Everything You NEED to Know About the Ledge

The ledge and, by extension, ledgetrapping, is a complicated process that involves several mechanics working in tandem. Even after multiple years of competitive Smash Ultimate, there is a large portion of the player base that misunderstands–or is unaware of–core aspects of the ledge. This video will cover everything you need to know about the ledge, including the various options available, as well as the mechanics of ledge getups, ledge latches, ledge trumps, and intangibility.

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Smash University:

0:00 Intro
1:11 Ledge Getup Options
3:42 Grabbing the Ledge
5:17 Ledge Hang Deterioration
6:03 Ledge Getup Deterioration
7:07 Ledge Trumping
9:01 Ledge Latches/Tethers

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[randomguy]

I am watching this with the mindset « do I already know everything they are going to say ? »

[mahman]

Now all we need is a ledge hanging compilation that shows every character hurtbox on ledge, great work guys.

[AveleenValenia]

I love this super distilled video format for purely educating us about the raw mechanics
I thought I knew everything about the ledge mechanics, but it turns out I didn't know:

- You get more intangibility the longer your airtime before grabbing the ledge... That changes things
- For each regrab of the ledge, all getup options have reduced intangibility... No wonder I get consistently wrecked during normal getup despite having "1 frame of vulnerability", and no wonder people want to roll after a regrab.
- Ledge Trump DI... I guess this was a thing but wasn't really clear
- Sooner ledge trump has more frame advantage
- Tether ignores 2 frame rule (but still vulnerable until reeled in)
- Each tether counts towards intangibility deterioration

[Spyder-Marth]

This is an amazing video! I learned a lot of this over months, but this covers just about everything in under 12 minutes! This is GREAT for players getting more experienced, especially the ledge-trapping scenario.

[koolthing]

snake and samus are probably the best ledge trappers. there's so many good ledge trappers. swordies are insanely good at edge guarding. for example lucina, corrin and sora all have counters and big disjoints to defend the edge as well as strong recoveries to keep them from getting reversed by the majority of the roster.

[lbesavant]

This video is SO GOOD. Covered pretty much everything about the ledge. The other part is just character specific options and option selects, which simply takes player experience

[Alphahunter]

excellent video, straight to the point not too long while highlighting all the bases

[sandau]

I had no idea ledge trumping had a version of DI, very interesting!

[MageJohnClanner]

This is high quality, I love to see it!

[perriwinkleiii]

I learned a lot from this. There were a lot of nuances to these mechanics that I didn't realize I was missing out on. Excellent work!

[cringewyrm]

Snake ledgetrapping unironically goated. He's got like unlimited options that can hard knowledge check or attention check at least the opponent. I don't know about strongest in the game, there are a couple characters that i might say are better, but i think snake is actually underrated in ledgetrapping

[bruno_diaz-]

Excellent video. Great coverage of techniques and meta/theory in gameplay

[gregwarrener]

i forgot game and watch his ledge trap is nutty too

[AWater]

In my opinion Rosalina and luma is the strongest ledgetrapping character if given enough time to set up. If you don't have enough time to set up, they are still very good, but other characters can be better.

[gregwarrener]

belmont, samus and steve have the best lendge trapping, link pacman and min min are runners up

I learn something new on each episode.

Thanks a lot

[tonyhoang]

You forgot to yell, "Ledgetrapping!!" as loud as you can

[kjux]

The strongest ledge trap characters i say depends on how you want to ledge trap my example Samus is a all rounder kirby can cover with bair his up b is a strong ledge trap tool if the opponent is already trying to recover while off stage

[kennybosefus]

Missed something with tethers... the Belmonts don't use up special OR grab inputs. :/

[andrewbott]

DDD's ledgetrapping is pretty insane