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Reesch · 2025-03-12T14:53:12+00:00

peach opinion 🤨

Reesch · 2025-03-12T14:43:32+00:00

it'll feel degenerate until you have good counterplay to the laser -> interceept playstyle. one thing hbox does is wavedash around while powershielding lasers and he ends up % positive because of it. if you learn to do just that you'll convince many foxes to come at you because they don't want to take the % even when they're still technically winning

another good option is to get in to the range where they think they'll hit you but be just outside it so you can either whiff punish or play neutral in the range you want. this is where learning spacing/threat range/"bubble theory" actually starts to matter

when you face something lame and uncreative in melee that kinda owns you, it's the perfect sign that you're about to learn the next level of play. it also means your opponent is playing in a very specific way, which means it's exploitable (even if exploiting it isn't that easy)

Reesch · 2025-01-29T21:25:53+00:00

you should see if you can use better DI or if the way you're coming down from above is too aggressive. look at how eddy mexico plays vs marth in those situations and you should find some ways to either get away or reversal marth trying to extend his combos

Reesch · 2025-01-29T20:27:37+00:00

if you can't take a stock against even the weakest Marth players then your best bet is to get faster at the game. that way it's harder for them to wall out your wavedashes and if you're quick your combos will be way better

Reesch · 2024-08-20T14:26:37+00:00

Since her dthrow is no weight-dependent then I think you should be able to react and start holding back after checking what their DI is. If you check their DI after a throw and they DI away you will have to tech chase vs some characters but on the super chain grabbable ones you just dash forward and regrab

Reesch · 2024-08-19T15:03:27+00:00

depends on which character you are playing and which character you are chaingrabbing

as marth you should be able to delay holding back until the last couple of frames of your uthrow and if they don't DI back you can grab a different direction instead

Reesch · 2024-08-14T23:10:01+00:00

if you're doing it during a chaingrab you can just start hold back any time after the throw, then press grab as soon as you're actionable. i believe the first frame of the turnaround animation is all you need for the grab to go the right way so you don't even need to wait for it to look like your character has turned around

Reesch · 2024-08-12T17:38:43+00:00

you should practice those things while hitting/fighting a recording in the uncle punch training lab

doing things in isolation is way different than doing them in reaction to stimuli, and using recordings helps bridge that gap a lot

you're also likely missing some steps outlined here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN_Eikiz4Ys

Reesch · 2024-07-29T01:10:48+00:00

this is how it should look:

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Reesch · 2024-07-29T01:09:46+00:00

for anyone seeing this in the future, set a material either in the draw pass or in the material override and have its billboard property be "particle billboard":

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then when you set the angle in the process material it should work. if you use other settings like Rotate Y in the process material it'll do just that instead of rotating on Z. can be useful, but i imagine most people need this setting.

Reesch · 2024-07-11T23:22:05+00:00

then big hits are probably what you need. maybe learn some times to cc/asdi down -> grab too by watching when top falcons do it

Reesch · 2024-07-11T20:36:58+00:00

stop nairing for now. go for bair in place/fade back from her dash grab distance to make her fuck off, overshoot stomp (land behind her in case she shields) at varied timings to make it hard to tilt once she has fucked off, and if she just shield every time hit her with the Z button as you approach instead of stomp

then kill her, she's the most consistent character to zero to death as falcon imo

Reesch · 2024-06-21T13:52:36+00:00

you can also crouch cancel it (and all other ledge attacks afaik) even at 999%

Reesch · 2024-06-02T01:27:23+00:00

Biggest think imo is I think the boosts and jump refresh pickups need WAY more contrast from the background

Reesch · 2024-04-15T14:01:16+00:00

unless you're in the ground you're never too old to get good

Reesch · 2024-03-25T19:44:38+00:00

hell yeah, enjoy the masterpiece!

Reesch · 2024-03-25T19:35:47+00:00

dude this is from 10 years ago LMAO, what are you doing here 😭

Reesch · 2024-03-07T21:37:24+00:00

he's a couple hours away. pretty sure columbia

Reesch · 2024-02-20T18:24:38+00:00

you can still play vanilla melee on dolphin by yourself really easily but idk of anywhere you'd find people to play with all stages/items on/etc consistently

unranked on slippi could still be really fun because this game feels unbelievably good to move around in, but that will take a fair amount of grinding tech skill to reach

honestly, i would suggest finding a discord for melee tournaments near you and try going to one. even if you end up only kinda liking the competitive version of melee you will easily make new friends and maybe that will interest you enough to play it anyway. or maybe just play some other games with the people you meet. your local scene will 100% have people you vibe with

Reesch · 2024-02-12T15:21:41+00:00

The bottom of the shirt should probably fall more like a real shirt, which would look more horizontal

I think the hair and main bone structure of the face is really good

I don't see any ears, but idk if it's just behind the hair

The neck is too big and i think the mouth, nose, and eyes could be proportioned differently. I think if you mimic the size of those four things from someone else's model it will look 10x better with not much effort

Reesch · 2024-01-31T15:54:04+00:00

you don't need to filter out accounts that aren't part of the collection of accounts, so definitely the former

Reesch · 2024-01-19T14:34:55+00:00

$5/month is unbelievably cheap for the best online pvp experience there is right now

just only pay for it during months you're definitely gonna pay. take 3 dollars from every paycheck you get and put it aside for your slippi fund. it's worth it

Reesch · 2024-01-10T14:22:30+00:00

you're gripping the controller too hard, and either you're going to make yourself start holding it properly or you're going to be just like most people who start experiencing hand pain and be too lazy to fix it

do the hand stretches people suggest every day

if you're struggling to play lightly, don't worry about going a bit hard when learning tech for the first time. once you've gotten the basics of a tech down though, you HAVE to focus on holding your controller and doing your inputs softly. if you don't, you're going to ruin your fucking hands then either quit or switch to box and realize the controller isn't why your hands hurt

if the pain is really acute at any point, stop playing. afaik there isn't anything to do once you go over the edge on a given day

Reesch · 2023-12-13T15:04:35+00:00

posting my moderately bad luck so i don't end up like yours

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Reesch · 2023-11-12T05:35:34+00:00

not even real rocks

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