The Slingshot - Universal Smash Ultimate Tech 

So...what are your thoughts?

to see ganondorf escape AND punish an out of shield grab almost brought me to tears. thank you gimr

we now live in an era where _ganondorf_ can be safe on shield, what a time to be alive

For those of you practicing but can’t quite tell if or when it’s working, use Mario, you’ll know when you have the backwards momentum but you don’t go through the backflip animation. Instead you’ll go through the forward jump animation while drifting backwards.

As gimr noted, I think a lot of people knew about this at a basic level but never thought of how powerful it could be when incorporated with buffering and as an actual tool

HE FINALLY MADE IT TO HIS LAB LET'S GO!!!

9:30 Inputs 11:03 Flickshot 13:20 Holdshot 14:10 Fullshot

09:32 Timestamp for the start of the explanation 10:58 Flickshot 13:19 Holdshot 14:11 Fullshot

11:00 how to flickshot 12:22 flickshot drift away 12:38 flickshot drift in 12:52 tips on failures 13:20 how to holdshot 14:15 how to fullshot 15:05 buffer system

To the people wondering about patches. This is an emergent tech, which means they would have to tweak the whole base mechanics if they wanted to get rid of it. It would be a whole mess and if they in fact removed it many other things would be affected

RIP VGBC Mom, that was a sweet dedication

Ness can get so many more easy kill options with back air now omg

Smash players: "Command inputs are too difficult." Also Smash players: *basically doing a pretzel motion over and over* Never change, Smash community.

Seeing gluto's reaction to leo saying "I can spam nair more!" Is priceless

Honestly, even if it isn’t as impactful as wavedashing from melee, this looks like it’ll provide some insane options for Ultimate!

I would like to see someone do a video on what slingshot means to each character. Something like that would give people more insight to how good this is and I won’t have to figure it out myself.

this was fucking sick. gimr was not exaggerating at all when he said it’s meta changing. absolutely legendary

In the trailer, at 1:53 he does the tech in real life, at 1:11 he uses slingshot on a shield because it is a tech mainly experimented on shield pressure

This is crazy! It's impressive you've found something this game changing so late into the game's life!

Is it just some rule that whenever there’s a movement tech in a smash game, Lucas is just really really good with it.

bro really changed the whole game

The best part is this tech is easy to do. It took me 2 seconds to get it semi consistent. Im honestly shocked this wasnt discovered before.

This tech is something that makes me really want to get back to labbing characters again. This time it'll be through a new lens of potential. Certain characters with bad spacing or OOS options could benefit immensely with this. Thank you for sharing this, you deserve a good rest and cake.

Just been trying out the slingshot some in the training room after rewatching this for about the fourth time now and I just wanna say thank you for all the effort you put into discovering this tech and the amount of work you did for this video presentation too. I'm sure I'm not the only one, but thank you immensely for being a wonderful part of the smash community GimR

So Marth might be kinda scary now, he has a good fast spacing option

I can't wait to see Fatallity and Larry Lur get a hold of this.

Every character showcased I thought "that's terrifying." And I'm sure many more not shown will be too. Well done!

I’m so impressed with this whole out of content… I can see how much time you spent on this. And the special announcement at the end I’m so excited for this all sounds so awesome I’m hype !!!

Everyone: Sling Shot Ridley: Run Up Dthrow Usmash

Hope this mean people will practice slingshots instead wavelands now in between stocks

I'm so thankful for how in-depth this guide/discovery is, this video really needs to be the go-to template for anything tech related in smash. Even when looking for basic stuff like how to do a rar, it can be hard to know why you screwed it up, or why a certain input is coming out. I can tell you worked your ass off to make this as comprehensive as possible and I just want to thank you for your efforts. Most people don't know this, but I was actually the person who discovered the pac-man doubles infinite ladder strategy in Smash 4 (the video is on my channel for anyone curious), I remember feeling amazing when people payed attention to the discovery and started telling people about it. Etika (RIP) even shared my video with people and it caught on like wildfire after that. Word spread quickly, and before long I was meeting people locally who played Smash who knew about this tech and they were surprised to learn that I was the one who made it. Very cool feeling, I'm glad I was able to contribute to Smash in some small way. Looking forward to seeing this out in the wild, thanks for the tech and for the content.

16 ON TRENDING CONGRATS GIMR ONE OF THE BIGGEST SMASH VIDEOS UR DOING SO WELL SO HAPPY FOR YOU

I love how this tech is difficult but not so difficult that it's not an option for most people. I've already managed a few flickshots in training mode with Isabelle. Slingshot slingshots?

This sounds really promising for dealing with Falcons horrendous backdash. Cant wait to try this out

This is pretty interesting stuff! I look forward to seeing how characters in general make use of this new tech!

I love this kind of stuff. As someone who took a break from smash due to school seeing people learn about phantom footstools, IDJ, and now this honestly makes me wanna return to the game and lab it out.

Lemme just say that I'm a longtime Lucas main and when I heard him say that Lucas had some of the most versatile uses of this tech... 😩😩😩

Thanks to your lovely mother for giving birth to a legend ❤️

super fascinating, thanks for all your work over these years. Smash is such a great community to be a part of!

Very well put together. I'm looking forward to start implementing this :) Also very excited to watch the Gimvitational next month

And if everyone’s safe on shield… *laughs* No one will be.

I want to see Ice Climbers twitter combos implementing these. Like, holdshot with down b seems legit broken. You just pushed back the IC's mains 12 years into reaching 25% of perfection

Amazing bro... The tech, the vid and the announcement. Simply amazing. You are a blessing and a gift to the community man. Thanks to you and your team for all that you do!

