Unfun matchup to me. Depending on how gay the Falco plays will depend on how hard the matchup is. I think Snake wins this because of how insanely hard it is for Falco to kill Snake. Unless spiked, Snake shouldn't be dying before 180% every single stock.
Pros:
Snake never dies
Nades can save you from CG
Can duck under lasers
Nades stop Side B Spam
Cons:
Falco can out camp Snake
CG can be a 0 to death
Falco can punish Snake's recovery quite well
Generally, the beginning of the match will consist of Falco laser spamming and Snake nade spamming. But wait, you need to realize that laser spamming stops your nade camping game greatly. If you pull out a nade when hit with laser, it goes nowhere and can blow up on you. Futhermore, Flaco can just reflect the nades back at you for major damage and knockback. You can get around this by well timed nades combined with ducking then throwing. Falco can't reflect a nade if it blows up right when it's on him. If the Falco is very campy, just duck the entire time until he approaches, if even. No reason to approach if you don't have to, right?
The biggest issue at the beginning of the match, and at every beginning of a stock is being at 0%. This means if you get grabbed, you will take at least 40% damage, and that's being generous. Falco's CG ***** Snake. You can attempt to buffer mash nades to get out of it, but you most likely will not succeed. The worst part of the CG is if you're grabbed near the edge, it's a guaranteed spike for Falco. What most playesr do not know is that you can actually QCDI the spike to land on the stage (or tech the wall if you still miss). It's hard to explain how to do quarter circle DI, but basically if you're being CGed off the right side of the stage, right before the spike mash up/left repeatedly very fast, slightly moving back and forth between up/left. It takes some practice, but it's a great alternative to being spiked off stage and having to C4 yourself back on and/or get spiked again and lose the stock. The other remedy to the CG off stage is to just blow yourself up at the beginning of every stock to about 30%. I do not find this productive at all. There is no need to disadvantage yourself every stock like that. Especially if you lose the first stock, it means you're even farther behind.
Let's say you are CGed off stage and spiked. Falcos will usually try to double spike you. It takes practice, but you can avoid this. You can C4 yourself if you know you're going to be spiked too. But basically you want to recover high and fast. I find up Bing slightly away from the stage helps avoid a second spike. If you can't avoid a second spike, just C4. The worst case scenario if you react wrong is you get spiked immediately after the first spike and just die.
Moving on, we have dealing with yet another major problem. Falcos Side B. Falcos Side B can be stopped by Nades. It will blow Falco up when he hits them most of the time, depending on which parts of the Side B are hit. So I would strongly suggest keeping nades behind or in front of you at all times to prevent Side B spam from hitting you. If you predict it really well, you can punish if you're spaced well enough.
Next, edge guarding. Falco has 4 general options to recover. Side B onto ledge, Up B onto ledge, Side B onto stage, Up B onto stage. You're going to want to use mind games with proper prediction to punish or gimp Falco. If you're standing right near the ledge, chances are, the Falco won't risk going for the ledge. That's not to say it's a sure thing, but if you bait it to be on stage, you can punish that. Be careful if you do grab the ledge. Side B can spike you from it. If the Falco tries to Up B the ledge, drop a Bair to knock him farther. Basically, every time you knock Falco off stage far enough so that he uses his double jump, you have a 25% chance of punishing him unless I'm missing some options. Do note that jabbing in place CAN sometimes stop Side B. Another trick is to put a mine on the stage then grab the ledge. Easy almost guaranteed punish?
Being edge guarded by Falco is actually quite tricky and annoying. Due to Falcos high double jump, he has no problem chasing you up with a Bair/spike/Uair. If you predictably land the same way every time, expect the Falco to try charging Fsmashes on you while landing. Don't underestimate how well this can kill you. Basically, recover high and fast every time and be prepared for the Flaco to jump up really fast for most likely a Bair/Uair KO. They will try to read air dodges too, so don't spam air dodge. It's tough, but other than gimping, this is Falcos second best way of KOing you. Take that away, and you're even harder to kill.
Up close fighting with Falco is kind of tough. Falco's Jab comes out extremely fast and can make his roll/sidestep to jab near unpunishable. You can try to trade jabs with it though, but it's usually better to just back off. Most of everything else Flaco does on the ground is punishable. Fsmash, Dsmash, Usmash, utilt, ftilt, dtilt, reflector, laser, all punishable on ground fairly easily. Just be careful if you're at low %, as the Falco will most definitely try to grab you. Spamming sidestep to avoid grabs won't work on smart players, so backing off is the best choice at low %.
Summary:
Learn to deal with the CG
Learn how to avoid laser spam/side b spam
Recover smart, as you should in any matchup
Edge guard Falco as much as possible.
Don't have C4 on stage when at low %'s.
Overall, I would say it's 55:45 Snake. Falco has the ability to beat up Snake pretty badly, but Falco has an ungodly time KOing Snake as most of his kill moves are either too slow or easily predictable. It's one of those matchups that are very hard until you learn it, then it's not so bad, just kind of unfun.
I'll try to upload a match on this soon.
Anyway, yeah, I would rather play a Falco on RC than on Smashville or FD, that's fact.
