Diddy Tricksies

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• On any level with a wall you should pull out nanas with your back to the wall, the banana will just fall straight to your feat, saving you precious moments for picking them up (RC/Cornaria/Delfino/etc).
• On Delfino characters like Kirby/MK/D3 will try and go benieth the platform (that flies around the island) and camp you because of their multiple jumps. BIG MISTAKE! Your Up-B is a spike and it *****, learn to predict the approaches/to time your Up B as best you can, them going benieth the stage against any character except Diddy puts them in an advantage, against Diddy, they are at a disadvantage thanks to the near instantly activated Up B..
• Just found this out the other day, but Diddy's Up B ***** D3's recovery. If D3 if falling into the stage (coming down from his own Up B), UpB right into his butt, it'll do I think like 16-18% damage, has high KO potential, and you will only receive 5% damage I believe (and be sent strait into the ground for a quicker recovery). This tactic single handedly made my Diddy go from 7-3 to 6-4 (I still don't know why NL thinks Diddy has the advantage against D3, but maybe I'll figure it out eventually).
• On RC: Diddy ***** the flat parts and use your barrels on the part in the top left if the person is standing on the falling blocks (and you are below them), you can score kills around 90-100%. Using the upB and its explosion also works well on PS1/Luigi/Corneria/misc levels.
• On Cornaria: grab a lead and camp under fin, this is a pretty solid counter pick against heavy characters because you can kill them over the top/the right side at fairly low percent (conversely, you can be killed at around 80% instead of 120%ish, but thats a loss of 40%, in comparison against DK you can KO around 100-120% instead of 180-200%). Up B up to the fin (<3 instant edge hogging), come down with Bairs/Nairs, then Up B again, its a decent stall (though somewhat vulnerable). To make this even better have nanas beneath you, pick them up/use them whenever, Up B into the fin, z drop nana, nair, stuff like that.
• View this:
  Stale Moves and Decay Prevention
  Excerpt from article:

  MLG Get Better Fast said:

  Characters with projectiles have almost a built-in remedy for dealing with move decay. Observe how Diddy Kong can keep his S-Smash fresh by throwing three bananas between each use.
  
  Attack 1 - S-Smash: 18%
  Attack 2 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 8% = 26%
  Attack 3 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 5% = 31%
  Attack 4 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 6% = 37%
  Attack 5 - S-Smash: + 16% = 53%
  Attack 6 – Smash Thrown Banana: + 6% = 59%
  Attack 7 – Smash Thrown Banana: + 4% = 63%
  Attack 8 – Smash Thrown Banana: + 4% = 67%
  Attack 9 - S-Smash: + 16% = 83%
  Attack 10 – Smash Thrown Banana: + 5% = 88%
  Attack 11 – Smash Thrown Banana: + 3% = 91%
  Attack 12 – Smash Thrown Banana: + 3% = 94%
  Attack 13 - S-Smash: + 17% = 111%
  
  Similarly, keeping 3 bananas between each Smash attack and alternating between the D-Smash and S-Smash keeps those two KO moves even fresher.
  
  Attack 1: D-Smash: 16%
  Attack 2 - Smash Thrown Banana: +6% = 22%
  Attack 3 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 5% = 27%
  Attack 4 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 4% = 31%
  Attack 5 - S-Smash: + 19% = 50%
  Attack 6 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 6% = 56%
  Attack 7 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 5% = 61%
  Attack 8 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 4% = 65%
  Attack 9 - D-Smash: + 16% = 81%
  Attack 10 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 3% = 84%
  Attack 11 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 4% = 87%
  Attack 12 - Smash Thrown Banana: + 4% = 91%
  Attack 13 - S-Smash: + 17% = 108%
  
  The most efficient way to keep a character fresh who has two KO moves and a projectile is to alternate between those two moves and use just two projectiles between them (not three as shown above).

