Buffing EVERY Smash Ultimate Character 

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I have no doubt in my mind that literally just reintroducing size change would make ult brawler the most blatantly overpowered character in smash history

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One of the cool things about the Metal Gear series is all of the cool, creative and out-there ways you can attack, and so making the box useful would be pretty thematically strong for Snake as well.

Honestly for Falcon I would personally give his Nair 1 an auto-link angle hitbox to enable drag-down setups at all percents, while not taking away his Nair chains, or landing Nair combos. He gets reliable tech-chase setups at all percents that can be started from the air.

Timestamps per character: 2:14 Mario 3:19 DK 4:04 Link 5:35 Samus 6:40 Dark Samus 7:06 Yoshi 7:47 Kirby 9:14 Fox 10:10 Pikachu 10:48 Luigi 11:27 Ness 12:08 Captain Falcon 14:25 Jigglypuff 15:04 Peach & Daisy 15:40 Bowser 16:40 Ice Climbers 16:58 Shiek 17:44 Zelda 18:27 Dr. Mario 19:21 Pichu 19:45 Falco 20:28 Marth 21:07 Lucina 22:14 Young Link 22:43 Ganondorf 23:22 Mewtwo 23:52 Roy 24:09 Chrom 24:38 Mr. Game&Watch 25:04 Meta Knight 25:47 Pit & Dark Pit 26:01 Zero Suit Samus 26:39 Wario 27:19 Snake 28:14 Ike 28:54 Pokémon Trainer 29:24 Diddy Kong 29:43 Lucas 30:07 Sonic 30:54 King Dedede 31:29 Olimar 31:51 Lucario 33:21 R.O.B. 33:47 Toon Link 34:32 Wolf 35:23 Villager 36:05 Mega Man 36:43 Wii Fit Trainer 37:14 Rosalina & Luma 38:05 Little Mac 38:27 Greninja 38:49 Mii Brawler 39:24 Mii Swordfighter 40:46 Mii Gunner 41:01 Palutena 41:31 PAC-Man 41:59 Robin 42:30 Shulk 43:07 Bowser Jr. 43:43 Duck Hunt 44:12 Ryu 44:42 Ken 45:07 Cloud 45:27 Corrin 46:11 Bayonetta 46:52 Inkling 47:10 Ridley 47:56 Simon & Richter 48:57 King K. Rool 49:15 Isabelle 49:45 Incineroar 50:15 Piranha Plant 50:58 Joker 51:19 Hero 51:41 Banjo-Kazooie 52:23 Terry 52:58 Byleth 53:51 Min Min 54:16 Steve 55:13 Sephiroth 55:59 Pyra 56:12 Mythra 56:34 Kazuya 57:24 Sora

I think that we need to buff Luigi’s down throw, instead of having to watch a cutscene 0-death, just cut to the chase and have it instakill at 0.

honestly i think it would be hilarious if Kirby could crouch walk (crawl) but another thing that I think would be a really cool buff would be to let Kirby walk around while using Inhale just like in some of the modern Kirby games.

In regard to Dedede, I would honestly say that the Gordo reflect threshold should be higher. Gordos have always been the classic immovable obstacles in the Kirby series and it just feels wrong that a simple 2% jab can slap one back at full speed. I get why it's there, Gordo would easily become one of the best projectiles in the game due to how much space it can cover with its various angles, size, and long duration, but reflecting it shouldn't be so noncommittal, it should at least take a forward tilt or something. This would help remedy one of Dedede's most crippling weaknesses, being his near non-existent approach options.

For Dedede, I'd bring back his shield pressure. His F-smash used to hit shields twice meaning he EASILY got setups into easy shield breaks, and it means you can't just constantly punish his slow options by shielding anymore.

Maybe you can try something like ❛replacing one move in each fighter’s kit.❜ Conceptualize something interesting that can help their gameplan by removing something they don’t use with something that can give them extra utility.

Fun fact about Ridley. His startup for Up B was *ALREADY* shortened *SUBSTANTIALLY* in a prior patch to the point where I think it helped his viability by a legit good amount. It was so slow on launch, like, almost as slow as Fox's. It was horrible.

