How Good Was Roy in Smash? - Ranked Super Smash Bros. 

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Roy's our Boy!

By technicality, Roy is the only smash bros original character in the roster. He is THE super smash brother

Ironic how the Guy who lived in Marth’s shadow back in melee is now on the Opposite end in Ultimate.

A Skilled Roy can beat any Fox

I'll never forget how hyped I was seeing Roy return in Smash 4! I definitely like his Smash 4 and Ultimate moveset.

Short answer: Melee: Bad Smash 4: Mid Tier Ultimate: Top Tier

Roy is an absolute BEAST in Ultimate, and not only that, his English VA Ray Chase does a phenomenal job voicing him (most notably with his Star KO scream, which is perhaps a bit TOO realistic-sounding for a game like this). Overall, he got done so good in Ultimate!

22:14 "Hold Out" you say? How very Roy like 😊

Damn Honest you really come a long way, love these videos recently. You really hitting your stride. Kinda like Roy did in Ultimate (see what i did there), ok nvm

It's been almost a WHOLE decade, and Undertale OST still brings me the same emotions I got when I first played the game. Nothing can be so affective and meaningful than those memories.

Competitive Roy is essentially a Pokemon evolution, each evolution making him stronger and more viable

Roy in Melee always made me think of Little Mac in the later games.

Can confirm fire swords go hard. I used to main link in PM and i modded his entire moveset to have fire effects lmao

Yes I can in fact confirm when I was 7 both me and the rich friend with a game cube both wanted roy over marth cause fire AND we thought only one of us could play roy at a time so it became a fighting point who would play the boy

Roy was my favorite character to play in Melee. I loved fighting people on tiny stages like Yoshi's Story and Super Flat Zone and just wiggling the C-stick to knock anyone who came anywhere near me into the blast zone. I loved overcharging the explosion sword and hurting myself. I loved all the palettes other than his default color, not sure if green or gold was my absolute favorite but the only one I didn't care for was blue armor with purple cape.

More great honest content Zach! Roy had a huge glow up over the years for sure!

Tbh if I didn’t main greninja I’d main Roy, I love aggressive characters, an aggressive swordie would be perfect

Roy also has the "strongest" attack in the game lol

Terrible in Melee and 4 due to poor approach options combined with an absolute need to approach as well as being terrible combo food in two games where and a goddamn beast in Ultimate where he got buffed to high heaven and is able to take advantage of SSBU's new mechanics that seem almost tailor made to fix Roy's biggest problems Now he's a super fast, super strong combo character that can literally combo you once and then destroy you off a single whiff punish. One of the biggest glowups of smash history this side of Smash 4 Mewtwo

I love Roy, but I'm not gonna lie to you. If there's an alternate universe where Sakurai put Leif in Melee instead, it would be a better world. The best Fire Emblem Lord wouldn't be so underrated.

Really like these videos where you go through the characters throughout the series

Thank you for the content, I enjoy watching your videos and admire your confidence (you speak directly to the camera like a presentation). I usually never put compliments in the comment section, so hope this helps the algorithm.

Love the vids man I hope u proud of urself u should be

Love ur content ma. Keep it up

Great Video!

Marth was actually considered for the first game due to his popularity, but got cut due to time constraints.

Roy may not be the best in his own series, but He will always be the best Lord to me, I hope one day when there is a Binding Blade remake, that they give him more development, mostly sticking to what Sakurai had in mind for him and what his design reflects!

Roy destroying Marth is kinda ironic.

Rest in peace Leif I still want him in smash

I see why he is better in ultimate now compared to Wii U. Great informative video :)

HOW DO YOU MAKE THESE SO FAST?!?!!? NEARLY AS GOOOD AS ASUMSAUS BUT WITH 100X THE UPLOAD SPEED?!?!

Can't wait for you to cover Mr. Game & Watch, because he had a similar journey to Roy when it came to viability

Even if he is bad, he is always my favorite character in the smash games he is in. Just truly the perfect character for me

Melee: Roy Has elements that are banned, but low speed against Marth leaves him behind, and his range was ridiculously low for a swordsman. Brawl: The character was removed to bring Ike, but in the code plus the mods Roy had good tools but difficult to use. Sm4sh: It is a Low Level Mid Tier, but the buffs are evident but it still retains the weaknesses of Melee, its range was slightly improved but its Neutral Special made it super predictable. Ultimate: I still think he is Top Tier, since he is capable of giving problems to Steve, Aegis, Kazuya, Rob, but he has problems against Sonic and Joker, but he still has good options.

