G&W stuff



You can bait up b, then punish him as he comes down. He can b reverse bacon, double jump, dair (which is easy to punish) or do nothing, so he has quite a few mix-ups. Find out how your character can cover at least 2 of these options, or cover what the GnW player does the most on the way down. Ex: Shield pressure him with an aerial at a safe distance away from his up b hitbox, which is smaller than shine) then aerial him as he goes up. Characters with swords have an easier time doing this.



GnWs best throw is uthrow, it leads to guaranteed uair and nair a lot of the time. Try not to di GnWs throws anywhere and see where he throws you. If he does Uthrow, he can either nair you which will end the combo, or combo you with u air. Thing is, if you di and sdi away from GnW, he has a really hard time comboing you off of the uair. You can also SDI Gnw's up b, but it's trickier because knowing what angle you'll be hit at is pretty hard. Always try to tech when you're thrown because he could be down throwing you, but beware if you're a fast faller because you can get tech trapped with up throw.



Lots of GnWs fair from ledge. Best thing to do is crouch cancel where the soft part will hit, then punish.



You can crouch cancel GnW's bair, and shield the last few hits and then grab/fastest oos option. Make sure you time it right, because he'll probably up b afterwards, which remember puts him into a bad situation. Also SDI AND DI BAIR AWAY. It combos into really good kill moves. Everybody I played di'd in and got up air up b up air killed off of it.



If he approach with fair, shield grab lol.



I don't think GnW is too good, but he def needs some things toned down. Up throw needs to be nerfed, & bucket braking needs to be removed. Plus matching animations with hit hitboxes. GnW is #1 if you don't SDI his nasty punishes. Also, REWORK SIDE B. 1/3 chance to get a 9 is dumb. Up throw into 9 is dumb. Watch me vs Dakpo where he gets like ten 9 hammers lmao.





Holy crap I got so much hate lmao. GnW is super godlike at low and mid level, so I guess that's where some of the salt comes from?