Uploaded May 2017 | Updated September 2026, 27 minutes ago

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Shoutouts to Zei for showing me this tech! He posts a ton of cool Fox stuff on his Twitter that you can follow here: twitter.com/ZeiWasMetal

If you land after performing a move or fast falling, you get four frames of hard landing lag and, after that, you cannot fall through a platform for sixty frames. To get around this, I recommended walking for a few frames and then falling through. While this was effective, it was also awkward to time and took a few frames. However, by buffering a shield drop, you can drop through the platform instantly!

I'm not really sure how to explain how to perform this tech - the name says it all. Just do the inputs for a shield drop right as you're about to land. However, if you're still having trouble, go watch MySmashCorner's video about Shield Dropping here: youtube.com/watch?v=ryfhRB_xihA&

I feel I haven't even scratched the surface on this one so it's pretty exciting! Hopefully I can do some more interesting things with it. The shield pressure setups shown in this video, of course, are not true - your opponent can let go of shield in between the hits. That said, it's extremely unlikely you will get punished - for example, there is only a ten frame window after the Bair in the pratfall setup before the Dair hits their block which means that only really characters with extremely fast shield drop aerials can really punish you.

You can also do this out of hitstun but, naturally, I cannot test that on my own.

ALSO... if you're interested as to where my uploads have been, well, I'm not going to give a satisfying answer but I WILL say that I'm going to start putting out more videos again very soon. I'm working on a followup to the Down Air video but it's going to be a VERY long one so sit tight! Aside from that, feel free to leave any requests in the comments and I'll see what I can work on :)

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Music used:
Brave Blue Sky (New Super Hook Girl)
(New Super Hook Girl is a free indie platformer from Japan that I couldn't recommend enough! While it is very short, it has really phenomenal controls and level design that made it a blast for me. Check out a run at GDQ if you don't believe me!)