Double Fast Falling (DFF) - Ultimate Movement Tech

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Welcome to Day 8 of Techmas!
In Smash Ultimate, if you fast fall and then do an aerial you'll go back into your slow fall. If you're holding down and flick the cstick you'll fast fall after the cstick is pressed, I call with Auto Fast Falling. In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate we can get around the issue of slow falling with Double fast falling to get the fastest movement possible!
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Final Edit by GimR
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[@gooimi]

i double fast fall all the time with my gsp

[@azeriustv]

xD

[@der_normale3597]

Fr 1 loss = -2000000 Gsp

[@j-dub5163]

Same.

[@hectorneros7171]

What's your gsp?

[@godofdreamzzz]

My highest is G&M at 13.8M

[@MrJapanUnderground]

Funny. I've been doing this with Pac-Man and Roy forward airs and never considered me fast falling twice.

[@BRSTaisen]

Gimr is right that I've known about this for a while, but haven't really been smart enough to optimize it properly. This video is amazing

[@tekwizwa]

already labbing this and hitting a perfect ridley bair out of rars and slingshots feels so satisfying, thank you gimr for the very nice tech

[@coreytcook1]

As a Shiek main, AFF/DFF has been a staple in my gameplay without realizing it on the DFF part. Thanks for the Techsplanation.

[@zachwatts4690]

I did not know auto fast-falling was a thing - I thought you just always had to delay your fast fall input until after you threw out an attack. Thanks for the tech!

[@brysonmcfaull1218]

As soon as i tried this is training mode, i realized I've been doing this the whole time! Not with every aerial, but at least with fullhop, if I'm trying to quickly space an aerial near the ground, I've already been fastfalling, holding down, then just inputing the aerial without letting go of down. Something nice about this tech is, it wont kill your hands and it feels pretty intuitive!

[@dimelo58]

I didn’t know you could jump hold down then use the c stick and the fast fall would come out automatically this a game changer for me.

[@Spyder-Marth]

This makes everything so much better for swordies. I need to practice this ASAP. You are the best for using Marth in the thumbnail. Thank you for all of the time you put into this.

[@planetary-rendez-vous]

I was already experimenting some auto fast fall up air on short platforms in battlefield to get that outrageous tipper up air and immediate cancel to react... Sounds crazy for swords.

[@mjdevlog]

The auto fastfall itself is so useful for me, since it can get exhausting quickly just by flicking down the left stick just to fastfall on neutral, using the normal method.

[@im_Spade_]

Never thought I'd be able to fastfall twice in one jump. Still not EXACTLY sure what this means for my main (Yink), but seems like it'd be really good for him considering first hit aerials into more aerials is a thing

[@connorm.9511]

I love yink

[@kevinaguirre9306]

Our Nair's are gonna be more oppressive lol

[@0oShwavyo0]

@@kevinaguirre9306this doesn’t work with nair since you need to input the aerial with c stick.

[@PostThaMost]

Never seen it written as Yink. But now that I have I'd like to propose Yoink.

[@Grungus37]

@@kevinaguirre9306he literally said it doesn’t work with nair

[@joshttale]

this is 100% how i approach from above with Link's falling B-air into grounded up-B, up-tilt, u-smash, or another B-air even

[@Bananazu2411]

Me, a Ridley main with my slow af aerials: *Fascinating.*

[@tekwizwa]

im testing it with ridley rn and he REALLY benefits from this, you can pretty much get a pefect sh back air when you hold the stick down at a diagonal direction AND double fastfall lets us mix up in disadvantage especially since we have 2 double jumps so an an example when near the top blastzone you can: fastfall, cancel with double jump nair, jump again then use the double fast fall tech with either fair, bair or uair

[@Bananazu2411]

@@tekwizwa Oh! That is actually incredibly useful to know! I will definitely have to lab this at some point and really get it down, thank you for telling!

[@Rubyfire41]

Doesn’t look like Sora could make a lot of use out of this, but I think Marth/Lucina and Corrin would eat this up.

[@landronsc]

Rubs hands with malicious intent

[@igirjei3717]

Yeah I do this all the time. Also it's important to fastfall cancel (fast fall, then aerial to cancel the fast fall) when edgeguarding, particularly with drop zone f-air. You'll be able to go deeper with the f-air without SDing, very handy

[@Spyder-Marth]

Marth's spacing just got leagues better 😭

[@sidtheshuckle]

i wonder if this works with Steve, given that he has a short jump

[@nathanlevesque7812]

It's also added to the pile of things that majorly improve Mewtwo but literally nobody is pushing that character meta.

