2 Very Common Edgeguarding Mistakes (And How To Fix Them) 

Easy counter to this: Never edge guard ever. Be afraid of the edge. The edge consumes all.

Other mains: cool now I know how to edgeguard properly Steve mains: *BLOCK*

its been 3 years daddy 🥺

BananaBoy is the reason why I want to he in competitive smash, thanks for all the tips and ways to get better at this game❤️

Mario mains : so your saying I don’t have to always go for a fair every time the opponent even thinks about being off stage? 🤔

1:01 ALRIGHT BOYS THE PLAN IS SIMPLE - Ludwig

Just wanted to post a comment because there is only one other one thats not two years old. I hope you are okay mental and physical wise no pressure just making sure ur ok

I can't stress how refreshing it is to go into a video without a long intro like "incase you don't know what edgeguarding is..." Just... thank you.

Ok next teach me how to egdeguard without SDing 20% of the time

When he needs to pay his landlord but he lives with his mom

Something tells me he got evicted

Something hard to explain but rewarding when executed... is conditioning. Know the opponents recovery and options. Then bait and punish. Treat options like a 50/50 low high or RPS aka jump/attack/recover

Hope you're doing alright dude!

I love watching your videos. Your humour, your cuts, your voice, your 7 frame novels that you put randomly somewhere on screen... It's just pure entertainment. I find myself laughing almost the entire time. And it's educational, too! Please don't stop.

you are like the only reason I'm any decent at ultimate please come back to me

What about Mario's that go for a forward air literally every single time you're even REMOTELY near an edge?

This was great, I like how the two tips really just boil down to "edgeguard at the right time" but you take it at both ends of the spectrum and work out the issues at both extremes and, more importantly, what you can do to fix them

Me, a Mac main: Wtf am I supposed to do with this

As a luigi main, I appreciate you teaching us how to edge guard ness

Videos like this are usually super vague and unhelpful but these are really great

The fact that you can create a video that addresses my mistakes as soon as I recognize them for this long is insane.

I'm glad your evil too as the outro music just proves that banana boy has the most goated taste in music fr fr

The audio is clean. The editing is crisp, and the content is on point. +1 sub

I don’t know if I can brake my habit of using a fair with Mario offstage every time lol

Last time I was this early tournaments weren't online

literally 2am, why am I up?

You know, I feel like cloud is just little mac with a sword

Man l've been missing your uploads this quarantine. Thanks for the advices and helpful content!

“punish them” shows a picture of a belt

Damn I came to watch the retrospective video again. As the start of it always gives me nostalgia tears. Hope you’re alright man

Wow instant subscribe from me dude- I’m a pretty skilled player but you articulate scenarios very well and give much insight into smaller, yet important interactions. Keep it up!

i caught that soraru at the end, hell yeah brother

BananaBoy seems like a really nice person and I enjoy his content and watch even if I don’t think it will help me too much

Love your video, I really wanna get better at playing smash and this wonderful tips will help me bro, you deserve more like and my respect!

Man I don't even play smash but you can still apply most of your videos to other platform fighter games always nice to watch

I love the lain gif at 0:20

I haven't watched in like a year but congrats for 100k!

Love it! Suggestions for videos: 1. Specific tricks you can use to edgeguard against specific characters 2. Specific tricks you can you AS certain characters For example if someone has a counter they can jump out and use it against Ridley's up b Or Ness can use charged down Smash yo yo for most recoveries.

Always high quality videos

Very good content bananaboy. From the looks of it, I edgeguard way too fast from what I see. This is something I want to fix, thanks for the tips

Thanks dude, now i'll be able to edgeguard with ease at *Dance Dance Revolution: Mario Mix*

I’m so happy banana boy is back!

Your content improves video after video...that's kinda inspiring

Super educative, thank you, Bananaboy! :)

Nice Ludwig reference

Great video as always :)

great breakdown

Best video I have ever seen

me watching as a mac main "you dont need that offstage side b, just ledge pressure man *heavy breathing*"

This is so very helpful! Thank you!

I love hitting a neutral B limit with cloud when they try to jump at me, it’s so satisfying.

Since I’m a bayo main so this video spoke to me on a spiritual level I havent even watched it yet

BananaBoy has really helped me get better!! I have really improved!!👍

*This guy inspires me to play quickplay, then when I do that I get matched with a Ness that has items, FS Meter, and 1 minute.*

never would've thought I'd hear monogatari music in a smash video

I haven't played Smash in a month. Thank you for being reliable.

