Rope tricks

(Up to Ninja Rope)

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 the core tricks, the elemental ones that compose complex and advanced tricks. There are no tricks that combined form these tricks. They are very basic, simple and essencial for roping.

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.

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

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.

Nova / Wall Shadow

Fly to Shadow

Cannonball

Outlaw to Pini

External links

Websites about rope tricks

• RopeRacing for Dummies (includes videos of rope logic, basic roping tricks, ...)
• RRkit (tricks with rope, tutorial and maps for Rope Race + other stuff)
• Xpert Roping Tutorial has a tutorial for rope tricks with animations
• No Limit Freestyle hosts a gallery of rope trick animations
• Freestyle Anywhere hosts a gallery of rope trick animations

Tutorials

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

Videos exhibiting tricks

• Playlist containing rope tricks
• School Basic Tricks by ExZo

Replays

• Fluffy Trick Race 1 by Fluffy
• Fluffy Trick Race 2 by Fluffy
• Fluffy Trick Race 3 by Fluffy

	This article has a to-do list:
	Add complex/advanced tricks Add a gif for each trick Add a replay for each trick Write the definition of each trick, with details and examples