Counter is more situational than it is in the main games.

Counter will activate when its needs to sometimes while at other times, it won't.

When it does activate, sometimes it will perform the quick counter while other times, it will perform the slow counter, which can be a good or bad thing. A good thing if the opponent gets in range, a bad thing if the opponent is throwing out a move with a lasting hitbox or a multi hitting move.

Like I said before, it has Brawl Marth power counter, but with Roy Melee and Ike Brawl start up.

I want to see more consistency with the move instead of it being a gamble and it being punished for the wrong reasons.

Am i the only one who uses dancing blade(upwards)to start a combo?

Welcome to the fora!

To answer your question, literally every low to low-mid level Marth uses Dancing Blade as their only combo starter (no shots intended btw).

Thanks!
Then could you give me some TIPS on other ways to combo? (See what I did there?)

This also causes desync surprisingly often for me, a Marth counter just missing an opponent that's in range but the hurtbox not registering because the other player registered the other version of it

You can use up tilt, up throw or fair.

That was lame.

What about the reverse hitbox of bair that's under to the opposite side of Marth? It's ridiculously strong and makes for some pretty sick combos (fair, weird reverse bair, dair). Hard to hit though, obviously.

After a while of playing landing his dair gets pretty easy, too.

The problem with that part of the hit is that if they DI down you can't do anything except in VERY specific situations, and at higher percents they get launched too far to combo.

Yeah, true. Like Reverse Up-b, hard to hit and not too useful.

Marth's sprites are so freaking tall compared to other characters who should be the same height.

Never noticed that. I guess there is some inconsistency with the sprites, like Pikachu. Just look at his respawn platform. Fat.
Also, Marth's sword looks really small but isn't.

Not really the place for this, but it should be known for the others; Marths Counter if used in lag has a very high chance of desyncing the game.

Really, that sucks.

Wanna make sure this is fixed in Beta, do you have any specific reasons/examples/instructions on how to get the game to desync? Does someone have to hit counter? Do I have to use it in the air, then land?

Let's *claps* go*claps* Marth mains! Get TSON this info quick so we can get Beta on a roll.