Grouping Bananas
By AlphaZealot | Published: June 27, 2008 7:57pm EST
 Grouping bananas does two things. First, it prevents the opponent from being able to dash attack pick up a banana. If they do attempt this, they will slip on the other banana. Second, keeping the bananas grouped allow you to throw them one after the other. From this position, there are a few scenarios that are likely to occur. Scenario 1: If the first banana connects, simply throw the other banana. If the second banana was thrown with a glide toss, then it may be possible to banana lock them by alternating standing banana tosses and glide tosses. If this isn’t possible then just keep throwing bananas to punish their forced rolls, the only key to this is keeping an eye on which way they roll after a slip and making sure to time the toss appropriately. When the barrage of tosses finally subsides (usually because the bananas will disappear of the opponent/a banana will somehow get away from you), hit them with a dash attack as they exit the most recent rolling animation. Scenario 2: If the first banana is shielded, then follow up it up by glide tossing the second banana. At this point, you should be right in front of the opponent with two bananas sitting in front of their shield (both bananas having bounced off the opponents’ shield and landing just in front of them). These can be tossed repeatedly to wear the shield down. Another option here, is to dash attack through the opponents shield after glide tossing the second banana. This dash attack should pick up the first banana, for which you can throw once again at their shield, or downward to either force a trip or to pin them between two bananas. Either of these methods will force the opponent to stop shielding relatively quickly and opens them up for punishment. Scenario 3: If the first banana is caught, simply throw the other banana like scenario 1. This banana is usually a guaranteed hit (depends somewhat on the spacing between you and the opponent). It is likely the opponent will counter your second toss by throwing the first banana right back at you. If you think this will be the case, you could attempt to catch the banana, or you could prevent the scenario entirely by glide tossing backwards while throwing the second banana. Assuming you each connect with a banana, then Diddy is usually in a better position because the opponents banana can quickly be picked up with his dash attack, after which Diddy should be right on top of the second banana. |
