You can perform about 6 successive footstools without touching the ground, each with degenerating height. Footstool height regenerates upon contact with the ground. More importantly, when footstooled you enter a tumbling animation into the air which carries a bit of stuntime, on the ground you will do a little dip and stand still as you keel over from being stepped on.
Marth has pretty good jump height. Like most characters his double jump is not have as much height as the first standing jump.
Something that baffles me, it seems at the most random times, I will use my double jump within some ambiguous physical proximity of my opponent and gain an absurd amount of height from it. The other day I was playing my friend's falco and I was recovering to the stage after i got fsmashed and before I land i DJ Fair since he was going for a follow up. my dj carried me from about stage level to the top platform on battlefield. it wasn't a footstool because I wasn't THAT close to him when i jumped, and there was no footstooling animation either it was a simple DJ aerial which carried an absurd height. it also had no visible effect on my opponent who likewise whiffed his attacked because my marth decided to put his cape to use and fly.
anyone have an explanation for this? it only ever happens when i DJ Aerial really close to my opponent but i never see anything remotely close to a footstool animation.
For example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcn7QzkqK2k&feature=rec-HM-r2
5:22 into the vid marth uses his dj and then does a huge third jump over mk. instantaneous without the typical footstool animations.
Also, I see it in discussion, i've tried looking it up all over the mk threads, but whats planking?
Lastly, any brawlers at UCSD wanna play me?