Trouble with Sonic's instant edge guarding...

[Neodaft_boy]

I find it's tough, I watched LuCKy's videos (and they were really good ^^) but I can't just seem to master that instant edge guard let alone how to pull it off with out rocketing off the edge.

Can anyone fill me in on some usefull way(s) I can pull this off? :3

 

[thecatinthehat]

move the control stick as though you were gonna shoot a hadouken towards the stage

 

[MdrnDayMercutio]

It's tough. It seems some people can nail it without a problem. I tend to do it in training mode for like 20 mins every couple days and start to get it down but than the next time I play it's like my hands go all ******** and can't nail it everytime anymore. It's sad.

 

[Umby]

If all else fails, I think either Izzy or TwinkleToes suggested turning tap jump off and just holding diagonal up and back toward the stage.

 

[TwinkleToes]

Would have been Izzy, the only thing I say to people is don't bother with the "hadoken" method. Just hit down right after you run off the stage. If you fast-fall soon enough you'll grab the edge.

 

[Kiro13]

Yea I use Twinkle Toes method it just kinda makes it easier for me to just short hop backwards off the stage and go for the edge.

 

[TwinkleToes]

^Er, that's not what I'm talking about. If you're short hopping you're wasting time. Also, there's no need to do it backwards since you can grab ledges even if you're not facing them.

 

[Umby]

You have the same avatar.

Cute.

 

[Kiro13]

Sorry if I misunderstood but I meant the way I play because I tend to wait at the edges and I always have my back turn so I can easily do sonics Back Air since to me it seems to have longer range and better priority on some attacks, I mean the better it can actually be for sonic in priority, and it seems pretty good on how far and hard it can send people. Though I may be wrong it is just how I play Sonic, so don't get mad at me if I saying something utterably wrong.

 

[Greaseman]

I'm not a sonic main, but I found that this instant edge grab is fairly simple. All that i do is dash for the edge and than right as my character is starting the balancing animation (like hes gonna fall off) I smash down on the thumb stick, works every time.

 

[Neodaft_boy]

Thanks guys for the input... I can't seem to get these techniques down. I don't know if I read wrong or I'm totally off with the button timing -- I never tried the hadouken but that follows my next question. Again, thankyou ^^

And that question being, what exactally IS a "hadouken?" The right button combonations and discription would be useful XD

 

[Dragonbreath]

A hadoken is a ball of awesome that you spam to win at Street Fighter. Haha. The hadoken motion is when you spin the control stick in a quarter-circle, starting from the bottom and ending facing your opponent.

If your control stick were a compass, and your opponent is to the right (Or east) of you, then it's south, southwest and west, in one motion.

If you opponent is to the right of you, then it's south, southeast, east.

The reason that Sonic needs to do this is because at full speed, he runs off the edge too fast to snap to the edge. Going into fastfall lets him do it though, hence the hadoken motion.