step 1: pick demo step 2: cover yourself in heads step 3: fly.

Most of his “flying” is trimping and edge bugging. Basically hitting an edge or hill but not losing any of the momentum so you can go flying at the end. One of the many hidden mechanics in TF2

As Solar Light himself said: "Demonkinght doesn't have Bugs, he is the bugs"

One of the reasons Solar is hovering and “flying” is he is using the knock back from damage to enhance his movement.

The One Ultimate Goal: Learn What Trimping Is

Trimping is fucking with the Source engines definition of a slope and then accelerating from it.

"how does he do it" answer: _source spaghetti..._

The thing with a lot of Solarlight's gameplay, is that he mostly uses the shield (the Splendid Screen and Tide Turner specifically) as a utility more than using them as offensive weapons, especially with the Tide Turner cause it gives you the ability to turn left and right freely while charging.

The reason why he had a grenade launcher near the end was because he was playing a subclass of demo called "hybrid knight" Hybrid knights use any of the grenade launchers, shields, and melee weapons. In short, it's just demoknight but with a grenade launcher

While yes you can go on a kill streak. There are items called killstreak kits you can apply to a weapon that actively track your kills and tell the whole server when you’re on a killstreak. There’s a basic killstreak kit that just counts kills. Specialized Killstreak kits adds a colored sheen to your weapon. Professional killstreak kits will cause your characters eyes to glow a specific pattern and color when on a killstreak!

Its cool seeing a reactor actually get interested in something they react too. You see so many reactors just trudge through content and can tell they really don't care much abt what they're watching. But more than that I'm just glad you're having fun with this game man, its in a rough state rn but recent news has given me hope for the franchise so getting into it rn is prob honestly not a bad thing.

Well, there is a reskin of the eye lander. It’s a golf club.

The number in the corner signifies his killstreak. its in one life only. you can see your killstreak by applying killstreaks kits to weapons. For example solarlight has a professional (i think) killstreak eyelander that counts his kills in one life and announces to the server each 5 kills that he is on a killstreak. 5 is killing spree. 10 is unstoppable. 15 is rampage. 20 is godlike. from 20 and onward its still godlike. There are three different types of killstreaks. Standard killstreak kits just counts your kill in one life. Specialized killstreak kits count your kills and adds a little shine to your weapon. It gets brigher and brighter the more kills you get. the colors of the shine depend on the killstreak kit. Professional killstreak kits, count your kills, add a shine to your weapon, and they add an eye effect. The eye effect gets bigger and brighter with the more kills you get. If you want to know more or just want me to explain somehting else in detail let me know. Oh and yes solarlight did get 41 kills in one life in this video

To answer a few of your questions "How is he floating like that?" an enemy engineer has built a sentry and it is shooting him, the knockback of it is keeping him in the air Yes, you can charge while holding a grenade launcher, the only requirement for charging is that you have a shield equipped, this playstyle is commonly called hybrid Knight "What gun is that" That is the Iron bomber, its basically stock with a few minor changes, its probably better or something, idk "How did he jump like that" he is using the knockback from his own explosives in the same way that you rocket jump, it just takes a bit of practice to learn to blast jump off enemies. The iron bomber is the best for this thanks to the grenades not rolling like stock does. The medigun uber that the medic is using there is the KritzKreig, instead of giving invulnerability it gives the patient guaranteed critical hits. Solarlight is widely considered the best demo man in the game, but technically yes, he can still improve, Currently the consensus is that the best overall tf2 player is B4nny. Also I Have no idea why it is called trimping, might be named after the guy who invented/found it.

"how did he know?" he says as the friendly pyro is walking towards the front lines with the enemy team

5:26 he bounced high to the air because of the sentry shooting him from below, as you may know, Sentry Guns have strong knockbacks, which gave him height to charge further

The 40 is how many kills he got in one life, or a "killstreak", also Solar made a video where he goes on a ridiculous 60 killstreak on upward, you should check it out

React to: •sketcheck •j_peg •blindpyro These are God tier players Please do it 😗

1:39 "what is his sensivity on?" he is using the tide turner which can let you turn faster when you charge

I think Mrswipz1 deserves a video, too. I'd be adding him to the pros.

