5 BAD HABITS That Make YOU Lose - How to Fix Them 

JTails: _Know which moves KO at which %s_ Ganondorf mains: _My enemies spawn at kill %_

2:15 - Using DJ too early or without proper reason 3:26 - Always using directional air dodge same way 4:49 - You don't shield enough 8:13 - Knowing which moves KO at which %s (keep them fresh) 10:25 - Know your ledge options, Punish opponent options. Mix it Up!

Jtails: For the love of god, stop dash dancing! You’re giving out plenty of openings to your opponent. Inking: But can you hit me?

Me, pre-watching: Pshh, there's nothing for me to learn here. After watching: Oh. Ooohhhh...

I feel like these beginners heard a pro player say that shields got nerfed from smash 4 to this game and don’t use shield enough

"You don't use shield" Mfw one of my main issues is using shield too much lmao

You've taught me how to stay patient and how to capitalize an overly aggressive players. I think you should have added how some lower-level players always give up stage position by trying to camp in the corner

I know my #1 worst habbit, it's landing in front of my shielded enemy... They grab me so many times!!!

I have a bad habit of constantly whiffing grabs

You're just one of the best Smash Content Creators when it comes to explaining mechanics in a helpful way. Thanks for this video, it's really helpful and I would love some more content like this (a video on how to predict and cover different options with your character would be rad) :)

Wait, people actually dash dance in Ultimate unironically? Lmao I just meme it sometimes

More habits that I notice when I fight people. 1. Using spot dodge to cover potential punishes 100% of the time 2. Rolling, of course 3. Attacking out of disadvantage, or generally mashing A all the time. 4. Shielding TOO much, where it's predictable 5. Jumping too much.

Thanks for making this, definitely need some help when it comes to bad habits.

I love hearing you break down how you're reading people online; it would also be awesome to see how you break down a professional set!

Been playing Smash for fun for about 2 weeks now and i've been learning heaps. This video was actually dope and i'm gonna try to improve on all of these over time so thanks man. Also I still need to stop mashing a bit XD

Jtails, thank you so much for sharing your experience and knowledge. Rememeber that even if something looks obvious it might not look obvious from inexperienced player. In my particular case i didn't shield enough until you mentioned it and even gave some good ideas like baiting and then punish OOS. I'll try to implement this in my gameplay to become a good habit, thanks a lot!!! Really appreciate it!!!

A mistake I always used to make is getting so fixed on a certain move and attempting to use it throughout the whole match. It wasn't natural

Now that you’ve mentioned the jump after being hit thing, I can’t stop seeing other people do it online. It’s really been a big help

Take a shot everytime he says "Guys"

I'm sure you're right about all this but the main reason I stopped shielding so much is bc people online would *constantly* grab me whenever I did it. I play heavies so I was like, "okay, so I can take a hit, but getting grabbed just leads into worse things so stop shielding"

I appreciate this video a lot. I've played melee for so long and have been trying to get into ultimate, but always get bodied by my friends and at locals because I try to play this game like it's melee. I know I need to get rid of this mentality, but I've never seen a video that explained precisely why I should stop. Thanks a lot, your content is great and I'm glad you've had so much success with your private lessons!

A thing I see a lot in a online matches is that people don't use their shield effectively. They do shield, BUT they let go of it too early (I see them do this way too often). For example, if I use Lucina and use my side-B, they will most likely block the first 2 - 3 hits, but then they just for whatever reason drop their shield and get hit. Remember: "If in doubt, leave shield out"

I didn't actually know moves stale and I've played ultimate for like 700 hours.... always something to learn I guess! Thanks!

This video was great and very informative!! Great content bro!!

I'm surprised to see the advice to not use dash dancing that much, but I'm glad to see it here! In all kinds of guides, even for beginners, I see dash dancing promoted as the best way of movement. So I have been trying to do it, but at the same time, I always felt that I have no idea what I'm even doing there. I will gladly throw this out of the window now, at least until I have gotten way better at the game :D

Oof, I shield TOO much lol. And I'm always jumping in neutral. I barely touch the ground😂

For me, the airdodge, shield, and ledge options are most important to know. Like you said, and it pains me, but people on elite love to just drool on their a buttons. I hardly EVER see people shield in neutral or shield and play a little defensively out of their disadvantage. Same thing goes for people who spam airdodge out of combos or jump from ledge. Online, its extremely hard to punish sometimes due to latency. However, in a normal setting it would be called out immediately. Thanks for pointing stuff like this out! Tl;dr: if you see someone repeating options, form a plan around it, its simple! If you find yourself getting punished for the same thing once or twice in a row, try something else!

