ok so after messing around with a bunch of characters i'm back to maining falco again (yay) but i'm still having trouble with some basic stuff.
i seriously can't do the ledgehop->double lasers (at the same height). in fact, the only way i can even get double lasers is if i grab the ledge, fall, and immediately jump laser laser, but the first laser is really high (fox would punish me badly). i've tried delaying the jump after falling off the ledge but then i can get only 1 laser (and after the laser i end up phantasm-ing towards the stage lol).
also for RSHL: let's say i am on FD and i am running to the right. when i try to RSHL, i SHL so the laser goes left (so far so good) but i stay in place and have no momentum (basically wherever i start the SHL i stop and i don't continue to drift to the right). but everytime i try and do the RSHL (with momentum) i phantasm. i have done it a couple of times by accident but i have no idea how. what am i doing wrong? (P.S. do you fast fall it?)
also i can waveshine without hitting anything practically perfectly, but i can only do it like 50% of the time with hitlag. like when i am comboing fox with the dair->shine->wavedash->dair etc. etc. , i end up just short hopping out of the shine rather than waveshining. am i hitting L too early?
1 other thing. for shield pressure i usually do shffl dair->shine repeat, but i have seen shffl nair->shine repeat. which is more effective? at first i thought it was absolutely dair, but nair does do more damage (and less lag), and isn't shield stun related to damage?
THANKS.
ok first thing u need to understand since it doesnt seem like u do is as long as u are already lasering u can move the control stick all u want and u will not phantasm, so if u full jump laser than hold forward and keep lasering u will never phantasm as long as u didnt stop lasering. this is the secret to doing all the laser techniques.
i dont understand how if u drop u shoot one laser than phantasm? try pressing B fast dont delay ur lasers u should do, down to drop, when u reach the height u want to jump u press jump immediately follwed by B more than once, then once ur lasers have started u just hold forward to land on the stage.
rshl with fast falls is just about practice. you have to remember to flick the control stick and then let it return to neutral position b4 u laser. eventually ull get the timing so u hit B just as the stick is returning to neutral and from there u can keep moving cuz like i said b4 u can move while ur lasering, the trick is to timing the B press exactly as the stick hits neutral position.
as for the waveshining just put it on infinite time and go to FD vs fox and just hit him with shines over and over. like do shine> wavedash to chase> shine b4 he lands. just do this over and over till u get used to the hitlag, this one is actually a practice issue.
um mango puts it nicely when he says think of falcos feet as a broom, if u nair ur putting the broom horizontally and if u dair ur putting it vertically. most falco players will admit its a matter of preference although i will give u some advice about it.
a) nair can be CC'd while dair usually cant, the meta game is revolving heavily around CC'ing (watch recent matches of good spacies and or peaches and marths) so be careful u dont want to spam it.
b) nair combos really nicely at mid to high %, if u catch someone DI'ing into the stage u can easily nair them into f-smash/nair/ or dair off the stage depending on their percent. u should use it for its speed and spacing while shield pressuring, like retreating nair to make them miss the grab is really good.
c) dont forget that shield pressure comes down to mixing it up, nothing is guaranteed, and nothing is totally safe. different characters can punish different ways and its upto u to mix up ur pressure to where they dont know whats coming and feel helpless and start to make mistakes. if u just dair shine all the time on their shield theyre prob just gonna nair/up b oos or just roll and ur not really pressuring. u have to make them doubt their usual responses and punish them when they try to escape u.
