Hi NeoSmashers. I'm Checkmate, or CM for short. I'm really known as in the tourney scene/SWF as Hippiedude. I joined this site last summer around July only recommended by Etherlight to join a fresh starting crew called "Basic". From there on, I trained under this crew and this site, to get better. So here I am today with a striving smash goal.

I've written some guides on SWF, so I have a general knowledge of what I'm talking about. Here's some silly guides that I've made on my own. http://www.smashboards.com/search.php?searchid=2397541

But enough about me, This is about you Neo. I'm about to pull out a "class session" just for you students. Now I know many of Neo's smashers are already experienced and have read these kinds of things before, but it doesn't hurt to read it again for a fresh reminder of the basics as well. I'll be writing anything under the competitive scene, general player stuff, my own personal silly experiences and maybe some casual stuff like items since I know many Neo isn't competitive sided.

I'll be able to update this weekly/bi-weekly/monthly depending on my free time. Hope any of you find this useful. Let the class begin!

LESSON #1-Observation

This is without a doubt, the most important aspect of ANY game. Basketball, Soccer, Baseball, Handball, and yes lastly, videos games specifically Brawl.

This thing increased my own skill level by over 9000 hit points! Seriously. Observation is more player based thing. The best way to get better is through observation (aka WATCH YOUR OPPONENT!) You shouldn't even be looking at your controller, nor your character. ALWAYS LOOK AT YOUR OPPONENT! You should know what your inputting to your controls and know what's going to be the outcome!

Watching every move of your opponent is vital to winning. Does he airdodge after you do a aerial attack? Where does he DI after you hit him with a Fsmash? Does he put his shield after you ftilt'd him? Watching your opponents patterns, habits, and able to measure his tech skill is to win. If you can detect his patterns and habits very quickly, then you got yourself more than 50% of the battle in your favor.

Simple observation habits are : Rolling, Spotdodging, Shielding, Approaching, DI-ing, On the edge, Gimping and so forth. It keeps going on. But these are the more simple ones that any can point out quickly in a match.

Observation takes ALOT of time to train. You do not quickly get the skills for it, because it's a player processed thing so it can go either way for any player. It also takes time slowly to develop as well. Once you reach your max tech skill level, there's nothing to improve except pretty much observation skills.

At this level analyzing matches and decisions in play are key. Learning small things, like individual player habits with a given character, go a LONG way towards breaching the next level. Being able to quickly identify habits and patterns is the first step towards learning how to control players and establish the flow of the match. Simply put, observation skill is what dictates your personal growth. I very much recommend that players record their matches and analyze them. It makes it INCREDIBLY easy to pinpoint your problems as well as things you can expand and improve upon.

Summary
What have we learn today class? We learned that observation can go a very long way and is the BEST WAY to improve yourself in any match. Observation skills is what dictates your personal growth. Picking up player habits and taking it into your advantage in however you please is makes it in your favor. I hope you guys do your homework on this as it will reach you very high in the future.

Lesson #2-It's just friendlies..

Rust:CM is no nubb
hippiedudeCM :just cuz you rape me doesn't mean you have the right to call me n00b D:
Rust: I HAVEN'T CALLED YOU A NOOB
Rust: ;_;
hippiedudeCM: YOU JUST DID!
Rust: CM is quite Badass
hippiedudeCM: besides every time you rape me, I'm not playing srs nuff cuz it's just friendlies ._.

So some of you wonder, what is a friendly anyways? Well taken from SmashWiki.

quote Smashwiki

A friendly is a match that takes place during a tournament and at a tournament but is only used for practice. This means that the outcome will not be recorded. A friendly match can also be an online match, usually only two people, that are friends on Wi-Fi.

Now I know IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AT A TOURNEY. Here's a CM definition of a friendlies.

quote CM's definition

A match where no prize or title is on the line that is played for enjoyment or practicing new/old tactics. These matches are not meant to be overly competitive."

quote CM's definition

"I'd venture to say that you could also say that normal matches would be friendlies as well, as long as they aren't in tournament, and are actually played as they would in the tournament environment. (Ex; not FFAs)"

quote CM's definition

"A match where money is not on the line, and which does not count towards one's tourney placings"

Now that we've gotten the formal definition of a friendly, let's go indepth with it shall we?

Papa CM, why do you call it "it's just friendlies?" Well students, ask yourself, are you playing for anything? Are you playing for the best *insert character* title? Are you playing because you know your better then them? Well, *bleep* NO PEOPLE!!

