My Oli 3-D model and edge guarding

[Wintre]

So first off, I recently began trying to better myself to become a serious Olimar player, and though I enjoy camping and playing with essentially hit and runs and the sort, I find that if I don't get my kills from a landed fsmash, usmash, or uthrow at high percents, it usually comes from edge guarding by either going decently far off the stage to fair/dair the opponent to their death or bair them into a stage spike should the situation arise, or simply up-b back to tether prior to the enemy getting to grab back on, followed by a swift up-b that is surprising long given 4-6 pikmin in length and often can allow me to survive my aerial chasing endeavors. Ultimately, what I'm really trying to ask is how come in many of the tournament videos I view of Olimar, the Olimar seems to remained grounded to the stage and afraid to jump off and take flight, granted, I can understand doing so against some characters, for fear of the repercussions such as diddy or MK but against, say, a Snake player I'd find it highly advantageous to just go for it. And of course it wouldn't always work, and sometimes you'll get unresponsive pikmin who don't join your up-b chain, sure you'll die sometimes, but that happens on the level too. In the end, I just am curious to know why most of the better Olimar players tend to avoid such chases. Thanks in advance =)

And for the second part of my post, I'm an digital arts and sciences/comp sci major, and for one of my modeling classes I had to design a room, so I modeled a room after a high-end designer kitchen, and then added a previous work I had done with making Olimar, and that's what I wanted to show off =D

*note* I dunno if the picture above will work so here's a direct link to the image =)
http://img216.imageshack.us/my.php?image=kitchen8qp3.jpg

 

[Rocann]

He's kind of a chubster. Pretty cool though, I like the hair. Reflection is nice, did you code that yourself or did it come pre-made as a quality of the floor?

 

[asob4]

i tech chase and go off the stage all the time >_>

 

[Cook]

It's hard to chase Snake off the stage because Snake players will usually recover high to avoid being edgeguarded.

 

[Cook]

And I don't edgeguard much because I'm scurred to.

 

[Wintre]

Yeh, I toyed with making him thinner, but then the legs came out chubby, and I was lazy and thus left him as be, he's modeled a lot more off of the GC version. I didn't code that myself, but it is a result of all the lighting I used, since the room I was modeling it after had been a photoshopped picture and essentially had fake lighting, it was pretty difficult to replicate and I used some 20 odd light sources, but the reflections are a part of the program, I used Maya 2009 with mental ray and raytracing to make it.

 

[Fino]

What a G


~Fino

 

[KillerSOS]

It is safer to just stay on the stage and abuse their recoverys than attempt to edge gaurd and watch your Pikmin be idiots

 

[Wintre]

That's true about Snake players recovering high, which is part of the reason I asked the questions, in situations where the Snake just fell off the stage and has begun to recover, should one try to chase a bit and edge guard or (as I've noticed in some videos) would it be more advantageous to stay on stage near the edge and charge an up-smash or the sort?

I don't have too much experience in regards to such situations, but the main person I practice with plays a pretty good Sheik and Lucario, and when playing them, I typically try my best to gimp their recovery or guess where they are going to finish their up-b's to plan for my next attack sequence.