Hey okay so I'm having a rematch with my friend who I lost miserably to. His main character is Marth, and mine is Link. We're having a rematch soon and to clarify, I'm not even close to being an expert at Super Smash, but i'm pretty decent and I have beaten my friends who are really good at the game. My main problem, my friend who uses Marth is extremely good but also my biggest problem is with Marth's countering attack.
I'm actually afraid to attack him directly because he abuses the counter attack and knows my weakness to it. I almost always fall for his counter unless I get lucky. Especially when i'm at a high percentage, he'll REALLY abuse the countering attack and knock me out with that. If it wasn't for his countering move, I would probably have a better chance of beating him.
When practicing, I always get beat by the COM on level 9 because of the countering move. What I do is try to keep my distance and leap out of my way and when he attacks, I attack. Also when i'm far enough away, I rappidly shoot arrows at him and when he gets close to me, I roll back and anticipate his attacks. When Marth uses the countering move and I have the chance, I also quickly attack. The other side to this problem, when Marth has a high percentage of damage, the obvious thing to do is to pull in a KO, and he also uses counter a lot at this time. I've also tried tricking him by attacking close to him and having him counter, but that doesn't always work.The problem with doing all this, I get very little damage to him because i'm being very defensive due to his counter.
My question for you Super Smash experts is, what is the best tactic that I can use to attack Marth, especially when he abuses his countering move and is pretty much an expert at Marth's timing and attacks? And please no sarcastic or witty replies like "Learn to use Marth and fight him with Marth instead" or anything like that.
