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'''TechniquesTech''', oftensometimes simply known ascalled '''techtechniques''', are special moves [[Madeline]] can do to enhance her mountain-climbing ability. They come in a wide range of uses and difficulties. Many can be used to skip sections of a room or multiple rooms at once. There are a lot of techniquestech in ''Celeste'' and their variations, so it is virtually impossible to describe them all.

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Some other (possibly more extensive) sources of techniquestech:

These "techs" were added primarily to make the game feel smoother and more forgiving to play, but they can be taken advantage of.

Attempting to perform an action that's not currently possible will "buffer" (store) the input for the next 5 frames. If it becomes possible within those 5 frames, Madeline will instantly perform it. For example, if you press jump slightly before landing on the ground, Madeline will jump on the first possible frame. This is notably used to execute techniquestech instantly after a screen transition or to turn frame-perfect tricks into 5-frame windows. It can be done with almost every action in the game.

Dash Techs require a dash to perform, though, for many, a dash can be substituted with a bubble.[[File:Mid-air super.gif|thumb|240x240px|Reverse Superdash (Top), Superdash (Bottom)]]

In order toTo gain the higher speed of a hyperdash as well as the full jump height of a superdash, you can do a short hyperdash by only tapping jump, and then doing another full -height jump afterwards. This is usually referred to as a hyper bunnyhop.

A dash lasts 15 frames. When performing a dash, there is a 10 -frame cooldown before Madeline's dash is restored. When performing a super/hyper/wavedash, you can regain your dash by jumping at the right time; dashing after the 10 -frame cooldown has passed, but before the dash has ended.

When performing a super/hyper/wavedash, the direction of your dash is not actually relevant. By jumping in the opposite direction of the dash, the tech can be performed in the opposite direction, for instance, a reverse wavedash by dashing down-left and jumping right.

The simplest and most common way to perform an Ultra is to perform a hyperdash (though one can be performed any time Madeline is moving fast, ie.like after dashing diagonally-down out of a red bubble or flinggetting flinged by a [[bird]]) and dash down-diagonally as soon as possible. The dash must end before Madeline touches the ground to maintain the momentum (Dashing will reset your speed after ending, unless the dash is down-diagonal. Landing on the ground converts a down-diagonal dash into a horizontal dash, thus losing the speed), so players should start from high enough up that it will end before they land. It's important to jump right after you touch the ground to lose as little speed to friction as possible. Players should aim not to buffer the jump input because this is likely to prevent the 1.2x boost, and instead should jump shortly after landing on the ground.

When dashing at high speeds, excess speed is only removed once the dash ends. By interrupting the dash before it ends, the speed from the grounded ultra can be retained. This can be done in many different ways;: grabbing a throwable, skipping a cutscene, bouncing on a snowball, so long as it interrupts the dash.

When colliding with the ground, if your last dash direction was down-diagonal, you will get an ultra, granting a 1.2x speed multiplier and crouching you. This can be abused by dashing diagonally without landing on the ground, stalling in the air before landing somewhere different, and gaining the 1.2x speed multiplier at a later point somewhere different.

'''Demodashes''' (shortened to demos), also known as '''crouch dashes''' in-game, is a techniquetech that allows the player to dash with the crouched hurtbox (4 pixels instead of 9), allowing you to slip through [[spinners]], [[dust bunnies]], and other obstacles unharmed, provided the gap between them is at least 4 pixels.

When a demodash ends, Madeline will uncrouch, returning her hitbox to full height. This is often used to make cornerkicks more lenient by demodashing up-diagonally into the corner, causing madelineMadeline to uncrouch as soon as she passes the corner and touches the wall.

Dashing down-diagonally is not necessary to do a hyperdash;: so long as Madeline is crouching, a hyper will be performed instead of a super. This means doing a horizontal demodash will result in a hyper rather than a super. Demohypers have a higher dash speed than regular hypers (240 instead of 169) since they're horizontal rather than diagonal dashes, though this can be disadvantageous in places where space is limited.

'''Wallbounces''' are a techniquetech mainly used to gain height. To do a wallbounce, dash up and, jump during the dash duration while next to a wall, jump during the dash duration. It is to be noted that wallbounces have a slightly lower vertical speed than an updash. Thus, jumping as late as possible is more optimal for gaining height.

Dashless Tech refers to techniquestech that don't need a dash to perform. They tend to be more complex or precise.

Because each jump gives Madeline a short burst of speed (+40 speed), repeating bunnyhops is the fastest method of dashless movement along flat ground. TheyIt areis frequentlycommon used byamong speedrunners to bunnyhop in {{ch|Pr|lf=1}}, as it is not possible to dash there.

