Both his "potential" and difficulty reputation he has is a big remnant from his Smash 4 reputation, Id say. There he was a lot more mid/low tier so he had to use a lot of tech to function as a character, like MALLC everytime he landed like he was from Meele etc. In Ultimate since he is a lot better, most of his tech are more bonus things you can learn, and not obligatory for the character to function. So his skill floor is a lot lower, making him a lot easier to learn/pick up as the video says. His skill ceiling is probably still the same (very high), because of how many more variables thats involved in a match at any given time as well as Monado tech, so you need really good Mental Stack to play him optimally. He also only has like 2 moves he can use reactionally so you need to plan a lot ahead/see the future IRL kind off to play him well. But yeah it only takes like an hour really to learn him, he only has one really complicated move/mechanic and he is very fun. Also a great counterpick/anti meta character cause he has a lot of meta relevant winning matchups, like Steve, Kazuya and Mario. (He also doesnt really have losing MUs to DLC characters). Resources for learning him if you are interested: shulkxenoblade.com/ - dobercorgi.info/ - And the Discord ofc

Now it's Shulk time!

"Fiora's really grown on me" I see why you put that there

I feel like this actually echoes a lot of sentiment about Shulk. He's a swordie, and swordies are always easy to pick up at a basic level. His janky ledge snap and side B are unfortunate (seriously, WHY does it need to act that way in the air?!) but those aren't really that bad with practice. Shulk is still balanced around his monado arts though and that means that fundies shulk will only get you so far.

"Fiora's really growing on me" 💀

THE BEAT DROP WAS CRAZY!! Awesome vid as always! I'm sad I can't always join stream but it's always great dropping by!

Good video as always! also the fact you actuall put that in the combo video is a Massive W 6:49

As someone who's been a Shulk main since smash 4, don't beat yourself up too much over SD'ing. It happens. I still do it occasionally despite how much experience I have with the dude. I'd say killing yourself with backslash is a rite of passage for being a Shulk main lol. But yeah no Shulk really isn't as hard as people say, and I'll die on that hill. All the complicated tech he has is in no way necessary to succeed with him, and his Monado arts aren't difficult to understand fundamentally. And outside of the Monado arts, he's rather easy. Nair and Fair almost play the game for you sometimes (although you obviously should use more of his kit than just that, he's got a lot of great stuff). Shulk challenges your situational awareness more than anything. And personally, good situational awareness is easier for me to come to grips with in a match than the high execution combos you'd need to learn with, let's say for example Sheik at higher levels. You essentially need to have a plan in the back of your mind of when's the best time to use your resources. It's a lot like playing the game he's from in that regard, which I think is pretty neat design.

I think they really translated the feeling of Xenoblade combat into smash pretty well! Both systems are easy to learn, but there's alot of optimization you can do - which often gets in the way of a lot of people enjoying it 😅

7:00 HE HIT IT

i love this character specifically so that i can be op when i play kirby

If your opponent realizes that parrying cancels Shulk, the game gets 10 times harder.

Very well made video. Shulk is a very hard character though and I do not think that he is a character that's viable to secondary/pocket. Its the same reason why you don't see many successful secondary Steves, he's the type of character you need to fully main for success. His MUs require knowing when to use each art in each scenario vs every character making him hard to just have on the backburner. Also I don't think dial storage is a useful tech its definitely a waste of time to learn and only has really niche uses. btw, Donkey Kong is a +1 MU for Shulk, you just don't know how to play it

Tbo i main him since 2 years (1,5 onetrick). You done well with it. Spacing is a thing, jump habit is a thing but besides that im impressed what you done in a week.

I think you may have a similar sentiment with bayo when you get to her :3 probably will sd just as much too. Great video!

Im a snake main and one day I realized shulk is even or wins against almost all snakes bad matchups I don’t how crazy someone has to be to play snake and shulk as second option

god that mario clip 😂😂😂

I picked up Shulk back in Smash 4. It felt like he had a better survivabillity His Ultimate iteration is the "max monado art" which gives alittle more power to the arts while increasing the risk much greater His tilts are just iffy, d-tilt is useless unless following up a d-throw His up-b had more air time in Smash 4, inbetween his uprise, wait and then swing forward

“Fiora’s really grown on me” 💀

Nair and fair

Hey tuesday! I played a game with you on stream a while ago and wanted to ask if you can do a captain falcon video, think it would be dope bro. Keep up the vids man we love em!!! edit: HOLY COW I MADE IT TO YOUR VID AHHHH

The shulk vs dk mu is either heavily shulk sided or even if your playing right your long range disjointed hitboxes should beat his long range hurtboxes

Thank you! There really is this dumb stigma about Shulk being difficult when in reality he's the easiest he's ever been.

It’s not shulk if you’re not SDing to frame data, monado art, or airslash related BS constantly at the beginning. One thing that is a huge game changer for him is that rising shorthop backwards facing nairs are extremely busted for him. He does the whole circle of death around him and if you hit the end part it combos into dtilt, ftilt, or dash attack. You can also do it oos while drifting away and it’s extremely difficult to punish. Good video either way, though you gotta admit that his normals are a bit harder to use than you thought because of their frame data + spacing well with shulk’s weird air mobility!

Had zero clue how meta relevant this character is! According to the best, Shulk straight up beats the trio of Steve, G&W and Cloud. Sonix says Sonic beats him, however he’s been lost to Cloud and Corrin lately which shows a character that can ledge trap Sonic is probably more then doable. Even for now. ADDITIONALLY, he’s good against top players! He beats Fox, ZSS(Sux), gimmick characters, and more!

Waiting for Lucas

Once this series is over you should attempt an iron man

Shulk main. Nothing comes close to the dopamine you get when you flawlesely chain Monado arts into one another.

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