What is the key to meteor smashing?

[The Y-Guy]

I've been playing Game and Watch for a while. He's awesome, one of my best mains. However, I have no idea how I meteor smash with him. I know you can though, I've done it before, but what is the trick? Where's the sweet spot?

 

[felipe_9595]

I've been playing Game and Watch for a while. He's awesome, one of my best mains. However, I have no idea how I meteor smash with him. I know you can though, I've done it before, but what is the trick? Where's the sweet spot?

There is a part of the Down Air thats a meteor. Dont use it offstage though, it isnt worth since you have better ways to gimp, its useful for pilaring wth your up b though. I am not entirely sure which part is but i always meteor people at the beginning of the animation.

 

[The Y-Guy]

ahh... Ok thanks for the help!

 

[Needle of Juntah]

Pretty sure it only meteors for the first few frames, somthin like that

 

[Metmetm3t]

It's the whole key, for exactly one frame, the first frame. You can kind of use that to your advantage and delay throwing out the move to kind of force the meteor to hit, but in general, it's not practical to aim for or expect you are going to get the meteor off stage. It's much safer to just hand the Dair out there and drag it into them.

The landing hit is always a meteor, though it only hits grounded opponents.

 

[Strong Badam]

The landing hit can also hit airborne opponents but does not meteor, it sends outward.

 

[MS DOS]

"The hitbox is in, like, the butthole of the key" is how I put it once
imo it's best for tech chasing, d-air -> up-smash is stupidly powerful, and it has a nice spike bounce ~

 

[Hamman88]

What's the key to meteor smashing?


the key

 

[WillieDangerously]

An extremely helpful combo I've found is dair them on stage (either head on or frame 1) to cause them to bounce on the stage like a Ganon dair. If they are around 40-70ish %, they should land in time for you to pull off an uncharged usmash, which on the right stages could kill rather early. Helped me a couple of times, especially hitting larger targets like Charizard.
As for on the regular basis, don't try fishing for it because it's a frame 1 deal, many characters like Marth could easily beat you out in the neutral game before you even get close enough to dair.

 

[Hamman88]

An extremely helpful combo I've found is dair them on stage (either head on or frame 1) to cause them to bounce on the stage like a Ganon dair. If they are around 40-70ish %, they should land in time for you to pull off an uncharged usmash, which on the right stages could kill rather early. Helped me a couple of times, especially hitting larger targets like Charizard.
As for on the regular basis, don't try fishing for it because it's a frame 1 deal, many characters like Marth could easily beat you out in the neutral game before you even get close enough to dair.

or, or, better yet, you troll the **** outta em cause your g&w do the patented Dakpo combo: dair stagepike -> footstool -> stagespike again cause they missed the tech -> upsmash. I'm also a fan of repeating the dair footstool untill they finally grow a pair and tech it, or unplug their controller cause they suck

 

[Experiment 5]

I find the meteor hitbox is best for pillaring--especially on those magical christmasland moments when you can pull off dtilt/upthrow --> up-B --> bair --> jump, d-air --> dair again for the landing hitbox --> dakpo shenanigans or straight upsmash.

When it works (and it rarely does), it kills lighter floaties if you start it at around 20-30%. The move sequence in the middle is a little shaky (it might not be EXACTLY what I said, but it's something close), but that's basically it. It also relies on a missed tech, but people don't often tech the second key because they don't expect it to be out in time.