All can be done by moving the right stick in a different direction toward your skates. There are different variations of the skate kick ranging from the through the legs kick to the side kick. Sticking with the one-touch dekes, to pull off the skate kick simply hit LB(L1) and pull down on the right stick. To jump deke, hit LB(L1) and push up on your right stick.
This move isn’t the best and it has a pretty low success rate, but it’s still fun to do nonetheless. To pull this off hit LB(L1) before flicking the right stick straight to the right or left, depending on which way you want to go. Stride DekeĪnother one-button deke, all you need to do for the Stride Deke is to tap LB (L1 on PS4) while skating. Simply tap LT (L2 on PS4).ĭespite it being so simple, you can find yourself scoring some nice goals. The simplest move to do in the game, spinning requires the push of just one button to pull off. With that said, we’re going to start off with the basic of basic moves that you can do in the game, beginning with the Spin-O-Rama. Hell, there are a few you’ll see that I still struggle with when trying to use both in practice and in-game.Īlso, note that we’re doing these as a left-handed skater. While some may be quick to pick up and master, many of these moves will take time and practice to pull off. Now, just to get this out of the way, these aren’t going to work every single time no matter how high your deking attribute is.
I’m Mike from Sports Gamers Online with a quick guide on how to pull off dekes that will leave your opponent’s jaws dropped and keep that goal light flashing in NHL 21.īefore getting into it, you’ll notice that many of these moves are the same as NHL 20, but there are some new ones worth talking about.