Hi all. Super new srs player here. I played Melee pretty frequently, never touched Brawl. This Smash is my first attempt to get srs about Smashing.
Anyway, while practicing some advanced techniques, I happened upon something that I think may be a technique. I had never heard nuttin' about it, and since I'm still babby tier, I figure I should come here to talk about this see if it's worth a damn.
I call it Tap Dashing. It might already be known about and already have another name or is so useless no one other bothered giving it one, but never heard nuttin' about this thing, so eh.
This is a video of it. I apologize in advanced for the potato-tier quality.
(Note: In the second half, I accidentally held the Smash longer than I did in the previous one. This has to do with me being dumb and not because the move activated later than when I was doing a normal dash. I think.)
Iunno if you got the gist of it from the video but let me explain what I did, and why I think this may be a helpful technique.
In the first half, I did a normal dash and then did a a F-Smash as soon as a could after stopping. There's a bit a lag between when Peach skids to a stop and when she could F-Smash.
In the second half, I did my Tap-Dash. I just tapped the circle pad in the direction I wanted to repeatedly. What this does is that it has Peach only does the beginning "leap" of her dash, but doesn't go into the full dash. As soon as Peach hit's the ground again, she can do the leap again. I kept doing this until I got to where I wanted to, and then F-Smash'd Bowser.
I tested it and the Tap-Dash is about as fast as the normal dash. It's barely a fraction of a second slower that the normal dash. (From what I tested.)
I think this is useful, because with a full dash, I had to wait a moment for the dash to stop before I could F-Smash. With this Tap-Dash, it feels as though you are locked into a dash for a lot less time, plus it feels as if there is absolutely no lag between dashing and neutral position. With the full dash, when Peach stops, there a moment where she's neither dashing nor in neutral. She can do nothing during this time. It's a very tiny window of time, but Tap-Dashing makes it feel as though that window in non-existent. You are either dashing or in neutral. There is no in-between time between those two.
This isn't even hard to do. The hardest part is the timing to make sure you don't end up going into a full dash, which isn't all to difficult at all.
Please note, I've only practiced this with Princess Peach.
Now, as I said, I am babby-tier Smash player. This could all be compete bullocks and I have no idea what I'm talking about/just reiterating what already known. However, in the case of the former, I did a bit of testing with this in training mode and it really feels like this does what I think it does. Have less time between when your dashing and in a neutral position and removes the "null" period. I will fully admit I could be full of crap and I will admit that, since this is so simple, it's probably already known and is completely useless, which is why I've never heard of it before. However, I'm just going with my gut. Please be kind if I've made a fool of myself. ;w;
My questions are: Is this already known about, is it viable or just a useless gimmick/crutch because I'm not good at going from dash to neutral, or is it made irrelevant by some advanced technique I don't know about?
I thank you for your time and reading though this newbie's text wall. C:
Anyway, while practicing some advanced techniques, I happened upon something that I think may be a technique. I had never heard nuttin' about it, and since I'm still babby tier, I figure I should come here to talk about this see if it's worth a damn.
I call it Tap Dashing. It might already be known about and already have another name or is so useless no one other bothered giving it one, but never heard nuttin' about this thing, so eh.
This is a video of it. I apologize in advanced for the potato-tier quality.
Iunno if you got the gist of it from the video but let me explain what I did, and why I think this may be a helpful technique.
In the first half, I did a normal dash and then did a a F-Smash as soon as a could after stopping. There's a bit a lag between when Peach skids to a stop and when she could F-Smash.
In the second half, I did my Tap-Dash. I just tapped the circle pad in the direction I wanted to repeatedly. What this does is that it has Peach only does the beginning "leap" of her dash, but doesn't go into the full dash. As soon as Peach hit's the ground again, she can do the leap again. I kept doing this until I got to where I wanted to, and then F-Smash'd Bowser.
I tested it and the Tap-Dash is about as fast as the normal dash. It's barely a fraction of a second slower that the normal dash. (From what I tested.)
I think this is useful, because with a full dash, I had to wait a moment for the dash to stop before I could F-Smash. With this Tap-Dash, it feels as though you are locked into a dash for a lot less time, plus it feels as if there is absolutely no lag between dashing and neutral position. With the full dash, when Peach stops, there a moment where she's neither dashing nor in neutral. She can do nothing during this time. It's a very tiny window of time, but Tap-Dashing makes it feel as though that window in non-existent. You are either dashing or in neutral. There is no in-between time between those two.
This isn't even hard to do. The hardest part is the timing to make sure you don't end up going into a full dash, which isn't all to difficult at all.
Please note, I've only practiced this with Princess Peach.
Now, as I said, I am babby-tier Smash player. This could all be compete bullocks and I have no idea what I'm talking about/just reiterating what already known. However, in the case of the former, I did a bit of testing with this in training mode and it really feels like this does what I think it does. Have less time between when your dashing and in a neutral position and removes the "null" period. I will fully admit I could be full of crap and I will admit that, since this is so simple, it's probably already known and is completely useless, which is why I've never heard of it before. However, I'm just going with my gut. Please be kind if I've made a fool of myself. ;w;
My questions are: Is this already known about, is it viable or just a useless gimmick/crutch because I'm not good at going from dash to neutral, or is it made irrelevant by some advanced technique I don't know about?
I thank you for your time and reading though this newbie's text wall. C:
