Discovery: Wizard Foot Cancel (Now with a video tutorial thing)

I realize that this has likely been discovered previously, but there has not been a video, which I am now providing. I posted this originally on AllIsBrawl.com on April 4th. I noticed Osman discovered a similar technique recently, check out his thread also http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=164608

The WFC:
If you do a grounded wizard foot and go off the edge at the right time near (but not right at) the end it will cancel the lag and you can instantly go into an aerial or many other options. It is great for edgeguarding because nobody sees it coming. Most useful is the Wizard foot cancel (WFC) to Uair of course.

However, while edgeguarding seems like a promising aspect of this technique, I have found something else. If you WFC into a Side-B back towards the stage it makes for a startlingly quick attack. The Wizard Foot will cancel and you will immediately fly back across the stage with the Side-B.

HERE IS THE VIDEO I PROMISED:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0FYqmhUFJQ

Did you watch the whole thing? There is cooler stuff toward the middle and end. Note that DI does affect which combos you will be allowed to do. There are plenty of options, so be creative. Setting up a situation to do this may take a bit of practice though.

Very nice, thanks for sharing! This will be fun too experiment with :]

Wow... that looks intriguing... I must go test!

Amazing video!

I'm gonna start using 'Swole Combo' now.

I'm not surprised it works this way. B moves that travel through the air usually seem to cancel when you reach the teetering animation. It works the same way with Ness and Lucas's up Bs and Zelda's up B. Seems like it could very useful with Ganondorf. Great video.

It'll be tough to implement, but OH so satisfying when I pull it off. Great vid, I never really understood what you meant till now. I can't wait to practice it.

Never thought of using it like that with the forward B before since I would always follow up with an uair. I should try learning how to do this on other stages though...I can only do it on FD.

Metal_Dave said:

Never thought of using it like that with the forward B before since I would always follow up with an uair. I should try learning how to do this on other stages though...I can only do it on FD.

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I can do it consistently on most stages, although I haven't tried it on all. I haven't had any luck trying to incorporate platforms

Isn't there a variation of this where Ganon will go off the edge, but automatically 'hop' back on?

I would expect there to be some variation on this, as it may be interacting with the ledge in the same way as Wolf's lightstepping and tele-stepping.

About the vid: Bad sound control. I can't hear you. But it's great to see the move.

Just used the Swoll combo.


OH LAWD.

It's about the same distance of two medium sized blocks in stage builder. So if you want to practice it without worrying about positioning, make a stage with two medium sized blocks, then a third raised block (when returning from one wizard's foot, get back against the third block and your're ready for another).

It's probably a better idea to practice on the stages you'll be playing on, but this is a simple way to get it right every time and you can practice what you might do after pulling it off.

PK-ow! said:

Isn't there a variation of this where Ganon will go off the edge, but automatically 'hop' back on?

I would expect there to be some variation on this, as it may be interacting with the ledge in the same way as Wolf's lightstepping and tele-stepping.

About the vid: Bad sound control. I can't hear you. But it's great to see the move.

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Bad sound? Really? Seems fine to me but eh. I'll use the fine quality on my cam next time instead of economy.

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=164751

Posted 3 days ago. GG NO RE.

Plus another recovery trick. You guys should consider like reading these boards.

Sliq said:

http://smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=164751

Posted 3 days ago. GG NO RE.

Plus another recovery trick. You guys should consider like reading these boards.

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In case you didn't read the first post, I am just reposting a thread that I put on AllisBrawl a month ago. Your thread didn't quite cover it so well. What is GG NO RE? Good game no repost?