1:10 he's at 94%, at the very edge of the stage, and isn't outright killed by downsmash. The move definitely doesn't have good KBG or send at an angle reminiscent of sheik fair lmao.
I have never heard anyone say dsmash is a bad move. And all good marths use it. And heve been using it for years. And commentators usually praise their use of dsmash.... Nonetheless good video!
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I've been playing with marth downsmash for a few years now. here are some other good situations: 1: Peach recovering below stage can get you a tipper and kill her where f smash will trade. 2: covers ledge when spacies up b towards ledge though this is a hard read. 3. If you up b towards stage and land, and the other person rolls, it sets up for a tipper. 4: when you fthrow peach, some di of hers lets it tip and kill at relatively low percent.
Really good idea and topic, thanks for uploading this. I’ve always felt mixed abt dsmash but since Zain never uses it, most marth mains don’t. But I hope he sees this vid one day
I use downsmash ALL the time. 3 more downsmash ideas as some food for thought: 1. Tipper dsmash can be true combod into by inner hit down tilt at higher percents vs a good number of characters. Try it out and see if it works for you 2. You can use downsmash as a kill mixup for opponents at high percents that try to shield grab you. Do a late fair (or up air 😉) on shield and if they like to shield grab or wave dash out of shield, just hit the dsmash as soon as you lcancel and they get fucked 3. You can crouch cancel getup attacks and punish with dsmash! Most of the time, you can’t cc and then forward smash like falco can because you slide too far away and the front hit of fsmash hits on like frame 11 or something. BUT you can basically always crouch cancel dsmash because it’s so much faster. Enjoy down smashing!
Ty for the comment! Yeah I D tilt into downsmash every now and then but never thought to cc getup attack into it. I'm definitely gonna hit the lab with it thanks for the info!
