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As unlikely as it may be, It's possible that wand wave is related to her neutral-b in some way. Luma is detethered in that spotlight video.

AL PR updated for Spring. via the AL discord.

My overall point was that in the specific context of assessing the ability of a move to threaten an area not already overlapping the character in a short amount of time, G&W's upsmash falters. Outside of all the other useful quirks of the move (mainly safety and immediate partial invincibility)...

The strength in G&W's upsmash comes from it's ability to win in so many CQC situations when opponents commit to that; however, as a tool for threatening a lot of space in a short period of time (i.e. as a burst option, which is a powerful tool in this game) it's lackluster. It doesn't have the...

So lunar-landing always incurs 4f of landing lag? :[

If a preference for kill confirms, low % kill opportunities, and option depth and breadth is considered bias, it's a bias toward wanting to win, which is kinda the point.

I think the technical skill ceiling for practical techniques is actually ridiculously high in Sm4sh. It's just that few top players are willing to spend time to hone the skills that make it so high (mostly movement related) since the perceived impact they have on play is still small compared to...

@Bowserboy3 At more than one point in the video the author stated that some of Bayo's attacks were bad while only discussing their theoretical lack of safety on block. Perhaps I interpretted this and the overall disparaging tone of the video differently than you and others might have.

Re: punishing Bayo's attacks It's not possible to prime oneself to react quickly to variable spacings on every individual bayonetta attack all at the same time. Thankfully, we can use heuristics and option selects to cover many options at once while operating on just a few mental procedures...

Just a heads up. People on the AL PR play more than the characters currently listed. The twitter source image linked in OP doesn't show that info. From the AL discord:

I think you could make the argument that % lead is a pretty subjective 'lead criteria,' and that we should assign way less importance to it. The player with the most forward position in a racing game isn't necessarily in the best position to win, strategically, even in games without comeback...

Just for clarification, you're saying for jump cancel upsmash out of shield that you don't incur 1 frame of jumpsquat before beginning the upsmash startup? And for dash attacks, you must go through 1f of dashing before dash attack startup begins?

@Iron Kraken If you want to see evidence that Rosalina can do better against Cloud, just watch Kirihara play the matchup (particularly his edgeguarding) and compare/contrast with Dabuz' approach. Regardless, I don't think you can equate individual matchup experience with some ratio. The data is...