Recent content by ILOVESMASH

As someone really bad / inexperienced at this game, I had a few questions: - Is it just me or is neutral significantly more oppressive in this game? I watched Zero's videos on the 2 13 year old prodigies & notice that in addition to using unconventional tactics to surprise their opponents, they...

As someone who was never particularly good at this game, I'm starting to respect the way Byleth is designed. At first, I was really disappointed by the way they were implemented. Not only where they slow as hell, but their frame data was bad. Several of their moves like Down B and Neutral B...

Hahaha, I'm so happy Byleth got in! I was worried that salty reaction to Corrin's reveal + the high density of Fire Emblem characters lowered their chances, but leave it up to my boi Sakurai to subvert my expectations. Fire Emblem is one of my favorite Nintendo franchises, and Three Houses is...

This is the metric I've been using for years to see if my opponent is well-versed or not in the art of Melee. Obviously the dude w/ Fire, a OHKO move, and bigger damage is gonna be trouncing some pretty boy any day of the week. Yet people insist otherwise. And are promptly slain. They'll...

Really, its better to just see it as someone else's interpretation of the character. I never felt Corrin was a completely awful character - not even in his games - but can understand why others dislike him. The kind of hate both male and female Corrin get is just a large amount of legitimate...

I decided the pick up Pac-Man after hearing about how "broken" his moveset is and I gotta say that I don't think the character needs any buffs, aside from MAYBE a bit more range on grab, but even this isn't necessary since his grab straight up eats spotdodges. His aerials and tilts are insane...

Interesting matchup opinions. Are there any characters you'd recommend to handle Olimar and Megaman?

Exploitable recovery is a weakness, but that simply isn't enough of a reason to make a character underwhelming. Look at characters like Wolf, Ike, Chrom, and Roy, who all have exploitable recoveries, but make up for it due to having powerful traits in other areas. Now, I'm not claiming Corrin to...

To be honest, I'm not really seeing what makes Corrin underwhelming. To my knowledge, he basically plays like a discount Ike with less rewarding, but less punishable tools, and some things like Side B letting him stand out. Given how amazing Ike is in this game, that's not an awful thing at all...

I find characters with longer swords to be pretty difficult to fight, like Marth, Lucina, and Shulk. Projectile characters aren't as bad as in smash 4 since roy has a faster Dash -> shield, but can be annoying.

This is a bit off-tangent, but what are people's thoughts on Corrin currently? The character is commonly considered to be the weakest character in the FE gang, but he still packs a lot of the traits that make the other FE characters strong, like a good combo game, decent sized sword, decent...

The new bair actually lingers for the same among of time as the one in Smash 4, since the hitbox duration and animation length is the exact same.

One interesting idea I had for buffing Falco's Down B is to make it more like his Void Reflector from Smash 4, where it does serious vertical knockback and damage while also keeping its reflector properties. I doubt this will actually happen since it would drastically change the move, but it...

Yeah, I feel lumping the swords together is kinda pointless since a lot of them have flaws exclusive to them. Roy and Chrom have weak recoveries and are easy to combo, Marth has quite a bit of trouble killing at later percents if he can't land a tipper, Link and Ike have poor movement and pretty...

Yeah, I was considering Lucina, but I personally prefer Marth just because I like the tipper mechanic and the versatility it brings. Using stuff like sour F-Tilt and Fair to create tech-chases into sweetspots is pretty satisfying, even if Lucina is easier to play in these matchups. Only problem...