Flick SDI, Dash Walk SDI, & Triple SDI (Smash Ultimate)

[@GimR]

Thank you all for joining me for the 10 days of Techmas! I appreciate you all! If you'd like to support, there's only one day left to get my mech: spif.space/gimr

[@tomsea5769]

I adore u but I'm laughing so God damn hard at this intro

[@j_accelreacts]

So you can dash walk also by holding right with control stick and left with c stick. So I assume you can Dash walk SDI with this. Also does that mean you can shield triple SDI using double shield???

[@bumybum1012]

Theirs also only one option in the game. GET UP ATTACK.

[@ProNerdy]

Nice, I can get a GimR mech, while it's shipping maybe I'll play some Armored Core Ⅵ 🤪

[@CarbonMalite]

Inb4 "Stop complaining about Steve and just Triple SDI"

[@GimR]

oh geez 😂

[@CarbonMalite]

​@@GimRTHE CIRCLE OF LIIIIFE🎵

[@gatsbee]

Unironically this does fix a lot of problems people have with sdi in general (not that it changes the majority of what makes steve broken)

[@irok1]

TSDI or just TDI

[@nathanlevesque7812]

look what happens when someone focuses on improvement instead of incessant whinging

[@TheFantasticWarrior]

As someone who mashes "SDI" every time I get hit wrongly this is changing my life Now I can SDI wrongly faster

[@vesoralla2]

This helped me understand SDI as a whole a lot better. Thank you so much.

[@Magic0YT]

this also explains a lot why some knockbacks are "inconsistent" which they are not. Basically people didnt know how sdi fully worked out in this game until you pointed it out. It really has so many technical aspects.

[@Azyph]

Hey, that's us! If you, an English speaker, want other tutorials on Smash, my channel has English subtitles (and sometimes Spanish) 🫡 Thanks again for your shout-out GimR!

[@JTF544]

Back to the lab again

[@Kino280]

Uh ohh

[@Pyromanian]

⁠Back to the lab again

[@Rubyfire41]

Oh no

[@shapular]

Back to the lab again

[@adamplett2924]

We messed up

[@tally.klecko]

The best gift of all is a tech that helps us deal with the cheese and utter BS this game has to offer. By GimR, for the people.

[@theultimatemaster137]

This techmas been kinda wildin

[@k0vae]

so sick. techmas was great, thanks for continuing to innovate and explore this beautiful game. been playing since launch and i legitimately learn new stuff all the time

[@sarahsloot2290]

I don’t even play past SUPER CASUAL… like most of my circle could not find the shield button with a map, and heavies are pretty advanced aged in our games. But, I’m a studious and avid viewer, and I’m excited for a lot of the tach that you presented, how it will be utilized and when! Thank you and your squad of other labbers that worked on this, it’s super hype! I love it that you showed fox not getting spiked like a dozen times… a certain fox that I think got eliminated by a Steve at Port may just have a his running a loop during the holidays!

[@kaichisendou]

Everyone's talking about the tech but I just wanna talk about how legendary that outro was

[@christophermolitor4554]

This was awesome GimR, to think you went rhrough the effort of having advice for training mode practice. That stuff really helps and your dedication to providing this knowledge to eveeyone is really appreciated. I'm going to start practicing and see which DI method works best for me.

[@GimR]

TY Christopher!

[@domenicdefusco6328]

I've been using c stick with an alternate direction to add to my sdi since melee and I always knew it was doing something to add to sdi but never thought it was something. I just really felt like it was working. Happy to see this confirms it and we can validate it now. Love ya gimz

[@uberstoof6819]

Thank you for the lab grind Gimr! I’ve loved these days of techmas

[@brysonmcfaull1218]

Enjoyed these 10 days of techmas! Gonna be coming back to these for the next months as it all absorbs into my brain

[@adrianmoreno2354]

Like always Nintendo letting us die on our own but a community hero emerges also like always. So much love and respect for this man!

[@Jason_Altea]

Ay, I'm actually friends with AcidArmy! Even helped him lab and record some Steve tech back when the MLG technique was first announced and became a big controversy. Really cool to see his work get shouted out and used!

[@tardissins7512]

It’s worth noting you can mash SDI more efficiently using a technique called “wank SDI,” where you hold your thumb still and instead position and wiggle the controller up/down/left/right as needed. Much faster and more effective. Not saying that’s better than these, but it’s worth bringing up because it’s useful.

[@jagoalonso3547]

Simple & useful. This & LSM are huge for the meta imo. GGs Gimr

[@NolenJacobson]

With the lack of quality replacement sticks on the market I had stopped using sdi to preserve my controller. It's game changing to have a method this gentle on the control stick.

[@TeeKayDee]

This is great when you're trying to SDI a specific hit but I wish you had included tips vs multihits like G&W nair, pichu bair, Shoto tilts, Terry jab, etc., since the cstick is very wonky, can't be mashed and has weird reset rules Overall, loved this. Now 2x SDI is the minimum for competitive players, I wanna learn the 3x and 4x as well though

[@davec8385]

Absolutely incredible stuff! Thanks for the work in the lab. I hope you have a very merry Christmas

[@linkariochujavd2946]

Legendary outro, Loved all the tech

[@MccDann]

THE GIFT OF STEVE COUNTERPLAY FOR CHRISTMAS THANK YOU GIMR!

