TOP 5 Most Important Movement Mechanics in Apex Legends

[00:00] Wall jumps, tap strafes, bunny hopping,

[00:02] instant slides, super jumps. With over

[00:04] 200 mechanics in Apex, it can be pretty

[00:07] overwhelming and intimidating as a new

[00:09] player. I mean, where do you even start

[00:10] when it comes to learning movement? Do

[00:11] you actually need to know and perfect

[00:13] every mechanic Apex has to offer in

[00:15] order to be a decent player? Yes and no.

[00:17] Everyone either thinks movement is just

[00:19] for style points or movement is an

[00:21] absolute necessity to outplay people.

[00:23] But to me, it's just a tool. And once

[00:25] you've learned how to use the right

[00:26] tools for the right job, the game

[00:28] instantly becomes smoother and more

[00:30] enjoyable and overall so much easier.

[00:33] Today, I'm going to give you five

[00:34] movement mechanics that you need to know

[00:35] as a beginner or an intermediate level

[00:37] player, all of which can be used in

[00:39] every single match and should be used in

[00:41] every single match. And by the end of

[00:42] this video, you're going to be moving

[00:44] faster, pushing harder, repositioning

[00:46] more, staying alive longer, and

[00:48] hopefully breaking the ankles of anyone

[00:51] that you come across. But you know

[00:52] what's even better than having movement

[00:53] to play at a high level? Actually being

[00:55] able to perform those movements. And one

[00:57] of the biggest factors with Apex

[00:58] movement is timing. Lots of advanced

[01:01] movements in Apex need to be input at an

[01:03] insanely specific time and order. Even a

[01:05] fraction of a second worth of delay can

[01:07] throw your movement mechanics off,

[01:09] making you feel slow and like you're

[01:10] stuck in mud. I've dealt with packet

[01:12] loss, high ping, and horrible service

[01:15] providers for years, which have led to

[01:17] me punching multiple holes in my desks.

[01:19] Unstable connections lead to higher

[01:21] input delay between you and the game,

[01:23] which makes it feel like recoil, moving

[01:24] around, and reacting to literally

[01:26] anything just feels impossible until I

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[01:42] latency means that your actions feel

[01:43] like they're actually happening when you

[01:45] intended them to. So, whenever I feel

[01:47] like my aim or my movement is being

[01:48] thrown off, I just boot up Gear Up,

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[02:11] playing with friends across the country

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[02:14] world, consider trying Gear Up. It won't

[02:16] just help you with your overall

[02:17] connection, but it'll help you a lot

[02:18] with the mechanics in the game. And

[02:19] speaking of mechanics, let's hop into

[02:21] our very first and easy one. All right,

[02:23] so first things first, we need to change

[02:25] a couple settings because this is what's

[02:26] going to actually make movement in

[02:28] general for Apex Legends feel just a lot

[02:30] smoother, more consistent, and overall

[02:33] it's just going to make it a much more

[02:34] pleasurable experience. So, for So,

[02:37] inside of our gameplay settings here,

[02:38] we're going to scroll all the way down

[02:40] into this movement section, and what

[02:41] we're going to make sure that we do,

[02:42] whether you're on controller or whether

[02:44] you're on mouse and keyboard, you're

[02:45] going to make sure that you change

[02:47] always sprint to on. Basically, what

[02:49] this is going to do is whenever you hold

[02:51] your stick forward or whenever you hold

[02:52] W key, it's going to automatically make

[02:54] you sprint. Now, this does not mean that

[02:57] you can't walk anymore. If you're on

[02:59] controller, just push your stick

[03:00] forwards a little bit and you'll walk.

