Sling Spike - Possible new AT for Dark Pit?

[Jellyfishn]

I discovered this while using Dark Pit's Fair in various circumstances. This might be possible with other characters that have multi-hit aerial moves.

Dark Pit's Fair keeps you moving with him at the speed he is moving at so you stay in the move until the last hit. By fast falling and cancelling in the middle of the move into the ground, the one getting hit keeps the fast fall momentum downward. This is fatal for certain characters, and hard to react to unless they know exactly what you are doing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrdyW9YdQ_U

While this is not an actual spike, "Sling spike" sounds cool so that is what I have been calling it.

Edit: This has been confirmed to work with other characters' moves as well.

http://smashboards.com/threads/gren...-0-8-is-it-the-first-0-to-death-combo.370015/

 

[Coffee™]

Figured this would work like this once I saw the MK video. Nice to see some video evidence confirming it. Should make for some interesting edgeguards.

 

[Scoob]

Can Pit do this as well? If not, it certainly makes picking a favorite easier.

 

[ObsidianFH]

Awesome! I look forward to testing this myself tomorrow evening!

 

[Tsutori]

Can Pit do this as well? If not, it certainly makes picking a favorite easier.

I think it's been said that Pit has the same f-air : O

 

[CHOMPY]

Do you have to fast fall it in order for it to work? I actually did something like that to Ike. Only it was offstage and I was able to pull off the Sling Spike right after Ike performed his initial Up B animation, and it still went through and worked.

The fact that you can pull it off on characters that have trouble getting back on stage can make a huge difference in the metagame. Mario, Luigi, Falcon, Ganon, Ike, Marth, Lucina, Yoshi, Fox, Falco, Diddy, are the ones that have trouble getting back on the stage, if they're far enough away from the stage from a downwards angle.

 

[Zano]

fast falling an aerial makes it an AT? **** son, I've made hundreds then

 

[droughboi]

This is cool, but why would you use this over Dair to spike?

 

[sushifreAk]

This is cool, but why would you use this over Dair to spike?

It's onstage. dAir is offstage. They are both useful under different circumstances. dAir still looks much cooler though.

 

[ChooChoo]

This also happens with Yoshi's Dair, so I'm sure there are lots of characters capable of doing this. I don't think it can be dubbed an AT, it's no more than an even more situational and weaker footstool (minding the attack's damaging properties). It must be satisfying getting a kill with this technique on purpose though.

 

[Ziem'sPit]

This is insane but it seems extremely situational. Makes gimping people like Mac even easier tho.

 

[Zano]

all you have to do to gimp mac is press down b...

 

[Ziem'sPit]

"Even" Easier.

 

[Zenpie]

NICE FIND!

 

[Ecchin]

i've seen several characters that can do this "spike" like sheik's u-air
but is useful, i'll try it now!

 

[Phoenix502]

that looks a bit tough to do at first glance... might be easier to use on the Wii U version, though...

 

[Ziem'sPit]

that looks a bit tough to do at first glance... might be easier to use on the Wii U version, though...

I'd assume MUCH easier...it's basically flicking the Cstick to the side and then fastfalling.

 

[Opana]

Had this done to me in For Glory of all places lol.

But yeah, nearly every if not every multi hitting move drags them downward if canceled during. Zelda has a strong one with Nair for example, but Olimar has a weak one with his Nair.

 

[ReRaze]

Greninja has something that works in the same way as this, although it's harder to perform it seems stronger

Im guessing Greninja is not the only one (after reading the above posts)

 

[Tornado_Man]

I've done it a couple times with Mega Man's bair. Didn't realize all these other characters could do it too.