Neutrals are one of the most fundamental pieces of dashless techsmovement and vertical mobility in general. They allow Madeline to scale flat and uneven walls alike without using any [[stamina]], even with downward [[wind]].

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Madeline can jump while being crouchedcrouching and will keep being crouchedcrouching as long as she's goinggoes upward. This can be used to reduce her hitbox to avoid getting hit. Madeline can also climbjump while keeping crouch state, but she can not grab walls without moving downward and hence uncrouching. Wallkicks will also uncrouch you.

Pressing away from a wall 11 frames or less after neutral climbjumping will refund the stamina cost from the climbjump as the jump is converted into a wallkick 'after the fact.' After performing a wallboost, unlike a normal wallkick, you can still press toward the wall again to quickly return to it. This allows stamina-less climbing but is only faster than neutral jumps when performed optimally by a TAS. It has other uses, mainly in beating stamina puzzles. Performing a wallboost will cause falling blocks to instantly drop instantly, since you stopped grabbing the wall, but it's possible to regrab them significantly faster than you could with a neutral jump or a wallkick.

When Madeline grabs the top of a wall, she will slide down a significant amount and not be able to climb up further. However, you still can climbjump or wallkick off the top of the wall. A 5 jump is executed by using a neutral climbjump to reach the top of the wall and then jumping or climbjumping off it. This techniquetech allows you to cross a 5-tile gap, hence its name.

When Madeline collides with a wall (when her speed attempts to move her inside of the wall and is blocked by the tile), the game stores her current speed as "retained" speed. If the wall is no longer blockingblocks Madeline from moving forward within the next 5 frames, the retained speed will be refunded (so Madeline will keep moving at the speed she had when she hit the wall).

Climbjumps, like ground jumps, give Madeline +40 speed in the direction the player is holding. If the climbjump is done ''before'' Madeline collides with the wall, that extra +40 speed will be included in the retained speed value. This is known as a '<nowiki/>'''good cb'''', where climbjumping ''after'' colliding with the wall is called a '''bad cb.''' Above 180 speed, it's ais possibilitypossible that there will not be a frame where Madeline is able tocan climbjump before she collides with the wall, and as such, a bad cb will be inevitable even when jump is buffered. There are 3 pixels Madeline can occupy and climbjump on before she actually collides with the wall, so if moving at 4px/frame like in a typical horizontal dash, 1 in every 4 pixels will give a bad cornerboost.

As you do not want to grab and lose all your speed for a cornerboost, another of these conditions must be met if Madeline is moving downward and the player wants to cornerboost. The simplest method is to do a down diagonal dash as in a delayed ultra. However, if the cornerboost needs to be done without dashing, Madeline needs to be 3 pixels away from the wall - too far to grab but close enough to do a climbjump. She will now be moving upward on the next frame and unable to jump for that reason. Note the similarity to climbjumping on a moveblock without activating it, which is also about avoiding grabbing the block.

If Madeline has a horizontal speed below ~144, it's possible with precise pixel positioning to cornerboostclimbjump once and not yet collide with the wall, making it possible to execute anothera cornerboostsecond climbjump before colliding and gain an additional +40 speed. This is typically a frame-perfect input, as you need to jump twice on consecutive frames.

A neutral reverse cornerboost allows you to not lose any speed compared to a regular reverse cornerboost. YouTo mustexecute holdthis neutralyou directionsmust whileface performingtowards the reverse cornerboost, done by pressing the opposite directionwall and then goingrelease neutralall directions before making the cornerboost, making Madeline face the cornerjumping. Since this is a neutral cornerboostclimbjump, pressing the opposite direction Madeline is facing within the next 11 frames will cause a wallboost- setting your horizontal speed to ~125 no matter the previous speed. BecauseFor ofthis thatreason, neutral RCBs are generally undesirable at high speed as air friction is doubled when you can'tare holdnot aholding directionalthe direction that Madeline is keymoving, makingand youthe lose11f yourof extra friction outweighs the -40 speed twicefrom asthe reversed climbjump. However, this is sometimes used intentionally at low speeds to gain speed from the wallboost (e.g. Pillarless in 5B) or to wallboost after a screen transition and gain some extra horizontal speed (e.g. the fastest entry to City start room fast6).