[@atari_hmb]

Wow this is amazing gimr. Reminds me of the top players in melee how they would sdi fox up air

[@PERSONALEEMG]

THANKS for the Techmas good luck on future project, GIMR.

[@Eroil]

Seems like a very solid tech! Thank you gimr for all the effort, even if not everything was entirely new.

[@BlobstoF]

That was AMAZING thank you for your work !!!

[@AaronMichaelKing]

The beginning of this video was genius. 👏🏾 👏🏾 Good job sir.

[@olbluelips]

I love the SDI-dash walk option select

[@rednuhT]

Thank you GimR and your team for bringing such an exciting 10 days of Techmas! This is by far the best tech and who knows, it may even shift the meta! Also, great outro mix up!

[@GimR]

ty!

[@salvatoreIII]

Great work. Great description of how sdi works.

[@GimR]

Glad you liked it!

[@shorad6646]

i was so freaking confused when the french voice popped up, as a french viewer I was so weirded out by it, loved it though and the tech is very cool too

[@vlad_s_lavburavzev4939]

Duuuuuuude, I was like: uh all right nice one. But would be nice to finish the video in a proper way. And when you came out of the corner, I jumped up and joined you 😂🎶 BACK TO THE LAB AGAIN

[@The_Loaf_]

R.I.P. Bayonetta

[@eltrolololol2563]

Lol

[@ax8914]

SDIng her combos isn't that hard and most people are good at sding bayo shit already, if anything it'll make ppl more consistent but it's good against steve at least

[@Eggss_B]

​@@ax8914This probably won't be as big of a deal as people will make it out to be. Bayo and Steve players can just adapt to your sdi like they've been doing before this vid came out.

[@Halfcraft4224]

@@Eggss_BBayo players have to pay attention because they need to in order to path their combos correctly, Steve on the other hand either doesn’t have to in most situations or can’t do anything about it in others. For example for the “walk the dog” combo Steve can do on Fox, if Foxes can consistently SDI away with this tech, the combo either drops bc one of the jabs or the fair at the end misses since Steve literally can’t move any faster since he can’t dash and jab at the same time only walk, or he’s forced to end early with a dash attack resulting in less damage and not a checkmate edgeguard. Steve never really had to pay attention before but now they might which is something at least. Bayo had to pay attention out of necessity for some combos to work.

[@igirjei3717]

Rest in piss, you won't be missed!

[@Shmicah1235]

Honestly thank you so much for giving tech that can help us deal with Steve combos. If Sakurai won't help us, somebody has to. (Also Luigi gets nerfed by proxy which makes me sad for Luigi but happy for me)

[@kipper1668]

Honestly this is a great video just for the explanation of SDI alone, that's incredibly helpful!

[@GimR]

Glad it was helpful!

[@inediblemangoes7797]

Thanks for the way to practice this! Really helpful to learn how to do it

[@sidtheshuckle]

THE ULTIMATE STEVE COUNTERPLAY IS HERE LETS FUCCING GOOOO

[@tehquiper6796]

Whydo brought out the Steve buffs while GimR brought out the Steve nerfs. What a time

[@ShanoaSSB]

Oh shit, the return of Dual stick SDI 😈

[@samk2407]

I actually got better at sdi just from seeing it fully explained. I didn't know that the semi diagonals didn't count, or that cardinal directions counted "more" this explains why my sdi was terrible. I was always mashing at too narrow of an angle

[@airliu1]

These visuals are on point

[@GimR]

ty!

[@Pyromanian]

Best possible Christmas gift. Steve nerfs/tech to beat him. Tysm GimR

[@nevensass4343]

The reason Dashwalk SDI works is Cstick overrides control stick input for 1 frame.

[@J.aime_le_pain181]

Incredible, tx for all of your hard work

[@GimR]

[@LuSiDious]

Light going to training mode NOW!

[@Popabear4910]

Light don’t play this game, he ain’t goin to no training mode. Fox got bullied so he hopped back on Apex 😂

[@television9233]

That ending walk was perfect

[@hakirayleigh]

A great discover for Tweek and Light, who suffer more against Stve. XD

[@cocciclaque9084]

Kazuya mains already mastered the dash walk SDI input then, perfect :)

[@michaelmyers3507]

Light is having a good holiday

[@kadenkirkham5506]

We getting out of the Steve combos with this one

[@TeeKayDee]

We can all be Mang0 now thank you gimr

[@joel-o4020]

This seems pretty cool, now we need to actually use it

[@Rubyfire41]

Everyday, Steve gets bufed. But you can nerf him if you put in the time to learn. That said, this might be one piece of the "Make low tiers viable in tournaments" puzzle. If done well enough, top tiers and high tiers will have to try harder to pull off their nonsense, while also allowing low tiers to get off their win conditions.

[@StrikerElite923]

Thank you for this tip. I wanted DI or SDI to be better in general and this is the next best thing to get since some combos have the capability to erase your stock. This is something worth practicing on. I appreciate this.

