Attack Resistances - Smash Mechanics 

Lmao, I love how 16 hours after this video drops it is outdated because Kazuya just sprinkled some invincibility and intangibility into every other move

0:55 “or other places it would make sense to have a hurtbox” and DK's *tie*

How much armor do you want? Kazuya: *YES*

"You are given about 4 frames of intangibility on a normal or phantom footstool" *THE GIMR*

Hitstun and hitlag or knockback (especially how ultimate's "balloon knockback" works) could both be an interesting video topic.

Makes sense that heavyweights all have some useful armor, intangibility and invincibility moves. Except ganon, he only gets it on a 70 frame start-up move.

Everyone: "And which of these mechanics does Kazuya have?" Sakurai: "YES."

17:46 I was so confused what DK was holding for a second.

6:31 yeah phew good thing sakurai is conservative on how he uses invincibility can you imagine if there was a character where half of his moves were invincible that would be crazy

Ivysaur's bulb being throw intangible is probably so they dont get "sniped" by aerial command grabs

2:00 "the relatively small amount of things that cause invincibility." *laughs in Kazuya*

I would love to see a smash mechanics on counters. Especially since smash seems to be full of them now that are all slightly unique in their own way.

I can’t wait till you make the video about kazuya when he releases

And now 1 day later kazuya brings even more moves with armor or invincibility

Kazuya: I’ll be taking these

6:07 I main Rosalina and still had no idea this was a mechanic, thanks for the awesome video!

Sakurai apparently felt like there weren't enough cases of these attack resistances in the game and decided to compensate now with Kazuya's moveset

Let's talk about the wild ass gameplay at 1:58.

I think the different kinds of damage in the game and their properties would be a neat topic as well (slash, blunt, fire, electricity, paralysis, freeze, darkness, damaging windboxes... a nice guide for them is the different icons that appear when villager/isabelle pocket something)

In GimR's phantom footstool video, he mentions how he was unable to footstool certain things like bowser's extended arm after he does FTilt. Would this possibly be another aspect of grab invincible hurtboxes?

this video is a godsent, the amount of misinfo surrounding invulnerability and armor in this game is through the roof and having a resource like that one to explain this stuff is invaluable. That said there are sadly some minor inaccuracies (like calling grab invulnerability "grab armor", which is a different thing) and a few things that could be considered missing, like all characters having 10% cumulative damage based armor (like KKR's SideB) while being grabbed and thrown, or obscure stuff like knockback staking (when a character receives more knockback while already in hitstun but not enough to actually make them stop flying off), grab armor (the thing that makes grabs tank through certain moves like Banjo's SideB or some of Sonic's specials), armor piercing moves, etc. I get that not everything can make it into the video but it might be worth covering some of that stuff in an addendum maybe later down the road when every character is in the game and all the data is here. I regret not having finished completing the armor pages of the wiki before you started making this vid as maybe some of that stuff would have made it in. Like i said at the start, i'm still incredibly grateful this video exists, it makes my job way easier teaching folks this stuff!

If you make another one of these I would love to see a video about comeback mechanics

We may have not yet got a video on King K. Rool's hitboxes, but covering this other topic is a nifty idea!

Funny enough, this video will give some explanation to some of Kazuya's mechanics. yay

For the yoshi armor on double jump I had a replay of me spiking him with incineroar and his jump powering through.

Incin doesn't get invincibility on his arms if he does neutral-b in the air The power of the move doesn't get changed

Ridley has a unique mechanic on his neutral b that acts similar to armor where if you hit his head first while he's charging the move it triggers an animation and cancels all knockback.

Mii Brawler's FMP invincibility DOES have some practical uses in certain 1v1 matchups. You can activate the move on certain object such as, most commonly in my experience, Steve crafting table. This can protect you from minecarts without forcing you to roll, spotdodge, or jump, and will hit steve if he remains in the cart. Also useful for baiting approaches. Also, many people don't even KNOW about the invincibility, and will attempt to punish it, and are punished themselves for it, as they slip into the move.