You sound like you're tired of repeating yourself haha

Oh my gosh, only 4 points in and I'm already noticing I make ALL these mistakes. I always dash around while waiting for an opponent's projectile, press the shield button and STILL get hit even though I was positive I pressed the shield button in time. It makes so much sense now. THANK YOU!

Ayy I didn’t notice but congrats on getting 100k subs even tho u already hit 109. Been a fan since you were really small. Great things are coming your way man!

Great video man!

Most players don’t utilize walking enough there always running

You hella helpful

Good stuff. I was just telling a friend last night about the dash dancing problem

I'm digging that Makoto theme from Third Strike in the background.👌

Jtails: Most characters dont get anything out of their grab Me: the only characters that dont get anything off of grab are like jigglypuff, cloud and maybe little mac

As a jigs main, walking is a blessing. Bad players always roll and you can just use sing to catch their end lag. Its magical.

I have no idea if others have this issue as well, but I actually have a kinda bad habit of always releasing shield to use an out-of-shield option, even if I dont need to. It's most noticable when I release shield to do a grab and then lose to something that should have been slower than my grab, since I exited shield first. It's lost me quite a few games over time, haha. I still do it even now. I'm happy that not all of these bad habits apply to me though, it gives me some sense of validation that I'm at least doing something right. I'll still definitely need to work on the ones that do apply, though.

double jumping on the person captain falcon mains online.They always seem to think they're invicible when doing that.

The DJ tip really helped, thx! :D

Hey, Jtails, I just wanted to express my gratitude for these videos. As a beginner myself, I learn a whole lot about the structure of the fight and how to play in general. I would like to suggest, though: why don't play against a CPU at lvl 9 on Training Mode just for a bit and pause to explain how even the CPU has "bad habbits" that can be exploited? Idk, sounds to me a good ideia. Either way, thanks for these guides!

As a Sheik main, the only kill set ups I worry about are Bouncing Fish (off stage), F-Smash (at ledge), Up air (around 150-190%), and Stage gimping with back air at around 40%. Thank you for the Lesson, really, I appreciate this. I never put any thought into what percent kills “X” character with what move. With Sheik, it matters a whole lot.

GO JTAILS! You’ve made a fan out of me

Fist time watching a video of you. Was truly a great one! Great advices! You got a new sub on me :]

Most helpful video for me I have found. Watched all your videos and still losing virtually every game, this is my first Smash game, so frustrating as I am a competent gamer in most all other games and in this everything I use never makes contact. I can see the moment in each game when my opponent notices this, as my movement betrays my lack of bite. Please help us ObiWan, a fifty year old man this year can take only so many beatings from nine year old girls.

Hey Jtails, can you make a video on top level player mind tricks. I know it’s a super deep topic that is hard to understand. But if you give a few examples i think it could really help on how to understand how top players, even at locals use small unique mind tricks on their opponents.

Nice video dude I like how you keep it simple and help out in a peaceful manner other smash players talk in some werid language I cant understand

#6 Rolling in when pushed into the corner.

Definitely excited to do a one on one session at some point

I notice against a lot of players that air dodge whenever I get near them and gives me a free punish. Also trying to space aerials better

Thank you for sharing this, I enjoy your content. 😊 I'm hoping to kick booty at my next local but I know I have bad habits.

i totally expected this video to have like duhhhhhhh you airdodge a lot and uhhhh too many smash attacks but no these were actually really good tips, thank you

This helped a lot thanks.

Agree with everything you said except a little of the bit about “knowing what your kill moves are”. I do think it’s important but on for a certain range of damage percentage. Considering that most of the time you won’t get a kill at early percent and are almost guaranteed a kill at any hit around higher percentages like 170+ (rough estimate), you can get by with not focusing so much on those kill moves in certain situations. It’s definitely a good thing to know about, but i don’t think its necessarily a thing to here “I need to focus on doing this immediately” when fighting

As a Greninja main i think this helped me a lot

absolute madness. cheers

Its all good tips. Thabk you

I would LOVE to see a video about grabs; getting them and avoiding them. This is probably the biggest gap in my game: it rarely even OCCURS to me to go for a grab, and when it does, I can't get one to save my life (which sucks, because I play NESS, the backthrow GOD). Meanwhile I'm using my shield as a security blanket and my opponent is throwing me around stage like... something that gets thrown... a lot... I need better similes...

Had no idea about the dash dancing great video!

Normal service providers: I don't have any customers. I am pretty much unemployed. JTails (and pretty much any youtuber would give a similar response): I am completely full on one-to-one lessons. But I have classes available on Mondays.

