Jump Cancelling with Falco

[DeathMetalGimli]

So I've been picking up Falco in the past few weeks and I'm still learning some of the crazy technical stuff with him. My brother plays fox, and he suggested I learn to jump cancel my smashes and grabs from dashing, because I would wavedash out of dash so that I could over smash or grab from dash. The thing I noticed with JC'ing is that I can't appear to down smash or over smash with it, only grab and up smash. Is that true that I can only up smash and grab from a JC? Or am I just really scrubby and can't do the over and down smashes? Any help would be appreciated

 

[ECHOnce]

No, you're right. The only things you can do from JCing dash are U-smash and grab. If you want to use other attacks from your character's standing state (D-smash, F-smash, jabs, tilts, Nuetral-B, Down-B), you can use something called dash cancelling. To dash cancel, press down on the control stick while your character is in the full dashing/running animation. They'll crouch and cancel their running momentum, so you can do any attack out of that immediately. Make sure it's the full running animation though; it can't be performed in the initial dash animation. If you want to do an attack that quickly out of dash, you should probably look into pivoting stuff.

 

[DeathMetalGimli]

Awesome, thank you for the great reply. Time to practice like crazy