EVERY Movement Tech In Apex

[00:00] Apex is the little brother of Titanfall,

[00:02] and despite not having pilot movement,

[00:04] you can still do some pretty cool

[00:05] movement tech within Apex. It's just a

[00:08] bit harder. So, let's take a look at all

[00:10] of the major Apex movement tech.

[00:12] Starting with something very simple,

[00:14] wall jumping. It's the easiest movement

[00:16] tech within Apex, and it uses the fact

[00:18] that Apex has a wall mantel mechanic.

[00:20] And all you have to do to wall jump is

[00:22] run at a wall at this angle, and just

[00:25] before you hit the wall, slide. And when

[00:27] you're midslide, jump onto the wall. At

[00:29] this point in the air, make sure to not

[00:31] press any movement inputs. The second

[00:33] your character mantles the wall, you

[00:36] jump off immediately. Do not mantle the

[00:38] wall for too long, or this will kill

[00:39] your speed. And if done successfully,

[00:41] congrats, you can now wall jump. Wool

[00:43] jumps can be used to get up to higher

[00:45] locations without having a climbing

[00:46] animation or just to look cool or skill

[00:49] on enemies. And if you combine wall

[00:51] jumps with another movement tech I'll

[00:53] show you later in this video, you can

[00:54] just skip climbing animations overall.

[00:57] Let's move from one of the easiest

[00:58] movement techs to one of the hardest

[01:00] movement techs, superglides. Superglides

[01:03] look easy, but they're actually really

[01:05] hard to do because the window you have

[01:07] to do them is tiny. Superglides are a

[01:09] movement tech where you can essentially

[01:11] launch yourself off any object after

[01:13] mantling it. If you can mantle it, you

[01:15] can launch yourself off it. This allows

[01:17] you to juke enemies and just smoothly

[01:19] maneuver around the world of Apex. The

[01:21] way you do a super glide is mantle an

[01:24] object and at the very end of the

[01:26] mantle, and I mean the very end, you

[01:28] have to press jump and then literally

[01:30] one frame later, press crouch. You

[01:33] absolutely cannot press these keys at

[01:35] the same time. Jump has to go first. To

[01:38] make it easier, many players have binded

[01:39] their crouch button to V. So when they

[01:41] want to superglide, they press space

[01:43] with the middle of their thumb and then

[01:44] the top of their thumb presses crouch,

[01:46] which is V a millisecond later. I use

[01:49] this strategy and it makes my super

[01:51] glides semicconsistent, although I will

[01:53] work on them one day. Superglides are

[01:55] hard because they require two really

[01:56] precise timings. First of all, pressing

[01:58] the buttons at the very end of the

[02:00] mantle and also pressing jump and then

[02:02] crouch within a few frames of each

[02:04] other. For controller, yes, this is

[02:06] doable on controller, but it might be

[02:08] easier or harder depending on how you're

[02:10] playing the game. Backwards superglides

[02:11] are also possible, but they are just

[02:13] another level of difficulty. Back to the

[02:16] easier movement techs though. The next

[02:17] movement tech is a super jump. And this

[02:19] is really easy if you're on PC and a bit

[02:21] harder if you're on controller. This is

[02:23] a super jump. And the only thing that it

[02:25] requires is a zipline. And you can use

[02:27] super jumps to super jump. Believe it or

[02:29] not, super jumps are doable by

[02:31] interacting with a zipline. And the

[02:33] second you interact with it, you jump

[02:35] twice. You do two separate jump inputs.

[02:38] This is really easy on PC because people

[02:40] realized if they bind jump to scroll

[02:42] wheel down and then interact and pull

[02:44] scroll wheel down, you can super jump

[02:46] 100% of the time. It gets harder on

[02:49] console because the timing is a bit

[02:50] harder. You have to interact and then

[02:52] put two separate jump inputs. People on

[02:55] console with paddles find this a bit

[02:57] easier, but obviously paddles aren't

[02:58] accessible to everybody. Still, you can

[03:00] super jump on controller if you're using

[03:02] the A button as jump here. As a proof of

[03:04] concept, I did it with my Xbox

[03:06] controller. it all works just fine.

[03:08] Super jumps are great because you can

[03:09] confuse enemies and also quickly escape

[03:11] situations if there's a zipline present.

