I meant stick as opposed to pad.
personal preference honestly
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People usually don’t plink dash in flight, they swap between df and uf air dashes. That’s why we see things like a random Magnetic Tempest sometimes.
I was spectating some online matches a couple nights ago, and I actually saw a morrigan plink dash. It looked really cool, but it’s definitely not worth it if it’s a 1framer. The flight>up dash>down dash is just as good. Plus, the guy that as playing was on a fake account, so no respect. Also, if morrigan can’t plink dash while flying, it’s really not worth it. Unfly is too good.
She has to be in flight to do it, since she doesn’t have multiple air dashes or a ground dash.
Honestly, plink dashing is hardly difficult, especially compared to other things Morrigan does. That said, I had never even thought to do it before, and I’m…uncertain if it’s faster than alternating up and down air dashes still. It looks nicer though, I’ll give it that. All of the tutorials for plink dashing MASSIVELY over complicate it though. There’s no reason to use 3 buttons, just pick two, and plink them like you would any link in SF4 repeatedly. No need at all to plink H into LM or into a 3 button macro, just plink H~M repeatedly for example.
Edit: Well, obviously, it’s awesome for going backwards for going backwards.
Edit 2: Morrigan’s backdash cancels into itself normally, how the fuck did I never notice this before?
Do you mean her aerial backdash, or her standing backdash?
I prefer to do U/D air dashes with Morrigan because the movement is so loopy, it throws the opponent off.
Air back dash, as far as I’m concerned, she has no standing back dash. Also, she only has multiple dashes during flight mode.
U\D air dashes to substitute plink dashes is FAR slower. I’ve tested all of her angles\speed on her air dash game. Changing the directions to maintain 2atk dashes, plinking, linking dashes during flight. There is no substitute for plink dashing with morrigan. I do use 2atks to change directions like maybe a fwd into a down air dash but whenever I have to double an input like a double up dash, those become plinks
If you can’t plink with morrigan, you’re not playing morrigan. plinking up, plinking dwn or plinking forward dash are all necessary tools with her and each has specific uses.
plinking once isn’t difficult but plinking w\o fail is. Morrigan needs to input that shit so many times a round that I always seem to mess a few of them up. Not only that, but the speed of your plink determines how effective she can become. More plinks = more movement layers so there is always something to aim for with her plink game. Its actually incredibly technical when you start to factor the speed of the plinks to make some layers effective.
Plinking is great, but I don’t think it’s as necessary as you’re making it out to be.
not my fault if I can see through the forest to the other side of the path and others can’t and it wouldn’t be the first time I was right about a characters play style
you’re all free to make up your own minds. I’m telling you as a veteran to this series, its my opinion morrigan needs to bank on plinking up to 50+times per round. The more agressive your opponents, the more often you need this trick. Not to mention the better you are @ plinking and plinking fast the better your morrigan is. Being able to plink opens up her entire movement game, single dashing morrigan is ass comparatively.
Jeo and myself are the only plinking based morrigans I’ve seen and I stole the idea off Jeo. Plinking itself is old but his strategy to make it work had a lot of forethought. His take on the plink with morrigan to maintain advantage is definitely unique and it gives him so many more options to use. In fact, what he is doing with morrigan was so next leve, I’ve been copying his shit straight up until I can catch up to what he’s doing and then moprh his idea
I’m not a Japanese dick rider by any means. He’s a good player with an effective strategy that I feel is necessary with the character I play. I also steal shit from Chris G too so its not like I’m only particular to stealing Japanese tech. Its just that no one in the US from what I’ve seen is even attempting this play style other than myself and its probably because it takes so long to master this input at an effective speed.
Plink dashing sounds like something that would definitely make morrigan better but not something that’s needed. I would say that people who aren’t flying aren’t using morrigan correctly. That’s like saying SF players need to plink in order to be good at the game. They just plink to turn a 1frame link into a 2 framer. I’ve never even heard of plink dashing until a couple days ago when it was mentioned here.
I wish it wasn’t even called plink dashing, since you don’t even need to plink to do it. The actual input to cause the desired effect is actually identical to the “slide” inputs from Soul Calibur (they may be in Tekken too, but well, I don’t play Tekken.). You can use a slide input to perform hyper combos too if you really want, the buttons simply have to be pushed within a very small frame window of each other. If you piano two buttons very fast you should also cause the plink dash, and I know you’ll trigger a hyper. The inputs will even display sequentially in training mode instead of stacked like simultaneous inputs.
As a long time Soul Calibur player I wish someone would have told me this sooner. I have been trying to get “plink dashing” to work for me for weeks and now I can get it so much easier with a slide input on my stick. Thank you so much.
Funny thing, first time I heard about plink dashing, I did it with an SF4 style plink input. Then I see all the tutorials where people are trying to plink H into L+M and shit and I’m like…what the hell are they doing? But with the two button input windows in this game, quick Soul Cali slides work very well.
Can you do morrigan’s plink dash with a pad using the default button config?
I can personally after trying for about a minute, and I’m not a pad player. With type a, and doing a slide style input between H and L2/LT whatever you want to call it, I can do ~3 in a row, which is a far cry from my ~6 consecutive on stick, but yeah, I can do it. I can’t manage a slide input between H and M fast enough on pad however. Like I said, I;m not a pad player though.
hmm, i’ll try that out and see if i can do it. you basically just do H>L2>H>L2 really fast, right?
and never mind, the morrigan i saw online just flew and did a bunch of back dashes. i didn’t realize they canceled into each other either! i thought she’d do an air :h: if she did it too fast. one backdash already travels full screen anyways.
What direction air dash are you meant to be plink dashing with in flight?
Ditto. Whenever someone asks me for Morrigan tips when starting out, rule 1 is “she has no ground dashes at all”.
well, there has to be a way to differentiate between morrigan dashing in the air and morrigan dashing while she’s in the air.
ground dash=dashing while on ground
air dash=dashing while in air
even though both technically result in an air dash.