Headbops aren't just baits. They're combo extenders and multipliers. They cancel your landing lag, and give you frame 1 invincibility. Head bops are broken
#9 works really well b/c its basically conditioning your opponent to think you're bad when in reality they are just falling into your trap card. Have used in tourney and 10/10 would recommend
First character that came to mind when it comes to that situation considering he can very easily get out of it. Especially since it is one of his best stages.
Mason Newlin yes exactly, I still win because I’m by far the better player but they make me look like an idiot more times than one just because I try to punish the "good option" that they don’t even think about and instead they just mindlessly attack me
Honestly, banana boy has some of the best competitive smash videos on TH-cam. They're very intelligent and use subtle humor to keep the mood light while being extremely informative. Keep it up, Banana Boy! 👍
With the combo of silly and fun to watch visuals and literally the best tech in TH-cam, you are the best banana boy out there :) Only thing I don’t like is how I have to wait a week but I’ll live
One thing I like to do at ledge as Lucas is to throw out a bunch of down tilts and then block the getup attack with up smash invincibility. It also works with down smash sometimes. It works way too often and is incredibly rewarding.
You forgot a usage for head bopping, which would be standing up and headbopping your opponent irl to cause them severe pain. This works every time for me! 😅
I’m using these guides not only for Smash but for any Platform Fighter, or any fighting game in general. The humor combined with the usefulness… you got a sub! 😊
3 min. into watching this on my tv, looking through your other video thumbnails/titles on my phone, great stuff. Well made, informative, and funny. Subscribed. Love that you don't make videos every day either, spacing things out isn't just for swordies ;)
nice video! can bring beginners or intermediates up to the next level! Baiting is a pretty vital part of fighting games in general since, as you mentioned, it's how you get the opponent to become open.
Thanks for the tips. Now it's time for me to try to apply these to my next battles only to end up failing and ragequitting like I always inevitably do.
I just wanted to say thank you for these videos. I've been studying and taking to heart the advice you've given, and finally got my bowser in elite smash a week ago for the first time. I've got a lot of improving to go still, and every video you make helps me understand what more I could be thinking about!
As Ness, I love conditioning players with PK Thunder 1 so that they'll air dodge every time. Then by the time they're at kill % they'll see PK Thunder and airdodge right into PK Thunder 2.
As a yoshi player I use passing over the shield quite a bit, it can also be useful to do it with down air in a situation that can lead to a shield poke because down air can set up tech situations and if it doesn't poke landing on the other side buys you a little extra time which can be very helpful against slower characters. I also like fastfalling nair so that I land far enough away from a grab, the nair won't hit but can bait an out of shield option.
DUDE! Those transitions though! My childhood!!! Nobody even uses screensavers anymore because they realized the best way to ACTUALLY save screen energy was sleep mode 😂
#9 is so useful. I met a fellow R.O.B. Player at a live tourney who liked to spotdodge into down Smash (which is a nice option, I use that now), but he used it all the time and never got punished for it. So I got hit by it a couple of times in our ditto and punished it the only time it mattered, to close a final stock. It was particularly sweet because he was definitely the better player, but seeing that habit and waiting to punish it was basically a free stock for me that I could claim at my leisure.
The #10 is the most dangerous thing in this earth... I miss input and charged an smash in neutral last stock last hit and true combo head bops into Fsmash 💀
On a slightly serious note to the head bop: I kinda felt the rhythm there. It makes sense it's like this conditioning yourself in to actively remembering the blank in the rhythm of the fight. Like imagine the "Ba-Dum--Tss" beat. The first two represent the combo to get your opponent offstage. Then the head bop for the blank, because you don't want to just spam, and then the finale. Weird metaphor, but works for me
Bonus tip: If you get buried by a move and every time you mash out your opponent hits you, you can start faking like you're about to mash and just abrubtly stop. The opponent will expect you to pop out and preemptively try to attack. You'll stay buried in the ground safely. It's a mixup at best but holy hell it's funny when it works. Also, I'm gonna try that head bob thing lmao Genius
This video was a great refresher for things I used to do a lot but kinda stopped thinking about lol. The baiting an early up B offstage for example I used liberally to beat a player on my city’s PR a few months ago, but then I kinda forgot about it and got lost in the details of trying to focus on implementing other tech with more diminishing returns on my time investment. Gotta start going back to my roots. Never forget KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid.)
your #8 tip about fake attack the ledge grabber to get them to try to punish you is something that I know about, but absolutely get hit for all of the time!
