Dashing technique on a stick

Hello!

Are there any recommended techniques for crouch dash (back/forward) on a stick in VF? How do you hold the stick when you do a back CD for example?
Any tips on how to make it faster and more accurate?

 

Yeah, the hardest part are CD's especially when I'm trying to do them fast in a row.

 

Hi @Powerthash I will use numeric notation, but I do believe it is recommended to use BOTH techniques as it has an impact on what move you can do while doing a crouch dash.

The two methods for crouch dash are:

353

323

On a Japanese style arcade stick with a square gate, I really like the 323 method. The way I do this technique is I press the stick into the 3 corner and I move the stick towards 2 just enough to feel the microswitch associated with the 6 direction “un-click” and then I move the stick back to 3.

353 is basically double tapping the 3 direction. You input 3, return stick to neutral, then input 3 again.

I play Lion and which crouch dash method I use matters! Lion has 33P+K and he also has 3P+K which can be inputted while crouching. Sometimes I want to do Crouch Dash —> 3P+K. If I do 353P+K I will get 33P+K and I will not get 3P+K. To get 3P+K after a crouch dash, I would want to input 323P+K.

I will admit, on Player 1 side I am faster at doing 323 method of Crouch Dash. On Player 2 side I am faster using 353.

 

I'm using 353 in most cases. Will try 323 instead. How clean is your input on a stick? Watching the input display I noticed that sometimes I have some extra moves while doing CD but it is still working.

 

The input buffer is pretty lenient

That said, which character are you using? i can give you some fun CD applications, some that require 323 and some that require 353 and more!

 

I'm using Akira. So he has a lot of 353 in his movement's list.

 

With Akira, the only case I am aware of where which type of crouch dash input you use affects your options is Crouch Dash --> 3P

If you do 353P you will get CD --> 33P uppercut (yoho)

If you do 323P you will get CD --> 3P (Akira's version of a basic Elbow)

Everything else I've tried so far allows you to do the same things whether using 353 or 323.