#How to fight Elli as SK?

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lime bison
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Whenever I fight an Elliana I keep getting walled out by steam and camped (and feel forced to approach) by projectiles. I also struggle to recover against Elli’s projectiles. Any help with recovering or neutral is appreciated.

cursive talon
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Keep in mind that steam cannot hit you if you have an active hitbox near it

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SK is definitely the approacher in that MU, mostly because Elli wants to play to whiff punish and if she gets hit, she's going to take 60%+

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The SK matchup is one of the ones where Elli can struggle to recover because of how much pressure SK can apply at the edge. Setting up rock or gear already forces her to use a bunch of heat to contest or move around them. She also has to be a lot more scared of up/back air in the corner because she can die to up air combos off the top as early as 50%

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On the recovery front, you'll have a much easier time if you can get to the wall. Being at wall makes it much harder for Elli to snipe you with missiles and she has to back off a bit or else she'll eat one of SK's huge hitboxes from under the stage

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Elli does have an easier time punishing your up special landing than most because of access to missile and her air speed, so that is generally a last resort when you're offstage (unless she's not respecting it at the corner of the stage, then she'll just get hit by it and you can probably combo a strong attack out of the landing hit)

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Up tilt is a very solid move for you in the matchup since it covers a large amount of the space where Elli wants to be, plus you can get up airs off of it

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Keep in mind that both gear and gaunts will beat/trade with missile, so they are solid approach tools once you have access to them

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Also back air

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My bad for the wall of text. SK is my most played matchup in local tournaments so I have many thoughts

lime bison