Tech: Difference between revisions

A '''tech''', officially referred to as a '''breakfall''' in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'', an '''ukemi''' ({{ja|受け身}}) in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'', '''breaking your fall''' in ''[[Smash 4]]'', and '''passive''' internally in ''Melee'' and ''Brawl'', is an action that can be performed when the player's [[character]] hits the [[ground]], a [[wall]], or a [[ceiling]] while [[tumbling]] or in [[hitstun]]. To tech, the user must press the shield button 20 [[frame]]s or fewer before hitting the surface; after that, a player won't be able to tech for 40 frames. Additional button or control stick input can cause different types of techs.

A '''standing tech''', '''standard tech''', or '''neutral tech''' is a neutral, ground-based tech performed by pressing a [[shield]] button when a tumbling character comes in contact with the floor. The character will experience a brief period of [[invincibility]], and will quickly bounce from the ground into a standing animation. The player will grab any items that he or she comes in contact with. This is the easiest tech to do, and is commonly done, even by casual players.

A '''wall tech''' (or '''PassiveWall''') is a tech against a [[wall]]. To wall tech, the player must press a shield button 20 [[frame]]s or fewer before hitting the wall while tumbling, reeling, or in hitstun. 20 frames after each press is a 40 frame downtime window where a wall tech cannot be done, so [[button mashing]] reduces the player's likelihood of teching. As with normal techs, the wall teching [[character]] experiences a few invincibility frames, and the tech absorbs the player's momentum. Wall teching is useful even on simple stages with no onstage walls, as the player can tech the side of the stage to avoid being [[stage spike]]d.

A [[recover]]ing character can use a form of wall tech to survive an [[edge-guarding|edge-guarder]]. If the recovering character is hit with an attack very near to the [[ledge]], he or she can [[smash DI]] towards the ledge and wall tech to absorb all the knockback of the enemy's attack. This is usually performed by pressing the shield button to wall tech ''before'' pressing the control stick to DI, because of the 20 frame window in which the player can input the tech before hitting the wall.

In ''[[Smash 64]]'', only ground techs are available (standing and rolling), so on stages with many walls it can be difficult to avoid bouncing combos. ''[[Melee]]'' provides the addition of wall techs, wall jump techs, and ceiling techs. ''[[Brawl]]'' removed the ability to ledge tech, as well as buffer a tech before one even received a hit. Additionally, as the new [[air dodge]] physics in ''Brawl'' allow airdodges to be used while tumbling, trying to tech too early will simply result in an air dodge. As a result, teching requires more precision to perform in ''Brawl''.

''[[Smash 4]]''{{'}}s tech mechanics are fundamentally similar to ''Brawl''{{'}}s, but some significant changes become evident in certain situations. Techs can no longer be inputted or buffered during [[hitlag]], and hitlag now overlaps with the lag suffered by the character when getting stuck to a wall before bouncing off of it. If the hitlag would have ended before the character's recoil lag ends, the hitlag and recoil lag synchronize. Effectively, these changes mean that if a character is hit while touching a wall, they cannot tech on that wall, potentially leading to unavoidable stage spikes. Additionally, characters can no longer tech on the ground while reeling. However, [[meteor smash]]es that land on grounded opponents are now techable, provided their hitlag does not exceed the length of the tech input window. The only meteor smash with enough hitlag to be untechable under normal circumstances is {{SSB4|Ganondorf}}'s down aerial, although {{SSB4|Falco}}'s down aerial also had this property prior to update [[1.0.8]]. Finally, [[tumbling#Reeling|reeling]] animations do not allow for floor teching when they occur over the normal tumbling animation, for at least until the hitstun cancel window begins. However, {{SSB4|Cloud}} is allowed to tech if he is hit near the apex of his [[Climhazzard]] with the reeling animation, which otherwise does not allow for any kind of tech.