Mr Greeb
Smash Rookie
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2014
- Messages
- 3
Hi!
Long time lurker etc. I'm a guy who's had fairly shoddy tech and barely studied combos, and solely relied for a long time on my neutral game. Recently, however, I've realized that the only way I'll get better is with The Grind. So for the last two months or so, I've been grinding fundamental tech literally every day. And if anyone ever wondered, that works miracles! I've noticed a more rapid improvement that I've ever had! That made me wonder, how do other people practice? Maybe we have something to learn from each other ^^,
My routine:
Wavedash: 10 minutes
Shield drop: 5 minutes
JC-grab: 5 mins
Pivot grab: 5 mins
"Hax" dash: 3 mins on each ledge
Empty pivot: 3 mins (this is impossible at first, but keep at it, and you'll start getting them!)
Pivot f-smash: 2 mins (found out that this helps me hit my dash inputs with better precision, which I've struggled with)
Recently added:
Instant uair: 3 mins
Short hops*: 3 mins
I consider movement to be one of Falcons biggest strengths, so I guess my tech practice reflects that. After I've finished doing those drills, I play again various characters in 20XX 4.05 and implement as much tech as I can, to make sure I can use it in a pressured situation where I'm not just doing the same thing over and over. I've recently started to use the timer instead of stocks, so I don't get caught up in the "I need to beat this CPU"-mentality, but instead remember that I'm doing this to practice tech.
Since I don't have the opportunity to play humans very often, I've found that Jigglypuff in 20XX gives the most human feel in the neutral. I think it's because she's so slow that she doesn't move with inhuman speed. Also, when you mis-space stuff, she rests you. That gives me a chance to test various neutral game strategies. This is hardly ideal, but you've got to work with what you have, right? Just have to remember all the time, "what would a human do here?", and make sure you don't form bad habits.
I'm planning on working on combos and more exotic tech later on, but my fundamentals have been so bad that they need to be cleaned up first.
How does your training routine look?
*I've noticed that if you use Y to jump, if you hit on the middle horizontally and on it's lowest vertically (right at the bottom of the 'Y'), you are far less likely to miss when you tap it super fast
Long time lurker etc. I'm a guy who's had fairly shoddy tech and barely studied combos, and solely relied for a long time on my neutral game. Recently, however, I've realized that the only way I'll get better is with The Grind. So for the last two months or so, I've been grinding fundamental tech literally every day. And if anyone ever wondered, that works miracles! I've noticed a more rapid improvement that I've ever had! That made me wonder, how do other people practice? Maybe we have something to learn from each other ^^,
My routine:
Wavedash: 10 minutes
Shield drop: 5 minutes
JC-grab: 5 mins
Pivot grab: 5 mins
"Hax" dash: 3 mins on each ledge
Empty pivot: 3 mins (this is impossible at first, but keep at it, and you'll start getting them!)
Pivot f-smash: 2 mins (found out that this helps me hit my dash inputs with better precision, which I've struggled with)
Recently added:
Instant uair: 3 mins
Short hops*: 3 mins
I consider movement to be one of Falcons biggest strengths, so I guess my tech practice reflects that. After I've finished doing those drills, I play again various characters in 20XX 4.05 and implement as much tech as I can, to make sure I can use it in a pressured situation where I'm not just doing the same thing over and over. I've recently started to use the timer instead of stocks, so I don't get caught up in the "I need to beat this CPU"-mentality, but instead remember that I'm doing this to practice tech.
Since I don't have the opportunity to play humans very often, I've found that Jigglypuff in 20XX gives the most human feel in the neutral. I think it's because she's so slow that she doesn't move with inhuman speed. Also, when you mis-space stuff, she rests you. That gives me a chance to test various neutral game strategies. This is hardly ideal, but you've got to work with what you have, right? Just have to remember all the time, "what would a human do here?", and make sure you don't form bad habits.
I'm planning on working on combos and more exotic tech later on, but my fundamentals have been so bad that they need to be cleaned up first.
How does your training routine look?
*I've noticed that if you use Y to jump, if you hit on the middle horizontally and on it's lowest vertically (right at the bottom of the 'Y'), you are far less likely to miss when you tap it super fast
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