Who do you use for your secondaries with Shulk.

[XenoEmblems]

I'm getting pretty good with but I want to find a character that can compliment his strengths. I haven't played Smash in a real long time and my old Brawl main isn't as good as I remembered him being so I'm learning a bunch of characters from scratch.

Who do you all use as secondaries to compliment ?

 

[Berserker.]

Rosalina is a great secondary

 

[ChronoPenguin]

Someone with projectiles or Marth/Lucina IMO.

Its kinda Yoshi by default right now since I know Yoshi.
Might go to Link or R.O.B.

 

[Deathcarter]

I co-main Ike, Pit, and Yoshi along with Shulk. Shulk's more of my secondary actually.

 

[Masonomace]

If my Primary is Monado Shulk, I'll just Secondary Vanilla Shulk.

But seriously I don't have a decent Secondary to compliment Shulk yet. Still feels kind of early to decide a Secondary for me, but the dedicated Secondaries that come to mind are:
or

 

[ChronoPenguin]

ssb4 is really big on gimps and aerial play/counterplay. So to be more precise with what I said before, shulks play is aggression. you cant be complacent when they are shooting your face in. If its a secondary to make up shulks faults... well someone strong at range, consistent recovery and a faster ground game....maybe aerial.

Pits recovery is mad strong and arrows do gimp, his ground game is faster as well. Guardian orbitors give him additionalrojectile counter play.

Mario has a pretty great imo ground game.

Yoshi is very potent in the air. i like how all the other posters consider him too. reliable recovery, fast, nice grab range.

Marth is a faster version of shulk. if you want pure melee. I thought about it and ran off, Marth doesnt offer much difference.

sheik and greninja speak for themself.
imo charizard fits too, all that power but he isnt slow, strong grabs.
I mentioned R.O.B before because his range game is tight, he can reflect projectiles and punish rolls well. That and people said his recovery is nerfed but I think his-off ledge game is tight.

Strong recovery is getting important to me. Part of why im really feeling jump is that it makes them want to fight off-edge to kill secure and im coping more with that as i improve. jigglypuff is cool like that because her horizontal is ridic

 

[link2702]

sonic has been mine strictly due to the similarity of his brawl form, only greatly buffed....:/ i'm actually getting better results with sonic despite wanting to keep shulk as my main. A few matches where people have ROFLstomped my shulk, i've turned to sonic next match and completely destroyed em, one match even going so far as to two stock em with me under 50% damage.

Pit just cuz he was my brawl main, don't like a lot of the changes to him, even though many are technically buffs, I don't like em much, especially not being able to arrow loop anymore.

 

[Jerm]

Secondary is Mario and the two definitely compliment each other. My Shulk struggles greatly against people that roll a lot or camp the edge so I swap out to Mario and he just eats them up. Happened yesterday on For Glory-was facing an Ike that was super defensive and campy and my Shulk struggled a good amount so I went Mario, used fireballs to put on some hard pressure and ended up easily 2 stocking him.

 

[Enyalb]

I already got mine in my sig. Might need to change it a bit once I get a good understanding of the roster more.

Right now isn't really doing it for me, and might get replaced by either or . Even if the former has been nerfed considerably, I still feel Marth can be a beast once you get used to his shorten tipper.

 

[Jade_Rock55]

Hmm I am thinking Link and Robin as both have good recovery(bomb jump with Link) and spacing options.I also like Little Mac he's just so much fun to play.Greninja too with his shuriken and shadow sneak.

 

[MarioFireRed]

I just pick secondaries that I like playing as who also compliment Shulk's playstyle.

's amazing ground game teaches me to be patient and strike when the time is right.
forces me to sacrifice power for speed and think on the fly if I use Speed.
makes me plan for the next move and made me learn that pure brute force (or smash attacks) isn't always the best answer.
And finally / to get a feel of a pure melee swordsman to help with Vanilla Shulk.

I'm still thinking of one more secondary to round off with six total chars but five should be enough for this early stage of the game.

 

[RespawningJesus]

My secondaries so far have been Lucina and Zamus. Might as well throw Toon Link in there, since he was my main in Brawl for awhile (Although I am quite rusty with Toon Link.)

I also like to play as Little Mac just for fun though.

 

[Claxus]

I think Robin's actually pretty good for a Shulk player. He's another somewhat laggy character based on spacing, and most of his attacks/aerials you can't throw out safely either, you have to make them count or space properly. Of course, he's more of a ranged character, but their mindsets and how you have to play them coincide a bit, high reward for risks. Instead of Monado Arts, he employs different tactics throughout a match

 

[SpatialPSI]

I mained Ness in Brawl, and now that I'm using Shulk, I use Ness as a secondary. I also second Pit.

 

[Agent Emerald]

I use Shulk as a secondary for Kirby, who has trouble with characters with good Melee spacing, which Shulk excels in. Even then, I have trouble dealing with projectiles with Shulk, so I use Ness to deal with those. It's kinda like rock-paper-scissors.

 

[Plain Yogurt]

Ness is my crutch until I master the Monado, as I'm much more comfortable with him from previous games (plus he feels so darn good in this game...).

 

[Berserker.]

I'm beginning to use Lucina more frequently than Rosaluma. I just use Rosaluma for lulz because I came to the realization that I suck at being a mom

 

[Zephil]

I am using Sheik as my secondary as I think its the best char all around and can deal with any MU, including the ones difficult for Shulk.

