Underused Tech: Smash Attack Cancels

@Wra1thdreams ????????Was this just discovered or what? This is so sick

I deadass did not know this and I have over 3k hrs in this game. Thx for the info! Imma def incorporate this into my gameplay

USF4 players if you ask them to continuously perform this 2-frame cancel:

Looks like incineroar and krool need to cancel their downsmash (and incin fsmash) a frame earlier. Ridley still gets the frame3 cancel though; I guess Ridley's still on the ground at that point in the animation.

Wait, do you cancel on the first few startup frames or the first few frames of the actual charging animation? Because characters that start charging really late into the smash attack animation could use this as a more realistic visual bait

Just the startup frames, probably implemented as a way to help people who were trying to buffer short hops but missed the timing

Does Wii fit still make whistle sound effect when she does it?

Would have to check

If she does it may be a good bait in last hit situations to get them to shield I feel like.

What happens with rosa? Does luma attack normally or does he cancel the attack too?

Surprisingly Luma (and nana) actually will cancel their smashes into aerials, which is weird cause I know Rosa dash attack cancels don’t affect Luma

Suppose Robin is on their last use of Levin Sword; would this allow an item (Discarded Levin) to instantly spawn alongside Robin jumping? That they can then Z-catch mid-jump? If so, this can be a good way for Robin to give themselves an item on the fly.

@ArbiterSkyward Lucas got Vantage 3 from Fire Emblem 😭🙏🏿

Couple notes on this that you missed: 1. It’s not specific to Smash attacks, it’s a thing for all grounded normals (Jabs, Tilts, Dash Attack) 2. Specifically for Jabs, the window is 1f instead of 2f 3. Mac Jab, ZSS Jab and Shoto L.DTilt are hardcoded to be uncancelable (this is

実用性ねーよ

I learned about this when trying to figure out why my directional aerials kept turning into neutral air. If I remember correctly, inputting any aerial with this tech will always be neutral air (plz correct me if I’m wrong, this is just what I found in my own testing).

"The first two frames" literally impossible without cheating using a modded Switch, because the game natively has two frame lag.

what

what

You can also do this with specials, which is really good for Olimar. If you do down smash cancel then you can skip two in the order.

So basically only good with Steve due to blocks

I've been playing this game for years, heard mny unique and obscure techs and I never heard of this one. Kudos to you good sir

having kara cancels in smash is definitely different

Wonder if peach can float out of it lol