General knowledge is always good. More options and more possibilities = a good thing, am-i-right?
For example, i went to Gamer's Edge Brawl Weekly (went 3 times consecutivley, now im too poor to go with my new apartment and Walgreens may as well pay me cheese... lol) and i was the first "good sonic" they saw. They didn't even realize that at 80%+, it wasn't safe to hold an edge as a running B-air stage spikes anyone save MAYBE another sonic if the B-air was staled, lol.
I stand at 4th, 4th, and i THINK 7th (for some reason, i've asked several times for official results and can't seem to get them... dunno why) and i tried different things that i've read up on here for each (all out aggresive in 1st.... owned by Devin's Marth... pwnt hard...)
So... i pracitced sheild grabbing, and from watching RSR, the offstage D-air semi spike done very quickly. Pwnt him in 5 consecutive matches by gimping extremley well, and put him out of the tourney. From there, i lost to this random 12 year old kids ROB
R1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5zojIvE-n0
R2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9B5oHpP67Cs
So... i tried that more defensive gameplan... and noticed that sometimes... sheilding and not the fastest attacks can get you ownd pretty bad too... lol (and the 2nd rounds b-throw at REALLY low percent... too good, saw it coming, failed to stop it, lol
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3rd tourney: a balance. Played my 1st set against the guy who mains snake and placed first in BOTH previous tourneys. He didn't think he'd loose to Sonic, and tried zss, pwnt hard. Then... snake... CLOSE, but the knockback of his tilts, priority of tilts/jabs/speed of them all... ended with me at higher % on our last stocks... and that freaking U-tilt.... lol *beastly*
Then, the guy who placed 3rd, a newcomer who mains ike. I thought it was wraped up. But he spaced so effectivley and litterally played mistake free... he almost 3 stocked me in both matches. I figured his patter on my very last stock, got one kill and an additional 140%, but my 90% start screwed me there, and no, not gimping that ike, lol
Wall of text aside: i DID come here to see what other good sonic's were doing. I KNOW that my biggest holes in my game are A
missed/committing to attacks i just want to hit (spin dash to B-air without proper jumping... :/) and B
Basics (i almost never spot dodge, and generally never needed to shield grab until i played some of these "better" players and noticed some of these general holes). 4th, 4th, and 7th against technical players when im far from technical = "****, your good, and the best freakin sonic i've seen... why don't you main someone else? you'd do so much better as a MK or TL." Because: im dedicated to Sonic, and my "poor habit" style only works with the fastest, random character that is sonic. I've improved consiberably this past month by actually venturing into the tourney scene.
"Sonic can never flat out own. Doesn't have it. In skilled hands, with a good mind and reading ability, he is quite compitent and an excelling gimper. Use that, and Remeber well:
Tires don exits, and Dont Get Hit (so wanted to wear that shirt when i owned a campy olimar, snake, pit, and pwnt that marth, lol