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• Against Peach: learn to use Short hop peanuts/reverse peanuts to annoy her float, get in the habit of predicting her float and hitting it with Bairs/Fairs, learn to force floats by throwing bananas just in front/behind her or even right at her.
• Toss bananas Up when an opponent is recovering. I don't know how many times I've messed up a person just because the bananas were falling down as they were rolling/attacking up from the edge. The other reason for doing this is that it keeps your bananas from degenerating! Doing this during the lulls in fighting keeps the bananas under your control and creates a hazardous zone that the opponent must avoid.
• Hazardous zone? WTF? Okay, start thinking of bananas as having their own zone, this "hazardous zone" can either be stationary (just leaving the banana on the ground) or mobile (throwing it up, throwing it at a person, or z dropping for example). Know that when the opponent is near the hazardous zone their responses are LIMITED! Predict dash attacks for banana pick ups, or walking A pick ups, or aerial pick ups. Against advanced opponents 90% of the time the reaction is the pick up near immediately and with a dash/air attack, know this and use it to your advantage.
• Against non-projectile characters grab a lead (not very hard, just be aggro briefly) then camp under plat forms/sides of stage until you are around 80-90%, after which switch your positioning to the center of the stage to survive longer.
• Your best camping position is one banana at your feet and one in the hand, with peanuts for harassment. This is idea against almost all non-projectile characters. The banana at your feet will create a forced response (say the opponent tries to dash attack pick it up), for which your best reaction is usually just dribbling once away, then glide tossing toward/into the opponent and grabbing/hitting with another banana/whatever.
• Glidetoss nana > Fsmash does about 22-23%, same thing but with Dsmash does about 20-21%, alternate. Learning to chain your bananas and then getting the DSmash/Fsmash in will just add onto how effective this is.
• On Norfair notes: Side B to catch the platforms (say someone is camping top right, go mid plat then side B to edge). Peanut trajectory is PERFECT for this level. Smash banana throws have great arc. Shuffled air's ****. UP B when people are over /under platforms, this catches people off guard so often, espcially if they just reacted to a peanut/banana. After you get a lead camp bottom center, keep one banana directly center and the other in hand, use your peanut gun to bait approaches. This level/this stuff doesn't really work against Pit. Stupid Pit's arrows/mobility.
• If you and the opponent are at high percent and you are recovering, be aware that you can suicide KO them by charging your barrels and intentionally hitting the side of the stage (instead of trying to grab on). Very situational where this is a positive outcome, but usually if you have a stock lead this is a good idea. KO's opponents around 150%.
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• MK matches in the highest level really seem to devolve into MK spamming air approaches (usually D-air) and you spacing away/running around on the ground. Some things that help against this: U-tilt will beat D-Air most (or always?) of the time. Forward dribble > U-tilt is awesome because they usually don't expect it. Platform stages also reduce the effectiveness of MK's air game against you. You can also try and predict (like against Peach) the approach and hit MK with F-airs, but this is dangerous, most likely scenario is that you trade hits OR MK hits you (if you trade its a good thing, but I would say the trade happens 1/3 of the time and MK wins 2/3 of the time, obviously with good prediction you can win 100% of the time).
• Norfair! I was trying to figure out how to get around Pit's edge camping (ON FD, please let me know how to beat it if you can), and I decided to go with other stages. To my surprise, Norfair is actually is a good stage (despite my previous comments, above, about it sucking). Go to this stage and spend some time just side-Bing from lower platforms to upper platforms, peanuting (short hopped/reversed), and seeing where bananas (smash/unsmashed) go from lower to upper platforms. You can encroach upon any position the opponent (pit or otherwise) is in simply by leapfrogging from one edge to the next).
• Against Snake your bananas blow up his grenades. Often Snakes will pull a nade, drop it, then roll back if you approach them (or just shield). Dash toward them and dribble back to gage their response, if they roll then hit the nade with a nana and dash grab/dash attack. If they stay shielding then dash grab.If the Snake throws the grenade at you try and dash attack catch it and throw it back, followed by a barrage of nanas.
• On Brinstar if you drop a banana on those cylinder blocks that break the stage apart, then the banana will continually pop up and down breaking blocks. Its fun.
• If you've sent a person in the air and are juggling them (u-airs), and they go above you just out of reach, don't forget that you can use your Up-B as an attack to get that extra distance.
• Against MK, if you can, you want to go HIGH. If that doesn't work, then drop low, jump, and try and side B into the edge (if you get hit, Side-B again, duh). Also, the proper DI against most of MK's attacks is simply into the stage and up. You should be able to survive just about every attack of MK's until 140%ish, the only exception being if you don't DI the shuttle loop well (again, up and in).
• If you get grabbed my MK (or a few other characters), at the edge of the stage, set your DI AWAY from the stage, remember you have your jump and side B (try to go high), and return to the stage. It is better to be conservative here, because what the MK wants you to do is (after the grab release), simply jump straight at him and try to attack (allowing easy F-air/shuttle loop/nair edge guarding).
• A little trick I like to do is simply dash > dribble back, repeat. This is similar to dash > wavedash back, from Melee. This works especially well against non-projectile characters who are hanging on the edge, where you can dash in (forcing a response), and dribble safely away.
• Consider mapping the A button to one of your triggers. You can then dribble > attack (with banana in hand) easily. The input being: Shield (for me, L), back on control stick, down on C-stick, press and hold R (A mapped to R) to pick up nana and be able to perform F-Smash with nana in hand, and forward on the C-stick to F-Smash.
• I've done tilts with nanas in hand before (d-tilt), does anyone know how I did this?