I've said before that I've never been really aware of the minutiae of the mechanics of fighting games and that your videos are great for teaching those sorts of things and this is another stellar example! :D additionally, as a Link main I think that change to his arrows would be HELLA fun and interesting to see. Honestly though, I'd legitimately love to see you go through all the characters and rework them into your perfect versions. I know I'd be the work of a lifetime, but at least you'll have content until the heat death of the universe? :D

So many of these were amazing picks and I agree with them. I would like to say the change I would personally make to Kazuya because I think it would make his close quarters game go from "Just EWGF" to "Make a split-second decision between two moves". First, I'd like to explain some context and reasoning. This would mostly apply to matchups against short characters, but basically, EWGF whiffs on pancaked/shorter/crouched opponents. Pikachu, Pichu, Jiggs, Kirby, and others can pancake or crouch and make EWGF miss. Plenty of characters also enter this weird crouched-ish animation when you do the Nair spike to get them back to the ground in combos and for a good number of these, EWGF will whiff after this because its hitbox is too high. He does have other moves that you generally see that can link back into EWGF in this scenario, but EWGF kill confirms can be finicky sometimes, so having a different option would not only be healthier, but give a very underutilized move some use. Because of all this, I want Spinning Demon to Left Hook (His Forward, Down, Down-Forward + B Command Input move) to be Frame 1 intangible. SDtLH is Frame 4 Intangible right now, and considering it's directly competing with EWGF, isn't justified in my opinion. What's important is this move hits low, meaning you can't low profile it like EWGF. This means that in neutral, especially against shorter characters, Kazuya now can make split-second decisions on what move to choose or else he gets punished (for context, SDtLH is *very* unsafe, and if EWGF whiffs against any of these shorter characters, they're also close enough to punish him with D-Tilt or something). I think this would make his neutral more interesting and more healthy and would hopefully make him not be "EWGF", the character. Also, SDtLH could be a little stronger, I guess? It's a good kill move, but in the context of his kit, isn't amazing, so upping its kill power just a little bit wouldn't be game-breaking. I also should say I have a bias, I think this move is really cool and it's a shame its only real use is really niche situations and following up after Side-B in Doubles (You can't buffer Dragon Uppercut after Side-B in Doubles and therefore makes it too slow to be a kill confirm like it is in singles). This comment was way longer than I wanted it to be, and I'm sure some of my explanation was confusing, but I hope the general idea and motivation makes sense.

For yoshi's egg roll i had the idea of giving it a hitbox when used in the air, as well as making yoshi fall faster while in the egg, making it a practical landing mixup, but im not sure if that falls into buff or reworks

Brawler FAir doesn't autocancel by one frame, give him that and his combo game gets way easier and more fucked up (could also chromcide if you run soaring axe kick). He even had it as a shadowbuff once

Make Sephiroth heavier instead of getting wing earlier IMO, getting comboed to death can be pretty easy with his stats and size so a large portion of the time he's losing a stock, an earlier wing doesn't matter.

The long awaited sequel! And by long I mean two weeks but it was a long two weeks, okay? My favorite change here is definitely Duck Hunt, because your analysis of the character and how it slots into the zoner archetype was wonderfully edited, written and demonstrated that cut to the heart of a lame move with the intent to turn it into something integral. Good stuff!

And what's worse about Byleth's Failnaught is that it's most commonly used move is Nair which is the best close quarters tool Byleth has. With a bow, the weapon that is exclusively used for long range. Wtf

I mained Incin on launch and after talking with some people more knowledgeable about wrestling than me, I thought the ability to cancel crosschop at its peak would be an interesting idea. A lot of wrestlers have signature moves and having his big dramatic jump from the ropes be something you can stop would be an interesting way to incorporate wrestling being staged and how they can keep the audience on their toes

Ike fair is definitely the move that needs buffing, but I would actually take the opposite approach and make it faster rather than stronger. Ike's biggest problem is that all his tools need to be used while landing, which makes him overly linear and vulnerable to both parrying and getting stuffed by rising aerials. Making fair faster and reducing the endlag so it can be autocanceled in a short hop (like Smash4) would round out Ike's kit in a super important way.

I feel as though for Chrom, having side B and neutral B slow his falling more than they do would be a pretty meaningful buff. His recovery would still be exploitable, but it'd make it so he could actually make it to the stage

hey man, i’ve been going through some tough times lately. just wanna say thank you for all this content. listening to hours and hours of smash bros talk has been super comforting for me.

