Intro
This list assumes you play fox.
In general my favorite option against mid/low tiers is fullhop spaced strong backair on shield (no shine) into dash away or wait. So you'll see me recommend it often. I acually don't think there's any character on the tier list that can true punish it.
Characters (alphabetical)
- Bowser
- Spaced strong backairs on shield are good because the inevitable up b out of shield won't hit you.
- Captain Falcon
- Get 1 laser then upair knocks down and shine upsmash knocks down.
- Force falcon to stage with a late normal getup, then upsmash the landing lag. This works at kill percent when they cannot up b to a platform. Checkmate.
- Don't rely too heavily on aerial→shine on shield. You can try spaced aerials on shield into waiting for their roll or other bad out-of-shield option.
- Donkey Kong
- Spaced backair on shield instead of nair shine on shield. You really don't want to get grabbed.
- CC their bairs and ledge getup attacks.
- Edgeguard mostly with backair (invincible from ledge is good)
- Try to SDI as much as you can the upair chains (probably SDI up and out). Hold cstick up then slam gray stick up then roll it to the side (SDI Up, Trajectory DI Side). Then try to jump out.
- Dr. Mario
- Spaced Back air on shield.
- Shine into upsmash to build damage.
- Don't try too hard to edgeguard offstage, but you can marth killer pills to get to ledge safely.
- Recover high in general to avoid cape. Super high side b is your friend.
- You can clean upsmash his fullhop nair though it may trade.
- Falco
- Fox
- Do drill grab instead of drill shine when possible.
- Start all your edge guards by grabbing ledge. You can quick ledge dash out or refresh or normal getup or bair from ledge or double jump back to stage or fake grab ledge into double jump stuff.
- Good luck.
- Ganondorf
- At kill percent, do upthrow upairs.
- Spaced strong back air on shield.
- Ice Climbers
- Drill between/behind-ish them into shine good. Just don't get grabbed by popo.
- Being in the corner of the stage is good, or being on the outer corner of side platform (the ledge side of plat) is good too.
- Jigglypuff
- Kirby
- Drill grab + upthrow upair to kill.
- Link
- Luigi
- Mario
- Marth
- Mewtwo
- Upthrow upair is pretty consistent to kill.
- Strong spaced back air on shield.
- Mr. Game & Watch
- Drill grab is easy to get because he's so light.
- Up throw upair kills at like 50.
- They're gonna spam dtilt and fair.
- Ness
- Peach
- Pichu
- Pikachu
- Roy
- Samus Aran
- When samus is holding shield, do late strong nair/bair into hold shield (not shine). This will often bait out an up b OoS that you can punish.
- Fullhop over missile spam is fine.
- One shine into upsmash for damage.
- Sheik
- Yoshi
- Young Link
- Zelda