How to AVOID DAMAGE with Ganondorf's Taunt -- Smash Ultimate Wiki Trivia 

Did you know that if you win as sephirot, close the game, reopen it, play as cloud against any character and then set your switch on fire, it will stop working?

I'm surprised that Lucina's Wiki didn't include the fact that her Tharja alternate outfit has a different Cape than her other outfits. They all have the Ylissean icon, while the Tharja one has the Plegian eyes on it.

I think Navi is stored in YL’s boot or something. And when the game is slowed, it interpolates the travel. But in frame by frame, there is no interpolation. Same thing with Doc’s mega vitamin.

10:57 Gotta say: The "microscopic megavitamin" is closer in size to what you would suspect a pill to be compared to what Dr. Mario is usually using.

If Ganon floats the entire time his taunt is active, could he theoretically stand on lava?

Navi's movement is...probably an interpolation thing? since it doesn't appear in normal frames. it does imply that Navi is stored offscreen somewhere.

During Meta Knight's final smash, you can tell which of the many Meta Knight clones is actually Meta Knight by looking for his eyes and wings. All the clones have no eyes and the regular 2 wings

It's interesting how Dr Mario's red pill is sort of a placeholder in his animations, I'd say it's due a color id being red via default but idk Also, completely unrelated but that spy kill at the end (16:33) is really funny lmao

I can't believe they gave Lucina a midriff window

I know editing takes a while so this isn't exactly an "easy" series but I hope this series gives you enough free time to take care of yourself and what you want to do all the same

Ooh! I know why the young link sword twirl one is the way it is (it's a technicality in 3d animations, so sorry for the text dump below ^^). In Ultimate, they use 'interpolated frames' between animations, instead of making, say, a custom 'baked' (predetermined) transition animation for every action you can do out of another animation's cool-down. The team decided to interpolate the frames between all key frames not baked instead because it takes up less memory and isn't noticeable at higher frame rates anyway. The engine is tasked to take the smoothest path between the two poses within the amount of frames specified, for a clean transition. In these interpolations, there's a quirk with rotating bones on their poles. if there is twisting, and it goes above a 180° turn on the last keyframe, the computer finds that the shortest path to take, is to simply complete the 360° twist continuing around, adding 179° or less as the shortest path between keyframes over spinning in the opposite direction at -181° or more. It's at the very least 2 degrees more efficient in that case and thus is deemed more smooth by the interpolation algorithm than backtracking and spinning in the correct direction. The attack must either turn young link's sword enough to go over that threshold in it's last keyframe or they must have accidentally started the up tilt's baked animation with his sword's pose in his hands flipped 180° to start out by accident and the interpolation is a breadcrumb to that mishap because it corrects the orientation in a weird way at the last frame when interpolation starts.

I think the differences in item animations for Marth have to do with the item's size. Smaller items can just use Marth's regular crouch animation, but bigger items need to use a special animation where he opens his hand further. They simply forgot to update this animation in Ultimate, which is why it only affects those items.

Okay the fact that mewtwo's stress face is just his normal face but with a bit of panic in the eyes is actually surprisingly in character, good job sakuri.

A dedede trivia fact not listed on the wiki: If you use his side special 5 frames before touching lava on a stage like great cave offensive (not training mode or Mario maker) at over 100% and spam b, nothing happens.

Something with the Ganondorf up-taunt thing as well: it can also dodge certain low attacks! Things such as Cloud down-tilt and Kirby d-tilt are two such examples.

Mewtwos eyes turning green when he uses disable is one thing I didn’t actually know aside from the other usually animation/model errors

I'm never gonna be able to unsee that Megavitamins fact so thanks for that

I just learned that Acceleratle isn’t Accelerate. I always thought that people were mispronouncing it, but it’s actually just Acceleratle.

Palutena’s airdodge makes a teleport sound even if she doesn’t actually teleport.