YEEEEAAAAHHH I MISSED THIS SERIES SO MUCH

If you want an example of limb grab resistance being useful, look at G&W. Low grabs can actually struggle to grab him.

I think the reason they went with 11.99 with Incineroar is because for some reason, the game calculator cannot properly measure 12% armor. This happens constantly with King K. Rool’s Crownerang which does have 12%, where some multihit moves that don’t break the armor in 1v1s happen to break it but others that do the same amount don’t. It’s a big issue for a move as slow as that and one of the many things the dev team forgot for the character because on god they didn’t program him correctly lol. It’s weird

"It's a good thing there aren't many Invincible moves, as that would be ridiculous" >Kazuya trailer: "these 10 moves have invincibility on Kazuya's torso/legs" yaaaaaay......

Hey man, it’s nice to hear from you again.

Luma being an invincible projectile is so weird

Yes! Props to you for editing in each in-game clip.

This melted my brain. Great informative video, but I bet if Smash was a school subject this would be a study video about information I’d stress about needing to memorize

Every single smash player, at least once, has said "Lucas up smash is INVINCIBLE?"

All this waiting for your videos are SO worth it! Keep it up man!

This would be a different video if Kazuya was out

A rare example of when intangibility is better than invincibility in competitive singles: Megaman's Crash Bomb can stick to an invincible opponent, then detonate once the invincibility wears off. It just passes through intangible opponents. I'm not sure if this holds true for any other moves. Snakes C4, Sephiroth's Shadow Flare, and Inklings Ink come to mind as things to test, which I suspect is Yes, No, No, but am unsure of (I suspect the last 2 must do damage to apply their status, but am unsure.) Also worth taking a look at would be Sonic's homing attack. I'm actually not sure if it homes in on invincible opponents, but getting Sonic to slam into the ground is likely easier to hard punish than having him just bounce off an invincible opponent. Also, I would have liked to see more on grab immunity. It's well known, you can't grab a character that's grabbing another character, but there's also limited grab immunity after being thrown, presumably to prevent chain grabs, which I feel deserves a mention (try tossing an opponent directly up, then grabbing them as they fall straight down. It won't work at low damage.)

This is really good! I gotta rewatch this and take some notes because this is excellent matchup information.

A lot of super armor breaks in 2 hits as well, most notably dks side b and up b

There is also another type that is invulnerability , for example: the tip of ridley's wings during up-b ( there are other moves but this one is the only i remember) . For what i understood it's like invincibility or when two hitboxes ( or tw swords) collide toghether and it gives you that freeze animation . I think that you can also grab it

I wasn't expecting to learn much of anything from this video. The stuff at the end was very new to me though. Great video.

Kazuya: I’m about to end this man’s whole career

Great video as always

Finally! Been waiting so long :D

4:14 it actually doesn't, since Banjo gets put into hitlag. It's why I feel totally comfortable tossing out Lucas's PK Fire at Banjo, because even if he Wonder Wings it, the hitlag will usually give me time to shield. Also, Lucas can partition the last three i-frames of upsmash by charging the attack: the first three frames of the charge release are invincible.

Mii brawler´s flashing mach punch has full body invincibility for the entire duration of the move the moment he hits

Big ups to you dude

One of your best videos

Are you telling me that bowser don't have a hurtbox on his tail but DK have one in his tie!!!?

Very nice video, thanks a lot!

I always laugh when a Hero uses bounce against my Falcon. You trying to reflect these hands?

excellent video!

I never knew this was a series, glad to see it. Did you do Lucas's Hitboxes yet? I'd like to see how his smash attacks change with repeated use

The random grab armor areas are stupid. It makes grabbing with many characters even less consistent than it already is.

Topic suggestion: Reflectors

Fun fact Bowser can just run through magic burst

Conservative on invincibility.... Kazuya: Feed me more

I wonder how many new characters, with their own corresponding mechanics, could be added to Smash before the code collapses under its own weight.

