Went to my first tournament today and it didn't go to hot. Got destroyed round one vs a pacman, and had close games vs a D3. It has me really thinking about whether I should continue with Charizard, I was just getting really overwhelmed and ended up switching to Pikachu vs the D3 and had wayyyyy more sucess. Probably would of taken game two if it wasn't for an unfortunate SD on my part.
I just couldn't get out of disadvantage with Charizard, I was really relying on Nair/Flamethrower to rack up damage and it just wasn't coming quick enough. I whiffed on quite a few shield grabs which was really unfortunate, and due to all the damage I was taking my combo's stopped working because of rage. I was having a lot more success in friendlies so it may of been more about the MUs because I know we struggle with D3, but I'm not sure about Pacman. It's obviously to early to tell but I think these shield changes didn't do us many favors. Almost everyone has safe options on us when we have none outside maybe a well spaced flamethrower.
Gunna give it a little longer, but I'm getting the feeling I'll have to keep Zard as a secondary for the Mario Bros and start working on my Pikachu again. Hopefully Charizard can get a few more buffs to help him out a bit. Less frames on Fair and being able to auto cancel Bair out of a short hop would help a lot imo. Maybe a little more hitstun on our D-Throw to.
On a side note, I ****ing LOVE Delfino for Charizard. Got an up-air kill at 76% when it was still comboing out of D-Throw, felt really good.