Movement 200 - Advanced Technique

What this covers:

Advanced Rocket Jumping

Advanced Strafe Jumping

Advanced Air Control

Intro to Crouch Sliding

Rocket Jumping - Damage

Max Damage: -50 HP

With Ranger: -25 HP

Portals combine all your movement vectors when you go through them so if you rocket jump normally through one all that vertical speed gets translated to horizontal speed.

Rocket Boosting

Note: the teleporter trick no longer works but the rest is still relevant

Same concept as regular rocket jumping but not going up, just sideways. You can always mess with the angles at which you boost and get creative with them, like rocket jumping up somewhere and boosting off a wall while in the air.

Pro: Quick access to locations allowing for more map/item control

Con: makes your next position very predictable

Nail Jumping/Nail Climbing

Just like rocket jumping as before but with the nail gun.

The knockback from the nails can also be used to climb along a wall to clear longer distances.

Pro: much less damage taken

Con: much less height given, making it very situational

Strafe Jumping Tech

Backwards

Normally going forward it a matter of holding Forward+Left/RightKey+ MouseLeft/Right however backwards is just flipping mouse direction and Forward to Backward

For instance Forward + LeftKey + MouseLeft becomes Backward + LeftKey + MouseRight

This technique is useful if you need to get away from somebody but want to cover yourself but also want to cover your retreat, it's a good idea to spam while running away to punish aggressive peeks.

Air Control Subtleties

A/D Control

Pro: Allows you to gain speed while turning 

Con: Turning isn't as tight as with w only

Rocket boosting, especially as Sorlag is extremely useful since you direction can be corrected quickly using air control.

It's also important to try and setup some kind of cycle around the map but to also be prepared to have other routes to jump into if things don't go well.

Remember that you can move much more quickly than other champs if you're wise about you're movement, so use it.

Crouch Sliding - Slash

Strafe jumping still applies like normal.

Sliding

To perform a crouch slide:

Just before you land back on back on the ground let go of jump and hold crouch.

The slide will run out of momentum so try to get a feel for when that happens: right before that happens jump back into the air and re-crouch when you are going to land again

Ability

Slash's active ability grants a speed boost as well as lays a trail of plasma which damages enemies that run through it.

It can also be detonated for massive damage if someone is in it by hitting the ability key again.