Frostbite 2020 SSBU Grand Finals Maister (Game and Watch) vs Mkleo (Byleth) Analysis

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHoaIDC1d1E&t=1378s around 20 minutes in

    Mkleo immediately runs back fair then runs up and shields. He nairs out of shield and gets a hit since Maister decided to attempt to jump and nair, but got stuck out before he could get into nair hitboxes out. Leo decides to do a run back back air and it hits. I think the reason why he threw out the move was because he adapted to Maisters playstyle and knew that Maister would attempt to nair instead of sit in shield or roll. This can be seen when Mkleo throws out down tilts to bait out approaches and shields after so he can punish what Maister does afterward. He up bs and follows it with a fast fall back air. He did this since side b would not have connected do to Maisters di.

    Maister is now off stage. Leo baits out the bucket by starting up a neutral b and then cancelling it. He chooses to not edge guard and instead ledge traps by spamming aerials outside of the get up attack range. After hitting Maister’s shield he immediately rolls to avoid getting punished. He attempts to punish Maisters nair with nair out of shield, but it works out since Maister decided to spot dodge. He gets Maister off stage after landing a nair to dash attack combo. He starts to get comboed by Maister by whiffing a fair punish. To get out of disadvantage he fast falls with nair. He shields the instant he lands on the platform to prevent Maister from doing a falling aerial.

    He jumps above the platform above Maister to bait out an attack from Maister and drifts back fairs Maister to get him off stage. He throws out aerials and gets the kill with a well spaced bair.

    Maister up bs to get out of the ledge and Mkleo catches it with Up B weak spot bair. He forces an up b with forward air and chases him with up air. To avoid the key he jumps backwards. Uses bow when off stage when Maister was on the other side of the stage. Side b to punish misspaced bair. Run away bairs a lot.

    Nairs out of shield a lot, but it’s punishable so he gets up bed by g and watch. They trade a few pokes and then mkleo gets an up b after Maister jumps from ledge. Since he went for a di away read the previous 2 times, he goes for a di read inward this time and it pays off. He falling back airs for ledge trapping and gives up too much space. He hits Maister off stage with a dash attack. For his ledge trap he does an empty hop facing the other direction since he had conditioned Maister to expect a back air every time. He then goes for a ftilt after the empty hop.

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