thank you! Honestly people think they tend to know it all, but it's important to refresh always!

Indeed.

i still have a directional air dodge habit, working it daily

Although neutral air dodge is a good option, I kinda find it unreliable sometimes. For example, lets say a Mario up throws me and goes for an up air. I neutral air dodge past it but he comes down with a nair popping me back up above him. Putting me in the perfect spot for him to hit me with another up air.

Thank you so much! You're such a real one :)

Hey thanks for commenting! What do you mean by shadowing?

Jtails “shadowing is the art of using your last location as a advantage.” According to smash 4 player absoul. Here’s the video that he made on the subject: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/abNybJter5-ukYk.html

yeah im not hating on the video but he picked the wrong character to demonstrate on, samus realistically has a ton more options than shown here, morph ball stalling offstage, wave bouncing neutral b, and he never really mentioned down air either (not really the best option but the "noob" option becomes a mixup when timed right)

yeah that's something also that you can bait. just move to the side bc those moves ONLY hit downward. Do a jump knowing that they're going to dair downwards then move to side and punish hard. ez

Jtails - got it, I’ll try that; do you have tutorials on how to “nail down” opponents when they are recovering? and how to counter or defend agains that while recovering?, I use down + A in a fast way with Byleth, but I never hit them; if you hit them before reaching the edge of platform, they’ll go straight down the floor with no chance of coming back when over 45% around. Doctor Mario and Byleth are one of the strongest punches like that, Mario and King K.Rool do some sort of inverse uppercut which gets you really easy if not dodging, they get me 70% of the times, they can hit almost from anyplace near you and you are done.

I only say this because I know samus mains and the drift on down b can literally change the encounter completely

@@lainfromthewired6683 Eric Smart 1 second ago yeah no im with you. not hating on the video but he picked the wrong character to demonstrate on, samus realistically has a ton more options than shown here, morph ball stalling offstage, wave bouncing neutral b, and he never really mentioned down air either (not really the best option but the "noob" option becomes a mixup when timed right)

That's really not the point. It's about the concept. It doesn't have to be against Samus, and it doesn't need to be Fox's up-air. This is a video about baiting, not a tutorial for any sort of specific optimised set-up. If you're focusing on the exact example used and thinking "this is how I win" rather than focusing on the principle behind it then you're taking the wrong thing from the video.

I think he picked samus because she was the most utilitarian for the video. Ie baiting the air dodge, baiting grabs and dash attacks. All these for samus are high commitment which is why you would want to bait them

thanks for spreading the Gospel :) ❤️