DuckGoesMoo: *constantly asking questions* Comments, including myself: Aw shit, here we go again...

“Dead game” I never knew people could have that few brain cells...

when the demoknight is an actual person:

Trimping is a glitch of a glitch, where slopes can be ridden without losing or even gaining momentum, and going off them correctly can lead to some crazy distance coverage. There are videos with better, more in-depth explanations. Some of his jumps and accidental deaths stem from explosives and knockback, as he can jump to boost off an enemy rocket to escape or be thrown off edges by other explosions.

theduckgoesmoo: oh my god his flying Me: really? Does the demo have a rocket launcher to fly? He's a demo-knight XD

2:00 "pretty sure big smoke is a bot" Me: *sad big smoke noises*

Here is one thing to remember about weird movement in tf2. It's almost always caused by turning. Trimping is when you launch yourself off a ramp, then abuse a bug that lets you gain velocity when turning mid air. That lets go fly much further than normal

Awww yesh it was worth to wait for that video! Also SolarLight is Demoknight Main so he can do trimps, trimps is like charging in one spot somewhere And just going with mouse left And right so your speed is incearsing If u don't know what is Demoknight, Demoknight is like hidden mini Class, its from beging supposed to be demoman with: Charge Targe And eyelander, but then Valve added more weapons to demoman

The part where he was using the charged with the grenade launcher that's called hybrid knight where you don't use any of the boots and use a sword, shield, and grenade launcher. It's a good way to deal with 2 of demoknights biggest weaknesses. Pyro's (Even though they can still Air Blast your pipes it's better than just running at them over and over and over again while being pushed back) and sentry guns because if there's a century of any kind mini or not you can't do s*** as a demoknight you're just kind of there waiting for your teammates to break it heck even solar light has trouble with them sometimes. So using a grenade launcher, especially the Lock and Load with its larger range and 20% more damage engineer buildings, is really handy the only downside is you don't get the utility of the boots.

2:58 He knew because he touched the Pyro, when you touch your teamates and they're not solid, they're your real teamates, if you touch them and if its a solid touch, then that teamate of yours is a Spy.

So sometimes you can trimp, you can also use your pipes (better to use Iron Bomber) to jump in the air. You can also charge while in the air to go farther than a normal charge.

Trimping is pretty much hitting off of something in a way that makes you fly

The thing solar dose with the launcher sword and shield is hybrid knighting you use the charge n targe (for damage resistance it gives) any sword (typically clayda more) and you use the dmg resistAnce and charge speed fly around but ppl with swords and use grenade launcher

6:08 Nessie's Nine Iron: Let me introduce myself.

Duck: "How did he just float like that?" There was a sentry gun there and the force of it shooting knocked him into the air.

5:26 a sentry kept knocking him upwards into the air

5:28 specifically in that shot he was getting hit by a mini sentry underneath him and the knock back was forcing him up. Also the last half of the footage was Solar playing as a hybrid knight. Hybrid knights give up the Ali Baba's Wee Booties/ Bootlegger to keep their grenade launchers. Whereas full demoknights use the booties or bootlegger to buff their health to 200 hp or counter the health penalty of the Eyelander and maintain 175 hp

at 5:26 where he started flying, I believe it was because of sentry knockback. Since the sentry was shooting up at him, it propelled him into the air. The melee hits where he's hitting people from under also cause a small bit of knockback, which he uses to juggle the enemy and basically make it a bit easier for himself to kill them

He jumped high using his own iron bomber pill. He surfed it

How does he do it you ask? Scottish magic.

Hybrid knight is when you use a launcher instead of the boots

at 9:13 that's trimping the clip after that you can use enemy damage (especially explosive damage) to give yourself a boost in a certain direction which is why in the one one of the clips on upward you said why did he jump in the hole he got hit by a demoman grenade and got launched in the hole

"How did he just float like that?" If you're above a sentry and it starts shooting you, it pushes you back, and keeps you in the air The name trimping was borrowed from another game with a similar mechanic.

"He a little confused but he got the Spirit"

At 5:25 you can notice that he's being shot a bunch, and therefore sends him flying. Also, hitting a "pipe" basically means getting a direct hit with one of demoman's primary weapons, which does 100 damage, as shown in the video.

