[0:00] Wall jumps, tap strafes, bunny hopping,
[0:02] instant slides, super jumps. With over
[0:04] 200 mechanics in Apex, it can be pretty
[0:07] overwhelming and intimidating as a new
[0:09] player. I mean, where do you even start
[0:10] when it comes to learning movement? Do
[0:11] you actually need to know and perfect
[0:13] every mechanic Apex has to offer in
[0:15] order to be a decent player? Yes and no.
[0:17] Everyone either thinks movement is just
[0:19] for style points or movement is an
[0:21] absolute necessity to outplay people.
[0:23] But to me, it's just a tool. And once
[0:25] you've learned how to use the right
[0:26] tools for the right job, the game
[0:28] instantly becomes smoother and more
[0:30] enjoyable and overall so much easier.
[0:33] Today, I'm going to give you five
[0:34] movement mechanics that you need to know
[0:35] as a beginner or an intermediate level
[0:37] player, all of which can be used in
[0:39] every single match and should be used in
[0:41] every single match. And by the end of
[0:42] this video, you're going to be moving
[0:44] faster, pushing harder, repositioning
[0:46] more, staying alive longer, and
[0:48] hopefully breaking the ankles of anyone
[0:51] that you come across. But you know
[0:52] what's even better than having movement
[0:53] to play at a high level? Actually being
[0:55] able to perform those movements. And one
[0:57] of the biggest factors with Apex
[0:58] movement is timing. Lots of advanced
[1:01] movements in Apex need to be input at an
[1:03] insanely specific time and order. Even a
[1:05] fraction of a second worth of delay can
[1:07] throw your movement mechanics off,
[1:09] making you feel slow and like you're
[1:10] stuck in mud. I've dealt with packet
[1:12] loss, high ping, and horrible service
[1:15] providers for years, which have led to
[1:17] me punching multiple holes in my desks.
[1:19] Unstable connections lead to higher
[1:21] input delay between you and the game,
[1:23] which makes it feel like recoil, moving
[1:24] around, and reacting to literally
[1:26] anything just feels impossible until I
[1:29] tried Gear Up. Normal VPNs bounce your
[1:32] signal all over the place to stay
[1:33] anonymous, but Gear Up actually sends
[1:35] your connection to the straightest
[1:36] pipeline to the specific game servers
[1:39] that you're playing. Less bouncing
[1:40] around means lower latency, and lower
[1:42] latency means that your actions feel
[1:43] like they're actually happening when you
[1:45] intended them to. So, whenever I feel
[1:47] like my aim or my movement is being
[1:48] thrown off, I just boot up Gear Up,
[1:50] select the game that I'm currently
[1:51] playing, and watch my ping instantly
[1:53] drop, giving me a significantly smoother
[1:55] experience. It's even helped me when I'm
[1:56] coaching players across the world and
[1:58] playing on their servers or switching
[2:00] servers to play ranked. This thing has
[2:01] saved me so many times, and I never
[2:03] thought that it actually would. I was
[2:04] actually pretty hesitant to try it out
[2:06] for the first time until I recently saw
[2:08] in a TSM [music] video that they were
[2:10] partnered with each other. So, if you're
[2:11] playing with friends across the country
[2:13] or squatting up with people across the
[2:14] world, consider trying Gear Up. It won't
[2:16] just help you with your overall
[2:17] connection, but it'll help you a lot
[2:18] with the mechanics in the game. And
[2:19] speaking of mechanics, let's hop into
[2:21] our very first and easy one. All right,
[2:23] so first things first, we need to change
[2:25] a couple settings because this is what's
[2:26] going to actually make movement in
[2:28] general for Apex Legends feel just a lot
[2:30] smoother, more consistent, and overall
[2:33] it's just going to make it a much more
[2:34] pleasurable experience. So, for So,
[2:37] inside of our gameplay settings here,
[2:38] we're going to scroll all the way down
[2:40] into this movement section, and what
[2:41] we're going to make sure that we do,
[2:42] whether you're on controller or whether
[2:44] you're on mouse and keyboard, you're
[2:45] going to make sure that you change
[2:47] always sprint to on. Basically, what
[2:49] this is going to do is whenever you hold
[2:51] your stick forward or whenever you hold
[2:52] W key, it's going to automatically make
[2:54] you sprint. Now, this does not mean that
[2:57] you can't walk anymore. If you're on
[2:59] controller, just push your stick
[3:00] forwards a little bit and you'll walk.
[3:02] If you're on mouse and keyboard, hold
[3:03] right click just like if you were aiming
[3:04] down sight of your weapon, and you can
[3:06] still walk around. Or if you have a
[3:07] weapon in your hand, on controller
[3:09] still, just push your stick forward a
[3:10] little bit, you'll still walk just as
[3:12] fine. Or if you're on MNK, then you're
[3:14] going to have to hold down ADS while you
[3:16] move forward, and that's how you're
[3:18] going to walk. Now, the reason why we
[3:19] want to change this setting is purely
[3:21] because it's going to make movement,
[3:23] specifically advanced movement, a lot
[3:26] easier. So, when we start getting into
[3:28] things like wall jumps or we start
[3:30] getting into quick slides or advanced
[3:32] slides, not having to input every single
[3:35] time sprint is going to make everything
[3:38] just so much easier. Having one less
[3:41] input when you're doing a series of
[3:42] inputs is one less thing that you need
[3:44] to worry about messing up. It's one less
[3:47] thing that it's going to take you time
[3:49] to execute. It's just one less thing
[3:50] that you got to think about, too. So, in
[3:52] general settings gameplay always
[3:54] sprint, turn this on. Do not be confused
[3:57] with auto run. Auto run means that if
[3:59] you push your stick forwards twice, you
[4:01] can take your hands off the sticks and
[4:02] it's just going to run for you. I
[4:03] wouldn't recommend this though because
[4:05] it works even if you move forwards and
[4:07] backwards. So, if I go forwards back
[4:08] forwards, well now I'm running forwards.
[4:11] Not good. If you're on high ground and
[4:12] you're trying to like peek someone like
[4:14] this, you're going to fall off by
[4:15] accident. Now, other movement settings
[4:17] that we'll quickly cover as well, make
[4:18] sure that you change your jetpack/guide
[4:21] control from toggle over to hold. Now,
[4:24] if you don't have a controller that has
[4:26] paddles on the back of it or if you're
[4:28] not playing a button layout that allows
[4:31] you to keep your thumbs on the sticks at
[4:32] all times, then at that point, just stay
[4:35] on toggle. But if you do have a pro
[4:37] controller, a Scuf, an Elite, an Aim
[4:39] controller like me, make sure that you
[4:40] play on hold. It's just going to give
[4:42] you so many more options as to what
[4:44] types of movement mechanics you can do
[4:45] because, believe it or not, actually
[4:46] playing on toggle takes away some of the
[4:49] options that you're able to play. Now,
[4:50] another mechanic that we're going to
[4:51] quickly cover here is mantle boost
[4:52] activation. Make sure that this is
[4:54] changed from off over to jump, and your
[4:57] mantle boost UI, this does not matter at
[4:59] all. Now, for controller players, inside
[5:01] of your button layout, you're either
[5:03] going to want to make sure that you're
[5:04] playing on Ninja, Evolved, or you're
[5:06] playing on Default. At the end of the
[5:08] day, the only thing that matters is that
[5:10] you're able to keep your thumbs on the
[5:11] sticks while still being able to jump
[5:13] and still being able to crouch. Your Y
[5:15] button or like your your um holster and
[5:18] unholster or swap weapon is also pretty
[5:20] important to have on a paddle if
[5:22] possible. And if you were to play
[5:23] something like Ninja, you can see you
[5:25] can still crouch and jump, it moves it
[5:26] over to your bumpers, but it just it
[5:28] doesn't fix that Y input or that
[5:30] triangle input. And this is a really
[5:32] important input for movement. So, my
[5:34] suggestions, Ninja's the best, Evolved
[5:36] is the second best if you don't have a
[5:38] pro controller, and having a pro
[5:40] controller is the overall best option.