[@dylanthecrawlr]

Dedede having the slowest moves but one of the fastest fast falls is so sad. Multi jump empty hop mixups bouta go crazy tho

[@Sam-fj3pl]

Roy main here, I only use that second fast fall you're refering to. Exemple, for a short up Fair I use the C stick THEN I fast fall. That way after attacking while in the air you will always fast fall. Also the main benefits is that you can also delay the moment your attack comes out so you have more control over your spacing and avoid shield grabs. That tech really only applies if an attack comes out fast enough and the specific character's weight

[@JadeZombie_ssbu]

Dude this is going to be crazy with ninja characters like Lucario and Greninja

[@FreestylesVS]

I honestly didnt know about the auto fastfall until you showed me this. very cool

[@pyax7038]

Very useful with Wolf's fair! I've been hitting perfect landing fairs more often.

[@holylarcenist9596]

Can’t wait to use this for ganondorf

[@cjkmelee]

As a meleehead this was the first one from techmas to peak my interest

[@Leo98pm]

same, it's more interesting than. falling off the ledge with an aerial lmao

[@abghen2323]

Ive always done this. I didnt know you could auto-fast fall at all, Ive only ever timed the double fast fall lol

[@saika1615]

New john: "If only I double fast falled my aerials :("

[@eltrolololol2563]

My LMAC COMBOS ABOUT TO BE CRAZY WITH THIS ONE 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@GimR]

🤣

[@Tiajuan]

It was about this long into Melee's lifespan that many foundational tech skills started to come forward like this. Maybe Ultimate's meta isn't "solved" just yet? We'll see how this tech does vs the Steve/Sonic/G&W hydra of the current meta. Hopefully some low-bottom or low-mid tiers really put this together and surge to the top. I'll come back here in 1 year to see what I think about all of this.

[@legendarysoil1064]

Dude this has gotta be really good for mii brawler

[@ashemabahumat4173]

I miss cool tech like wave dashing and moon walking. L-cancelling, for how annoying it was, was still great

[@clementcb1492]

Thank you for the subtitles 🇫🇷🥖

[@nickloughner7512]

Really thought top players have been rolling this forever

[@fabri7932]

It happens me a lot (accidentally) I fast fall while doing Ganon's up air and die without knowing it was a c stick tech

[@thegprince93]

I used to dff my aerials without knowing and was always confused why my slow aerial attacks cancels before I hit the ground

[@Ninjamonkey767]

I don't know if anyone else has had this happen to them, but has anyone else yeeted themselves off stage because their fast fall went like double speed? I just wondered if a similar input to this could be making that happen, as I'm having a hard time replicating it. I've legit thrown an aerial as Pit as I'm chasing someone off stage and hit the bottom blast zone right as my aerial finishes.

[@jvbon646]

Rarely with K. Rool and PPlant

[@FrnzFrdnnd]

Thanks, Santa 🎅🏻

[@Jacques800]

I didn't know about this, thanks for the tip!

[@ernestocabreja4597]

And then there's me, who didn't even know you could buffer fast fall

[@KAJYT6969]

Joker mains eating good

[@Gabzz90]

I still don't undertand the difference between auto fast falling and the double fast falling, but i will look again 😂

[@bluyu]

I've actually been doing this with Joker to get well-spaced bairs and fair 1s for a good while now. I thought it was just a neat way of buffering a fastfall. I never even noticed that the fastfall spark occurred twice when doing this until now.

[@DGarrettDG]

so i guess this wouldn't actually work as Daisy but you can do the float cancel fast fall nair or bair which is super fast

[@burnpisces7733]

I’ve only ever done this. I’ve never done a normal fast fall attack in my life. No wonder slower moves always fail me.

[@spicywiener2061]

Wouldve been nice to talk about how this auto fastfall can be used in platdrop. Personally for ganon there are situations where I gotta slowfall, but also situations where I should fastfall through platform in order to hit even grounded opponents It may also be something people know, but once talking about autofastfall and explaining how its known, but would benefit from going a bit more i ndepth, that would also be good to mention

[@KnakuanaRka]

Man, I need to catch up to this! And this game is still getting new tech?