Oh. I thought Attack Resistances meant the Type Effectiveness mechanic Pokémon Trainer had in Brawl.

They need to buff King K Rool's armor more, since he is a heavy weight and a final boss, he still feel more like that when you are playing as him.

The way you just completely ignored Kazooie while talking about Wonderwing made it sound like Banjo just... makes himself invincible somehow? I wish people would acknowledge Kazooie, at least every now and then. She's the driving force for basically their entire moveset, and literally everything that makes them "annoying."

alot of stuff i didnt know so thank u

Great video :)

Hitlag multipliers would be interesting. Especially with how Kazuya has basically none, Ryu/Ken have stupid high hitlag, the difference between Marth's sweet/sourspots, etc

good video much appreciated

15:45 Sakurai was feeling spicy that day, let him make every move worth $11.99

thank you for this video

Ko punch: two frames of armor at the end of the move. Waft: 9 frames of armor that guarentee the move gets activated properly. Balanced game.

Finally a video

I like how what's supposed to be little mac's trump card of ko punch has by far the least armor frames of any of his moves lol. Like you have so much time where even a simple jab would block it.

Does anyone ever like, have an empty echoey room in their home and scream SMASH, SPEED, BUSTER, SHIELD, JUMP and just listen back to it?

As bowser is one of my mains I feel that this will be helpful to me

16:48 20%! WHAT! 16:50 Oh, that makes more sense.

Very good timing considering what Kazuya has

Make more smash mechanics please! They are awesome!! °^°

Throw invincibility also matters if you're fighting Ice Climbers and grab Nana. If you grab Popo the Nana AI will stop attacking but if you grab Nana the player can still try to hit you with Popo.

I believe game and watch only had his head invincible, which is why he had more invincibility frames

They _need_ to add projectile armor to the game. Heavies need some way to get close to zoners and even just any character with a good projectile. Giving their burst movement options intagibility or just plain armor can be problematic, but projectile only armor would be great.

5:29 as a brawler main you can use the invincibility on unknowing opponents like hitting PAC Mans hydrant or Steve’s TNT

This came out before Kazyua...how cute

Wait, did you do King Dedede's down special? It's what I was looking out for all video but either I tuned out when it came up, or it wasn't included.

For lucas’ up smash, he gains invincibility for the first four frames of the move, then gains an additional 3 frames of invincibility after you stopped charging the move

Hey! I've actually used Ike's eruption armor a few times while ledge guarding, they always try to challenge it.

opened up RU-vid ad the right time today lol

At least people playing Mewtwo can't complain if the get grabbed, it's tail is immune to being grabbed

Thanks

I think you could've mentioned knockback resistance when being frozen or buried, because albeit extremely rare there are some moves that can do this.

Not sure if this was answered but I wanna ask, what's the case with Pyra/Mythra's swap? I always thought the character(s) essentially didn't exist for those few frames but it could just be intangibility soooooooo

In case of Luigi's tornado saying it lasts a frame longer is misleading : in fact it ends a frame later, but lasts 3 less frames and is much less reliable on the ground overall

I was baited into thinking this was a k rool video

What about the SSB4 elemental dammage modifier. Electric deals more damage. Fire inflicts burn and is slightly more powerfull. Water is neutral but deals slightly more knockback. Dark deals more dammage but doesn't modify knock back. Light is purely neutral.

23:06 Steve says no hand holding before marriage

Did you forget this man known as "Kazuya"?

Mii Gunner also has invincibility on Cannon Jump Kick, from frame 6 to 8

do clashing next

10:54 "which is mostly just for multiplayer" so it's always in effect?

Also, something I don't quite understand is why wing blitz is considered intangible, given that projectiles do not phase through it. I usually use the move to force myself through ptooie, and unless I'm mistaken, the ptooie colides with me to no effect