A Guide to Changing Fate - Lucina

Excellent guide! Well written and very organized. I'm doing pretty decent with Lucina right now and I'm trying to step up my game. I'm sure this guide will help. Thanks for taking the time to write it!

Like most have said, excellent work. I started using Lucina based on this guide. I'm new here but I've read many guides, few were this useful and easy to read. Well done.

This is an amazing guide!!!

Very good, although it would be nice if you gave a bit of data on how to time the auto cancels on her aerials, as I have been having trouble with landing lag

the perfect guide. other guides should do their guides like this one.

Very thorough guide. My one complaint would be the aerials section. By comparison to a Bowser or Ike, her aerials are very weak. That doesn't mean they aren't useful. Her aerials make for pretty effective spacing moves, as hoping back and using her forward aerial usually will best a charging foe. Also her shield breaker is like a strong aerial, so she does have that move. That's my experience anyways, since I played as Roy in Melee and that's kind of how I made my strategy with Lucina. Other than that a very good guide. Nice job.

I admire you, you did an excellent guide, has personally helped me a lot to improve my game, from 3d to now whit the wii u version , however, what do you think about the recent japanese tier list and why Lucina is bottom tier in this one ?.

A very well constructed guide about how to play my waifu- er I mean main, Lucina. My only concern is the character analysis with its descriptions of character matchups in an online setting, as most matches online where battles are to be taken seriously are in "For Glory" mode and all are Final Destination variants, making for little meta game development/analysis when all the stages are similar/congruent to each other (the reason I say similar is because while the stages are all set up like Final Destination, some of them have their own little tweaks to them, like how Distant Planet's platform has a wall coming up all the way from the blast zones).

Amazing guide. Incredibly descriptive and perfect for new players. As someone who uses lucina a lot, this did help me.
I did want to point that the dancing blade is used to recover in melee with Marth, so I'm curious if it works here?

Thanks for helping me! I'm a bit of a newer player, and I'm hoping Lucina turns out to be my main ;)

Great job! Really comprehensive and awesome guide. I enjoyed reading through this and will be following closely for updates.

A note on using Side-B to recover - I don't have definite proof of this, but I think using the first swing of Side-B will actually slow your horizontal momentum. It does seem like using Side-B right before the apex of your jump gives you a slight vertical boost however. Unforunately, I don't have a way to record to show this, but perhaps you can confirm?

It's also noteworthy that not all For Glory stages are created equal - I have used a fully charged Neutral B to recover horizontally only to get stage spiked on FD like (non-wall) stages.

Could use a couple fixes, but overall really good

Excellent guide! As someone who is trying to use Lucina as a main, this will definitely help me a lot. Great job, and thanks!

Impressive guide!

It covers all the important matters but leave space to play Lucina in your own style, thanks a lot for all the info and I hope that the guide could actualize as the metagame develops :)

Jeez, so much information, I love it.

My one (very minor) critique is that you seem to speak highly of all her moves in the analysis'. A master player can likely get lots of mileage out of even the worst of her moves due to mixup potential, but it also comes off as a little overwhelming for people like me who are very new to Marth and Lucina gameplay. I know you mention that things like Fair and Nair fastfall attacks are good, but I feel like this information could be outlined a little more.

Super nit-picky critique aside, I can't see anything else this guide needs improving on. Great work!

Im not a seasoned player, and I may not even end up settling on Lucina or Marth as a main.

But this guide has helped me understand them better, thank you for helping the community my friend. :)

I may not be a seasoned player but this is a really good guide with tons of useful information. I love playing Lucina and will definitely be spending time in your character section more. Well written and well executed. I only have two gripes.

1. Her weaknesses would be nice but I know others have told you this and in the few characters I did look at you did cover certain things like how you need to avoid projectiles vs Link and such.

2. This is a personal thing and you may not see it this way but the Zelda/Sheik/Palutena icon thing is something I view, if used outside of training mode, as cheating. It gives you information you shouldn't have or should have developed. I honestly think it is something that will hurt players in the long run as I would expect it, and hope honestly, to be banned in tournaments.

Like I said I'm not a pro by any means but I do read a lot so hopefully my input amounts to something. Good day.

As a Lucina main myself, this has helped a ton!

Thanks!

Holy guacamole, this is a truly amazing guide with all your details and analysis. You must've put a lot of hard work into this , and I thank you for making this. As Lucina's my tertiary character and I'm not too god with her, your guide may very well be what I need to get my head in the game. Definitely gonna come back later and train while reading this simultaneously.

On the negative side though, I have two personal gripes with your otherwise great guide (which is the only reason I gave 4 stars instead of 5).

1. You said most of this was based on your For Glory experience, didn't you? For Glory mode isn't considered that great for competitive play, since Final Destination and Omega forms are the only stages allowed. In tournaments and some friend matches, some people are gonna use other stages to change strategy and the metagame a bit; some of the stuff in this guide might work differently on said stages. Most competitive players I know agree that Battlefield and Smashville are the most neutral stages instead of FD anyway. FD favors projectile characters like Samus, Little Mac (since he doesn't have to deal with his bad air game as much), and combo ones like Shiek. On other stages some of that may change. Not too big a deal of a gripe, but I thought I'd point it out.

2. For the most part, you've said a lot of stuff that's good about Lucina. What I personally am missing is what's WRONG with her, there's no way this character can be perfect. When providing an outlook on characters in games, some people tend to do nothing but praise the character without considering or mentioning important weaknesses they may have. For most off the guide, I've seen you say far more about Lucy's strengths and hardly any of her downsides. I didn't even see you mention her limited combo options or the fact that she has a lot of landing lag on just about all of her aerials. In response to your advice on shorthopping Fairs, I've heard other people say that it's very unsafe and you'd get punished for it, and its better to do a Fullhop Double Fair instead of a shorthop Fair. Other people have also said that her throws aren't particularly great and her recovery is a mediocre (and really dangerous if you don't recover low)

I could be wrong on most of what I just said, but that's what I heard and in my personal experience, they seem to have a point. Still, it'd be helpful to know the downsides of a character inside a guide, so it lets the readers know what they are getting themselves into, the hardships they'll have to deal with, and if the character is even for them.

Other than this though, great guide! Can't wait to see ya update it.

This is... a lot more detailed than I was expecting it to be. Great job! You do a great job showing all of Lucina's moves in detail.