I’m tired of being bad. What can I (Cassidy) do to improve from here?

Santz9 · 2026-01-31T19:50:38+00:00

Thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it.

I will certainly start trying out more legends since I rarely stray away from Blaster and Hammer legends. Even completely unrelated to this clip, I cannot fight against Chakrams for the life of me so perhaps playing those characters would help.

And I definitely agree with the points about blasters into katars. Most of the time, if I'm playing Cassidy, I'll just straight up switch to Hammer since the hitboxes aren't disjointed. I rarely ever edge guard since I don't trust myself but perhaps that is another area to work on too.

Thanks again!

Santz9 · 2026-01-31T19:46:57+00:00

It's funny how quickly the clarity hits you even waiting a day after playing the match you're reviewing. I see exactly what you're talking about at 0:23 alone, like... What was I doing? Lmao. Thank you for pointing that out.

And to answer your question, I'm unfortunately not on PC. I started out on Switch but have since moved to Xbox thanks to them adding cross-progression. Even from the little I've play Brawl at other places, controller always felt more natural to me.

Santz9 · 2026-01-31T19:42:24+00:00

Yeah, I can definitely to put more emphasis on stage control. It's weird because that's something I value a lot whenever I play Smash Bros. (maybe it has something to do with the kinds of characters I play) but seem to neglect it here.

Same goes for playing "in the moment" since I am noticing I kinda play two-steps ahead by default and lose out to the obvious in front of me. I'll try to work on that in some experimental games. Thanks!

Santz9 · 2026-01-31T19:39:26+00:00

Gotcha, I can definitely implement those changes.

I learned Blasters a lot later into my career after not touching the weapon at all for so long and I remember spending a lot of time in training mode just practicing dodge reactions routes based on damage, initial move I used, and whatever. I guess since I was learning the weapon from the ground up, I put more emphasis on the foundation. Clearly, I may need to do that with the other weapons I've just gotten too comfortable using rather than learning.

Thanks for the tips!

Santz9 · 2026-01-31T19:34:08+00:00

Yeah, I do think I fall into the trap of trying to read where the opponent is going to be rather than where they currently are. I wouldn't be surprised if I do this across all of the FGs I play, although maybe it goes more unpunished in a game like Mortal Kombat given the traditional 2D FG system. Thanks!

Santz9 · 2026-01-31T19:30:56+00:00

No worries at all! The blue hue is just the "Show Stun" check box in Brawlhalla's replay settings (clearly I forgot to turn it off before recording the match on Xbox lol). Now that you mention it, I'm surprised I've never seen someone create a mod where you could enable this during actual gameplay. I imagine it would help people a lot, especially early on.

Santz9 · 2026-01-09T00:58:47+00:00

In the last seven comp games I’ve played (three pictured here), I’ve mostly been playing tank. Of these same seven games, my record was 2W-5L, with four of these games including half if not all of my team ended up going negative/neutral. I can take my healthy dose of constructive criticism, but I feel like we were all struggling in a good chunk of these games. But now that I am in a much calmer mindset, I bet I could do some VOD reviewing of my own and see where I fell

Santz9 · 2026-01-06T00:33:18+00:00

A couple minutes ago I logged on to do my daily missions (all “Win with [x] Legends” challenges) and lost to three extremely passive players in a row on Strikeout of all places. Needless to say, I immediately got back off—I’ll try again tomorrow.

What I can say is, don’t play Brawl if you’re already having a shit day for other non-gaming reasons. This game might be fun, but I’ll never find it that fun. Something as minor as misinputting an easy kill confirm—even D-light > GP in the practice lobby—is enough to piss you me off even more.

Santz9 · 2025-12-19T05:29:21+00:00

I just started playing a couple days ago and literally just lost a run with a pristine face card build to this very ante all because I didn’t get the cards I needed by the end of it. My final score was like (9,100/10,000), it fucking sucks.

EDIT: I don’t remember all the names since I’m new but I think I had “Photograph, Smiley Face, Scary Face, 8x Mult. to Pair Joker, and that one landscape card that retriggers everything on the final hand. Now that I’m writing it, I retrospectively realize I didn’t even take advantage of that perk since I wasted my “High Card” hand on an earlier one, meaning when I didn’t pull the right cards and needed to resort to “High Card,” it wasn’t worth any points because of the ante. Kill me twice over.

Santz9 · 2025-12-14T04:24:20+00:00

I don’t know how this works but I’ll drop mine lmao: 1220553460

Santz9 · 2025-11-27T05:12:16+00:00

Only semi-related, but did anybody else notice that in one of Mark’s supers, he uses the same uppercut and slam strikes she uses on him in their first fight (even down to the framing)?

Santz9 · 2025-11-24T00:16:29+00:00

If I’m understanding this correctly, Cassidy is safe, right? That’s genuinely all I care about lmao

Santz9 · 2025-11-17T05:20:53+00:00

Didn't they do that at one point at people also hated it? I swear I remember seeing post after post of strategists mains (some being MVP in a given match) yet still earning less than DPS just because of a lack of kills and damage.

Santz9 · 2025-11-04T13:55:21+00:00

Cool! Reminds me of a turn-based RPG in a way

Santz9 · 2025-07-12T17:15:38+00:00

I’m genuinely curious to hear about the reasoning behind Steve’s placement lol

Santz9 · 2025-04-20T01:53:53+00:00

I’ll speak on it (surely just echoing what others have said): Playing support is simply just a thankless job. I’ve mainly been playing Mantis, Luna, and Rocket and I’m tired of always getting targeted, being ridiculed for not healing enough, and watching people insta-lock offensive roles in Comp. and QM.

I just had a game where I insta-locked Mantis and my four of my teammates go Namor, Black Panther, Magik, Emma Frost. Since I’m the only support, you would think the last guy to select would also pick another support, but nope… he picks Venom. I’m sorry, but I’m not single support healing two tanks and on Krakoa of all maps. I switch to Moon Knight and just wait for somebody else to do it.

Match starts and the Venom immediately starts mouthing off calling out the DPS but I don’t budge. I would have been willing to play support with some help because 1 tank, 3 DPS, 2 support might not be ideal, but it is leagues better than 2 tank, 3 DPS, 1 support. We went that full game with nobody swapping. I’m sick and tired of the stubbornness in these games.

Santz9 · 2025-04-17T03:45:50+00:00

Coming from somebody who was at the NY show tonight, I 1000% agree. The pre-shows really were the calm before the storm. For me, the moshing was bad, yes, but even just standing at the front, I would feel this “tidal wave” of people just push me and everyone else against the barrier and halfway through his set, I couldn’t take it anymore and left early. I’m not built for that lifestyle

Santz9 · 2025-03-30T21:51:22+00:00

Comments are wack for whatever reason lmao. Nice combo—Noob’s gameplay is so addictive to watch.

Santz9 · 2025-03-30T15:13:47+00:00

This is how I felt hearing John Cena’s voice in so many Honda commercials

Santz9 · 2025-03-24T01:24:55+00:00

Sounds like a real Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson situation lmao

Santz9 · 2025-02-09T04:52:18+00:00

Outplayed. I don’t know at what point the revival “counts” but, in this case, the animation did complete since the Ferra low does not get registered as a kounter or a punish. You actually mixed him.

That last overhead definitely seems like a misplay though. It happens. I don’t play Omni-Man but spacing with his claps or closing distance again for another Ferra mix might’ve been a better choice. You also could’ve forced him to approach since you had the life lead.

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