A common misconception with the blue line is that it doesn't indicate where the person is DI'ing. It indicates where they will be launched BASED on their DI. The characters will always be launched in the direction that the blue line is pointing, which is arguably better than a simple DI indicator.
You're based for making this. It's such a big man move to actually tell people what to do against your character. I respect it. I tell people how to beat Terry stuff all the time. Besides, fact is, most people aren't willing to implement anyway, so if they do, that's just a sign they're a serious opponent, and that's what makes the game fun competitively. I'd rather beat someone by playing as well as I can than by exploiting a flaw in their gameplan that has a simple solution.
Yeah I play against my brothers all the time (I main Kirby, and they main Ness/Lucina and Yoshi) and I'm the only one that really does any researching and practicing. All my research eventually gets passed in to them as we play because every time I win, I have to open my big mouth and explain in extreme detail exactly how they can counterplay all of my maneuvers.
That and people will just stop playing your game if they don't actually know HOW TO PLAY. If you teach people how to beat you, or at least how to do something better with their character, you're actively preventing the game from dying off early. If you keep dumpstering someone, they're gonna have a shitty time, and a lot of times just drop the game and lose interest. You've removed a player from the playerbase.
It's a lot less noticeable when fighting characters that don't paralyze you. It's still there for regular hits but it's gone so quick it's not reactable and you just have to assume they will keep DIing the same direction they have been. Paying attention to the blue line really is only important for characters like pac man/zss/Kazuya/Corin
Also want to remind people that even if you do mix up your di. Ewgf has so much stun it's very possible for your smoke line to give away where you go as well. Although it's much harder since your opponent will be able to move out of hitstun by then
This is actually really helpful information, not just because I main Kazuya, but this is also helpful for playing against Kazuya. The one thing I will say though is because of how much hitstun EWGF has, there’s really no way the Kazuya can’t follow it up with something. Even if they don’t kill you off of it with a combo, they’ll still get like 30%+ off of the hit. But hey, at least mixing up your DI lessens your chances of getting 0-to-death’d off a grab like a certain green-capped plumber we know.
This is wrong just because it’s tight it doesn’t mean shit an untrue combo is an untrue combo so you can airdodge, jump or use a fast aerial or escape option
@@jt8224 When I said “there’s really no way the Kazuya can’t follow it up with something”, I quite literally meant *anything* with the “something” bit. Even if it’s a weak-hit n-air, it’s still technically a follow-up. Not a great follow-up, but it’s a follow-up nonetheless.
The Blue Line is an indication of your launch angle when affected by DI NOT your DI itself. Obviously that launch angle changes depending on your DI, but if you are being hit to the right and are DIing In to avoid dying, that does not mean that the blue line will point inward. It will point in the direction of the launch angle of the attack you were hit by when affected by DI In. Just want to clarify that common misconception, cuz I see a lot of people see clips of people dying early to kill moves and say that the "person was DIing into the blast zone" because of the blue launch angle and that just isn't true.
@@chordalharmony I won’t say I can spot it consistently but I can spot it now that I know it’s there if I’m locked in. I was watching the video but at certain points he’d hit someone in the air but I wouldn’t see the blue line I’m wondering did they not DI or is it invisible when in the air.
