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'''Directional nfluence''' (usually abbreviated '''DI''', which can also be used as a verb) is the control the receiver of an attack has over his or her trajectory. Each attack sends its target in a particular direction, depending on the attack itself and on the target's [[weight]] and [[falling speed]]; DI can be used to alter, but not completely negate, this trajectory.  This change, however, can be vital to surviving high-power attacks such as [[Fox]]'s [[up smash]], and for escaping [[combo]]s such as [[Jigglypuff]]'s [[Space Animal Slayer]] among many others. DI is most useful to make the character move into a trajectory being as far to the blast line as possible.  DI differs upon the character, like [[Lucario (SSBB)|Lucario]], who arguably has among the most useful DI in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''.

*Hold the control stick diagonally upwards in the opposite direction the character has been knocked.

*Hold the control stick either left or right.

The player can DI by pressing the [[control stick]] in any direction during or just after being hit by an attack. There are three types of directional influence: normal DI (often simply referred to as "DI"), Smash DI, and Automatic Smash DI. The type of DI changes depending on when the player presses the control stick.

A subtactic is the '''quarter-circle''' DI, which involves inputting multiple Smash DIs by rotating the control stick 90 degrees, resulting in a drastic decrease in [[knockback]]. Quarter-circle DI was introduced to the United States by smasher [[Captain Jack]] and was once known as '''Japanese DI'''.

Automatic Smash DI functions similarly to Smash DI, but it occurs the frame after the attack's hitlag ends. The character will move, but not as far as in normal Smash DI. ASDI may be inputted either with the control stick or the C-stick, but if both are being held when hitlag ends, the direction in which the C-stick is being held out prioritizes the Control Stick.  

A tactic that utilizes both the control stick and the C-stick is called '''double stick''' DI, which involves pointing both the control stick and the [[C-stick]] in two different directions so the player can alter the trajectory with the control stick and use the C-stick to control the Automatic Smash DI into a different direction from the direction being held on the control stick. This was later found out to be very useful, such as being used to get the lowest angle of knockback while ASDI-ing straight downward to tech along the ground and survive high knockback hits beyond what is possible by allowing said hit to launch the recipient.