Two new (I think) Link gimps

[MykalOfDefiance]

Okay, first, I was fighting someone, and my boomerang went past them, and I don't know how, but when it came back it carried them all the way across Smashville into the blast zone.

Also, if someone is hanging on to the edge in certain stages (e.g. Battlefield, Smashville), if you do Link's aerial spin attack and hit them with the last strike, it'll make them bounce against the side of the stage and fall to the bottom. Now if only someone could do that and not die in the process...

 

[Rizen]

A more common way to stage spike is run off the stage and Bair. There are many variations to those gimps, phantom boomerang, gale guarding, Bomb/Dair/Nair/Bair stage spike. Keep experimenting for effective ways to pull gimps off. Good job.

 

[Scabe]

Okay, first, I was fighting someone, and my boomerang went past them, and I don't know how, but when it came back it carried them all the way across Smashville into the blast zone.

Do you have vid proof of this? I'd love to see this one, it sounds so cool.

Also, if someone is hanging on to the edge in certain stages (e.g. Battlefield, Smashville), if you do Link's aerial spin attack and hit them with the last strike, it'll make them bounce against the side of the stage and fall to the bottom. Now if only someone could do that and not die in the process...

I've had the UpB stage spike happen a few times. The most lol one was in a tourney set where the opponent didn't even need to edgeguard me but he did anyways and lost the game . Skip to the ending: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK4ifBRE87c

 

[MykalOfDefiance]

Do you have vid proof of this? I'd love to see this one, it sounds so cool.

No, unfortunately not. I don't even know how to record fights.


I've had the UpB stage spike happen a few times. The most lol one was in a tourney set where the opponent didn't even need to edgeguard me but he did anyways and lost the game . Skip to the ending: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK4ifBRE87c

That's amazing. Favorited. Five-starred. XDXDXD

 

[Anonano]

Nothing is particularly new about these, actually. I've been trying to find this one particular video where the boomerang carries a Marth player all the way into the blastzone while he's using his sideB moves, and although for some reason I can't seem to find it, it happened about a year and a half ago.
UpB stagespike is just a revenge killer for anyone who fails to roll back onto the stage in time when they ledgeguard. You actually *can* do it and recover, but Scabe was juuust too far away for it to work.
It's quite common, too. Probably the most common stagespike for Link.

 

[MykalOfDefiance]

Nothing is particularly new about these, actually. I've been trying to find this one particular video where the boomerang carries a Marth player all the way into the blastzone while he's using his sideB moves, and although for some reason I can't seem to find it, it happened about a year and a half ago.
UpB stagespike is just a revenge killer for anyone who fails to roll back onto the stage in time when they ledgeguard. You actually *can* do it and recover, but Scabe was juuust too far away for it to work.
It's quite common, too. Probably the most common stagespike for Link.

The character I did it on was Marth. So I guess he has to do his foward special while a boomerang is returning for it to work. I was kinda hoping it'd be less situational than that. :/
Oh, and since this post, I actually have got the stage spike and recovered. :D

 

[Anonano]

Yeah, I wondered if it was the SideB for you.

Certain momentum-changing moves, like SideB, cancel out the normal physics the characters undergo; so moves like Marth's regular B, sideB, Ike's sideB, Jiggz' rollout, Lucas' sideB, all open them up for the boomerang's full physics effects.

 

[Dekar173]

It's when Marth goes from in the air > onto a platform/stage during sideB, under NOT normal conditions (example: the platform appears from nowhere, like when Halberd raises up or a new transform on Pictochat appears).

 

[Anonano]

No Dekar, there's a vid I recorded for a guy where Marth is planted solidly in the floor of FD, trying to do SideB, and the boomerang whisks him off to his death.

Since you can't really jump while in the middle of SideB, and somehow I doubt FD has any floor changes, I think it has more to do with simple physics changes of the move than any outside influence. But that is probably true of a lot of other moves.

That's the vid I'm trying to find.

 

[Scabe]

Found the vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-LMV7ahLCM

I typed this in YouTube: link brawl glitch marth

 

[Huggles828]

Ha, I've been on the receiving end of this as Ike. I jumped into the boomerang my opponent had trhown, figuring I'd ride with it back toward him while I charged up side B. I hit him, but the boomerang carried me off the nose of Great Fox in Corneria super fast and upwards (the same angle as the nose of Great Fox) and killed me :/

 

[Wafflez]

What the-
You're all talking about Link and gimping- but at the same time you're talking about Link NOT being gimped? And furthermore, Link is the one gimping???

You all's crazy.

Also, the spin attack stage spike happens lots of times. If they run out of invinc frames just as Link comes level with the stage on his last swipe of the spin attack, it will stage spike the opponent (rather ferociously, I might add) and Link will then in turn, grab the ledge.

 

[SpaghettiWeegee]

I've heard of the Spin Attack gimp (I use it all the time on edgeguarders), but not the Gale Boomerang gimp. I think that you may be talking about something like this, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc6fq8VULVk (It occurs at around 2:43 in the video).