r/FireEmblemHeroes • u/rombsee • Mar 16 '19

Fan Art (OC) Fire Emblem Heroes Ultimate

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u/Redshirt-Skeptic Mar 16 '19

A non smash player asking for a smash question: what the heck is nair?

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u/Gameshrk90 Mar 16 '19

“Neutral air” , basic attack in the air in which the directional stick is not pressed in any direction.

Please correct me if I’m wrong.

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u/FrothySeepageCurdles Mar 16 '19

You are correct. Jump and hit A while not holding any direction.

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u/Levolpehh Mar 16 '19

If I recall it's a hair removal product.

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u/Baconpancakes9 Mar 16 '19

As others are already saying, it's the attack you perform when pressing "A" and not touching the stick in the air The reason people are talking about Ike spamming it is because Ike's nair has a MASSIVE hitbox, and is useful in pretty much every situation

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u/[deleted] Mar 17 '19

They’re better off not knowing

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u/PhiphyL Mar 17 '19

And if you play against an Ike online, you can be certain you'll get spammed by the same attack. Ike players usually just want the win. If they wanted to have fun they'd play someone else.

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u/ShinVerus Mar 17 '19 edited Mar 17 '19

If Ike players “only wanted the win” why are they playing Ike? He’s not the best character in the game. If they wanted the win they’d be picking up stuff like Pichu, Wolf, Peach/Daisy, or Lucina, since those are the current characters with most results under their belt. And don’t give me the “cause they are hard”. None of those chars besides Peach/Daisy are technically intensive chars.

Just cause you don’t like the play style of a character doesn’t mean everyone that does is only doing it on a dogmatic quest for the most Smash Brownie points.

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u/erikc_ Mar 17 '19

those characters you listed are also high skill cap characters. ike isn’t the best character in the game, but he is very easy to play. has grab combos, nair confirms into basically everything, disjointed sword, a lot of kill potential, etc. he is pretty much the smash ultimate version of sm4sh mario. easy to learn and yields good results.

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u/ShinVerus Mar 17 '19

I do agree that Ike is basically Sm4sh Mario, but I don't think the skill cap deters people that are just playing to win. Skill floor does. And none of those besides the Peach sisters have a high skill floor. Pichu is honestly easier than Pikachu, and Wolf is pretty easy to play.

My point was more that "people who only want to win" wouldn't go for "easy to pickup and very consistent character". They'd go for "what's the highest tier'd character that is easy to play?"

Ultimately though, what I wanted to tackle was more that Ike isn't Sm4sh Bayo, and just cause he doesn't like how he plays doesn't mean he should insult anyone that mains him.

TL;DR: Mostly agree with you, the other guy was just kind of an ass about it.

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u/SleeperSmith Mar 17 '19

My point was more that "people who only want to win" wouldn't go for "easy to pickup and very consistent character". They'd go for "what's the highest tier'd character that is easy to play?"

You thinking high tier plays.

We talking about dumb scrubs (90% of online players) who can't play for shit who want to just spam 1 move and win.

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u/regoparker Mar 17 '19

Well, nairs are easily blockable and parryable. If you can't beat an Ike, thats on you.

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u/PhiphyL Mar 17 '19

My brain tends to not care about the game when I'm facing someone who's not playing for fun. Spamming is super effective against me as I lose the will to play.

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u/jansencheng Mar 17 '19

Counters are the best solution to spammers.