Post-Tournament Thoughts

I didn't mention it before, but a lot of good people showed up to Thief's Tournament, including Chad, Iori, ihavespaceballs, NES Noob, Mookie Rah, ragnarock and Mr. P
So that was cool to play with those guys again. I hope they come to all thief's tournaments. I get better quick when I play people like that.

anyway, I played a few training matches by myself recently, and it was actually more productive than usual. I was practicing getting my movement speed up without messing up and I was doing alright. I also played a little Sheik, who I haven't played in ages. I might use sheik as a Marth counter, and also for teams. She's easy to control and play.

For some reason I'm just finding out that Roy can use D-tilt-> f-smash on fast fallers. Like that would have helped me a lot during the tournament, such as against Xandre's Falco. It probably works on other characters at low percents too. and if i can f-smash, I can always up-air to f-smash :-D. I like Roy's simplicity. he's got a definite simply gameplan, I play better when I don't have tons of junk to think about. Like with Roy, theres generally only one or two options in every situation. If you play someone like Fox, theres like a dozen different ways to handle any given situation.

This will probably sound stupid, but I figured out how to not miss L-cancels with Falcon, which I've been doing a lot. Like with Roy, since he's laggy, jumps low and falls fast, you have a huge margin of error with your L-cancels, which is why I never miss them. With falcon, you might think that since he falls fast, you have to press L immediately after you attack and fast fall but really you have to wait about a half a second. Basically wait until your attack connects. Like previously I'd just immediately fast fall and L-cancel, and alot of times I'd whiff it.

Moogle suggested that I try Luigi against Jiggs instead of IC's. Because he has the same evasive wavedashes, but more ways to kill her.

I've also decided that at this point, the only way for me to get better quickly is to play good people on a regular basis. So I've got to find a way to get myself to huntsville and to more tournaments.