I think what the frost was going for is that it looks like there are things you can do that will lower the probablity of tripping. If you're in a situation where tripping is possibly yes, it's random. There isn't a surefire way to trip by yourself moving in a specific way (thankfully).
No, he wasn't. He clearly said that Tripping is not Random at all based on "I haven't tripped much". Trust me, I know this guy. I've seen him post a lot. It's typical fr0st2k logic.
Someone posted some test results in the advanced tech thread that was done by someone at IGN (probably someone on the forums). I'll see if I can find the link. Basically claims that tripping is a result of pressing over and releasing right away. If you press over (to dash or whatever) and hold it, you won't trip. Also stated that higher damage makes you trip more often, when you can trip. I dunno if it's true, though when I messed around with dashing back and forth with Dedede (his turn animation is amusing) and held the control stick instead of just tapping, I didn't trip.
The crap those IGN morons spouted were partially
lies (that or the idiots actually thought what they said was true).
Hitaku (here on SWF) did extensive testing. Do not take the IGN moron's for their word, read Hitaku's finding.
For one thing, I've
personally tripped several times without letting go of the stick. I've also tripped upon
the very first dash of a game.
You can
also trip from
walking or F-tilting. I know F-tilting is confirmed to trip people. I'm not so sure about walking since I have yet to see someone outright state it, but it'd explain tripping while F-tilt-spamming.
It's an interesting theory, if nothing else. Think I'll mess around with dashing/foxtrotting in Training Mode while I test other stuff and see if it matches up or not.
The theory is wrong. And people need to stop reposting that information, especially when Hitaku himself has told people to stop taking the IGN idiots' words for it.
Again, based on that... it's not so much that tripping isn't random... it's that it can only occur in certain circumstances, which some people are saying you can avoid (and thus avoid tripping).
Tripping can occur whenever you move left or right while grounded. The only way to completely avoid it is to simply never move to the side on the ground.
And as a completely useless side note, the game appears to record the number of times you've tripped in records as Prat Falls, unless those are something completely different. My number, compared to how many matches I've done, seems kinda low so it's hard to say. Maybe I do trip less often than I think I do... or I'm somehow getting better at avoiding it, heh.
In Melee, "Prat Falls" were when you fell on your back. Maybe they changed it.
Well you guys bringing the offensive sh*t talk are in no way better. Thats what trolling is, not what this thread brought. This is ridiculous.
It's because fr0st2k is a quasi-troll. His first, like, 6 posts that I read were all blatant trolling or quasi-trolling. Most of the time, what he says is illogical or downright stupid. Debating against him is also a no-go since he
categorically refuses to listen to reason and often resorts to ignoring posts he cannot counter-argue (which happens to be the majority of them in his case). He's also a broken record and keeps repeating the same inane arguments over and over even when said arguments have been destroyed by others (whose counter-arguments he conveniently ignores and then forgets).
And this thread was meaningless since Hitaku's already established how tripping works. Then fr0st2k decides Hitaku's wrong because he just hasn't tripped that much?
There IS something wrong with tripping. I tripped once in 10 hours of gameplay now whats that. Why my playstyle doesn't make me trip, why other trips more?
Is it SO random that one can be so lucky or unlucky?
Whenever you move around on the ground, there is a 1% chance of tripping. This does not mean that you
will trip once in every 100 dashes. It means that you
probably will. Odds can be beaten, however.
I regularly pull 2 bob-ombs in a row, lots of grand-father turnips each match, Mr. Saturns, Beam-swords galore, etc. Does that mean the odds of Peach pulling said items have been raised? No, it's just me beating the odds.
Some people trip
a lot. Others less.
Seen this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmCtH2QTsPw
If it's not random, then how come they don't all trip together?
Anyway, I'm gone. This thread might not be the best, but the kind of people with extensive post count thinking they can post whatever they want which is clearly trolling, is ridiculously annoying. People here are as frustrating as in the gamespot board.
fr0st2k brought it on himself, really, what with his original post in this thread and his posting history.