==== Disappearing BlocksBlock Cornerboost ====

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=== Bumper / Fish / Seeker Explosion Boost ===

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An '''Archie''' is entering a bubble with a crouched hitbox (from any direction), raising it by two pixels. This is usually performed with a '''demodash''', but can also be done simply using a '''crouch jump'''. Archies are possible because bubbles center your hitbox when entered, hence you will be higher up if you enter the bubble with a smaller crouching hitbox.

=== Core BoostHyper/Super ===

You can jump out of [[dream blocks]] since they give coyote frames. The jump grants height andalong horizontalwith speedthe gain (+40 horizontal speed) and doesn'tgranted consumeby yourground dashjumps. To execute it, simply press jump as you leave the dream block. This techniquetech is taught by the [[bird]] in the {{ch|2B|lf=1}}.

You can double jump out of dream blocks by buffering a first jump in the dream block and jumping a second time in coyote frames after exiting it. Although this doesn't grant additional height compared to a regular dream jump, it does give an additional horizontal speed gain of 40, making it almost as fast as a Hyperhyper (320 speed compared to 325).

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If you move horizontally along the ground in a feather and perform a jump, you will exit the feather state and perform a long jump. Despite the name, feather supers bear no mechanical relation to superdashes.

After hitting a wall, [[seekers]] enter a different state for a brief moment. While inIn this state, you can bounce into them and get a horizontal speed boost (approximately Hyper speed). On top of refreshing your dash, it also affects your vertical speed depending on the angle at which you bump them. You cannot bounce off the top of the seeker since that's where the hitbox for "killing" them is.

Grabbing a [[Theo Crystal]] or a [[Jellyfish]] while in a dash state cancels it, which makes you maintain your vertical and horizontal speed. You can do a regrab even if you're already holding a throwable object: to do so, throw it and quickly dash and grab into it. This can be useful if a small amount of height or distance is needed. Theo Regrabs are more challenging than Jelly Regrabs.

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<u>'''Note:'''</u> Throwables appear to give more height the later they are grabbed. This is not due to a difference in the amount of momentum preserved from canceling the dash but simply due to Madeline being higher up when it is actually canceled. [[Theo crystal]]s provide less height than Jellyfishjellyfish since holding a Jellyfishjellyfish lowers Madeline's gravity.

Reform Tech is tech done with blocks that canwill oncedisappear againand become solidrespawn at their initial position, like [[cassette blocks]] and moving blocks, while they are reforming.

The block will not become solid if Madeline is in it and will instead start reforming once she leaves the block. The block becomes solid before spikes and other objectsentities on the block are generated (except on cassette blocks, which reform instantly), enabling Madeline to grab onto normally spiked walls of the reforming block, or land on the reforming block even if its floor is spiked.

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To reduce strain on the game, when usingthe player uses {{Tooltip|binos|entities to preview the binocularsscreen}}, the game will unload spinners not currently visible, allowing Madeline to dash or even walk through them with total safetysafely until they load back in. To do this, look in the binocularsbinos, move them away enough to unload the spinners, and then quickly leave and dash through them.

When unpausing the game, there is a short window (~10 frames) in which the game has not started yet. Inputting anything induring this period up to 6 frames (notably longer than the standard 5-frame buffer window) before the game starts will make the input processedoccur inon the first frame of the game running. This allows you to input a movement command as well as another pause command, effectively making the game run one frame at a time, making frame-perfect techs (like [[Demodashes]]) significantly easier to perform.

==== Spinner Freeze ====

This tech is the opposite of a manual demodash. Instead of forcing the frame 1 crouch check to be made on a non-downward dash, the player avoids the crouch check on a downward dash by redirecting from a neutral or non-downward direction. It is useful in very specificparticular circumstances, like entering a dream block uncrouched, or collecting a heart from the bottom with a down dash. A good example of this is the [https://gamebanana.com/mods/470120 Weightless Pressure] mod

[https://youtu.be/FHAuZJC6HaA?t=1620 The 100% TAS uses this techniquetech when obtaining the heart in 6A.]

Kermit Dashing is more like a joke tech, very rarely used. Dashing through a vertical screen transition cancels your dash, but does not remove the 'dashattack' timer which allows Madeline to do 'dash actions' like [[Wallbounces|wallbounce]], breaking blocks, and entering dreamblocks[[Dream Blocks|dream blocks]]. The 'dash direction' of a cancelled dash is also maintained. For example, this lets you activate a [[Kevin]] from angles not usually possible or for preserving your dash. This is used in the "True ending" from Ivory in [[Strawberry Jam Collab]].

* The Demodash wasis discoverednamed byafter the player DemoJameson, who discovered the tech on October 14, 2018, and was subsequently named after him.

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