One subtle buff for Zero Suit Samus is to make her able to fast fall sooner. Having to linger in the air for so long limits her in many unexpected ways. Let me explain. Many of Zss's most deadly setups and combo trees require falling aerials like up air or fair. But to step up into these combo trees she's limited to very few paths because she needs a combo starter that allows her to linger in the air long enough to be able to fast fall an aerial. This goes for ladders, nair fair flip kick, etc. It also limits her nair pressure to a specific tempo that can be used against her. Another more straightforward buff is letting her fast fall air dodge. It's a technical bug that doesn't allow her to (something about zair being a macro,) but I'd be happy with grab combos too.

I do feel like Luigi’s main weakness is his side special. When you talk about the combos at 10:48 it is problematic however, you forgot to mention his recovery moves. I would say to add less charge time to green missile, add more distance and most importantly (TAKE AWAY A LOT OF THE END LAG). As a luigi main, we really need this.

I think giving Pyra a kill throw is exactly what she needs as a buff. Everything else works so well, but because her aerials are unsafe on shield (especially against tether grabs) giving her a grab that helps seal stocks would be so valuable.

Personally, I want to give Plant super armor on the pot, all the time, kinda like Bowser Jr’s clown car. It sounds ridiculous, but because Plant has a lot of moves that involve the head, it’ll really only affect fair, dsmash, down b, and crouch, and giving those moves more utility would help, especially crouch because it would provide a unique incentive to crouching.

Ok, Cloud's change should 100% be an indicator of when you are about to run out of Limit. They patched one in for FS meter, there's no reason to not give it to Cloud as well. It would still last 15 seconds, but at about 12 seconds, the limit bar would start running down in the same manner as the FS meter.

I also used to think that the Belmonts' poor recoveries were also unjustified... until I saw someone explain it. Think of it like this: which video game series is most infamous for instadeath pitfalls and being knocked into them? Castlevania. I still think it's a bit unfair but I do think it's pretty funny now.

As a Ridley main, theres 2 possible changes that are really needed (other than the air mobility) - Add a splash hitbox at the end of down air, like Bowser's Dair Or - Add some kind of armor at the start of down smash, like K. Rool. As of right now, down smash doesn't really do anything that forward smash or up smash can't

For dedede, i'd say to increase the knockback needed to reflect gordo. You can swat it away with basically nothing and it makes it quite not dangerous The mewtwo change is spot-on. Would be really fun to play with. Maybe even decrease endlag I agree with your reasoning for no specials for miis but c'mon, onslaught, heli kick, head-on assault and counter throw are all okayish to pretty bad mives that could work with one or a couple of changes. Make onslaught not have special fall in the air and have it not obliterate mii brawler on shield. Make heli kick have kill power on the ground and more drift. Head-on assault should be more reliable, stronger and snap to ledge when facing backwards. And counter-throw should cover brawler's feet and activate on projectiles (instead of having the projectile hit mii brawler) Also, wgat you showed with ryu isn't kara cancelling. It's special cancelling. Kara cancrlling is cancellig the first few frames of a move with another. Special cancelling is cnacellig a normal on hit into a special

Oddly enough, I’m a fan of Kazuya’s Jump Back Kick. Not only is the input for the move the same as it is in Tekken 7, but it feels like a counter without BEING a counter. And the change you said would really make it stand out more, as it is not by any means a bad move; just niche.

Donkey Kong with a combo starting jab would honestly be so sick. As it is right now, I think DK's jab already has unique uses compared to similar jabs. It can put opponents into platform tech chases and also force out an immediate option from them like an airdodge or a jump, which are things DK definitely appreciates, but it's still kind of niche when you look at the big ape's toolkit as a whole. But if jab could true combo? Hot mama. Banana slamma, if you're so inclined.

Hero's bair being so slow isn't really a problem, it's safe and strong enough to warrant that. I think buffing forward tilt is a much better idea. It has a shielding property like Palu dash attack where it makes his arm invincible. This is really cool until you realize the head invincibility is active for 3 FRAMES (the arm has three frames, and the head and front leg have one). Palutena's dash attack has 12 frames of arm invincibility and 2 frames of head and torso invincibility, which is complemented by her lifting her arm up. Hence, it functions as an anti-air. I think it is much warranted to give Hero both more arm invincibility and more head/leg invincibility, since this is the only move he uses his shield in.

