Infinite Running

[Sonic Orochi]

Messing around with that "slow run" thing on Eldin Bridge, I discovered this:

http://rapidshare.com/files/117318536/infiniterun.gif

lols, over 7mb of gif, sorry

Anyway, just do a slow run and you won't fall off the edge. Simple as that.

Makes instant edgehog a bit easier [and funnier] (just press diagonal down away from the stage and then diagonal up towards the stage) and seems to work with any character as well.

Have fun.

 

[Nicole]

this has nothing to do with your message (because my computer is too slow, old, and stupid to use rapidshare), but you are awesome! i love watching your vids on youtube. you have really given me alot of hope as a sonic mainer, so thank you.

also, how do you so flawlessly use the homing attack as an edgeguard/gimp? i have been working on it, and i can homing attack people to their doom, but only about 35% of the time.

 

[Sonic Orochi]

Hey, glad you liked my vids =)

I've been working on a Sonic guide these days, it's about 40% complete, so look forward to it! :D

About the Homing Attack, some other threads covered this, but it really have to do with positioning yourself before HAing. Usually, being below your opponent works great. And don't forget to fastfall and add an aerial after the HA.

But don't worry, I'll cover this in my guide vid as well.

 

[TwinkleToes]

Instant edge hogging is easy enough, but this is a funny trick, and who knows maybe we'll find an actual use for it later (u-smash spiking?) lol.

 

[Tenki]

lol mindgames, probably :x

Also, if you 'smash' (...tilt?) quickly to about 3/4 in a direction, you can do a medium-speed run that you can do this 'infinite' run with, too xD

 

[Sonic Orochi]

BTW, you can run normally and then hold the analog a bit back and the result will be a "slower run" as well.

 

[RockCrock]

How exactly do you do this "slow run"/"infinite run"?

 

[Sonic Orochi]

The easiest, I think, is tapping the analog so you'll do a quick dash and then holding the analog a bit forward. Sonic you'll start his "full run animation", but at a slower pace. Then, holding the analog in that position will result in a "slow run", which you can use for this "infinite run".

 

[CaliburChamp]

I tried this out yesterday, and it does work. Although I tried it with Toon Link. Mindgaming edge guard technique?

 

[Trillion]

can someone post another vid of this or something cuz i cant get the link to work

EDIT: Nevermind, I got it to work

 

[Espy Rose]

The easiest, I think, is tapping the analog so you'll do a quick dash and then holding the analog a bit forward. Sonic you'll start his "full run animation", but at a slower pace. Then, holding the analog in that position will result in a "slow run", which you can use for this "infinite run".

Oh so THAT is what this is. I never bothered looking at the video, so I had no idea.

I thought that once everyone started to tinker around with Sonic's dash properties that this became common knowledge.

Guess I was wrong.

When I did it the first time, I lol'd pretty **** hard.

 

[darkNES386]

So do we have a name for Sonic's ability to fox-trot and slide a good extra distance before the fox-trot finishes?

To do what I'm saying... tap forward and hold long enough to do a full "grind style" slide, but not too long to start a full sprint. Then just barely press foward and sonic will slide even further.

You can get across final d in like 3 of these.

 

[Umby]

I kinda want to explore just how mindgamey this can get. Doing a slow run has potential to momentarily throw someone off.

 

[ShadowLink84]

darknes I noticed that as well, the game also counts that slide as actual dashing as well so it would work pretty well in setting an opponent up for a surprise dash attack~>up B~>Uair.

Apparently sonic only does that sliding animation after a fox trot and once you dash longer he does that full stop animation with both feet forward. It appears that only when he does that stop animation rather than the slide that he'll do a slow run.

 

[darkNES386]

So do we have a name for Sonic's ability to fox-trot and slide a good extra distance before the fox-trot finishes?

To do what I'm saying... tap forward and hold long enough to do a full "grind style" slide, but not too long to start a full sprint. Then just barely press foward and sonic will slide even further.

You can get across final d in like 3 of these.

darknes I noticed that as well, the game also counts that slide as actual dashing as well so it would work pretty well in setting an opponent up for a surprise dash attack~>up B~>Uair.

Apparently sonic only does that sliding animation after a fox trot and once you dash longer he does that full stop animation with both feet forward. It appears that only when he does that stop animation rather than the slide that he'll do a slow run.

I wish I had a recording of it right now. I'm pretty convinced it only works well with characters who have long fox-trots.... sonic has one of the longest, no?