What do?

[mxic0]

First thing is first, I absolutely love playing Melee. It's actually more enjoyable than Sm4sh when playing with real people. The only thing problem is that my fingers are pretty slow. I don't think it's an experience thing because I have been playing since I was 8 (Just got into competitive recently though). Due to that, I lose a lot of times to my friends when I had the upper hand. Is there any specific way to play with this problem or any characters that best suits me? If it's any help, I like to play Ganondorf and Peach.

 

[Sudoi]

I can't really help with the slow fingers part, but since you play Ganon, I recommend you focus on being able to efficiently read your opponent. If you can tell what the enemy is about to do before their brain even registers the pattern, take the upper hand, and kill them with this knowledge.

 

[mxic0]

Since I'm supposing you play Ganon, is there any special way you edge guard?

 

[GenNyan]

It is indeed an experience thing. Practice pillaring with fox/falco on a 9 handicap bowser (Setting your handicap to one and the damage ratio to .5) and your finger speed will increase significantly.

 

[Stride]

Casual play and competitive play are very different. Experience in casual play is only applicable to competitive play to a very limited extent; you basically have to relearn the game from scratch when you start playing competitively. Therefore, you shouldn't expect your control of your character to be good just from playing casual games, with no competitive experience and limited focused practice.

You will be physically able to execute faster and more precisely with practice. You will also learn how to apply your options in ways that allow you to be faster and more precise.

Do deliberate and focused practice sessions rather than just moving around mindlessly spamming techskill or comboing CPUs. Actively critically evaluate your play and look for habits, areas for improvement, things to think about, and so on. Watch competitive matches and analyse them; think about what options are available in a situation and the properties/consequences/advantages/disadvantages of each, and which ones the players choose and why (and also the other way around: what situations the players choose to apply certain options in and why).

The Melee Library is a great compilation of useful guides (including many on improvement and practicing): https://docs.google.com/document/d/14scMKnw-IyD_FhOy6Pg7EAkRwu-e1YNbA06k0pwZpF0/edit?pli=1

Control of your character is extremely important, because it's necessary for applying every other aspect of the game. Learn your basic techskill, and make it consistent. Once you can do what you want when you want it, then you can start to focus more on your decision making.

 

[mxic0]

This site is great, thanks for all the love, and also for the pro tips. Thanks again

 

[EPsilon933]

You'll be fine playing Peach. You won't need any tech skill beyond floating, crouch canceling, and sometimes wavedashing. Focus on the strategic aspect of the game. Peach has almost unfair neutral game tools. Abuse them. Turnips are annoyingly take up space and floats don't have lag, which is basically unpunishable. You don't need to combo because she doesn't even combo much

 

[mxic0]

I want to know if shine canceling twice into a shine is pretty fast. Been practicing for a couple hours

 

[Dolla Pills]

I want to know if shine canceling twice into a shine is pretty fast. Been practicing for a couple hours

If you mean like multishining/doubleshining that is probably faster than anything you can do with Ganon and a lot of things you will do with Peach. So yeah, although I wouldn't just practice those since it's only one muscle movement and your characters don't even use it