Quick bait tip: if you are pressuring someone’s shield, and they release shield, you want to spot dodge, as they will probably go for a hard punish (like a smash attack) or a grab.
I have nothing else so i'm going to write my answers down for the list of what i'd do 1. SPIKE people offstage 2. Building a LEAD of OPPONENT'S MISTAKES 3. Empty JUMP grabbing 4. PERFECT spacing 5. Jumping ON and AROUND a platform 6. Beating everything but WHAT THEY WANT TO DO 7. MOVING towards THE OPPONENT 8. Using LINGERING attacks near LEDGE 9. TRY to punish PREDICTABLE options 10. Take inspiration from VODS on MY DECENT COMBOS THAT COULD BE BETTER
I forget how good your videos are until I watch one. Byu joke? Check. Monkey ball music? Check. That special bananaboy charm and silliness? Check. Interesting and entertaining editing? Check. Your videos seriously have it all.
I've found that the most useful bait in my arsenal is to fake a habit. Everybody wants to look smart and punish a habit, so getting them right into the spot where they want to punish it, then punishing them for it feels great. I have turned so many edgeguard attempts around
Not gonna lie I have never done a successful tomahawk because everyone mashes tf out of their o.o.s. option as soon as I hit the ground before I can grab. But people don’t know how to adapt so I end up shielding their up special or whatever mode it is the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc time they do it and then smash attack or combo them.
I’ve been trying to get good at the game as it is my dream to compete in tournaments. I’ve been trying to get some tips from other players to help me master the main characters I use. Thanks sir.
Ok I have a little story for this. The situation: Me as Ness, younger brother as Terry, Older brother as Little Mac. Something I kept doing was tricking Little Mac into using special moves on the terry when he was aiming for me, and it was SO satisfiying.
A Tomahawk is actually just a jump into landing without doing anything. That’s why you hear “Tomahawk Grab” or “Tomahawk Forward Smash” It’s important as a timing mixup as well as catching people off guard
#9 is pretty good as well, I personally use it when someone retreats to the center of the stage, usually by warp with a Zelda or Mewtwo up-b or something...
#10 worked like a charm. I was fighting someone in Elite Smash and once I bobbed my head, they fell for the bait easily.
Headbopping will win Evo.
I'm surprised no one was r/wooshed by this comment
Yo one time I headbobbed and baited the cpu and backthrew him for the win, totally works
LMAO Luigi agrees!!
“It just works”
Headbops aren't just baits. They're combo extenders and multipliers. They cancel your landing lag, and give you frame 1 invincibility. Head bops are broken
do it too much tho and they really will be broken irl
Only thing more broken than headbops is headpats UwU
Caitlin Phelps head pat gives u invincibility for the next 30 matches
@@kittengold9814 headpats will temporarily stun your opponent and leave them vulnerable for "punishment"
10:57 i wasnt prepared for this
OoOoOh YeAh OoOoOh YeAh MaRiO *OOOH YEAH*
ImA gOnNa GeTcHu
It's basically Mario rapping about how he's baiting you for a grab, gets it, and kills you for it 😂
Soledad33 we got 69 likes
I haven’t heard that song since the Flipnote Hatena days
Rejected video title:
How to be a master baiter
Svenni Tayivek lol
@Vsus Here That's.. That's the joke, it's a pun.
@Vsus Here Fair enough
#9 works really well b/c its basically conditioning your opponent to think you're bad when in reality they are just falling into your trap card. Have used in tourney and 10/10 would recommend
"trap card"
KUNAI WIT CHAIN
Ahh yes, I'll make sure to head bop when I'm getting bodied in quickplay to assert dominance over my opponent
cottonfreesocks i feel like if your in an irl battle it could actually be useful
You can headbob like you're actually winning and make everyone thinks you're actually winning. This could actually anger the opponent into a mistake.
Bop --> Blazer = dominance combo
I love how smashes the most uncomplicated complicated game
"So how did you win Evo?"
"Well I started headbanging..."
"Kalos is the worst for this"
Pac-Man: *Smiles sadistically*
why pacman?
