Creeeamy
Smash Rookie
Hey all.
I've been a Roy main since the day he was released, but only recently, after a close tournament, I've considered playing comp, my Roy is alright, I understand punishes, combos and a lot about his neutral, but I have been noticing a lot of punishable and predictable habits.
I understand that the neutral is very individual, and develops as the player develops and cannot be taught, but some advice would be very much appreciated. When it comes to my neutral I consider myself to be somewhat defensive, relying on baiting and punishing as my main form of basically anything.
So the things I could use help with are
I've been a Roy main since the day he was released, but only recently, after a close tournament, I've considered playing comp, my Roy is alright, I understand punishes, combos and a lot about his neutral, but I have been noticing a lot of punishable and predictable habits.
I understand that the neutral is very individual, and develops as the player develops and cannot be taught, but some advice would be very much appreciated. When it comes to my neutral I consider myself to be somewhat defensive, relying on baiting and punishing as my main form of basically anything.
So the things I could use help with are
- Approaching: At the moment, my approach is as bad as a stereotypical for glory Roy, I rely way too heavily on nair, though I also like to approach with bair (Spaced of course) and sometimes fair, I also find myself relying way too much on grab without baiting some sort of set up, leaving me very open doing stupid dash grabs, or being punished for repetitive tomahawk grabbing. One of the other options I'll use is double edge dance.
- Stage Pressure: Stage pressure is something I consider big for both Roy and my play style, just recently I've notice people seemingly not feeling my pressure, I like to try and dominate the stage, and if there's platforms, to pressure from below. Usually I'd use Roy's amazing mobility and quick moves to keep opponents moving, and if I can manage to fake something, I'll try safely throw out a powerful move to try condition people into expecting a hard punish so I can try bait out a grab or combo starter.
- Edge Guarding: I understand all of Roy's off stage options, but I could just use some help covering options, just the best moves to cover certain options.
- On Shield Pressure: I feel like this is my biggest let down with Roy, the only tools I can manage to use correctly on shield is down tilt and forward tilt, and I can't normally find a way to pressure the shield in a way it becomes risky to use and might force to opponent to play without using it for a bit.
- Spacing: I understand Roy has the worst spacing of all the swordsman, but my spacing right now is just awful, Bair, down tilt and f tilt are the only moves I can space properly with, and just need to know if there are any other effective spacing tool.
- Killing: I rely way too much on rogue smashes, I rarely manage to land kill confirms, most of the time I'll try bait a bad habit, but some times, I just throw out forward smash at random, or really stupid up b's, and could use some help with kill confirms, or good safe moves to seal off stocks.