Help against Dedede

[Coselm]

Ok so I recently went to a tournament, and I got pushed into the loser's bracket and I had to fight a Dedede. Let me tell you his strategy. Camp and throw waddles, wait for me to get close, and chain grab to rack up damage. Now I know TL beats his projectile game, but that is too slow and boring of a victory. How do I go about beating him? Obviously not getting grabbed... But I want to hear what advice everyone has for me.

PS: He counterpicked Jungle Japes. That was fun. Had to get him to like 200% to kill him off the roof and he only let me kill him off the side once and didn't make that mistake again. I lost the match and set by disqualification because time ran out and I had more damage. F**k camping and F**k chain grabbing. Am I being punished for using Sheik in Melee? Seriously I need help.

[-Aether]

That is competitive Brawl, as of now. Get used to it, because it's probably here to stay.

[Coselm]

That is competitive Brawl, as of now. Get used to it, because it's probably here to stay.

Thanks for the advice. I ask for pointers and I get "deal with it."

[theGreatDekuTree]

i main ddd and play toon link, if you get DDD off the stage and he comes back with an upB Uair him.
if he spams waddles/gordos you really just have to do the same, short hop arrows throw boomerangs at weird angles, and when he hovers below you drop bombs.
he has better/equal range & more power than tlink, its really a ***** to fight ddd.
hes easy to spike though, very easy, his multiple jumps make him think he can just chill off of the stage.
but if you get above him go for the dair, only when the time is right though....
ALSO i dont know how long ddd's invincibility frames on his upb last, but if he trys doing it with no stage below him go for a Dair spike, he would be screwed...



hey its better than saying "deal with it"


p.s. pull out a bomb if you think he will chaingrab you, itll explode you both

[Anklez15]

um dedede is really big so u should be able to feel safer when attempting toon's of the edge spike. also make sure that when u approach with dedede u should approach with aerials i like to RAR with toon or u can use n air which is also really good. Hey if u want to try and avoid his grabs jsut when u are in his grabbing range u could always side step and u need to be able to grab him first because ur grab is so much longer then his.

[Roxaslawliet]

I agree with Anklez, when he trys to grab you, side dodge and grab him into bairs. it has worked for me. and take advantage of his size with toons spike and other excellent aerials. I hate DDD for these reasons too

[MIRN]

DDD is also one of those characters you can easily use Zairs to approach, and follow it up with something else on the ground, if approaching with aerials becomes too difficult. However, keep up the projectile game as much as possible, basically and chase him off-stage and finish with a FAir or spiked DAir if it's not too risky. DDD can be a challenge, but I wouldn't say he's impossible.