didn't watch the video but double laser off the ledge is in this video

i don't do any of these things, however i noticed one thing you did miss. at least half the stocks we lose are self destructs.

Falco's biggest weakness: Circus Music

1:55 - the most brutal callout in Smash history

This is good stuff. Maybe make it a whole series; "7 Mistakes All ____ Make?"

I used to do predictable lasers and dair over nair. After changing it up I'm 2X better.

but double laser from ledge is the most gangster thing a person could do in the game.

Important to note that when you play a crouch-cancel heavy opponent, dair makes a better approach than nair because it beats CC. Another cool thing is Falco's alternatives to shine after a dair or a nair. If you react to your spacing after the dair, or your opponent's smash DI, you can use uptilt to hit behind you or dtilt to hit in front of you. Both have really great combo potential!

man this is racist, way to profile falco mains

thou shalt always double laser from the edge

"Let Mango know ASAP so he can stop getting 17th at majors" rekt [x] not rekt [ ]

jumping off stage for a down air, and not getting back

You really should have mentioned for lower level players that double laser from ledge IS good if the opponent is too far to punish it, which does happen

Also showing off their tech skill all. the. time.

As soon as I saw the thumbnail i thought of the Moon saying "short hop double laser is not safe Mango"

Kira can you do a video on how to extend falco combos as much as possible? I usually end up falling short.

This video is actually one of the most helpful videos I've ever watched! I've seen things like these happen to my friend who mains Falco. Now I can help him grow as a better player by showing him this video and also exploit these mistakes myself and punish other Falcos who may be doing these mistakes. Thanks SSBM Tutorials! Great video!

3:45 - 4:12 Can't be more accurate than this. the amount of times i have to tell people to work on their basics/fundementals is insane. Thank you based Kira.

The mistake that you did was not making a "Are You A Mewtwo Player?" video. Prepare yourself, cause I'm coming for you.

Hahaha this is great! My falco friends worst habit is that on ledge he always jumps up then side b's into me thinking its going to work this time but it never works and he gets down throw kneed every time 😂

"Stop using down air." Look what happens when you take that out of context lol.

Isn't Fox by far the most popular character in the game according to the data we've seen? Why'd you say Falco is?

1:58 Wow, did he just taunt that spotdodge? And he even got away with it, damn, what a savage haha

My favorite part about watching SSBM Tutorials is the music and the in depth guides. Keep up the good work!!

What a eye opener. I switched to Fox because of my own mistakes. Couldn't stop shine approaching and spamming down air.

Worst mistake my Falco friends have is that they get hit. And Isai clearly stated not to get hit. Psh...noobs.

Here is my favourite: Switching to Fox after losing one game as Falco on netplay, making improvement with the character way harder.

Ah, the amount of D-air spam I utilize. Perhaps one day I'll fix this issue, but it's just so much fun.

I was actually going to quit playing Falco for a bit because I thought I had waaaaay too many bad habits but thankfully this video popped up on my phone notifications. I can identify with every one except 5 and maaaybe 4. Really eye opening and it made me realize some mistakes I was doing (dair on shield too much, same amount of lasers) so now I can work on them. Always love the Falco vids, thanks Kira!

Falco's starting out should also learn what recovery options they have. Yes illusion is great, but exploited if done over and over again at similar heights. Wall jump recoveries and air dodge to stage are valid recovery options as much as Up B and side b.

1:35 SHOTS FUCKING FIRED (hopefully not from the ledge though)

double laser from ledge is only bad if your opponent is right near you.

Hi Kira thanks for the video! I saw you at SoCal Colosseum today--thanks for organizing everything!

Awesome vids man love em!

"what's your falco friend's worst habit" being bad

im literally heading to a tournament rn and you post this. my only big problem out of all of these is lasers, thanks for the tip

Can I see top 5 marth mistakes?

I'm a new falco player and these are pretty spot on. I'm lucky enough to be able to play friendlies pretty much everyday so I've been slowly noticing some of these things. Now I just gotta practice then. THANKS!

double laser from ledge isn't a mistake, it's a way of life

This video is a big help for me, I dual main Falco/Marth, so now I can look at myself play and try to avoid these mistakes :)

I had considered most of these before watching, and Falco's my secondary. we in there

As a marth main trying to learn how to beat this character, it gives me life. Lazers mainly get the best of me until i applied sh double fair or fair oos and also up tilting aerial approaches to grab combos

the lasers are easily my big issue. I gotta mix it up a lot more. thanks for showing a solution!

