Marth: Prince of Altea

The timeline is divided into 5 stages, each of which is more difficult and complex than the last. It's focus is on learning techniques and their applications, but also covers various aspects of general strategy. Keep in mind that you don't need to master everything described in every stage before moving on. Feel free to jump around as you please, and learn and practice whatever you think you will enjoy and/or benefit from.

Note: Any challenge requiring multiple successful completions of a task can be assumed that they must be done consecutively.

• Stage 1
• Stage 2
• Stage 3
• Stage 4
• Stage 5

Who I Am

I'm STT_PureDrop - a software developer from South Carolina who loves SSBM. I don't consider myself an amazing player by any means, but I do know a lot. I'm a Marth main (if you somehow didn't already guess), but I also play quite a lot of Fox. Since I've started learning Melee I've been training and practicing almost completely in isolation; with the exceptions being my brother Seshiro and close friend Size14Gerudo who I play against frequently. I'll hopefully be going to tournaments and playing against much more players in the near future, and I look forward to improving.

This Site

For me personally the greatest difficulty when I was first learning Melee was a lack of centralized and accessible resources. As I learned new techniques etc. I started to write notes and descriptions to serve as my own personal 'Marth reference guide'. After a while I noticed I had a pretty large amount of information, some of which was easy to miss when learning. My motivation for creating and updating this site is to give players wanting to learn about Marth the resource that I wished existed when I was doing the same. I hope some of you find this site useful, and that I can give something back to the Melee community in thanks for all the great experiences it's given me.

If I get good feedback and people find this site useful then I could potentially do something similar for other characters, or even for Melee in general.

The meaning of "STT_PureDrop"

Many years ago I was spending a weekend with one of my brothers and a close friend. We were unpackaging airsoft guns we had recently ordered online. When looking through the instruction booklet we saw the most amazingly mistranslated sentence I have ever seen in my life. There was an image of an arrow pointing to a picture of the airsoft gun, and the following text (verbatim) was below the image:

"When the gun tube stem, use the plastics stick, stop the thing pure drop."

Reading that sentence was one of the most hilarious moments of my life, and has been an inside joke among my brothers and friends ever since. So to explain my tag...

Stop The Thing Pure Drop = STT_PureDrop