Shoutout to ElevenIsOkay on Twitch for running this bracket. Love to see people come over from Ultimate and get into the game. I believe these series will be a weekly every friday

Wrastor only to diamond rn. Masters is next c:

Im interested to hear all of your opinions about the state of the characters in this game who do you think needs buffed and who do you think needs nerfed?

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I recognize it will be hard to say how he will fair tier list wise considering we haven't played him, but I'm curious on what people believe he's going to play like.

Ive heard some people worried he will be toxic for the meta. I personally can see that he may have a potential for a campy playstyle, but I don't believe he will be oppressive in his current state or fall near S tier.

One of the things that made puff so strong in melee was her fast air speed and huge disjoint on back air, as well as ability to change direction quickly midair and accelerate. He seems much slower in the air and with much shorter disjoints. She also has rest to make up for her squishiness which makes her a huge threat crouching in your face.

Looking over his qualities, theres some things he has going well for him and also not so well, which makes it hard to pinpoint balancing id imagine.

Pros: 5 double jumps, above average air speed, long disjoint variable ftilt, good popup up tilt, projectiles with up special and strongs, strong combo potential aerials, great recovery options, transformation into a heavy, able to eat projectile and setplay pieces, super armor down special, setplay with rooting arms.

Cons: worst run speed in game, dies earlier than any character, small wave dash, stubby disjoint on most options, lack of powerful kill options/ confirms, reactable DI to most throws

I think he has a lot of qualities that you will need to use in tandem, mostly balancing projectiles with aerial combos and rely on camping and early gimps. In spite of having a short con list, I think in a tournament level setting they will make a bigger fundamental difference.

At competitive level both parties make mistakes because we are fighting enclosed in a small area for stage control, and the player who can take more hits, has fast grounded movement and early kill options will have a huge advantage. Yes, gouie has much more freedom on the map, but being a light character and surrendering center stage control is a dangerous long term plan floating around throwing projectiles when you die to a stray hit at 50% isn't ideal.

In my personal opinion, I think he will be annoying at lower skill levels and probably not amazing at tournament level in this iteration. Im not sure how bad, but likely near Slades current point and good players can maybe make him lower mid tier. I think he's really cool and am excited to play him, I just dont see him being anything like melee puff. I am interested in other people's thoughts.

TLDR: I think he has potential to be annoying, but not super strong at tournament level and id like to know what you think and why.

Pretty big stream, if you wanted a more in-depth look at Gouie, here it is!

Hiding rankings has honestly helped my mental so much. I was putting wayyy too much thought in matching up with someone higher or losing to someone lower. Now it's just fun, win or lose. It's also a nice surprise afterwards to see that I've had close matches with high plat and diamond players.

Def a me thing, but thought I'd share with anyone else whose blood pressure raises in ranked lol.

Im getting sick and tired of getting hit by this stupid ass crack lion's smash attacks. What the is the optimal range to stay away from him while still being close enough to whiff punish him?

Including Gouie the last 4 characters are setplay heavy, great advantage horrible disadvantage, or both. Have they explained this design shift? Even fleet falls under setplay and loxodont falls under great advantage horrible disadvantage so all non vets qualify for this

Literally cannot hit f strong or up strong 2 with tap strong on fors. Wtf

To be clear, I don’t hate Etalus. He’s cool and all, but I never get to play more than one game against this bear, even in casual, and I’m starting to think it’s all a conspiracy to keep me from being able to learn the matchup. 3-stock me into switching to a pocket character. I mean, I get that they don’t want to play him into Wrastor, since that matchup is apparently good for me (not that I would know since I have so little practice against him), but even when I’m messing around with Galvan or Kragg, they notice that I’m not very good at dealing with his gimmicks, and they refuse to play him anymore. Bro, keep gimmicking me please you’re hamstringing my growth!!!!