[5:42] You're going to bind your top left
[5:44] paddle to crouch, your top right paddle
[5:46] to jump, your bottom left paddle to swap
[5:49] weapons, and then your bottom right
[5:51] paddle, you're going to bind to
[5:52] interact/reload.
[5:54] Now, for controller players as well, if
[5:56] you do have a pro controller or if
[5:58] you're playing on one of those button
[5:59] layouts that lets you keep your thumb on
[6:00] the sticks while you're crouching, make
[6:02] sure that you play with your crouch on
[6:04] hold. This is going to make it so that
[6:06] you can do some of the movement
[6:07] mechanics that we're going to talk about
[6:08] later in this video. If you play on
[6:10] toggle, you can still pretty much do
[6:12] everything, it's just going to be a lot
[6:15] harder. Basically, you're going to have
[6:16] to input double the amount of inputs. It
[6:19] really does make and break how smooth
[6:21] and how consistent your movement
[6:22] mechanics can be. I cannot stress this
[6:24] enough. For a game like Apex, you really
[6:27] want to make sure that you have a
[6:28] controller that has four paddles on the
[6:29] back. It's not a necessity, it's just in
[6:31] terms of movement, you're not going to
[6:33] have good movement unless you're playing
[6:36] with the ability to be hitting all these
[6:38] buttons while keeping your thumbs on the
[6:40] sticks. Now that we got all of our
[6:41] movement settings figured out, now we
[6:43] can go and hop on into what we're
[6:45] actually going to talk about. An
[6:46] honorable mention to some movement
[6:48] mechanics before we actually get
[6:50] started. The first thing that we're
[6:51] going to work on, but this does not
[6:52] count as one of the five things that
[6:54] we're going to learn today, is walking
[6:56] on an angle. Now, in a lot of different
[6:58] games, you can move in obviously in all
[7:00] directions, right? Like you can move
[7:01] your stick in a circle, you can run on
[7:04] an angle, right? You can move forwards,
[7:06] backwards, left, and right. But in Apex,
[7:08] Apex takes movement mechanics to the
[7:10] next level. And one of the reasons why
[7:12] is because when you sprint typically in
[7:15] other video games, other than maybe Call
[7:17] of Duty with the new Omni movement, you
[7:18] can only sprint moving forwards. And
[7:20] this is a this is an issue that I have
[7:21] with Marathon right now is that if you
[7:23] sprint in Marathon, you can only sprint
[7:25] running forwards. But in Apex, you can
[7:27] also sprint on 45° angle. And this may
[7:31] not seem like a big thing, but it really
[7:34] is, especially when you start adding
[7:36] slide jumps and other movement mechanics
[7:38] into your movement. So, for starters,
[7:40] something that you want to get
[7:41] comfortable with is moving your body to
[7:44] where your body needs to be, but looking
[7:45] in the direction that you want to be
[7:47] looking. And a really easy way that you
[7:49] can practice this is pretending that you
[7:51] have an enemy out over here in the
[7:53] distance. Now, you obviously need to run
[7:55] around the track if you want to go and
[7:57] get to where this person is right on
[7:59] over here. But the issue while you're
[8:01] doing that is that you're not actually
[8:02] looking at your objective. You're not
[8:04] actually looking at your opponents. So,
[8:06] what we want to practice is moving in
[8:08] the direction that we want to go over
[8:09] here, but looking in the direction that
[8:11] our opponents are. And now, as I'm
[8:13] working my way over, I'm constantly
[8:15] looking at what's going on. This is also
[8:17] very useful once we start getting into
[8:19] movement mechanics around objects. A lot
[8:22] of people what they'll make the mistake
[8:23] of doing is, okay, I have somebody right
[8:24] over here. I'm holding him, I'm shooting
[8:26] at him. Okay, I want to push him. What
[8:28] people end up doing is they run into the
[8:30] open. They turn away from their
[8:32] opponent, and then they look at him
[8:34] late. They expose themselves and step
[8:36] into the open, and they see the person
[8:38] once they've already extended all the
[8:40] way out here. Instead, what we're going
[8:41] to do is we're just going to run. We're
[8:43] going to sprint moving around that
[8:45] object like this. As I go to push, I'm
[8:48] going to sprint sideways. I'm basically
[8:50] going to slide jump on an angle out of
[8:54] my cover, and then from there, we'll add
[8:56] other mechanics that will help us
[8:58] redirect into the direction that we want
[8:59] to go. When I'm coming around this
[9:01] corner right here, I'm not going to turn
[9:03] like this. Instead, what I'm going to do
[9:05] is I'm going to be looking at the corner
[9:07] so that I can see what's on the other
[9:08] side as soon as I actually get to the
[9:11] corner. Almost like I'm side stepping
[9:13] into it as opposed to that. It's a huge
[9:15] difference. It's going to make your
[9:17] movement feel so much smoother, and it's
[9:19] going to help you stay a lot more aware
[9:20] as well as you're running around the
[9:22] map. Last tidbit, swinging into
[9:24] buildings as well because you can run on
[9:27] a 45° angle. Any mechanic that uses a
[9:30] sprinting mechanic, like for example, a
[9:32] slide, is not a walk and a crouch, it's
[9:35] a sprint and a crouch. So, this means
[9:38] that you can actually sprint on an
[9:39] angle. If I have somebody in this room
[9:41] right here, I can actually sprint and
[9:43] slide into the room without ever
[9:46] actually taking my eyes off of where
[9:48] that person's going to be. So, if I know
[9:50] that there's a door over here, I can
[9:51] basically pre-aim that door and slide in
[9:54] and start fighting him. If I know that
[9:55] he's playing right around this corner
[9:56] right here, I can slide in already
[9:58] looking at where I want to look. It's a
[10:00] very basic mechanic, but it's an
[10:02] insanely important one. Now, the next
[10:03] thing that we're going to work on is an
[10:04] advanced version of a slide. This is
[10:07] something I talk a lot about in all of
[10:08] my movement videos and all of my
[10:10] coaching videos here on YouTube. All a
[10:11] slide is at the end of the day is a
[10:13] sprint, run, and a crouch. And one of
[10:15] the reasons why we made sure we turn
[10:16] auto sprint on or always sprint was so
[10:19] that we never have to input sprint to
[10:21] get into a slide. Now, you just push
[10:23] your stick and crouch. Push your stick
[10:24] and crouch. Push your stick and crouch.
