Stomp On Foes for Footstool Combos Straight Out of Shield, Courtesy of the Beefy Smash Doods

As popularized by Kamemushi’s devastating footstool combos with Megaman, footstooling someone out of shield can be a fantastic way to punish landing opponents. While it’s not for every character and you can’t expect to just footstool someone every time they land a hit on shield, knowing the correct situation for a footstool out of shield could be the difference between resetting to neutral or taking a stock.

Using Megaman, cFive from the Beefy Smash Doods take viewers through the step by step process of when a footstool out of shield would be a prime punish. In this case, they show how a shielding Megaman could successfully footstool a Sheik who had just landed a miss-spaced forward-air on shield, in order to lead into a Metal Blade kill combo. The amount of variables going into this one interaction shows just how situational a footstool out of shield is–but with fast enough reactions and a misspaced move, it can net you an easy kill.

Following the initial example, cFive then explores how perfect shielding a move can actually make a footstool punish easier to pull off, before finally showing off some setups with characters like R.O.B., Bowser Jr., Diddy Kong, and Ganondorf. A whole lot of information to digest–but if mastered, the footstool out of shield can do serious damage.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods