Tripping and usefulness.

[Serris]

Has there actually been a time when tripping has actually worked to your advantage? I know it has for me.

It stopped me from running right into death, and it's actually dodged moves.

Sign here if tripping has actually helped you.

 

[quinn95]

No it never helped me.

 

[Yuna]

Oh yeah, the five times it's helped me sooooo makes up for the over 9,000 times it didn't and actually screwed me up. The fact that you can't trip on command really hurts as well since there's no tactical way to employ it since it's random.

 

[Browny]

plenty of times. ive got quite a few replays saved where a last second trip heled me dodge an attack like quick draw, zamus' whip only to get up instantly and smash them right back for the win while thier attacks end.

i dont remember a single time where ive been hit by an attack as a result of tripping. sure its messed up my approaches sometimes, but ive never been punished for it.

 

[Mario & Sonic Guy]

Tripping can sometimes work to your advantage since it may give you an opening to finish off opponents. However, I don't see it a whole lot.

 

[ShadowLink84]

This topic fails.
Tripping=useless.
Sure it may save you every now and then but that is far from being useful. It would only be useful if it can be forced.

 

[Demosthenes]

Tripping can't help because it is random. If you trip and it avoids the attack your just lucky.

 

[cwjalex]

If it has saved you from death then it has also screwed over your opponent from getting a deserved kill.

Sure it has saved me before, but I would rather have taken the hit to learn how to avoid the attack rather than getting a random freebie.

 

[Ganny]

tripping can be beneficial alot of the time. You can time it right so that you get priority with your get up attack because of the invincibility frames. It can also be detrimental alot of the time for some people, but since I space well, I am not in that situation much.

 

[xbrinkx]

You know what also helps with invincibility frames? Rolling! Tripping is useless, show grace for whoever trips if ya can.

 

[FishkeeperTimmay!]

The OP really needs a flame shield. xD

Poor soul probably didn't know what he was getting into.

 

[Taymond]

Yeah, um.. you realize that every time tripping helps someone, it hurts their opponent?

It doesn't matter how many people sign your list, because for each of those names, someone else just suffered from tripping. Tripping wasn't good in these cases, it was just bad for someone else.

 

[zaf]

i have found tripping to be useful sometimes. When I'm running and i trip its obvious that your opponent is going to go right for you then and there since you are so wide open, Why not use this to your advantage and play a little mind game.

So when i am running and trip, if i got the time to do it i let them come to me. From there it is all watching your opponent and gaging how close they are and when to move to set up a move of your own. I'm not one to complain when a trip occurs unless it is dead smack in front of the opponent, but if you have the time, use it to your advantage.

Since i am Toony, i like to roll in the opposite direction, dodging their attack and busting out the bow. If i am lucky enough to roll towards them and get in back of them. I tend to do a down smash.

So try and use this to your advantage and make up a combo of your own. Don't let this effect your playing style, incorporate it into your play style

 

[Serris]

The OP really needs a flame shield. xD

Poor soul probably didn't know what he was getting into.

On the contrary, I started this topic to see if there was going to be a flame war of epic proportions. (Seriously.)

And, yeah, tripping is actually really helpful when you use Zelda to force someone into it. They're caught completely off-guard.

 

[Scicky]

Oh yeah, the five times it's helped me sooooo makes up for the over 9,000 times it didn't and actually screwed me up. The fact that you can't trip on command really hurts as well since there's no tactical way to employ it since it's random.

Who needs to post when you can quote people

 

[RyjinX]

It's really a 25/75 situation as to whether tripping will help or hinder you. There's so many different situations.

Example 1: You're dashing at your opponent, he's dashing to counter you but will probably pull off a dash-attack -> u-smash attack. You trip before you reach him and get saved.

2: You trip on your way to punishing someone trying to recover. (SAKURAIIIIIIIII)

3: You trip into a forward smash.

 

[Serris]

Who needs to post when you can quote people

Not necessarily true. Zelda has about a 75% chance of forcing someone into tripping with her crouching-A attack.

 

[Tsuteto]

Force tripping =/= the tripping that you intended to talk about, I'm pretty sure XD

And compared to the situations of trips, it outbeats the times that it royally screws me over to the times that it has helped me. Other times it's just "Oh, guess I won't use that" sort of thing.

 

[Serris]

Forced tripping may not necessarily be the tripping I was talking about, but it's still very useful. Has this been discussed at the Zelda forum, by any chance?

 

[Taymond]

We're absolutely not talking about HUARGH/WHARRGARBL tripping when we talk about tripping being a purely negative feature. Tripping that is caused by an attack is not baseless. That kind of tripping has a cause, the attack.

Tripping via movement is a punishment without a cause.

You can't talk about the benefits of one to prove benefits of the other.

 

[ellelaby's younger brother]

Yeah, I've dodged loads of attacks. Only two times has it stuffed me up. I guess the people that stuff up because of it a lot aren't good enough?

 

[kico]

how do you time a trip?

 

[Twin Dreams]

very carefully

 

[virtuososteve]

This is what happens, you trip, your opponent dashes at you and then shields right next to you, you press "a" and he blocks the attacks and then grabs u and goes into a god forsaken combo
Thats wat tripping does to me, its the stupidest idea ever invented

 

[TriforceCore]

I onced tripped like barely out of a snakes Fsmash =D that was cool

 

[Formless]

I'd say it's helped me more than it's hurt me. I've dodged attacks when tripping. I can only count maybe two times where I've actually tripped into an attack. Most of the time I'm just running and trip when my opponent is far enough so I'm safe. It's annoying, but it's not game breaking, at least not for me.

 

[Twin Dreams]

This is what happens, you trip, your opponent dashes at you and then shields right next to you, you press "a" and he blocks the attacks and then grabs u and goes into a god forsaken combo
Thats wat tripping does to me, its the stupidest idea ever invented

Don't push A next time. You're like the noobs I beat using only Fox's D-throw in melee.



1. I grab and D-throw
2. I jump
3. They push A
4. Drill+grab
5. Repeat.



Edit: Every tine on of you says you were helped by tripping, someone else was hurt by it.

For example..



a.) My trip dodged an F-Smash!!!
b.) People trip and dodged my F-smash!!!

a.)My opponent tripped in front of me and got me the final kill!
b.) I tripped in front of my opponent and he won the match for it.




The usefulness/punishing tripping causes is exactly 0. I call this the Conservation of Tripping.

 

[Chrono Centaur]

Every time I trip, I can't ever seem to react fast enough to roll out of it, and I trip a lot. :<