[03:14] Also, if you're playing Pathfinder, you

[03:15] can do this essentially on demand. This

[03:17] next movement tech is mainly useful when

[03:20] combined with other movement techs. This

[03:22] is an edge bug. Now, in other source

[03:24] games like Counter-Strike, edge bugs are

[03:26] used as a way to negate full damage, but

[03:28] in Apex, they're a way to negate full

[03:30] stun so you can keep your movement

[03:31] going. Edge bugs are essentially tiny

[03:34] slopes that stop you from taking full

[03:36] stun when you land. It's frequently

[03:38] doable when hitting the very edges of

[03:40] certain props. This can be done on

[03:42] things like the gravity cannon to stop

[03:44] your stun or after certain falls. Edge

[03:46] bugging is essentially just hitting the

[03:48] edge of something and hoping you don't

[03:50] get stunned. The most famous and

[03:52] controversial movement tech that is in

[03:54] Apex is tap strafing. And this is

[03:56] controversial because Respawn have tried

[03:58] to remove it several times. Actually, I

[04:00] think I've genuinely lost count of the

[04:02] amount of times they've tried to remove

[04:03] it, but every time they choose to keep

[04:05] it in game because people love it so

[04:07] much and people get that mad at the

[04:09] prospect of it being removed. Tap

[04:11] strafing is essentially a method to

[04:13] preserve your momentum and immediately

[04:15] make turns while in midair. And if you

[04:18] don't understand what I mean, this is

[04:19] tap strafing. I jump off the jump pad

[04:21] and I just completely snap 90° right and

[04:24] keep all of my speed. And if I tried to

[04:26] do this without a tap strafe, this is

[04:28] what it would look like. I would lose

[04:29] all of my speed and basically just fall

[04:31] to the ground. Tap strafs are

[04:32] technically doable on keyboard and

[04:35] controller, but they're a thousand times

[04:37] easier on keyboard and mouse because of

[04:39] one simple thing. Tap strafs, much like

[04:41] super jumps, require you to stack a

[04:43] single input several times within a

[04:46] small window. And the input you stack

[04:48] with tap strafs is the W key. As to do a

[04:51] tap strafe, you have to slide, let go of

[04:53] your forward movement key, and then hold

[04:56] any side movement key. So, A or D, and

[04:59] then you jump and then stack about 10 W

[05:02] inputs on top of each other within a

[05:04] second. And because for most humans,

[05:06] it's impossible to spam W several times

[05:08] in a second consistently, most people,

[05:10] much like with super jumps, opt to bind

[05:12] their forward movement key to the scroll

[05:14] wheel. So, they can input several

[05:16] forward inputs within a second. So once

[05:19] again, to tap strafe, you slide, let go

[05:21] of forward, hold a key in the sideways

[05:24] direction you want to go into, jump, and

[05:26] then do your forward inputs. This can

[05:28] also be done off a jump pad with the

[05:30] double jump. Essentially, it's the same.

[05:31] You hold a sideways direction key, hit

[05:34] the second jump, and then stack your

[05:35] forward inputs. This is technically

[05:37] possible once again by spamming a W key,

[05:40] but it's going to be way easier if you

[05:41] use a scroll. And as you've likely

[05:43] guessed by now, this is really hard to

[05:45] do on controller. And without external

[05:47] assistance, it's essentially impossible,

[05:49] which is why Respawn tried to remove it

[05:51] in the past. Respawn did try to give

[05:53] controllers a way to tap strafe with

[05:55] this Octane perk where he can change

[05:57] momentum in midair, but it never really

[05:59] took off. And also, most of the ways

[06:01] controllers were able to tap strafe in

[06:03] the past have been patched. And

[06:05] currently, it seems like the only way to

[06:07] do it is have a PlayStation controller

[06:09] and essentially treat the touchpad as a

[06:11] scroll wheel. I believe Misery has the

[06:13] most updated guide here. Let's do a

[06:14] movement tech that's a bit more fun and

[06:16] a bit more recent. As have you ever gone

[06:18] off an Octane jump pad and wanted to

[06:20] triple jump instead of double jump?

[06:23] Well, this is possible with Sparrow. And

[06:25] no, it's not as simple as using his

[06:27] passive and then the second Octane jump.

[06:29] That's not how it works as your passive

[06:31] isn't active until you touch a solid

[06:34] surface, aka the ground. But a few

[06:36] people discovered you can trick Apex

[06:38] into thinking you touch the ground by

[06:40] simply touching a wall for a very short

[06:42] amount of time. to demonstrate. Here is

[06:44] a Sparrow triple jump. You jump off the

[06:46] jump pad, activate your double jump, and

[06:49] then hit a wall for a very short amount

[06:51] of time, wall bounce off it, and then

[06:53] you gain access to your Sparrow double

[06:56] jump. So, this movement tech essentially

[06:58] requires a wall bounce in midair. This

[07:00] is easier than it looks. Go to the

[07:02] firing range and try this, and you'll be

[07:03] able to learn how to triple jump really

[07:05] easily. But obviously, triple jumps do

[07:07] require a wall near you that you have to

[07:09] touch to reset your jump. The next

[07:11] movement tech is a mantle jump, which

[07:13] honestly looks harder than it is. I

[07:15] thought this was like a really

[07:16] ridiculous hard tech for the longest

[07:18] time, but when I learned it for this

[07:20] video, I was like, "Oh, that's it."

[07:22] Mantle jumps require two things: a

[07:24] zipline and a surface you can hang off

[07:26] near the zipline, making this building

[07:28] on World's Edge an absolute hot spot for

[07:30] people to try out their mantle jump

[07:32] skills. So, how do you mantle jump?

[07:34] Well, you start going up a zipline and

[07:36] when you're able to mantle a ledge, you

[07:39] jump off the zipline. When climbing up

[07:41] the ledge, you press your backwards key

[07:43] once to start falling off the ledge. And

[07:45] while falling, you look straight down

[07:47] and then super jump. So, interact and

[07:50] then double jump. And then that should

[07:52] mantle jump you. I know that is a lot.

[07:54] So, this is how I practiced it. I went

[07:56] here, took the zipline, and then hung

[07:58] off the edge. When hanging off this

[07:59] edge, I could just wait for as long as I

[08:01] wanted to and prepare myself for the

[08:03] jump. When I was ready, I would hold W,

[08:06] which is the forward movement key, and

[08:08] then press S once to cancel the climb,

[08:11] which would cause me to fall off the

[08:12] ledge. I would dart my mouse downwards

[08:14] and then super jump, and then it will

[08:17] work. This takes some practice, but you

[08:19] will get used to it. Your brain just

[08:21] needs to get used to doing so many

[08:22] things in such a short amount of time.

[08:25] But this is pretty fun to do, and once

[08:26] again, this is doable on controllers.

[08:29] And with the movement text you've

[08:31] learned, you can just start using them

[08:32] in game and combining them together. So

[08:34] those are the fundamental movement

[08:36] mechanics of Apex. And if you want to

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