Ive been playing like a noob for 3yrs

[comoesa]

Thats right.....

I judt happen to come upon this forum and it blew my mind....

wavedashes/landings
Shffl
.....you know the rest

I have been playing like this so long i think i cant change..

For the past 2 months i have been trying to implement all these techniques and strategies and it isnt it working

Need help plz

 

[Supiddo]

dude i know how you feel ive been playing like that since it came out. but ive like mastered playing it normally

 

[halfDemon]

It'll take a while to implement all of the techniques into your gameplay. I recommend practicing one thing at a time and not forcing every thing all at once. You'll get better after time. Remember: none of us started out using advanced techs.

 

[Big Burn]

PRACTICE.... that is all there is to it.... prolly with someone who is close or a little bit above ur skill level

 

[Engo]

Same here man, and I thought I was alone. So far I kind of got the hang of wave dashing and edge hogging.

 

[the_air_up_there7]

First master playing normally, and using combos. After you are good playing normal then apply the advance techniques it's not that hard I hardly play once a week and still good. By the way which character do you use?

 

[Sudai]

Just focus on one aspect at a time and -overuse- it. Figure out where it works and where it was useless. Also, this'll build up your muscle memory so you don't have to think about what you're doing near as much. That's the most efficient way of incorporating it into your game.

This is going to require a lot of patience however because most people's gameplay drops tremendously when they try implementing something new into their game but once they get used to it, it helps a lot~

 

[comoesa]

i use samus and CF

 

[blaargh198]

Read teh stickiezzzzz!

And read threads in the character specific rooms for CF and samus.

 

[FireBomb]

Lucky you, I've been playing Melee without knowing SWF existed for 4 years. I got the hang of everything in due time. Just don't try and rush everything into your head at once, because that will probably drive you crazy. Take it in steps and learn techniques at your own pace. I went from thinking I'm the best, to learning that I'm nowhere near, to...well not being ashamed to have other people watch me.

 

[Giggidax]

i too have jus recently learned the advanced techniques and im still learning when to use them effectively.
its true tho, when u first start learning and trying to implement these techniques into ur gameplay u will seem to be getting drastically worse, but thats just part of the process (at least thats wat i would say). this happened to me and now after practicing for a good amount of time im beginning to see my practice is paying off. im beginning to get more clever and im faster due to wavelanding and wding.
it all takes time my friend, pro skills do not come within a day

but u know wat... I NEED HELP ON LEDGETECHING ARGGG i cant get the timing it makes me mad!

 

[Superstar]

Try the advanced how to play video [if you haven't seen it].

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=72556

I learned mostly without the video, but it helped understand it better, and learn Shuffling, I was confused if it was attack then fastfall, or fastfall then attack.

EDIT: To implement, practice. You'll lose the first couple thousand times.

Wavedash is good to avoid dash attacks, or to wavedash forward to an attack.
With Mario, wavedash forward to an A (jab), then downsmash.
With Samus, you can wavedash backwards to grab the edge, and the ledgehop a missle.

You can shuffl as an approach as well. Use L-Cancelling to try avoiding shieldgrabs.

 

[pdk]

1) watch match vids, derive inspiration for how to apply techniques
2) find good competition, play against repeatedly to find out through trial and error how not to apply techniques

 

[Justin]

I've been playing melee since it came out off and on. I never used any of the advanced stuff until recently. Took me a month and I feel I got a lot of it down so you shouldn't have too much trouble mixing it into your gameplay. Just practice though...with humans. You aren't really going to get too great by only playing against the CPU.

 

[Sadnap]

Human players ftw!

 

[comoesa]

Thanks i'll take your advice i have been practicing the skills and i have some of them down....

 

[KevinM]

Find a human player thats a lil worse then you, i say worse because you will be able to implement combos and such but they still DI and do other things unpredictable. See what i'm saying?