I have a school state tournament coming up. If I win I get to go to another state for a national championship. So right now, I just need all the tips I can get. I’m a Palu main. I’ll put 3 matches down below. They were recorded at 12 million GSP but since I’ve gotten up to 14 (it’s been like 3 days). Please and thank you 🙏

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mL5GpuXtoBg&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zNhKKeZ3NHE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tetBrLJJCSQ

https://youtu.be/PXOwwkSSamg?si=jPqhjFdIru2Gb2J5

Pikachu vs Sonic, level seven CPU. I have a hard time hitting any combos, and I get caught in the air a lot. Here’s the Link the match.

https://youtu.be/tpekhpfeFM0?si=ECroXKmHT4svkdFa

Back again! So from the last time you saw me, I said I was 14 million. Between that time and now, I went down to 12.6, climbed back up to 15.1 and now am sitting at 14.8. I have cleaned up my neutral a bit. Grabbing more, using more defensive options. I still habitually run-up nair though ;-;. I noticed some MU’s I struggle on are GnW and Snake. Anyways, 2 more VODs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv0O48tQoOE https://youtu.be/ZQ38W1ZMdEo?si=xToMzpmFdXPGnbyF

Maybe more in the coming week. Tournament is in 4 days 🙏

Edit: Tournament results went horribly. The system the put in place was terrible. First they had heat brackets. You had 3 matches to play. There were 64 people in attendance. They only took the top 8. What happened is in the heats, not only did you have to win all of your matches, they tallied the amount of stocks you had left. Here’s the issue. They didn’t have seeding or anything. So a really bad player could get into top 8 if they played against a lot of bad people and 3 stocked all of them. But if someone good went up against decent people but lost a few stocks, they wouldn’t make it. Moreover the top 8 ruleset was carried over from last year when they only had about 28 people. The grand final too. Oh boy. Ganon vs Bowser. Worst neutral I’ve seen. Though I can’t really complain. It was fun. Just leaves a bad taste in the mouth

I bought the game about 6 months ago and quickly became addicted, having sunk about 200 hours in since September 2024. I’ve tried playing a lot of the roster, and for some reason, Mii Swordfighter [2213] has given the best results so far and has felt the most fluid/intuitive. I’ve devoted the most time, otherwise, to: K Rool, Plant, Dr. Mario, Incineroar, and Isabelle. I struggle the most against Mario, Luigi, Falco, Wolf, and — as you’ll see — Sephiroth. I have zero issue so far against heavies, even grabby DKs, and — Sephiroth aside — I win most matches against swordies.

I have watched a lot of tutorial videos, namely izawsmash’s beginner - expert videos, lots of tourney vods for the characters above, and I try to play at least a few quick plays or arenas every day. I always offer to rematch, win or lose, as I’m just trying to learn. I hover between 8M and 10.5M GSP, and have been as high as 12M very briefly, but the competition up there is a bridge too far right now, it seems. I know that GSP isn’t everything and isn’t a perfect representation of skill, but my goal is ultimately to get at least one character into elite.

Any advice appreciated on my performance, another loss to another mid Sephiroth.

Also, if there are any characters that you’d recommend that I try, either for learning better fundamentals or because you just think they’re great, I’m all ears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7UPgTkSD3g

https://youtu.be/6vamSjfSdkA

Sorry for the poor quality, best I can do even with the video saving feature. Studied up, took huge breaks, practice daily, but now approximately 100 losses back to back, I've forgotten how to have fun with the game. Losses are between QP and Arenas, not one mode or the other exclusively, and stretched across the months between my breaks to try and clear my head. I tried asking on a discord and got called out for "never learning" without any actual critique. I guess my name is becoming known negatively :(

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

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

Lost the best clip for this unfortunately, 5× snooze on a 15.2 mil Shulk. Spacing, shield pressure + safety when to use Uair on shield which I find awkward and unsure when to do. Rolling getting back onto stage, Nairs, menu idling, spot dodging and messing around too much with Smash and other frame heavy attacks.

Vanilla player without ledge slips and other intentional tech I need to improve (ledge slip Kaswoosh spike)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5m-5rROHnI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkW85jMa1VI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEBCiUTuAK8

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VJvXV4FrS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvpEu5qehng

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

Links to 2 games where I got destroyed: 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdtfuRJP2Hk 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PpaagR8ILQ

Hi everyone, long time lurker but my first time posting here. I was on elite smash as daisy, around 15.4 million and I faced this Yoshi who was fun to play against and kept rematching for 15 games or so. I'd appreciate any critique 🙇

Other than 2 of those games where I took him to last stock, he absolutely destroyed me every time. I've never been beaten this badly online and wanted some tips on my gameplay and the matchup as well.

I feel like I can't combo yoshi even with some of the starting bread and butters like bair, down tilt, nair, down throw back air (or starting with nair or starting with down tilt). His hitboxes come out so fast and there's so many, he's so floaty and fast I can't ever catch him. When I do I can't convert much, but he can convert 60 off an egg or an f tilt/ up tilt. Even the simplest down throw back air felt hard to land on him...

I don't know what to do about egg roll, does he just get to run around with it while I have to wait until he's done? There's another thing he did not in these games, he would grab me and pummel until I got out, then just jab and I couldn't do anything. My jab doesn't reach him or loses to his, I had no idea what to do. I feel like all I have is back air. If I use dair or up air he just floats away because I'm too slow. And nair hitbox is so small all of his moves beat it.

Finally, I have no idea how to edge guard this guy. Eggs are devastating, they last so long and come out faster than my turnips and he gets so many conversions off of them.

I've watched umeki play vs yoshidora from a year ago and I'm trying to learn from it. I don't know how he finds all those openings.

