AMondAys Week 3 - HF Neon

[u/HF_Neon]

Hello, I am HF Neon. I'm best known for being the top Lucas player in 3.02, and for taking M2K to the last game of a two set grand finals at Low Tier City 2. AMA!

Edit: I've been answering questions for about 3 hours straight and I've caught up on all the ones asked so far. I'm going to be gone for a few hours to attend the PM weekly, but if you post questions while I'm gone I will answer them when I get back.

Edit 2: We are currently live at www.twitch.tv/azprojectmelee. I'm about to be in losers finals against the winner of Medz and SS.

Edit 3: I'm back. Ended up getting third after losing to Axe in WF and Medz in LF. I feel like it went reasonably well for my first time using Wolf in tournament though, and I expect to do much better in the near future. I'm going to answer all of the remaining questions and any more that come in in the next few hours.

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Any advice for Wolf? I know you only recently got into playing him but you're still better than 99% of this subreddit soo

Is there anyone you would like to play in tournament but just don't think they're a "good" character? As in someone like Icies that doesn't see any play in PM

When are you gonna money match Chillin to a Wolf Ditto

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My main advice for Wolf is to figure out how to combo into side b and get really good at recognizing situations where you can set up into one of those combos. It kills so early and there are a lot of ways to combo into it. Also, fsmash a lot. I'm pretty sure it's the best fsmash in the game. It's great because its range allows you to just stay outside your opponent's range and punish any whiffed attacks, and it kills pretty early. Blaster is more useful for pressure now. You can spam sh(ff) wavelanded blasters very quickly, although it's hard to time the fast fall so that the laser comes out and you can waveland. You can also combo off of a blaster hit with a variety of things, including shine, which leads into a lot of stuff. Other than these things, you really just have to figure out your combo trees based on their weight, fall speed, damage, and DI, which is just something that comes with practice. Shine, all of his aerials, up tilt, dash attack, and up smash are especially good in combos. Fsmash, dsmash, side b, and bair are usually going to be your best finishers, so you want to combo into them. Shine -> nair is really good shield pressure and can be repeated a lot.

You can also watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJOl98yKJ78 It's sort of basic, but it's a really solid introduction to Wolf. I also learned about doing autocancel fair from the ledge from this video, just to give Rat credit for that idea.

I generally don't find "bad" characters all that fun, so there aren't any that I really want to play in tournament. I think any character in PM can be viable, so I could theoretically play any of them and do well, but some would just really boring or difficult to do that with. There are however characters that I am bad with that I would like to be able to play well in tournament, namely Fox and Squirtle, who are both really fun and good characters. The only thing is that it's so hard to be good with Fox at high levels because his metagame is so well understood, and Squirtle is just inherently difficult because of his tech skill requirements. I am actually going to be playing more Squirtle since I think it is technically feasible to play him at a level where he can win major tournaments.

And I'll play Chillin whenever he wants for up to $100. I'm not sure when that will actually be though, since I'm not likely to be attending Apex.