(Looks at title), no that's not the name of it. In fact, technically it isn't even new, even though the vast majority of you will not have known about it and the few that did probably didn't know how to do it...... until now.
I should warn you about it before you read on. It really is impossibly hard to perform. But, if you are comfortable with your level of tech skill and want to put it to good use in Brawl, then this is the thread for you.
First up, here's the year old asian vid that shows a few applications of it. Watch the whole thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXXIyk_Fb6M
As you will have seen, this tech allows you to do anything out of a dash, anything out of a shield and anything out of a shield cancellable move. With one big restriction. You have to be on a platform.
I won't put it off any longer. Here's how it's done.
To perform anything out of a dash, start on a platform, dash in any direction, hit shield, instantly drop through the platform out of shield then instantly cancel the platform drop through with any attack. If you aren't blown away with how impossible this is, then you mustn't understand. I'll break it up a bit.
The instant OoS platform drop is quite hard to perform. Normally, when people think about dropping through a platform OoS they think about holding shield then moving the analog stick downwards at a medium pace to avoid a spotdodge or just angling the shield down. But this has to be done instantly which means you don't have time to do it at a medium pace, but if you rush it, won't you just spotdodge? Not necessarily. In order to do it instantly, I find it works easier if I shield then instantly move the joystick diagonally down/forwards and not all the way. This is the best way I've found to do it so fast that you don't even see the shield.
Then if you want to cancel the drop through, you need to instantly use any attack. But by instantly, I'm talking the very next frame instantly. If you can't get the shield drop through consistently, you'll almost always use the move too late and simply use an aerial (say if you were trying to use a tilt for example).
With the above information, the rest of it is quite intuitive. Any option OoS? Just minus the dash part. Used after any shield cancellable move? You cancel it with the shield and the rest is the same.
Obviously this is going to be more helpful for some characters than it is for others, but everyone will benefit to some degree. I'd imagine that Yoshi would benefit from getting some better OoS options, let alone all of them and then some. Characters with good dash speeds will benefit from being able to cancel that dash with any move (think Sonic F-smash). Characters with good tilts will enjoy being able to use them OoS and out of a dash (MK and Snake). And then there are all the other shield cancellable moves that belong to other characters.
"I can't do it. It's too hard." I know.
"Did you do it? Is this really the way to perform it?" Yes I did do it and this is definitely the way to perform everything in that vid.
"It's too hard for people to actually use so no one's going to bother to learn it or benefit from it." This is unfortunately what I'm expecting, but I figured, you never know, I would be quite pleased if someone out there was able to master it and **** with it.
"Does this work for (insert character)" I'm presuming it works for everyone. I tested it on a few characters to see what they could do with it. There's no reason that I can think of that would make it impossible for any characters.
Thanks for reading.
I may explain how to perform it again in different words later on if there is still some misunderstanding, but the odds are, you're doing it right, it's just that hard. Try breaking it up and performing each part separately before you try the whole thing.
Special thanks goes to Tedeth for helping me test it. Thanks goes to Sasook for bringing the vid to my attention. Thanks goes to e_alert for discussing various theories with me.
Edit: Just for the record, there seems to be a bit of confusion about what I was presenting. This thread is not just presenting the Dash to any move application, it's presenting the shield to anything AT on platforms and Dash to anything is just one application of it. There are so many things that can be done from the root AT of shield to anything such as the items applications seen in the vid and the shield cancellable moves to anything seen in the vid. If I was just presenting the dash to anything, I could understand why some people would think that because most platforms are too short, that it's not going to be very applicable, but this view is a bit narrow minded if you look at all the things that can be done in the vid (with dash to anything just being one of them). But as for the Dash to anything application, some legal stages where this may be useful are Yoshi's Island brawl, Delfino Plaza, possibly Frigate, Halberd, 2nd transformation of Castle Siege, possibly Smashville just because combining it with platform cancelling would be the ****, some transformations of PictoChat and some platforms on RC.