[@cheezyboy2511]

I don’t understand what part about this is new. Is he saying that the automatic fast fall from continuing to hold down on the joystick after doing an aerial is the “DFF”? If so, isn’t that basic knowledge? I must be missing something.

[@inediblemangoes7797]

Great info!

[@Dalitszz]

Can you do this with the pro controller and if so what is the button layout to do auto fast falling? My right stick is set at smash attack

[@GimR]

it should still work!

[@stratoge]

I'm a little confused if it's too obvious. Is the DFF simply a flick version of AFF??

[@londonl.5892]

I'm still very confused about the difference between auto fast-fall and double fast falling. Is auto fast-fall when you start with the movement stick down and double fast falling is when you start with the movement stick neutral?

[@no834jre]

Auto fast fall is automatically fastfalling from a hop or jump. By holding down on the analog stick before the arc of your jump, at any time when you fair/uair/bair with the c stick you will automatically fastfall. Double fastfall is when you are airborne and fastfalling already, you can hold down on the analog stick and fair/uair/bair and after 3 frames of the move coming out, you will automatically fastfall again. You can call this version autofastfall aswell, but since you are technically fastfalling twice in one jump, he named it double fastfall.

[@spotfly7280]

I've been accidentally doing this for like a year

[@orionmarcellus752]

Back to the lab again

[@jerry3115]

unfortunately as a falcon main this is kind of useless since I'd want to do this with nair, but it miiiiight do something for bair, maybe.

[@chalybee8689]

Does this work with mewtwo's nair while using the second jump? I feel i've been doing this for a while to ff cancel my dj with nair at the earliest possible frame but i've been struggling to get it 100% consistently. Also i dont understand the explained inputs. It looks like auto ff but just release inputs earlier? Also i thought all top players did dbl ff ( ff>aerial>ff) 'cause otherwise you either ff into aerial which cancels the ff or attack first then ff but you lose times with the attack. Honnestly this left me confused and underwhelmed more than anything.

[@x9x9x9x9x9]

As a melee player we just call this a late aerial?

[@neidenMetalun]

It's been quite a lot of times where I fastfall in the middle of hit stop frames and the input gets eaten, delaying and making 2 piece combos not true, fastfalling before the aerial even comes out could help though! Will definitely lab

[@Bomberman64x]

Can kazuya abuse this?

[@stoodyy]

Is this not similar to Peach/Daisy dair fast fall cancel?

[@bluyu]

I'm a Peach player and I have no idea what you're talking about. Dair fastfall cancel? I've been playing the character since Ult came out, and I don't really think I've ever heard that term anywhere before. Do you mean jump-cancel fastfalls? The thing where Peach cancels her jump immediately into a fastfall and looks like Fox short-hop fastfalling?

[@stoodyy]

@@bluyu yes ! sorry, I could not think of the actual name and I was lazy to look it up but I do mean that

[@chepelpa]

can this be done with Snakes Fair?

[@SH1t_M4Rt1n]

Ahora usa el sling shot ahí

[@AHGavInDaUSA]

I hope it’s just idj again!!!!!!!

[@SailorVickVODs]

What happened to day 6 & 7? 🤔

[@GimR]

There never were a day 6 or 7

[@dieblauebedrohung]

he explained it at the very beginning of the series or in the trailer, that he'd skip the weekend because of events. I think that's it?

[@yexolth]

So. Your making smashers of aether 😂🎉

[@Shaheemswaggedout]

🔥🔥

[@cameroncivish5793]

This is literally just a fastfall I really don't see the difference it could make in a match compared to the basic movement you could be doing instead.

[@daghul4785]

Hey brother what is your C Stick set to? I’m still learning 😅

[@dippin4dots]

For this tech, I imagine either smash or tilt works. If you just mean what's better, it really depends on which you prefer. Some professionals prefer Tilt or Smash, nothing really is better beyond preference. The only thing I will say is that if you have smash stick you can end up doing too much smash attacks and be more open to whiffing and getting punished, but thats not really tilt vs Smash stick's fault. The real tip is to practice playing with c-stick cause a lot of people barely touch it, and build a habit with it. Hope this helps!

