Melee Controller Grips

hey guys! in this video Im just talking about some different controller grips Ive seen/used myself. if any of these interest you or you have any questions be sure to ask me! I'll answer any ones I can. for the claw grip I will have my own "How to Play Claw" video out shortly where I'll discuss a trick I myself used to make claw more comfortable and to learn it easier. I haven't seen too many videos on YouTube about controller grips, specifically on Melee or on the Gamecube controller so I thought it'd be interesting to make one myself. as always if theres anything for me to improve, please let me know as well as if theres a specific video you want to see that I hopefully can make. hope you enjoyed, thanks for watching!

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"Del Sol"
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"Ashes"
Instrumental by Homage

[MrToxicBizzard]

I grip the controller upside down with the buttons facing down to the floor and with the cable wrapped around my left testicle. I also put double sided tape on the D-pad.

[UnknownCactuz]

Hi, upside down controller guy here. Made me laugh

[smeermr]

I use a variation of claw on the left side so I can taunt faster using my thumb

[jofu]

*Oh yeah, well I play with a single joycon.*

[warmaster]

I've unknowingly using claw for years every time i play dark souls. its how im able to run and move my camera so good

[MikeVoss]

I'll teach my self to play upside-down claw.

[BaritonePapi]

I play claw with peach for float cancel stuff. And stock with samus, but I switch to claw when attacking from the ledge. it's super useful

[plow]

discussing controller grips for the cube... in 2017... what a great system that was.
so many great games

[bradwurst]

Stock grip Luigi. Any jump input feels super awkward with my index finger.

[genericfirstnamegenericlas]

I wanna see someone play with their controller vertically.

[JustinBowsher]

This is exactly the grip I settled on as a Falco main. I started using claw when I was learning Peach, since it made floating air attacks easier, and it felt right when transitioning to Falco. I love how easy it is to light-shield with the R-trigger, and jump-cancel shines. The rolling action that emerges for tech involving jump-cancelling feels natural.

[drewmyers]

I'm a fox main and I used to do claw only when I started. It was useful to get aerials out really fast like you said, but I was never able to get waveshining type tech down with claw. Anything where you would hit someone with shine and act out of it I couldn't do. There's that delay when you hit someone where you are stuck in shine for just a few frames and claw is so fast that it was never intuitive to me to wait long enough after the shine hits to jump. I got it almost right away after I switched to regular grip.

Now I switch between both a lot. Claw is still really good for things like fast bairs oos, uair timing since you can jump and start an uair at the same time and JC upsmash with Y + C-stick. But my consistency on shield pressure and wave shine tech is way better with normal grip. Plus with normal grip you can do the strum from Y to B stuff to SHDL and multishine, which I think is way easier than the weird rocking motion you have to do in claw.

Cool video! I think this stuff is super interesting

[NRJee]

I used to snipe on call of duty too! Learned claw from COD about 5 years ago and haven't gone back since

[philippwo]

I'm really trying to claw but I don't know how. Can't wait for that video

[miniyodadude]

As someone who plays fox and uses stock grip, i find stock has a lot of techniques to get over these problems. Short hop is something i had a lot of difficulty with in playing fox, but i found that swiping from x or y to a allows easier short hops since youre pressing a when fox is still in jump squat, it doesnt register the a press. With marth, swipe to a and then press a twice, marths sh is slow enough to take advantage with it

[tglistenerelf]

It's good to see that I'm not the only modified claw player out there. It's nice to find someone else out there who uses L, R, and Z with three separate fingers.

I'd show video proof, but I'd get flagged as spam for including a link.

[placeholdername]

I started playing melee on Netplay, and as such I used an XBox controller. Because I didn't know the button layout of the GameCube controller I bound jump to ZR (the button in the same spot as GameCube Z). When I started using a GameCube controller I was uses to using my index finger for jump, and so I started to play claw.


This sounds like some sort of superhero origin story, except that it's super lame.

[Misterparkour]

I play the way you do and I've always called it Tri-claw. I started playing claw in melee for instant up airs on falcon and instant N-airs out of shield on Sheik. I actually started playing claw originally in Project M because Ganondorf has some crazy waveland shenanigans he can pull off if you input frame perfect instant aerials. Then I just started getting comfortable with it and loved the extra options, now I play with my ring finger on R for wavelands and wd out of shield. Now it feels really uncomfortable to play stock lol, love it.

[fastfingerz]

I use stock but one quirk I have is moving the c-stick to perform moves with the bottom of my thumb/palm area when I need to hit left, and I'll stretch to it with my left thumb when I need to hit it right. I do this when doing things like wavedashing or hitting x in general when I can't move my thumb fast enough.

[SheaWaiteAMDG]

So I used to play COD also, and I didn't feel comfortable playing normally, so I "created" claw grip in my mind, not realizing it was a thing. It kind of carried over to when I started playing Smash 4 competitively and I found out about it when someone walked up and seemed surprised that I play claw. (Probably because I'm much younger so I'm more likely to play casually I guess) Anyway, i liked the video!