Once you’ve mastered each individual type of movement in Slashy Souls, you can combine them and perform a couple of quick adjustments. These movements can be used while both on the ground and in the air in order to stay alive. Something that is incredibly useful is the diagonal left and upward swipe. Swiping diagonally up and back will cause you to jump and move backward as if you were rolling to reach high places you may have missed. Making this move as your very first move when respawning is how you might receive the bonus item sitting on the ledge right behind you. Whether it’s a coin, a soul cache, or a weapon, it is extremely useful and has no downside; it is impossible to be damaged while performing this movement.
Combining movements together can also save your health pool, especially when you encounter those tricky spinning mace devices surrounded by bear traps. Getting through this obstacle is tricky enough, but sometimes you may run into a situation where the final bear trap is pushed up directly against a platform, forcing you to jump in order to keep moving forward. In this case, the best thing to do is to combine both a forward roll and a jump during the roll, thus not becoming stuck inside the bear trap.