verb
Gaming Slang
L-cancel
· verb · gaming
Tapping shield right before you land an aerial to halve its landing lag.
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Press shield in the frames just before you touch the ground out of an aerial and your landing lag gets cut in half. It's the bread-and-butter tech that makes Melee pressure flow, drop a single one and the whole string falls apart.
“He missed the L-cancel and ate a grab for it, that's the read right there.”
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In Melee it's manual on every aerial, which is why clean L-cancels are a baseline skill.
“Practice your L-cancels until they're automatic, otherwise you're plus on nothing.”
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L-cancel In A Sentence
He missed the L-cancel and ate a grab for it, that's the read right there.
Practice your L-cancels until they're automatic, otherwise you're plus on nothing.
Origin & Usage
Super Smash Bros. (notably Melee). Short for 'lag cancel', performed with the L/R shield buttons.
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