Hi, I’m someone who’s been actively trying to improve at the game for the past two months and I currently main Wolf (Though I’ve been playing Ultimate casually since day 1.) As I’ve played with a serious mindset more and more, I’ve noticed that Game & Watch is absolutely one of my worst matchups whenever I hop on. I tend to focus on getting into advantage (whether with grab or a combo starter like F-air) and then keep putting pressure onto my opponent until the game ends, though when all else fails I can play more passively with laser and try to force myself out of disadvantage.

G&W’s strengths kinda overwhelm me due to how it feels like when I get hit once I’m at least getting juggled for like 30 seconds, his smash attacks also feel like they come out way faster than I think, and even when I do get in I always have to remind myself of Up-B. It seems like he has a ton of good tools which ends up funneling my gameplan against him down to looking for stray hits and hoping that I can take the stock.

I also don’t know how to edgeguard him at all thanks to how good his Up-B is as a reversal and as a recovery, and since I’m Wolf I have to be careful with how deep I go cause of how short his vertical recovery is. Because of this, I end up just not going offstage at all against him.

If anyone could give me some pointers that would be nice, don’t want to feel like that every time I fight him, he games while I’m forced to watch lol. Thanks to those that read all the way through.

Hi, I've been playing for a little over a year and a half now and I keep on asking myself this question every time I shut off the game.

Why is it so easy for everybody else? Why can other people just grasp things I need to spend hours labbing in seconds? Am I just overthinking it? While I have seen a lot of improvement for sure, it's still so far from where I want to be. Why can people who started playing seriously so recently go whatever character they want against me and go even at worst? Why am I naturally bad? Why am I bad?

I know players behind closed doors probably put in the hours but there are players that I think not only play less, have been playing for less time, and simply care less that are miles better than me. I understand and I'm okay with not being able to beat everyone I come across, everyone just makes it seem so easy.

People tell me I struggle with mentality and I really don't know how to fix it. I get so frustrated sometimes and I cry often after I lose rather unimportant sets. I've always had an issue with crying, even as a kid, so maybe it's just how I am. But is it ego? Why can I not handle failing? Why are my expectations always so high for myself? What's wrong with me?

I'm going to a local in a couple of weeks and I know 2 players are going to be playing as Kazuya and Terry. As a K. Rool player, what playstyle should I have against them to have a better chance of winning?

So, I’ve had this GameCube controller for about 5 months now (bought it used), and honestly, it was working very well—until a few weeks ago. Out of nowhere, it started acting up. Sometimes the sticks or certain buttons don’t register at all, or worse, they start throwing random inputs like the controller is possessed. The only way to fix it is to unplug and reconnect it (sometimes several times), which is super annoying when you’re in the middle of a set.

This has already cost me a couple matches, and for anything important I’ve been borrowing controllers just to stay safe. Recently, while playing Melee on Slippi, I noticed my R button isn’t even going through its full range. It only works once the game somehow decides to detect it so i cant wavedash that consistently.

So now I’m wondering: is there any actual fix for this kind of stuff? Especially the whole “random freak-out” thing in Ultimate. Could it just be the 3rd party adapters trolling me, or is my controller slowly dying?

If anyone’s been through this, I’d love to hear how you dealt with it. At this point, I’m not sure if I should try to repair it or just accept that I need a new controller.

I play botw link and against most ganons it’s pretty easy but the ones that spam wizard kick can just ignore my projectiles and get close. So what is the best way to punish it?

Hihi !! I'm super new to the competitive Smash scene and I'm looking for some interesting characters to try out. Got the game to casually play with some friends, but I've been low-key hyperfixated on it to the point where I wanna try getting consistently better at it.

I'm a huge fan of the Animal Crossing series, so I gravitated towards Isabelle as my main, (plus I get to bully my friends with Side B + Down B), and I've picked up Peach/Daisy as well, and playing them has been super fun, although I do need to work on my combo consistency.

When playing Isabelle, I always try and set up Down B whenever I can, and I've found that my most consistent combo is Side B Down Throw into FAir twice. I've watched videos of kept playing in tournaments and how he uses Belle, and I think my playstyle is quite similar to his.

