Piski's Monkey Boot Camp - Diddy Kong Training/Practice Regime

Fundamental Movement:
20 Hard Monkey Flips
20 Soft Monkey Flips
20 Max Range Fair Hits
20 Max Range Bair Hits
15 Soft Banana Pull-> z-catch
15 Hard Banana Pull -> z-catch
10 Soft Banana Pull -> aerial catch
10 Hard Banan Pull -> aerial catch
15 Smash Throw Banana OOS
15 Soft Throw Banana OOS
15 Z Drop banana OOS (confirm to hit)
25 Pivot Cancel Banana Toss
25 Pivot Cancel dtilts
15 Pivot Cancel ftilt
15 Pivot Cancel uptilt
10 wall clings/jumps
1 min of walking and crawling around the stage
1 min of foxtrotting
1 min of retreating dtilts
30 short hops around the stage
15 empty hops into grab


Unapplied Tech:
10 b-reverse banana pull
10 b-reverse grounded popgun
10 b-Reversed Running Popguns
10 popgun cancel shield
15 banana pull -> z-catch -> instant toss
15 jump z catch grounded banana
15 Use tilts to pick up grounded banana
10 Auto-Cancel dair to pick up grounded banana
10 Aerial b-Reverse Popgun Cancels (Holding shield before jumping)
10 Running Popguns
5 (each) Attack Cancel Fair/Bair/Nair


Advanced Applied Tech:
15 IZAC Rising/Falling AC Fair
10 IZAC Rising/Falling Bair
10 IZAC Rising/Falling Nair
10 IZAC Rising/Falling Upair
05 (each) IZAC Rising Aerial OOS
10 Instant Trump Bairs
10 Monkey Flip Edge Cancels on the Stage
10 Monkey Flip Edge Cancels on Platforms
15 Angel Drops (zdrop dair at ledge)
10 Monkey Flip b-Reverse Popgun Cancel (Hold shield during MF)
15 Luigi killer on walled stages (MFK into ledge)
15 Luigi killer on non walls stages (MFK into ledge)
10 banana throw into ledge -> fair catch (used to 2 frame)
10 banana throw into ledge -> dair catch (used to 2 frame)
05 Turn around dtilt OOS
10 (When Grounded) Popgun Cancel Aerial (The PPPP)
15 (When Airborn) Popgun Cancel Aerial
10 B-reversed Popgun Cancel Aerial out of monkey flip
10 Pick up banana sitting at ledge via ledge jump (jump then input grab, you shouldn't be airdodging)


Note: IZAC is Instant Zdrop Aerial Catch
AC is auto cancel


Practice recovering with barrels offstage at various positions:
10 Monkey flipping off stage then returning without your jump
10 Returning with no charge barrels
10 Returning with fully charged barrels
10 Recovering horizontal and snapping to ledge
10 Travel under the stage and grab the ledge
10 Return to stage without using monkey flip
15 Rising barrels off stage when recovering

On stage barrels:
10 Sliding barrels across stage (no explosion)
10 Sliding barrels across stage (finish with explosion)
10 Barrels into opponent's banana (Diddy should be lag-less)


Fundamental Confirms:
15 Banana -> Dtilt -> follow up
15 (each) banana Fsmash/Dsmash/Upsmash

10 dthrow double bair
10 dthrow monkey flip kick
10 dthrow fair
10 dthrow dair regrab/uptilt
10 upthrow fair
10 upthrow bair
10 upthrow double bair
10 fthrow fair

15 dtilt grab
15 dtilt fair
15 dtilt rar bair
15 dtilt instant dash attack
15 (each) dtilt Fsmash/Dsmash/Upsmash

10 falling Nair -> raising nair
10 (each) Falling Nair dair/fair/bair
10 (each) Nair OOS bair/fair

10 falling bair barrels (initial hit->explosion)
10 (each) falling bair ->dash attack/uptilt/up air

10 uptilt -> nair -> up air
10 dash attack fair


Intermediate/Advanced confirms:
15 dtilt strings into upsmash
10 banana barrels (initial hit->explosion)
10 dtilt barrels (initial hit->explosion)
10 dthrow monkey flip kick fair
10 Bair upair bair
10 upair dair
10 banana Nair dair
10 banana dair (into follow up)
05 banana dair Nair (into follow up)
10 dair barrels
10 Nair barrels (explode on platform)
10 dthrow delayed upair (into followup)
05 jablock barrels

5 hard toss Banana-> strong hit dair-> hard toss banana-> soft dair->barrels both hits (frame perfect- see dakpo's advanced Diddy guide for details)
*rip pyramid scheme*

Thanks for reading! This pastebin is based off of Zeke's Intensive Monkey Boot Camp but tailored for SSBU Diddy
You can find Zeke's IMBC here: https://pastebin.com/QcYKadB3

Diddy's combo tree is far more complex in SSBU than SSB4 so I highly recommend also watching Dakpo's Advanced Diddy Guide (part 1 and 2) and his optimal Diddy combo tutorial, both can be found on his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC89tWG2Do4ZreK4ioQ32sJw

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