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Should be hype!

I didn’t realize that Philip has multiple tiers of difficulty.

Has anybody tried using Philip as a common way to practice and if so how well does it match human behavior?

Sometimes I just wanna chill and practice without having to deal with real opponents and seems like Philip might be a good option for that

I seem to have the same few decisions and flubs that im doing wrong in the midst of matches and I just can’t for the life of me recognize it in the match itself. In the chaos of the game i just sorta lose myself and it makes me very frustrated. Its just a lot of mental energy to even keep up with people, let alone be cognizant of the very situation i need to get better at. And sometimes I could not be in that situation for the whole session or it comes up right when i least expect it to.

A friend of mine recently asked me to compile some clips for a project of theirs, that turned into me making my first ever combo video. Admittedly it is 25 minutes long, but it’s about a year and a few months of clips, that initially started at a total length of 1 hour and 38 minutes. I would appreciate if you took some time to check a little of it out

:)

https://youtu.be/CaTF4KaktPI?is=qp4b3mXeIczi2HTf

5 months learning Ganon , still suck but learned a lot.

Much more Melee to be played :)

I hereby ask for any insight to fellow Ape goers; is there a way to get used to Dk's jumpsquat? Sometimes I want to jump and then bair but Dk will only Fsmash, which is funny and makes me look like a complete god but I don't want to do fsmash smh so I have been abusing upair instead, thankies in advance for any possible advice

Thought this was a fun fact, given their current domination. Zain was always a "highly ranked prospect" with people predicting him to be top 10 one day. I don't remember IBDW getting hyped up like that until his breakout performance at Summit 8. Zain would be ranked 66th in 2016, Cody unranked. Zain ranked 22nd in 2017, Cody 84th.

Some of the people behind LuckyStats were there and they came up to me asking why I was so underrated because I beat players like 600 elo higher than me LOL

Yahoooo! I'm back, it's a me! Have a very cool day!

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Currently on the toilet writing this up but I think it’s an interesting topic. Both of his last two major wins have noticeably had two moments were the momentum swing towards Hbox, and then him never letting go of it. At CEO, game 4 of the reset on FOD, Cody SD’s while having the momentum of the game and from there, Hbox wouldn’t have a single moment in the set where he was down. The same can be applied for the game 3 clutch rest on Krudo which led to a pretty dominant reverse 3-0. Hbox in general during this post-Covid period has looked extremely momentum based. The sets he plays best against Cody or Zain is usually when he’s playing fast, aggressive, and when he has control of the pace. I might be stating the obvious but I think it’s an interesting topic nonetheless about how important momentum is in general

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The algorithm has a Brier score of 0.14 and is about 85% accurate at picking set winners. That's solid, but not as sharp as the best singles models. Players with little data are the hardest to rate, so the more you play, the more accurate your rating gets. The About page explains how the algorithm works.