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Commentary for Beginners
If you’re reading this than you may be interested in starting to commentate, or improve your understanding of fundamentals. Regardless, this particular writing is geared towa...
Halogen - May 7, 2017[Lab Project 20] Explaining Side Special- Fox Illusion
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please be aware that there are hyperlinks to examples and demonstrations for visualisation purposes, so be sure to click on them. This is a big article with a LOT o...
Fox Lab Team - May 6, 2017Purposeful Play in a Leaky Liferaft
This is a single section from a short series of essays on how to improve. The goal behind these essays is to demonstrate that the process of improvement is multifaceted,...
Vermanubis - May 6, 2017Umebura Japan Major 2017 Preview: The Largest International SSB4 Tournament Ever
May 6th-7th. Umebura brings you largest Japan tournament of all time and the largest international SSB4 tournament. Because of Golden Week happening in Japan over the past week, ...
BSTIK - May 5, 2017Everything You Need to Know About Shulk's Monado Arts
It's far too often that I see people (specifically commentators) who have no idea what effects are given off by Shulk's Monado Arts. Shulk's entire game plan will usually revolve a...
Catalyst - May 5, 2017Bowser Jr's Hurtboxes: An Inconvienent Quirk
In any tourney, commentators love to bring up any character specific knowledge they have, to help the viewers understand the character and matchup. Whenever a k...
Divade011 - May 4, 2017Outside Factors and How They Change the Way You Play
There are so many little things that can make or break tournaments for everyone, making them highly inconsistent throughout long, drearing periods of time, sometimes years. &n...
Pierce - May 4, 2017Smash 4 - Ganondorf: Up Smash Showcase
Ganondorf Up Smash is one of the best Up Smashs in the game. It's the strongest up smash in the game but it is more known for it's next to no end lag. It has many uses from getting...
MGK - May 3, 2017Bayonetta and Mindset
I have seen so many people have so many issues with Bayonetta and instantly write it off anything people do with her as bullshit and just continue to get angry. I wanted to share s...
Techless - May 3, 2017Wario's Bike, an Analysis
Overview Wario's side special, or "Bike" as its commonly referred to, is a very useful tool for wario mains, but can be very confusing for non-Wario players. The strange hitboxes,...
Marsh - May 2, 2017The Importance of Spacing and Movement
Within the Smash 4 community, much like any community centered around a fighting game, much of the hype comes from "big moments". You see countless videos posted about cool t...
Zephyr - May 2, 2017Glitch 3: A Rare Breed
The third iteration of the VGBC team’s super regional will be emanating from the hallowed halls of Xanadu this weekend. The same Maryland/Virginia regulars will be in attenda...
Brosalina - May 2, 2017Smash Na Invicta #5 Wrap Up
If you are from the Portuguese scene you probably know we haven't been so lucky in terms of recording our sets (my laptop broke and here in the North I was the only one with captur...
Daiki (Portugal) - May 2, 2017Footstools and Ganondorf
As a disclaimer I'm not an experienced writer or blogger, and will be writing this via mobile. Grounded Down Air is untechable So anyway, to start I'd like to say I think using e...
Opana - May 2, 2017On Bayo Planking and Ledge Grab Limit
First of for those of you who do not know what a ledge grab limit is let me define it for you. It is a rule that states that "if a match ends in time out, and a player has grabbed ...
Blank - May 1, 2017Breaking Down "Safe on Shield"
Shielding is one of the most effective ways to avoid taking damage; so much so that much of the Smash 4 metagame is designed around taking advantage of, working around, and trickin...
Z2G - May 1, 2017Launch Speed Influence
I have been getting this question a lot, and since I haven't made a proper video (because I'm bad at making one lol) it would be better to post a full explanation about it here. F...
Ruben - May 1, 2017Standing Grab Visualization
I was inspired by Floor and sjb.dario from Smashboards to make this chart. Floor made a visual of Marth's frame data and sjb.dario made one of Palutena's frame data. As stated in t...
lRasha - May 1, 2017Central Coast Smash #1
Hey guys, it's Jazara! I'm a Sheik player from the Central Coast of California. I'm currently ranked #4 in my city and the Central Coast's PR hasn't come out yet so I don't have a ...
Jazara - May 1, 2017Ganondorf: Dash Attack showcase
Ganondorf's Dash Attack is one of the best Dash Attacks in the game ever since in 1.1.5 when it got buffed. It's a combo move, amazing burst option, great at catching landings and ...
MGK - April 29, 2017
