Using Normals
Shield Pressure
Grabs
Last Week’s Recap
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 Forming a character gameplan against Marth
 Dash Dancing
Grabs Against Floaties
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DI In
No DI
DI Out
Low %
Turn-Around
Up Tilt
Up-Tilt
Re-grab
Mid %
Up tilt
Up-tilt
Re-grab
High % - 80%
Turn-Around
Up-Smash
Up-Smash
Fair
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Outline
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 Recap last week
 Footsies, ranges
Street Fighter
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1. On Hit – Move is successful
and hits opponent
2. On Block – Move makes
contact, but opponent is blocking
3. Whiff - Misses Completely
Melee
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 In addition to the 3 options, there are many other
things to look out for in footsies
 Weak vs Strong Hit
 Crouch Cancel
Close Range
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 Sheik has some of the best tools with long meaty
limbs
 Can threaten and force shields very well
Sheik’s fair
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A fundamental Forward-Air is worth a million bucks
-Tafo 2015
Footsies Battles
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 There are very few things that are ever fully safe in
the footsies range.
 Good footsies requires good spacing and also a
proper sense of conditioning/reacting/reading
Rule #1
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 Although there aren’t
definitive solutions
to counter
everything. Here are
some rules
 Rule #1: Don’t give
up free shield grabs!
Rule #2
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 Watch your %s, don’t give free Crouch Cancel trades
 F-tilts, d-tilts, jabs
Starting Pressure
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 With good movement, you can threaten an opponent
to shield, now what?
Shielding is a ticking-time bomb that will shrink and will eventually get you hit
Shielding
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 With proper spacing, you have an advantage
because you can hit them whereas they can’t hit you.
Their +EV scenario is hoping to not get hit
Tafo’s Decision Trees
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 After they block, throw out jab/forward air strings,
see what they do
 Attempt Shield Grab?
 Shield?
 Roll?
 Spam buttons?
Shield Life
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 A depleting shield life force your opponent’s hand.
 Either they get hit, or they have to do something really
risky
 When a shield is low, you can poke high with Fair,
poke low with D-tilt, Poke the outer portions with
good F-tilts
Tafo’s little mixups
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 Fair 
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Fair (If I have no read)
Jab  Fair (If I’m confident they won’t shield grab)
Dashaway (If I suspect a shield grab)
WD back  wait  (ftilt/jab)
 (if they like to push buttons ½ second later)
 Grab (If I think they are going to shield, condition)
 Bair behind (reaction if they roll behind me)
 Nothing  wavedash back
Sheik’s mixups
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 Sheik’s options are great because both attacks and
grabs are threat at almost all %s in all matchups
Read the Defense
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 Read how your opponent reacts to you with their
spacing and counter options
 Sheik
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Spacing Footsies
 Marth
Fair
Ftilt
Dtilt
Uptilt
Grab
Jab
It’s important to understand how these
moves interact.
Study how to counter attacks
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D tilt
Fair
Grab
Jab