Smash Footsie Guide Prologue

[DEHF]

Having trouble avoiding Diddy Kong's f-air? Want to do well at Apex? Then check out the Competitive Footsie Guide on Hurtboxes made by myself and Bam of the People. It can help new or even long-time players understand character hurtboxes, as well as unique options to punish or avoid certain attacks.

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[Exzerko]

I have never been early for a smashboards post...

 

[LiL.Will]

Nice work!

 

[Pazzo.]

This will come in handy...

By our powers combined, we are innovative gameplay!

Captain Smash... He's our hero...

 

[Darklink401]

hmm....guess I SHOULD crouch more.....though it doesnt make MUCH of a different for Villager..

 

[Chinaux]

that narrating is so bad

 

[9Tales]

I see people doing this to Z-Samus ALL the time by accident. So many of her attacks hit really high. I always think of Geninja as a character with a huge list of movement and attack options that lower his hurtbox.

 

[AufWiedersehen]

Good stuff, but I thought the background music was WAY too loud in comparison with the volume of the narrating.

 

[Buffoon]

This would have been vital to me around the time I got stomped by a Diddy during that online tournament.

 

[WinterShorts]

Crouch is THIS effective in Smash? I mean, might as well spam the damn thing against ediots in For Glory mode.

 

[extremechiton]

small characters.... the bane of most zss players

 

[Aguki90]

It was right time to show hat crouching work really well.

Kirby and Jiggly crouch are the best to attack and counter many punish and avoid projectile.

Some crawling attack are good versus air game sometime.
And Pivot turn are very deadly.
I knew crouching was good.

(Love the music choice of the video, not a dubstep, instead classic nintendo Music, YES!!)

 

[THK]

Phew! That could stand to have some editing, also use a script, but still; baby steps. Not bad though.

 

[kj22]

marth fsmash tipper yesssss

 

[Banjo-Kazooie]

I like these basic guides even if I kinda knew about this already. Feels like the thing I need to check back when I'm doing bad or there is a hurdle to cross to the next skill level.

 

[dy831532sssfjhhggb2224523]

Winning Road: Roy's Hope has a remix in this. Yeeeeesssssss!

 

[Thedragon159]

So growing flacon high kicks is punishing??

 

[Aetheri]

As a ZSSamus main shorter characters can be a bit of a problem because of this....Sometimes shorthop into dair or her Up Smash can be decent alternatives to a dash attack...though be careful using them since they are punishable if blocked or dodged...if I knocked my opponent to the ground and they sometimes stay down and anticipate my dash attack I will sometimes switch it up with an Up smash to pull them off the ground into the air...

Down tilts for any character are pretty decent for getting combos started if your not hitting them with your jabs...

 

[Yoshi Kirishima]

The music needs to be turned down a lot.

 

[AuraShaman]

Why do I just now feel the Pikachu & WFT pic is suggesting something?

 

[WwwWario]

Time to start using Wario's backwards twerking crawl more often, I guess.

 

[Yikarur]

I hate Video Guides. What has happend to good old text guides..

 

[ishmokin]

thanks for posting. good pointers.

 

[Shog]

What braindead kid made this video EDITING, not the guide itself? It is unbearable bad, stick to text guides sheesh

 

[CosmicGlitch]

The music needs to be turned down a lot.

very true that was annoying

 

[Infamous_Prime]

Marth really isnt too bad. just hard.

 

[Wasp]

the only character i actually already did this with, is Kirby. It's too obvious he's able to dodge stuff by crouching. WFT also but I cannot play decently with WFT so yeah, kirby it is then...

 

[Sunstar]

This isn't really a beginners guide, because it is too complicated. And a non-beginner knows all this stuff...
I wish, there were more pictures of hit- and hurtboxes of a few moves in this video

 

[TheFadedWarrior]

I have never been early for a smashboards post...

I am every time. I check the front page for the first time in hours, an article was posted 3 minutes before. It's weird :S

 

[Cuban]

Really helpful, thanks for posting this.

 

[JagoTheTiger]

this tool is vary helpful, and it work on all smashes,

 

[BananaBolts]

Saying, "shielding also extends your hurtbox" is factually wrong. Try to avoid saying things like this because you're giving misinformation to players. It simultaneously contradicted your original definition of a hurtbox too.

 

[B0SHI]

This is why I crouch dash, if you want to know what that is basically you can cancel a dash animation by going to crouch, but continue the momentum of the dash. If you start in crouch and dash with a 1/4 circle up and then 1/4 circle back down, then back up, you will continue to add the previous momentum to your current momentum while remaining (for the most part) in a crouching stance, while keeping a lot of attack options open. As a Yoshi main this is a super viable locomotion option for moving around a stage without giving any definite opening to the opponent. In combination with short double jumps (Yoshi) and the subtractive knockback that he gets while in a double jump you are able to keep Yoshi around forever as the crouch dash allows you to DI a powerful smash attack and the double jump amour helps you DI a good aerial

 

[Ansou]

Oh I love my Kirby crouch! <3

 

[Groudon_sama]

pikas crouch is great too, thanks for the vid!

 

[Aetheri]

Also am I the only one that thinks Samus should have her morph ball as both a crouch and a crawl instead of just her roll?

 

[Ansou]

Also am I the only one that thinks Samus should have her morph ball as both a crouch and a crawl instead of just her roll?

Would make sense, but her d-tilt would be kinda weird.

 

[Razbitifightclub]

Would make sense, but her d-tilt would be kinda weird.

Definitly would make sense

 

[Aetheri]

Would make sense, but her d-tilt would be kinda weird.

Not really, no different than her rolling then using her down tilt...cept this time she's still...