[0:00] Apex is the little brother of Titanfall,
[0:02] and despite not having pilot movement,
[0:04] you can still do some pretty cool
[0:05] movement tech within Apex. It's just a
[0:08] bit harder. So, let's take a look at all
[0:10] of the major Apex movement tech.
[0:12] Starting with something very simple,
[0:14] wall jumping. It's the easiest movement
[0:16] tech within Apex, and it uses the fact
[0:18] that Apex has a wall mantel mechanic.
[0:20] And all you have to do to wall jump is
[0:22] run at a wall at this angle, and just
[0:25] before you hit the wall, slide. And when
[0:27] you're midslide, jump onto the wall. At
[0:29] this point in the air, make sure to not
[0:31] press any movement inputs. The second
[0:33] your character mantles the wall, you
[0:36] jump off immediately. Do not mantle the
[0:38] wall for too long, or this will kill
[0:39] your speed. And if done successfully,
[0:41] congrats, you can now wall jump. Wool
[0:43] jumps can be used to get up to higher
[0:45] locations without having a climbing
[0:46] animation or just to look cool or skill
[0:49] on enemies. And if you combine wall
[0:51] jumps with another movement tech I'll
[0:53] show you later in this video, you can
[0:54] just skip climbing animations overall.
[0:57] Let's move from one of the easiest
[0:58] movement techs to one of the hardest
[1:00] movement techs, superglides. Superglides
[1:03] look easy, but they're actually really
[1:05] hard to do because the window you have
[1:07] to do them is tiny. Superglides are a
[1:09] movement tech where you can essentially
[1:11] launch yourself off any object after
[1:13] mantling it. If you can mantle it, you
[1:15] can launch yourself off it. This allows
[1:17] you to juke enemies and just smoothly
[1:19] maneuver around the world of Apex. The
[1:21] way you do a super glide is mantle an
[1:24] object and at the very end of the
[1:26] mantle, and I mean the very end, you
[1:28] have to press jump and then literally
[1:30] one frame later, press crouch. You
[1:33] absolutely cannot press these keys at
[1:35] the same time. Jump has to go first. To
[1:38] make it easier, many players have binded
[1:39] their crouch button to V. So when they
[1:41] want to superglide, they press space
[1:43] with the middle of their thumb and then
[1:44] the top of their thumb presses crouch,
[1:46] which is V a millisecond later. I use
[1:49] this strategy and it makes my super
[1:51] glides semicconsistent, although I will
[1:53] work on them one day. Superglides are
[1:55] hard because they require two really
[1:56] precise timings. First of all, pressing
[1:58] the buttons at the very end of the
[2:00] mantle and also pressing jump and then
[2:02] crouch within a few frames of each
[2:04] other. For controller, yes, this is
[2:06] doable on controller, but it might be
[2:08] easier or harder depending on how you're
[2:10] playing the game. Backwards superglides
[2:11] are also possible, but they are just
[2:13] another level of difficulty. Back to the
[2:16] easier movement techs though. The next
[2:17] movement tech is a super jump. And this
[2:19] is really easy if you're on PC and a bit
[2:21] harder if you're on controller. This is
[2:23] a super jump. And the only thing that it
[2:25] requires is a zipline. And you can use
[2:27] super jumps to super jump. Believe it or
[2:29] not, super jumps are doable by
[2:31] interacting with a zipline. And the
[2:33] second you interact with it, you jump
[2:35] twice. You do two separate jump inputs.
[2:38] This is really easy on PC because people
[2:40] realized if they bind jump to scroll
[2:42] wheel down and then interact and pull
[2:44] scroll wheel down, you can super jump
[2:46] 100% of the time. It gets harder on
[2:49] console because the timing is a bit
[2:50] harder. You have to interact and then
[2:52] put two separate jump inputs. People on
[2:55] console with paddles find this a bit
[2:57] easier, but obviously paddles aren't
[2:58] accessible to everybody. Still, you can
[3:00] super jump on controller if you're using
[3:02] the A button as jump here. As a proof of
[3:04] concept, I did it with my Xbox
[3:06] controller. it all works just fine.
[3:08] Super jumps are great because you can
[3:09] confuse enemies and also quickly escape
[3:11] situations if there's a zipline present.