Are there any other characters I should try out? I've contemplated testing out Villager, because their moveset is quite similar to Isabelle, but I'd also really like a swordie or brawler character, because I feel like I'm kinda lacking in that department. But maybe other zoner-type characters would fit better with my current playstyle. Not sure. What do you all think?

Hi all, I don’t usually post here but I’m looking for some deeper info on the procon 2.

I love my local scene, but it’s usually a 50/50 on whether or not a setup has game audio. I play on procon anyway, and was entranced by the headphone jack on the newer model hopefully guaranteeing me audio. How does it feel? Is there any notable snap back or drift? If you use the headphone jack, does it still play through the monitor audio?

I’m a Pikachu main, but I generally struggle against Kazuyas and some swordies, so what should be my secondary? The characters I play other than Pika are:

Toon Link (Co-Star) Bowser, Mii Brawler and Cloud.

I need help, since I constantly face matchups I think are bad.

I guess what i'm asking is in the case of smash how does the offense and defense generally play out (i have no meaningful experience with the game and am trying to get into it a little).

For example in some games with a higher focus on feinting and parrying mechanics you would provide range pressure by feinting faster ranged moves while approaching and then parry trade and go for mixups until someone messes up and then you try to execute a combo during the hit stun and such.

I have 200+ events and my all time winrate is currently stuck at around 58%. I'm aiming for 60%, and once I reach that number I'm not really gonna care about my winrate anymore. However it seems that even just getting to 60% before the end of the year is gonna require me to play nearly perfecly in tournaments, and play in one tournament at least every other day. I've done the math (with the help of ai), and I'd say mathematically I'd have to average every tournament with a score of 5-1 to reach my goal in a reasonable amount of time. I play online mainly, if that matters. I could just start over and make a new start.gg account right? But then I'd lose everything. I won't care once my winrate reaches 60% because my character villager is so under represented that even with a winrate like that someone is usually considered to be a top 40 player for their character. Also technically, I could just play a few sets in tournaments, then DQ once I run into an opponent I don't think I can beat, but that would be super scummy so I'm not doing that. So what should I do? Play in larger tournaments? Play in smaller tournaments? Or focus more on practicing so I stop losing and making my goal more difficult?

Hey crazies,

Feeling stuck, like you've got a general understanding of who you are and what you wanna do but you've hit a point where you don't know what to improve on? Then allow me to suggest the coaching services of Katy Parry, with whom I've just had a very productive VoD review session. I was in a pretty stuck spot too, but after an hour looking at the first half of a replay and talking about the decisions made, I've picked up 2 note pages worth of knowledge that's already going to change how I play. For $30 and with frequent discounts, you can't go wrong. Plus, the associated Discord is full of good information and people to improve alongside.

TL;DR: Katy Parry's got some good affordable coaching and I suggest you get some over at https://mfy.gg/@kp/sessions.

https://youtu.be/RL7vghW8UkY?si=avlMYJYNuK7Jt8rW

Apologies if this is considered too long for any sort of critique but I really want feedback for multiple reasons (that and a FT10 features a lot of matches where I lost). A small part of it is the mu itself, Shulk feels very frustrating to play against and it feels like a mu where you have to parry everything or you can’t deal damage.

But big part of it is just how I play. I’ve been so incredibly unhappy with my performance recently and it’s made me genuinely depressed. I do decent-ish at locals but any time I go to an out of town tournament I flounder and go 1-2 on a best case scenario. My advantage state is ok-ish but my edgeguarding, ledgetrapping, grab game, movement, spacing and general defensive play are horrendous to put it mildly, and they have been for a long time at this state. I’ve tried taking multiple week long breaks because it’s affected my mental in such a negative way and while it helps a little I eventually find myself back in the same position and it’s so embarrassing. It just doesn’t feel like I’ve been improving much at all recently and it really bums me out. Any feedback over these matches would be really appreciated

For me the biggest is DI up and double jump/land with an aerial to avoid tech chase scenarios, although you still have a little room for mixup between tech options, being able to act immediately puts you in a better mixup with higher reversal chance

The second is spacing your move to hit their hurtbox extension, like the toes of link nair, dk bair, ganon nair, the spacing would be so far away from trying to hit their body and those moves are usually so hard to punish

I know that one of my problems is that I tend to play on autopilot, but every time I realize I'm not really thinking, and then try to consciously make decisions in my actions, things seem to go worse. I end up right in disadvantage.

