Your Top 5 Tricks/Ways to Practice Alone

[jjlinyard]

What's up people? I'm a player from the UK who has been around for a few years but after my first trip out of country at the beginning of the month it has given me that fire to get good at this game. The tournament in question was HF-Lan 6 (check it out on twitch.tv/lefrenchmelee). I wanna be at a good level by the time I get to come to Canada/US next summer.

With that said I have 2 questions for you:

1. What are your top 5 specific pieces of tech-skill you feel are most important for marths to have the ability to do?

2. What are ways some of you train when you lack the ability to play opponents/competent opponents? - Both for tech-skill execution and general gameplay.

Cheers

 

[AppleAppleAZ]

Marth really isn't about that techskill too much imo. I feel he has the ability to press buttons and stuff, but his game relies much more on spacing and timing then stuff like edgecancels and shield drops. That being said, my list would be:

1. Chaingrabbing
2. Having a good dashdance (Harder to practice on your own, but doable)
3. Tipping/non tipping whenever you want
4. Pivots
5. Shield Drops

Staying calm and keeping focus on the game is the most important part of having consistent techskill from what I've found, aside from drilling the techniques step by step for muscle memory. I'm a scrub so I can't tell you much about actual gameplay, but I'm sure people will come and give some advice for that though.

 

[Vixen]

I practice dash dance, using lines on the stage as distance markers.
I also datamine. I look up hitboxes, character animations, frame data, etc and apply it to real matches.
I practice combos and stage positioning at varying percents vs every computer level. I use level 9s to test if certain things are "true' combos since they wiggle out on the first possible frame on stuff. I test it vs lower computers later on because they don't perfect SDI everything. :B
I practice shield drops and general out of shield game. I use bombs and cpu get up attacks for learning. I also use motion sensor bombs on the ledge to practice ledge teching.
I practice pivot > stuff.

 

[goateeguy]

This question has been asked a number of times on the boards. Here's one of my favorites. Crimson Blur's post is especially helpful, as he brings up a number of ideas other people usually don't come up with. http://smashboards.com/threads/technical-things.283211/

 

[jjlinyard]

I expected it was just didn't know where to find my answers. Cheers mate.

 

[jjlinyard]

Cheers guys thanks for the help. If anyone has any further ideas who be great to hear.

 

[Hatch Backward]

I'll go against lvl1 fox and falcon on a team on dream land. 2 opponents and the wind affecting everything keeps it interesting.
Good just for tech skill and making sure you stay consistent under pressure and chaos.

 

[SAUS]

Don't forget to watch high level matches. You can learn a lot from them. You also may see some cool thing someone did and then you can try it out right away.