When you mentioned Lucas I remembered that Lucas's PSI attacks used to be yellow and purple like in smash 4, but it changed to yellow and blue by the time the game released, though the yellow and purple attacks can be seen in his character trailer and the build that you would see in events

Always such a treat to see you upload. Great high quality content jam packed with neat information. Keep up the great work man

13:57 It's interesting to hear the announcements for the different languages. Out of the four, I only know Spanish, but because of context I know what the others are saying. Because of how these languages are formatted, the subject comes after the verb in all of them. German and Russian change how the name is spelled and the Russian version is nigh unrecognizable as the same name. All of these announcers are individuals who were made to say these lines as their announcer character rather than trying to copy anyone else so they're all distinctive. I don't know why I find all of this fascinating, but I really do. Everyone's hearing extremely different things, but getting the same result. That's kind of incredible.

The thing with Navi may be explained by the game's way of interpreting animations when slowed down. So basically, Navi normally is moved from wherever she is off screen to in front of Yink in 1 frame, but in 1/4 speed, that 1 frame becomes 4 frames, so the game tries to fill in the gaps (yes, Smash Ultimate does have that), so it creates a path for Navi to go on so that it goes from her original position to her final in now 4 frames instead of 1.

These sudden perfectly cut moments before disaster are so hilarious XD

I wonder if the Navi thing has to do with how slowing down the game forces the rendering of more frames that weren't originally there as to keep the allusion of consecutive movement.

I'm surprised the wiki doesn't mention that Fox adds his own sound effect to Fox illusion. It makes the same sound as Falco's with voices off/using metal coat (mutes voices), but normally he says "shooo" everytime with voices.

9:02 One word: interpolation. The taunt was made for 60 FPS but when the game is slowed down rather than playing the frames slower (Which is what frame by frame does) it will add inbetweens to make it look actually slowed down. Other examples would be Greninja's trails for F-smash looking weird in slowmo.

Fun Fact! All instances of frames inside of smash are float variables, meaning they have decimal points (for instances like when the game slows down. It's very possible that Navi's transition lasts something like .4 frames and it's just rounded to 0 in gameplay, so usually it's not possible to see, but when the game is slowed down the animation would actually last 1.6 frames and it's then rounded to 2 and actually viewable

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Fun Fact: If you spam Duck Hunt’s down B around 60 frames after appearing on the respawn platform, he will float in place.

Don't forget to mention Ike's really sick lookin' Eruption glitch infused, blue flamin' Ragnell

16:30 That spy got absolutely destroyed.

I'm here for your laid back style of commentary and for the smash facts. Whether those facts come from us or the wiki makes no difference, as long as youre making videos about smash I want to watch them

I say keep the gaps in models. I think they're cool tidbits

Idk if the wiki mentions it but Robin has a similar phenomenon to Doc's pills with their books when they throw them away : they all appear as the Thunder tome (yellow) before becoming the right color (staying yellow, or turning red for Arcfire, green for Elwind, or purple for Nosferatu)

PK, it's trivia, it's not about whether or not we're interested, it's trivial. We're here for whatever you wanna throw at us lmfao just do what you do, you're good with presentation.

Navi doesn't really come from the background, she's likely coming from Young Link's root joint, as a graphic effect she's probably attached to it and then translated to her position through animation keyframes. When Smash slows down the game it pushes animation keyframes further apart from each other, Navi is likely set on the first frame at position 0,0,0 and at a very small scale and then on frame 2 she's set at her position and at 1,1,1 scale, it seems that the game somehow desynchronized the visibility command frame from the others at slower speeds, so you see she moving and growing larger. A similar phenomenon can happen when something like a sword is set a 0 rotation in one frame in an axis and 360 rotation at the following frame, in full speed it looks the same, but when the game slows down and the keyframes are set far apart, the sword spins to interpolate from one value to the other in these new frames.

I’ve noticed the game slowdown effects adding extra frames to animations before. One example that’s stuck in my mind is that R.O.B.’s down tilt becomes an overhead swing instead of a jab forward when you slow it down. I’m sure that there are some other interesting move animations from this effect, but I haven’t messed with it enough.

I dont particularly enjoy or care too much for the trivia in smash but these videos are somehow comforting to me. I feel my stress levels drop while listening to your narration. Peculiar 😄

It's a nice series, I know pretty much all of these as i got bored one day and read parts of each page (including trivia) for the fighters, their iterations, game, universes, collectibles etc.

6:10 Grima flashbacks...

