Hey everyone! Guess what! Wavedashing is back! It’s a new technique called perfect pivoting and it works in the latest iteration of Smash Bros.
For those of you who aren’t in the know, Wavedashing was a way to make you move across the stage using your sliding momentum rather than your dash. From a dash you could only dash attack or up smash by jump canceling, but from a wavedash, you could do basically anything.
Perfect pivoting does exactly the same thing, but actually through a much less complicated input. Basically, what you do is dash forward and at the instant that you start dashing, flick the stick in the opposite direction. The first few frame of a pivot, i.e. the animation where your character turns around, doesn’t actually impart momentum to your character. So perfect pivoting allows you to turn around and remain standing (not dashing) while sliding forward from the initial momentum of your dash.
Any move can be done from a perfect pivot because your character is counted as standing. This includes smashes, tilts, special moves, and jabs. Note, that your character will be facing the opposite direction of the dash’s momentum, so you’ll have to correct your positioning if you want to attack in that direction as well. Setting your c-stick to tilts actually makes this easier. What is cool, however, is that if you jump you will be jumping forward while facing backward, making it very easy to do repeated back airs while approaching, far easier than the “reverse aerial rush” technique that many people use.
For a full tutorial on how to do this new technique, check out this Youtube video.
Source: My Smash Corner