I definitely laser the same way everytime and didn't realize it until i watched this video, thanks ;)

I noticed many of these myself before this video. Feels good to know I'm actually playing smarter as I go. I think another reason people think play Falco the way they do is because they see all these strong players do all these crazy combos and whatnot and think "WOW, I want to be the guy that can do that!" but don't realize it will require years of constant practice, and on top of that there's applying it to your game, which won't come easy. There's players who can double shine your shield and do multishines out the ass but can't shffl consistently. Learn the basics and actually learn the game people!

Wow thanks to this video I know why I'm not improving that much. Thanks man

I stopped doing these and I think I'm finally seeing improvement!

Only came for the ledge hop double laser Section. Was not disappointed when you brought up The Moon.

the ending to this video is so true, 99 percent of falcos just cheese their way to mid level then plateau, and I'm a falco player lmao

i think everyone has that one friend that plays falco and just does the same thing over and over again thinking it'll work even once lol

dair on sheild is definitely my biggest issue on this list

L+R+A+Start+Fox. There promblem solved.

dair is actually no worse than nair on shield. it has two more frames of landing lag, but you also hit the ground two frames earlier due to the extended downwards ECB. the reason that dair seems less safe on shield is because it is easier to hit high on the shield (and thus give your opponent more time before you land) due to the downward reaching hitbox. however, nairs that hit the top of the shield are also shield grabbable. if you time or space your dairs to hit the middle or bottom of the shield, it is just as safe as nair. also, double laser from the ledge is safe unless your opponent is close enough to counter it, and for most characters this means being in ledgedash range. it is an excellent mixup and under no circumstances should you stop doing it. you just need to mix it up obviously, like most other things in the game. also, spot dodging or rolling after you tech is an important mixup. once your opponent starts waiting it out, you can mix in tech into ftilt, jab, fsmash, wavedash, etc. basically, doing this enough to make your opponent start baiting it gives you a hundred more mixup options. if you never do it, it's just as bad as never doing getup attack and just always letting your opponent cover multiple getup options fearlessly. and if your opponent goes for non-guaranteed grab followups, you should always spot dodge until they stop doing it. why give up free shines in the interest of correcting a "bad habit?"

How do you improve when everybody is miles ahead of you?

Of course this video comes out before I attend my first SSS tomorrow

Great video honestly.

Can you do a guide on how to commentate?

My brother mains Falco and I main Mario. Whenever he's at the ledge, he jumps to side b. The funny thing is, I use a side b as well ;)

Perfect timing

this videos are on point. LMAO like every point. even the good ones

I'd really like to see this kind of video for Falcon as well as some more Doc or Ganon tutorials

I have a friend that is a falco main and he does like 3/7 things u said. I would like to see more "reads for main characters".

I think an even bigger mistake than shooting the same number of lasers before going in is shooting their first laser at the same time every time whenever neutral resets (also just predictable lasers in general). It makes it super easy to power shield or approach if you know when that first laser is coming out

ur da goat for these

Surprisingly I don’t do the laser numbers thing to often but I self destruct a lot and I always spot dodge after a tech

I love how in almost every clip PPMD is doing the right thing

Love the background music.

you are a psychic! YOU GOT ALL OF MY MISTAKES

yo just tried switching to falco and the thing about dairing too much and predictable number of lasers got me. I'm glad someone out there is willing to think for me cause I'm sure not.

I catch myself using d-air all the time because when you face lower to mid level players they aren't as on point with punishing it. However even lower level players will eventually start punishing it and that's gotten me so many times

I approach with Dair way too much haha, good tips.

Some of these I didn't realize made so trying to change strategies will be rough

I main Yoshi but I've been learning falco so I have a high tier secondary and I've learned so much just by watching PPMD.

# of lasers before approaching is HUGE. I cant believe i never took this into consideration

I think I might switch back to falco. Used to be my best until I learned puff and peach. And lately I've been grinding Fox thinking it would be valuable to learn him. After all, I wanted to improve my tech skill and hand/finger movement overall as well.

I need to work on the down air part mainly. just need to mix in lasers with dash dance and how many lasers I use. Also need to work on up throw comboing.

and i thought i was more noob for approaching with nairs :o

Damn, this tune/music in these videos have really grown on me.

