Skip to content
Gamenator
Search

Animation cancelling

What is animation cancelling? Interrupting an action mid-animation to start another, from fighting-game cancels on, and its opposite, animation priority.

  • Published
  • 1 min read

Animation cancelling means stopping a character’s action partway through its animation to start a different one. Fighting games build it into their combo systems as cancels. The opposite design choice is animation priority, where an animation must play out in full before the game accepts new input.

Examples

Each game links to the source that describes it using the mechanic.

Related terms: Frame data, Input buffering, Hitstop, I-frames (invincibility frames).

Sources

Checked .

  1. Cancel - SuperCombo Wiki — SuperCombo Wiki
  2. Animation Cancelling in Fortnite and Roblox — Let's Talk Game
  3. Glossary of video game terms — Wikipedia
On this page
On this page