[03:02] If you're on mouse and keyboard, hold

[03:03] right click just like if you were aiming

[03:04] down sight of your weapon, and you can

[03:06] still walk around. Or if you have a

[03:07] weapon in your hand, on controller

[03:09] still, just push your stick forward a

[03:10] little bit, you'll still walk just as

[03:12] fine. Or if you're on MNK, then you're

[03:14] going to have to hold down ADS while you

[03:16] move forward, and that's how you're

[03:18] going to walk. Now, the reason why we

[03:19] want to change this setting is purely

[03:21] because it's going to make movement,

[03:23] specifically advanced movement, a lot

[03:26] easier. So, when we start getting into

[03:28] things like wall jumps or we start

[03:30] getting into quick slides or advanced

[03:32] slides, not having to input every single

[03:35] time sprint is going to make everything

[03:38] just so much easier. Having one less

[03:41] input when you're doing a series of

[03:42] inputs is one less thing that you need

[03:44] to worry about messing up. It's one less

[03:47] thing that it's going to take you time

[03:49] to execute. It's just one less thing

[03:50] that you got to think about, too. So, in

[03:52] general settings gameplay always

[03:54] sprint, turn this on. Do not be confused

[03:57] with auto run. Auto run means that if

[03:59] you push your stick forwards twice, you

[04:01] can take your hands off the sticks and

[04:02] it's just going to run for you. I

[04:03] wouldn't recommend this though because

[04:05] it works even if you move forwards and

[04:07] backwards. So, if I go forwards back

[04:08] forwards, well now I'm running forwards.

[04:11] Not good. If you're on high ground and

[04:12] you're trying to like peek someone like

[04:14] this, you're going to fall off by

[04:15] accident. Now, other movement settings

[04:17] that we'll quickly cover as well, make

[04:18] sure that you change your jetpack/guide

[04:21] control from toggle over to hold. Now,

[04:24] if you don't have a controller that has

[04:26] paddles on the back of it or if you're

[04:28] not playing a button layout that allows

[04:31] you to keep your thumbs on the sticks at

[04:32] all times, then at that point, just stay

[04:35] on toggle. But if you do have a pro

[04:37] controller, a Scuf, an Elite, an Aim

[04:39] controller like me, make sure that you

[04:40] play on hold. It's just going to give

[04:42] you so many more options as to what

[04:44] types of movement mechanics you can do

[04:45] because, believe it or not, actually

[04:46] playing on toggle takes away some of the

[04:49] options that you're able to play. Now,

[04:50] another mechanic that we're going to

[04:51] quickly cover here is mantle boost

[04:52] activation. Make sure that this is

[04:54] changed from off over to jump, and your

[04:57] mantle boost UI, this does not matter at

[04:59] all. Now, for controller players, inside

[05:01] of your button layout, you're either

[05:03] going to want to make sure that you're

[05:04] playing on Ninja, Evolved, or you're

[05:06] playing on Default. At the end of the

[05:08] day, the only thing that matters is that

[05:10] you're able to keep your thumbs on the

[05:11] sticks while still being able to jump

[05:13] and still being able to crouch. Your Y

[05:15] button or like your your um holster and

[05:18] unholster or swap weapon is also pretty

[05:20] important to have on a paddle if

[05:22] possible. And if you were to play

[05:23] something like Ninja, you can see you

[05:25] can still crouch and jump, it moves it

[05:26] over to your bumpers, but it just it

[05:28] doesn't fix that Y input or that

[05:30] triangle input. And this is a really

[05:32] important input for movement. So, my

[05:34] suggestions, Ninja's the best, Evolved

[05:36] is the second best if you don't have a

[05:38] pro controller, and having a pro

[05:40] controller is the overall best option.

[05:42] You're going to bind your top left

[05:44] paddle to crouch, your top right paddle

[05:46] to jump, your bottom left paddle to swap

[05:49] weapons, and then your bottom right

[05:51] paddle, you're going to bind to

[05:52] interact/reload.