I probably suffer from a little bit of all of them at times. But i know i probably shoot the same number of lasers, even though i dash dance a lot and mix up laser>WDback a lot. followed by not following up Uthrow, then maybe dairing a little too much. Definitely use double laser pretty minimally at least

this is awesome for me, as a brand new falco player :)

i used to throw out too many f smashes but now im over that phase and i use it at rare occasions now

My friends falco always tries to recover go back to the stage quickly by after grabing the ledge and instant double jump to side b, which I always counter it with running to the place and hitting him

You should make top fox mistakes. I have a few suggested ones here. 1) Mindlessly doing short hop nair in neutral. Tons of foxes just nair where their opponent is. Mix it up! High nair on shield is not safe. Do late nair, overshoot the nair, undershoot it to bait something. Anything but braindead nair where the opponent is, unless you wanna get dashdance/shield grabbed. 2) Thinking dair is safe on shield. Guess what? It's not and you will get shield grabbed. If you're going to dair, try to cross up their shield. Be prepared to waveshine backwards if your crossup hits however. 3) Slacking on second-hit up airs. Please, people are learning to SDI, so adjust and practice nailing that second hit only when trying to finish a stock. 4) Not using short hop single laser. A SHFF laser is much better in faster-paced matchups, because it lets you react faster to enemies, applies just enough pressure to force an approach, and leaves you less open too. Double lasering against falcon is a horrible idea. 5) Not using running shine. There is so much more to fox's neutral than nair and dair. Running shine is such a strong tool in neutral that makes you unpredictable and is really hard to react to at close range, especially if you've been using a lot of sh aerial approaches in the match. 6) Not using drillgrab. Super underutilized tool that is a fantastic mixup and even a great way to end stocks without up smash or dashdance grab. Use it! 7) Slacking on chaingrabs. A spacie-on-spacie chaingrab requires deceptively quick timing, but are lethal if they start. Practice getting every percent down, react to different DI's, learn when to end the chaingrab with a move to start an edgeguard. Also, practice being chaingrabbed. Get those half-DI's down! 8) Using getup attack too much. We have a wakeup, frame 1 option. Use it! But not predictably. 9) Going for overly difficult punishes. Instead of drillshining or going for a thunders, just go for a waveshine to up throw/smash, and chase from there. You'll sacrifice 10 percent or so at the cost of stronger consistency. Idk which ones are the "top" mistakes, but these are definitely noteworthy. I would love for this series to continue :)

If your opponent is at kill % and you're just trying to close out that stock, keep your back turned to them as much as possible in neutral. Makes placing a bair or utilt so much easier. it seems simple but once this was pointed out to me it made my life a whole lot easier

I don't deny that these mistakes are some easy fat to trim, but here are a couple counterpoints. Falco's up B is so short, that you need to initiate dangerously close to the stage. To mix in up B you must have your jump, and ideally shine stall to trick your opponent. His wings are, how you say, clipped. The mistake I make the most as falco is trying to uptilt to follow up down air at too low of a percent. Shine is your friend.

My falco friend gets upset when I power shield the lasers, and then says that marth is broken, even though I've sent him the Marth matchup guide. He will then proceed to play like a lvl 3 vanilla melee CPU and throw out f smash until he dies

wow, a couple of these hit me , I better change it up

Dash-dancing is pretty much the only thing i do. That is beside Wavedashing, Waveshining, Dashing, Walking, Attacking, defending etc

most of my friends don't know tech, and aren't interested in learning it, so I wind up beating them by just spamming Dair shffls when I'm on the offensive, and shield grabs when I'm on the defensive. as a result, I tend to fall for the "too many down airs" point. it's a tough habit to break when it wins me just about every game I play... until I actually enter a tourney and get wrecked.

Bad lasers and bad Dairs, this has enlightened me. Thank you

This video was so helpful. I have 7, 6, 3 and 1. Also that n0ne combo at 2:00

there are multiple falcos on netplay who have been playing for way longer than me, yet they have such bad habits that i can two stock them with my falcon. yesterday I four stocked one because I kneed his tech away 4 times in a row at less than 50%

I'm Guilty To All of These. Especially #6 and #1.

The thing about side B is that it's kinda tough to intercept with other characters

dair from the ledge against marth, my friends do this all time as their get up option and i read it every time and with a wavedash back to fsmash, they lose a stock nearly every time.

That's funny. I actually fire bird too much since I like choice of angles despite phantasm is quicker, longer distance and can spike.

What I got from this video is that PPMD is the guy to watch to learn Falco.

1:58 ROFL I'M FUCKING DEAD

Don't forget when you only use dair over and over the move stales. Starts at 12 and stales to like 7-8 damage. To end your comboes faster use Nair and very occasionally uair to get more damage

I always used to mix up between 1 laser, 2-3 lasers and 27 lasers. Most people don't bother counting to 27.