Congrats on finding obscure techniques and stuff, and they might be helpful. But things like this, your infinite on Yoshi, etc shouldn't be tried to incorporate for 97% of DDDs. Watching most DDD vids there are still a lot of things with your fundamentals you need to get better at. I'm not saying that anyone is bad at their fundamentals, but you're not perfect at them. Brawl isn't a "tech skill heavy" game in the sense that Melee was. However, it does require you to have essentially perfect tech skill. It's not difficult to exactly, however needing to perform really simple aspects of your game with, literally, 100% success ratio is one of the most important things in the game to be able to do. Buffered pivot grab infinite on Snake is awesome. However, trying to do anything like that, even an easier version (dash dance pivot grab oh which ever characters, etc) should be so far in the back of most players minds still. Until you can get to the point where you can the really basic parts of your game for hours on end without messing up (E.g. Go CG Marth back and forth YI:B an hour straight without messing up once), trying to force yourself to learn advanced things won't help you. You can't seize the opportunity to do something you spent 4 hours practicing if it never occurs because your opponent is running circles around you and your fundamentals can't keep up. You can't pick up melee and start wavedashing and expect your game to improve immediately. You have to know how to wavedash and how it affects
your gave in a way to aid your fundamentals.
*Note- not directed at Doc King or anyone else in particular. Just something that is true for everyone other than like... Ally/M2K/9B
I agree with Coney on this point. 9B took passive DDD to his absolute limits. Unless you honestly think you're smarter than and more patient than 9B, you should take the Coney approach to DDD. Pressure and reads. Patience has its place during a game, this is true- especially for characters like DDD- however you need to start playing like Coney and being more aggressive. That's not to say go full out Europe and just bumrush everyone, but smart aggression and pressure is one of the most important things EVERYONE needs to learn and get better. 9B/@lly/M2K/TC/Me/Neo/DEHF EVERYONE needs to work on their pressure games. I'd venture even to say that people like Daigo, Combofiend, and Justin Wong need to work on it to. The best players have the best pressure games, but even theirs isn't perfect.
In fact, here's a video about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSspTn3yeXY
This is the number 1 thing I'm working on right now other than just constantly improving my fundamentals.
Keep a count on the nades timer. 2.5ish seconds out or less? Stripping posts no threat. After that, I'd advice against it. However, something else that is just as important; unless the nade is almost perfectly cooked, instant throwing nades is SUPER safe. Unless Snake is REALLY far away from you, you can instant throw the nade back at Snake and Snake can't strip it quickly enough.
Snake players do it a LOT. I don't know why other characters don't do it back to them, lol.
*Disclaimer, I didn't actually watch the match yet. Just posting responses.*
/goes to watch
