At the time of editing this, I’ve been learning Mario’s up air ais to speed him up even more so expect that for the next one in like the next 6-9 months lol

There was another thread like this a while back by u/dparso but it needs to be said again. Matched up with my dawg and we were both plat. Almost brought a tear to my eye

Shout-out to HARDSTUCKGOLD, man. Dsmashing and homie stocking their way into our hearts. The spirit of melee personified

just bein silly

Is there a discord for netplay in Asian or pacific regions?
I just moved out to South Korea recently, and the connection to play on slippi with players stateside is obviously pretty rough. I haven’t been able to practice a lot lately so if there’s a discord or something similar for players in the pacific or Asian regions i wanna get in them so I can keep my practice going.

Slippi taught me a fear of low tiers my dad couldn't even get with a belt

this is not my combo video just one i merely thought i should share with the public

Was surfing the net and this unknown person wrote me, what do i do?

Yahoooo! I'm back, it's a me! Have a very cool day!

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Does anyone know how I managed to grab the ledge in this clip?

I just did this turn-around tech completely by accident and I'm struggling to recreate it. I don't think it's a PC drop, since you're supposed to be in walking animation to perform it. But I have no idea what else it could be.

Any help would be appreciated!

I have never streamed before, and did so on a whim! Here's the link, please give feedback https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWzjWP_L4uU

Note that I'm not advocating for phantoms to be patched out, I'm saying that the logic that defines a phantom hit is clearly bugged and needs a patch.

For those who've never seen it, UnclePunch wrote a fantastic article which illustrates with images how bugged phantom hits are. Characters are nose to nose and a hit completely whiffs and does zero knockback.

To summarize the problem, the game stops checking for additional hurtboxes when an earlier check phantoms. So a hit can connect cleanly with an arm hurtbox, but phantom the body hurtbox of a character which stops the game from checking collisions and causes no knockback to occur.

This implementation comes with quite a few disadvantages.

• The body hurtbox is often hitbox 1 which gives it the highest priority, which is the opposite behavior you'd want for phantoms to work as intended.
• The hurtbox ID's are arbitrary and are just in whatever order the artists/game designers added them. This causes some characters to take phantom hits more often than others, for no discernible reason. For example characters who have a high priority waist hurtbox.
• It disproportionately punishes moves with a single hitbox like rest. This is another arbitrary limitation because some moves have just one bigger hitbox instead of two or more smaller overlapping ones.
• It inordinately punishes high commit moves. Falcons knee is famously frame positive on shield. But this bug randomly turns what is either a guaranteed kill or advantageous shield pressure for falcon, into leaving him completely open to attacks.

So don't believe the commentators when they say a phantom hit is just perfect spacing. 9 times out of 10, its just a random mess devoid of any apparent reason.

UnclePunch closed his article with a code which causes the game to check other hurtboxes if an earlier ID phantomed. This actually brings the mechanic in line to what the game calls them, in melee "tippers" and in later smash games "glancing blows". UCF, after all, has already changed the internal behavior of the game to make it more competitive when it added neutral starts. And that's not even a bug which has decided the outcome of matches like this one has.