expecting results at tourneys. You also can't practice the neutral game or spacing against a CPU, so often that is an area that is extremely lacking when you first play real people. For that, you should study how other high level Yoshis play, look at how they space, and pick out the different kinds of playstyles they may have that you can take from and add to your repertoire.

 

[ôSleepô]

This is good to read if you have no other options but playing by yourself http://smashboards.com/threads/falco-discussion-thread.256826/page-439#post-14739329

Something that I started doing recently is while your moving around the stage watch the cpu and in your head name everything that it is doing. This will help you always be looking at your opponent and have good movement.