Cancelling more lag by using "A" button instead of c-stick

[MuraRengan]

I was playing with a friend yesterday. He claims to know a lot about frame data. In general, he's right about a lot of things, and he's explained a lot of the quirky things about the game that have to do with frames and inputs. But yesterday he told me that if you do an aerial with the A button and hold down on the control stick before l-cancelling it, more frames of the aerial will be cancelled, resulting in faster cancelling. I have never heard of this in my 7 years of playing Melee, and I don't know what to make of it. The reason this discussion came up in the first place is because I was commenting on how fast his Ganon was. He says that he's so fast because of this special cancel he's talking about. He also says that a lot of Foxes use it as well to get off better shield pressure.

Can anyone verify this? I want to believe him because whenever he tells me stuff about frames, it's with the intent of teaching. So I don't think that he would just lie about it. If need be, I can have him demonstrate this special cancel with a video and see if I can verify it with frame comparisons.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

I'm 100% sure this doesn't work, but I will test it anyways.

yup, tested, doesn't do anything different. Maybe he just meant that fast falling is good?

 

[VietGeek]

Sounds a lot like he is just fastfalling during the move.

 

[Bones0]

But yesterday he told me that if you do an aerial with the A button and hold down on the control stick before l-cancelling it, more frames of the aerial will be cancelled, resulting in faster cancelling.

Direct your frame data master to Melee's intro tutorial.

 

[Massive]

If you do the aerial earlier with the A button than the c-stick then of course you'll have less lag after cancelling.

But hey, holding down and a seriously does help you catch Pokemon.

 

[Fortress | Sveet]

I thought it was B not A

 

[Massive]

I thought it was B not A

Only in Pokemon Blue.

 

[michael_li]

your friend is ********

 

[ZaXXoR]

lol ur friend probably just doesnt know how to fastfall unless he's doing a down aerial