To be good, every athlete needs to train. Alot. Soccer players train soccer 5 hours a day, basketball players do nothing but basketball. Baseball players play 163 games to stay in shape. Everyone does it.
The same goes for Brawl. The more matches you play, the better you get. Matches with your brother / neighbour help, going to local tournaments, smashfests at your friend's house. That's what we do.
However, all those other athletes, they spend quite a couple of hours in the gym too. They stay in shape, they train their muscles to increase their performances. Say a athlete trains 30 hours per week, at least 4 or them will be so called powertraining.
Now, to get to the point, I've made a training program to get Brawl muscles and keep 'em. You don't need anyone, so if you don't feel like wifi, friends aren't home, and your hands are itching, you should try this. (designed for Lucario play mainly
) Doing this a couple of times a week will drastically increase offline performance (wifi not so much).
- Go to Group Brawl
- Pick Lucario
- Pick a level 3 computer character.
- Set stock to 99, timer to infinite
- Try to get as many stocks off the computer character as you can, without dying once. If you lose a stock, it's over.
- Press Start + L + R + A to view your results.
Press A once, to go to your statistics. There are a few interesting things to see here.
- KOs
- Hit percentage (accuracy)
- Ground time
- Ground hits
- Air time
- Air hits
- Smashes
- Grabs
- Projectiles
The more KOs you have scored, the more Brawl muscle you have. There are a few fundamental things to make your training succesful.
- Try to pick a opponent that isn't Bowser or Ganondorf. Personally, I always pick Meta Knight, Snake or some other high tier character that isn't an extremely easy match up.
- Try to approach a bit (ALL the time isn't needed), not infinitely spam Aura Spheres.
- Don't reset when you took 50% in the first 2 stocks, it's about doing it, not the high score.
What will you learn, and get better at?
- Two very very important things: spacing and timing. You'll learn it automatically. What do you do if you need to kill the opponent, and not get hit yourself? Right, space wide and safely. Timing'll improve, and you'll learn when to hit the opponent, and how to punish optimally. That's exactly what you want to drill on.
- Forward air combos / strings / followups. You'll get very handy in doing these, and you'll get all new variations. Recently I've tried to implement Up Air a bit more in my gameplay, and this is absolutely the way to do it.
- Surviving at high percentages. A very important aspect of being Lucario. When you've taken off 15 stocks, believe me you'll be up 120%+. One hit from the computer can kill you, and you need to keep going and going. Just like a real match.
- Shielding / dodging / evading as much as possible. Very important in Brawl, because of the kinda slow physics. Get used to shielding everything that can possibly harm you. Stay safe. Minimize risks.
- Whatever you want, really. If you feel like you don't spotdodge enough, don't Force Palm enough, don't use your tilts enough, ignore your grabs, or anything else, it can be trained here.
A little bit about the statistics:
These can be very helpful to analyze your style of play. Especially air time and ground time are important, as well as smashes and grabs. You might want to get your hit percentage up as well. Play extra cautiously, and cut down on spamming. This will help you big time in a real match.
Comments and feedback are appreciated. Remember this is my way, and I found I can already meet with some very good players while I'm only playing for 5-6 weeks, and this + a lot of reading and practice has helped me do it.
The same goes for Brawl. The more matches you play, the better you get. Matches with your brother / neighbour help, going to local tournaments, smashfests at your friend's house. That's what we do.
However, all those other athletes, they spend quite a couple of hours in the gym too. They stay in shape, they train their muscles to increase their performances. Say a athlete trains 30 hours per week, at least 4 or them will be so called powertraining.
Now, to get to the point, I've made a training program to get Brawl muscles and keep 'em. You don't need anyone, so if you don't feel like wifi, friends aren't home, and your hands are itching, you should try this. (designed for Lucario play mainly
) Doing this a couple of times a week will drastically increase offline performance (wifi not so much).- Go to Group Brawl
- Pick Lucario
- Pick a level 3 computer character.
- Set stock to 99, timer to infinite
- Try to get as many stocks off the computer character as you can, without dying once. If you lose a stock, it's over.
- Press Start + L + R + A to view your results.
Press A once, to go to your statistics. There are a few interesting things to see here.
- KOs
- Hit percentage (accuracy)
- Ground time
- Ground hits
- Air time
- Air hits
- Smashes
- Grabs
- Projectiles
The more KOs you have scored, the more Brawl muscle you have. There are a few fundamental things to make your training succesful.
- Try to pick a opponent that isn't Bowser or Ganondorf. Personally, I always pick Meta Knight, Snake or some other high tier character that isn't an extremely easy match up.
- Try to approach a bit (ALL the time isn't needed), not infinitely spam Aura Spheres.
- Don't reset when you took 50% in the first 2 stocks, it's about doing it, not the high score.
What will you learn, and get better at?
- Two very very important things: spacing and timing. You'll learn it automatically. What do you do if you need to kill the opponent, and not get hit yourself? Right, space wide and safely. Timing'll improve, and you'll learn when to hit the opponent, and how to punish optimally. That's exactly what you want to drill on.
- Forward air combos / strings / followups. You'll get very handy in doing these, and you'll get all new variations. Recently I've tried to implement Up Air a bit more in my gameplay, and this is absolutely the way to do it.
- Surviving at high percentages. A very important aspect of being Lucario. When you've taken off 15 stocks, believe me you'll be up 120%+. One hit from the computer can kill you, and you need to keep going and going. Just like a real match.
- Shielding / dodging / evading as much as possible. Very important in Brawl, because of the kinda slow physics. Get used to shielding everything that can possibly harm you. Stay safe. Minimize risks.
- Whatever you want, really. If you feel like you don't spotdodge enough, don't Force Palm enough, don't use your tilts enough, ignore your grabs, or anything else, it can be trained here.
A little bit about the statistics:
These can be very helpful to analyze your style of play. Especially air time and ground time are important, as well as smashes and grabs. You might want to get your hit percentage up as well. Play extra cautiously, and cut down on spamming. This will help you big time in a real match.
Comments and feedback are appreciated. Remember this is my way, and I found I can already meet with some very good players while I'm only playing for 5-6 weeks, and this + a lot of reading and practice has helped me do it.
