Marth is probably one of the better combo characters in brawl. Sure, you can escape them, but it really hard to do so. It's one of the reasons I have been using him more and more. He combos and punishes a lot better than metaknight does, and I don't die upwards super easily with him.
My 3 worst match ups with my main, metaknight, are dk, snake and fox. Marth does somewhat decently against them. My biggest problem with marth right now is DDD. I swear to god he's not nearly that hard with metaknight.
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