While this version of Roy is incredible in how he's fast and strong, I kinda wanna see how Roy's whole "fast and strong sword character" trait compares to another character with that same trait but split into two characters as one, being the Aegis. I've seen this version of Roy be seen a combination of both Pyra and Mythra before they were added in Ultimate on March 4, 2021. (as we're getting close to that three year milestone as the announcement is exactly one month away from now!). And thank god we got this version of Roy and unlike Marth, he didn't lose his Japanese Voice should you switch your game's language to Japanese!

Absolutely love what they did to Roy in Ultimate. I tried playing him in Smash 4, but he didn't do well enough against the meta at all, so I just used Lucina instead. In Ultimate, though, he still has big flaws, but he's actually really fucking good, egen if the public definitely overrates him

I always loved Roy since i first played melee as a kid. I just thought he was so cool (and cute🤭) i didnt care abt his flaws actually i didnt see a lot of them i just saw him as my favorite character. I always lost to my brother, a marth😡, but hey🤷‍♂️. I was upset when he was taken out of brawl n i didnt care for ike. I was happy he was in smash 4 but he still hadnt reached his potential and i knew it. FINALLY hes in ultimate and HES GOOD! Hes good!🙏🔥ppl dont understand how much he deserves it he sucked for YEARS, forgotten in brawl, always overshadowed by other swordies. So yes he deserves everything he got in ultimate and he BETTER be in the next game when that comes out in 2027 idk who knows. Basically in conclusion, ROYS OUR BOY🗣️🔥💯💯

I always liked Roy in Smash because of his fire sword, his red hair and especially his hothead, aggressive and energetic personality. The latter of which isn't even present in his own game or series at all.

You cant forget about cloud, the ninth fire emblem character

While I do love Roy being very much a clone of Marth for lore reasons, I do like Smash finding ways to deviate Roy into being more of his own fighter instead of being just Worst Marth Sure hope they continue that way of evolving movesets of clone characters in future titles

Great video, unfortunately you left out the best version of Roy from PM.

Everyone knows Zain's legendary Donttestme run, and how Roy is amazing is Smash Ultimate, but I just want to highlight this set from Smash 4 that didn't have that much high-level Roy representation ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pab_TgyQCBE.html

Melee Roy was an unfinished mess, still my favorite though. Smash 4 Roy had a lot of potential, and he's very underrated in my opinion. Smash Ultimate Roy go unga bunga.

Roy's VA in Ultimate is phenomenal, but it kinda makes you forget that he's canonically 15 - 16 years old, lol.

Love the video, imo Roy has fallen off in recent times, still a high tier but is outclassed yet again by other swords

you dont cover PM ?

Based video

I guess Roy being bad in Melee was faithful to how he is in his own game

project m tho

All Roy needed to be top tier was an english voice /j

No wonder he has torn cape in Ultimate. It was too similar to Marth’s.

A skilled roy can beat any fox

Me personally, I always thought he’s closer to high tier than low tier in 4. Towards the end of the meta he’s been actually getting decent results and has a really high player base in the Mexico scene. He’s not Ultimate Roy who’s like top 5-10 but I’d say he’s a legitimately solid character.

Reeses Valentime Candy's rank BIG HEART S tier Big Medium Heare A Tier Minis Hearts C tier

Man the only fire Elam characters we need is Marth and Roy do we really need a bunch of character,s for one series

I genuinely hope in future smash games they totally rethink the fire emblem characters they include. It seems like people overlook how difficult it is to pick out characters as reps from those games, considering protagonists are often one-and-done. These protagonists also tend to have similar mechanics, where the rest of the cast represent such a wide breadth of character archtypes, specialties, and gameplay strategies. While the number of characters currently included is bloated, I would argue that this might be 2 slots. However, what characters are included should represent more significantly varying movelists. This might be too much, but i feel like a better way to represent several similar characters would be with alt costumes over wearing out people who have literally no clue or interest when they could just show cool shit

Bro fire sword is this shit that's why flame swordsman was so bad ass in yugioh

ℍ𝕠𝕨 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕚𝕤 ℝ𝕠𝕪?

I hate Fire Emblem (I have not played a single Fire Emblem game)

Bok bok a

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i keep saying it...hot garbage

Where's P+ representation? :(

Where is pm roy

I was waiting the whole vid for you to discuss the strength of Roy, but all you did was talk about Roy. False advertising.

He is our boy