The fact that there is no option to visualize hit boxes in Ultimate makes me even more mad now that I know it was a thing.

from all the hilarious zoom-ins to the insane tf2 clip, everything in this video made my jaw drop

I have a question PK, in CPU tournaments, when you skip the match does it pick at random, or if one is level 9 and one is level 1 will the chance be more likely for the level nine to just win?

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I like the model gaps notes, as long as you keep 'em quick like you're already doing

Bro i love u these videos are good and all im gonna say is i do not come for the model gap ones but they dont hurt

Luigi’s grab has less range when in 1/4 speed

9:15 I think her coming out of no where in specifically slowed down mode is because a bit of it is emulated by the game so it isn’t choppy

0:25 I'm still interested in model gaps! It's crazy how many exist!

LOLLL THE GANONDORF TAUNT AVOIDANCE IS ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS I CAN'T WAIT TO SHOW THAT OFF ONLINE LOL

Great video! In my opinion you can do away with the model inconsistencies. They're not the most interesting and we can assume most characters have at least one.

About that Navi thing the reason it doesn't happen in frame by frame but happens in slow mo is cuz they're is a mechanic with slow mo modes where the game makes up frames in the frame by frame those frames where all made by animators in slow mo a computer fills in the gaps I don't know too much about it but that's basically it.

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Love these videos

Dedede inhale on kamikaze will cause you to look through his mouth from the back when he gets scarred

The Banana and Boomerang are probably in the Battering animation class due to their size - they're long enough that holding them like a Beastball would just look weird. I have no idea why the Motion-Sensor Bomb is included in this.

I knew about the category of the items because of the rules in some spirit fights that have rules like "exploding items" and such

4:00 ohhhhh that’s why so many people have “tipper only” combos that use reversed up tilt so much

Entire video was great but can we please talk about that shot at 16:30 because holy hell that was sick

Did you know Dr. Mario's Down Air used to be called "Bone Drill", a name more fitting for his old Down Air? It was changed to "CLEAR!" in an update.

The slowed down animation stuff is definitely due to animation interpolation.

That ending was very big brain engineer energy, very simple yet effective solution.

I'm fairly sure that these animation oddities are all related to the animation interpolation that I think was covered previously.

The disable eye animation could maybe mean that Mewtwo is focusing which it taps into while in pain/peril.

Some of these are probably due to the game creating in-between frames in slow-mo. Like Navi is offstage, and the taunt 'warps' her to the right location, but if you slow it down to 1/4 speed, it thinks that that warp is *movement* and so since it's doing it over the course of 4 frames, moves it 1/4 the distance each frame, leaving it visible for the frame before it gets to the first 'keyframe'.

I dig fun facts, and these facts are fun

About the slow motion taunt stuff. When you use the game's slow motion, it has to add frames via interpolation. So, that's where that extra frames come from.

I have no interest in the texture holes. But I also know no other video I watch would ever have that kind of info so I'm glad they're in here

These facts are cool and all, but you stopping that spy from sapping your teleporter was hilarious.

Now I’m interested to see if the thing that happens with mewtews teleport animation for his dodge also happens with Rosalina, as she also disappears for her dodge

So idk about the motion sensor bomb but with the boomerang and banana I could see the game like interpreting them as shooting items in the background or something, since the boomerang is one of the only throwing items that can be reused, and honestly I totally thought it was a shooting item, and you get a free banana peel after using the banana gun, so maybe they added the shooting item tag to the code to account for that or something.

Thanks for the video :)

the part at 7:37 actually happens with King Dedede, all the time for some reason, the star emblems on his hammer can spin around? it's easiest to see it spin around on Jab 2, but it still rotates slightly for others i don't know why it spins. it just does

1/4 speed on Training Mode actually reveals how Mr. Game and Watch moves, he quickly moves into the desired pose.

Im not sure if this is still in Ultamite, but simalar to the Young Link taunt situation, Luigi would get more frames for his Up Taunt only in 1/4, moving between each expression rather than going immedietly from one to another

I have a fact: Hero's sword does more damage at the tip with certain moves(Forward Air, Back Air, and Dash Attack)

Navi probably does instantly teleport to YL's hand, but the slowdown interpolates animations so it adds that motion

me and my buddies do kazuya dittos and by doing his down-taunt (the one where he enters his demon state) you can dodge another kazuya’s standing neutral lazer.

