Aerial Sword dance and DED and stalling

[aho43]

The first swing of the DED and sword dance are ideal for stalling in the air with Marth and Roy, but I've noticed that the move doesnt always stall the same way. Sometimes the character will stop falling while they are doing the move and other times they will continue to fall. Does anyone know the difference between the two or how to consistently get one result or the other?

[Rebel581]

Well if your being sent directly downwards it won't work. But otherwise the only thing that makes it not go up as high is if you use it repeatedly in the air. Or maybe it doesn't but I haven't noticed it. It always brings me up the same amount. Unless it's used multiple time s in the air. More then twice with Roy is about all you can get with it and Marth it's about double that I think.

[Lxl]

It's all about timing. Space it correctly, and you'll always ascend a bit when you use DED/Swords Dance. A topic has been made about this not too long ago, by Synikal, and I think he also mentioned that sometimes you even descend on the first swing as you're going up. I tested this, and I realised that that indeed happens when you jump and immediately ForwardB, though this did not happen 100% of the time. Mostly Marth would descend, but sometimes he would still ascend... I didn't test this on Roy though, couldn't be bothered to.

[Sengin]

Roy's DED will start to whack out after a beastly hit off the edge and multiple first hits to make it back. Each time you use it repeately (the first hit), you gain a little less distance from the last time (whether it be up (which usually isn't much) or left/right). Eventually you will be going downward and not moving anywhere horizontally. Even if you touch the ground before being sent off the edge again, your DED won't instantly reset (although it will gradually). It'll take time (or a death) to fully "recover." Marth's SD is the same way, but with a slower rate of decomposition, I believe (although not too much shorter).

[Grieving Leo]

in order to get the good hits in with sword dance, i jump and allign marth to hit right when the third or fouth slash is about to hit...