This should be a treat

Be sure to check out Part 2 of this Bad Habits Series!! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TMX0m2nUxSM.html

Mix it up. Mix up everything. Approaches Attacks Recoveries Combos Dodges Punishes (Anything else) I mean the goal is to be unpredictable right? Relying on one thing in any situation is punishable to someone who can notice it. If there's a pattern, it can be disrupted

Dang, really good advice. I’m trash at this game lolol

Not using my DJ after I get hit off stage, was a hard habit to break. It took me 3-4 days almost a week to break this habit. But after breaking this habit, I’ve been having such an easier time getting back on stage and surviving longer.

I was practicing while listening, and noticed 4 ads to skip. 4 ads in a 12 min video seems like a lot? But I don’t blame you, make the RU-vid revenue. This vid has good advice for beginner/intermediate players for sure.

I have the bad habits of spamming smash attacks, never shielding, dodging, or grabbing, never knowing how to properly utilize any specials, not knowing how to combo, and never back-airing. Maybe a few more.

Can you explain how to beat agressive players?

Thats a really great idea! Too bad I cant afford it.

Hello, I really liked your video, and I also wanted to bring up one mistake Also see a lot on begginers and other guys a little bit above that. I'm talking about when your character falls on the ground and then you recover rolling towards your enemy. I'm not a pro gamer, but that's a bad habit I see on people and that has help me out with the punish.

Does that damage and push-back reduction reset after a time or after landing a different move?

Noooooo stop giving away the secrets! Let them FAIL and figure out what they’re doing wrong on their own! Im kidding. These habits are so true and common. Lol. Good video.

Hey! Loved this video, specially kill percentages and ledge options... Got one question. Is it worth getting a gamecube controller for smash? (Currently playing with pro controller)

I definitely am tryna join the dojo

can you make a general guide on how to approach (intelligently)? Always do better when I never approach, because I approach like an idiot, but have a lot more fun approaching more often

Number 4 was so helpful but the other I got already but 4 is going to be helpful.

The fact your attacks get weaker and weaker and weaker, literally just blew my whole mind.

1. Mix it up. 2. Mix it up. 3. Mix it up. 4. Mix it up. 5. Mix it up!

I actually noticed how much I actually don't shield before I saw this video Dxxx, so now I feel a tad worse about myself

Jtails: Except for Mario, and Donkey Kong, most characters don't get much off of grabs. Luigi: Am I a joke to you?

Sorry to be pedantic, but its good to be precise with all the tech words. It was really confusing for me at first. You can't cancel your dash with shield, you can cancel *running* with shield. Like you explain, that's why dash dancing is bad.

What do you mean moves get weak if you use them mutiple times in a stock. For example if I use upsmash at 40% does that make my upsmash weaker then it normally would at 120% because i used that option earlier?

I got a ton better since i started using sheild. I was getting sheilded and punished so often i realized how sharp the perfect sheild really is

I like how the 3s music was used in the beginning

"Most characters don't get anything off of their grabs"... Okay, this is just flat-out wrong. Ness, Lucas, Palu, Ganon/Bowser command grabs, Snake, ect. For anyone interested there is a really good ProGuides video that goes over the downsides of excessive shielding.

My man just asked for $140 to play Smash for 90 mins. What has life become?

Ik a lot of this but I still do it lol. Habits are hard to break. I'll be playing, dj too early and immediately realize I messed up.

I know dash dancing can be punished very easily, but what about on inkling? I think dash dancing is pivotal in neutral for them because of their ambiguous dashing animation and it's very important for mixups

In case anyone was curious about the music from the beginning, Street Fighter 3 Third Strike: Makoto's stage

Jtails-"You don't shield enough.That's a bad habit." Me,a Greninja main:That's not an option for me.

thanks!

The double jump in the blastzone is a mistake I didnt even realize I did. In the back of my brain I think its going to save me from dying......

Is it worth to spam moves you dont use otherwise while the opponent is down? If I understand correctly, there is a limited ammount of stale moves, so it should be possible to overwrite the list with useless moves, right?

I actually shield too much, which makes me vulnerable to grabs. I need to learn just to spot dodge and time that right

I believe staling only counts on your last 9 landed attacks. So moves that do little damage that are fast can be used to reset scaling like ness down tilt or sheiks pummel

This is probably a dumb question, but let's say you do stale your moves out, what actually resets your moves to go back to the original damage that they are meant to do. Like for example, is it on your next stock that resets this, or maybe your opponents next stock, like what are a list of things that can reset your moves damage count to its original amount?

On the subject of burning your double jump, I need to clear up something for sure : does double jumping as soon as you’re launched horizontally actually help you move farther away from the blast zone so you survive better ?

I remember when I first watched this vid and you mentioned to stop dash dancing. I got sad 😭 🤣

Question for tip #1 if I know I'm gonna get ko'd when thrown up how do I avoid that without using my jump?

If I'm not mistaken, don't the attacks you used get resetted to full damage again after you use 10 other attacks or so? I remember seeing somewhere that the game keeps track of your last 10 moves.