Kirby's dair is also my choice for buffing because it has almost the same startup as Ganondorf dair, except it has such little reward, so it was either a startup buff or a power buff, but your take on a decreased landing lag is interesting, especially since back in smash 4 it true comboes into his tilts for combos and downsmash for kill option. Young Link's Bomb having a consistent launch angle is one of the things I want because you have all these consistent combo projectiles but with bomb you have to guess where it launches.

Hey Robin main here. Although I agree with the change to forward smash and absolutely see the reason for it, I think at that point it competes with down smash which melts through shield like butter with Levin. Personally change I would make is either give them a kill throw or make Nosforatu(down special) come out faster. Robin in awakening is an expert strategist and I feel like either of those changes where you would need to attempt to get in wether on a read or edge guard along with their slow movement would make for some really awesome “checkmate” moments. Great video though.

From what I’ve gathered, the consensus of Jr players about one buff they’d give him, is changing down b. It currently takes a full second to put out mecha koopa which takes away the utility the move could otherwise have and drastically would improve his neutral if it was changed to be faster.

I find these kinds of videos fascinating, and a good way to pass large chunks of time with something in the background while working from home. In this one and the last one you mentioned moves that could use a larger rework. I'd be interested to see a video like that. You can rework ONE move on each character's kit, without changing anything else. What move do you rework and how? This can be an improvement, a nerf, a trade-off, a balancing thing, the reworks are open to all sorts of adjustments including how they fundamentally function, or even a straight-up replacement, but only that one move can be affected.

For Ganondorf, I would actually make aerial wizards foot go sideways like how one of the custom moves in smash 4 did. Aerial Wizard's Foot is only ever used when your above the opponent, something which can still be easily punished. I think that a better recovery and another burst aerial movement option would be much better.

I'm surprised you didn't suggest making Bayo's smashes transcendent. Being such eye-catching, visually powerful and slow moves, it feels terrible to see them clashing with a regular punch, especially considering they're not directly connected to Bayo herself. Making them transcendent (a la mii gunner fsmash) would make her callout abilities much scarier and just make them more satisfying to use.

You’ve talked about how preferably Daisy shouldn’t have float at all, and for what should replace that, I kinda feel like giving her a 2nd air jump may be a good option. If remember, that was her special ability in super mario run. Either that, or give her noticeably increased jump height.

I want Greninja to be able to move his shadow around freely. This would cause some control issues, coupled with the stiffness of his current movement when sending out the shadow, but it'd be a cool change, even if the move wouldn't be that good.

PK flash has the chance to apply a random status effect in the mother series. I'm not sure if that would count as a buff but it would be kind of cool if it caused random effects akin to Mr game and watches judge or something from heros kit. Same kind of fun reward off of using the charged version would be cool

29:09. I would try to make it like Monado arts. If you press down b repeatedly, it switches. Better yet, hold it, and get to pick from one of the other two

I play ken and I'd actually swap the buffs you gave them. Ken's lack of a sour spot on shoryuken would make combing into it off up smash more practical and fit in with his more combo focused design. For giving Ryu the kill throw, for one, it makes more sense logically, in a way; Ken's expending some power to do that roll so it's a more utility back throw, while ryu's just focused on throwing you real hard. Also fits ryu's tendency to have better reward off a stray hit (or grab in this case) but a worse combo game.

i love the subtle background edits. you're an artist

mentioning something about Lucas Dash Attack, you can combo into it from Zair, and well... it's Zair it's really good, especially with Double Jump Cancel Zair, felt like pointing it out

My suggestion for a Yoshi Side B buff would be to give it a big, powerful explosion hitbox when you press B again to exit it. It already means you need to time it or get the current weak egg tackle to hit before the explosion. Plus, this would be fun for 2 framing since you can let go of stick and you just stay on the edge rolling in place.

For Chrom and Kirby I would make it so their "up then down" moves are cancellable by aerials a few frames after the zenith, cancelling the actual attack but also making it so the move isn't suicidal

10:56 in brawl, the up angled version of this move had significantly lower end lag to a point where it could combo

13:45 you could avoid that by just increasing it's knockback growth, at early percentages it's still a tech chase, at higher percentages it's a kill move, like that it's not a trade off but an actual buff.