@@crimsonredkingdom2656 Sometimes it’s just REALLY hard to see. Stage backgrounds sometimes interfere heavily with it, like Kalos, or the battlefields. It’s really easy to see on FD or Lylat, at least in my experience. And it will still show without DI, the line just tells where the next direction the character will move. But hey, with enough practice, it’ll become pretty consistent
Sure the lines there, but after looking over darker vs light stages plus the lines are within the smoke after you hit them, its sometimes harder to keep the consistency up with chasing. Although, great awareness video
Micro dash after grounded ewgf allows you to position yourself in a way that you can always react to DI regardless of the mixup, so in reality this only works to escape against aerial ewgf (if you do uptilt -> ewgf / dftilt -> ewgf / anti air ewgf)
I knew about the blue line but didn't notice that it stayed active for the whole duration of ewgf or that it was common for pros to read it / fake-out using it. :O
@@HokageKyubiNaruto oh this is fantastic. Thank you for recommending it I come from Melee/PM so a lot of my carryover knowledge about DI and stuff is not quite right or actively wrong. I was shocked that the devs included a visual indicator for SDI, that's so cool
@@dennisd.4726 Yes, though there are some times where up b won’t kill but flip kick will. I don’t read di in those situations though, I just pray. Hold out and down
For all kazuya player you can just dash after the ewgf wait a couple of frame jump and nair for continuing the combo. It work on all DI thank to auto turn around, there is nothing you opponent can do to avoid this if there have no platform near them
Oh. I see. It’s just mind games. So basically against a good kaz, it’ll mainly be a 50/50 for each ewgf. So even if they read you, if your not at kill percent, you’ll still have another chance. That means they would have to read you at least 3-4 times. Which considering it’s about 50/50 it’s a 2/4 or 1/2 or 50/50 again.
Until they do a dash before jumping, then you have no escape and you just die so this counterplay is useless 😁, the new counterplay is paying $5.99 and buying min min.
Iirc it isn't where you're DIing its specifically where you're getting knocked back which yes its affected by DI but there is a difference. Everything still holds true tho.
It doesn't matter if the kazuya combos aren't true because no one else's DI mixable combos decide between life and death at 0% from half invincible single digit frame startup options; not to mention putting you one more interaction away from just killing them outright because of his genuinely disgusting damage output. Regardless, thank you for sharing some advise on how to beat your character.
Subscribing because of the sacred knowledge. I didn't understand why everyone was freaking out over slingshot, that's been a thing for like forever, you can find people saying they've known and fought others who have known about it wayyyyy before that back to the lab again guy But this? This is that sacred knowledge I did not know. Thanks!! New fan :)
Even if this is “counterplay” but I never use to blue line at all and still get 0 to deaths, I always mix up my combos so that they don’t DI or end the combo earlier and stay get good damage
1st clip. 8 hits 113 dmg and death. This character is just sheik with actual damage and kill power. Sheik would have to hit you 24 times for hopefully that much dmg.
2:22 Now looking at this it seems I can escape them but now see, the new GIM’R tech can fix that, the “Slingshot” gives KAZUYA better air mobility and thus it makes it harder to mix up your DI’s let alone get out of the combo.
My rival plays terry kazuya and goes by the tag Tidal, he used to get me with those combos a lot but i figured this stuff out on my own and now we goin even again, I play pac but man is the match up awkward to play against. I didn't even figure out di lines existed until i learned the pikachu match up, because they use the same thing for their nair and up air combos
I've been neck deep in playing online, playing against my brothers, and watching extreme amounts of smash content and until this video I've never heard of this blue line. I haven't heard it mentioned once until this video. If this wasn't fuckin Riddles himself saying this, I would think it was cap. (Until of course checking next time I play)
Idrk how to explain it and I didn't know about the DI tech until seeing this video and will pay attention to it now but when I do electric up smash I do like a slight dash before using u Smash that way it's far enough to catch di out but also staying for di in
Yea riddles this helped ALOT awhile ago and now my brother and elite people just do the tech I am ADDICTED to the blue line now and it’s not a good thing you know how you said you can’t unsee it? I LITERALLY CANT UNSSE IT PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME NOT LOOK AT THE BLUE LINE PLEASEEEEE
If you teach us these things then they will no longer work for you in tournaments. This is what happened to Esam in smash 4 He made guides People used them against him. He stopped making guides lol So just food for thought
@Master Shifu uh you get better and not rely on riddles to give you the sauce 😂 ik how to beat kazuya already i play as him . Learn the mechs of the game broooo , DI Shifting has always been apart of the game . corrin , zero suit … scrub
You guys under my comment like yall really needed this information to beat Kazuya obviously you guys dont know the games mechanics because stated in my previous comment , DI SHIFTING has been apart of this game … something riddles didnt have to tell you guys , thats why i made my comment kazuya isnt broken to begin with he’s very much beatable if you know the match up . Manz has horrible neutral and disadvantage if you need riddles to deal with kazuya maybe you should play as a zoner or something .. btw its like 2/10 you rub into a demon of a kazuya anyway .. who is really playing at such a high lvl ?