[@seizureboy333]

I was 13 Mil with my Samus and idk Wtf happened but im down to 4 Mil and THE TRYHARDS are even worse😅

[@dontat-lj6dx]

This game really has no tech does it?

[@redstealth5106]

I mean this is pretty similar to how with Falco's shorthop in melee, you can fastfall, then press A for a very low nair. since you can't fastfall and press neutral A the same time like you can with his other aerials. Pressing A then fastfalling leads to a pretty high up(less frame advantage)nair contact, so that's the best you can do for his nair if you want a low hit. Also works for Sheik nair maybe not 'tech', at least not flashy, but really important info to know. I only found out about the Falco nair thing after thinking on it in training mode it took a few yrs to notice I've been wondering if something like the fastfall mechanic at 3:59 existed for years, maybe since early Smash 4, and only figured it out like 10 days ago! xD here's another one of these micro-techs: if you have c-stick set to smash attacks, you can't really do moving tilts as well. BUT I found this out, if you double-tap dash then hold the direction, like it's an old beat-em-up dash input, you can get a forward-tilt out of the A button. dashing ftilts just like with tilt stick. Good luck with retreating ftilts though >_>

[@KaiserYoshi2]

Uh oh

[@melikmourali2072]

Pac-Man istg

[@RedNWhite2]

Hope its shield dropping somehow

[@miph_awesome]

This guy is bald 💯💯

[@jasonlobo2350]

Men ultimate tech is situational its useless at this point

[@_JamPiece_]

first

[@sammyrivera1141]

Last...

[@GraceAndGlorySmash]

It feels like Ultimate is finally getting the mechanical deep dives that Smash 4 had with MSC and early Beefy Smash. Ultimate tech has always been so focused on looking for something new that just optimizing the basics has always flown under the radar. Love to see it.

[@zachstarattack7320]

bro i love ur channel. and the risitas guy being a falcon dev is SOOO FUNNY

[@GraceAndGlorySmash]

@@zachstarattack7320 Yoooooo I appreciate it!

[@wuhhlfarg353]

How is fracturefalcon doing?

[@ellachino4799]

I think a lot of it was that it felt pointless to look for stuff that could just be patched out

[@billable1861]

@@ellachino4799underrated true comment

[@beefybunsboy5310]

I hope its c-stick fastfall tech that has been gatekept by 2 players

[@CrabbyDarth]

c-stick fastfall has been known

[@TheKillingBat]

What crabby just said, I main Corrin and I already use this quite often, more so I use c sick most of the times for my aerials besides fair -> bair and down tilt -> up air

[@nathancasey7712]

​@@TheKillingBatHow do you auto fast fall with Nair?

[@TheKillingBat]

@@nathancasey7712 I wouldn't call it auto, but i would nair double down + hold my control stick Correction: I would Hop then nair then hold down, but you could just control stick down once and do it again quickly then nair if you are high up. I usually double down my control stick for fast falling though and aerials besides nair i could use my c-stick.

[@davesnow7133]

anyone else already been doing this? i didnt even know about auto fast falling lol, but i've always been double fast falling

[@kevinaguirre9306]

Same lol I tried to figure out all of puffs jumps off of feeling

[@oatniq]

wowwwww i swear i knew about this and had a whole ass conspiracy theory

[@Creepo_J]

Thank you for mentioning this gimr, aerial always resets your fastfall so you can fastfall again to get even closer to the ground Not double fastfalling will leave your ass midair longer Incineroar landing dair is laggy as hell if you don't double fastfall (This "tech" should be called the "Cosmos")

[@igirjei3717]

The Cosmos is crazy😭

[@TheFantasticWarrior]

I thought incin dair is better when auto cancelled

[@Creepo_J]

@@TheFantasticWarrior Why would the dair need to be autocancelled The only way to autocancel dair is double jump dair fastfall Fair can autocancel the same way Double jump aerials let's you do a second aerial before landing

[@dontbother7355]

Pac-Man a lil too happy about this tech 1:46

[@ZDY66666]

Like if you legit didnt know auto fadt falling existed. I always thought double fast falling was the only way to fast fall 😅😅😅

[@HeirofBlood124]

No wonder when I fair offstage I fucking plummet to my doom hella fast sometimes!!! Lol

[@cadhla2989]

Lmfao. It always feels so horrid when it happens too 😅

[@Kriilin]

Cloud players ☠️

[@bumybum1012]

Why do this when get up attack is in the game already?

