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The Leffen teacher pic was so good.

Your images are soooo funny lmfao. The caveman ones and the doctors in the lab killed me. Good advice though, I wanna see more from this channel. I often struggle to give someone advice if they have several things that cause their losses, when melee is a game that improving one area at a time might be the fastest, best way. Narrowing down the biggest folly in their game plan (or execution) is like the big challenge of giving advice imo.

This summarizes my own experience when people ask for tips from me for other games. Lots of people don't take the time to self-analyze and find their specific problem points to then ask for help with. Very great video, I need to start thinking more like this with Melee so I stop tilting so hard from not knowing wtf I'm doing wrong.

Been there, as the new player. I went into my first tournament practicing aerial timing and drift, and got swept as soon as I played against people. So my only question that I could ask was if they had any tips, cause I felt like I just had the rug pulled out from under me. I expected their answer to be on the topic of a strength of my character that I could leverage (like they hate it when a falco camps, so then I should camp more, buying myself time in neutral to assess the game) or a playstyle/habit that's holding me back (I'm not making the full use of recovery... or I always act on a certain beat). I think a lot of players at least have a little soapbox to get on, it could even be about my controller, just any conversation to let them flex and distract from the fact they just 4 stocked me for the 8th game in a row, and I can try to pick up any semblance of advice from that.

Another amazing vid keep it up please

Great video man! You've got a great voice and you articulate your thoughts really well! Also you got to the point quickly and the video flowed really well! I'd love to see more videos like this especially with all the newer players coming into Melee!

This reminds me of the Dunning-Kreuger effect a bit, where a weaker player's assessment of how good they are will be very different to a stronger player, since the missing aspects of gameplay that the weaker player doesn't understand are exactly they'd need to make an accurate assessment of how good they are. The stronger player knows and understands the concepts and can see them missing from the weaker players play and so can more accurately assess their skill. Melee is a bit different, since you can know your limitations quite well, but I think my point is that as soon as you figure out the right questions to be asking then this is evidence of an improved player even without answers to those questions. Everyone should be guilty of this, as it's just the natural process of learning imo. People who avoid pitfalls like this are either truly talented, or have probably been through a similar process (such as mastering another fighting game) and have applied what they've learnt from making mistakes during that process. Great vids btw, although I can't accurately say how good since I'm not very good at making videos myself ;)

Man, Your content is absolutely killer. I'm not much of a Melee guy; more into Street Fighter, but I just so happen to find your link on r/ssmb while looking for some 20xx training commands. So Glad I found your stuff. All of this 100% applies to every fighter, and I'm so pumped that you mentioned that in the beginning. Analyzing your own gameplay to improve should be a universal step towards growth in any game. Keep up the good work!

That's great but im trynna make more RU-vid vids, got any tips?

the unga Spongebob LMFAO

Your videos are great!

I'm not sure if you actually intentionally meant this, but yomi means read in japanese, so knowing what is going to happen is essentially... a read.

nah i'm pretty sure Shiek just beats me cuz she is lame