[10:26] Really, really easy. Something that you
[10:28] need to know about sliding though is
[10:30] that you can only slide so much before
[10:32] you get what's known as a dead slide. A
[10:35] dead slide in Apex is when you get these
[10:37] half slides where you don't really go
[10:38] fast and you don't really go far. And
[10:40] this is due to a mechanic called slide
[10:42] fatigue. Slide fatigue, jump fatigue,
[10:44] and bullet fatigue are all mechanics in
[10:47] the game that affect your movement. They
[10:49] basically keep you from being able to do
[10:51] the thing that you want to do. So, if
[10:53] you're sliding in Apex, you need to make
[10:55] sure that once you hit slide, you stand
[10:57] up, you wait at least 2 seconds. Slide,
[11:01] 1 Mississippi, 2.
[11:03] Didn't work. Slide, 1 Mississippi, 2
[11:06] Mississippi, 1 Mississippi, 2
[11:08] Mississippi, 1 Mississippi, 2
[11:10] Mississippi, 1 Mississippi, 2
[11:11] Mississippi, 1 Mississippi. All right?
[11:14] If you do anything shorter than that,
[11:15] you're going to get slide fatigue and
[11:17] then you're not going to be able to move
[11:18] around the way that you want to. So,
[11:20] keep that in mind. If you're going to
[11:21] hit a slide, 1 Mississippi, 2.
[11:23] Hit another slide. 1 Mississippi, 2. Hit
[11:26] another slide. Now, building off of just
[11:28] what limits you from sliding, the next
[11:30] thing that we're going to do is we're
[11:30] actually going to take our slides to the
[11:32] next level. What a lot of people may or
[11:33] may not know is that when you run with
[11:35] your gun in your hand, you run way
[11:37] slower than compared to when you holster
[11:38] your weapon. So, an overall Apex
[11:40] movement mechanic that you're going to
[11:41] make sure that you do when your goal is
[11:43] to move your body. Right now, I'm
[11:44] shooting. Oh, I broke him, but now I
[11:46] want to push. If my goal is to move, the
[11:48] weapon always goes down. It's going to
[11:51] help you start pushing faster simply
[11:53] because you run faster. But, it doesn't
[11:55] just affect your running speed. It
[11:58] really affects your slides. If I have my
[11:59] gun in my hand and I want to take a
[12:01] slide, because I'm running slower, my
[12:03] slides are slower. Because my slides are
[12:05] slower, they don't go as far. And
[12:06] because my gun is in my hand, I need to
[12:08] take more time to build up enough speed
[12:11] before I can actually input that slide.
[12:14] Here's what I mean. If I take, let's
[12:15] just say, two steps, 1 2, I'm going to
[12:18] get a dead slide where I get stuck in a
[12:19] crouch and nothing happens. If I take
[12:21] one step,
[12:22] nothing happens. If I take three steps,
[12:24] 1 2 3, the slide finally works. And this
[12:28] is very limiting. A lot of the time
[12:29] you're going to be playing cover, you're
[12:30] going to be peeking in an L, you're
[12:32] pre-firing, you're holding someone, but
[12:33] now you want to push. 1 2. Oh, I am
[12:37] stuck in the open. Now I'm getting shot
[12:39] at. Now I'm dead. So, the way that you
[12:41] get around this is simply holstering
[12:43] your gun. Now that your gun's holstered,
[12:45] all you have to do is take one step and
[12:47] you're instantly into that slide. One
[12:49] step, you're instantly in the slide.
[12:51] Just make sure you take one full step.
[12:53] If you crouch too soon, you'll still get
[12:55] that dead slide. So, take one full step
[12:57] and the slide will work. Now, this is
[12:59] what's known as a quick slide or an
[13:01] instant slide. But, we can take this up
[13:03] a notch. Obviously, holstering the gun
[13:05] helps you move faster, helps you move
[13:06] more consistently, but it introduced an
[13:09] issue for us. My gun's put away, so when
[13:11] I go to slide and fight somebody,
[13:14] well, I can't. My gun's holstered. So,
[13:16] instead what we're going to do is we are
[13:18] going to abuse what is known as an
[13:21] advanced slide. And what this does is it
[13:23] basically exploits how long it takes for
[13:26] your weapon to come out and how long it
[13:28] takes for your weapon to get put away.
[13:30] So, I'm going to use my handy-dandy
[13:33] mouse and keyboard device. And what
[13:35] you'll see here
[13:36] is that my holster button, my swap
[13:39] weapon button, and my holster button are
[13:41] on my side mouse. For a controller
[13:43] player, this will be your Y button or
[13:45] your triangle button. Um or if you play
[13:46] with a paddle, it will just be on your
[13:48] paddles. So, my swap weapon and my
[13:50] holster. So, what we want to do here is
[13:53] look at the center dot in the middle of
[13:55] your screen. When you hit swap weapon
[13:57] and you take out your primary or your
[13:59] secondary weapon, what you'll notice is
[14:01] that the dot, the time it takes for you
[14:03] to go input and then the crosshair to
[14:04] change, takes about half of a second.
[14:07] That half second goes both ways. If my
[14:09] gun's put down, so I'm priming my body
[14:12] to move fast, and then I unholster my
[14:14] weapon, for half of a second, I'll still
[14:16] move as if my weapon was put away. If my
[14:18] weapon's in a hand and I holster,
[14:20] for half of a second, my legend's going
[14:22] to move like my weapon is still in my
[14:24] hand. So, if it takes half of a second
[14:26] to go from moving fast to moving slow or
[14:28] moving slow to moving fast, this means
[14:30] that if I'm holstering my gun to make
[14:33] myself move faster and now I have the
[14:35] ability to instant slide, quick slide,
[14:38] well then when I go unholster, for half
[14:41] of a second, I'll still have that
[14:42] ability. So, what I'm going to do is I'm
[14:44] going to go holster. I'm going to wait
[14:45] half of a second for my gun to fully get
[14:47] put down. And then I'm going to go
[14:48] unholster, take that one step, and
[14:50] crouch to get into that instant slide.
[14:52] Holster, half second pause, let the gun
[14:54] go down. Unholster slide. Holster pause.
[14:57] Unholster slide. Holster pause.
[14:59] Unholster slide. Holster pause.
[15:01] Unholster slide. And now what you can
[15:03] see is your gun is in your hand while
[15:05] you enter that slide jump. So, now let's
[15:07] combine that with knowing that there's a
[15:09] person around the corner and being able
[15:11] to use that 45° slide. I know he's
[15:13] around the corner. Unholster slide.
[15:16] I'm swinging with my weapon in my hand.
[15:18] I'm playing this corner nice and tight.
[15:20] I'm peeking. I'm holding him. I swap to
[15:22] my secondary. Holster unholster.
