Sooooooooooooooo back to Doc v. Samus for a bit
My friend DPIX is coming to visit for the weekend and massive smash will abound. He has a sick Samus, and this is exciting. Though i've run up against him (and his kind... >: | **** you Freaknrican) before, aside from being really cautious with spacing and lots of tricky pill stuff, I've never really developed a consistant or structured game against samus. This isn't to say what I have been doing hasn't been working (i wouldnt be doing it anyway), but I don't have any sort of big "guiding rules" like I have with characters like fox, marth, peach, etc. Any words of wisdom from my various Doc sempai?
--pretty eyes at 18--
P.S., I may finally have a working game-capture setup. So videos may result >.>
Well, I've got this one video vs a samus:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=lccP0oKQQGo
It starts out kinda serious but then just degenerates into us doing stupid tricks and random stuff happening. He SWD's, I up-b cancel, he gets phantom fsmashed, I powershield his missiles, etc. It's a fun video.
My philosophy on samus though is that you have to kinda stop playing melee. Neither of you can really combo each other, gimp each other, or camp each other. I think it's one of the least melee matchups in melee
I guess my "guiding rules" are to get under her and uair, dsmash before she can (she's gonna CC like everything else lol), don't get dsmashed, and be really patient (look for openings to kill with fair). I guess you can kinda gimp with bairs, also cape to dsmash tends to work on her up-b (it messes up her sweetspot and leaves her vulnerable). Also she can kinda gimp you by running off with her leg out, so maybe try different recovery timings to mess her up. Other than that I don't really know.
I have really limited experience against samus though so you might want to wait for more advice from others