Marths Foward A Smash

Ike can be VERY effective. Ironically, his forward smash is poor to use against people who actually know how to play well (I've personally found it to only be of any great use during free-for-alls), but I've found his forward and down aerials to be very useful (although I always screw up the timing on forward aerial). Down smash can be tough to work with, but his up smash can be GREAT if applied well, even despite it's slow speed. His tilts are better speed-wise overall, but I don't think that's really where he excels either. He's got a nice neutral ground attack and his neutral special is useful in some cases as well. But I really like his forward B. I had a lot of fun trying to nail a Samus-main friend of mine, and it feels REALLY good to hop over his shot and do a falling forward B into him and catch him off guard like that (even though each time I messed up the timing on it, I got OWNED because of it).

The only thing BAD with Ike is that RARing is a bit of a challenge for most, and that's where his best aerial approach is. Oh and his recovery has what I would call a blindspot, but a friend of mine did tell me that if I was to float toward the platform and up B (instead of trying to forward B like I normally do... a habit I've picked up from using Pikachu), I could recover, but I am still pretty sure there's a hole where if Ike gets knocked to, he won't be able to recover using his forward B or his up B (remember: his forward B makes him unable to up B and vice versa, so you only get one).

And yeah, I posted my friend code in the other thread and no one has even asked to play me. I'm a bit disappointed, because I figured there could be some fun play out of you folks.