Whenever a grenade launcher is used with a demoknight, then it's called a "hybrid knight"

Trimping is basically turning sideways to increase your speed and using ramps to fly into the air. I haven't played a lot of demoknight, so I'm new to the concept. There is a video Solar made that explained the concept (as well as a few other bugs). Also, going on the ramps isn't just a demoknight thing. Trolldiers use the ramps too to maintain their speed. That's why SolarLight likes to play on Upward as to SoundSmith playing on Hightower.

Drinking challenge: take a shot everytime he says "dead"

demoknight tf2 The way to Demoknight is to just push the enemy and then instantly dip when your health goes too far down

The float mid-air thing. He utilized the sentry's knockback which is bizarrely weird to reach a certain height.

when he was floating he was just getting shot by the sentry repedidly in the air

"How does he do that? He flies in the air"

The reason I Enjoy watching these reaction videos, is because I get to see through the perspective of someone discovering something truly wonderful! Great Video, Keep the Good work. Also be sure to react to Soundsmith's other content Like How to trolldier, or Mann's Guide, not just stereotypes!

There is also called bullet surfing, where you surf on the enemies bullet to get out but with a risk of losing health

i waited so much for this video

when you use the shield and a grenade launcher at the same time its called "half-demoknight" or "half-demo"

React to Soundsmith's how to trolldier vids

Solarlight also has a video that shows all the "bugs" involved with Demoknight that explains some of what he is doing.

5:26 there was a level 1 sentry gun on the ground. taking damage actually pushes you very hard when you're mid-air. it's also how he bounced the pyro at 6:34

Trimping is a mechanic where you use a slopped surface and surfing to increase your speed to basically fly

So, uh, that second-to-last clip had Demoman trimp, pull out his grenade launcher, shoot the front lines close enough for him to suffer recoil and stay airborne, and destroy the sentry while it kept him suspended in the air with heavy gunfire. Just...wow. If he's staging this shit, it'd suck, but you can't deny how absurd this kind of shit is even in a controlled setting.

5:24 What he's doing here is using the enemy sentry below him to push him up, as sentries have increased knockback

There's reaching the skill ceiling and then there's breaking it

That part at 5:26 wa him using the damage force from a Sentry to pushhim into the air so his charge would have enough distance to reach that sniper.

Trimping is a combination of bugs. The first is Air Turning (Turning mid charge while in mid air), which allows you to build up much more speed during your charge than intended. The second bug is ramp sliding, where you will slide up certain angles if you are moving fast enough. (Note: the angle that makes a ramp slidable can be a lot looser than you think it is.)

9:15 that reaction

I did trimp inadvertently with demo quite a few times, since i tend to repeat the same form of attack, usually on the same path, until the objective is completed. Depends on the game type as well.

Not sure if you know by now. While there isn’t a baseball bat reskin for the eye lander, there is a golf club one.

5:26 He started to fly because there was a sentry below that was shooting him up into the air.

"why Is he going to their spawn?" Demo can spam sticky traps in the spawn door until someone kills him, that way not only farms kills, but delays the enemy defence and, well, annoys them "Why he was flying like that?" The sentries of engineer have some knockback into them, so if someone jumps at the range of them, they can (maybe) get knockback into the air

Most of the time you use your charge to escape sticky situations or to close the gap between your enemy instead of doing a bit more damage

Trimping is fun in tf2 since you can zoom around the map in such high speeds

Can't wait to see that one comment that just Wrote "demoknight tf2"

I play this game for 10 years now but i react exactly the same when i watch solarlight :D

Everyone: What the hell are you? One Scottish boye who plays too much: Death

8:43 That's called a Hybrid Knight where you use a grenade launcher with the shield and sword.

Simple explanation,Source engine is f.cking dumb,you can essentially slide up anything that has a slight ledge,any ramps,or even some stairs,and use the velocity to fly. Hope that helps!

