Good **** to the 2 other Zeldas out there repping in tournament play. Sorry Arkive about running into a GW that early. Villi... I'm sorry but that is just funny as hell. You will take him one day.
I played Hat first round, a Kirby (3rd Kirby main in a row, officially allowing to me face all the Kirby mains in my region except Gonzo and Chu in tournament play). I played him real tough on smashville finding my nairs and dtilts were able to control a lot of his approaches, but the little puff ball pulled out the win in the end of a close match.
I took him to Brinstar for my counterpick (for all who doesn't know, Luigi's is banned in my region, so I have to be creative with my counterpicking). It is a terrible Kirby stage, which I hope for, but he switched to G&W. I had no idea he even used G&W but later found out he's been working in G&W and Snake to cover some match-ups he doesn't like. I switched to Marth and took 2 of his stock before I died. I found this very comforting since I have been playing Marth for a little over a week and did fairly well using him in tournament (I suck with him but I just use him in this match-up).
Next up was a Fox main NKB (NeverKnowsBest). I don't think we have covered this match-up but it is no walk in the park. We ended up at smashville (he banned battlefield and I banned Yoshi's) to start and it was apparent from the start that the only way he could kill me was with Usmash... only it kills at like 80-100. Another close match, but I fell again.
I took him to Brinstar, and he was completely at a loss with how to deal with me. He couldn't laser spam and he was getting ***** on the bottom platform. I tried to camp the left side platform and shield his approaches. He ended up on the top platform to avoid me and died 3 times to Uair. It worked to perfection.
Unfortunately, he then took me to FD (I now see I should've banned this). Laser spam is what I expected, and it was I got. I had to purely approach in the air while avoiding the monster Usmash. Once he got me into kill range, I would bait him to hyphen smash and NL or FF dtilt. It worked fairly well, but with us both in kill percents, he shielded my fresh Usmash and took me out with his while I was still in move lag.
All in all, it was still a great tournament and there was a ton of talent there. I got to play a set or two against Rykoshet as he came down from NY with Inui and Atomsk. His Ike is very solid and each game was very close. My teammate and I (a ZSS) had never teamed before and it took a set to get in sync. We ended up 13th, but it could be a lethal team as we really started to roll in the later matches.
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=207991
Seriously check out the talent that was there. Monster packed tournament.
(Was down there VV) Updates!
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