So whats the deal with ink dropping?

[MrLegend]

I see DeDeDe doing some tumbles in the videos with Ikki in it. Any news on how useful it is and how it is done?

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=KzQfkwdnXDo&feature=user
At about 22 seconds, Ike can be seen falling and rolling out.

http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=4eWl-DCrjwU&feature=related
DeDeDe does it at 40 and 50 seconds.

Edit: all right guys, DeDeDe is tripping because of missing his grab. I still think Ike is Ink Dropping though.

 

[Sinistar]

We didn't call it ink dropping.


We DROPPED that whole idea and left it to what Sakurai was going to call it.

 

[Itakio]

I didn't see any trips. Can you give the video and time?

 

[gunterrsmash01]

it looks like a terrible mechanic. hopefully it wont affect gameplay that much

 

[MrLegend]

Yeah, I remember the whole drama about the name. I thought we all decided to call it whatever we wanted though. I like Ink Dropping, it has a nice ring to it.

 

[Kittah4]

In match 5 on the Eldin bridge, at some point, Dedede uses his dash attack I believe. He rushes forward and faceplants like in the Kirby games. That's not the same as the "ink drop" which is just basically tripping.

 

[igloo9]

Ink dropping sounds awesome.

 

[NESSBOUNDER]

That faceplant is actually Dedede's running attack...

 

[Itakio]

In match 5 on the Eldin bridge, at some point, Dedede uses his dash attack I believe. He rushes forward and faceplants like in the Kirby games. That's not the same as the "ink drop" which is just basically tripping.

I'm almost confident that this is him missing a dash grab. He does it right after doing the down throw where he always seems to go for another grab immediately.

Edit: nevermind, I'm talking about the rolling, not the faceplant.

 

[MrLegend]

there are instances where DeDeDe does a faceplant then rolls out of it. Ike has done it too. I'll watch the videos again and give out times.

 

[Talendime]

I wonder if I'm the only one here who still doesn't know what Ink Dropping is.
Or Wavedashing, for that matter.
I bet though, that I'm the only one that doesn't care.

How often could something like this even present itself in the game, anyway?

 

[MrLegend]

it looks like a terrible mechanic. hopefully it wont affect gameplay that much

How do you know? Perhaps its as exploitable as the WD. Don't tout assumptions as facts.

 

[S2]

Well we still haven't figured out how or why characters can trip.

So its hard to give any answers about dropping yet.

 

[ph00tbag]

I didn't see Dedede trip once. However, if you want to see a trip, watch the Subspace Emissary vid of Mario and Kirby. Somewhere in there, Mario seems to be heading for some attack, but trips instead.

By they way, "Ink Drop" was exposed by Gimpyfish as a fraudulent name, because the response to it was absurd. The name for the mechanic, as I recall was considered just to be "tripping," because... well, the character trips.

Now, it is possible, supposedly, to cancel the trip animation, but that's not an Ink drop. The event was rare enough that no name was really given for it.

 

[MrLegend]

Yeah, I know all that. I was here when the bombshell blew up. I still like the name so I still call it Ink Dropping.

 

[Zek]

The first link in the OP is the clearest example of this. It seems like Ike tried to turn around mid-dash and tripped as a result. It doesn't seem to be that simple though or the E4All people wouldn't have had such a hard time figuring out how it works. We'll just have to wait until someone can verify it personally.

Dedede's rolling is just him missing a grab, and the faceplant is his dash attack.

 

[RedMage8BT]

I'll still call it Ink Dropping until I hear another name... why do I always miss all the drama on these boards?

 

[Blatherskite]

I won't call it anything because falling on your face isn't a technique.

 

[RedMage8BT]

Lol, true, true.

 

[Mysteryfox1]

isn't that just King Dedede failing at a grab?

 

[FoulPlay]

isn't that just King Dedede failing at a grab?

Someones already said this.

It's really hard to make out what happened to Ike, the quality is atrocious on youtube, none the less, it's one of the best matches we have of brawl so far.

They should really play some more stages, I mean I know SmashVille seems to be the most neutral stage in that selection. But still, they only played one other map and it was Eldin Bridge... Is there something wrong with Lylat Cruise?

 

[Alondite]

Does it seem to happen at any particular time? Or maybe more often with certain characters? Could it be a way to limit combos so that perhaps massively huge combos aren't possible? I really have no idea...

 

[MrLegend]

Okay, I agree with you guys on DeDeDe but Ike is definitely tripping.

 

[Malius]

How the balls do you get the name "ink dropping" from something like that?

 

[Ban Heim]

How the balls do you get the name "ink dropping" from something like that?

The guy who discovered it.

 

[MrLegend]

People whine and moan about it being called after the guy who discovered it but their just being idiots. It won't be the first time its happened, look at thunders combo of the ken combo.