Advanced Movement Guide: Mastering Slides, Dives, and Mantling to Win More Gunfights

Advanced Movement Guide: Mastering Slides, Dives, and Mantling to Win More Gunfights

This guide moves beyond the basics. We will teach you how to chain advanced techniques slides, dives, mantling, and jumps to become a target that is impossible to track. By mastering these mechanics, you will win more gunfights by controlling engagement timing and breaking your enemy's camera.

The Foundation: Best Movement Settings

Before you can execute advanced moves, you need the right settings. A responsive controller or mouse setup is the difference between a smooth chain of moves and a clunky death.

For Black Ops 6 (Omnimovement Focus)

  • Sprint Assist: On. This forces your character to sprint automatically whenever you move, maintaining momentum for slides and dives .
  • Slide/Dive Behavior: Hybrid or Tap to Slide. "Hybrid" allows you to tap to slide and hold to dive, giving you maximum control .
  • Slide Maintains Sprint: On. This ensures you keep sprinting after a slide, which is vital for slide canceling .
  • Automatic Airborne Mantle: Off. You want manual control to avoid being pulled out of a jump or dive by an unwanted mantle .

For Black Ops 7 (Wall Jump Optimization)

  • Mantle Assist: Off. BO7 introduces wall jumps, and you need full manual control to avoid auto-mantling when you intend to jump off a wall .
  • Wall Jump Activation: Press. This gives you precise control over when you bounce off a wall, rather than it happening automatically .
  • Sprint Assist: Tactical Sprint Assist. This provides a balance of speed and control to set up your advanced maneuvers .

Core Advanced Techniques

These are the essential mechanics you need to drill into muscle memory.

The Slide Cancel

Why it matters: It resets your tactical sprint and allows you to keep your momentum without being locked into the full slide animation . This makes you a faster, harder-to-hit target.

How to execute:

  1. Sprint (or Tactical Sprint) forward.
  2. Press the Crouch/Slide button to initiate a slide.
  3. Immediately press the Jump button to cancel the slide animation .
  4. Press Sprint again immediately to maintain top speed .

Pro Tip: You can slide cancel around corners to appear low to the ground with your gun already aiming, giving you the "peeker's advantage" over a standing enemy .

Slide to Prone (The "Fall")

Why it matters: This is a new feature in BO6 that lets you transition directly from a slide into a prone position. It is incredibly effective for breaking an enemy's aim when they expect you to pop up standing .

How to execute:

  • While sliding, simply hold the crouch/slide input. Instead of ending the slide in a crouch, your character will go prone at the end of the slide .

Input Buffering

Why it matters: This allows you to queue actions to happen the moment you land, creating seamless transitions that confuse opponents .

How to execute:

  • While in the air (from a jump or dive), hold the crouch/slide button. As soon as your character hits the ground, they will instantly perform a slide in the direction of your momentum. This is perfect for sprinting toward a corner, jumping, and sliding around it in one fluid motion .

Combat-Specific Movement (Winning Fights)

These techniques are designed to be used mid-gunfight to give you a statistical advantage.

Strafing

Why it matters: Simple left-right movement while shooting reduces your hitbox exposure and makes you harder to hit .

Execution Tips:

  • Don't move too quickly or robotically. Allow room for each side movement.
  • You must manually adjust your aim to stay locked on the target as you strafe .

The Wide Challenge Jump Shot

Why it matters: When you know an enemy is around a corner, this technique allows you to "break their camera." The game's netcode shows you on their screen a split second later than you see them .

How to execute:

  1. Ensure you are in a Tactical Sprint for maximum jump distance.
  2. Jump around the corner, aiming mid-air.
  3. Do not aim too early, or you will lose momentum .

The Reverse Jump Shot (Backsliding)

Why it matters: This is a high-level disengage tool. It allows you to retreat to safety while keeping your eyes (and gun) on the enemy.

How to execute:

  • When you spot an enemy, instead of pushing forward, immediately reverse your momentum and jump backward behind cover .
  • Because of Omnimovement, you can also slide backward while firing to create space .

Snaking

Why it matters: This advanced technique involves repeatedly going prone and popping up behind low cover, making it nearly impossible for enemies to hit you while you take precise shots .

How to execute:

  1. Stand behind low cover.
  2. Move backward slightly while going prone.
  3. Immediately sprint forward as you rise.
  4. Repeat the cycle, adding slight rotational movement to avoid popping up in the same spot . 

Black Ops 7 Specific: Mastering Wall Jumps

Black Ops 7 builds on Omnimovement by adding wall jumps . This adds a vertical layer to your evasion tactics.

The Chain Combo:

  • String together wall jumps, slides, and strafes. Jump toward a wall, press jump again to bounce off, and immediately chain that momentum into a slide as you hit the ground. You can then begin strafing immediately .

Tactical Disengage:

  • Use wall jumps to quickly change your elevation and trajectory. If you are outgunned, a sudden wall jump into a backward slide can put you out of an enemy's sightline before they can adjust their aim . 

Tactical Application & Practice

Knowing the buttons is one thing; using them in a fight is another.

  • Hug the Walls: When moving around the map, stay close to walls to minimize the angles you can be shot from .
  • Dive Checking: Use a dolphin dive to fly across a doorway or open area. This exposes you for a fraction of a second compared to walking through, allowing you to check for enemies safely .
  • Use the Training Course: Black Ops 6 and 7 feature training courses. Spend 15 minutes before jumping into multiplayer practicing these movement chains. Try combining a sprint, into a slide cancel, into a jump shot, into a strafe .

Final Tip: Do not spam movement without purpose. While a well-timed slide wins fights, diving in the open or sliding directly into an enemy's crosshair will get you killed. In Black Ops 7, diving should be kept to a minimum in direct combat as it removes control, but it is excellent for repositioning or escaping explosives .

Master these techniques, and you will not just be a shooter you will be a movement god.

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