Glide toss
Glide Tossing refers to the Super Smash Bros. Brawl technique that allows a character to throw an item while sliding forward.
Performing the Technique
To perform a Glide Toss, a character must be holding an item. Then the character begins to roll forward, and as they start to roll, one can tap A, Z, or the C-Stick forward. This will throw the item forward, as if the character were standing, but continues to move forward as much as if they had rolled. The character gets invincibility frames the same as if they had rolled, but ends up facing forward at the end of it, instead of turning backwards like with a standard forward roll. The C-Stick may also used to throw the item up, forward, or backward.
Applications
Due to the fact that items are turned off by default in competitive play, Glide Tossing is limited in application. However, there are some characters that can produce their own items. For these characters, Glide Tossing serves as an excellent means of approach. Glide Tossing is faster and less punishable than Dash Tossing an item, and it leaves the character standing at the end, ready to segue into any of their moves. It moves the character forward with the advantages of a forward roll, but without the disadvantages. It also allows the character to throw as fast as their standing item throw, but while moving forward to help advance.
A few characters have truly outstanding glide tosses that allow them to slide much further than others, particularly Pit (highest average distance), Metaknight (second highest average), Luigi (several, but not all, of his throws are the longest) and ZSS, who can throw her extremely powerful items out of a glide toss, immediately attack with d-smash (or whatever makes sense) should the opponent be at very low percents, and can then regrab her item once the opponent has been knocked away. Peach also makes an excellent glide tosser, though not quite as powerful; she can combine her floating approach with her long range glide toss at any time to really frustrate opponents.
While Glide Tossing is generally limited to characters that can produce items, most characters can Glide Toss in competitive play if they manage to catch said items. However, some characters gain no distance by Glide Tossing, and Yoshi (due to his odd shield physics) cannot Glide Toss at all.
Characters
The following characters have the ability to create items that they can use to perform a Glide Toss:
- Zero Suit Samus: Power Suit Pieces, created on start/transformation.
- Snake: Hand Grenades, created by his Standard Special.
- Peach: Vegetables, created by Down Special.
- Diddy Kong: Banana Peels, created by Down Special.
- Wario: Wheels, created by destroying Wario Bike (created by Side Special).
- R.O.B.: Gyros, created by Down Special.
- Link & Toon Link: Bombs, created by down special which both have a similar technique of glide toss but can't glide toss.
