Official Pac-Man's Amazing Full Colour Fan Club! - Pac-Man General Thread

[Nu~]

Hamburger Helper Pac is overused. Anyone here confined to the 3DS? I need someone to tear through my traps and force me to fortify them.

I have ascended to the Wii U version, but if I may ask, what are some traps you have come up with?

I would love to trade tech.

 

[Krysco]

@ fromundaman Give me just a few minutes and I'll have a video for ya

Edit: Here it is!

 

[Exceladon City]

As I've posted in the AT thread, FH Cherry > Hydrant is a good starter wall. The water carries the cherry's hitbox across the stage, which creates a cool zoning option:

-cherry-


-H-(water-->)\/\/\---------

Pardon my terrible diagram. The stage control you gain from this is pretty legit.

-Trampoline--Hydrant- is good to tack on hydrant damage without added assistance. Keeping a Galaxian or Melon on tap is good for punishing the inevitable attempts to hurdle the hydrant.

 

[fromundaman]

@ fromundaman Give me just a few minutes and I'll have a video for ya

Edit: Here it is!

Thanks! I was wondering where the exact spot to jump into the ship was; this helps!

 

[NimbusSpark]

So, guess who has a birthday today?

Spoiler

It's me.

Heh, have a good birthday, man. Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier, but me being in Australia and all that. It's literally 9am here.
Also, speaking of birthdays, I think I'm the next lucky Pac to have theirs, at mid-July.

 

[Nu~]

As I've posted in the AT thread, FH Cherry > Hydrant is a good starter wall. The water carries the cherry's hitbox across the stage, which creates a cool zoning option:

-cherry-


-H-(water-->)\/\/\---------

Pardon my terrible diagram. The stage control you gain from this is pretty legit.

-Trampoline--Hydrant- is good to tack on hydrant damage without added assistance. Keeping a Galaxian or Melon on tap is good for punishing the inevitable attempts to hurdle the hydrant.

Nice! I personally like to Bair -> Fair hydrant to help my approach. By running behind it, I can block all projectiles and get in my opponent's face quicker if they try to camp me out.

 

[Exceladon City]

I play a keepaway Pac. I find myself accidentally timing people out on FG.

 

[Nu~]

I'm personally not a fan of staying away for too long, but I will do so if I don't want to put up with my opponent's neutral game (Pikachu, Mario, Luigi,)

Making overly aggressive people have to jump through hoops to get to me is kinda fun.

I'm more of an aggressive Trap Pac normally. Especially against the likes of mega man (I looove that matchup)

 

[fromundaman]

I'm personally not a fan of staying away for too long, but I will do so if I don't want to put up with my opponent's neutral game (Pikachu, Mario, Luigi,)

Making overly aggressive people have to jump through hoops to get to me is kinda fun.

I'm more of an aggressive Trap Pac normally. Especially against the likes of mega man (I looove that matchup)

It really sounds like we have similar playstyles.

 

[Pikmin-ism42]

I found a rather nasty trick one could potentially perform against characters with a "meh" recovery. First off, create a trampoline somewhere that allows basically anyone to recover from, but try placing it somewhat low. After this, try knocking the opponent off the stage on the same side that you placed the trampoline. If you're lucky/if the opponent has somehow become helpless, he'll try using using the trampoline to recover. Just as he is about to land on it, create another one somewhere else, destroying the previous one.

 

[fromundaman]

Yeah that is a useful but we'll known tactic. That said opponents with MU experience will avoid the trampoline to avoid that.

 

[Froggy]

Damnit I had been so well online lately that they're was a tournament and Saturday I was really hyped to go to 2 show how much I've improved but they changed the event to no customs, there is still an tournament I'm gonna go to on Sunday but this really sucks.

 

[BSP]

Pac-Man doesn't need customs that badly IMO. If I were going to a custom tournament, I'd probably use On Fire, Dire Hydrant, and Lazy Fruit at most in specific MUs.

I don't see customs lasting very long in competitive play unless Nintendo starts patching some of the arguably OP ones and the infinite combos some bring.

 

[Nu~]

I'm pretty neutral on customs, but I can't help but feel that maybe my time training with customs will end up being worthless. The amount of anti-customs people grows with each custom tournament, and if they decide to stay vanilla...then what was the point of using them?

I don't want to rely on something with no future.

 

[Froggy]

I'm pretty neutral on customs, but I can't help but feel that maybe my time training with customs will end up being worthless. The amount of anti-customs people grows with each custom tournament, and if they decide to stay vanilla...then what was the point of using them?

I don't want to rely on something with no future.

I may not continue with the game if customs get banned, but I really just don't think that's going to happen. It's not something I'm worried about, for the weekly I mentioned the last 6 events were customs included so I can't be too mad about them running a customs off tournament.

Also form my experience the majoriy of people complaining about customs are scrubs, who arne't good and looking for an excuse to explain why they lost. When those same people attend the non-custom tournament and they still get wrecked(wouldn't be surprised if they do worse than usual) they're ******** about customs will end.

I'm pro customs all the way btw.

 

[WeirdChillFever]

I kinda see myself as the Freaky Fruit man around these boards so I'd not be happy with a customs ban.

 

[Froggy]

I kinda see myself as the Freaky Fruit man around these boards so I'd not be happy with a customs ban.

Lol I feel ya man. I used to be the Dire Hydrant guy around here until I convinced other people to try it out and they liked it too.