The cloud part was so true and helpful.

One thing you can also do is mix-up when you edge guard alongside your ledge trap game or vice verse. I usually ledge trap a lot to make the opponent think I'm waiting, than once in a while, I'll go off-stage to attempt a edge guard when the opponent doesn't expect it, and possibly get a stock. I've done this a lot in friendlies, locals (before the pandemic happened), and recently a wifi regional bracket, and I won some rounds and took stocks because of it. It's the same case as this video, mixup your ledge trap and edge guard attempt to bait opponents to secure the stock or maintain stage control.

That clip at about 8:00 in the video made me think about how being put in a tech scenario can work, because if you hit the tech, your opponent becomes very punishable. In this example, Captain Falcon is caught up in Ganondorf's Up-B, but Falcon hit the tech, so he could easily go for either a B-Air or F-Air, depending on whether or not he grabbed the ledge.

Where'd he go??

My edge guard habits: opening the menu and hoping for magic burst lol

I’m just getting back into ssbu and this vid is great

Damnn bananaboy watches ludwig, didnt expect that

8:18 a few frames of yoshi with vibe check face

The plan is simple, I'll try this

Love me some ludwig references

the background music is very epic

8:35 ahh yes, what i was actually here for

As soon as i started paying more attention to my opponent, i got my first character into elite smash (and it wasn’t even a main so you already know i have a couple in there now)

10:41 diddy does make it back

First vid I watched, subbed and liked just cause of the end. Yikes man

UR BACK TO THE BLUE YOSHI

Quick tip: a great way to bait options from your opponent offstage without putting yourself at risk is to empty jump offstage and immediately come back. Lots of players will see you coming after them and will pick an option before they realize it was a ruse

You really just made an entire speed art for a single transition

Ok Bananaboy, we love u

It may not seem like it, but this really separates the bad from the good players.

6:21 _laughs in Steve_

The poop race got my sub 👍🏼

10/10 Ludwig reference

You know what’s funny ness and Luigi are two of my mains

i like how in smash there is even footsies in the air that i never thought of thanks

It's ok I really like that book too

This video makes me think of a time where I back-throwed Little Mac as Pichu and then spiked him 3 times in a row, at 0%.

Bro the contrast

I’m gonna say that maybe when ness took the bait maybe shielding to up b or a quick up smash would have been a good punish

Thanks for this

ive always been passive edgeguarding and didnt even realize

Just a suggestion for a video because this is something that is probably my biggest issue, but how should you go about picking a secondary, or a second main? I like too many characters, so I can just never decide on just one, and I don't think that's working out for me in competitive. For example, for WiFi, I play Lucas more so than Byleth, but I'm thinking about Isabelle. The problem with this is that I'm mostly losing the same matchups. Do you have any advice for this? Could also make it more focused on addressing covering matchups but whatever works better :)

I get his channel is to provide tips but personally I’d love to see some gameplay from him

Hesitation is defeat.

Great vid you should make a video on how to be in the ness position in the ness vs Luigi situation.

I find that if I hesitate to ledge guard, just not edge guarding and apply ledge pressure is better than trying to ledge guard anyway.

Thank you so much

Must be sad failing to edguard Little Mac, but imagine getting edguarded by him

what graphics settings do you use for your videos? they all look amazing

As a Ness main, I have advice for people who want to successfully gimp Ness's recovery: Some really smart Ness mains will purposely fast fall and then recover to bait people into gimping his recovery. (It's something I do a lot) The best way to deal with that is never to go off stage as soon as Ness uses PK Thunder. It's very hard to time it right due to PK Thunder starting from above Ness and then under him when he recovers. When he's off stage and too far to air-dodge recover, that's your chance to gimp him. Otherwise, stick to two-framing.

BananaBoy: Ok make sure to watch out for Chrom's up b, its very dangerous Incineroar mains: I'm about to end this man's whole career

I love taking away an opponent's resources one by one in extended edgeguard scenarios. Unfortunately, a lot of character designs have all their good options refresh on hit, so at best I'm just tacking on extra % until they make it back to the ledge. So frustrating.

Damnit! Now everyone knows how to edgeguard my 2 mains! Helpful vid tho!

as a mario main, i actually have less problems with edge guarding. if some one tries to revover low;the cape is the way to go. if some one tris to recover high; cape, forward air and up air could do it; recovering in a neutral height(between the first 2) cape or forawrd air