Hello,

after playing about half a year i found it sometimes usefull to just give the ball a light flip to get the ball under controll in cradle situation, I'm not talking about flick passes. Inspired by this, I thought about using weak shots for "dangerous shots"- like targets with a high drain risk.

I found it very hard to aim with this technique, because sometimes the flipper wont move and the travel paths also seems to be different.
It helped to route the middlefinger below the button to get a sense for the distance. I pulled it off some times, resulting in a slow ball hitting that target and it was easy to predict its path.

Anyone uses soft shots and to what extend?

sorry, maybe my was description was bad

i found a video of the technique i was talking about, check out from 0:46 !

He calles it a LOB SHOT:
"You tap hard (but still a tap) when the ball is exactly half way down the bat rather waiting until the ball is near the tip of the bat for a standard tap. The lob is a weak shot that bloops the ball into a "Difficult to shoot target" that sits low (like the "K" in KISS), since a lot of full powered shots would hit the slingshot when shooting low."

Thank You, you are right I checked out his other videos and found the explaination.

Yeah I gues unreliability is the reason people dont use this technique.
I tested some more and I still have the feeling I could benefit from it,
even shooting with about 70% could give me some milliseconds to react faster.

Maybe a better aim and nudging technique relativizes this issue again for me in some months

Thank You guys, I know all techniques you described and i can execute them quite well! Except the Tap pass, because i have no old games here.

My question was about using weak shots onto dangerous targets with a high drain risk.

Spyderturbo007
I thought the tip pass is called flick pass, like mentioned in my first post

I tested some more and i think its really interesting.

look at this super fast impossible drop catch, also done with a light tap:

here is an good example of such light shot (look at my right hand too):

and here you see me trying to hit the left bank target with this technique a few times:

the problem is the unpredictability, just a tiny bit harder or softer hit will change everything...