[15:25] I'm pushing in with my secondary. I have
[15:26] somebody around the corner here. Holster
[15:27] unholster. I'm swinging out. Forcing
[15:29] that fight on him. Oh, I'm stuck in the
[15:30] open. I don't like this. Holster
[15:32] unholster. Slide back. Oh, I like this.
[15:34] Holster unholster. Slide in. This is
[15:36] what is the probably most important
[15:38] mechanic for you to learn if you want to
[15:40] start taking your gameplay to the next
[15:41] level. Because this is how you play
[15:43] aggressive. This is how you play fast.
[15:45] This is how you play consistent in your
[15:47] positioning. Being able to quickly get
[15:50] yourself into a new position or into a
[15:53] fight or out of a fight while still
[15:56] having your gun in your hand. Very, very
[15:59] underrated mechanic. You have to learn
[16:01] this. Now, there are other ways to
[16:03] slide. So, this is going to be the
[16:04] second version of a slide that we want
[16:05] to incorporate into our gameplay. This
[16:07] is the jump slide. A traditional slide
[16:09] requires you to be moving forward,
[16:11] whether it's on a 45° angle or whether
[16:13] it be completely forward. And it
[16:14] requires you to sprint forward,
[16:16] crouch,
[16:17] or sprint forward crouch. But, what
[16:20] we're going to do instead is we're going
[16:21] to remove the need to sprint. It's going
[16:24] to be a little bit slower because, well,
[16:26] you're not sprinting and you're not
[16:27] giving yourself all this extra speed via
[16:30] the sprint, but it's going to allow you
[16:33] to get into a slide a little bit easier.
[16:35] This is what's known as a jump slide. A
[16:37] jump slide is you taking a step in any
[16:40] direction jumping
[16:43] and landing in a crouch. So, my crouch
[16:45] is this left control. I don't know why
[16:47] my tab was being held. My crouch is left
[16:49] control and I play hold to crouch. What
[16:51] I'm going to do here is I'm going to
[16:53] step, jump, and then hold my crouch and
[16:55] enter into crouch. You can also play
[16:57] toggle crouch. So, my my toggle is C.
[17:01] For people who don't have paddles, then
[17:02] you would just use toggle crouch on your
[17:04] B or on whatever button you have it
[17:06] bound to. And what you're going to do
[17:07] here is you're just going to go step in
[17:08] any direction, step jump into a crouch.
[17:11] Step jump into a crouch. Step jump into
[17:15] a crouch. Step jump into a crouch. And
[17:18] this is a really easy way to get
[17:20] yourself quickly into a slide. So, if
[17:22] I'm right here and someone is pushing
[17:24] me, instead of holstering and
[17:26] unholstering, which takes time to set up
[17:28] and it takes effort to execute, instead
[17:30] what I can do is I can just jump into
[17:33] that slide. Step jump into a slide. Step
[17:36] jump into a slide. But, as you see, it's
[17:38] not as fast or as aggressive. It's just
[17:41] a little bit easier to get your body
[17:43] moving in a situation where maybe you
[17:46] don't have the time or the room to do
[17:47] that. It's also really helpful because
[17:49] it does work in any direction. So, as
[17:51] I'm fighting somebody and he's pushing
[17:52] me, I don't have to turn away as I slide
[17:56] back. If he's pushing me, well, I can
[17:57] just step into cover and then I can
[17:59] slide jump backwards or jump slide,
[18:02] rather. I'm playing cover right here and
[18:04] somebody's pushing my side, well, I can
[18:07] jump to the side and get away. Someone's
[18:09] pushing me right here, I can come to the
[18:12] side and reposition over here. So, jump
[18:15] slides are a very nice and easy way to
[18:18] get yourself moving in a situation where
[18:21] maybe you don't have enough time or you
[18:22] don't have enough room. Now that we are
[18:24] jumping though, now it's time to start
[18:26] adding our second movement mechanic,
[18:28] which is all about jumping. Or rather,
[18:30] it's a way to redirect your body's
[18:32] momentum while you're in the air from a
[18:35] jump. So, in Apex, if you were to run
[18:37] and jump, it's going to lock your
[18:39] momentum into that direction. If I run
[18:41] jump and turn to the side, well, I'm
[18:42] going to keep moving forwards. If I'm
[18:44] moving sideways and then I turn around,
[18:46] well, I'm going to keep moving in that
[18:47] sideways direction. And for controller
[18:49] players or and mouse and keyboard
[18:50] players, it's a very limiting. Imagine I
[18:52] want to slide out here, but halfway
[18:54] through my jump, I realize, "Ooh, I
[18:55] don't really want to be here. I actually
[18:57] needed to be over here instead." Or I
[18:59] needed to actually come back instead.
[19:01] This is when a mechanic known as an air
[19:03] strafe or a lurch mechanic is very, very
[19:07] helpful. Air strafing is when you jump
[19:10] into the air and you use a directional
[19:12] input, whether it be your A and your D
[19:14] keys or whether it be your analog stick
[19:16] on your controller. You're going to run
[19:17] jump and you're going to hold that stick
[19:20] sideways while you turn your camera into
[19:23] that direction. And as you can see, I
[19:25] strafed
[19:26] off of where I originally was walking.
[19:28] So, as you're coming around a corner,
[19:30] you can strafe to cut that corner. If
[19:32] I'm slide jumping, I don't have to slide
[19:34] jump and then be stuck out here, I can
[19:36] use an air strafe
[19:38] and slide What the heck? And slide jump
[19:41] and pull my body over here. Maybe I'm
[19:42] trying to get to that box over there.
[19:45] I can slide jump and then strafe my body
[19:48] into this direction. And again, all it
[19:49] is is giving yourself momentum in one
[19:51] direction, so it can be sideways,
[19:53] forwards, or backwards. And once you're
[19:56] moving that direction, jump to put
[19:59] yourself into the air and let your
[20:00] momentum carry you forward, and then
[20:02] turn your analog sticks to the same side
[20:06] and push yourself into that direction.
[20:08] Now, it's really important to note on
[20:10] mouse and keyboard, this mechanic is a
[20:12] lot more aggressive than it is on
[20:13] controller. Your air strafes will not
[20:16] look nearly as strong as mine. And
[20:19] that's just because if there's a big
[20:20] difference between roller and M&K
[20:22] movement mechanics. Something to do with
[20:23] how the game is coded, but you can still
[20:25] do this, just not to the same degree.
[20:27] Now, this next version of this is going
[20:29] to take this to the next level. And this
[20:31] is what's known as a tap strafe. And
[20:32] this is mouse and keyboard exclusive. A
[20:34] tap strafe is the same idea. If holding
[20:37] a key or pushing or hitting a key is
[20:40] going to push myself into that
[20:42] direction, then rapidly hitting that key
[20:45] while I'm in the air is going to keep
[20:47] pushing me forwards
[20:49] or keep pushing me into whatever
[20:51] direction that I'm turning my body. And
[20:53] what this basically looks like is this.
