Stage choice Tips for Cloud vs Yoshi
Yoshi
Final Destination - Not the worst stage, but can be pretty hard to break neutral against cloud.
Battle Field - Many options to land and get out of juggle combos which is the worst thing about the match up. Yoshi also gains a lot of traps that are difficult for cloud to deal with. With most of yoshi's tools leading into ladders or gimps to kill cloud anyway, the ceiling benefits you more than it does cloud. Be sure to do full hop dair to punish cloud on platforms, push cloud to the edge of platforms and fall below and use up air after. cloud and other characters have 3 options due to the low end lag of dair: release shield and get hit, keep shield up and get shield broken, roll. they do not have time to jump and all of clouds out of shield options dont hit low enough or fast enough to hit yoshi. rolling allows yoshi to set up another advantage scenario.
Lylat - Very great yoshi stage in general, slopes help yoshi's egg game and keep cloud from dashing under eggs. the wide stage coupled with low platforms means yoshi has the same benefit as battle field for shield breaks and landing. Due to yoshi recovering high and double jump armor, Yoshi is at low risk of getting stage janked compared to cloud who has a very small area to get around yoshi.
Smashville - great for yoshi to recover, bad for neutral game. cloud can really trap yoshi hard here and the platform can make ledge guarding him hard.
Town and City - The worst stage in the match up. You have the negatives from FD when the platforms leave, cloud gains extra recovery options like Smashville, but cloud also gains an even earlier kill window with just juggles because of the low ceiling. Cloud can also flee and camp the platforms to charge limit as the 3 platform variation forces yoshi to burn double jump to even try to punish him.
Dreamland - Close to Battle field but worse for yoshi. smaller platforms allow cloud to pressure harder, the wind screws with platform pressure for yoshi. If you are picking the stage, always pick battle field over dreamland.
Omega - Lets say you won on battle field last, and they banned lylat. Choose an omega before regular FD. The extreme flat FD are great for yoshi to fight characters who use wall jumps or have trouble snapping to the ledge. Halberd and Lylat are good choices.
Battle Field - Many options to land and get out of juggle combos which is the worst thing about the match up. Yoshi also gains a lot of traps that are difficult for cloud to deal with. With most of yoshi's tools leading into ladders or gimps to kill cloud anyway, the ceiling benefits you more than it does cloud. Be sure to do full hop dair to punish cloud on platforms, push cloud to the edge of platforms and fall below and use up air after. cloud and other characters have 3 options due to the low end lag of dair: release shield and get hit, keep shield up and get shield broken, roll. they do not have time to jump and all of clouds out of shield options dont hit low enough or fast enough to hit yoshi. rolling allows yoshi to set up another advantage scenario.
Lylat - Very great yoshi stage in general, slopes help yoshi's egg game and keep cloud from dashing under eggs. the wide stage coupled with low platforms means yoshi has the same benefit as battle field for shield breaks and landing. Due to yoshi recovering high and double jump armor, Yoshi is at low risk of getting stage janked compared to cloud who has a very small area to get around yoshi.
Smashville - great for yoshi to recover, bad for neutral game. cloud can really trap yoshi hard here and the platform can make ledge guarding him hard.
Town and City - The worst stage in the match up. You have the negatives from FD when the platforms leave, cloud gains extra recovery options like Smashville, but cloud also gains an even earlier kill window with just juggles because of the low ceiling. Cloud can also flee and camp the platforms to charge limit as the 3 platform variation forces yoshi to burn double jump to even try to punish him.
Dreamland - Close to Battle field but worse for yoshi. smaller platforms allow cloud to pressure harder, the wind screws with platform pressure for yoshi. If you are picking the stage, always pick battle field over dreamland.
Omega - Lets say you won on battle field last, and they banned lylat. Choose an omega before regular FD. The extreme flat FD are great for yoshi to fight characters who use wall jumps or have trouble snapping to the ledge. Halberd and Lylat are good choices.
Dr. Robotnik - September 25, 2018
Cloud