Platform crawl boost technique?

[0RLY]

At SKTAR3, I was watching the stream friday morning of ESAM warming up on Norfair before his doubles game.

I noticed he did this movement technique that lets him move horizontally on platforms very very quickly.

I don't know what he did, but it appeared that he inputted a crawl boost attack and immediately dropped through the platform then immediately reappeared standing on the platform and repeated. He went back and forth across the top Norfair platform extremely quickly.

I don't know if this has anything to do with the 'double jump through moving platform = instant land' tech from brawl or if he just chose Norfair because it's one the stages with a very long platform.

I didn't see this in any thread so I figured I'd ask about it. What was ESAM doing?

UPDATE:
To do this, you simply enter and exit crawl asap. So just hold diagonal down and vibrate your thumb as fast as possible. Thanks to: http://smashboards.com/threads/platform-crawl-boost-technique.356921/#post-16831198

 

[Litt]

Yeah Ive seen ESAM do that as well, no clue how to do it myself tbh or what he is even doing, deff has to do with brawl

 

[pizzacato]

Okay so ESAM was doing this after his match with Armada, wtf is he doing and how do I do it? Seems gimmicky and OP. and I want it.

 

[Choice Scarf]

All I saw was ESAM doing it on the training room stage, so it can't be just a platform thing.

 

[Citricide]

I want this x.x

 

[Litt]

Okay so ESAM was doing this after his match with Armada, wtf is he doing and how do I do it? Seems gimmicky and OP. and I want it.

it sounds like it has something to do with the transition between crouch cancel and morphball when esam does it, perhaps just wavedashing at the transition point between cc and morphball?

 

[pizzacato]

So in playing around with it for awhile, it's nothing more than vibrating the control stick between lower right/left and straight right/left. Although it yields an extremely fast way to travel, it's very impractical. At least for me, I have to claw the stick with my right hand to perform the tech.

 

[0RLY]

You have to claw the control stick with your... right hand? I can't even begin to imagine what this would look like. Can you start this from a dash or do you have to be standing when you start?

 

[Citricide]

is there a video of this

 

[pizzacato]

I had to be standing when I start.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aijlgD4M18
Here's a short video of me trying to perform what I want to dub the Speed Booster. but eh crouch dash is simple enough. ESAM hasn't claimed it so,

EDIT: I just found a post where ESAM claimed it as Mach Balling. Cool stuff, let's try Mockball tho

 

[Narpas_sword]

How dissimilar is what you're doing to foxtrotting?

 

[pizzacato]

How dissimilar is what you're doing to foxtrotting?

Nothing, honestly. You're just doing the change in inputs as fast as you can and getting a faster travel speed than running. Well... if you can keep it consistent. I can't really.

 

[Citricide]

why not call it the ESAM Dash

 

[ph00tbag]

No.‌‌‌‌‌‌‌

 

[Citricide]

Yes, he invented it

 

[ph00tbag]

I have literally been doing this since Samus was given a crawl in the pre-release versions. Maybe we should call it the ph00tbag dash. (Answer is still no.)

I've never really even cared to talk about it, because I've never seen a use for it, unique to the state it induces, that is so vital to Samus's gameplay as to warrant the difficulty of doing it. As far as I can tell, it's not even important enough to warrant a name, let alone just naming after the first person to do it on video.

If nothing else, it's always been really lame to name stuff after players.

 

[210stuna]

If nothing else, it's always been really lame to name stuff after players.

Ken Combo says hi

Regardless a little extra knowledge never hurt anyone.

So how does the magician do his magic @[FBC] ESAM

 

[ph00tbag]

Ken Combo's a pretty lame name, though.

 

[0RLY]

It looks like you can only do this to the right. Why is that?

 

[Kati]

I couldn't muster much speed when I found this a ways back, but I find that doing it backwards allows for an easy ledge grab when I'm already too close to wd off of it. Because of the downward diagonal direction, I think that Samus fastfalls instantly and thus grabs the ledge faster than air dodging off and instantly grappling.

 

[Litt]

I couldn't muster much speed when I found this a ways back, but I find that doing it backwards allows for an easy ledge grab when I'm already too close to wd off of it. Because of the downward diagonal direction, I think that Samus fastfalls instantly and thus grabs the ledge faster than air dodging off and instantly grappling.

ummmm.... why not just do a PC drop? pretty sure thats faster than all your methods :/

 

[SpiderMad]

Damn I thought it would be easy like D3's Down-b pivot where u just gotta hold it just right, does anyone still have the video of ESAM doing it? Can you get even better at it @ pizzacato and record again?

 

[pizzacato]

Damn I thought it would be easy like D3's Down-b pivot where u just gotta hold it just right, does anyone still have the video of ESAM doing it? Can you get even better at it @ pizzacato and record again?

No, sorry. It's unnecessary and just a party trick; kind of like swd in melee. It's practical in PM, but still a party trick.
I gave you the info on how, try it yourself. Be the Samus who finds a practical use and show all of us up.
ESAM wants to call it Mach Balling, which does have a Super Metroidesque, so let's call it that.

 

[Litt]

No, sorry. It's unnecessary and just a party trick; kind of like swd in melee. It's practical in PM, but still a party trick.
I gave you the info on how, try it yourself. Be the Samus who finds a practical use and show all of us up.
ESAM wants to call it Mach Balling, which does have a Super Metroidesque, so let's call it that.

I greatly respect the response you gave to SpiderMad pizzacato. You have earned my respect on here and I look foward to watch you advance samus's meta in PM.

 

[pizzacato]

I greatly respect the response you gave to SpiderMad pizzacato. You have earned my respect on here and I look foward to watch you advance samus's meta in PM.

lol #nbd

 

[WizKid911]

It looks like you can only do this to the right. Why is that?

I wonder. Idk if it is something that can be fixed. Its like swd in crawl. For some reason you can do it from left to right but not right to left

 

[Litt]

lol #nbd

Just the way you are responding in posts to other players shows a strong grasp of the character and how they should be played at the most competitive level, and its noticeably different from just a few weeks ago.

 

[0RLY]

It might have something to do with luigi's scuttle, which he can only perform by crawling backwards to the left.

 

[Litt]

Yeah everyone who cares, this one would only be a viable movement option if you clawed the control stick, otherwise its just something flashy to do inbetween stocks

 

[pizzacato]

Nah dude, I'ma build up the claw muscle and become the fastest Samus.

 

[Litt]

Nah dude, I'ma build up the claw muscle and become the fastest Samus.

Ok you can take fastest, ill be happy with the best though

 

[pizzacato]

Ok you can take fastest, ill be happy with the best though

Oooooooooooooooo #BoomGoestheDynamite
#ShotsFired
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