[@Cloutboifx]

I've been watching this series since the start. I'm so happy it hasn't died out after so long

[@Fliprez]

It’s been 10 days 💀

[@StaccatoFry]

It's kinda dead tbh...

[@TheCubicalGuy]

I think the dashwalk sdi works because the c-stick is programmed badly: doing a c-stick input in ultimate is the equivalent of doing the same input with the analog stick and pressing a, so if you flick your c-stick while in a state in which you can't do an attack but can move/input move, then it'll just register the move. Not sure why it thinks the analog sitting still is another flick input, but yea.

[@Gamerrelm1.0_relm]

Smash is truly a ground breaking game

[@maskedking3]

4:38 new unit of measurement just dropped

[@Kyle-nl7bt]

Thank you so much Gimr, the ending has me dying too lmaoo

[@GimR]

😆

[@midazct100]

I'm so glad, all of this was new info for me

[@Arcaniel]

That was an A-tier plug-in

[@dopamine7344]

wonder if this works in other smash games, if i could have been triple sdiing bayo combos…

[@HarryBook]

Thanks for techmas mr gimr sir

[@HyronXVI]

Super interesting tech and explanation, and loved the ending. Merry Techmas everyone!

[@GimR]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@eternalfrost3294]

Thank you GimR!!!

[@Sash_le_Taciturne]

Azyph et Ika qui aide GIMR ? Gg les gars ^^

[@monkeydjaime]

Best Outro ever!!

[@mentadere]

Melee tech oh yeah

[@Akela_akilla]

Nintendo right now: see guys, why do we need to balance the game? They’ll do it themselves

[@spencer2113]

Hell yeah, dope techmas

[@carlosvergara4132]

10/10 ending.

[@skulduggerypleasant9008]

amazing vid, thanks gimz. Where that doc with fox's feet at ?

[@zovrah9993]

re: the dashwalk method. unless youre really fast, cstick directional inputs are held for 3 frames. does this not effect how the game reads the direction held for sdi?

[@GimR]

if you practice Dash walking enough you should already be getting it pretty fast. (At least on GC)

[@ClawCollect]

4 frames apparently, so definitely will affect if you hold. Something something training mode 1f speed c-stick is broken.

[@neptuneart551]

Techmas has been crazy!

[@Serralas]

Smash Community : Nerf Steve! Nintendo : ... GimR and co : Fine. We'll do it ourselves. 😂

[@crashingpizza5423]

7:12 “ah my arms already tired” is proof Smash players don’t have girlfriends

[@alexemp6201]

Gluto is top 5 again let's goooo

[@ShallBePurified]

In this video, I learned that dash walk exists.

[@CrabbyDarth]

there should be a correction on 12:20 where you say opposite diagonal when it's an adjacent diagonal

[@Zachruff]

as a complete smash noob, ty for explaining SDI. I have always just held my stick away from the attacker and never like flicked it or anything lol I didnt realize I was supposed to be doing that xd

[@TheFantasticWarrior]

What you said is DI and that's good enough most of the time

[@gapplssb]

​@@TheFantasticWarrior no

[@awxii_]

Falco players in shambles right now.😈

[@moementumfilms]

Sakurai is a genius

[@nick_the_octopus]

Very helpful. Thank you

[@Justeego]

Yeah good luck SDIing into Steve ready to Up samash you into the Nether

[@jrkev1]

After i saw the first clip i was like omg light just won the matchup😂

[@FishSticker]

I saw people last video (double fast fall) saying that they hope the tech makes the meta more aggressive, then there were replies saying that Steve prevents this... Hopefully this new tech can mess up a lot of the easiest Steve touch of death combos

[@xanander4693]

Most likely no, Steve can just react to the sdi

[@Quolemus]

I love the end! 😂

[@neilw5541]

Embraced the meme 😂 beautiful

[@mydadgrampz]

Techmas on 10! Thanks for the gifts 🙏🏿 👋🏿

[@FeintMotion]

Twiple SDI is what I get at Wendy's

[@Moose7701]

LETS GOOOOO

[@PERSONALEEMG]

JUST SDi...... Tale as old as time. :)

[@matthiashopkins7502]

now this is tech

[@zackolot]

Hasn't this method always existed? I remember learning how to do this from a top brawl professional (denti) like 11 years ago whenever he told me pikmin uairs were escapable. Sad thing was, was I didn't know what regular DI was yet so I thought SDI was regular DI and tried to survive kill moves by flicking my stick and cstick into separate diagonals, at least for the next 5 months until I learned regular DI

[@zackolot]

Though this could just be a similar SDI to brawl SDI but mechanically different, now that I think about it. Ultimate has the weirdest controls in terms of inputs and buffering

[@SSJPENGUIN]

​@@zackolotthe buffer system gets weirder each game I think they got the buffer right in Brawl tbh

[@ABC-ik9vj]

​@@zackolotno

[@MrFunnyXD]

bro this information is insane. ill never use it and still suck, but its insane knowing players will be doing this

[@ricorichardson5945]

Tap jumpers be damned.

[@ChauNeee]

Look into controller circularity test. It can be easier and better when the circularity has a lower error rate