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dash observation

Delgato

Smash Rookie
Joined
Feb 2, 2008
Messages
10
Location
Sioux Falls
not sure if this has been commented on by anyone else yet.

I found a fun little technique with marth today. Instead of fully dashing i repeated jammed the stick forward and released, kind of like a pulsed dash. By doing so Marth would go a distance, then it would begin the dashing frames from the begining. By doing so I was able to keep around full dash speed. It was almost like a dash-pulse sequence.
The bonus of this odd technique is that at the begining of each dash-pulse sequence there was a frame in which marth was completely upright in a neutral standing position. From this position i could execute any type of attack, straight out of dashing. It takes some good timing and anticipation to be effective, but it is useful to surprise an opponent with a smash attack seemingly right out of a dash.

I have not yet looked to see if this is possible with many other characters as of yet
 

Irow

Smash Ace
Joined
Nov 8, 2005
Messages
709
Location
Vallejo, California
Welcome to the Marth boards. Next time go to the Q&A or Discussion thread to talk about things like this.

By the way...

The pulsating dashes you are doing is known as "Fox Trotting".
 
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