 

[Madolche ♦ Procione]

I'm beginning to use Lucina more frequently than Rosaluma. I just use Rosaluma for lulz because I came to the realization that I suck at being a mom

Of what significance is the victory when you are gazing upon your fallen foe from atop a mountain of dead Lumas, all of which you mercilessly sent to an early grave? *sniff*

but yeah, sadly I don't have much in the way of compliments to Shulk. It's looking like my top 3 in smash 4 are and . (in no order) Only one who might add diversity is my , but that one's in progress

 

[AlexTetris]

I've really been liking teh Captain as my second. Fairly opposite playstyle to Shulk (super aggresive vs. shulk's defensive) and makes a great change of pace when I'm not really feeling it.

 

[Berserker.]

Aaaaaand Lucina's meh after how many games -____-

My quest for a secondary still continues

 

[DavemanCozy]

I've been using Fox and Bowser, since they help alleviate a lot of matchups for him.

Fox helps against campers, he either camps them harder or just shuts them down.

Bowser for the Little Mac matchup though.

 

[Collective of Bears]

I'm not a Shulk main, but I've been messing with him as a secondary to myand it's going rather well.

 

[Berserker.]

Okay. I think Female Robin is my second. This time for sure

And my lulz character is Zelda

 

[DaDavid]

I've been using Marth since I already know him from Brawl, but I'm trying to learn DHD (in a less annoying manner than others) or Robin since usually it's lack of projectiles that forces me to go into a different character.

 

[Daryl]

I co-main Ike and Sonic. I think Ike is quite similar play style with Shulk.

With Sonic, is really different but yeah I'm a huge sonic fan from my childhood

 

[MHFsilver]

My 2nd to Shulk is Pac-Man. He's a complete opposite to how I play Shulk so it's a nice change and switch up in my tactics when I fight people who think they've figured out my strategy.

 

[Claxus]

I co-main Ike and Sonic. I think Ike is quite similar play style with Shulk.

With Sonic, is really different but yeah I'm a huge sonic fan from my childhood

No kidding about Ike. If you break them down, their entire movesets are eerily similar. Their B moves all have the same basic functions, neutral B aside. F-air, B-air, and D-air are mostly the same motions. Even their N-air is the same! They're just reversed in motion.

F-tilt and D-tilt are also near identical, U-tilt as well aside from the big range difference. Their AAA combo is the same series of attacks... Their smash attacks, U-air, and neutral B are about the only things that aren't related.

I think any Shulk player can pick up Ike easily. Although, I'm not really sure when you'd prefer one over the other.

 

[KenMeister]

Shulk is more-or-less my secondary, usually to mix up the matchup knowledge against other players, since Shulk mains aren't very common (either that, or sandbagging). Don't find too many instances of having to do that too often, since I main Sheik, after all.

 

[KenMeister]

No kidding about Ike. If you break them down, their entire movesets are eerily similar. Their B moves all have the same basic functions, neutral B aside. F-air, B-air, and D-air are mostly the same motions. Even their N-air is the same! They're just reversed in motion.

F-tilt and D-tilt are also near identical, U-tilt as well aside from the big range difference. Their AAA combo is the same series of attacks... Their smash attacks, U-air, and neutral B are about the only things that aren't related.

I think any Shulk player can pick up Ike easily. Although, I'm not really sure when you'd prefer one over the other.

Shulk feels like a longer-ranged, yet slightly weaker version of Ike with more tools. IMO
I can definitely imagine why that'd be the case.

 

[MarioFireRed]

An update to my previous post:

I've been using Marth more recently in order to practice my spacing for both characters and practice having an offensive and defensive sword play style. Suffice to say I now pretty much use Marth/Lucina (the two pretty much are the same save the sword properties) and Shulk pretty evenly these days and it works out quite nicely.

 

[Jade_Rock55]

Alright I think I know.Mains:Shulk and Link.Secondaries:Shiek,ZSS,Robin and Greninja,once in a while I'll use,Lucina,Pit,Bowser and Charizard(Hoping one of these gets good enough to be secondaries)

 

[Sui]

I've always liked playing Yoshi in Smash, but especially with the buffs he got in Smash 4, Yoshi makes a pretty good secondary to Shulk. He's an absolute beast in the air, and he can throw those eggs to annoy you all day. Plus his new dash attack is actually, you know, really good. Definitely agree with all the people before me saying Yoshi. He compliments Shulk well.

 

[AstraEDM]

I secondary Jiggs. She can duck under campy shiek needles and gimp little mac, bowser is an easy rest target, etc. Mostly cause she's the second most fun to play after shulk lol

 

[Phampy]

Jigglypuff here as well. Though I'm almost positive my Jigglypuff is better than my Shulk on the account that I've mained her since the 64 days. I haven't practiced Jiggs much but there's not too much to learn after all these years lol

 

[AstraEDM]

Jigglypuff here as well. Though I'm almost positive my Jigglypuff is better than my Shulk on the account that I've mained her since the 64 days. I haven't practiced Jiggs much but there's not too much to learn after all these years lol

oh, sweet! apparently crouch>rest is really really good now, especially cause drop shield is so fast. against taller characters if you're both shielding you can drop your shield, duck their grab, and rest them like 100% of the time lmao