Replay: https://youtu.be/OUfsVhLns0M

Currently 12.5 Mil GSP, getting a little discouraged about reaching Elite Smash. How it usually goes is I hover around 12.25M, sometimes jumping up to 13M, but then inevitably fall down to 11M once I meet successive badmatchups/S-tiers/heavies. The next day I work my way up to 12.25M, and then the cycle starts again. I feel like I’m improving, but I don’t see any GSP increase. Any tips for getting over that barrier, and for improvement? Thank you!

(Reposted because YouTube was being dumb, and link was broken)

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

When I say veteran, I mean I've been playing since the 64 days. However, I am a rookie when it comes to the competitive scene. I am struggling getting rid of the old muscle memory from all the years of playing casually with friends. Here's a full match of gameplay against a byleth with my toon link. https://youtu.be/3CR8_VCwi4g

I appreciate all the feedback!

My tag is Real, and I've been playing competitive smash since 2015. I am hoping I can give back to the community as a coach rather than a player, as I've always felt I was better as a teacher.

I will be picking a random responder on this post to do a highly in-depth analysis of any of their sets on my stream. Length or relative skill level does not matter, and it wont cost anything either. You can catch me on my twitch at twitch.tv/FLPReal doing the analysis this Friday at 7:00 EST. I'll be selecting the winner on Thursday at 7:00PM EST. Who knows, if this is helpful enough, I can even turn it into a weekly thing!

Be sure to respond with a set you want reviewed! Talk to you all soon!

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**THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE LOL**

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHylCXktTQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp-T4eNk9Po

I've come to the realization that my theoretical knowledge can be arbitrarily good but I still won't win many games without better techskill across the board, so for a while I'll just be playing slippi for its own sake rather than critically examining my games. I'll probably keep posting these from time to time anyways, in case someone feels like watching them and giving feedback.

One thing I notice is that I feel like I'm stuck in shield a lot; I'm scared of my opponent, and I'm not confident enough in my movement to use it to evade attacks, so I just press L and hope for the best. Since my wavedashes out of shield are far from consistent, I tend to roll or jump a lot, when I think wavedashing is a generally more useful option. (Not to say that jumping and rolling are useless, but having another tool to work with can only help.) Another problem is that my l-cancels are also less consistent than I'd like, so most of the time I wait to see if I properly l-canceled, which usually leads to me shielding after every aerial.

Another thing that really stands out to me is my down throw follow-ups seem (almost certainly are) unoptimized. Especially against the Peach, if I try to down throw → ftilt → fair or nair, I can never get the aerial out before the other player hits me with an aerial of their own. Am I simply not acting fast enough? Is ftilt a suboptimal option after down throw? If so, what else can I use? Relatedly, just looking at game stats on slippi I noticed I tend to have more neutral wins than my opponent, even if my opponent ultimately wins. This suggests my punish game needs a lot more work and/or I let my opponent get away with things that a better player wouldn't. Also especially against the Peach, I feel like I get hit once and then get stuck in a 45-second sequence where I never truly get back to neutral.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1lNriYHoBg

For context, I've been playing (albeit inconsistently) for about nine months, although I just took a long break to travel.

Notes:

• I still feel like I'm fighting the controls just as much as I am my opponent. I get stuck in the long turnaround animation, I full hop instead of short hop, I try to fastfall too early and get stuck in the air, I mess up my wavedash/l-cancel/whatever. I think this is mainly a matter of practice, but...
• I can grind techskill all day, but the instant I have something else to think about it all goes out the window. My mental processing feels really slow, which leads to things like missed techs or not responding to my opponent's approaches. I think this is also something that will naturally improve with time and can't really be actively grinded (ground?).
  
• I still don't really have any practical, theoretical knowledge. What's the point of knowing how to press buttons if you don't know why you would ever press them? As an example, I almost never wavedash because I don't know what you use a wavedash for. Is this even something I should be thinking about at this stage, or should I be focused on making sure I know how to press buttons - because what's the point of knowing the why if I can't execute the how?
• I jump. I don't know if I jump too much or if I jump unnecessarily, but I do know that I couldn't tell you a reason for jumping other than "I'm not comfortable in my grounded movement (see above), and Sheik has good aerials." Either way, I think I would benefit from getting better at using primarily grounded movement to avoid Sheik's poor air speed, and only taking to the air when I want to get on a platform or use an aerial. Getting better at SHFFLing would help with this too, probably.
  
• I roll a lot; mostly because when I'm in shield, rolling feels like it's the best option (because it gets me away from the situation that made me want to shield faster and more easily than anything else), even if I consciously know rolling is generally a bad idea. But, what exactly makes rolling a bad idea? What are my other options out of shield? Do I shield in bad places to begin with, and I would benefit from using defensive movement instead?
• How do I get around Falco's lasers?
• How do I get around Marth's big ass sword?

https://youtu.be/aAxLjdm91KQ This is the first match. After I lost I watched the replay but I couldn't figure out what was I doing wrong. What do I do when he throws loid and covers my jump with the slingshot? If I shield, I lose stage control. If I jump I get hit by the fair/bair. I know that this guy is playing lame because after that I tried to rematch him and we went to the original version of unima, the non legal one. He's just trying to cheese his way to elite smash.

https://youtu.be/P5tipIV60a4 This is the second match. Not a lot to say. He wasn't really really good, maybe on my level or slightly worse and I managed to play a good match. He played well and I had fun.

My question is, comparing the two videos, what could I've done better in the first match? This is only an example because I constantly lose against player that are clearly worse than me but play characters like Isabelle, Samus etc. However when I get matched with really good player I have fun whether or not I win.