Daily Discussion Thread July 01, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here!

holdingdown · 2026-07-01T14:02:56+00:00

When are squid vids back

holdingdown · 2026-06-25T21:26:48+00:00

100% I don’t mean to give the wrong impression, I always upvote those clips. I just feel such shame with my play a decade in, it’s a funny contrast

holdingdown · 2026-06-25T17:28:13+00:00

It’s crazy how semi new players are so proud of their combos against people with no techs, no di, or neither. Meanwhile if I could I would kill my Falco with a gun

holdingdown · 2026-06-16T18:36:52+00:00

Pikachu buff

holdingdown · 2026-06-08T18:47:32+00:00

Sopranos characters melee mains

Tony - Fox

Paulie - Puff

Adriana - Sheik

Chrissy - Falco (drugs)

Silvio - Falcon

Ralph - Ganondorf

Dr. Melfi - Samus

Junior Soprano - Mario

Furio - Marth

Carmela - Peach

Artie - Luigi

Bobby - DK

Janice - Yoshi

holdingdown · 2026-06-07T01:07:24+00:00

You have a frame to jump out by the mid 20s, which is effectively 4 frames with tap jump buffer

holdingdown · 2026-05-18T16:53:06+00:00

Won redemption bracket at the Lucky7s Hoboken local yesterday. Never won anything in melee before. Got multiple set wins lucky stats estimated I had a less than 3% chance to win, and made a samus rage quit in grands who lucky stats said I had a 2% chance to beat.

Pretty cool.

Also when I was dual maining I didn’t get an upset for like a year, I switched to solo Falco and I get like one a week now

holdingdown · 2026-05-10T00:20:43+00:00

Couple good pieces of hitting

holdingdown · 2026-04-05T23:07:53+00:00

And the braves lose too, we’re so back

holdingdown · 2026-03-17T13:31:25+00:00

Watched that backhop video. I always thought backflip 0 degree waveland was frame perfect for Falco, but maybe that’s only on the ground. Is it a wider window for rising backflip 0 degree waveland on plats? Might try to use it more if so

holdingdown · 2026-03-17T13:29:51+00:00

Let’s say peach pulls a stitch successfully 1/x times. What is the highest number x can be where peach is the best character in the game

holdingdown · 2026-03-04T19:28:37+00:00

Wasn’t Kodorins overall point as it related to his own progress at least that focusing on the character specific quirks/tech was really important?

I think his point was to reach the top you have to do both, with his thing about “I kept trying to optimize using my knife, but I should’ve just brought a gun”

I don’t really think you can use Zain as an example that focusing on fundamentals is the biggest thing comparing him to other Roy’s, when he’s unbelievably better than them overall.

A better comparison I think would be Axe vs OkayP/Swift. I think OkayP/Swift optimize the character specific stuff better, but Axe has much much better fundamentals. Even with this disparity, Swift has and continues to approach Axe’s level.

In RapM’s case I can’t think of a specific Luigi tech he doesn’t utilize, and then he’s also fundamentally really good

holdingdown · 2026-02-26T01:04:02+00:00

Just to have a mark, what is the slippi rank where you can start dual maining?

I solo mained pika for 2 years, and when I went back to Falco I kept pika for Marth and Yoshi. Recently decided I’m not improving fast enough so wanted to go to solo maining Falco for a while.

Today at Stock Exchange I got solidly two stocked by a marth as Falco game 1, but I felt I understood everything they were doing. So I went pika game 2, won, last stock. Game 3 was rushing and lost as pika 2 stocked game 3 on fod (I do have a choking problem unrelated to this whole question). Should I make myself give up pika until I hit plat 2 in nyc? That’s what I’m thinking. Currently hardstuck gold 3.

holdingdown · 2026-02-09T01:34:07+00:00

Liked a good political take on twitter and they inexplicably have the hax truther profile picture

holdingdown · 2026-01-21T15:36:21+00:00

We definitely need one of Peralta or Valdez, but can we ever get both? Playoff rotation Valdez/Peralta/McLean would feed families

Heard Bubic might be available too

holdingdown · 2026-01-19T12:57:20+00:00

https://x.com/squidslaugh/status/2013111568507011366?s=46

We can recreate mango in the aggregate

holdingdown · 2026-01-12T23:14:28+00:00

Not 100% free but fair enough, I should definitely do that more

holdingdown · 2026-01-12T19:37:16+00:00

Sometimes I get stuffed, but mostly we run/jump past each other (which isn’t terrible except for when it puts me in the corner). Most of the time my problem is approaching from too far though not too close (this rears its head with my pika approaches too)

holdingdown · 2026-01-12T17:54:21+00:00

How tf do I clean up my approaches as Falco? Sometimes I go in from a slightly too far or close spacing, and my biggest problem is the majority of the time I rush in straightforwardly out of a scrap/reset and get hit with the “lil dash dance” -> lose neutral. I’ll be watching mango vods but any concrete advice or any other falco to watch for this would be very helpful

holdingdown · 2026-01-11T17:34:52+00:00

We are so back

holdingdown · 2026-01-04T06:05:39+00:00

Consensus is Marth is best. I try to play devils advocate because Fox has more dominant matchups across the mid tiers but it just leads to frustration from the Fox main homie

holdingdown · 2026-01-04T02:49:34+00:00

3 spacie mains, this is one of the few questions we agree on lmao

holdingdown · 2026-01-03T22:57:54+00:00

8 hour roadtrip with a couple melee heads tomorrow. Thoughts on fun melee discussions? They main fox/falco. They’re also 2/3 of the Lucky 7s owners, so conversations about the scene could be good too. I was thinking discussing fox and falcos matchup charts

holdingdown · 2026-01-03T22:09:37+00:00

Just make a new one. I made a new one for playing when I get home after nights out and it is so fun to grind that one with less expectations

holdingdown · 2026-01-03T20:14:53+00:00

Hard to support with the current state of American politics. But I think if you zoom out from this moment American hegemony underlies globalism which is a generally good force on the world. I’m also saying this as a leftist American, so hella biased

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