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You still around? I can play now. :D

Hey, thanks for the matches! Lots of fun, lol. ^_^

Yeah it was fun haha, I'm surprised you didn't use Lucina as your main but you are pretty good with Samus :o

I completely suck with Lucina. Makes me very sad. T_T

But yeah, Samus is my main, the one I practice with most. Is Robin your main? You were really good with him/her. :)

Yeah, it was between Robin and Lucina but I think after tonight I just picked Robin. Problem is that I am not quite as good at him in 1v1, usually when I play For Glory I use Lucina or Bowser. Gotta improve on that :X

I wanna become a more defensive player which Robin is good as I hear. Though I'm not quite sure what to do vs. other ranged attackers.

I'd recommend figuring out what projectiles can go through arcfire and which can't. i.e. I think, based on our matches, that homing missile and weak charge beam were stopped, but super missile and fully charged charge beam went through.

Be sure to grab against people you use counter/reflect a lot, or you'll eat your own attacks.

Also, upload some vids to youtube (I use my cell phone), and ask advice from other mains on the forums (I go to smashboards). I've gotten really good advice that's helped me play better.

I'm actually recording some matches I had earlier with MythTrainerInfinity and Valzy. Yours aren't quite in the perview, since it was multi-player, but I might upload matches with you in the future. Are you okay with that? (I won't if you aren't, lol)

Actually, one big thing I just remembered now was like..."ducking"? The shield-down. That should help me to avoid projectiles without losing my position or getting my shield worn down.

And yeah I try to use grab a lot 'cause that's what I saw in videos...problem is the range so I am always too far away lol, so I'm working on moving and grabbing.

Uploading matches is fine with me as long as I don't do anything really bad haha

I'll try not to upload really bad ones, lol. I think a good way to grab is to shield-grab. That is, put your shield up as they attack, and then immediately push the grab button out of shield. This uses your opponent's striking momentum against them to put them in range of your grab.

If we ever play 1v1, and you played as your main, I could upload and link them to the relevant thread so you could get feedback for you, and not just for me.

Yeah that's a good idea, I usually dodge roll to do it and then I'm too far away to grab -_- blocking sounds nice. What's the best way to throw them? Up or down?

And sure, that sounds really good! Do you record with a capture card? and you upload on smashboards?

Nope, sadly, I have the good old fashioned cell phone camera method. :-/ (noooo shame)

If you want to see what I've uploaded so far (I think of it as a log of how I'm getting better over time), you can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVkPzUQiaDzQDve0ytlLwQ

Anyways, I never really thought if up or down was better, so that's a good question. Might experiment in training to see. Anyways, I'm heading off for the evening now. See you later! :)

Evening...isn't it morning? Haha.

How do you hold the phone while recording?

and I'll check it out :O

...Very carefully? Not sure what you mean.

And yeah, it's obscenely late/early... -.-

I record the replays rather than live. That's part of why I can't upload our matches--my SD card was apparently full or something, so it wouldn't let me save anymore after the 2nd one where people brought mii gunners.

Okay that makes more sense. I thought you recorded live, haha. So I was wondering if you had to put it up on a stand and then hold the 3DS in an awkward position or something...but yeah replays makes sense so you can use your hands.