controlfreak7
Smash Ace
This goes back to the middle of the summer my cousin and I were either playing or watching a match of smash. Anyways my cousin randomly points out how ken does the most random stuff sometimes for the sake of being unpredictable. Even before that he even went as far as to randomly use illusion against me, but that didn't work too well.
Well today I started to think about it again and how it might work out for each character, using b moves in a way that people don't see coming from competitive smashers much. So I wanted to know what you guys thought about this, here are a few examples of what I mean:
Marth: When your opponent is at a high percentage and you are one stock behind (or more) and you just want to him die. I've seen ken use up b times before in matches not in this same scenario, but in a situation when the opponent was at a high percentage he used it to ko them. Also sometimes (even though I think that a bunch of marth players already do this) use neutral b after a combo for the sake of calculating as much damage as possible while you get the chance and as a bonus possible getting your opponent off stage.
Fox: Lets say you go up for a shffl dair and you know that your opponent is gonna shield and might predict a shine after your shffl dair. Replace the shine with an up-b that can do some damage if they are not shielded and take off a bit of their shield as it gets hit by his charge up. If they get hit you can also direct it towards them in hopes of calculating more damage. Even though I practiced this on a computer it worked out nicely. I shffl daired and did a firefox and the computer was getting burned by the charge up frames and he went a little bit above fox so when the charge up was complete he was sent up with the firefox and the firefox ended perfectly on the platform on that stage (battlefield i think) and so as I landed I was able to up smash him. This might need a little work, but just try to remember this is happening like once or a few times in a match just to confuse your opponent.
Samus: This one already exists and besides all of samus's b moves are used. But if Hugs wasn't the one to discover this he was the one that put it to good use and that is using the screw attack out of shield and maybe just randomly sometimes. I'm sure many samus players already put this to use and this one might become predictable, but if you use it sparingly it might regain its charm.
Falco: The interesting thing about this one is I actually saw a pro in a vid do this I think. I can't remember how it went exactly but it was something like shine jump shine jump u-air and then use firebird and aim it at the opponent. The point of it basically is to get the opponent vertically high and use falco's firebird. Falco's firebird already has some pretty good knockback when it hits someone. (it can kill fox like at 160ish% which is high but that is when fox is standing on the stage not in the air) So doing it after you've gotten the opponent vertical is bound to be a way to kill an opponent early.
Those are a few example I can think of. Now try not to forget this will be done once when the opponent is not suspecting it cause he hasn't seen it from you it is more likely to be successful and when it is successful its pretty useful/helpful. But the thing is if you use it too excessively it will backfire like there is no tomorrow. I can guarentee you that you are lucky if you get away with it twice in a row because when an opponent has seen it once they will assume that you might do it again, but at the sametime it will confuse them cause they won't exactly know if you are a noob or if you did it on purpose or not. But if you do it again they will have no problem avoiding it or make you suffer the consequences for trying.
So I just want to hear your opinions on this and if you've got one for a character that you want to share feel free to post it.
Well today I started to think about it again and how it might work out for each character, using b moves in a way that people don't see coming from competitive smashers much. So I wanted to know what you guys thought about this, here are a few examples of what I mean:
Marth: When your opponent is at a high percentage and you are one stock behind (or more) and you just want to him die. I've seen ken use up b times before in matches not in this same scenario, but in a situation when the opponent was at a high percentage he used it to ko them. Also sometimes (even though I think that a bunch of marth players already do this) use neutral b after a combo for the sake of calculating as much damage as possible while you get the chance and as a bonus possible getting your opponent off stage.
Fox: Lets say you go up for a shffl dair and you know that your opponent is gonna shield and might predict a shine after your shffl dair. Replace the shine with an up-b that can do some damage if they are not shielded and take off a bit of their shield as it gets hit by his charge up. If they get hit you can also direct it towards them in hopes of calculating more damage. Even though I practiced this on a computer it worked out nicely. I shffl daired and did a firefox and the computer was getting burned by the charge up frames and he went a little bit above fox so when the charge up was complete he was sent up with the firefox and the firefox ended perfectly on the platform on that stage (battlefield i think) and so as I landed I was able to up smash him. This might need a little work, but just try to remember this is happening like once or a few times in a match just to confuse your opponent.
Samus: This one already exists and besides all of samus's b moves are used. But if Hugs wasn't the one to discover this he was the one that put it to good use and that is using the screw attack out of shield and maybe just randomly sometimes. I'm sure many samus players already put this to use and this one might become predictable, but if you use it sparingly it might regain its charm.
Falco: The interesting thing about this one is I actually saw a pro in a vid do this I think. I can't remember how it went exactly but it was something like shine jump shine jump u-air and then use firebird and aim it at the opponent. The point of it basically is to get the opponent vertically high and use falco's firebird. Falco's firebird already has some pretty good knockback when it hits someone. (it can kill fox like at 160ish% which is high but that is when fox is standing on the stage not in the air) So doing it after you've gotten the opponent vertical is bound to be a way to kill an opponent early.
Those are a few example I can think of. Now try not to forget this will be done once when the opponent is not suspecting it cause he hasn't seen it from you it is more likely to be successful and when it is successful its pretty useful/helpful. But the thing is if you use it too excessively it will backfire like there is no tomorrow. I can guarentee you that you are lucky if you get away with it twice in a row because when an opponent has seen it once they will assume that you might do it again, but at the sametime it will confuse them cause they won't exactly know if you are a noob or if you did it on purpose or not. But if you do it again they will have no problem avoiding it or make you suffer the consequences for trying.
So I just want to hear your opinions on this and if you've got one for a character that you want to share feel free to post it.