Yesterday a dude fought with me on a video saying DI cant be mixed mid ewgf lol that guy really knew nothing. I told him every combo is like a 50-50 but good kazuyas will just shit on you xD
A common misconception with the blue line is that it doesn't indicate where the person is DI'ing. It indicates where they will be launched BASED on their DI. The characters will always be launched in the direction that the blue line is pointing, which is arguably better than a simple DI indicator.
Riddles out here telling us pro level tips. Thank you good sir.
Crazy to me that so many Elite Smashers don't know about the DI line.
It's good that people learn though, advance the meta!
Because no one talks about it
You're based for making this. It's such a big man move to actually tell people what to do against your character. I respect it. I tell people how to beat Terry stuff all the time. Besides, fact is, most people aren't willing to implement anyway, so if they do, that's just a sign they're a serious opponent, and that's what makes the game fun competitively. I'd rather beat someone by playing as well as I can than by exploiting a flaw in their gameplan that has a simple solution.
Yeah I play against my brothers all the time (I main Kirby, and they main Ness/Lucina and Yoshi) and I'm the only one that really does any researching and practicing. All my research eventually gets passed in to them as we play because every time I win, I have to open my big mouth and explain in extreme detail exactly how they can counterplay all of my maneuvers.
That and people will just stop playing your game if they don't actually know HOW TO PLAY. If you teach people how to beat you, or at least how to do something better with their character, you're actively preventing the game from dying off early. If you keep dumpstering someone, they're gonna have a shitty time, and a lot of times just drop the game and lose interest. You've removed a player from the playerbase.
I legit had no idea there even was a blue line O_O
Same
My mind was blown too.
It's a lot less noticeable when fighting characters that don't paralyze you. It's still there for regular hits but it's gone so quick it's not reactable and you just have to assume they will keep DIing the same direction they have been. Paying attention to the blue line really is only important for characters like pac man/zss/Kazuya/Corin
It’s been there since day 1. I found out with fox bair when I paused the game to annoy my friend lmfao
Fun fact about the blue DI line : once you see it, you cannot unsee it. BUT YOU NEVER KNEW IT WAS THERE
Also want to remind people that even if you do mix up your di. Ewgf has so much stun it's very possible for your smoke line to give away where you go as well. Although it's much harder since your opponent will be able to move out of hitstun by then
How to escape Kazuya combos:
Step 1, Turn off your switch.
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@@hoop.w.g Gabby you live in California
This is actually really helpful information, not just because I main Kazuya, but this is also helpful for playing against Kazuya.
The one thing I will say though is because of how much hitstun EWGF has, there’s really no way the Kazuya can’t follow it up with something. Even if they don’t kill you off of it with a combo, they’ll still get like 30%+ off of the hit.
But hey, at least mixing up your DI lessens your chances of getting 0-to-death’d off a grab like a certain green-capped plumber we know.
This is wrong just because it’s tight it doesn’t mean shit an untrue combo is an untrue combo so you can airdodge, jump or use a fast aerial or escape option
@@jt8224 When I said “there’s really no way the Kazuya can’t follow it up with something”, I quite literally meant *anything* with the “something” bit. Even if it’s a weak-hit n-air, it’s still technically a follow-up. Not a great follow-up, but it’s a follow-up nonetheless.
The Blue Line is an indication of your launch angle when affected by DI NOT your DI itself.
