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I don't have a lot of experience against Samus, but against Mario if he uses fireballs to approach counter them but don't get too predictable with the counters or else you'll just get grabbed, and if he's camping look for openings in his pattern to get in. Be careful about using Quick Draw to approach because the fireballs will shut it down, but it's still great for continuing combos.
It depends on where he is. If he's mid to close range, and he tries to approach with a fireball counter will work fine as a mixup, but like I said you'll get grabbed if you do it too often.
I watched your first 3 matches and I was pretty impressed! I really liked the crispness of your wavelands, I gotta work on those. One thing you might want to work on is your punish game; after UThrow, you usually opted for UAir, which generally works well except that it's sometimes too slow to connect. BAir has a hitbox in front of Ike's face that comes out on frame 8 or 9, making it pretty good for comboing out of UThrow and, in general, any time the opponent DI's outward and in front of you at mid %s; even though it has relatively high KB, it's fairly reliable as a combo extender at low/mid %s because Ike's air speed out of a short-hop is pretty good. You also might want to mess around with pivot grabs out of QD; they're really handy because if you charge QD, the opponent can spot-dodge at the charge time where a standard JC grab would work, but you can usually wait out the spot-dodge and pivot grab them instead. It also gives you some flexibility with your combo game for those instances where the opponent is knocked away too far to run up with a short-hop FAir and too close to QD JC grab.
Nairs 2nd fastest after bair
I got EXPOSED by M2K and Zero lol, I've never felt more outclassed than when playing them.
I honestly don't think you did bad against M2K, until maybe that very last match on the 2nd video. It looked like there were a lot of times where using empty QD to get back on stage from the ledge would've been more beneficial for you than F-Air.
Not bad. I think instead of Jab > Jab 2> Jab 3 you should Jab >Jab 2> Grab or Jab> Grab. It'll give you a bit more control.
at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA6POXX9Gxs&t=4m19s how do you pull off that grab? Looks like some kind of QD pivot grab wizardry?
Jump + Grab Button. X/Y + Z if you're using defaults.
When did you pick up Ike? Now I may actually have competior for best SoCal Ike :'(.
I never really "picked him up" persay, but I use him time to time in friendlies. I don't want to take anybody's spot, but I'd love to learn more so I can possibly pocket him or side him for MU's
After seeing the match it didn't seem like you were using Ike's range to your advantage. This let Nashun get in on you repeatedly. You also seemed not know what to do when you got a grab so you should work on your grab game. There was a point where you charged quick draw, saw Nashun go into shield, and you still attacked him. When you see an opponent go into shield like that you get a free grab(people who are unused to fighting Ike go into shield under this situation a lot) and I don't understand why you didn't go for it. I didn't like those fsmash edgeguards. SHFFL'd fairs are better because the hitbox is out longer and covers more area and still has a great pay off.