[20:55] I'm going to run jump, and I'm basically
[20:56] going to jump off and redirect my body
[20:59] backwards. Maybe I go and I come over
[21:01] here and I hit something like a wall
[21:02] jump,
[21:04] and then I come all the way back. So,
[21:05] I'm throwing my body off of the edge,
[21:08] and but I'm coming back by using that
[21:10] air strafe mechanic. Now, this is known
[21:12] as a tap strafe, and the way that this
[21:14] works is by using lurching mechanics. A
[21:16] lurch is a directional input in any
[21:19] direction on your keyboard. So, if I
[21:20] jump and I start hitting forwards, I'll
[21:22] move forwards. If I jump and I start
[21:23] hitting sideways, move sideways.
[21:25] Backwards, I'll move backwards. What
[21:26] we're going to do is we're going to
[21:27] practice running, jumping, and letting
[21:30] go of our W key. So, to make this really
[21:32] work, we're going to head over into our
[21:34] mouse and keyboard settings. We're going
[21:35] to come on over to key two for our move
[21:37] forward, and we're going to bind that to
[21:39] scroll wheel forwards. By binding this
[21:41] to scroll wheel forwards, now when I
[21:43] scroll forwards, what's going to happen
[21:45] is I'm going to move forwards ever so
[21:47] slightly, cuz it's spamming that
[21:49] forwards input over and over again. Now,
[21:51] what we're going to do is we're going to
[21:52] give ourselves momentum. We're going to
[21:53] jump to keep that momentum in the air.
[21:56] And with that momentum, you're going to
[21:58] jump, you're going to turn, and because
[22:00] tap strafing pushes you into whatever
[22:02] direction you're looking, by turning
[22:04] your body while spamming forwards with
[22:06] your scroll wheel, it will turn you into
[22:08] that direction. So, I'm going to run,
[22:10] jump, turn, and scroll. Run, jump, turn,
[22:12] and scroll. Now, what's really important
[22:14] to know about this is when you run jump,
[22:17] you need to let go of W key. Because
[22:19] your forward input is coming from the
[22:21] scroll wheel, not from the W. If you're
[22:23] holding W, it's going to prioritize the
[22:25] W over the scrolling input. So,
[22:28] practice, run, jump, let go. Run, jump,
[22:31] let go. Run, jump, let go. And once you
[22:33] get comfortable with this, then you can
[22:35] jump, turn, and scroll. Practice
[22:37] starting off with 45s or 90° turns. And
[22:41] as you get sharper and sharper, then
[22:43] start practicing with very specific
[22:44] turns. 180s, 45s, 20s, so on so forth.
[22:49] Now, two more things that you need to
[22:51] know about tap strafing. You only have
[22:53] up to 0.4 seconds to finish your turn.
[22:57] Meaning, from the time that you jump,
[22:59] you now have 0.4 seconds to go from here
[23:02] to here or here to here or here to here.
[23:05] So, when you jump, make sure that
[23:07] jumping is the same input as you
[23:11] starting to turn your mouse. You don't
[23:13] want to jump and then turn your mouse
[23:15] late, because you just wasted the first
[23:17] half of that 0.4 seconds. You want to
[23:19] make sure that you run, jump, and turn
[23:21] right away. Run, jump, and start turning
[23:24] with your jump. Turn with the jump. Turn
[23:26] with the jump. Turn with the jump. The
[23:28] second thing that's important to know,
[23:29] you have to be scrolling the entire time
[23:31] that you're turning. So, if you have a
[23:33] really short turn, you can have a very
[23:35] quick scroll. If you have a very big,
[23:37] long turn, you're going to have to have
[23:39] a slower scroll, because you need to be
[23:41] scrolling the entire time that you're
[23:44] turning. Otherwise, there's nothing
[23:46] that's going to keep pushing you
[23:47] forward, and what it will start looking
[23:49] like is it just kind of stops. You just
[23:51] don't really turn as much anymore, and
[23:52] you don't go as far as you want. Now, we
[23:54] can also take tap strafing up a notch
[23:56] one more time. We can add either an A or
[23:58] a D input to this mechanic. So, as I'm
[24:01] running, if I jump and I hit A, or if
[24:03] I'm running, I jump and I hit D, you can
[24:05] see it throws you off of where you're
[24:07] starting from. Very aggressively, too.
[24:10] So, if tap strafing works to redirect
[24:13] your body into whatever direction that
[24:15] you want to turn, and by the way, you
[24:17] can do this with You can do this with a
[24:18] walk. You can do this with a sprint.
[24:22] Or you can do this with a slide jump.
[24:23] Anything that puts you into the air at
[24:26] any speeds this will work. But if tap
[24:28] strafing is what changes your body's
[24:32] momentum, then we can use A and D to
[24:34] make our bodies move even that much more
[24:36] aggressively. And this is where movement
[24:38] starts to get pretty advanced. So, for
[24:39] example, let's just say I want to do a
[24:42] tap strafe, but when I turn around, I
[24:45] want to be landing on the other side of
[24:48] this wall. If I do a tap strafe
[24:50] and then 180, well, it's going to put me
[24:52] exactly where I started.
[24:55] Exactly where I came from. Because it
[24:57] pushes you in the direction that you're
[24:59] looking. But if hitting D is going to
[25:01] throw me on the other side of this wall,
[25:03] I can run, jump, and hit D
[25:06] to put myself behind the wall, and then
[25:09] I can tap strafe to bring myself back
[25:12] into the wall. And this is what it
[25:13] starts to look like. I'll do it on this
[25:14] side over here. I'm a little bit more
[25:15] comfortable with my left side. I'm going
[25:17] to jump, I'm going to hit A or I'm going
[25:20] to hold A,
[25:23] and now it's going to throw me on the
[25:24] opposite side. So, I can use this to run
[25:28] away, jump, and come back. I can use
[25:30] this to
[25:32] get into a wall jump on the opposite
[25:34] side of something. Or, I can also just
[25:36] use this in a very basic fashion, and
[25:39] I'm simply going to use it to cut the
[25:41] corner quicker and harder. Hitting A is
[25:44] going to push me out, and the tap strafe
[25:46] is going to bring me around the corner
[25:48] and back over here. And now, let's pair
[25:51] that with some of the other mechanics
[25:52] that we've talked about. Let's pair that
[25:54] with the holster on holster slide or the
[25:56] advanced slide. Holster
[25:58] on holster slide cut around the corner.
[26:00] Holster on holster tap strafe around the
[26:02] corner. Now, let's add wall jumps and
[26:06] different versions of wall jumps to our
[26:07] gameplay. Wall jumps are a cool mechanic
[26:09] that will pop you off of the wall and
[26:11] throw you into a direction of your
[26:13] choice. I can use a wall jump and pop
[26:15] off to the left. I can use a wall jump
[26:17] and pop off to the right. I can use a
[26:19] wall jump and pop straight back. Or, I
[26:21] can even use a wall jump and pop
[26:22] straight up into the air and use it to
[26:24] skip the climbing animation of climbing
[26:26] over this big tall wall like that. A
[26:29] wall jump is very, very simple. All it
[26:33] is is any mechanic that will bring you
[26:35] towards the wall. So, I can use things
[26:38] like a walk. This brings me to the wall.