Get it straight to your head that :WINNING OR LOSING DOES NOT MATTER IN FRIENDLIES WHAT SO EVER! It could be your favorite idol smasher (Boss<3), it's your arch smash rival, it could be someone whose a jerk and uses the friendlies you played to prove that their better. Well Johnny, TELL'EM IT'S *bleep*ING FRIENDLIES. It doesn't matter. But when there is money/pride/rep/etc, THE PRESSURE IS ON. A whole different game.

Now I'm talking from a offline and wifi but right now offline competitive environment aspect. I'll get into wifi abit later. If you w anna go to the wifi section (which many of Neo's people are, I'd highly advise you to skip the tourney/smashfest friendlies section and go to wifi friendlies in bold).

When your at a tourney, purpose of friendlies is to have fun and get yourself warmed up if you happen to enter the venue early. You'll want to play as much as possible friendlies before a tourney starts to get yourself preped, remember all your techs and what not. Remember you can lose a few in friendlies for the laughs, or just don't care. But PLAY TO WIN! usually in tourney settings, regionals, you'll want to play to win to maintain that tv spot so you won't have to move. Now don't take it as if your the champ but more of the smash who maintains the TV so he can keep playing as he can get better from analzying people, or just keep theirself occupied for time-being.

When your at a tourney (or smashfest with crewmates or friends), friendlies lets you do stupid things that you've always wanted to do. If you wanted to do a Shoryuken at Meta-Knight's Tornado, sure why not? If you manage to actually land that stupid thing you wanted to do, TRY IT AGAIN! This is how you invest techs into your game. The more you experiment, the more you find whether things can work, for yourself, for your playstyle, or maybe even for your character's meta-game. You JUST MIGHT contribute something to it if you can experiment stuff randomly. Do it in different sitauations that it might work. USE YOUR HEAD!

Now how about that Wifi friendlies hm? I pwnt you by using lucario and rolling and fsmashing you haha nubcake get wrecked!

No. You won because it worked on Wifi. But good games though.

This ^^. Many of Neoseeker's greatest problems boils down to this. Wifi at best are merely friendlies. You are not playing for money, rep, best character title, pride. YOU ARE PLAYING FOR FUN. Now people are affected by wifi because everyone is so different since many can attend tourneys and play some wifi, or people just wifi train to get better at offline tourneys (CMpowertraining<3) or some people just wifi because they can't go to tourneys or vice versa.

But no matter who you are, what character you play, what skill level you are at, remind yourself that it's just WIFI. Wifi brings a different aspect of brawl because input lag and lag itself is 2 sided and can vastly affect a person's game play. Many smasher's favorite characters could have a upper advantage on wifi (lucario) or some can have a very huge disadvantage (Marth).

Learning to accept a loss when you know your better then that person on wifi is the hardest thing can do espically for people who have anger issues and take everything seriously. : But in all srsness, take it like a man (or a women like Menkoy<3) accept it, say GGs, lol and move on. Input lag screwed you over? Ok then just move on, DO NOT JOHN.

Wifi johns Everyone has these. It's the most brought up on wifi history. People expect these and tend to back up whatever arguement they'll pull and cause a flame war, stress and probably a GC controller if your on a roll. But seriously don't try to wifi john. It causes stress, anxiety for a player and they don't want to hear *bleep*ing shit from you. If it's *bleep*ing laggy, get the *bleep* away from that room and look for a better connection. Everyone gets affected by wifi in many different ways because players could be so used to wifi, that there isnt really wifi lag compared to a player whose dedicates their time to the REAL DEAL (VH<3).

Beating your favorite idol pro smasher doesn't mean shit Seriously. it's just a friendly to them. Majority of the time, they'll just lol and make this face --> seeing wtf happened. Why? Because they know their far better then you, they win money, they get to play the REAL DEAL. Alot of the times they'll just be fooling around, or testing something, or trying to read a particular matchup. But to them it's a friendly on wifi. Don't take it your better then them because chances are, if you fight them on offline, you might just get m2k'd raped by. (This category has been specifically pointed at ChocoNaner for his non-sense that he spreads. Read this carefully Choco.)

Summary

So what have we learned class? *Students = It's just Friendlies Papa CM.."

Yes it quite is. The point of friendlies is to not care about winning or losing, it's still a play to win game, but the experiments you do, the more you play at a higher level, the better you become.

In friendlies, you can ask a person whom you think is definitely better and the right person to be asking for what stuff your doing wrong, what's more viable in what situation, or a overall critique.

