<p>Favorite characters? Tactics?</p>
<p>I liked the original better… :)</p>
<p>The problem was that the original had a couple of issues:
Ness’s lightning charge thing (PK thunder redirected at yourself) was “priority 0” (i.e., no attack had precedent over it, no matter what)
Pikachu’s Quick Attack = invincibility
Yoshi’s aerial Down-A had no delay
These and other things made it possible to exploit certain characters (no one used Mario once Luigi was unlocked, for example).</p>
<p>=P</p>
<p>I’m kind of a SSBM Renaissance Man, I use a crapload of characters…best with Sheik, Marth, and Pikachu though.</p>
<p>In the original, Samus all the way. I dunno, she seems to fall slower than most non-balloon characters, so her meteor attack pwns. Not to mention, you know, shooting stuff.</p>
<p>Pikachu all the way for me lol
best forward smash reach of non-sword characters
0-delay Up-A aerial
High-priority Down-A aerial
Low-delay Up-A smash
Max damage in one hit: 40%
Best recovery (besides Kirby & Jigglypuff)</p>
<p>Personally, I believe Marth is a little, er, unbalanced…I mean, his forward smash has low delay, high power, and long range, he has a counter, AND he’s really fast…</p>
<p>But Sheik and Peach are great when properly used (i.e., when I’m NOT the one using them lol)</p>
<p>Fox</p>
<p>If you can exploit his speed, he just kicks ass. Just start pulling combos with his deflector, up smash, and grabs.</p>
<p>I’ve never seen anyone use Peach effectively…</p>
<p>What exactly can she do…? Her smashes pretty much suck, her vegetable attack is ■■■■■■■■ and does like 3 damage, her parasol is similar, her Peach Bomber is decent but slow and has crappy range. I guess her Toad shield thing might be useful but there are better defensive moves out there.</p>
<p>btw tanonev, how does Pikachu do 40% in one hit? Is that the fully charged up skull bash?</p>
<p>“I’ve never seen anyone use Peach effectively…”</p>
<p>I met him at Caltech Prefrosh Weekend…he’ll be going to MIT for grad school in the fall…</p>
<p>Down-Smash max damage: 70% (!!!)
And he can throw turnips way too accurately (I got turnip KO’d…oh, the shame lol)
AND he does all of Peach’s float combos…</p>
<p>Geez, that’s nuts…I thought Peach’s down smash was just her spinning around and doing like 10 damage…</p>
<p>I didn’t know it was possible for a turnip (not a moldy or otherwise altered one) to KO someone…</p>
<p>What are some of the float combos?</p>
<p>Peach is the ultimate aerial fighter because she can chain 5-6 aerial attacks in one sweep (each attack doing about 10%…go figure)</p>
<p>Pikachu can do 40% in limited circumstances. If someone is standing INSIDE or IMMEDIATELY BELOW the cloud that forms when Pikachu uses Down-B, they take 40% + get knocked up. Only works on Temple and Ice Climbers stage</p>
<p>(man, i love this game)</p>
<p>If you duck when Peach uses down-smash, you take multiple hits = lots and lots of damage. That includes ducking to use a down-B attack.</p>
<p>The thing is, the only way you can get beyond a perfectly-timed turnip assault is to wave-dance, which I can’t do…so I have to roll in. The problem with that is that rolling in puts you within range of down-smash, and Pikachu’s down-smash (average damage, 2%) can’t possibly counter it.</p>
<p>Float combo 1: float just out of reach of opponent, close in horizontally, down-A, A, pursue, back-A, back-A, (continue until you run out of float or opponent gets knocked off).</p>
<p>Float combo 2: float just out of reach of opponent, close in horizontally, down-A (release float halfway through), down-smash (C-stick)</p>
<p>I can’t do either of them…I just know they work because he used both of them against me and utterly destroyed me</p>
<p>What in the sam hell are you people talking aboot?</p>
<p>Super Smash Bros Melee! The best multiplayer game ever!</p>
<p>I play as Kirby. 
Best aerial ability, and I totally abuse that. I’m also a bit of an item hog, mostly Pokeballs and the sword-type weapons (beam sword, wand, flower).
I’m also good as Link, Young Link, Marth, Roy and Samus.</p>
<p>oh man, I haven’t played super smash brothers for years… what an awesome game! kirby and fox were so kickass.</p>
<p>Kirby, try playing w/o items sometime It’s an entirely different experience…</p>
<p>Also, I discovered the wonderful (and humbling) challenge of taking on 3 level-9 Marths at once, with no items…try on both Temple and Final Destination…</p>
<p>I just wish the computer wasn’t so idiotic…even level-9s can be induced to selfdestruct…</p>
<p>My favorite character to use is Roy. As to tactics, I generally try to act like Marth… XD Just kidding. Well, using Roy is a lot like using Marth, except he smashes and stays on the ground a lot more often. No specific tactics… pop 'em up into the air and improvise.</p>
<p>Peach is a good character… in a higher tier than Roy anyway. I don’t like Pikachu very much, because he’s slow and a light weight. But then I guess Pichu is worse. As to Kirby… the reason I don’t like him is because he’s too light, and his roll isn’t very fast. And also I get my butt kicked if I use him against my brother.</p>
<p>Pikachu? “slow”? I never noticed that lol…If you use Up-B properly, you can cover a lot of ground…and Pikachu’s aerial attacks, while weak, are all pretty fast…</p>