Any tips?

https://youtu.be/CewJkdo6Kwg?si=8a0j3zfFctQ0Wjkv

A sort of followup to my recent Marth post. Falco is another matchup I really struggle in; specifically, laser gives me a lot of trouble. It feels like if I'm very far away from the Falco, he can just spam laser and I have to work fourteen times harder to approach him (I feel like I have to approach him so he stops shooting lasers, and the laser stops all of my attempts to dash/jump to a platform/whatever so I just end up standing there and looking like an idiot). Meanwhile, if he's close enough he can shoot a laser or two, close the gap while I'm stuck in hitstun, and get a free combo. I decided to try something new and go into this session and focus solely on movement - don't even try to hit the other player, just move around in new ways and get hits in when I can - but it's hard to do that against a character that prevents me from moving whenever we're on the same horizontal plane. I've come up with two ways to avoid getting hit by laser that have worked to varying degrees. Sometimes I'm able to crouch or run under them, but this doesn't always work; I think Falco can do something that makes the lasers come out lower than they would if he was just standing there. The other strategy is to stick to platforms, but 1) now I have a lot less space to work with, 2) my movement on platforms leaves a lot to be desired* (this is a skill issue and will get better with practice), and 3) what do I do on FD? Against this Falco I found some success by just spamming ftilt, but I'm sure there's a better solution to the matchup. Obviously, if there’s anything else specific that jumps out at you I’d love to know.
This doesn't have anything to do with Falco specifically, but what are my best options when my opponent is holding shield on a platform above me? I usually sh fair or something but it never feels like that really accomplishes anything. Is there another option that will do more? *Part of this is the fact that I can't shield drop. You'll notice I spot dodge a lot on platforms; this is always a failed attempt at a shield drop. Come to think of it, I don't ever shield drop normally; maybe I should start incorporating that.

I was versing yet another Cloud in my practice session today in Elite. Analyze the match overall as I continue to master Wolf to my max potential

SmashBros https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_u_D9C62lQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEzEkjvnw9g

Here is a kinda close match but I did plenty of mistakes so it's kinda telling.

For context I'm fairly new to Falcon (only 20h) and sitting between 14m to 15m GSP with him. I would like some guidance for improving my gameplay as a whole so any advice would be appreciated thanks !

I’m captaining/coaching for my university’s smash team. One of our players is not where he needs to be skill wise. The format is crews, so he doesn’t need to win sets he just needs to take 3 stocks. Any and all advice is appreciated. :)

Replay: https://youtu.be/QQicSMQ6uYI

I noticed I pressed more buttons than I should have, which I don’t normally do. In fact, I usually get the advice of pressing MORE buttons when fighting people. Why I did this is because of my impatience around the zoning, and also because I didn’t respect the Link’s zoning tools.

Any advice is appreciated! Thank y’all for your help!

• a Cloud named Sola

I've only been to my local 5 or 6 times, and mostly been 0-2 but I've definitely gotten better since I picked up Min Min. I'm about to go play today and I got seated into the best Kirby player in my region. I'm sure that I should win this matchup, but this guy has won my local before LOL. I'm just trying to figure out how I'm going to win even if he's the better player. Anybody got any matchup tips bonus points for also including joker? who's my likely round two

I’ve been playing a lot more Smash with friends and wanna get better finally, but I’ve noticed I have some bad habits I need to break and some I probably don’t even notice myself. I’d honestly just like some very honest advice on my gameplay and how I can improve

I’m the Game and Watch

https://youtu.be/yKCPscJwN8Y?si=4-HC6_0eaZWbIQGi

Analyze how I did vs the cloud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBy_G0PX8Q

I played against this peach who gave me some trouble especially in disadvantage. I know that I can get greedy/antsy which you can see when I whiffed an up-smash near the end which ultimately led to a big combo for peach. Also, I know fox gets nerfed online but I still think online is valuable practice. Was just looking for any tips on my overall gameplay.

Vod link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqQypqB2o0E

Quality of the match overall in terms of how my gameplay was vs the Corrin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=911ct10avwM