How do you short-hop nair?

[Uareanoob]

I have a really hard time short-hop nairing. My current technique is lightly stroking the X button from left to right with my thumb and then pressing Z with my index finger. The main problem with this is that if I press Z too quickly then I will jump cancel grab instead of short-hop nairing.

Another technique I've tried is pressing Y button with my thumb and hitting the A button with my thumb joint. The main problem I have with this is that I have a very hard time short hopping with Y because I need to hit the edge of the button to short hop.

If you guys have a good technique for short-hop nairing please tell me. Also, please be very specific with exactly how to move which finger and the part of that finger.

Please and thank you!

 

[Ness11]

i tap y quick enough to short hop. the limited amount of movement gives me plenty of time to attack any direction and FFLC

 

[EPsilon933]

I flick the bottom edge of x with my thumbnail and time my z button press so that I don't JC grab. It doesn't have to constantly be frame perfect, at least at your level

 

[AirFair]

Well, I just short hop with X, a quick press, and then hit A.

 

[Roukiske]

Some may argue this, but I don't recommend sliding across the button to short hop. It might be easier to actually short hop this way, but what if you wanted to press B right afterwards? That makes it harder IMO. Most people slide either away from the rest of the buttons or downward (x button) which is not a straight path to A or B.

I recommend straight tapping the button. It might be hard at first. For me I describe it as a twitch of the button and your thumb. It's up to you though, if you don't need to press buttons after jumping immediatly then you can slide. I cannot imagine doing Fox nair-shine-nair spamming by sliding to jump. Possible, but that's pretty difficult to me.

Since I believe you are playing Shiek. My SH nair with her/him (Lore... I forget...) by tapping X and then pressing A with as little lift as possible. Remember whatever is more comfortable for you.

Good luck.

 

[Massive]

I position my thumb between X and A and press one, then the other.

It's pretty easy to do, even with fawks.

 

[The Prince L]

I short hop with the stick cause I'm too bad to use X or Y (true story, I've been using the stick to jump for more than 10 years, It is too hard for me to use X or Y ;___; ) and I press A. That's it lol.