It's nice to be able to avoid the second part of Sheik's up-b, but you can't do that consistently against good players. Easy to just grab the ledge against it, and the the move has so much landing lag when you go on stage with it, it's ridiculously easy to cover even after covering the ledge.
Still so much better than Falcon's recovery. It's almost like a meme now to say "people say Falcon's recovery is really bad but..." when a player recovers successfully with him.
Yeah, no buts. It's terrible. Falcon dive is slow, laggy on landing, incredibly easy to predict since it has a set arc. The only part of his recovery that's "good" is his aerial mobility which allows him fade back and forth to fake out opponents when recovering high, which itself is going to require good DI most of the time. Falcon's recovery takes a ton of effort and skill to have a modicum of decency.
Of course, there is raptor boost, but that's like a once in 500 games kind of thing in Melee. PM raptor boost is a lot better for recovery since the opponent can't block it just by getting hit, and it can grab the ledge.
I realized I've posted too much here, I have the most posts in this thread. Even more than theprodigy!
Does the random teching and DI always function in 20XX? I didn't know about that until just now, maybe I should practice dthrow chain grabs and tech chasing against CPUs. I've never seen an option for that in the debug menu.
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