Fortress landing w/ reduced lag

[ducky285]

Sorry if this has been discussed before but I noticed this today with Bowser's fortress.

As you all know, if you fortress in the air, you will land with an annoying bounce that leaves you way open to be punished. However, if you land on the ground before the fortress is completely finished (or anytime during the attack) the lag is drastically reduced. There is still some lag (I couldn't attack right after landing) but it's not nearly as bad as the bounce.

This works if you fortress directly after a short hop or if you do it below the ledge during a recovery.

I find this odd because most air attacks have lag if you land during them and none if you land after them, but this is the complete opposite.

Don't know if this is terribly helpful since I'm not a Bowser main (I use him on occasion) but I suppose this might be looked into more by you guys.

 

[Kevvviiinnn]

There is also a situation where Bowser's fortress lands with absolutely zero lag, but I don't quite know how that works

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3D-EgKkyO8

It happens in this video at about 00:49 to 00:52.

 

[Lovage 805]

I figured out how to do this. It seems pretty situational.
Basically all you have to do is land from your UP B before you are put in "freefall" state. This sounds easy, but there its actually kind of hard to land this quickly after doing an upB, unless you land on a platform.

Anyway, its neat, I hope I can find a place where this will work a lot

 

[Me14k]

Interesting to know. Thanks.

 

[ducky285]

I figured out how to do this. It seems pretty situational.
Basically all you have to do is land from your UP B before you are put in "freefall" state. This sounds easy, but there its actually kind of hard to land this quickly after doing an upB, unless you land on a platform.

Anyway, its neat, I hope I can find a place where this will work a lot

Like I said, this will work right after a short-hop. I did it a few times on FD and it wasn't that hard to do. You can use it to do some damage out of a short hop and then follow-up upon landing.

And of course, platforms help a lot, like you said.