What are Ike's good/bad stages?

[Boolossus]

Since Ike is the most used character in the game (at least to me, there are over 10 people on my friends roster who main him, out of about 30) I'd like to know what stages to go to so that I can have a bit of an easier time playing against him. Thank you for your help. =)

 

[Hinote]

I like smaller stages with platforms because it makes camping harder and killing easier. If you main Samus (which I assume that you do), I'd suggest large stages with no platforms (Final Destination).

 

[thewiredknight]

Flat stages are the best for Ike.
That and Onett, Ike's crazy reach and power make him a murder machine in Onett.

Worst; personally I think Skyworld is one of the worst. Mostly this is because of the destructible platforms. Half the time Aether destroys them during recovery and you die anyway.

 

[Rykoshet]

Flat stages without platforms are terrible for ike, not to mention that platforms give him a huge advantage (being above ike is a death wish, walking around above ike is worse)

 

[Ussi]

flat stages to spam projectiles on him. otherwise it's in ike's favor. Ike really has no bad stages as he can do good anywhere. Platforms just boost his ability. Flatness supports QD. So ike gets one of those two advantages usually.

 

[Boon :o]

Flat stages without platforms are terrible for ike, not to mention that platforms give him a huge advantage (being above ike is a death wish, walking around above ike is worse)

Yea, flat stages without platforms are usually a huge disadvantage to Ike, if he's facing a person with long range and projectiles, but if Ike is going against another melee rounded type, he'll do pretty well.
A good, and maybe easy, way to kill Ike is get a person with good edge guarding abilities, his quick draw and aether aren't that sucessful in recovering from off the stage if you know how to gaurd it correctly.

Off the top of my head, I would pick Zelda to go against Ike, her down smash sends you almost horizontally all the way across the map, with no lift, so Ike wouldn't be able to recover and her dense fire is pretty annoying if you're Ike.

 

[Rakath]

The absolute worse stage for Ike is Bridge of Eldin without question. Especially if you play someone with a projectile. Once the bridge blows up leap to the other side of the hole and just spam on him. It will keep him pinned for a while and if you can time your projectiles and jumps you can keep him in trouble for a while.

 

[AgentLemon921]

I personally like Shadow Moses Island when playing Ike. The platforms, of course, definitely support ike. However, on Shadow Moses the lack of a bottom KO pit means his less-than-stellar recovery can't be taken advantage of. And as an added bonus, you can chain his strong moves that normally would never, ever be combo'ed together using the walls on the side.

 

[MeestaWombat]

ike wins in everything besides speed and recovery. play smart against him. if he's charging side b, jump over him. if he's spamming fair, run away and projectile.

essentially, counter aggression with hit and run tactics.

 

[Rykoshet]

Off the top of my head, I would pick Zelda to go against Ike, her down smash sends you almost horizontally all the way across the map, with no lift, so Ike wouldn't be able to recover and her dense fire is pretty annoying if you're Ike.

Zelda actually isnt too too tough to match up against ike, though it's pretty close overall. Her down smash is the only real real danger (and the obvious things you should be avoiding anyway), but that might just be because the main guy I play against plays zelda. One of the better ways to deal with zelda is actually eruption, at least in the air, and she's at a huge huge huge disadvantage if ike is below her at all. Keep her off her feet or at least somewhere over your head and you're fine.

 

[petrie911]

I find Green Greens to be a good Ike stage. Ike likes the close sides and low ceiling, and the blocks tend to, well, block projectiles.

 

[Empy]

Green Greens has been turned of with me.
Anyway, I usually just go for Battlefield. Final D is only a problem against some characters imo. Like Zelda, Falco and Lucas (yes Lucas). Samus her missiles are slow and easy to dodge and her beam is hardly used by most Samus players anyway (although you should against Ike, you have the time). On top, she has slow falling speed, which is bad against Ike, and QD can be really, really good on FD. So I wouldn't recommend Samus there.

Overall however, I haven't experienced any stages really bad for Ike, except Skyworld of course, but we already turned it off because of all the wall and ceiling teching there.

 

[TedBoosley]

I find Green Greens to be a good Ike stage. Ike likes the close sides and low ceiling, and the blocks tend to, well, block projectiles.

My favorite counterpick.

 

[ikemaster]

i think it's either plat stages, stages with walls, or places with water like pirateship or delfino plaza

 

[raph21]

i always picks plain stages or plain with few plaforms. here are some i use:
final destination, battlefield, halberd, delfino plaza, corneria, the other one of fox i forgot its name, green greens, luigis mansion, the one from animal crossing, and some 1's i made the others i dont remember em well xD

 

[akkon888]

Summit.
The structure of the stage blocks off projectiles, the pockets of space help Ike with his smashes, etc.

 

[Basser]

I always play with Ike on final Destination. That is the best combination ever!

 

[ROOOOY!]

I always like to see threads bumped even though they died ages ago.
I have trouble against Ike on Battlefield, but then I main Sonic and he's awful on Battlefield lol.

 

[Ussi]

BF is one of Ike's best stages. Pirate Ship i would put there too.

 

[jdarkeye]

The best ike stages are Delfino plaza and final destionation the worst i would say is....skyworld cant recover much there

 

[Dritz]

I would say his best are Frigate Orpheon, Castle Siege (unless your giant Ike before the transformations, he is just a bit too tall), Pirate Ship and Norfair. Worst are Skyworld, Hanenbow, and Final Destination

 

[Arturito_Burrito]

Frigate orpheon has to be the second worse. No ledge = gayness

 

[•Col•]

Frigate orpheon has to be the second worse. No ledge = gayness

If the one side had a ledge, it'd probably be a good stage for Ike... ._. lol... It's weird how something as small as a ledge can change the stage entirely....

 

[Arturito_Burrito]

Meh I'm still not sure it would do that. That side of the stage has a lot of room and it is pretty far away from the actual floor of the stage.

Seems like all that room just leaves you open to simple gimps from anyone who has the ability to come back from anywhere in the stage. It's part of the reason why its so good for multi jumpers and ROB.

 

[Shy Guy 86]

Is Lylat Cruise a good stage for Ike, it sorta screws up a lot of characters

 

[Samuelson]

I think Frigate is probably his worst stage. His recovery simply fails on the right side of the first stage.

 

[Sunstar]

I wonder why nobody has mentioned the yoshis island stage (brawl)
i think normaly ike is quiet good on it, but he can (easily) be gimped on that stage

if ike does his up b move to recover, while the other character stands near to the edge of the stage and uses shield and ike comes down, smashing against the shield he will be pushed from the stage... the lag of his recovery move is so long, that he has not a change to revover again...



like this:

(pic from the dojo, edited with paint)

 

[BrawlerHarrison]

Has to be BF, that's his best right?

Wll, I guess it's just small stages with platforms, avoiding gimp ledges.

 

[neon..?]

wtf frigate orpheon's like his worst stage.

 

[zippo074]

On of the worst stages with ike, is metroid (You know, the stage that flips all the time? Lol) He SD's ALOT there... But, the best stage I find is Onett or Green greens.