The mewtwo one could be for one reason ( I speak German so I allways play the German version ) Due to the longer sentence from the announcer it might be so they don’t interrupt each other? The German announcer can be more quiet or louder and is generally a bit more quiet then the characters from what I can hear

That Young Link thing must be part of why you cant ssve after using frame by frame. As the game wouldnt be able to mimmick control input with the different way some actions happen)

Could you explain Pac Man's "super armour" against weak projectiles, like Hero Snooze of Fizz, during the charge of his fsmash as he's pushed by his Hydrants water? It was in Beefy Smash Dood's most recent Smash Review

I've been asking about this for a while but the clocks on P3 Mementos. From my own research they don't change with the Switch's time, however they do change, I can't figure out what triggers it though.

Most of crouch while holding an item changes is for the item not to clip under the stage or it would look weird I guess. Like the sword whould be in the ground going throught the ground which would be weird to look at so the devs made a special animation to raise the arm so it doesn't clip throught stuff. Even tho it's not working for every item tho.

I’m personally not especially interested in the model gap facts, but I’m also not against them. It’s not ruining my retention by any means, but I definitely enjoy anything useful in terms of facts.

Pac-Man has this weird quirk where he can dodge projectiles while charging smash attacks when pushed by the hydrant water. You should make an episode about that! (He can't dodge every projectile though as far as I know.)

With the spinning sword for Young Link, the animators must have set the sword's rotation to be 180 degrees offset between animations without noticing. The sword would still be in his hand as they intended, but the animation transitioning between them, likely with some automated processes in it, would try and change the rotation.

The title of this video is exactly how I used the Backflip taunt in Smackdown Vs. RAW 2007 way back in the day...

In OOT on N64, Young Link is slightly clipped in the wall when climbing on a fence, maybe Sakurai just wanted to patch it once and for all

An amazing tech you can do with Mii Brawler is up-taunt to hop over low attacks, like down-tilts, just like Ganon. I don't think the jump is big or long enough to survive Mute City and whatnot.

The three throwing items are all obtainable from other characters. Snakes sticky bomb, Diddy’s banana peel, and King K’Rool’s crown. No clue why that changes something, but apparently it does.

Actually laughed out loud at the red tape recorder spy clip lmao

Here is a fun glitch that still works Similar to the Luigi Face Glitch Olimar can warp his helmet around half of his head To do this: Use Incineroar and use his final smash on Olimar Look frame by frame at Olimars helmet and you will see it!

7:43 Ugh I hate this. I worked with blender to make some animations before and when attempting to transition between animations the arms or sometimes the feet randomly did a 360 which frustrated me to no end. It seems the same thing happened to Nintendo and they (unlike me) gave up and didn't fix.

1:12 Play the video in 0.25x speed. (Tip: If you're on PC then you can hold the spacebar too.)

This a new level

Does the Ganondorf taunt thing work with the floor hazards in certain spirit battles?

Isabelle’s distraught face is kinda depressing, because a normally happy dog becomes sad…

will the gabondorf up taunt thing effect floor effects in world of light? seems like it’s very possible

Take this with a grain of salt as I've only seen Minecraft's code not Smash Bros, but I believe what is happening with Navi is called Linear interpolation or lerp for short. Graphical engines can use this to smear what happens between a tick in a physics engine. The graphics engine sees "navi at offscreen coordinates" and then "navi at hand coordinates" the graphics engine has to guess what happened between each tick. The easiest way is to teleport the thing in divisions along the line as movement is really just small teleports. In example: if the frames per second is 60 and the ticks per second is 20, then 3 frames happen each tick. So the renderer will teleport the thing 3 times when it should have only teleported once. This works very well in almost all cases, but the more frames that happen between ticks, the more the GPU has to assume. That's why slowing it down makes it more obvious, as way fewer ticks happen per second, but the FPS stays the same. Naturally, that also explains why tick advance works, the GPU can't assume how long a tick is going to take, so it can't do any guess work. EDIT: After reading the comments seems like I'm not the only one who thinks this. I hope my explanation at least helps.