Obviously that launch angle changes depending on your DI, but if you are being hit to the right and are DIing In to avoid dying, that does not mean that the blue line will point inward. It will point in the direction of the launch angle of the attack you were hit by when affected by DI In.
Just want to clarify that common misconception, cuz I see a lot of people see clips of people dying early to kill moves and say that the "person was DIing into the blast zone" because of the blue launch angle and that just isn't true.
I think it is amazing and selfless that he is giving us tips to beat Kazuya, Riddles jumped up a tier in my book.
Congratulations to anyone who's watching this, rather than complaining on twitter you are *learning*
My visual prowess isn’t strong enough. I’m gonna watch this video until spotting that blue line is second nature to me. I will awaken my Mangekyou.
Got it. My Sharingan has evolved. Let’s GOOO!!!!
Respect on the grind and dedication
@@chordalharmony I won’t say I can spot it consistently but I can spot it now that I know it’s there if I’m locked in. I was watching the video but at certain points he’d hit someone in the air but I wouldn’t see the blue line I’m wondering did they not DI or is it invisible when in the air.
@@crimsonredkingdom2656 Sometimes it’s just REALLY hard to see. Stage backgrounds sometimes interfere heavily with it, like Kalos, or the battlefields. It’s really easy to see on FD or Lylat, at least in my experience. And it will still show without DI, the line just tells where the next direction the character will move. But hey, with enough practice, it’ll become pretty consistent
@@chordalharmony Thanks for that. I’ll try harder.
Sure the lines there, but after looking over darker vs light stages plus the lines are within the smoke after you hit them, its sometimes harder to keep the consistency up with chasing. Although, great awareness video
I guess pick Kalos against Kazuya then lol
Micro dash after grounded ewgf allows you to position yourself in a way that you can always react to DI regardless of the mixup, so in reality this only works to escape against aerial ewgf (if you do uptilt -> ewgf / dftilt -> ewgf / anti air ewgf)
the dash past jump nair really isn't hard either honestly.
You could even do Crouch Dash Cancel and that will give Kazuya extra frames to react.
Yup so this “counterplay” is irrelevant to the meta of kazuya bc kazuya will become smarter in combing and not autopilot
I knew about the blue line but didn't notice that it stayed active for the whole duration of ewgf or that it was common for pros to read it / fake-out using it. :O
Bro at this point they should just give kazuya a fucking a quarter to flip
this is crazy, I never knew. really appreciate the video!
accept your fate, that is all
People still think that Ultimate is a baby party game when there are mechanics like this
Solid editing
This is amazing. This may work against ZSS downsmash too.
I didn't know the blue line showed up while in paralyze stun.
Yeah watch ESAM's DI video
@@HokageKyubiNaruto oh this is fantastic. Thank you for recommending it
I come from Melee/PM so a lot of my carryover knowledge about DI and stuff is not quite right or actively wrong.
I was shocked that the devs included a visual indicator for SDI, that's so cool
@@CharlotteMimic doesn't zss dsmash stun you long enough to where di doesn't matter much? Up b connects regardless, doesn't it?
@@dennisd.4726 Yes, though there are some times where up b won’t kill but flip kick will. I don’t read di in those situations though, I just pray. Hold out and down
I will learn anything to defeat these dangerous electric fisters
mii brawler is typing…
doctor mario is typing...
Damn this vid was great. Helps people against kazuya and helps kazuya players.
2:04 its actually less than last second, more like last milisecond.
That means vs kazuya blue alts are actually a counterpick? 🤔
"There is no escape"
For all kazuya player you can just dash after the ewgf wait a couple of frame jump and nair for continuing the combo.
It work on all DI thank to auto turn around, there is nothing you opponent can do to avoid this if there have no platform near them
Oh. I see. It’s just mind games.
So basically against a good kaz, it’ll mainly be a 50/50 for each ewgf. So even if they read you, if your not at kill percent, you’ll still have another chance.
