Snake's Taunts, New discovery?!

[wonderboykevin]

Before i go on and start disappointing people, this discovery isnt practical whatsoever to snake's metagame. So no, knowing this wouldnt make you a better snake but i guess its something to wonder about for Snake mainers and perhaps one day this may lead to a more indepth practiablity i guess?

Ok so i was fiddling around with Snake on training. (its what i do when im slacking when i really should be training lol) I discovered that all of Snake's taunts are not all identical.

As you all know, everyone has 3 different taunts except Snake. SUPPOSITLY.

If you look carefully at how snake positions himself when wiping out that box, you'll notice that he doesnt sit the same way depending on which taunt you do, and the SPEED at which he pulls out his box is quite different.



Uptaunt = Snake QUICKLY pulls out his box. Besides the frame difference, he's sitting with both knees together and both hands weilding the box.

SideTaunt = Snake pulls out the box slowly but is sitting more "relaxed". This time, he unveils the box with only one hand, and with the other hand rested. You can see the hand easier if Snake is facing right. You'll also notice that one of his legs are relaxed as well.

DownTaunt = looks almost the same as uptaunt except Snake pull out the box sorta from thin air with both his hands up. Sits the same with both knees together.




NOW. why do we need to know this? Why WonderboyKevin, why would we care?

Well to tell you the truth, i thought it was an interesting thing to know if you main and love snake like i do. THE ONLY PRACTICAL use i see in knowing the difference in all of his taunts is when you want to use his box as an edgeguard. Even though it's slightly noticable, the quicker you can pull out the box, the sooner you can drop it on your opponent. THAT'S ALL I CAN THINK OF.

anywho, here's the part where i say im sorry if people already know this >_>

happy brawling you guys.

 

[Edds]

side taunt = stupid sexy snake

 

[sonic boy]

cool i never knew this i put it in slow motion in traing mode and saw the diffrence lol nice

 

[KirbStomp]

Not sure how many of you knew this, but on the Shadow Moses Labs stage (snake's stage) doing the correct taunt presses can show a funny cut-scene, similar to what you see in MGS games. I can't remember the details of how to do it, but you can ask around, I suppose.

 

[Farago]

Actually I have a practical use for this knowledge. One of my many grenade tricks is dropping a grenade then picking it up, then firing a Nikita, cancelling it then throw the grenade. But sometimes when I'm in the lead or just feeling cocky, I will do the same thing except do a taunt instead of firing a Nikita. Depending on which taunt I use, will affect the distance of my grenade.

Up taunt is the fastest allowing my grenade to go about half the distance of FD before it explodes.

Down taunt allows me to throw the grenade a little less farther than the Up taunt

Side taunt is a lot slower, and so I don't have much time to throw the grenade, if I do it will explode at about forward tilt range, so I usually just shield and it'll explode right away.

This has worked so many times, as people have the tendency to attack snake when he's taunting, and most of the time they don't realize I'm holding a grenade under the box.

 

[theJollity]

This has worked so many times, as people have the tendency to attack snake when he's taunting, and most of the time they don't realize I'm holding a grenade under the box.

Wow, I never thought of that! I've got to try it sometime.
I killed someone off when Snake let off his box... it hits people! I got such a kick out of that.