I’m a Kirby main who wants to be better at smash. It’s going to be a hard endeavor since Kirby is infamously known as one of the worst competitive smash characters.

What I want to talk about today is a bad habit I have that I’ve noticed way too often. Shielding for too long and too much. Against someone is isn’t a pro, it works fine, but people who are experienced will attack with an aerial or jab, and then grab me since I hold shield out for too long.

Against characters who have good command grabs like incineroar, Ridley and bowser destroy me in disadvantage since I always shield too much.

Also against characters with tether grabs, like Luigi and samus have an easy time against my shield.

How do I fix this bad habit?

I've been playing on and off for about 5 years, but I've never used a secondary, just bounced around mains. I'm set atm on maining Aegis and have been practicing them hard for the past 2-ish months. Should I pick up a secondary? If so, when should I? And who should it be? I'm considering Joker or Cloud, but I'm open to any suggestions.

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IDK if its the console, game or controllers but the connection between the inputs and the outputs are acctually some of the worst in terms of delay and overall consistency of any game i have ever played , it feels like someone covered my controller in honey then fucked me. how is it that a game so horribly ping based can be so damn popular, im getting about 400 mbps on my compuiter but the switch is just slow as shit, disconnecting mid match leading to bans, and overall just shitty wifi to the point where its unplayable fuck this game