Falco (SSBM): Difference between revisions

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Falco is currently ranked 2nd in the ''Melee'' tier list. Falco has many combo openers and the options to extend them, allowing him to easily chain together highly damaging strings of attacks that are hard to [[DI]] out of. Falco's [[down aerial]] spike is one of the most feared moves in the game, as it has almost no starting lag, can easily be comboed into, and can score very fast gimps on characters with bad recoveries as well as KO efficiently at rather low percentages. He also possesses very effective edgeguarding options, such as his back air, forward and down smashes, and his aforementioned down air. Falco, however, is not flawless; he suffers from an extremely high falling speed but very low horizontal air speed, making him extremely vulnerable to chaingrabs and combos, especially from characters such as {{SSBM|Marth}}, {{SSBM|Captain Falcon}}, and {{SSBM|Jigglypuff}}. Additionally, he has one of the worst long-distance recoveries in the game, with both of his recovery options traveling extremely short distances. Regardless of these flaws, Falco's strengths greatly overwhelm his weaknesses and he has amazing matchups, lacking any negative ones (making him and Fox in ''Melee'', {{SSB|Pikachu}} in ''Smash 64'' and {{SSBB|Meta Knight}} in ''Brawl'' the only characters with no negative matchups) and having only a handful that are considered even.