[3:14] Also, if you're playing Pathfinder, you
[3:15] can do this essentially on demand. This
[3:17] next movement tech is mainly useful when
[3:20] combined with other movement techs. This
[3:22] is an edge bug. Now, in other source
[3:24] games like Counter-Strike, edge bugs are
[3:26] used as a way to negate full damage, but
[3:28] in Apex, they're a way to negate full
[3:30] stun so you can keep your movement
[3:31] going. Edge bugs are essentially tiny
[3:34] slopes that stop you from taking full
[3:36] stun when you land. It's frequently
[3:38] doable when hitting the very edges of
[3:40] certain props. This can be done on
[3:42] things like the gravity cannon to stop
[3:44] your stun or after certain falls. Edge
[3:46] bugging is essentially just hitting the
[3:48] edge of something and hoping you don't
[3:50] get stunned. The most famous and
[3:52] controversial movement tech that is in
[3:54] Apex is tap strafing. And this is
[3:56] controversial because Respawn have tried
[3:58] to remove it several times. Actually, I
[4:00] think I've genuinely lost count of the
[4:02] amount of times they've tried to remove
[4:03] it, but every time they choose to keep
[4:05] it in game because people love it so
[4:07] much and people get that mad at the
[4:09] prospect of it being removed. Tap
[4:11] strafing is essentially a method to
[4:13] preserve your momentum and immediately
[4:15] make turns while in midair. And if you
[4:18] don't understand what I mean, this is
[4:19] tap strafing. I jump off the jump pad
[4:21] and I just completely snap 90° right and
[4:24] keep all of my speed. And if I tried to
[4:26] do this without a tap strafe, this is
[4:28] what it would look like. I would lose
[4:29] all of my speed and basically just fall
[4:31] to the ground. Tap strafs are
[4:32] technically doable on keyboard and
[4:35] controller, but they're a thousand times
[4:37] easier on keyboard and mouse because of
[4:39] one simple thing. Tap strafs, much like
[4:41] super jumps, require you to stack a
[4:43] single input several times within a
[4:46] small window. And the input you stack
[4:48] with tap strafs is the W key. As to do a
[4:51] tap strafe, you have to slide, let go of
[4:53] your forward movement key, and then hold
[4:56] any side movement key. So, A or D, and
[4:59] then you jump and then stack about 10 W
[5:02] inputs on top of each other within a
[5:04] second. And because for most humans,
[5:06] it's impossible to spam W several times
[5:08] in a second consistently, most people,
[5:10] much like with super jumps, opt to bind
[5:12] their forward movement key to the scroll
[5:14] wheel. So, they can input several
[5:16] forward inputs within a second. So once
[5:19] again, to tap strafe, you slide, let go
[5:21] of forward, hold a key in the sideways
[5:24] direction you want to go into, jump, and
[5:26] then do your forward inputs. This can
[5:28] also be done off a jump pad with the
[5:30] double jump. Essentially, it's the same.
[5:31] You hold a sideways direction key, hit
[5:34] the second jump, and then stack your
[5:35] forward inputs. This is technically
[5:37] possible once again by spamming a W key,
[5:40] but it's going to be way easier if you
[5:41] use a scroll. And as you've likely
[5:43] guessed by now, this is really hard to
[5:45] do on controller. And without external
[5:47] assistance, it's essentially impossible,
[5:49] which is why Respawn tried to remove it
[5:51] in the past. Respawn did try to give
[5:53] controllers a way to tap strafe with
[5:55] this Octane perk where he can change
[5:57] momentum in midair, but it never really
[5:59] took off. And also, most of the ways
[6:01] controllers were able to tap strafe in
[6:03] the past have been patched. And
[6:05] currently, it seems like the only way to
[6:07] do it is have a PlayStation controller
[6:09] and essentially treat the touchpad as a
[6:11] scroll wheel. I believe Misery has the
[6:13] most updated guide here. Let's do a
[6:14] movement tech that's a bit more fun and
[6:16] a bit more recent. As have you ever gone
[6:18] off an Octane jump pad and wanted to
[6:20] triple jump instead of double jump?
[6:23] Well, this is possible with Sparrow. And
[6:25] no, it's not as simple as using his
[6:27] passive and then the second Octane jump.
[6:29] That's not how it works as your passive
[6:31] isn't active until you touch a solid
[6:34] surface, aka the ground. But a few
[6:36] people discovered you can trick Apex
[6:38] into thinking you touch the ground by
[6:40] simply touching a wall for a very short
[6:42] amount of time. to demonstrate. Here is
[6:44] a Sparrow triple jump. You jump off the
[6:46] jump pad, activate your double jump, and
[6:49] then hit a wall for a very short amount
[6:51] of time, wall bounce off it, and then
[6:53] you gain access to your Sparrow double
[6:56] jump. So, this movement tech essentially
[6:58] requires a wall bounce in midair. This
[7:00] is easier than it looks. Go to the
[7:02] firing range and try this, and you'll be
[7:03] able to learn how to triple jump really
[7:05] easily. But obviously, triple jumps do
[7:07] require a wall near you that you have to
[7:09] touch to reset your jump. The next
[7:11] movement tech is a mantle jump, which
[7:13] honestly looks harder than it is. I
[7:15] thought this was like a really
[7:16] ridiculous hard tech for the longest
[7:18] time, but when I learned it for this
[7:20] video, I was like, "Oh, that's it."
[7:22] Mantle jumps require two things: a
[7:24] zipline and a surface you can hang off
[7:26] near the zipline, making this building
[7:28] on World's Edge an absolute hot spot for
[7:30] people to try out their mantle jump
[7:32] skills. So, how do you mantle jump?
[7:34] Well, you start going up a zipline and
[7:36] when you're able to mantle a ledge, you
[7:39] jump off the zipline. When climbing up
[7:41] the ledge, you press your backwards key
[7:43] once to start falling off the ledge. And
[7:45] while falling, you look straight down
[7:47] and then super jump. So, interact and
[7:50] then double jump. And then that should
[7:52] mantle jump you. I know that is a lot.
[7:54] So, this is how I practiced it. I went
[7:56] here, took the zipline, and then hung
[7:58] off the edge. When hanging off this
[7:59] edge, I could just wait for as long as I
[8:01] wanted to and prepare myself for the
[8:03] jump. When I was ready, I would hold W,
[8:06] which is the forward movement key, and
[8:08] then press S once to cancel the climb,
[8:11] which would cause me to fall off the
[8:12] ledge. I would dart my mouse downwards
[8:14] and then super jump, and then it will
[8:17] work. This takes some practice, but you
[8:19] will get used to it. Your brain just
[8:21] needs to get used to doing so many
[8:22] things in such a short amount of time.
[8:25] But this is pretty fun to do, and once
[8:26] again, this is doable on controllers.
[8:29] And with the movement text you've
[8:31] learned, you can just start using them
[8:32] in game and combining them together. So
[8:34] those are the fundamental movement
[8:36] mechanics of Apex. And if you want to
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