[26:40] I can use something like a sprint. This
[26:42] brings me to the wall. I can use a
[26:44] slide. Or, I can use a slide jump. All
[26:47] of these bring me towards the wall. The
[26:49] second step is jumping. You're going to
[26:52] bring yourself to the wall and jump into
[26:54] the mantle. Mantle is when you are stuck
[26:57] to the wall. You are connected to that
[27:00] wall.
[27:01] Like a spider monkey. And depending on
[27:03] what mechanic you use to bring yourself
[27:05] to the wall, for example, a slide jump
[27:07] versus a run
[27:09] versus a fatigue jump,
[27:13] it will all give you a different
[27:15] outcome. So, the two outcomes that we're
[27:17] going to look for or the two versions
[27:18] that we're going to talk about are the
[27:20] slide jump
[27:22] and the fatigue jump. These are probably
[27:25] the two most common and most useful wall
[27:27] jump versions. So, the slide jump is
[27:29] going to be you simply sliding towards
[27:33] the wall. And you're going to use the
[27:35] jump from the slide jump to stick you
[27:38] into the mantle. Run, slide, jump, and
[27:41] stick into a mantle. Now that you're in
[27:43] the mantle, all you're going to do
[27:45] is hit jump again. So, I'm going to go
[27:47] run, slide, jump into the mantle, jump
[27:50] off. Run, slide, jump into the mantle,
[27:52] jump off. Now, what's really important
[27:54] here is that you make sure that you
[27:57] don't do anything other than jumping
[28:00] once you hit the wall. If you push
[28:02] forward, you're no longer mantled to the
[28:05] wall where you're stuck there, you're
[28:07] instead climbing the wall, which is a
[28:09] totally different mechanic. If you pull
[28:11] backwards, it will instantly kick you
[28:13] off the wall, and you won't be able to
[28:15] get that pop into the air. And if you
[28:17] hold sideways, well, this will works
[28:19] perfectly fine, but if you're
[28:22] accidentally pulling up on your analog
[28:24] stick or on your keyboard by hitting W,
[28:27] well, now you're in a wall climb, not in
[28:30] a wall mantle. If you accidentally pull
[28:33] your stick sideways, but you pull it
[28:34] back, it kicks you off the wall
[28:36] instantly. And now you can't wall jump
[28:38] anymore. So, it's a good practice for
[28:40] you to simply just slide jump, let go of
[28:43] everything and let yourself smack into
[28:45] the wall and stick there. Once you get
[28:47] comfortable with that, then just add the
[28:49] jump input afterwards. From here, you
[28:52] can start doing this on different
[28:53] angles. You can slide jump on an angle
[28:56] moving towards the wall. You can start
[28:58] hitting wall jumps moving parallel to
[29:00] the wall. You can do wall jumps heading
[29:02] straight onto the wall. Or, you can
[29:04] start doing
[29:05] advanced movement with your tap strafes
[29:08] and using your tap strafes to bring
[29:10] yourself towards the wall so that you
[29:13] can get stuck into that mantle. The only
[29:15] thing that matters when you're doing
[29:16] wall jumps on different angles is that
[29:18] you have a mechanic that brings you to
[29:20] the wall. So, before we were using slide
[29:21] jumps, but if I'm moving parallel to the
[29:23] wall, what is going to actually bring me
[29:26] to the wall so that I can stick to it?
[29:28] Well, I can tap strafe into the wall. I
[29:31] can change my angle slightly
[29:35] and slide jump on an angle so that the
[29:37] angle brings me towards the wall. I can
[29:41] walk sideways, jump, and face the wall.
[29:43] I can move backwards, jump, and face the
[29:45] wall. As long as you're doing something
[29:47] that will change your body's direction
[29:50] and land you into that mantle. The
[29:53] second thing that's really important to
[29:54] know about this is that you can only
[29:56] mantle a wall if you're actually facing
[29:58] it. So, I can face a wall up to 45°. It
[30:02] But, once I break that 45°, nothing
[30:05] happens. You just smash into it. You
[30:07] just rub yourself all over it. You
[30:09] change that a little bit. Now, you're
[30:10] looking at 45°. Well, now you can
[30:11] actually interact with that wall. Even
[30:13] though you're not looking completely
[30:15] forwards. So, what I might do a lot of
[30:17] the time is I'll either Let's just say
[30:19] I'm coming at the wall. Instead of
[30:21] running straight forward at the wall and
[30:22] jumping, I might come in at an angle.
[30:24] Now, this angle is still 45°. So, I'm
[30:26] good. I might come in even steeper
[30:28] outside of 45°. But, the slide jump will
[30:31] still bring me into the wall, right? The
[30:34] angle will still connect me with the
[30:35] wall. I'll just have to turn and face it
[30:38] when I touch the wall. So, I'm going to
[30:39] slide jump really steep, face the wall,
[30:42] jump off.
[30:43] Face the wall, jump off.
[30:45] Face the wall, jump off. Face the wall,
[30:47] jump off. Like that. And again, as you
[30:49] get more and more comfortable, then you
[30:51] can start adding other stuff to it,
[30:53] other mechanics to it. One of the ones
[30:55] that I mentioned was you can tap strafe
[30:57] to bring yourself into the wall. So, if
[30:58] I'm running parallel to the wall, I can
[31:01] either air strafe into it or I can
[31:04] tap strafe into it. So, if you're a
[31:06] controller player, you can actually run
[31:08] parallel to a wall.
[31:10] You just have to bring your stick
[31:12] sideways once you jump so that you can
[31:15] strafe into that wall. Jump and strafe
[31:18] into the wall, like that. Now, the next
[31:20] type of wall jump is a fatigue wall
[31:22] jump. And a fatigue wall jump is when we
[31:23] replace the slide jump with a fatigue
[31:28] jump.
[31:29] Now, I'm going to go in third person
[31:30] here. Pay attention to my right knee. If
[31:33] I jump, you can see that my right knee
[31:36] comes well above this box right here.
[31:38] Comes right over top of this corner.
[31:40] Now, watch what happens if I jump too
[31:42] close to my original jump. You can You
[31:45] can see that now I don't jump as high.
[31:47] And if I jump too fast, my body doesn't
[31:50] really come off the ground at all. If I
[31:51] wait a little bit longer, and a little
[31:53] bit longer, well, now my body starts to
[31:55] recover. This is what's known as jump
[31:58] fatigue. Similar to slide fatigue where
[31:59] if you slide and then you slide too
[32:01] soon, you get these really half-assed
[32:04] slides.
