Ledgecancelling is good!

[Diakonos]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXumaQETlWk (new)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2vM53yzwJw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2L5-7v_pX0

So is powershielding.

Here's the link to some vids I recorded the other day!
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=265426

Sorry guys, shameless promotion of videos. But ledgecancelling is really good, truly. You can use it to edgehog, to combo, and to start up combos!

 

[Signia]

I'd say the stars have to be aligned in order for moves to link from edgecancelling where they wouldn't connect otherwise, but it looks useful for zoning/baiting.

 

[Diakonos]

Well, once you can do it pretty consistently, the combos lend themselves out. But you're right, I use them mainly for having stage presence and for baiting. It sets up for edgeguards quite nigcely. I actually had put up the wrong video in the front -- the new one shows what I mean.

 

[Vanitas]

the first video says you re falco! >_< haha
anyways yes i learned yesterday ledge canceling is super effective

 

[_wzrd]

your ledgecancels are tooo good. i gotta learn that naoww!

 

[Dynamism?]

soooooooooooo manly

When I'm bored or have noone to play, I will try duplicating your manliness for hours LOL

 

[sonofashrub]

how does one ledgecancel?

 

[_wzrd]

mmmm i just got it down (against lvl 1s, still shaky against real people). i think of it as jump towards the edge of a platform and landing with an attack while di-ing off the edge of it when your (about to be) landing.
then you can throw out another attack very quickly....sooo sexy.

i dunno, im sure someone can explain it better, but thats the gist of it.

 

[stelzig]

^When you land on a ledge your landing lag animation is cancelled by the "falling" (or about to fall) animation you always get when standing on the edge. Thus you can do anything you like afterwards... Or maybe you just drop off thanks to momentum and don't have to really hit that precisely, but this works too and lets you do grounded moves as well anyway (in fact since you can drop off with moves where you look away from the ledge... Yeah you don't have to get the falling animation thing )
Ness actually makes use of this with his PK fire in break the targets - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIlz-_ruXyw (2nd target)

 

[_wzrd]

OHH! thats a much better explanation thanks...i was unsure about the grounded moves thing...cause id land funny and seemingly do a faster fsmash but couldnt tell. naw, i was just trying to get off the ledge intentionally so i could to the quick double aerials and aerial->edgehogs. mmm good new info though, my search failed when i was trying to figure um out