That means they would have to read you at least 3-4 times. Which considering it’s about 50/50 it’s a 2/4 or 1/2 or 50/50 again.
Yea bro we saw the video you don’t need to be over analyzing shit in the comments
@@su9cp dawg let him brain storm
@@su9cp goddamn can you leave people minding their business alone? 😭
Until they do a dash before jumping, then you have no escape and you just die so this counterplay is useless 😁, the new counterplay is paying $5.99 and buying min min.
I completely forget about the di line.
How does people not know this? It's been a thing for years now.
I saw the title then i instantly clicked on the video i am a simple man.
Me too
Lovin the GunZ music, brought me way back to carpal tunnel days
Thank you riddles now instead of fearing you 100% I fear you 99.9 percent.
Iirc it isn't where you're DIing its specifically where you're getting knocked back which yes its affected by DI but there is a difference.
Everything still holds true tho.
Riddles: "This will work against mid level Kazuyas"
99% of Kazuya players: **didn't know the blue line existed**
Esta información me ha volado la cabeza
It doesn't matter if the kazuya combos aren't true because no one else's DI mixable combos decide between life and death at 0% from half invincible single digit frame startup options; not to mention putting you one more interaction away from just killing them outright because of his genuinely disgusting damage output.
Regardless, thank you for sharing some advise on how to beat your character.
Subscribing because of the sacred knowledge. I didn't understand why everyone was freaking out over slingshot, that's been a thing for like forever, you can find people saying they've known and fought others who have known about it wayyyyy before that back to the lab again guy
But this? This is that sacred knowledge I did not know. Thanks!! New fan :)
my strategy is to pray that the Kazuya screws up and mash buttons.
Bro it's been 3 years Ultimate is out and some players are still blown away when I'm telling them about the blue DI line haha
I’ve never seen that blue line
Nice Gunz The Duel music
I had to pause to see that blue line never noticed it before
At 0:25 this is just wrong. Kazuya down throw doesn't send into tumble, so you cannot DI it.
He was talking about the electric not the down throw
Dang, I didn't know anything about this. Thanks for showing this!
3:57 anyone know the song that's playing?
You find it?
What you can do at top level against kazuya is literally just flip your control stick left and right as this can potentially confuse the kazuya player
Is it hopeless for Ganondorf to escape Kazuya combo or its skill issue ?
I don't see the blue line at all. I just see the red particle affects.
What a video man! Thanks fot sharing!!
You should post an asmr video of just the audio from your kazuya combos
Even if this is “counterplay” but I never use to blue line at all and still get 0 to deaths, I always mix up my combos so that they don’t DI or end the combo earlier and stay get good damage
Awesome video
1st clip. 8 hits 113 dmg and death. This character is just sheik with actual damage and kill power. Sheik would have to hit you 24 times for hopefully that much dmg.
2:22 Now looking at this it seems I can escape them but now see, the new GIM’R tech can fix that, the “Slingshot” gives KAZUYA better air mobility and thus it makes it harder to mix up your DI’s let alone get out of the combo.
Funny enough, because of this tech, Vendetta says to not always use the blue DI line for Kazuya combos
Did the line got patched cause i cant see anything when i do an electric these days
My rival plays terry kazuya and goes by the tag Tidal, he used to get me with those combos a lot but i figured this stuff out on my own and now we goin even again, I play pac but man is the match up awkward to play against. I didn't even figure out di lines existed until i learned the pikachu match up, because they use the same thing for their nair and up air combos
Well this will help me a lot considering I am trying to main kazuya
you gotta peep my line when I get naired by m2
This is very helpful thank you!
The di line is sooooo hard to see
This is also how bowser players get up throw combos. Cept it's actually true combos for bowser.
u forget april fools was yesterday?
“How to DI”
How effective is circle di? Like, it seems super random but idk
You can also get out of any combo or cheese by putting down the controller. I know it’s a funny joke.