[32:05] It's the same thing with jumping. If I
[32:06] jump and then I jump again
[32:08] or if I spam jump, your body is now
[32:11] fatigued and it can't jump as high. So,
[32:13] what a fatigue jump is is jumping to
[32:16] fatigue your body. And then while your
[32:18] body's fatigued, you're going to jump
[32:21] into that mantle. Jump to fatigue, jump
[32:23] into a mantle. Jump to fatigue, jump
[32:25] into the mantle. Now, fatigue lasts for
[32:27] as long as your feet are displaced. So,
[32:30] you can see when I jump, my feet go wide
[32:32] and then they come back shifted. Wide,
[32:35] shifted. 1 Mississippi 2. 1 Mississippi
[32:38] 2. That count, that timing is how long
[32:41] you're fatigued for. So, I can jump from
[32:44] way back over here. I can jump from
[32:47] right over here. But, if I can't bring
[32:49] myself to the wall before I wear off my
[32:52] fatigue, I'm not going to get that big
[32:54] pop into the air. Instead, I'm no longer
[32:57] fatigued, I'm going to get a push back
[33:00] and down into the ground. So, if I'm way
[33:02] back over here, I can slide jump towards
[33:05] the wall. And you see how it got me
[33:07] close here? Well, now that I'm here
[33:09] while I'm fatigued, I can jump on, jump
[33:11] off. Slide jump to fatigue, jump on,
[33:13] jump off. Slide jump, jump on, jump off.
[33:17] I can walk it. Jump to fatigue, jump on,
[33:20] jump off. I can sprint. Jump to fatigue,
[33:23] jump on, jump off. As long as you are
[33:25] fatigued while you jump into that
[33:28] mantle. Jump to fatigue, jump mantle,
[33:31] jump off, you'll get that pop up into
[33:33] the air. Now, why would you want to hit
[33:35] a fatigue wall jump? Well, the slide
[33:37] jump wall jump requires you to sprint.
[33:39] The slide jump wall jump also requires
[33:42] you to jump from further back. So, this
[33:44] area that I'm wall jumping off of,
[33:45] there's a reason why I'm here. This
[33:47] shadow is where you're trying to jump
[33:50] from if you're slide jumping. Slide jump
[33:53] off that shadow, that's where you want
[33:54] to jump from. If you jump past that
[33:57] shadow,
[33:58] you see how I don't connect to the wall
[34:00] anymore?
[34:02] I'm not mantling like I was before.
[34:05] Mantle.
[34:07] No mantle. Well, if you were to do a
[34:09] slide jump wall jump, not only do you
[34:11] need to give yourself enough speed to
[34:13] get into a slide, but you also need
[34:15] enough distance between you and the wall
[34:17] to be able to actually input that wall
[34:19] jump. If I'm right here, there's really
[34:21] not that much that I can do to get
[34:23] myself into that wall jump. I could come
[34:25] around and try to come back in, but that
[34:26] doesn't really work. I could slide out
[34:28] and come back right here. That kind of
[34:30] works, but I can't just go into a wall
[34:33] jump. It's not going to pop me up into
[34:35] the air. So, a fatigue wall jump would
[34:36] be really clutch right now. Jump to
[34:37] fatigue, jump on, jump off. Jump to
[34:40] fatigue, jump on, jump off. I can do a
[34:42] fatigue wall jump from pressed right
[34:44] against the wall.
[34:46] Like that. I can also do a fatigue wall
[34:48] jump from a little bit set back off the
[34:51] wall. Can come from over here, jump on,
[34:53] jump off. I can slide jump towards the
[34:55] wall, use that to fatigue myself, jump
[34:57] on, jump off. And because you don't jump
[35:00] as high, jump all the way over. Spam
[35:02] jump, now I'm barely getting over the
[35:03] box. Because you don't jump as high
[35:05] while you're fatigued, you can use
[35:07] fatigue wall jumps to jump off of
[35:09] objects
[35:12] that are typically too small for you to
[35:14] jump on. Imagine I try to slide jump
[35:16] wall jump this box. I literally go right
[35:18] over top of it. But, that's because when
[35:20] I jump, I go well above it cuz I'm not
[35:22] fatigued yet. If I fatigue myself, now
[35:24] when I jump into the mantle, I can
[35:26] actually interact with this box.
[35:29] You can also use fatigue wall jumps to
[35:31] pop yourself up into the air. So, if I'm
[35:33] pushing my stick forward,
[35:35] I can fatigue wall jump and pop up into
[35:37] the air. And because fatigue wall jumps
[35:39] require you to be fatigued, the last
[35:41] input on a wall jump is jump. So, wall
[35:44] jumps naturally fatigue you, which means
[35:47] if I jump to fatigue, jump on, jump off,
[35:49] I'm fatigued. Jump on, jump off, I'm
[35:52] still fatigued. Jump on, jump off, I'm
[35:54] still fatigued. I can use fatigue wall
[35:56] jumps to chain and pop into a window
[35:59] over
[36:01] and over
[36:02] and over
[36:03] and over
[36:05] until I'm ready and then I can just push
[36:07] into that building. I have somebody
[36:09] right above me right here where maybe
[36:11] there's people who are playing this
[36:12] door. Instead of stepping in and
[36:14] peeking, instead of crossing through the
[36:16] open and getting hit,
[36:17] I can pop over the door.
[36:20] Pop over the door. Pop over the door.
[36:23] Pop over the door. Pop over the door. I
[36:25] can use my wall jump to
[36:28] peek the window, reposition here, peek
[36:31] back in, reposition back, peek back in.
[36:34] I can use my wall jump to throw myself
[36:37] over this gap and get to this ledge
[36:39] right here, right? You can use your wall
[36:41] jumps for so many different things. It
[36:44] is overpowered what you can do with
[36:46] these. So, make sure you put some
[36:47] practice in and you work on them. The
[36:48] next thing that we're going to add to
[36:50] our gameplay is what's known as bunny
[36:52] hops. And bunny hops are really easy,
[36:54] but they take a little bit of practice
[36:56] to get used to. And if you don't have a
[36:58] pro controller, they can be extra
[37:01] difficult to do. So, all the bunny hop
[37:03] is is taking whatever momentum you have
[37:05] when you jump and extending that
[37:07] momentum by adding more and more jumps.
[37:10] Think of it like when you're skipping,
[37:12] right? You're skipping down a sidewalk.
[37:13] With every skip by pushing off of the
[37:16] sidewalk, you give yourself momentum.
[37:18] And when you land, you don't come to a
[37:21] stop. Your body is still trying to move
[37:23] yourself forward, you add another skip.
[37:26] So, by pushing off the ground again, you
[37:28] keep all of that momentum. And it's the
[37:30] same thing here, you're basically
[37:31] skipping. When I run and jump,
[37:34] if I don't do anything, I'm just going
[37:35] to hit the ground and I'm going to stop.
[37:36] But, what if I run jump and every time I
[37:39] hit the ground, I jump again? That will
[37:41] extend your momentum indefinitely
[37:46] until you stop jumping. So, what this
[37:48] means is you can slide out on somebody
[37:50] and keep your body moving at the same
[37:52] speed until you don't want to. Now, this
[37:54] works with both standing up. If I run
[37:56] and I jump, that momentum forward can
[37:58] get carried by just continuously
[38:00] jumping. Or, what I can do also is I can
[38:04] hold my slide jumps. I can slide jump
[38:07] and instead of letting all the momentum
[38:09] die out, I can extend my slide jump by
[38:12] using hops to keep myself moving
[38:15] forward. Now, there's a lot of reasons
[38:17] why you might want to do this. Remember
[38:18] earlier I said there's three different
[38:19] things that fatigue you. Slide fatigue,
[38:21] jump fatigue, but also bullet fatigue.