Hope you're feeling better, thank you for your time and effort consistently delivering quality techs. Far more consistently than me actually pulling those techs... except get-up attack. I'm a master at that.

Can't wait to see how Kirby can use this tech. I'm surprised that Mythra wasn't shown.

4:46 You can see the exact frame where Glutto is processing what Leo said and realizing the meaning of it

It's great to see you still shaking it up man, thanks for breaking the meta

Thank you for learning these tech options and teaching them to others that don't know them!

Can we all just appreciate the animators who worked on the Gimvitational announcement at the end

I'd be curious to see a Marth using this to space the tippers

It was predictable but obvious, the slingshot wasn't going to really change the meta. It's just one of those techs, even if tis one is more complex and useful. The lab can create and elaborate things for the world. But not change the world. This is the same thing for the slingshot.

I could imagine how many new movement options and combos are gonna be when Instant Double Jump is applied with the Slingshot variants.

Respect to Gmir for he always looks for new ways to help us in the game. The slingshot makes that can help us get closer to melee in terms of movements. Much love man

Does this mean Pikachu's aerials are +100 on shield now?

Loving it gimr this might get me back into ultimate again to learn something new and interesting to use

This video got me picking up the sticks once again. Thank you for makin the game what it is gimr you the goat! Can't wait to pull this one out on my friends.

My condolences GimR. It must be one of the hardest things to go through.

May she rest in peace. Shed be proud man

This is honestly really cool. I wasn't expecting a movement tech, which is what ult really needed.

GimR yet again changing the world of Smash forever. Thanks for all the hard work you put in for us every day!

May Gloria Rest in Peace.

Im as hyped about this as i am skeptical. I hope your mom is resting in peace bro, your love of this game is so blatantly shown here and I genuinely thank you ♥️

Wow the presentation for the tournament was so good great job on That!

High Quality Content right here my man, keep it up and let’s go!!

The movement inputs is something that needed to do Displacement Phantom with Zelda, but much less lenient to do, certainly it's an awesome thing!

9:37 Basic inputs 11:04 Flickshot 13:29 Holdshot 14:15 Fullshot

this is huge at helping me play the way I've always wanted to. Thank you GimR

Watching this at work on break and mad I can't finish it until later. Excited to try this stuff out!

THIS IS GONNA MAKE HITTING JOKER’S FAIR 1 KILL CONFIRM SO MUCH EASIER TO HIT IN NEUTRAL THANK YOU SO MUCH

Pit's aerials were never very safe, so I hope this is huge for him.

I have never seen one of your videos, but this earns my subscription

great video I wish inputs were shown for more of the demonstrations, especially with the more complicated options described towards the end of the video

Just from the first 30 seconds of the video I had to give a like. VGBC Mom did a great job of raising you y'all to be kind people, rest in peace.

I imagine Yoshi will get a tonne of mileage out of this, between egg throw/lay and neutrals... and if he messes up, he double jumps away for free cant wait for *multi-fair drifting*

More than anything as someone who mainly just plays and watch melee this makes ultimate look much more fun! :)

I know you broke the meta but that intro is super crisp my guy!! Excellent cinematography

Might be the biggest tech discovery since Wavedashing! Just gotta hope it never gets patched out!

sakurai pops in tomorrow: "yea this was intentional. not a bug it's a feature"

19:35 really put into perspective how much crazier this is than I thought

Just commenting to show appreciation for the hustle!! This is nuts man!!

Only GimR can find out how to wavedash in the air

Rest in paradise VGBCMom 🙏

Amazing discovery, perfect analysis, and an incredible video overall

That introduction was fucking incredible. Well shot, creative, the works

I've never seen anything like this. The way the characters move is so interesting and could definitely be game changing

Omg the potential of peach with this tech is insane

This looks like an adapted smash version of sfv shimmy with corner pressure slowly becoming the meta this will be dirty

Respect for sticking with this game despite the lack of playable online, high input delay even when playing offline, the ceaseless discharge of community drama, and the actively destructive efforts of Nintendo themselves. I know that probably sounds sarcastic but I'm genuinely impressed by the people still grinding this game out to find the crazy tech.

As an inkling main, I can see approaching/pressuring someone with back air so much more consistent. Ty gimr

I’m surprised you didn’t show Yoshi since he has the fastest air speed. It’ll be very cool to see the fastest slingshot

Now we all go back to the lab again

As a Zelda main, I'm glad all of that time practicing Displaced Phantom will make adopting this tech easier and thanks for the insight on the buffering which will make doing DP even easier! Thank you for pushing the game to the next level! 🙌🏼 GOATED

Mewtwo might actually just be broken. It feels so cool to do

Imagine doing miss-inputs while training RAR and wondering why your character moves so strangely... Watching a video a few years later just to get the explanation for it LMAO

I’m 2:30 into this video and I already love the video. Great intro gimr

This is crazy for Lucario. Crazy air speed, pair’ed with wavebounce neutral b, and a fair that can be thrown out twice from shorthop. Hopefully people make something out of it

Aww 🥺 RIP M(r)s. Petrucci!! 🙏🏿 You did great work with this technique

I’m wondering about the implications of this in terms of shield breaks. Is it feasible for a puff to get 2 pounds on shield without being punished? Idk this feels meta changing.

So THIS is what I was doing! I had done this tech by mistake in the past and tried to replicate it, but I could never figure out the correct motion. I’ve been labbing it and have only pulled off a couple slingshots successfully, but this guide is a massive help! I guess it’s back to training for me. Thank you GimR!

Sorry for your loss, dude. May you mother Rest In Peace. Thanks for the tech