Demoknight go AAAA

5:25 probably a Sentry shooting from underneath him, it happens when I'm ubered as stuck in place

trimping, the art of triping but going up instead

Easiest way for you to learn how to trimp, is to go to a map called "degroot keep", its a misc map, in the lower section of match making map selection, melee only. There is a rock right outside blue spawn which is easy to trimp, you can try it there, just charge towards toe rock"at the smooth part"

Nice, there are so many pro players that push the limits of a class and subclass to their ultimate form it's crazy

If you're looking at other TF2 players' gameplay, here's a few to consider looking into: j_peg (Platinum Scout, loves the Atomizer, hates the ground) sketchek (legendary Pyro, makes Airblast scriptbots blush) jbird (smoothest Platinum Sniper I've seen) blindpyro (mastered the art of Bazooka Jumping) jayhyunpae (mastered Rocket Jumping, likes using the Market Gardener in Platinum competitive) stabby stabby (legendary Spy, basically invented trick-stabbing) Sirky (beautiful Sticky Jumping skills in normal gameplay) iLambdaCore (mastered Air Pogos with Stickies in Jump Maps)

Yooo you actually did it

Demo can sticky jump, trimp, cannon jump, and pipe jump to fly through the air as an alcoholic ace

The way he floated at 5:27 was by getting shot by a lvl 2 sentry repeatedly.

If some like theduckgorstwo didnt rerelieze when he floated just before markiplier big brain time appeared, he flew because a sentry was shooting him from below.

Playing demo knight is the most satisfying thing to do in tf2 duck

8:27 Its the amount of kills he got in that 1 life

Sometimes the knockback from explosions, bullets and melee attacks can be used to keep your momentum during flight.

the most important thing you can do in tf2 is pick your fights, know what you can and cant get away with

9:06 That's the Iron Bomber.

To answer some of your questions: 2:30 He diddn't purposefully jump in there. The grenade from the previous demo hit him while airborne increasing his momentum to a point where he got to much speed to strafe around the corner midair. Launching him into the pit. 3:40 The Pyro diddn't taunt for no reason. His flamethrower has the effect of giving the user guaranteed critical hits (3 times damage) for 10 seconds after he's accumulated 225 damage on the enemy team. To activate this effect the pyro has to taunt for which he gets an invincibility buff. Solar hit him right after his taunt invincibility ended, but before his crits came into effect. 4:25 I think it originally came from a different game called Fortress Forever, in which you could jump higher if your character was partially standing on a ramp. That was the original trimping. I think the name just got carried over once TF2 had it's own weird jump slide mechanic. 5:20 He does take fall damage. Most forms of advanced movement in TF2 come at damage payoff. 5:26 Damage in source games directly translates to momentum. There's a lvl 1 sentry underneath him, which juggles him upwards. He escapes by using his charge toward the sniper. 5:55 both. 6:34 Same reason as before. Damage gives momentum. He hit the pyro directly from underneath, causing him to go directly upwards. 8:19 That means killstreak per weapon. He got 40 kills with his sword alone without dying. 9:15 That's got something to do with how trimping and source engine airstrafing work in general. I recommend just watching a tutorial. You should probably start with normal rocket jumping tho. Most of what you'll learn while rocket jumping can be applied to any other kind of advanced movement. Sound Smiths Market Gardner guide is really good to get a basic understanding. 9:21 You can see that he previously shot a grenade underneath himself. He used the grenade explosion to to a grenade jump. Thats similar a rocket jump. Same at 9:42 and 9:47 10:35: His medic is using the kritzkrieg. Kritz are indicated by a lightning effect around your weapon. Ubers make you shiny. 11:20 Oh yeah Tf2's skill ceiling is unbelievably high. It's really worth it tho if you're willing to invest the hours. I hope I could be of some help. Oh and if I may make a video suggestion please watch __[TF2] How to Trolldier: Market Gardener Basics__ by Soundsmith next. You're gonna like it.

i was once training with solar light for an tournament

"The skill ceiling is pretty high?" PFFT what ceiling?

Trimping is basically hitting a surface at an angle where you slide on it instead of sticking to it, which lets you build up speed and use the surface to launch yourself into the air. Tf2's physics engine is full of bugs that can be exploited for movement. Also using a shield with a grenade launcher is called being a hybrid knight.

Solarlight: Professional Demoknight, Known for his 60 killstreak as Demoknight in one game, and his Insane Trimping capabilities. People Fear This Man.

5:28 Sentry bullets, does knockbacks

The god of trimp and demoknight

Who knew Edgebugging and Acceleration can send you flying