verb
Gaming Slang
Edgeguarding
· verb · gaming
Hunting an offstage opponent to kill their recovery before they get back.
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When you knock someone offstage, you don't sit back and wait, you go out (or sit at the ledge) and attack them so they can't recover. Half of Smash kills come from a good edgeguard, not from raw damage.
“I only got him to 60%, but the edgeguard sealed the stock anyway.”
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It's a whole skill set: reading the recovery, timing the intercept, not killing yourself in the process.
“Her edgeguarding is brutal, get sent offstage against her and you're basically dead.”
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Edgeguarding In A Sentence
I only got him to 60%, but the edgeguard sealed the stock anyway.
Her edgeguarding is brutal, get sent offstage against her and you're basically dead.
Origin & Usage
Super Smash Bros. series, core to the platform-fighter neutral-to-kill flow.
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