I saw your vid and it was awesome. and ya, I’ve found that trying to go in has gotten me blown up more often than not. I was watching some videos and people would just stay back use bombs from the air and unibeam to zone people and repulsar to keep them out when they got close.
One thing I’ve done and seemed to work was spamming (smartly of course) Repulsar when you’ve got the opponent covered. It lasts long enough for assits to come, so their thing, and leave most of the time allowing me to get another repulsar off and then calling in my other assit. It seems to lock people down pretty good but I haven’t done it all that much and have no clue if I am fighting good players or not.