#melee tips

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SSBM Tip #23

When fighting campier players and characters, it can often work in your favor to gain the percent lead, then force them to approach instead. If they don’t, you’ll win due to percent advantage at a time out. This is important because while some characters can excel at camping, forcing them to approach can expose that character’s weakness.

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SSBM Tip #22

Know your stages! Know what stages work best for your character and worst for your opponent’s. Don’t let someone counter pick your falcon to Fountain of Dreams because you didn’t know the platforms can mess with his aerials. Ban your character’s worst stage when you can, unless you’re absolutely sure you’d do better by banning some other stage instead

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SSBM Tip #19

If you're at a tourney waiting to be called for your next match, and you're playing friendlies with someone who might become your opponent in said tourney, it would be a good idea to save some of your more tricky tactics for the tournament matches to get a little bit of an edge on them. It's possible that they may also be hiding things in their friendlies matches, so don't assume you know you have someone's play figured out just from a few friendly games.

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SSBM Tip #14

Characters like Captain Falcon, Marth, Samus, and various mid-tiers should try very hard to not stay in shield. It's quite a bad spot to be in for any characters due to the limitations of options. But these characters in particular should be heavily based around movement and evasion, rather than blocking- especially Marth, who has a rather poor shield, and can be baited to attempt a shield grab without much effort.

If you find yourself in a match where you're staying in shield a lot, try to look at how you're being pressured to go into shield and evaluate your options to respond to such a scenario. Things like increased dash dancing, short hop aerials to stuff approaches, or in Samus's case, a quick up-b, could alleviate some pressure.

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SSBM Tip #5

Marth’s side-b -> uptilt combos on floaties, and is a good way to finish off a stock at high percents, but it can be crouch cancelled if the opponent is expecting it.