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There are several tricks or manouvers (they have names) that can be done with the rope. They are called simply Rope Tricks.

A good way to practice using the Ninja Rope is the Crazy Crates training.

Trick Race and Trick Before Attack are examples of schemes that "force" players to execute specific tricks. This page is specially useful for playing these schemes, but rope tricks are useful for any scheme that uses the rope, including Warmer (let's highlight this one), Roper, Rope Race, WxW, or even Intermediate. It can be used as reference to learn about any rope trick of this game, with gifs, replays, definitions and descriptions.

Tricks didactical catalogue

Below is the list of known Rope Tricks in Worms community, with their definition, replays and gifs as didactical and educational as possible.

Basic tricks

The following tricks are considered core tricks, the fundamental tricks that make up the complex and advanced tricks.

Shadow

Spike

Scrolls

Scrolls in the context of roping are when a worm travels horizontally by repeatedly firing rope to a ceiling while maintaining a horizontal momentum.

Swing

Kick

Fly

Skim

Extension

Flagpole

Inlaw

Reverse Inlaw

Outlaw

Blizz

Vibrato

Pini

Pump

Advanced Tricks

The following tricks are considered advanced tricks, the ones that are composed by basic tricks or other tricks. To perform them, players need to perform a sequence of moves.

Arch/Mexi

When doing an Arch or a Mexi, the flagpole extension on the last visible normal speed frame must be before and not past the vertical point of the direction you're travelling, as well as the rope must shoot in the same direction.

Difference between Mexi and Arch: Mexi has longer horizontal distance.

Tapstart

Backflip to Arch

Dragon

Swing to Shadow

Wizard

Spike to Shadow

Warlock

Swing to Wizard

Climb

Extended Pump

Zeg/Joeflex

Mexican Flip

Swoosh

When doing a swoosh, the flagpole extension on the last visible normal speed frame must be over and past the vertical point of the direction you're travelling, as well as the rope must shoot in the same direction.

Wallspike

Water Scrolls

Spikestart

Ness

Scroll Transition

Pump Fly

Inflex

Chute trick

Legend

I'll Be Back

Sunrise

Dreamer

Pinball

Elevator

Skidow

Shadowball

Nova / Wall Shadow

Fly to Shadow

Drive-In

Drive-Out

Backwash

Inverted Start

Almighty Leap

Archball

Butterfly

Impossible

Jesus

Leap of Faith

Leap-In

Leap-Out

Overdrive

Plunger

Sharkfin

Stairway

Subzero

Touchdown

Vibroball

Pixel Move

Cannonball

Outlaw to Pini

External links

Websites about rope tricks

Tutorials

Basic Roping Tutorial 1 (Scrolls, Shadows, Spikes) by Mablak.
Basic Roping Tutorial 2 (Kicks) by Mablak.

Videos exhibiting tricks

Replays

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 === Basic tricks ===
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