DoB04
Smash Journeyman
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- Nov 20, 2007
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Hi, I was recently practicing in training mode when i stumbled across some cool tricks, i apologize if these have been discovered already.... but anyway:
*Certain characters, while hanging on the ledge, leave their heads/body a little bit above the edge, if you raptor boost a character while standing on the ground, instead of falling off like Captain Falcon normally does, he will hit them off the ledge, and since they were so low, they wont be hit to high, which means its easy to combo into a knee or down air and kill them!
i've tested it and it works with these characters:
Mario
Bowser
D.K.
Yoshi
Ice Climbers
Meta Knight
Dedede
Olimar
Pikachu
Pokemon Trainer (all 3)
Jiggly Puff
Ness
Lucas
if you do it on any other character, Falcon will either raptor boost the air, or he will fall off helplessly
*While an opponent is hanging from the edge, if you time a jump + raptor boost so that Captain Falcon barely lifts off the ground, but is high enough to hit with it, it's an automatic spike, he will hit even the lowest hanging character and then they should have almost no chance of recovering, and even if they can, you can just intercept/edge hog
*A final trick, when using the raptor boost off the ledge, you should fall down helplessly, but if you do the automatic edgehog (run off stage, quarter cirlce backwords on control stick) it works too! so how is this beneficial?
1) It is kinda easier than a dashing edgehog since he runs so fast.... (i have a hard time doing it with the dash, i usually do it to early, causing him to turn around before he runs off) there is no way to turn around with the raptor boost so you don't have to worry about that.
2)You also don't have to worry about when to use your raptor boost. If an opponent is close to the edge, you wouldn't normally use it since your opponent could spot dodge/jump and you'd end up dead...
Well thats it, i hope these 3 techniques helps all us falcon mains, and yet again, sorry if it was already known..... i do not have any recording device, so no videos, unless i send my replay to somebody...
*Certain characters, while hanging on the ledge, leave their heads/body a little bit above the edge, if you raptor boost a character while standing on the ground, instead of falling off like Captain Falcon normally does, he will hit them off the ledge, and since they were so low, they wont be hit to high, which means its easy to combo into a knee or down air and kill them!
i've tested it and it works with these characters:
Mario
Bowser
D.K.
Yoshi
Ice Climbers
Meta Knight
Dedede
Olimar
Pikachu
Pokemon Trainer (all 3)
Jiggly Puff
Ness
Lucas
if you do it on any other character, Falcon will either raptor boost the air, or he will fall off helplessly
*While an opponent is hanging from the edge, if you time a jump + raptor boost so that Captain Falcon barely lifts off the ground, but is high enough to hit with it, it's an automatic spike, he will hit even the lowest hanging character and then they should have almost no chance of recovering, and even if they can, you can just intercept/edge hog
*A final trick, when using the raptor boost off the ledge, you should fall down helplessly, but if you do the automatic edgehog (run off stage, quarter cirlce backwords on control stick) it works too! so how is this beneficial?
1) It is kinda easier than a dashing edgehog since he runs so fast.... (i have a hard time doing it with the dash, i usually do it to early, causing him to turn around before he runs off) there is no way to turn around with the raptor boost so you don't have to worry about that.
2)You also don't have to worry about when to use your raptor boost. If an opponent is close to the edge, you wouldn't normally use it since your opponent could spot dodge/jump and you'd end up dead...
Well thats it, i hope these 3 techniques helps all us falcon mains, and yet again, sorry if it was already known..... i do not have any recording device, so no videos, unless i send my replay to somebody...