Dash-dance: Difference between revisions

In ''Super Smash Bros. 4'', the removal of random tripping allows safer dash-dances than in ''Brawl''. Though most initial dash animations are slightly longer than that of Sheik in ''Melee'', the technique is still difficult to perform consistently and is relatively useless in the competitive metagame for its difficulty.

To compensate for its continued ineffectiveness, a number of competitive players perform a very similar technique known as '''extended dash-dancing'''. This maneuver combines [[fox-trotting]] and dash-dancing: the player inputs a dash and returns the control stick to a neutral position, and then inputs another dash in the same direction and quickly flicks the control stick in the opposite direction, which causes the character to change directions without going into their turn-around animation. The timing for this varies depending on the length of the initial dash. Some characters, such as {{SSB4|Cloud}} and {{SSB4|Lucario}}, can completely forgo extended dash-dancing and simply fox-trot in alternating directions for the same effect, due to the lenient turn-around window in their initial dash. Other characters, including Lucario, {{SSB4|Bowser}}, {{SSB4|Charizard}}, and {{SSB4|Ganondorf}}, have short skidding animations after their run, so they can quickly perform dashes in the other direction after letting go of their run, giving them more options outside of extended dash-dancing.