I know it doesn't fit the rules you set out, but a change for Ganondorf I'd love to see is making his up tilt just be his up smash from smash 4. Get rid of the volcano kick entirely, bring back what was one of the best up smashes in the game, and one of his best moves. His new up smash is nice for other reasons, but losing a fast, noncommittal move like that hurt him a decent bit.

Unrelated to everything, I’m loving the use of Three Hopes music in ur vids. Really underrated ost 😌

I think a good buff to Bayo would be something that allows her to hit dair as a combo finisher. It's flashy, cool, and gives her a strong finisher that intrinsically cannot kill stupid early off the top or sides since she's dragging you down into the landing hitbox, by definition on-stage.

My buff to random is giving it named presets, like controls. You can turn on and off certain characters like with random stages. Obviously default random is still there, but also gives a fun option when you want to play characters you enjoy more

Loved the vid, called Ike the second it started. Despite how much that is the change he deserves, one I've wanted for him for a while is for the spin at the top of Aether to break shields as a reference to the Luna half of Aether. This would be situational and probably not all that strong, but it would punish shielding Aether at the ledge in an attempt to grab him out of it or something and it could occasionally catch someone off guard up on a platform. ...Okay the change I WANT for him is a damn blade wave but we were talking potentially patch-viable changes lol

for puff an insane buff would be reversing the hitboxes on back air. the inner one is super strong but hard as hell to hit, and putting it on the outside to make that a better kill move while having the inner hit combo would do wonders, as one of the main things she struggles with is getting in and killing outside of edgeguards and rest/sing. that or making up throw kill at like 140 or something to bring it back to its former glory

Video idea- ranking all elemental moves (ice, fire, water..) and then deciding what is the overall best element to have your move be

My biggest thought about Pokémon trainers swap is to use a mechanic only 2 other characters have, and that’s the Shield and A/B button like inkling and Steve. It’s easy and fast to get you, you could go forward or back in the rotation with either button, and it frees up a move slot so you could have solo zard back or give them new moves like PM did

I'd like to see a video like this where you focus on small changes that aren't just small tweaks, like adding a small feature to a move or etc. No overhauls but pretty major small changes.

I would want a video making the changes you personally think should be done NO LIMITS( this means you can change hurt boxes, animations, character philosophy, alts, most importantly game physics, etc) Basically the Ultimate Smash Game ( yes that would change the game so much it would be another game like p plus, but I like your ideas so much and I'm taking notes for a smash mod like EXO which I want to work on, please make this video)

A Tier Zoo and MockRock Talk video on the same day? Count me in!

He should next to a trade offs video. In both the nerfs and buffs videos he said multiple times that “this isn’t a trade offs video.” So make one

As a mii swordfighter main I'm glad to see someone understanding what needs to be buffed the most. The rest of Mii swordfighters melee style moves are very workable, but you always want one of his projectiles in his neutral b slot, just because the reward for landing blurring blade is so lackluster, especially because its very possible to fall out of the move.

Nintendo: let’s make a toy called rob fly But a beast that is known for flying every Metroid game and no, don’t let him. Sakuri: yup sounds good.

As a Mewtwo main I am SO glad you mentioned that change to his teleport. If I could make one single change to any character in the entire game, that would be it. That would be such a massive boost to his combo game, it would require some precision so people couldn't just spam it, it would make going for teleport cancels at ledge far less risky -- it would be so sick. I would honestly even settle for a kind of Duck Hunt situation, even if he only gets one action out of the ending I think that on its own would make him significantly better. I could and would talk about the implications that would have for hours, all of that to say I 100% agree, good pick.

I forget the time so easily watching these videos. Kinda like being told a great story, time just flies.