First character that came to mind when it comes to that situation considering he can very easily get out of it. Especially since it is one of his best stages.
@@Wooktent the ac stages are better for him tbh
@@Wooktent What exactly allows pac-man to reset from that position so safely? Hydrant?
@@tigerslov3pepper yes
This channel literally makes the best smash tutorials, even these tips can apply to other smash games
I love this channel so much
No matter who main, you can learn so much from every video
Yeah proguides, give this man a billion bucks
This video needs to be analyzed frame by frame and rewatched 5 time to see everything in it.
Wow! I just tried these techniques and now I'm a millionaire! Thanks Bananaboy!
Everyone I play with are idiots, I can't do the "reverse psychology" baits.
I always think my friends are going to do something smart. Then they do the worst option and I don't get anything out of it.
Mason Newlin yes exactly, I still win because I’m by far the better player but they make me look like an idiot more times than one just because I try to punish the "good option" that they don’t even think about and instead they just mindlessly attack me
God this is relatable as fuck
I pretend to be a bad player and occasionally switch to pro players moves and then back to being stupid.
My friends don’t even know what button is shield so tomahawking is not possible lol
Thanks to Banana Boy
Im now a master baiter
UNDERRATED
hey somebody was gonna say it
Wait I didn't notice it at first
Also pls no
Vigorous head bopping
Retrac1999 I'm a decent baiter. but my cousin Samsora, now there's a master baiter
Honestly, banana boy has some of the best competitive smash videos on TH-cam. They're very intelligent and use subtle humor to keep the mood light while being extremely informative. Keep it up, Banana Boy! 👍
Ganondorf: *DOOOORIIIIYAAAAA-*
Opponent: (Quick head bop)
Ganondorf: (Attack misses and instantly SD)
“People are more scared of grabs in ultimate than any other smash game” *wobbling intensifies*
Holy fucc I haven't thought about head bopping as an actual strategy.
Thank you so much Banana!
Well Samsora DID bop his head a lot when he won against MkLeo 🤔
Lmaooo😂 true. But he eveb bops playing wifi. Its his thing
@@daisysheaven practice for tourney ;)
wait this isn't vocaloid music
Huh? Mario is a vocaloid.
What?
Mario's voice is synthesized for the song so....
It technically is if you think hard enough.
;/
was not expecting the BYU roast out the gate but man
*that was good*
I can just imagine how all the non-members of the church must feel attending there lmaoo
The best thing about this video is not only the advices but the mario autotuned at the end
That's an incredible find! I wonder who created it.
Brigham Young: has a beard
The university that he founded: *NO*
Brigham Young: had polygamist child brides
Any moral person: NO
Wait I just turned a funny into a not funny. Oops
Honestly what you said could be considered random enough to be funny
But now that we've discussed whether or not it's funny, it isn't funny
@@seabassthegamer6644 F U K
@@seabassthegamer6644 telling joke>a discussion ruining the joke is a true combo at low %
With the combo of silly and fun to watch visuals and literally the best tech in TH-cam, you are the best banana boy out there :)
Only thing I don’t like is how I have to wait a week but I’ll live
10:57 he’s speaking the language of the gods
Yup
One thing I like to do at ledge as Lucas is to throw out a bunch of down tilts and then block the getup attack with up smash invincibility. It also works with down smash sometimes.
It works way too often and is incredibly rewarding.
Wait I know u from twitter
Up smash addict
im not really a fan of up smash cos of the lag but its hella nutty. i mainly f smash.
A new strategy I can use, hopefully I remember it though
Your content is informative and fun! thanks man, also great screen saver transitions
5:27 THROWING SHADE
You forgot a usage for head bopping, which would be standing up and headbopping your opponent irl to cause them severe pain. This works every time for me! 😅
The fact this video includes Monkey Ball music, makes the whole video even better. ;)
I’m using these guides not only for Smash but for any Platform Fighter, or any fighting game in general.
The humor combined with the usefulness… you got a sub! 😊
1:32 I remember that screensaver, I could watch it for hours as a kid
Wow I’m 2 young lool
10:57 I don't feel like I was prepared for what I just witnessed.
I love this channel. Not only is it really fun to watch, your also one of the only actual good TH-camr from Utah. Keep up the good work!
