I'm in New York right now.

Oh, well Mexico is still a bit far =/ I lag a bit with Fazz as well.

i've been checking out more melee vids, and shiek seems like a fun character. Her fair seems pretty sweet. I might have to give her a try.

Oh, and Ken is pretty good with that Marth of his. Jeezus, really good. This guy looks like he might be a match for even m2k, though I doubt it.

Stop watching melee vids, Melee is entirely different from Brawl. If anything trying to think anything from melee applies in Brawl is just going to gimp yourself X.x

Yea my Shiek sucks online. Dedede's grabs are still annoying.

It's not fair really that the creator of kirby made brawl so all the kirby world characters got some kind of edge that a few of tthe other characters could of used. Like since when did kirby hit so hard, how come Dedede has chain grabs and total involnerability during his safety.

Oh well, at least pikachu was brought back to his former glory... sadly I don't know how to play with lag so I can't even use shiek right online >.>... It's too hard to do mind games for me and being super aggressive doesn't work period with her anymore.

By the way her fair is useless in brawl, it has nearly no knock back until around 80% and even then it lost it's trajectory from melee. Instead of down and out it slaps them up and out, no shffl means no aggression, and the delay on the dash makes her near impossible to be offensive with constantly. Thats why in brawl mind games works much better with her, as since none of her moves can kill, you just accept it and try to chip away at them, and get a few in then back out and mind game your way back in... too much lag for me to do that.

well, I can't find any good brawl marth videos. All the good players use metaknight or Rob... Blah blah blah.

Melee is the best I can do for marth vids. The good marth players like kizzu aren't my type. DSF and Roy_R are the only ones I like, but they don't have many videos. I'm trying to see how the pros handle Marth. This helped me with metaknight, and I think it will with marth if I can just find the right vids that go with my play style.

Sheik was nerfed all to hell. I hate to say it but she went from high tier, all the way down to low tier. She just has nothing going for her.

Dedede only has super armor (meaning no knockback but takes full damage) on the way up on his Super Dedede Jump. Pikachu, Falco, Peach, Wario, Snake, Kirby, Charizard, Yoshi, and probably a few others all have some sort of chaingrab. Its not just Dedede, Dedede's is just the most known.

Kirbys F-Smash hits hard, his other 2, not so much. His Hammer hits slightly harder then F-smash. Kirby's allowed to hit hard, he gets KOed at such an obscenely low % its not even funny. ; ; Melee was just horrible to the little guy, I'm glad he was buffed.

Seeing as you used Ike, I hardly think you can complain about Kirby hitting hard. X.x

Oh, and future reference. Everyone here uses stock match as the standard match. Its much more balanced as timed matches all one has to do it take one stock then stall.

how do I handle dodging with marth? He doesn't have a lingering hit box, so someone like Shea or fazz can just sit back and dodge spam and marth gets raped. I feel like a complete noob with this marth. He gets beat by the dumbest tactics from my experience.

Predict the dodge and strike during its vulnerable period. You could dancing blade through them as well, quick multistrikes handle dodge spam just as well. Shea likes to dodge almost every time I come at her in the air, I use that to my advantage, trace her path with my character then B-air her when she can do nothing about it.

Depending on the character, all dodges are roughly vulnerable for 3 frames at the start, and 1/3 of the animations total frames at the end. Dedede is invulnerable for almost his entire spot dodge while Game & Watch is barely invulnerable at all. Sonics air dodge is just insane, while Bowsers just fails hard. Lucarios roll dodge rocks, Game & Watches roll dodge is laughable.

cool I'll try it out when I play her again. If marth had a reliable kill move, I think I could possibly beat shea. I can't kill with him at all.