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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.

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 technique mainly used to gain height. To do a wallbounce, dash up and, while next to a wall, jump during the dash duration while next to a wall. 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.

Liftboost, rather than a tech, is a basic game mechanic. When being moved by an entity like a [[Zippers|Traffic Block]], the amount it moves you is stored as a value called liftboost. When letting go of the moving object, your speed gets set to your the Liftboostliftboost value. There is a maximum value for liftboost, which is -130 for vertical velocity and 250 in the moving direction for horizontal velocity. When jumping, liftboost is added to your jump speed, so the maximum vertical speed for a jump with liftboost is -235 and the maximum horizontal speed is 355.

Other actions, such as hypers, supers, and dashes, apply liftboost the same way a jump does. The speed calculation for a hyper is (260+liftboost)*1.25 horizontal and (-105+liftboost)*0.5 vertical, so liftboost is applied slightly differently to hypers than to other actions.

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 movement, and vertical mobility in general. They allow Madeline to scale flat and uneven walls alike without using any [[stamina]], even with downward [[wind]].

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 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 ''''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.

A '6 jump' is a dashless cornerboost that travels over 6 tiles, typically over spikes. This is done by being at full air-strafe speed (90) and doing a cornerboost on the top of a wall to gain another +40 speed (e.g. RoomIt 1must be done in the first room of Crossing for the [[Winged Golden Strawberry]] in dashless [[Forsaken City)|City]].

If Madeline has a horizontal speed below ~144, it's possible with precise pixel positioning to climbjump once and not yet collide with the wall, making it possible to execute a second 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. To execute this you must face towards the wall and then release all directions before jumping. Since this is a neutral climbjump, 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. For this reason, neutral RCBs are generally undesirable at high speed as air friction is doubled when you are not holding the direction that Madeline is moving, and the 11f of extra friction outweighs the -40 speed from the 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 6).

Wind applies a constant movement to Madeline every frame, however, this movement is applied independently of her regular speed calculations and after collision checks occur. As a consequence, it is possible to jump off of surfaces beneath spikes, before collision checks are applied.

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.

To reduce lag, the game splits spinners into three randomly- assigned groups and only checks one group each frame. By pausing the game every third gameplay frame, you can prevent one group of spinners from ever being loaded and pass through them without dying. This tech has been executed RTA, but is generally not considered human-viable because every pause is a frame -perfect input, and which spinner group you end up deloading would be pseudorandom for humans.

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

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 wallbounce, breaking blocks, and entering dreamblocksdream 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]].