3 min. into watching this on my tv, looking through your other video thumbnails/titles on my phone, great stuff. Well made, informative, and funny. Subscribed. Love that you don't make videos every day either, spacing things out isn't just for swordies ;)
nice video! can bring beginners or intermediates up to the next level! Baiting is a pretty vital part of fighting games in general since, as you mentioned, it's how you get the opponent to become open.
Thanks for the tips. Now it's time for me to try to apply these to my next battles only to end up failing and ragequitting like I always inevitably do.
Dude, your channel is improving exponentially. Your editing skills are getting better in every video. Keep it up and let's go bananaboy !!
You're videos are always the most helpful and fun simultaneously. Great work
I just wanted to say thank you for these videos. I've been studying and taking to heart the advice you've given, and finally got my bowser in elite smash a week ago for the first time. I've got a lot of improving to go still, and every video you make helps me understand what more I could be thinking about!
Ok can we just take a second to appreciate the awesomeness of the thumbnail
Loving the retro screensaver transitions between the various baits.
Me: hasn’t played ultimate ONCE
Also Me: Oh okay I understand
Gotta say, I've been using tip #10 online and it works like a charm
Damn was looking for bait and punish tutorials couldnt find any until this came up in my rec.
Great job.
Me: practicing for hours to do this and I get it down
also me: Panic during a battle and spam B
As Ness, I love conditioning players with PK Thunder 1 so that they'll air dodge every time. Then by the time they're at kill % they'll see PK Thunder and airdodge right into PK Thunder 2.
Yeah, cept ness is trash, and anyone who uses ness is the worst kind of person. Enjoy using ur 3 moves over and over
@@cambarnes6922 nah, not if you're actually good at Smash, mate.
@@cambarnes6922 toxic
Thanks to you Banana Boy, I'm now a master baiter. Now I can smash so much better! 10/10 I would recommend.
As a yoshi player I use passing over the shield quite a bit, it can also be useful to do it with down air in a situation that can lead to a shield poke because down air can set up tech situations and if it doesn't poke landing on the other side buys you a little extra time which can be very helpful against slower characters.
I also like fastfalling nair so that I land far enough away from a grab, the nair won't hit but can bait an out of shield option.
DUDE! Those transitions though! My childhood!!!
Nobody even uses screensavers anymore because they realized the best way to ACTUALLY save screen energy was sleep mode 😂
Marth has a small grab? This isn’t melee!
Your videos are so well edited sir
Super high quality video, keep it up :)
First video that gave real, applicable advice on this topic. Thank you.
#9 is so useful. I met a fellow R.O.B. Player at a live tourney who liked to spotdodge into down Smash (which is a nice option, I use that now), but he used it all the time and never got punished for it. So I got hit by it a couple of times in our ditto and punished it the only time it mattered, to close a final stock. It was particularly sweet because he was definitely the better player, but seeing that habit and waiting to punish it was basically a free stock for me that I could claim at my leisure.
Well the head bops definitely did help me improve my skill
The #10 is the most dangerous thing in this earth...
I miss input and charged an smash in neutral last stock last hit and true combo head bops into Fsmash 💀
Soon, i’m gonna become master bater
On a slightly serious note to the head bop: I kinda felt the rhythm there. It makes sense it's like this conditioning yourself in to actively remembering the blank in the rhythm of the fight. Like imagine the "Ba-Dum--Tss" beat. The first two represent the combo to get your opponent offstage. Then the head bop for the blank, because you don't want to just spam, and then the finale. Weird metaphor, but works for me
As a longtime BYU fan and USU student, I greatly appreciate the BYU jab. 😂
Great video, very applicable stuff. I’ve actually been had by my opponent baiting me with a head bop before lol
I have never known good baits and this has helped me a ton, thanks banana boy!
When ever I play with my friends on the same Couch or even on the mic I like to call out my moves as a do them and then randomly do a different move
Thank you for saving me and several hundred thousand people $60 on Proguides
Headboping when you feel pressured, I love it!
These baits are godly seen, i was since now always guessing when it comes to a punish of their moves
Let's go BananaBoy the master baiter.
Bro the BYU roast was epic.
I’m even Mormon and that was the most epic roast I’ve ever heard.
