Skate: How To Do a Powerslide

The Powerslide in Skate is an important move that supports other tricks and helps you transition from one to another. Here are the details.

The Powerslide in EA’s latest Skate is more of a tool to keep your run going rather than a flashy trick that will help you level up. The effectiveness of this move relies heavily on certain situations and specific surfaces such as slopes. However, learning this trait can give you an extra card up your sleeve that you can use to transition into different tricks and keep your drift going. In this article, we have given you a comprehensive guide on how and when to use the Powerslide in Skate.

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How To Do a Powerslide in Skate

Powerslide in Skatepedia (Image via Electronic Arts)

Skate’s Flick-it mechanics make all of the tricks and moves in the game relatively simpler to do compared to its peers, and the Powerslide is no exception. However, in this case, except for flicking the Right Analog Stick in various directions to successfully conduct a move, players can go for a simpler method. But before we go into the mechanics, you must remember that the Powerslide is all about pace and smoothness. With that said, let’s take a look at how you can perform this trick in the game.

To perform a Powerslide, first, you must reach maximum speed and momentum with your Skateboard. So keep pushing until you reach that point.
After reaching a significant speed, simply pull and hold the Left Analog Stick towards the bottom right corner for a Frontside (FS) Powerslide in Skate.
Alternatively, if you want a Backside (BS) powerslide, then you will have to follow the same method, but this time, pull and hold the Left Analog Stick towards the bottom-left.

This is the simple process of performing both types of Powerslides in Skate. As you can see, the process of it is quite different than other similar moves, such as Manual or Pump. However, before you dive into the game, remember that since the trick is not a must-have and its use relies on certain situations, it is consistent and effective whenever you are riding downhill.

Furthermore, to circle back to the high-speed buildup before this move, the traditional method won’t be able to provide you with enough pace to pull off this trick regularly.

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When To Use Powerslides in Skate

We briefly mentioned that the Powerslide in Skate is quite situational. Therefore, players must know when to use it to get the most out of this trick. For that, we recommend that whenever you encounter a section or area that demands speed and flow over combos and tricks, you try to implement the Powerslide there. More specifically, the move is the most effective in the situations given below.

Tight Corners
Re-Positioning
Downhill
Transitioning into a trick combo

To revise what we already discussed, Powerslides are not flashy tricks on their own that will give you huge Rep. Instead, they are more of a bridge that helps you keep pace and momentum and chain together different tricks whenever the necessity arises. In addition to that, we highly recommend not trying to implement this move all the time everywhere. Instead, you should try to use it during appropriate situations.

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