what exactly is quarter-circle di

[knightpraetor]

I have two possible ideas...for example..if i were hit by a horizontal kill move.

i could di up on the control stick and then repeatedly do a quarter circle towards the stage on the C-stick to get the smash di..

(in this case i assume you must let go of the cstick as soon as the smash di time is over..else you will not be able to di up the rest of the attack)

alternatively..maybe quarter circle di refers to the idea of slamming the stick towards the stage and then rolling a quarter circle to up.

I was wondering which of these methods is more effective at di. Will the second one get substantially less smash di inputs? because it seems a lot easier.

What type of di do you use?

 

[Aftermath]

The Cstick only has one frame of smash DI, and that's when the hit freeze frames are over, so if you are doing quarter circles on it you'll still only get one frame of the ASDI in whichever direction you were holding at that time.

With doing a quarter circle on the control stick, you have to be fast. If you smash DI up on one frame of hit freeze, to smash DI on the next frame you have to be at least 90 degrees away from that direction, so if you do want to try rolling the control stick, you have to be very fast. As a way around needing to roll the control stick, a lot of people recenter the analog and then smash it another direction, you still need to be very fast to do this, and I'd say you're better off learning to just roll the control stick fast enough to do a quarter circle in one frame.

So yeah, the second method is more effective, although harder to do. How many smash DI inputs you get is only based on how fast you are, because again, each frame that you want smash DI you have to be at least 90 degrees (quarter circle) away from where you previously smash DI'd.

 

[pdk]

aren't you supposed to go down in a quarter-circle DI?

 

[Aftermath]

Which way you DI depends on the hit. However, if you're on the ground, you can't do a smash DI downwards, so hitting down from a quarter-circle DI won't do anything except make your trajectory lower. If anything, you'd go away from down in quarter-circle DI, especially if you were CCing or just want to DI a hit that normally sends you horizontally.