Palutena Coach

[warm lantern]

Who are you requesting?
A Palutena coach.

What is your time zone?
EST

What specifically do you need help with?
I mostly need to improve my neutral, combos, and kill confirms, in that order. I find that it can be difficult to get out of neutral, and when I do I only tend to get off one or two hits that don't kill until high percents (170+).

When are you typically available?
Usually 5:30-9:00 EST on Tues-Fri. Available essentially the whole day on Monday, as long as I'm awake. Weekends are inconsistent.

How long have you been playing the game for?
I've been playing Ultimate since a week after release, but I've only recently (about 3 months ago) started to play more competitive, adopting Palu as my main.

Can I VC?
Yes.

[odd solstice]

i dont main palu, however i use them for squad strike and feel like i can help out. What about neutral as palu are you having the biggest issues with?

[magic bison]

@past vapor

If you can

[odd solstice]

spair is also great for this yeah

[warm lantern]

I'm not great at using her projectiles to properly put pressure on people (or I go in too fast trying to use nair an get punished)

I'm also just not really sure how to get out of neutral outside of hoping a low risk aerial connects or my opponent does something wrong, since it feels like all my pressure moves have too much risk behind them

[magic bison]

For the most part, sticking to neutral b is the main thing you should do unless they have insane burst range. You can use flare if/when they are backing up bc of projectiles or other things. Try to not overuse these though since they are pretty laggy. They’ll probably tell you abt nair stuffs more specifically

[odd solstice]

palus projectiles, and id also love spairs thought on this. but i mainly see neutral B as a way to slow down the tempo and to disrupt my opponent from getting a spell from menu or charging their blaster etc. side b is more for like ledgetrapping, edgeguarding, and make it harder for your opponent to land

[warm lantern]

Yeah that's generally how I've been using side B, usually either to block the ledge or hit in the air when my opponent is falling down
Neutral B I either forget about or use too often tbh, but it does help with disrupting other zoners (esp the Links)

[magic bison]

Btw when i say this I don’t mean you should use neutral b a lot but out of these two you should use it more

[warm lantern]

I remember I read that down tilt can two frame and i tried to incorporate that into my ledgeguarding strats but i've never done it a single time properly so i switched back to either dsmash or side b

[warm lantern]

Yeah, that's what I gathered, esp bc side b is so punishable on whiff

[magic bison]

Try to understand what you’re two framing

That’s match up knowledge though I think

[past vapor]

hm

my bad

[past vapor]

i would say palu's projectiles arent really something that you wanna use too much, i still kinda overuse neurtal b sometimes but it has a use in neutral for small pokes and things. side b is def a catch movement, edgeguard, combo extend kinda move

[past vapor]

with how safe fair is you can mix in empty hop, short hop fair and grabs to try and catch a defense pattern

or how they try to punish you for jumping