Competitive gaming - Super Smash Bros. Melee

[Arwing121]

Discuss.

If anyone needs a glossary of terms, here it is.

• *air: Airborn attack. See Bair, Dair, Fair, Nair, or Uair.
• Advanced Edge Guarding: See Edge Guarding. Includes jumping off the stage to attack the opponent to keep them from reaching the edge, as well as grabbing the edge before the opponent can.
• Air Dodge: Pressing the L or R button while in midair. Using this counts as a third jump.
• Bair: Backwords midair attack. Executed by holding back and pressing A while off the ground. See *air for other Midair attacks.
• Counter (move): General name for any attack that deflects a physical or projectile attack, including Marth and Roy's Counter.
• Counter (character): A character of any tier that trumps another character, despite being at a tier based disadvantage.
• Counter Happy: Spamming a counter move in an attempt to damage a shffling opponent and break the opponent out of the shffl. See Counter
• Dair: Downwards midair attack. Executed by holding down and pressing A while airborn. See *air
• Dair Spike: A Dair Meteor Smash. See Dair and Meteor Smash
• Dash Grabbing: Grabbing an opponent, then throwing them and dashing to catch them right before they land in order to repeat the sequence. Very annoying.
• Edge Guarding: staying offensive after an opponent has been launched off the side of a stage in order to guarantee a KO.
• Fair: Forward midair attack. Executed by holding forward on the control stick and pressing A while in midair.
• Fast Fall: Pressing down at the apex of a jump. Lowers hang time.
• L-Cancel: Pressing the L or R button right after executing a midair attack. Extremely hard to pull off.
• Main: Gamer Slang. Usual character of choice for a player.
• Meteor Smash: A move that launches an airborne opponent downward.
• Nair: Neutral Midair Attack. Executed by pressing A while in midair.
• SHFFL: Short hop, Fair, Fast Fall, L-Cancel. Using this sequence repetitively is called shffling, and can speed up otherwise slow characters like Bowser and Ganondorf. Easily stopped. See the respective individual entries for more information.
• Short Hop: Tapping the X or Y button as apposed to pressing it normally. Decreases the distance jumped. Useful for Shffling and using *air moves close to the ground.
• Spam: Abusive or repetitive use of a move or combo.
• Tech: Recovery move. Executed by pressing L or R when landing from a fall. Gets rid of character lag caused by having to get up after falling. Similar to air recovery from most other side scrolling fighting games.
• Tier System: A controversial grouping of characters based on performance in tournaments. In every sense, a wager board without the betting. A higher tier character has more of a chance of winning than a lower tier charcter in the same match.
• Wavedashing: a Short Hop instantly followed by a downward diagonal air dodge. Causes a character to slide across the ground much faster than a normal dash, and can be used to move backwords without jumping.
• Wavelanding: A downward diagonal air dodge onto a nearby platform. Useful for avoiding an opponent waiting for you to land. Works similar to wavedashing.

Let me know if I missed anything.

[Xion]

nice job on this.

[Arwing121]

Thanks.

[Lithopod]

Wow! You obviously spent a lot of time and effort with this! I don't have Melee, but this is great! +Rep for you!