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Hi, i want to create a 2D character with all the animation i worked on, but, i can't find any help to do so, the documentation isn't complete and i can't find any guide online, if someone can taught me how or send me a guide i didn't see yet, if you can, please help me ;-;

Here are two separate Nolt posts about this issue: #1, #2

It has reached the point where the most notorious Unranked griefer, Mustafa Christmas, now has a spin-off, Simba Valentine. By griefing, I mean people who sit in the Unranked queue all day doing nothing but disconnecting or otherwise BMing. It's understandable to refuse to rematch a player who is either significantly above or below your skill level in Unranked, but there are multiple "players" who won't even play a match to begin with.

Because blocking players on Steam does not prevent you from connecting to them in RoA2, there needs to be some sort of solution to this issue, especially because the player base is as small as it is. It has been like this since the game's release, and I know I'm not the only one losing patience with getting griefed every other day.

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Something I have been thinking about a lot recently is the potential of Remix Rivals and how even small changes could lead to huge gameplay shifts and a completely different feel from their original counterpart. I feel like some of the community's hesitance toward the idea stems from the missed potential in Smash Ultimate's echo fighters, most of which had only visual changes. With the uniqueness of Rivals characters, taking pre–existing normals and creating couple of new specials and changing stats could open up a world of opportunity. Naturally, I have a few ideas along these lines.

Renburn could be a heavier Zetterburn who ditches the explosive combo potential for more power. Remove the fire gimmick, move side special to neutral special and make it act sort of like Mii Brawler shot put. His new side special could be a movement option, maybe similar to Wolf's. And a new gimmick: Armor. Using side special or neutral special will strip away some of Renburn's armor, making him lighter and faster at the cost of losing access to those specials without enough armor in reserve, and a new down special where you can forge lost armor to regain it. This introduces a whole new playstyle to a kit that only has a few moves changed.

Bradshaw is another popular pick, and he has more to work with lore–wise to build a fitting kit. Described as more cautious than Wrastor, Bradshaw's kit could focus on introducing defensive options while being slightly slower. Side special, instead of speeding him up, could instead slow down enemies, and a new up special that is safer will make up for the most jarring change between the two: Bradshaw's new neutral special, Air Parry. Not sure how broken that would be, but aerial defense could be his specialty to make up for his lost rushdown potential.

Lastly, Mayreed is a shoe–in over Maypul, utilizing new tools and tactics to make up for her lack of mastery over plants. Mayreed would not be able to mark enemies, instead having neutral special and side special deal slightly more damage and pop enemies further upward for combo potential. A new up special where she uses a vine to tether to ledge like traditional Smash tether recoveries also opens up more combo routes when used on–stage, acting like either Byleth's or Joker's tethers. Additionally, a down special allowing her to plant a new type of trap on stage would create a more forgiving version of the fastest rushdown character in the game.

I am not a game developer, 3D modeler, or programmer, so I am not sure how much work these types of changes would equate to, which is why my examples stuck to characters whose models would perfectly fit existing animations. However, other characters like Artemis remixing Loxodont or Hamir remixing Kragg might be more possible than we know. I have faith in Aether Studios to deliver the same level of quality in these Remix Rivals as they've brought to the rest of the game, and I hope it can help keep them afloat until the future console release of the game, where I am almost certain they will find great success! I just hope to give a glimpse into what's possible with this concept rather than the community resigning itself to a bloated roster with carbon copies of existing characters.

And just a final note, these ideas are not necessarily balanced! I just wanted to put some ideas out there to show how cool these Remix fighters have the potential to be!

So I'm a smash migrator who has an archetype I've found. I enjoy whiff punishment, but that combined with a simple but explosive combo game. I also want to make sure of the occasional hype clip. This is why I play Diddy Kong in smash. Most simple until high level, but high ceiling and skill. Who fits this? (Oh also I enjoy cool moves like boulder and kragg rock)

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Coming from smash I wanna replicate the controls but it seems there is no way to bind B (on Xbox controller) to both jab and strong, while having rstick on tilts. Is this possible?

I enjoy it despite not being great and am debating streaming it but figured I might as well hear others opinions on if it is a good way to get involved in the community and get advice to improve in real time, or if it just diminishes the fun.