If your feeling confident with someone, ask them to play a serious game, or more like a money match when you feel you have pinpointed your skill level from his. Just make sure you don't john and cry about it lol. Also friendlies has no pressure on you at all; but when you money match someone, both of you are pressured so it'll lead to nervous-ness so take the money match as if it was a friendly but still be serious to play to win because money is on the line here.

Next Lesson-Ledgeguard Habits. (Subject to change unless someone really needs a specific lesson lol


This message was edited by Checkmate on Jun 23 2009.

This message was edited by Checkmate on Jun 23 2009.

This message was edited by Checkmate on Jun 23 2009.

quote ChocoNaner

"See what they do then own them with reads"

I can haz cookie? :3

You get 2 AND beer bottle for being a good boy since you do your homework often.

Lol of course I know what I'm talking about. I'M FROM THE *bleep*ING SOS BRIGADE HOMIES!!

@ SF Stop being such a good boy.

@ PoS thanks

@ Menk, I'll definitely put that in for sure. And yes I admit because I got motivated of more than of my 4 sentence srs posts <3

What's wrong with Haruhi? Haruhi can be a good model and teacher ._.

go get your own class. neoseeker's my students, their MY scrubs to toy with and my nubs to beat with. gtfo <3

quote WiseLugia

quote Checkmate

go get your own class. neoseeker's my students, their MY scrubs to toy with and my nubs to beat with. gtfo <3

*whistles*

I blame you for making me so good at this game.

quote MastaHazuki

quote TDL12344

Is it just me or does drunk haruhi have bigger boobs than when she isn't drunk?

Is this a problem?

I think everyone's focusing on the problem of having Haruhi drunk teacher then the lesson itself.

quote GirugaMarc

quote TDL12344

Is it just me or does drunk haruhi have bigger boobs than when she isn't drunk?

proly fanmade?.

but I'm not gonna lie

I've been looking at the drunk Haruhi more than the actual lesson xD

no offense, CM. I did get around to reading the whole thing

It's alright I figured that anyways considering Neo's full of nubs who can't read more than 4 sentences anyways. Also I'm pretty known to make silly pics of haruhi (like my avy on SWF).

And rust, Egale was like 2nd or 3rd, you were about 4th or 5th when you joined Basic

</3

This could explain why you'll never beat Panda like this TDL <3.

And lol, I forgot AL is marth boards still. Maybe I am Junk, probably sexier and better.

Then that's your fault for cping that stage and/or letting him pick that stage.

Lrn2Tech/banstages/read.

Then lrn2PS scrub.

That means I have to give a full lesson on why you should powershield? Why? Because scrubs like TDL get a small lasting hit by Snake's of the sex kick.

Haha. It really does put it in your favor.

Maybe Yuki can do the next lesson. Sure why not. Though I was thinking in the lines of some thing exotic like Haruhi's uber sexy big boobs pic, but I know this site is filled with 9 years old so I'll keep it within limits lol >_>.

Lol dude my observation skills ARE 1337 TOP TIER! Well not for all characters like MK and Wario >_> But my reflexs are so fail which is why I don't place what I want to place. But if only my reflexs were top tier with my observation skills, then omg lol.

oh and I like pr0nz too. Rofl. <3

Lol it's my b-day yeah I know I'm purty old too >_>.


--Might change the lesson to something else, dunno.

Sorry AL can't go. If I did, we'd *bleep*ing rape teams haha lol. I don't have any money even tho i have bday cash lol. And I don't think my mom will approve of me going to jersey as a 17 year old and coming back home late. And my moms been pissy about tourneys for past two weeks since i wasted so much.

and lol, AL just stalked my board and my thread and hijacked it

Idk. maybe the ledge habits Menk told me on. Idk give topics ? lol. but I do hear alot of people complaining about raging over wifi, when ITS JUST FRIENDLIES. so iunno. i love women.

*Bumped

Got Lesson 2 on. Did this at 2am because I am that bored with life. Yes someone kill me. If it makes someone happy i'll maybe find a pic or not

u can go to summary if ur that lazy. but then again, the lazy will always fail. like tdl and his last hit of the sex kick.

lrn2readn00b.

Choco is a very fast learning student.

You people should learn how to be like Choco, you might just earn the golden nubtard award. Oh and a cookie as well.

quote Ready Start L_Arc

people actually say 'GGs' irl?

Yeah they do. Honestly doesn't make a difference. I say it with fashion and like a geek by like saying " GGS HOMIE! NIKKA I'LL BUST YO ASS NEXT TIME IIGHT THAT'S KEWL" <3

Lol playing gay isn't teachable.

quote Menkoy

quote Military G

CM what is the best way to stop a nado spammer with TL and Marth?.