[38:24] Bullet fatigue is when you're running,
[38:25] you get shot. It cancels your sprint and
[38:27] now you're stuck in a walk. Your body's
[38:29] injured, it's tired, it flinches. Bullet
[38:31] fatigue only affects you if you're
[38:33] sprinting, which means if I'm in cover
[38:35] and then I run out into the open and I
[38:37] get shot, I get canceled and now I'm
[38:39] stuck. I can't move the way I want to.
[38:40] So, what I might do is this. I might
[38:42] enter into a slide and then I'll hold my
[38:45] slide by bunny hopping. And because I'm
[38:48] not running,
[38:50] even if I'm getting shot at, it doesn't
[38:52] matter. I'm still in this slide
[38:54] technically and I won't lose any of my
[38:56] momentum. What this basically allows you
[38:58] to do is you can do things that will
[39:00] typically slow you down, like getting
[39:02] shot at, healing yourself, aiming down
[39:04] sight, or shooting your gun.
[39:06] And you can get around moving slow while
[39:09] shooting by inputting a bunny hop
[39:12] and keeping yourself moving at that
[39:14] maximum speed. So, I'm going to input my
[39:15] slide jump to get fast and then I'm
[39:17] going to bunny hop to keep that
[39:18] momentum.
[39:21] Now, you don't need to hold sideways.
[39:23] You don't need to hold forwards or
[39:24] backwards. Once you give yourself
[39:26] momentum, jumping every time you hit the
[39:29] ground is what's going to keep that
[39:31] momentum. Slide jump, jump, jump. Slide
[39:34] jump, jump, jump, jump, jump. So, the
[39:37] way that you want to use this is when
[39:38] you're pushing into a box, use a couple
[39:40] bunny hops to help yourself move a
[39:43] little bit forwards, a little bit
[39:44] further. If you're trying to move
[39:46] through a large open space without
[39:47] taking any damage, then you're going to
[39:49] bunny hop through that space to avoid
[39:52] getting slowed down. If your goal is to
[39:53] keep your body moving fast for some
[39:55] reason, you're going to input bunny hops
[39:57] either on the ground or standing up to
[40:00] keep your body moving. So, I might slide
[40:02] out and then go into a stand and bunny
[40:04] hop across. I might push somebody
[40:06] and bunny hop while I'm pushing into
[40:08] them. It's a really good mechanic for
[40:09] keeping your speed. Now, for controller
[40:11] players, like I said, you want to make
[40:13] sure that your crouch is not on toggle,
[40:15] it's on hold. And the reason why is if
[40:17] you play toggle crouch and you try to
[40:19] jump, crouch, jump. You see how it
[40:22] doesn't put me into a jump? This is very
[40:24] limiting. It means that it's going to be
[40:25] hard for you to actually get into that
[40:27] jump and keep that jump going. If you
[40:28] play hold to crouch, well, you can jump
[40:31] out of the crouch position. Here's
[40:32] another thing, too. If I actually do
[40:34] slide and jump, you see how now my
[40:36] body's in a stand? I have to crouch
[40:38] again so that I can go back into that
[40:40] slide. Slide, jump, back to a crouch
[40:43] jump. Now, I'm basically doing this over
[40:45] and over and over again. I'm basically
[40:47] having to keep spamming crouch every
[40:49] time I jump up into the air. That is a
[40:51] lot of work. But, if you play hold to
[40:52] crouch, you can just hold crouch
[40:56] while you jump around. It makes it very,
[40:57] very easy. So, if you play on M&K, play
[41:00] hold to crouch as your primary way to
[41:02] crouch. If you're on controller, play
[41:04] hold to crouch on your paddles or on
[41:06] your bumpers. You're going to find a lot
[41:07] more success. And lastly, if you're on
[41:08] M&K, bind your scroll down to jump. This
[41:11] is going to make it really easy so that
[41:13] whenever you wall jump, you don't have
[41:16] to time jumping off the wall. You just
[41:19] scroll jump and it will pop you off the
[41:20] wall right away. If you're on the
[41:21] grounds, you don't have to time your
[41:23] jump, you just scroll and it will
[41:25] instantly jump you at the most perfect
[41:28] moment, making it very, very easy. And
[41:30] then you can start using this in
[41:31] combination with your tap strafes, too,
[41:33] if you're on mouse and keyboard as you
[41:34] get more advanced with it. Now, you can
[41:36] tap strafe
[41:38] while you bunny hop
[41:41] and keep changing directions. And here's
[41:42] what that looks like.
[41:48] And then you can start tap strafing out
[41:49] of your wall jumps with it. Tap strafe
[41:50] out of a wall jump into a bunny hop,
[41:53] fatigue yourself, fatigue wall jump, tap
[41:56] strafe back to the wall with a bunny hop
[41:57] to keep your momentum. Very, very cool.
[41:59] Now, the last mechanic is what is known
[42:02] as a super jump. You've probably seen
[42:04] that you can grab and jump off the zip
[42:06] lines. And, you know, this is cool and
[42:08] all, it throws you forward, but it's not
[42:09] nearly as cool as a super jump that
[42:13] launches you off the zip line. A super
[42:15] jump is an interact followed by a double
[42:18] jump. Interact, double jump. And what it
[42:20] basically does is it combines two jumps
[42:22] off of the zip line into one and cannons
[42:25] you across. If you're on mouse and
[42:26] keyboard, the easiest way to do this is
[42:28] by binding your scroll to jump. And then
[42:31] as you interact with the zip line,
[42:33] scroll down to double jump. Interact,
[42:35] scroll down at the same time.
[42:37] Very, very easy. Very, very cool. But,
[42:39] for controller, it's a little bit
[42:40] different. Let me swap over to my
[42:42] controller. Now, I accidentally lost my
[42:44] hand cam or I left my hand cam in the
[42:46] United States. But, basically what I'm
[42:47] doing is this. I'm sliding my thumb
[42:50] across both buttons,
[42:54] which is hitting both at the same time.
[42:58] Now, you notice though, whenever I do
[43:00] this,
[43:01] the X gets let go before I hit the A.
[43:05] So, it goes X,
[43:06] let go, then over the A.
[43:09] If you hit them both at the same time,
[43:11] it's going to cause issues. So, you need
[43:13] to make sure that you are gently rubbing
[43:15] your finger across both.
[43:19] And then you go slide, press. Slide,
[43:21] press. Slide, press. Slide, press.
[43:23] Slide, press. The harder that you push
[43:25] down into your controller, the more
[43:27] friction that there is. And the more
[43:28] friction that there is, the slower that
[43:31] you'll move across. So, you want to make
[43:33] sure that you're very light while you go
[43:35] over top of these. Also, Xbox buttons
[43:37] are so much better than PlayStation
[43:39] buttons because Xbox buttons are
[43:40] actually rolled. They're not flat. And
[43:42] because they're not flat, they're a lot
[43:43] easier to slide across. Now, those are
[43:46] probably the five most important basic
[43:49] mechanics that you should be trying to
[43:50] learn if you are a new player or even
[43:53] just an intermediate player at Apex
[43:55] Legends. If you found this video any
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