 

[WeirdChillFever]

Lol I feel ya man. I used to be the Dire Hydrant guy around here until I convinced other people to try it out and they liked it too.

Like that.
We each have our roles and with customs some of them turn into regular speculators.

PacMan9 probably likes this analogy-ish thing.

 

[Nu~]

All different parts of the same whole...
I personally like that we all bring a different flavor/personality to the table. Again, goes to show how much diversity this character has/attracts.

 

[abit_rusty]

Is the custom moveset project the go-to sets followed by all custom tourneys? Or is that just an attempt at a guideline for people who don't want to go through the trouble of real-time transferring?

 

[Nu~]

Is the custom moveset project the go-to sets followed by all custom tourneys? Or is that just an attempt at a guideline for people who don't want to go through the trouble of real-time transferring?

It's just for EVO

 

[Froggy]

It's just for EVO

This isn't true at all you know. It's for Evo and every single tournament which is following the Evo ruleset. Which is almost every regional tournament at this point.

 

[Nu~]

This isn't true at all you know. It's for Evo and every single tournament which is following the Evo ruleset. Which is almost every regional tournament at this point.

Excatly my point. It was originally made for EVO, but then everyone decided to copy it because it is now being looked at as official.

 

[abit_rusty]

And I guess I wasn't around for this but how were Pacman's sets decided?

 

[Nu~]

And I guess I wasn't around for this but how were Pacman's sets decided?

They left it up to us...
And only four people participated. Me included

 

[Maziyah]

So right, i was watching a vid and @ Nu~ came to mind , how pac can pretty much do other characters stuff with his BF http://youtu.be/XySEVMzFWPM at 1:41 rob does a gyro trick, i think we can use this ! With z dropped cherry and strawberries and after the footstool we cant spike but we can catch pretty good stage spikes with hydrant into even perhaps another footstool, down air ORRRRR my favorite footstool nair and Di backwards for the opponent to keep them off stage for assault !

 

[Nu~]

So right, i was watching a vid and @ Nu~ came to mind , how pac can pretty much do other characters stuff with his BF http://youtu.be/XySEVMzFWPM at 1:41 rob does a gyro trick, i think we can use this ! With z dropped cherry and strawberries and after the footstool we cant spike but we can catch pretty good stage spikes with hydrant into even perhaps another footstool, down air ORRRRR my favorite footstool nair and Di backwards for the opponent to keep them off stage for assault !

Nice catch man!!

That looks pretty legit. With customs on, we can convert that into a spike with meteor trampoline, but footstool -> Nair is excellent.

 

[Maziyah]

Lol thanks man, im testing it now.

Just trying my best to contribute !

 

[Maziyah]

It isnt easy since the KB on our fruits are higher, so its really read based but its not impossible lol, i think added a tramp in at some point of this process might aid it

 

[Nu~]

It isnt easy since the KB on our fruits are higher, so its really read based but its not impossible lol, i think added a tramp in at some point of this process might aid it

Maybe if you try the Orange at lower percentages? It knocks the opponent towards us horizontally.

 

[Maziyah]

Hmmm ill try it

 

[COLINBG]

Hey guys, I have an idea.

It would be cool to have a Pacman General Guide thread. The same way a normal guide would work, but more in-depth. So it would include things like the MUs and what works against certain characters, weird properties some moves have, a list of combos and how to do them, general gameplay tips, etc.

We would get a TL;DR version of everything we know about Pac in a single place and it would be easier to look for a precise thing or simply to get to know Pac better. I think it would be useful both for new and experienced Pac players alike.

And it would also be cool if it were a community project. Someone (I can do it but if anyone want to I'm perfeclty fine with it) can keep the info up to date and make a firs version of it, and anyone can simply write things to add in the thread. If it's legit we will add it to the guide. This way everyone is helping, while also keeping the guide the most relevant possible.

Would you participate/want a guide-thread like this?

 

[Maziyah]

Sure dude sounds awesome

 

[Exceladon City]

I think I found something new with Pac Man. I call it " Semi-Auto Fruit." It's essentially a Bonus Fruit cancel that enables you to immediately throw a fruit instantly, as opposed to double-tapping. Hence, semi-auto. Initiate Bonus Fruit and tap shield immediately after, Pac Man will briefly show a fruitless hand. That action stores a fruit in the queue to be used on the next button press.

 

[Exceladon City]

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This makes cherries super viable now.

 

[WeirdChillFever]

doublepostbecauseiamonmyphoneandsmashboardscausesittoactfunny

This makes cherries super viable now.

I think it already exists under the name Phantom Fruit, but I'm not sure on that.
Just gotta wait till the smart people come online.

 

[Nu~]

Yeah, it is called phantom fruit. You can cancel fruit in the air with that as well by pressing shield after you start charging, then hold B and press shield again
Respective thread: http://smashboards.com/threads/fruit-stoppin-and-associated-jank.404785/

@ Exceladon City

 

[Froggy]

Am I missing something? What makes that any different then cancelling your fruit regularly by shielding?

 

[Exceladon City]

You can move immediately after. Mobility is not exactly a thing if you're stuck in your shield.

I was hoping I had found something there. Oh well, it's pretty cool to mess with. Back to the lab.

 

[fromundaman]

You can move immediately after. Mobility is not exactly a thing if you're stuck in your shield.

I was hoping I had found something there. Oh well, it's pretty cool to mess with. Back to the lab.

That's actually something I've been using a lot lately. I use it cancel out landing lag after a FF Fair and as a bait. It's definitely worth learning.