[05:54] Now, for controller players as well, if

[05:56] you do have a pro controller or if

[05:58] you're playing on one of those button

[05:59] layouts that lets you keep your thumb on

[06:00] the sticks while you're crouching, make

[06:02] sure that you play with your crouch on

[06:04] hold. This is going to make it so that

[06:06] you can do some of the movement

[06:07] mechanics that we're going to talk about

[06:08] later in this video. If you play on

[06:10] toggle, you can still pretty much do

[06:12] everything, it's just going to be a lot

[06:15] harder. Basically, you're going to have

[06:16] to input double the amount of inputs. It

[06:19] really does make and break how smooth

[06:21] and how consistent your movement

[06:22] mechanics can be. I cannot stress this

[06:24] enough. For a game like Apex, you really

[06:27] want to make sure that you have a

[06:28] controller that has four paddles on the

[06:29] back. It's not a necessity, it's just in

[06:31] terms of movement, you're not going to

[06:33] have good movement unless you're playing

[06:36] with the ability to be hitting all these

[06:38] buttons while keeping your thumbs on the

[06:40] sticks. Now that we got all of our

[06:41] movement settings figured out, now we

[06:43] can go and hop on into what we're

[06:45] actually going to talk about. An

[06:46] honorable mention to some movement

[06:48] mechanics before we actually get

[06:50] started. The first thing that we're

[06:51] going to work on, but this does not

[06:52] count as one of the five things that

[06:54] we're going to learn today, is walking

[06:56] on an angle. Now, in a lot of different

[06:58] games, you can move in obviously in all

[07:00] directions, right? Like you can move

[07:01] your stick in a circle, you can run on

[07:04] an angle, right? You can move forwards,

[07:06] backwards, left, and right. But in Apex,

[07:08] Apex takes movement mechanics to the

[07:10] next level. And one of the reasons why

[07:12] is because when you sprint typically in

[07:15] other video games, other than maybe Call

[07:17] of Duty with the new Omni movement, you

[07:18] can only sprint moving forwards. And

[07:20] this is a this is an issue that I have

[07:21] with Marathon right now is that if you

[07:23] sprint in Marathon, you can only sprint

[07:25] running forwards. But in Apex, you can

[07:27] also sprint on 45° angle. And this may

[07:31] not seem like a big thing, but it really

[07:34] is, especially when you start adding

[07:36] slide jumps and other movement mechanics

[07:38] into your movement. So, for starters,

[07:40] something that you want to get

[07:41] comfortable with is moving your body to

[07:44] where your body needs to be, but looking

[07:45] in the direction that you want to be

[07:47] looking. And a really easy way that you

[07:49] can practice this is pretending that you

[07:51] have an enemy out over here in the

[07:53] distance. Now, you obviously need to run

[07:55] around the track if you want to go and

[07:57] get to where this person is right on

[07:59] over here. But the issue while you're

[08:01] doing that is that you're not actually

[08:02] looking at your objective. You're not

[08:04] actually looking at your opponents. So,

[08:06] what we want to practice is moving in

[08:08] the direction that we want to go over

[08:09] here, but looking in the direction that

[08:11] our opponents are. And now, as I'm

[08:13] working my way over, I'm constantly

[08:15] looking at what's going on. This is also

[08:17] very useful once we start getting into

[08:19] movement mechanics around objects. A lot

[08:22] of people what they'll make the mistake

[08:23] of doing is, okay, I have somebody right

[08:24] over here. I'm holding him, I'm shooting

[08:26] at him. Okay, I want to push him. What

[08:28] people end up doing is they run into the

[08:30] open. They turn away from their

[08:32] opponent, and then they look at him

[08:34] late. They expose themselves and step

[08:36] into the open, and they see the person

[08:38] once they've already extended all the

[08:40] way out here. Instead, what we're going

[08:41] to do is we're just going to run. We're

[08:43] going to sprint moving around that

[08:45] object like this. As I go to push, I'm

[08:48] going to sprint sideways. I'm basically

[08:50] going to slide jump on an angle out of

[08:54] my cover, and then from there, we'll add

[08:56] other mechanics that will help us

[08:58] redirect into the direction that we want

[08:59] to go. When I'm coming around this

[09:01] corner right here, I'm not going to turn

[09:03] like this. Instead, what I'm going to do

[09:05] is I'm going to be looking at the corner

[09:07] so that I can see what's on the other

[09:08] side as soon as I actually get to the

[09:11] corner. Almost like I'm side stepping

[09:13] into it as opposed to that. It's a huge

[09:15] difference. It's going to make your

[09:17] movement feel so much smoother, and it's

[09:19] going to help you stay a lot more aware

[09:20] as well as you're running around the

[09:22] map. Last tidbit, swinging into

[09:24] buildings as well because you can run on

[09:27] a 45° angle. Any mechanic that uses a

[09:30] sprinting mechanic, like for example, a

[09:32] slide, is not a walk and a crouch, it's

[09:35] a sprint and a crouch. So, this means

[09:38] that you can actually sprint on an

[09:39] angle. If I have somebody in this room

[09:41] right here, I can actually sprint and

[09:43] slide into the room without ever

[09:46] actually taking my eyes off of where

[09:48] that person's going to be. So, if I know

[09:50] that there's a door over here, I can

[09:51] basically pre-aim that door and slide in

[09:54] and start fighting him. If I know that

[09:55] he's playing right around this corner

[09:56] right here, I can slide in already

[09:58] 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

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