Movement Tech Library

Every advanced movement technique in one place — searchable, filterable, with exact inputs and stamina costs.

Advanced Techniques — This Is the Deep End

If you're new, start with the basics first. The Movement Guide teaches dash-jumping, sliding, ziplines, and stamina management — everything you need before any of this makes sense.

What's below is the advanced tech that separates good movers from great ones. Tick-perfect inputs, momentum tricks, and corner-case geometry. Learn them one at a time, in the order of difficulty. You don't need any of these to have fun — but if you want the ceiling, it's down here.

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Beginner1 pip

Dash

What it does: A quick horizontal burst in any direction. Your bread-and-butter dodge, gap-closer, and escape tool.
Inputs: Shift + direction
When to use it: Dodging skillshots, closing onto a kill, disengaging from a bad fight. Never burn your last pip unless you're committing.

Beginner1 pip

Air Dash

What it does: A dash performed mid-air, steering your jump arc in any direction. Once per airtime at baseline.
Inputs: Shift + direction while airborne
When to use it: Extending a dash-jump arc, dodging in mid-air fights, steering a zipline dismount, juking snipers.

Intermediate2 pips

Dash Jump

What it does: The fastest burst of ground movement in the game. Carries the dash's horizontal speed through the entire jump arc instead of losing it to ground friction.
Inputs: Sprint to full speed → Shift → Space the instant the dash fires. Watch for your stamina pips flashing blue mid-dash — that's the game's timing cue for the jump.
When to use it: Rotations, arriving at fights fast, chasing kills. Chain one the moment you land to keep flying.

BeginnerFree

Slide

What it does: Costs zero stamina, preserves momentum, lets you keep firing — and grants unlimited ammo for the duration of the slide.
Inputs: Crouch while carrying speed (down a slope, off stairs, or after any dash). Flat ground needs a baseline speed — move-speed items help you reach the threshold.
When to use it: Downhill travel for free speed, sliding into fights with unlimited ammo, strafing while reloading less.

Intermediate1 pip

Dash Slide

What it does: A dash cut short into a slide. The easiest way to hit the slide speed threshold on flat ground, and your gun gets the slide's unlimited-ammo window during fights.
Inputs: Shift, then hold Crouch near the end of the dash
When to use it: Your core fight-entry tool: slide up to a last-hit safely, slide into trades with unlimited ammo, escape while staying mobile.

BeginnerFree / ~0.5 pip

Wall Jump

What it does: Bounce off a wall with extra height. The first wall jump after leaving the ground is free; repeats before landing cost 0.5 stamina each. You get generous hang time on the wall to aim.
Inputs: Jump toward a wall, touch it, release movement keys briefly, then direction + Space
When to use it: Scaling buildings, reaching rooftops, escaping up where chasers can't follow. You get generous hang time on the wall to aim.

BeginnerFree

Mantle

What it does: Automatically pull yourself up when a jump falls just short of a ledge. The game's free forgiveness on near-miss climbs.
Inputs: Jump toward a reachable ledge while holding forward and looking where you want to climb — the mantle triggers automatically. Holding crouch during the mantle produces a small exit speed boost (the Mantle Glide).
When to use it: Any climb where you'd otherwise fall short. Pairs with heavy melee (below) to mantle up ledges with zero stamina.

Intermediate~0.5 pip

Down Dash

What it does: Slam downward quickly from mid-air — fall faster than a pursuer expects and hit the ground ready to slide.
Inputs: Double-tap Crouch in mid-air
When to use it: Escaping rooftop chases by dropping suddenly, landing on a ledge precisely, cutting hangtime short when you're exposed in the air.

AdvancedFree

Corner Boost

What it does: Chain wall jumps on two facing corner walls to launch much farther and higher than any single wall jump — roughly twice the intended height.
Inputs: Wall jump on one corner face → bounce to the facing wall → wall jump again. Alternate quickly before fatigue eats your height.
When to use it: Escaping to heights nobody expects, reaching otherwise-unreachable rooftops, vertical escapes when cornered.

AdvancedFree

Air Strafe

What it does: Subtle mouse/stick steering during a jump arc to adjust your trajectory — better aerial control and harder-to-track arcs.
Inputs: Strafe keys + gentle mouse movement while airborne. CS surfers will feel at home.
When to use it: Mid-air fights against hitscan heroes, curving a dash-jump arc around cover, making your landing point unpredictable.

BeginnerFree

Zipline Boost

What it does: Riding a zipline costs no stamina and builds speed on its own. Jumping off carries that momentum a long way — add one dash to steer. Press F on a zipline for a boost: a big speed burst for an instant mid-map trip (long cooldown, save it for when it matters).
Inputs: Ride the line, Space to dismount with momentum, optional Shift to steer
When to use it: The most stamina-efficient long rotation in the game. Pre-game rollouts, ganks, repositioning across the map.

IntermediateFree

Wall Slide

What it does: Slide along a wall mid-air to slow your descent — your max fall speed is capped, buying you hang time to aim, reposition, or wait out a cooldown before landing.
Inputs: Hold toward the wall while falling alongside it
When to use it: Stalling a drop to dodge skillshots, controlling rooftop descents, staying airborne a beat longer to line up a shot.

BeginnerFree

Mantle Glide

What it does: Upgrades any mantle with a burst of exit speed — free momentum on every climb, no stamina required.
Inputs: Hold Crouch during a mantle; the speed boost applies as the mantle finishes
When to use it: Every single climb. There is no reason not to — it's free speed you'd otherwise leave on the table.

BeginnerFree

Jump Pad Launch

What it does: Step on an air vent and get launched along the direction of its airflow. A free rotation speed boost you can chain into a dash-jump.
Inputs: Walk over the vent; steer with movement keys mid-flight
When to use it: Rotations across the map, escaping down a lane, reaching fights faster without spending stamina. Some heroes can ride vents into the underground tunnels.

BeginnerFree

Rope Climb

What it does: Grab ropes found on and inside buildings for a fast vertical climb to rooftops and mid-levels — quicker than chaining wall jumps when a rope is available.
Inputs: Walk into a rope and climb; jump off at the height you want
When to use it: Escaping upward when a wall jump won't reach, taking high ground before a fight, quick rooftop rotations.

IntermediateNone

Parry

What it does: Blocks an incoming melee, knocks the attacker down, and stuns them ~2.75 seconds while they take +25% damage. Land it and the parry's cooldown is instantly refunded. Critical: parrying cancels your dash and its momentum — use it to bait or to brake, never while trying to escape.
Inputs: F just before the enemy's melee lands. Miss it and the parry goes on cooldown.
When to use it: Countering heavy melee wind-ups (Abrams, Beebop), stopping a pursuer's melee chain, mind-games in melee range. You can even parry Troopers and Guardians — not just heroes. (Walkers can't normally be parried.)

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Practice order: Dash → Dash Jump → Slide → Dash Slide → Wall Jump → Wall Slide → Mantle → Mantle Glide → Down Dash → Zipline Boost → Jump Pads & Ropes → then the advanced set. Each one builds on the last. Drill them in the hideout or on the walk to lane until they're automatic.