Yes, you can aim it diagonally downward too. It’s easy to do that from the air, though for me that usually happens when I flub a C4 drop. :bluu:
Well, I think the advantage as far as normals goes is because of metaknight’s speed, on top of the fact he’s all disjointed hitboxes where as snake isn’t. Meta can basically stuff anything snake does in the air or on the ground, so it’s mostly just dodging explosions and not being dumb and rolling right into one of his attacks avoiding a bomb. It’s tough getting in on snake, for sure, but once I’m in there with meta, I’ve noticed snake has a problem getting me off, if I’m alert and don’t just recklessly attack, but still put constant pressure on him. Plus snake in the air is easy pickings, and meta’s got plenty of tools to keep him there.
Also Metaknight’s forward B can go right through nikitas, so I think it might be bad in that matchup. I’ve used it quite a lot just to plow into snake and get my offense started. I think grenades are probably the way to go as far as zoning and what not. Nikita seems more edge guardy to me.
Excellent points. The Forward B tidbit has never been used against me and I feel alot of Metaknight players don’t even know that option existed. Now, I don’t think Metaknight’s ground game beats Snake’s. I just think a Snake that has no idea what he’s doing is going to run into alot of trouble. A good Metaknight rushdown will make Snake panic like crazy. Best advice I could give in this situation is simply GTFO Snake. Space and recover.
After I play the matchup more, I’d love to share knowledge, but as for now, I’ve offered all the tips I can.
Actually I just thought of something (not really in regards to just the metaknight matchup), wouldn’t those new SRK PATENTED alpha cancels be really good with snake since his running attack is so good? I can totally picture someone just diving back and forth through someone without them being able to punish as snake.
Snakes Bair, U-tilt, and F-tilt are disjointed and the hitboxes extend well beyond his body.
Snake’s B-air is Scary. Very scary. Thanks for your contributions Emblem.
Yes, alpha canceling with Snake is a very good thing to do. Wave-bouncing (what a stupid name) with C4 would be useful too, I’d imagine, but not nearly as useful as alpha canceling.
Down tilt has invincibility. Not sure ho many people know that.
Cypher also has super armor.
More importantly, though, I’ve found that you can save yourself from Peach’s or Luigo’s FS by just holding a grenade. You’ll fall asleep, and then the explosion will wake you up.
I havent even attempted to plant the C4 on someone yet…hell I’m still working on getting his F-air times right.
I’m in love with his F-tilt though.
I call it the Beat Yo Ass.
It’s true…Tiger and I figured that shit out yesterday.
I forget what move he did exactly…but I down tilted and the shit whiffed.
We both pretty much looked like this -----> :wtf:
well congrats. Snake won it all at FR, just goes to show, David Hayter > Justin Wong lol
snake is so beastly
Who used him?
Snake is dumb.
I think Mike G. used him.
Mike G? As in the south carolina baiken player?
Also here’s some nice ass tourney vids of Snake, gotta steal his strats: http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=152824
Also, where does down tilt have invincibility? Like right at the start or what?
Just an interesting note, if you do Snake’s running attack into someone, you can cancel into an up-smash at the exact moment you hit.
You can actually do the up-smash regardless of whether or not you hit someone with his running attack, it’s just way easier to do it when you hit someone.
Anyway, it does not really seem that useful of a tactic unless you’re near an edge since Snake’s Up-Smash seems to be one of the few moves of his that get beat out by a lot of (aerial) things.
I’m sure it;s right after the initial hit. Like as he’s spinning after the kick he can’t be hit.
I’m gonna try it out again though and post it here.
I thought of new trick today while playing as snake. I was playing some team battles with some guys at the college when i accidently stuck a C4 on my partner so i told him to run towards the enemy so the C4 can stick on them and and blew their ass up! We tried it a few times and got some good kills using this :looney:
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