Eten

All hunters may not be idiots, just a sweeping amount of all hunters I've ever known/grouped with are. I know of only one exception, and he's a humble guy. My feelings come from playing a warrior, tanking in any usual 5 man pugs. I never trust a hunter to make pulls. Now why would I never trust a class to make pulls when that class has abilities which make them the best pullers? Because they "got to excited" and pulled with multi-shot while the healer was AFK. Why do I always ask the hunter to put their pet away, when their pet is a major part of their class? Because their use of a pet tends to hurt a party more than help the party. What happens when a two-hand epic proc based rare sword drops from gen drak in ubrs? argh. Any class can have idiots, but there is no other class as bad as hunters.

Ooo, report back on how you do. It would be great if you play Ken too. Tournaments are awesome places to learn more about SSBM. So many people, it's alot different than just playing in a circle of friends. I figure Brawl is going to be much in the same way with it's online ability. There will be so much more playing and so much more compitition and then skill will develop.

I agree, I think a person should play until they can easily and consistantly win against lvl 9s with most characters against most characters. Playing against comps mostly teaches a person speed and reaction, or how to exploit the AI... but anyway, I think it is really important to have a really solid, fast paced game before trying even faster techniques myself.

Using c-stick for aerials is just smart. It just allows so much better spacing and control while doing aerials. I've been a long time player without using most advanced techniques. I've used short-hops, l-cancels, and directional influence naturally- but some things aren't so intuitive, such as wavedashing, wavelanding, waveshielding, ledgedashing, missle cancels, and the like. I've done VERY well without them- but I can't ignore their usefulness. After practicing alot to get the moves themselves down, I've just got to learn how to work them smoothly into how I play. I find that this part of learning advanced techniques is most of the work.

DD-ing is like a w/e to me. It really doesn't seem to change things much when used against me and it's a little too distracting to use. Now, a "wavedash-dance" is extremely confusing when done by fast wavedasher's. I end up using the wrong move at the wrong time and they just wavedash into me for a followup on the lag. Of course, I main samus, so anybody waiting back gets missled much. I'm not used to approaching people without alot of bombs and missles. In my general opinion on wavedashing, some character could do without it by using dash-cancel instead, but other characters use wavedashing as an equilizer between slower and faster characters because it simply makes them faster, such as luigi.