Odd choice, but I'd personally *take away* Rosas crawl and have Luma move at standard speed as long as you hold down and forward/backwards, even during other moves. Something like this can be found on a couple puppet characters outside of Smash, and I really dislike not being able to move Luma independently outside of attacks.

what i would do for pokemon trainer is give them the ability to swap on taunt, the way kirby drops copy abilities on taunt. up taunt would switch to the heavier mon squirt>ivy>zard>squirt and down would go the other way, meaning you can instantly swap to the mon you want, and the animators could have the mon show off or wave to the crowd as they go back into the ball to keep it a taunt

Ridley: increase airspeed. SLIGHTLY increase jump height: if ridley does a rising short hop aerial he cannot act out of it before landing to rejump. Make skewer a reasonable shield breaker like uncharged Marth b. Voila

I loved this video and honestly some of the changes were so perfect that I wish nintendo had done it. I also thought it was really funny how for some of the characters you changed basically nothing because they're already really good (Steve and Mythra come to mind. Mythra's Jab is currently frame 2). For Mythra I'd personally make the up b with 1 projectile go further down. Idk if that's breaking rules but it would make that specific version of the move more useful for edgeguarding and I feel like up b should be better at it. It would also allow for Aegis players to not always switch to pyra when the opponent is off stage as mythra can do more things. It feels like a change that wouldn't make her broken and also would be important. Also for Zss I'd simply love for her to be able to fast fall air dodge like every other character in the game. It's a stupid little thing that really bugs me more than it should. I'd also love to see Little Mac's nair have a little more hit stun (like literally 3-4 frames max). Currently the move is an extremely niche move that could have a couple confirms that I don't think would ruin the role little mac is trying to play. Finally for Marth I'd love to see His fair have the same tipper angle and knockback as in melee. It feels like such a missed opportunity as it would very easily distinguish him from lucina, while also giving him kill confirms and more reward on the tipper. It would even possibly make him a viable pick in tournaments instead of as worse lucina.

I played toon link both in sm4sh and ultimate and honestly the best change in my option to his gameplay is the fact that back air is a combo move, and I would really like that to be more predominant as toon link is the jigglypuff of the links and having two great killing aerials and one that you can just combo into itself would be amazing.

i was actually excited for multiple cool buffs you could be suggesting. Man. just Bayo could have an air F-Smash, charging gun shot with held bullet arts, dashing out of witchtime with bat within and more could be great

51:26 MockRock: He barely even has a back air. Also MockRock: *Realizes what he just said* Me: *smiles*

That link buff is great because there’s a clear counter in your opponent being able to pick up the arrow or just keep you away from it

One video suggestion I have: Which move you'd replace on every character?

Game and Watch needs more of a reason to use up tilt. Give it more combo potential and it’d be really useful because right now it’s outclassed by up smash, forward tilt, down tilt, and (hot take) side special. Only follow up I can get is up tilt into dash attack at low percents with no DI

Zelda's upTilt does in fact combo into upair at the percents you claimed she didn't. You would just Instant Double Jump for that tiny bit extra height - the hitstun on the back hit is most definitely enough to allow for that, I assure you.

for Bowser change the dash attack animation to a chargeable shell spin kinda like rollout or egg roll It would look better and slightly increase in speed as you charge it while also referencing his koopa's signature attack

23:43 I'd say let him attack out of teleport. If it hits, you can keep going, but if it misses, THEN you go into free fall.

I was expecting Mewtwo's change to be increased weight, but your suggestion for Teleport makes a lot of sense as of preserving his intended "glass cannon" design while also uniformly supplementing his kit, especially since some fighters (particularly DLC) are blatantly stronger than Mewtwo while also having clearly superior survivability. The Snake buff would be hilarious. I just wish online Quickplay allowed use of attacking taunts. For Duck Hunt, I'm not sure if my suggestion would be breaking the criteria, but the change I would make is to remove the RNG of his down-B (Wild Gunman), by having all five gunmen appear in a fixed looping order. Currently, you can only accurately predict every fifth gunman (since it's shuffled in groups of five), but some gunmen are clearly better than others and its design right now disallows creating reliable setups or traps with it, on a character clearly intended to be focused on setups and traps. For Bowser Jr., I think a more significant buff would be increased animation speed on his down-B (Mechakoopa); it's currently a whopping _67 total frames_ with a 48-frame startup. For comparison: the Links, Peach/Daisy, and Diddy Kong have down-B item moves with only 36-39 total frames. Jr. has to physically chase the Mechakoopa to pick it back up as an item anyway, so being that slow doesn't even feel warranted. For a tool so critical to his success, it's comical that its slower than a full turnaround Falcon Punch.

You really spoke for basically every Dedede main I know in his segment lmao, we all crave a kill throw

I've always liked the idea of Mewtwo's teleport not having free fall in a situation where everyone is buffed.

A well thought out and reasonable list through and through!

