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Calm down everybody–not that kind of trump. With Smash 4’s changes to the ledge, where players can push other players off it in a process called “ledge trumping,” a whole meta has developed around whether to trump or not. In their quest to advance the Smash 4 meta, the Beefy Smash Doods have dedicated a whole video to the power of faking a ledge trump.

They outline two major ways to fake an edge trump, by either just dashing to the ledge and waiting for the opponent’s get up option, or by jumping off stage and then jumping back on to line up with their get up. The Beefy Smash Doods suggest dashing to the ledge to fake a trump, then doing a short hop back-air to cover both the roll and jump get up options. Quite a few characters can autocancel their back-airs, meaning that the back-air whiffs, you can then punish with your most damaging option. This short hop back-air does not cover a get up attack, but seeing as that is the most uncommon and slowest option off the ledge, you could just full hop to avoid most get up attacks.

You can also footstool a player jumping back on stage, which can force them to regrab the ledge. You can then punish the ledge regrab with a meteor or a down-tilt, seeing as the recovering player loses their ledge invincibility.

Source: Beefy Smash Doods

You’ve watched tournaments, you’ve poured over frame data and you can recite lines from the Smash Brothers documentary by heart; now it’s time to start playing Super Smash Bros. Melee. However, unlike most fighting games, getting started with Melee take a little bit more set up time than something Street Fighter V or King of Fighters XIV. In order to instruct new players on what to get and where to get it, SSBM Tutorials has created a comprehensive beginner’s guide on how to begin your Melee career.

The guide first tackles getting all the kit needed to play Melee. If you want to go the old fashioned route, this means finding a physical copy of the game, a Gamecube or Wii to run it on, a CRT television to avoid input lag along with a Gamecube controller. If you are wanting to use an emulated version of Melee in order to play netplay, you’ll need a computer capable of running the Dolphin emulator and the Netplay build of Melee, alongside a Gamecube controller adapter.

Once the physical aspect of playing Melee is out of the way, the rest of the guide details how to pick a character, how to learn basic tech skill and where to look to improve as you are learning the basics. Seeing as they are called SSBM Tutorials, I’m sure they may have a few videos to help you out.

Source: SSBM Tutorials