How do you SDI?

[holyv]

How to?
i play luigi, and his aerial cancelling is not good enough, plus my normal DI sucks.

So i would like to know: How sdi works? what happens when you do it? How it does help you?(i know it helps a lot, i watched people SDI videos, it's amazing)

 

[Life]

Smash DI is when you hit a direction while in hitlag and you sort of "teleport" a bit.

Master regular DI before worrying about it though, because it's easy to screw up the timing.

 

[Supreme Dirt]

With your eyes, duh.

 

[DaBeast]

To DI when your hit horizontally is to tap up or down with the tilt stick, to sdi you have tap the tilt stick and c stick up or down simultaneously. Hope this helps.

Link that taught me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMhy29SGkDU

 

[holyv]

Yay thank you, just up and down?

 

[Nicholas1024]

As far as normal DI goes, the goal is to be shot towards the upper corners of the screen. To do this you basically have to add the direction you press the control stick with the direction you were sent flying.

TLDR: If you're sent horizontally, you want to DI by holding the control stick up or down (usually up for an easier time recovering) If you're sent vertically, you want to DI towards a corner of the screen by holding the control stick left or right (whichever corner is closer). In addition, you want to practice sending out your fastest aerial to help cancel momentum (I think for Luigi it's the F-air, but I'm not sure on that one.)