29:14 All 3 pokemon are always loaded, unlike in Brawl where they were loaded on the fly.

I honestly think a more interesting buff for Zelda would be to decrease the ending lag on jab. It’s just barely not enough to combo aside from d-smash at later percents, so changing that so you can combo or kill confirm at earlier percents would make it more interesting and you would see more use out of it Edit for clarity

The 1 buff I’ve always wanted… HEAVILY reduce the frame data on Failnaught’s tier 2 charge. Teir 1 is mostly fine, but if you reduced the difference between them, it suddenly becomes more of a gamble, as if you try to dodge the first shot, and rhe player’s going for the 2nd, you’d have messed yourself up. It adds a fun bit of a tell gamble between both players and would be PERFECT!

When it comes to isabelle, there's 2 changes I'd like to see more than anything else. The least realistic one being a buff to her overall stats. The way she plays in ultimate is like an aggressive zoner that can do comboes, where as Villager, in comparison, plays more of a turtle playstyle. Problem with isabelle, is that she's too slow to try and play an aggressive playstyle, so if they wanted to double down on that, they could buff that. The more realistic option imo would be towards her grab. It has the same range as Palu's pre-nerfed grab, and Mythra's current grab, all while being frame 14. This is one of the most aggrevating things to me, as well as many other isa players, and it straight up just makes it hard to contest against a foe who's willing to play patiently and focus on shielding more. Also, Up tilt to up air *is* a kill confirm, technically, the timing on it is just very tight and very percentage-dependant compared to others.

Interesting piranha plant change it also makes it a more reliable combo tool as up air>ptooie into upsmash is actually a thing on some big bodies and fox

I think changing Swordfighters thing to be 2 parts instead of 1 long part. So 1 input is just the rapid stabs, and another input is the ending slash. Like Lucina and their pink sword of moderate combo utility.

Next video : Making all characters mid-tier EDIT : using Terry as a traget to justify DK having a jab combo is a nice touch ahah

The buff(s) that I'd personally give Mii Swordfighter: 1) I mostly just want a faster Nuetral-Air. Or, if not faster, adjust the knockback angle to be closer to the likes of Sora's 1-hit N-Air to potentially allow for slightly easier follow-ups. 2) I don't really understand how Mii Gunner gets to have a wall-jump when Mii Swordfighter doesn't...

Here's the single best thing you could do for Kirby: increase air speed

Great video, but you forgot to mention the biggest benefit that Mii Swordfighter players get when they choose Blurring Blade over the other 2 Neutral B moves: Street Cred. Since this is an area where Mii Swordfighter is otherwise very lacking, I think we should increase the street cred of this move even further by giving it frame 4 super armor (just a single frame faster than Ike’s Aether to establish dominance) and also give it a cooler name like, idk, Death of a Thousand Cuts or something.

With falco make him auto aim the blaster to wherever the opponent DI’s. Then there’s more accurate DI needed to make sure you’re not killed by the laser; but it could potentially also help you get back on stage depending on the direction you want to be knocked back (such as DI’ing Up would be riskier because it gives increased knock back, but then you can use more drift to get back to stage if you survive)

*someone makes a mock rock mod with all the buffs and nerfs mentioned in the previous 2 videos* Competitive players: why can Steve dash attack on frame 4?

51:01 I think that it could force an airdoge from the opponent which could benefit a lot more.

Though I get where you're coming from with the Hero buff, I would do something a little different. I would let him act out of swosh. Since it is a limited recourse, I think giving him the recovery mix up is warranted, plus it makes his put of shield options a tad more robust.

I think for Falcon I’m surprised that the buff wasn’t reverting back to the Smash 4 Dash Grab- I think that would kind of help with the killing, too, since getting that grab after doing 150% or whatever is basically guaranteed a stock

22:52 I think the only side specials that do put you into freefall belong to the miis, and out of the mii side b’s that put you into freefall, airborne assault (a side special for sword fighter) has a brief window where you can cancel the freefall by attacking before it occurs, meaning mii swordfighter can use airborne assault and their up-b of choice to recover. Flame choke putting ganondorf into freefall is just awful and baffling. Like even if it didn’t his recovery would still be bad, but the fact that his side-b puts him into freefalls makes his recovery (in my opinion) the worst in the game. At least dr. Mario has tornado and mac has down air and jolt haymaker.