Slide Overview
Slide is a long-range Low attack that sends your character sliding feet-first at the opponent. It is a move shared by Law, Lee, and Shaheen, who are often referred to as "Slide Characters." It is a low that knocks down on hit, side-swaps, and requires the opponent to use a specific float combo to punish.
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Law's Slide
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Lee's Slide - not to be confused with his Mist Step 3+4 (MS.3+4)
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Shaheen's Slide - Shaheen enters his Stealth Step (SNK) stance after his Slide successfully connects with the opponent
Characters with a Slide can often form a game plan around it by mixing it in with their other moves that can be done from While Standing, like Law's ws1,2 or Lee's ws2,3, or from Full Crouch like their hopkicks.
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Law's ws1,2
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Lee's ws2,3
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Shaheen's hopkick (u+4 or uf+4) done while in Full Crouch
How To Slide
The input is df,d,df+3 while in Full Crouch.
Slide is a move that can only be done while in Full Crouch (FC for short), which means you need to be crouching for at least 11 frames in total before the last input of Slide (d/f+3) or it will not come out. If the input is done too quickly then your character will just do FC3 instead.
You can utilize Instant Full Crouch (iFC) techniques, like using the first input of Slide to buffer the full crouch or inputting d/b first, to ensure you were crouching long enough while still getting Slide out in a reasonably short amount of time.
When done as fast as possible, your command history would look similar to the following examples:
| Standing | |
| Full crouch | |
| Half crouch | |
| While standing |
Slide Pressure
As mentioned above, Slide can be done quickly. Sometimes faster than your opponent can recognize the situation. Once you've hit your opponent with Slide a couple times they should start looking for it, which is the perfect time to start changing your timing and mixing things up.
You can do Slide pretty slowly (as the game seems to hold onto the inputs for quite a while) to throw off your opponent's timing if they're trying to low parry you. You can even get a whole crouching dash out before executing Slide, as the example on the right shows:
You can think of Slide Pressure similarly to Wave Dash pressure; it's a unique and effective way of closing distance and placing your opponent in mix-up situations if you have conditioned them well enough.
You should look to the character pages of Law, Lee, and Shaheen for specific details and strategy, but here are some examples of very rudimentary ways to use pressure with Slide:
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Take advantage of Slide's long range to be a threat from a distance
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Use the threat of Slide to get in range for a Poke
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Use the threat of Slide to work your way in on the opponent
Characters With A Similar Tool
There are 3 other characters who have a move similar to Slide. They are:
- Bob - Stealing Home (BAL 4). Only available during his Spinner Ball (f+3+4) and is a Launcher
- Lei - Sliding Kick (SLD 4~3). Only available during his Sidewind (head first) (d+1+4) stance
- Master Raven - Vermillion (BT f,F+3+4). Only available during Backturn. Like Bob's, it is a launcher
While these moves are often also referred to as "slides", they are different in that they are all restricted to specific stances and they are not a central part of that character's game plans. You might not see any of the above moves in a match, but it's almost a guarantee that you will see a Law/Lee/Shaheen slide at least once.
Resources
Slide Fundamentals by LegendKicker.