Just stand there and shield whenever Mac is near you. Unless he put in tons of shield pressure beforehand, there's not much to fear. The worst thing he can do is grab, and he ain't getting anything off that. All that super armour is what keeps his head above water, honestly. I mean, he's totally free off-stage.
Focusing on making SSB a good competitive game is not ignoring casual players - the truth is they'll be there as long as you can smack Mario with Pikachu. SSB4 has the correct approach - they're finally acknowledging the competitive side of Smash, and unsurprisingly, the game is still a hit among casuals.
What's frustrating to me about this is that designing a low skill floor doesn't have to mean having a lowered skill ceiling. Melee did this - I have never once met a casual player who thought Melee was too fast before later Smash games came out, because it had a solid balance throughout its design. Hell, some characters were made faster and would be harder for a person with slower reflexes to use - but they were balanced by characters like Kirby who anyone could pick up and have fun with no problem. Brawl neutered the higher-skill level play.
Yeah gimps don't happen here, but that's because the majority of the most used characters can't really chase off stage and go deep for the edgeguard (Fox, Mario, Luigi, Diddy, Sonic, Captain Falcon, etc)
Sorry, let me clarify: I'm not talking about a casual player vs. a pro player. In any decently-made competitive anything, this sort of match should be easy for the pro player, and it being frustrating or difficult to follow for the casual is natural and to be expected.
Yes but when hes off stage they start air dodging and counter I need to abuse that fool. And he smash too damn quick..
Bait the air dodges/counters and punish him for it!
Probably change the angle of the launch after the stun. There's more than that though. Heavy Skull Bash in its own is pretty redonkulous lol.
Well, my advice is just to... wait. It's really natural to just dive in for the kill ASAP, but always assume your enemy is gonna airdodge on the first frame he can - at least at a certain skill level. Just wait for them to do that, and then attack. Countering is even better, because a lot of novice Macs love doing that (since the distance it carries them is so far), but missing it forces them to lose tons of air. Bait it by jumping towards them, and then just wait until either the air-dodge is through or the Counter's no longer active and go in (if necessary, Mac's good at killing himself off stage).
It's a confirmed infinite. After sixty-ish percent (IIRC), it's inescapable no matter your DI. All that matters at that point is the Pikachu player's execution.
The launch after the stun is fixed so no. You can't escape it.
Ill try, my friend is really good with that fool though and I think the super armor make him win. I can literally pick anyone when hes not mac and win. When hes mac its like im fighting for my life.
120% I swear this game is much better than brawl i knock people out at 90 somethin % all the time
Ill see his mac is annoying as hell
Sure, but lots of customs are this bad.
Nope.
In touch with whom? Sakurai seems very in touch with his fan base, given the sales numbers.
He is dismantling it? It looks like Evo is giving record numbers for Smash Melee. Sakurai is doing a terrible job of this, I would say.
He is so actively dismantling the competitive community that when competitive players complained about vectoring allowing players to live to 140% and matches to drag, he patched it out and the game now uses traditional DI.
Hey now. You make it sound like he has already released three balance patches based on competitive feedback or something.
There's no way he would do that. After all, he's pushed to erase that Brawl hack of questionable legality Project M out of existence and shut down tournaments where it's played since it directly competes with his product. Oh wait
<3 Ito
Indeed, Ito taking Mid tiers to top levels.
