How to use the shield to reflect projectiles

I am more of a technical-knowledge player than a practical-knowledge one, so feel free to be skeptical of this.

According to this frame data thread, Falco can't grab the edge for a whole 24 frames after he starts the Phantasm. From my own testing, walltechs work like this: 6 frames of intangibility on the wall followed by 8 frames off the wall (which can be interrupted and will continue into the input move). So if he does it perfectly, you have a window of 16 frames to hit him.

The problem is that you're probably (and expectantly so) hitting with an early frame of the dair (say 5, the earlist hitbox). You can't do anything until frame 49 of the move, and that's more than enough to go through the edge-tech. So, the best piece of advice I can give is to hit with a later frame of the hitbox, which will leave you more time to end the move and start the fast nair or bair before he grabs the edge.

According to this, the chances for getting things work like this:

• First, a check is made to determine whether you get a turnip or an item. The chances of getting an item are 1/128; much rarer than any of the turnips.
• If you get a turnip:
  • The smiley, bored, sleeping, shocked, and happy turnips have respective chances of 35/58, 6/58, 5/58, 3/58, and 3/58. They all deal the same damage so altogether the chance is 52/58.
  • The winky turnip has a 4/58 chance. It deals slightly more damage (I don't have the numbers for this, since item throws deal varying damage based on their speed).
  • The dot-eyed turnip has a 1/58 chance and deals pretty good damage, something like slightly over double a regular one.
  • The "stichface" also has a 1/58 chance and will deal ridiculous damage (typically 35% or more).
• If you get an item:
  • There is a 3/6 chance of getting a Mr. Saturn. While he doesn't do much knockback, he does eat shields.
  • There is a 2/6 chance of getting a Bob-omb. Generally considered the "holy grail" of turnip pulls.
  • There is a 1/6 chance of getting a Beam Sword. People are mixed when they get this since it's just an okay item in Melee.

Unlike G&W's Judgement, any pull can follow any other pull; the game does not care what you got before. It is possible though ludicrously unlikely to (for example) get two Bob-ombs in a row.