I think Marth can counter it if it's coming at him (can he? I don't remember too well ._.) or if you're in it Dolphin Slash out.
TL can probably blow it up with a bomb? Or dair it, I think that works.

The best thing to do is just shield it though, seriously.

CM fails so I doubt he knows how to get through nado any better than that ^

Scrub. I tipper Mks before out of their nado. It's possible .

quote AlMoStLeGeNdArY

Good shit CM can you make one on how no to get shield grabbed and how to space properly?

How about you go to bed? Jk lol. Just attack someone with spacing at tipper range and you just got yourself no shieldgrabbed. Hooray! Ahaha. But otherwise yeah I'll definitly do this without a doubt seeing as how I play as Marth as well and main characters who always get shield grabbed and play close combat range.

Overconfidence is bad. I know it sucks lol. When I approach with Marth's Fair, I usually go for retreating Fair then FFAD buffer to a shield just in case they shielded my retreating Fair.

quote Military G

CM what is the best way to stop a nado spammer with TL and Marth?.

To answer to this: For Marth=

If Mk is coming towards you with Nado (loln00b)

with mucho room to breath= Fsmash them (should be tipper to an extent)

if you don't have that much time = shield (point the shield angled upwards to prevent shield stabs)

just barely enough room = use downb otherwise counter.

If they're going with grounded tornado = pivot grab

When mk is hitting your shield with tornado. You have some options, it'll be your job to choose the right one at the give situation.

When Mk tornados directly above you (maybe the length of Marth's head) = just shield, don't attempt OoS upb you'll get punished.

If Mk is in death range and/or you have little shield is near off the edge somewhat = oos upb

if mk weaves in and out with tornado, punish with dancing blade when they finished nadoing.


I'll do TL later, sleepy unless someone like PoS can answer to this.

quote Zumma

What does FFAD mean?

Basically what AL said.

if you know what buffering means it means that in brawl you can input the controls you want and as soon as you land it'll do it asap the second you get on the ground. that's how Boss moves so quick with luigi and mario.

*seconds marth and won against a close game with mk* lol shit theres not really much of a choice in seconding someone for mk. it's relatively pointless lmao. cuz either way, ur gonna have to put 1337 haxs on that char like let's say diddy kong lawl

good mks make the game bad to play

/end

quote koreanstriker93

stop johning to beat my john, lolz...idc if mk doesnt make the game fun, you still have to play them in tourney, and marth wont beat him in tourneyy...

I hope you realize I was joking AND at the same time was right.

I blame the internet T.T.

quote Ready Start L_Arc

Kadaj is the best Marth, right?

He got 2-0'd and 3 stocked at one point by DJ nintedo. And DJ doesn't even play/like brawl at all. This was iirc money match or most likely tourney match.

Why do I sense non-sense and words of wall of text in my thread?

quote falcowned992

Papa CM, I have a question. Is it cool to chainspike people in friendlies?

Well Young Falcoowned, I don't see why not? I mean, your showing off your flashy skills in friendlies. Just make sure you can still show it off in a real match or you'll get lol'd in rl lulz.

That's how I thought when I got a 0death on ninjalink in a friendlie, then in tourney match, he showed no mercy to me with massive 2-3 stocking. ._. made me cry badly

quote Ready Start L_Arc

quote Checkmate

quote falcowned992

Papa CM, I have a question. Is it cool to chainspike people in friendlies?

Well Young Falcoowned, I don't see why not? I mean, your showing off your flashy skills in friendlies. Just make sure you can still show it off in a real match or you'll get lol'd in rl lulz.

That's how I thought when I got a 0death on ninjalink in a friendlie, then in tourney match, he showed no mercy to me with massive 2-3 stocking. ._. made me cry badly

well don't most pros sandbag in friendlies?

WELL IT FELT GREAT THAT I GOT TO BEAT NINJALINK'S PT, JIGGS AND HIS MARIO IN FRIENDLIES WITH MY LUIGI OKAY.

THAT'S A HUGE ASS MOTHER*bleep*ING ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR ME. IT'D BE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR YOU TO OKAY.

*bleep* someone *bleep*ing *bleep* me right now. jesus christ i don't accept WoT in mah thread unless IM MAKING IT NUGGUHS SHIT MAN IT *bleep*ING BURNS MY *bleep*ING EYES.

shit censor dodging ftw.

oh I am a girl irl.

