fox trotting

probably

This is basically the same animation you see when you do Fox's Foxtrot in Smash 4.In fact, I'm not actually convinced this game has "dash dancing" as we typically refer to it.It looks and sounds to me, based on direct conversations with people who have played it, that it's basically. There's still a minimum dash distance you have to achieve.Theis that Ultimate, no DD., the actual dash startup is drastically reduced compared to previous games. Since everyone has very short initial dashes, and the gamebuffers your input, this creates theof a dash dance. You tap forward, then tap back- the character finishes their short initial dash, then restarts a new dash back the other way. It's actually just a fox trot with a really short initial dash.Basically, everyone has a better version of Cloud's Smash 4 Fox Trot or Melee Sheik's Fox Trot (top is fox trot, bottom is dash dance):It looks similar, right? Just that they're shorter and have bigger smoke clouds in Ultimate.For some saying "Well, what's the difference from a true dash dance then?"I made a little chart for each game. Basically, after you dash, the "green" areas are when you can restart your dash the other direction.Sorry this is crappy, I did it sloppily in paint. This is my understanding. The green boxes around the blue line is the window you can foxtrot in.So when you watch videos with Little Mac or Fox doing a ton of dashdances, they're mixing up short ones with full dash startup length. But they're actually limited in the variance they can do.Now, the nice part is that in Melee, you can cancel the latter red section with a crouch or wavedash, and in Smash 4, you can cancel the latter red part withit looks like. And since you can repeat a Foxtrot, a shorter fox trot distancemuch more flexible. So Ultimate has very much more movement flexibility than Brawl or Smash 4- but it's still much inferior to true dash dancing, unfortunately.I'm not one of the "Ultimate should be Melee" people- but I would've liked either true dashdancing or just make the whole thing green (no skidding ever).