Bonus tip: If you get buried by a move and every time you mash out your opponent hits you, you can start faking like you're about to mash and just abrubtly stop. The opponent will expect you to pop out and preemptively try to attack. You'll stay buried in the ground safely. It's a mixup at best but holy hell it's funny when it works. Also, I'm gonna try that head bob thing lmao Genius
I would like to menton that Teasing off stage is also called ‘Babysitting’ but yea this vid was still super helpful thanks!
BananaBoySSB: *lists all ten baits at lightning speed*
Me: ...and how am I supposed to remember all this?
Ty for always putting yoshi examples. As a yoshi main I approve
Another one from my man BananaBoy
These videos are great! They really help me get better at smash!
This video was a great refresher for things I used to do a lot but kinda stopped thinking about lol. The baiting an early up B offstage for example I used liberally to beat a player on my city’s PR a few months ago, but then I kinda forgot about it and got lost in the details of trying to focus on implementing other tech with more diminishing returns on my time investment. Gotta start going back to my roots. Never forget KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid.)
Bruh, I'm actually having fun with this editing.
It's great!
your #8 tip about fake attack the ledge grabber to get them to try to punish you is something that I know about, but absolutely get hit for all of the time!
I just love this mans editing.
Quick bait tip: if you are pressuring someone’s shield, and they release shield, you want to spot dodge, as they will probably go for a hard punish (like a smash attack) or a grab.
You could say that number 10 is an absolute bop of a tip
This works out VERY well, I have a friend that mains ness and toon link, he always does roll to back throw and it pisses me off
How often do you get a comments of the following palindrome?
"Yo, Banana Boy!"
I’ll love ur video. Let’s go banana boi
I have nothing else so i'm going to write my answers down for the list of what i'd do
1. SPIKE people offstage
2. Building a LEAD of OPPONENT'S MISTAKES
3. Empty JUMP grabbing
4. PERFECT spacing
5. Jumping ON and AROUND a platform
6. Beating everything but WHAT THEY WANT TO DO
7. MOVING towards THE OPPONENT
8. Using LINGERING attacks near LEDGE
9. TRY to punish PREDICTABLE options
10. Take inspiration from VODS on MY DECENT COMBOS THAT COULD BE BETTER
Now I can be a master baiter. Thank you, Bananaboy!
1:33 you just brought so many memories back from elementary school
I forget how good your videos are until I watch one. Byu joke? Check. Monkey ball music? Check. That special bananaboy charm and silliness? Check. Interesting and entertaining editing? Check. Your videos seriously have it all.
I've found that the most useful bait in my arsenal is to fake a habit.
Everybody wants to look smart and punish a habit, so getting them right into the spot where they want to punish it, then punishing them for it feels great. I have turned so many edgeguard attempts around
Not gonna lie I have never done a successful tomahawk because everyone mashes tf out of their o.o.s. option as soon as I hit the ground before I can grab. But people don’t know how to adapt so I end up shielding their up special or whatever mode it is the 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc time they do it and then smash attack or combo them.
I’ve been trying to get good at the game as it is my dream to compete in tournaments. I’ve been trying to get some tips from other players to help me master the main characters I use. Thanks sir.
Head bobbing. thats what i've been missing all this time. Time to get every character to elite smash using head bobbing baits.
Ok I have a little story for this. The situation: Me as Ness, younger brother as Terry, Older brother as Little Mac. Something I kept doing was tricking Little Mac into using special moves on the terry when he was aiming for me, and it was SO satisfiying.
As someone attending BYU-Idaho, that intro made me laugh. XD
Loudly announce your attack
..then actually do it. Never fails
This is true lol I like to say stuff like "I'm about to grab" with pacman as I run up and do it. If it hits it's 10/10 funny
🤔🤔
im subbing for that amazing outro lmao
also how can I get used to new controller options such as turning off tap jump when im already used to it
I love when you post
As soon as I heard "under the ocean" soundtrack the nostalgia overload
#10 worked perfectly. Head bopping your opponent directly in the face really works! :D
A Tomahawk is actually just a jump into landing without doing anything. That’s why you hear “Tomahawk Grab” or “Tomahawk Forward Smash” It’s important as a timing mixup as well as catching people off guard
#9 is pretty good as well, I personally use it when someone retreats to the center of the stage, usually by warp with a Zelda or Mewtwo up-b or something...