Wall of text.

meaning words that do not go through cm's head and burns his eyes.

oh and tdl, ur observation skills are crap if you can't techchase me with snake's dthrow lululzz

it's k. people will never know my true gender anyways.

almost like michael jackson too. srsly.

AND TDL TRY HARDER ON WIFI. IT ENCOURAGES RAGING OVER SILLYINESS IF YOU READ THE THREAD NUGGUH

Haven't we gone through this arguement before with mk =/= snake? Snakes are still cakewalkable. And you can still lol to yourself and say they actually had skill in beating you.

Besides, make yourself useful and just say, banning mk is pointless because your gonna forget how to fight 1 anyways.

tourney tmr, most likely will do a write up if i do well which wont happen lawl

Lol thanks, but I really want to prove it with the results I WANT >_> (top 8 pls God D: ) but yeah, gone through some tourneys, maybe not vh's or masta's level but I got the surface of it. Prolly my best tourney placing was my 1st one was 25/100 in monthly tourney with pure Mario bros. I think that was luck rofl.

someone *bleep* me pls. i got 5/14 in dubz (sastified) and some bullshit placing in singles. *bleep*ing hate d3 and dk. *bleep*ing stupidass powerhouses for no *bleep*ing reason

kk done raging. possibly next lesson might be on "why you must need to get 1st kill in a game"

idk, after i get knocked out of a tourney i just get depressed because of how stupid it is that i get knocked out >.>

i mean when im playing im constantly telling myself that im playing to win and that i play for my goal and shit and that i dont give 2 flying *bleep*s who im fighting or w/e but still eh >.>

Your sentences are so long PoS =[ but otherwise i get your point i get it all the time lol. i mean shit i know when im out played if its ninjalink or basic sausage lolz

oh wow LMFAO! i thought i did bad LMAO. well 17/33 isn't THAT bad but still close to top 8 status but oh well. i thought i was gonna be like 26/33 lmfao.

i won against 007 i had the chance to 3 stock his marth but i was having fun looking for jab taunt upb lol.

then i lost to a close set with basic sausage whose a top d3 player, whom he always knocks me out in tourneys, i actually did pretty ok for his d3 but offstage is amazing.

then i lost to pope some random jackass whom i shoulda beaten imo cause i 2 stocked him with mario against his dk in first round then it was close set cuz he cp'd deflino / d3 and the matchup is like 8/2 then i cp'd bf with marth and he changed to dk but i had to be a *bleep*ing asshole because i forgot the cp process so he took adv of it. and it ended up with a close last hit or die gimp thing, cuz his dk bthrow'd me and i di'd up so i knew he was gonna ledgedrop bair me but i just planned on FF'd to lower corner down right blast zone and planned on db'd stall and gimp him but his bair still got me by the tip of the foot and i was like next to blast zone so i died. shit is *bleep*ing stupid. how the *bleep* did i 2 stock with mario and just barely win with marth so *bleep*ing stupid lol w/e tho. my fault for not remembering the cp process

OKAY CLASS, SO START LEARNING WTF TO DO IN DOUBLES KK. AND DON'T DISS YOUR TEACHER ABOUT LOSING TO INUI AND ATOMSK BECAUSE I BET NONE OF YOU (EXCEPT MAYBE MASTA BECAUSE HE GOT HOES) WILL GET THEM DEAD. kthx.

i got tourney matchs against inui and atomsk, my luigi is so zoning rape.

http://www.smashboards.com/showpost.php?p=7738772&postcount=235

yeah we got raped on bf LMAO. but it's a fun experience. i felt bad that i had to take minty's last stock on halberd and ended up him dying the very last second so i had a fresh stock. i just wondered what would have happened if it was marth vs wolf/snake XD. but i got inui around 90%s from 0% so that's good lol.

oh and singles is gay btw.

edit: wow in first match i had some really good di on each stock lmao

k bumping this thread up for a certain little girl who thinks shes on auto pilot mode. Hopefully this will help for some of you guys from time to time. And I hope that girl doesn't kill me because I called her little lol.

dont kille me plz for double post.

It's top secret bsns. She'd be prolly same level as you AL lol.

It's this girl

Who doesn't wanna stop sucking at this game ? lol.

oh and this thread is possbily the greatest thread that mankind has given. It'd prolly answered all of my questions to why i suck so much at this game too. i'd advise anyone to read this shizdig, but it'll take a WHILE.

http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=106060

i fap off to that thread everyday

godamit menk you always give me a different recommendation every time you post.

go make your own homo class thread. i'll be the elite 4 and you'll be the gym leader. kk kewl.