So when I explained how to do the Dash to anything, I wasn't just explaining that, I was using it as an example to explain the root AT to everything in that vid.
I should warn you about it before you read on. It really is impossibly hard to perform. But, if you are comfortable with your level of tech skill and want to put it to good use in Brawl, then this is the thread for you.
First up, here's the year old asian vid that shows a few applications of it. Watch the whole thing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXXIyk_Fb6M
As you will have seen, this tech allows you to do anything out of a dash, anything out of a shield and anything out of a shield cancellable move. With one big restriction. You have to be on a platform.
I won't put it off any longer. Here's how it's done.
To perform anything out of a dash, start on a platform, dash in any direction, hit shield, instantly drop through the platform out of shield then instantly cancel the platform drop through with any attack. If you aren't blown away with how impossible this is, then you mustn't understand. I'll break it up a bit.
The instant OoS platform drop is quite hard to perform. Normally, when people think about dropping through a platform OoS they think about holding shield then moving the analog stick downwards at a medium pace to avoid a spotdodge or just angling the shield down. But this has to be done instantly which means you don't have time to do it at a medium pace, but if you rush it, won't you just spotdodge? Not necessarily. In order to do it instantly, I find it works easier if I shield then instantly move the joystick diagonally down/forwards and not all the way. This is the best way I've found to do it so fast that you don't even see the shield.
Then if you want to cancel the drop through, you need to instantly use any attack. But by instantly, I'm talking the very next frame instantly. If you can't get the shield drop through consistently, you'll almost always use the move too late and simply use an aerial (say if you were trying to use a tilt for example).
With the above information, the rest of it is quite intuitive. Any option OoS? Just minus the dash part. Used after any shield cancellable move? You cancel it with the shield and the rest is the same.
Obviously this is going to be more helpful for some characters than it is for others, but everyone will benefit to some degree. I'd imagine that Yoshi would benefit from getting some better OoS options, let alone all of them and then some. Characters with good dash speeds will benefit from being able to cancel that dash with any move (think Sonic F-smash). Characters with good tilts will enjoy being able to use them OoS and out of a dash (MK and Snake). And then there are all the other shield cancellable moves that belong to other characters.
"I can't do it. It's too hard." I know.
"Did you do it? Is this really the way to perform it?" Yes I did do it and this is definitely the way to perform everything in that vid.
"It's too hard for people to actually use so no one's going to bother to learn it or benefit from it." This is unfortunately what I'm expecting, but I figured, you never know, I would be quite pleased if someone out there was able to master it and **** with it.
"Does this work for (insert character)" I'm presuming it works for everyone. I tested it on a few characters to see what they could do with it. There's no reason that I can think of that would make it impossible for any characters.
Thanks for reading.
I may explain how to perform it again in different words later on if there is still some misunderstanding, but the odds are, you're doing it right, it's just that hard. Try breaking it up and performing each part separately before you try the whole thing.
Special thanks goes to Tedeth for helping me test it. Thanks goes to Sasook for bringing the vid to my attention. Thanks goes to e_alert for discussing various theories with me.
Edit: Just for the record, there seems to be a bit of confusion about what I was presenting. This thread is not just presenting the Dash to any move application, it's presenting the shield to anything AT on platforms and Dash to anything is just one application of it. There are so many things that can be done from the root AT of shield to anything such as the items applications seen in the vid and the shield cancellable moves to anything seen in the vid. If I was just presenting the dash to anything, I could understand why some people would think that because most platforms are too short, that it's not going to be very applicable, but this view is a bit narrow minded if you look at all the things that can be done in the vid (with dash to anything just being one of them). But as for the Dash to anything application, some legal stages where this may be useful are Yoshi's Island brawl, Delfino Plaza, possibly Frigate, Halberd, 2nd transformation of Castle Siege, possibly Smashville just because combining it with platform cancelling would be the ****, some transformations of PictoChat and some platforms on RC.
So when I explained how to do the Dash to anything, I wasn't just explaining that, I was using it as an example to explain the root AT to everything in that vid.
