probably a 7, i played falco without any of the techniques but then again none of my friends groups used advanced techs either, I would win like 40% of 4 people matches and vs a friend it would be 50/50 we were very competitive...

Brawl is coming out in 27 days so you better be in top form for Brawl!!!

LOL, nobody should be bragging about beating 'lvl 9's.

computers are too easy and stupid, they don't show how well you play against a human.

I can do the samus thing without getting hit.

I'm pretty good, but my friend OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGZZZZZZZZZZZ , he is very strategic and smarter than I am.

Lets just say I'm Naruto and he's Sasuke, although I have skill I attack irrational because of my impatience while he analyzes the situation thoroughly.

how are short hop and wave dash advanced moves

 I just took that challenge, but instead of 99 stock match, I just did it with 7 stocks against 3 lvl 9 samus. I won. 2 stocks left. But yeah, you still are a lot better than me anyway I dont think a match against cpus proves anything, they are way too stupid and predictable

Advanced techniques is just a name made up for techniques (not strategies) that are not in the instructions or manual. It also fits somewhat well because many of the techniques are essential building blocks at "advanced", that is open tournament, level of play.

Having a separate name for techniques not in the instructions is very useful, because it saves people from searching in vain for these techniques in the instruction manual in addition to helping identify for newcomers to the competitive scene techniques they are unlikely to be aware of.

If you don't like the nomenclature then you can call them quick techniques (or is that adjective just part of the section heading?) as Sakurai called some of them or whatever you want. But the terminology is fairly standard among competitive players.

Short hop and wavedash are advanced techniques because they are techniques not explained in the manual. Plain and simple.

You're probably confused. Wavedashing has nothing to do with dashing. Wavedashing is performed by jumping then airdodging at a downward angle within jumping frames of your characters ( 5 to 9 frames or 1/20th to 1/6th of a second depending on character) -- there's nothing intuitive about or simple about that at all. The other advanced techniques are a bit simpler technically but many are still not at all simple to pull off.

I've learned over this week what 2 years of not playing does to your skills =(, I went from that 9 I previously posted to around a 6.5 still above average but level 9 team ups are harder to counter then before =\.

It took forever for me to get the wave/shine/spike combo with falco....

well, i would defeat 2 CPU without frienly fire
3 CPU?... hmm maybe...