Tarik made an in-depth Video on the DI-Line
How do you change the direction of the blue line?
Doesn't matter, I'm too good
I've been neck deep in playing online, playing against my brothers, and watching extreme amounts of smash content and until this video I've never heard of this blue line. I haven't heard it mentioned once until this video. If this wasn't fuckin Riddles himself saying this, I would think it was cap. (Until of course checking next time I play)
Idrk how to explain it and I didn't know about the DI tech until seeing this video and will pay attention to it now but when I do electric up smash I do like a slight dash before using u Smash that way it's far enough to catch di out but also staying for di in
Kazuya player here. I had no fucking idea that blue light existed lmaooo
I never use the blue line i just pray they’ll di out
Yea riddles this helped ALOT awhile ago and now my brother and elite people just do the tech I am ADDICTED to the blue line now and it’s not a good thing you know how you said you can’t unsee it? I LITERALLY CANT UNSSE IT PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME NOT LOOK AT THE BLUE LINE PLEASEEEEE
HOLD THE FUCK UP THATS WHAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHEN THEY SAY THE BLUE LINE???
for a kazuya this seems loke a huge pain in the ass to practice for
what is the nair tech?
Are DI lines in other Smash games? Seems kinda easymode. At least they're pretty hard to see.
No. Only in ultimate.
Easy mode? Do you ever know they exist before? Or have ever tried reacting to that shit in a real match?
@@jesusmejia3417 Nope. I didn't know they existed before today. That's why I said "seems"
@@VannTango got ya. I knew they exist, coul look up Art of smash guide or DI guide. But I don't know man. In a match it's imposible to me
I need some 5Head shit to do this. I cant do this
If you teach us these things then they will no longer work for you in tournaments. This is what happened to Esam in smash 4
He made guides
People used them against him.
He stopped making guides lol
So just food for thought
WHATS YOUR OUTRO SONG GOOD SIR? also good vid
Someone explain to me why Kazuya isn't top 5 cause to me he has the best combos of the whole cast
Terrible Disadvantage, that's about it
RIDDLES NO
I think he’s tell us this because he wants to player better players in elite smash lol 😂
Love you man it would make my day if you lied my comment
Delete this
YO RS!!! He spilling the sauce bro kazuya is already stressful to play as . I mean ima get my combo regardless but still dont give em faith 😭😭😭
Ikr I'm a mid level Kaz too. I need as few people knowing this as possible lol
@@jimmyt1144 Yoo add up let’s play sometime? I play kazuya
@@XxSesshxX let’s play sometime add up
Yall are disgraceful Smash players anyways.
Bro why you telling them the sauce … let them figure it out its stressful to play as Kaz as is lol wtf man
So? Kaz is pain in ass to deal with
no i disagree he is sharing how to deal with kaz which is helpful for many
@Master Shifu uh you get better and not rely on riddles to give you the sauce 😂 ik how to beat kazuya already i play as him . Learn the mechs of the game broooo , DI Shifting has always been apart of the game . corrin , zero suit … scrub
You guys under my comment like yall really needed this information to beat Kazuya obviously you guys dont know the games mechanics because stated in my previous comment , DI SHIFTING has been apart of this game … something riddles didnt have to tell you guys , thats why i made my comment kazuya isnt broken to begin with he’s very much beatable if you know the match up . Manz has horrible neutral and disadvantage if you need riddles to deal with kazuya maybe you should play as a zoner or something .. btw its like 2/10 you rub into a demon of a kazuya anyway .. who is really playing at such a high lvl ?
@Master Shifu you feel insulted ? Sheesh .
Yesterday a dude fought with me on a video saying DI cant be mixed mid ewgf lol that guy really knew nothing. I told him every combo is like a 50-50 but good kazuyas will just shit on you xD
1 minute ago. Huh
Please stop making Kazuya counterplay 😭
I am a mid level Kazuya struggling and don’t need more people knowing how to beat me
😁