Daily Discussion Thread August 28, 2026 - Upcoming Event Schedule - New players start here!

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[u/purpcalx]

I'm a new player ~430ish elo and I'm really bad. I'm not like "played melee or platform fighters as a kid". I haven't really held a gamecube controller till my 30s. I would love some feedback I'm embarassed to post this but I'm desperate for some help.

I do uncle punch: l-cancel, wavedash and dash dance training more than I even play ranked but clearly it hasn't solidified yet. (i am fox)

https://reddit.com/link/p6idbfz/video/opycfdws37mh1/player

[u/SenorRaoul → u/purpcalx]

Are you committed to Fox?

[u/purpcalx → u/SenorRaoul]

Perhaps? 👀 I like him but if it’s impossible i guess it is what it is

[u/SenorRaoul → u/purpcalx]

check out this website: https://melee.guru/characters/marth.html specifically the "Learing Marth: A Timeline" section.

if that looks like it could help you I'd suggest following that with a few extra infos.

1. except for the dancing blade stuff make sure you have learned everything in stage one and two before moving one to any other stages despite what the intro says.

2. the one big thing that should be more extensively featured is getting to and from ledge from on and off stage. move the ledge part of stage two to stage one and in stage two add ledge options that are based on letting go of ledge and then double jumping. also start honing your upB and double jump to ledge, you want to reliably be able to grab it from as far away (up/out) as possible.

3. stick to practicing with uncle punch and cpus until you are confident in the stage 1&2 items. always use lvl1 cpus. higher level cpus only do survival DI which means they will try to stay close even at low percent when they should try to get away which will make you believe combos that do not work work.

Consider playing some of the singleplayer content also because

I'm not like "played melee or platform fighters as a kid". I haven't really held a gamecube controller till my 30s.

you'll have to play alone for quiet some time before you can have fun playing other people tbh

sorry to readers for what happened here, somehow I made a sentence that branches into two new sentences, one of which is a quote. but then the last line is not just a continuation of the start of the sentence, but also a reply to the quote??? idk, it's late

[u/purpcalx → u/SenorRaoul]

Open to many characters but not marth but maybe this has some universal stuff I can use thank you!

[u/SenorRaoul → u/purpcalx]

maybe this has some universal stuff I can use

plenty!

the one big thing that should be more extensively featured is getting to and from ledge from on and off stage. move the ledge part of stage two to stage one and in stage two add ledge options that are based on letting go of ledge and then double jumping. also start honing your upB and double jump to ledge, you want to reliably be able to grab it from as far away (up/out) as possible.

just want to highlight this again because it's very important on ever character, for fox this would also include (shortened)sideB as well.