I think many people, like me, got mad at his opponent being saved by the cloud at Yoshi's Story and crying "it's random, you got saved by luck", but I thought, it can't be random, the cloud always travels on the same road and with the same speed, so it mmust have a lap time. Ok here's what i discovered.Cloud's cycle time is exactly 20 seconds: that means every 20 secs the cloud will do one lap and return on the start place.The cloud travels counterclockwise and stays 5 secs covered by the stage, then 5 secs on one side, then another 5 secs covered and the left 5 secs on the other side. It doesn't move for the first 10 sec of every match, then appears on the right side.How can you use these hints to your advantage? Well, in a stock battle with time limit, you can use the countdown on the top as your cronometer. You see, when the first digit on the left, that one of the secs, goes from 9 to 5, then the cloud is covered; if it goes from 4 to 0, then it is visible and steppable on. But which side is it on? The trick is watching the 2nd digit from the left, if it is odd, then the cloud is (or will appear soon) on the right side, if it is even then it is (or will be soon) on the left side.What you can use the cloud for? Well, maybe knowing that the cloud will be on a certain side soon could help a recovering Luigi, Mario or Doc that won't try to get the ledge, but instead stalling with their downb to wait for the cloud. But I think YOU should try and find some uses for this. (I guess everyone's recovery, and maybe some more, but who knows.