SSB Melee - Help Need to get Competitive, new Char. and tech skills needed!

[RandomHer0]

I have stepped away from Melee for quite some time as my friends and I got into Brawl. I feel after these 3 years of playing i have fleshed out the game entirely and wanted to step back into Melee. I went to a club on my campus that plays pretty competitive with my stale/old concept of how to play ssbm back when i was still in grade school, I was destroyed. Over the break im dusting off the cube to get competitive again, but have no idea where to start after all these years.

So i need your help. tell me the ins and outs of characters you main or prefer and how to approach learning their complex strategies (wavedashine etc.) vids to watch could be helpful too! I will take your opinions to heart, anything helps really.

NOT A VS. THREAD - i Like brawl, so no bashing, very different games. melee is aerial focused game with quick in out hit runs and brawl has a more timing/mindgaming feel to it with a fleshed out ground game. AGREE TO DISAGREE!!

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Shit, I haven't played melee in ages. I'm so used to snake in Brawl that I an barely even remember anything about that game. I think I used to play Kirby, but other than that I don't know what to suggest.

 

[Superfly CJ]

Consider the above your first lesson.

Besides that, I can only speak from my experience with other fighting games, as I don't play Smash competitively.

The main method I use to improve quickly in fighting games is to look at the tiering and pick a character on the lower end of the scale (there are tier charts all over the internet for melee, i'm sure). Then i'd suggest just playing your heart out- you'll lose a lot towards the beginning, but thats just part of the curve. Once you hit your stride and start beating people, move up to similar characters in the higher-tiers, that way, you'll have the advantage of tiering, but won't have to rely on it, mainly because you've already learned the ins and outs of how to play properly with a lesser character.

I've found that if you jump in with a higher tier character, your play can become dependent on exploits and just the merit of having the extra strength. It's better to aim lower to go back in, so that you can fully learn to appreciate the game mechanics from the ground up.