Recent content by Solarquatic

Hey everyone, Dream here. I'm a Falco main from FL who just recently moved out of the country, and with plenty of time on my hands, I decided to go ahead and chalk down some of my thoughts on Roy, my favorite 2ndary character. I've been playing Melee for a few years at an intermediate level with...

Cool, thanks for the advice. Never thought about using sweetspot uair to set up for an Fsmash, I imagine it works pretty well on spacies.

Hey there, Roy mains or kinda-mains! I noticed that there really isn't that much enlightening discussion on the character as of recent, and, while that probably has to do with how little Roy offers in his kit, I had just a few questions to ask about some points in particular. [Preface: I'm a...

Yeah he seemed to apply pressure (especially on shield) and lock you down a lot more effectively with lasers and just controlled the match overall. Something I noticed was that he also seemed to be following his combos up much more effectively, stringing the hits together with much more potency...

I've been practicing vs CPUs during my time between weeklies, and also happened to be watching EVO :D Just watching so many tournaments with Fox players stringing together Uthrows over and over and over again made me want to try and emulate it with Falco. So naturally, I hit the lab (ala...

So I've been practicing more, improving the basics in general, everything is a lot smoother than when I started. That's nice. Next thing I want to start learning is how to waveshine, I feel like I'm missing some critical part of the combo game when descending onto the ground after an aerial and...

I am a newish player as well, here's how I would answer: 1: Though it gets predictable (especially vs. competent people) dash-SHLs are my favorite way to approach. Lots of easy pressure to get people either moving or off the ground so getting shield grabbed isn't as much of an issue. When you...

I have a thread very similar to this, where I outlined how I started practicing and a bunch of very nice people contributed things to begin working on that really payed off when I went to my first tournament. I've started training a bunch of my friends the same way I did (albeit I was learning...

I guess this is going to turn into an occasional personal get-help thread :P Haven't had the chance due to school to get into another tournament, but I've kept up practicing, and after watching some vids, I've seen more than a few Falcos do a really fast JCS->Bair. After trying to replicate it...

For myself, I found that getting in around an hour per day of doing the same things over and over again started helping after awhile, although it may not quite the effect in one weeks time that it did for myself over a month. I'd go into training, work on L-Cancels, dashdances, SH aerials...

Finished the tournament undefeated, although that isn't quite describing the competition. The month's worth of practice definitively paid off, I'm now able to L-cancel everything good with Falco, and that really gave me an edge over the other competitors. Everything you guys showed me, from the...

Thanks for all these helping points! @Thor, I never could figure out why the game felt so unresponsive... your supposition regarding buffering clears this up entirely. I'm surprised I hadn't thought of it before :P. I'll go ahead and start working on the SHL-it's something that I've been...

Guess its time to bring out the old Mario DDR pad :p Let the real life wavedashing for inputs begin! In all seriousness, thanks for the tips. I'm going to keep a lot of this stuff in mind while I train! (Just moved up to an LCD tv for Sm4sh, haven't tried Melee yet on the non-HDMI inputs. I'll...

Hey everyone! Long time lurker here, first post :D. I just started getting into Melee recently, and quite conveniently, an amateur tourney has popped up that I want to attend on Mar. 21st. (Funnily enough, found an announcement at my college, lol) Getting all the Melee techniques that have...