[@tiagobeaulieu1745]

I wonder how this affects gameplay for multi-jumpers like my main, Pit. Probably not so applicable because of our pretty much universally small jump heights... Can't wait for some new tech to come out that helps multi-jumpers (plssss @GimR pls)

[@Marsdend1]

Might work well with a short hop back air, or even full hop back air.

[@kavinbala8885]

where is 6 and 7

[@GimR]

we're in an intermission lol

[@Akela_akilla]

I actually had no idea you could buffer a fast fall like this. I’ve been trying to time fast fall fairs/Bairs like a damn caveman this whole time? Haha

[@ClockWorksb]

1:45 I would be so tilted fighting this

[@djchicachu7274]

Given Byleth, I feel like MKLeo has known how to do this, but just did not know it was a mechanic, he just knew

[@MerryBlind]

I don’t understand how this is new. How is it different than fast falling with an aerial inputted with the c-stick? Will have to go back to the lab again to get it I guess!

[@igirjei3717]

It's not different because that's what it is, you've probably already been doing it once you learned how to ff aerial, this vid just explains how fast falling interacts with the c-stick a bit better

[@MerryBlind]

@@igirjei3717 ah

[@Kart]

:O

[@Steel_blue32]

How do i do this with switch lite controls?

[@blackberry4322]

So you fall faster?

[@dazedheart9006]

Why can’t I find days 6 & 7 😭

[@ThomasHill-jc4di]

light fox use this tech a lot

[@tobzster7953]

This mechanic is also useful simply to fast fall as soon as possible for aerials you want to input BEFORE even reaching the summit of your jump. For example, you might want to use joker up air before reaching the summit of your jump. You want to fast fall as early as possible to complete a drag down. After inputting up air, instead of attempting to input fast fall exactly at the summit during the 4 frames of buffer for fastfall, you can try inputting fast fall with the control stick a bit earlier than you would normally, then immediately afterwards input any direction (except for down) with the c-stick, all while holding down that control stick. This way, if the fast fall input with the control stick is a bit too early, the (non-down) directional input from the c-stick will override the down direction from the control stick. Try flicking the c-stick as fast as possible so that this override lasts less long than 4 frames. Once this override ends, the game will see the down direction from the control stick again since during this time you're still holding down. If done right, this event would happen during the 4 frames of fast fall buffer. You will get a perfect fast fall, instead of just not fastfalling at all from trying to fastfall to early. Also, if the fast fall input with the control stick is done during the buffer instead of before, you'll just fastfall perfectly as soon as possible like you would without this technique, and the directional input from the c-stick won't change anything. This theoretically make leffoble have a larger window to fastfall, instead of just having having the 4 frame fast fall buffer window for every up air. Dunno if everyone knew this but this vid made me think of this.

[@BR-tt1wy]

What’s the ideal way to hold a GC controller? If you’re jumping with X/Y what finger is supposed to be on the c stick?

[@Ick.-]

You can do a few different things: • Quickly move your thumb from X/Y to the c stick • Quickly move your thumb from X/Y to the A button to input your aerials • Use claw grip. Just a heads up, it’s going to be *very* uncomfortable if you’re not used to it. I personally use claw in nearly every game I play however

[@jabnel7292]

brooo

[@SeikOsito]

This I sort of knew and thought it was explored when everyone was showing off that early combo with Terry [FF UpAir > Rising Dair > Falling Nair > Ftilt/UTilt > Etc.] But it is true a lot of people didn't use this a lot for spacing their safer aeriels when retreating (Remember when people clowned shulks for retreating fair and then noone would do safe aeriels)

[@SerenadeURA]

Does a C-Stick uair do the fast fall as well? The only examples shown were fairs so I'm a little confused, but if uair does it, it explains something I've noticed in the training room but thought was purely timing.

[@GimR]

yes

[@brandonedgington7773]

Thank-you for these videos. I am no where near a pro player, nor do I go to tournaments but I do enjoy playing this game and I like learning new tech that will help me get better so I appreciate how you break it down and make it simple for me to understand 👍

[@UltimatePeachFan]

My character doesn’t have a fast fall unfortunately 😢 But she does now!

[@NonJohns]

i remember learning about this in smash 4 glad it's getting light now