Ranking EVERY Neutral Special Animation in Smash Ultimate 

Thanks for watching everyone! This one ended up being a bit of a beast to try and wrangle in, hopefully the time resulted in something fun. Also just a heads up that even as long as the video is, a lot of stuff still got cut (the one that has come up most often in the comments is the charged version of Blurring Blade). I actually did look at essentially every alternate form in the game and excluded some of them in editing if they didn't change my mind at all. In retrospect this isn't as obvious to viewers as it felt to me and in the future I'll probably be a bit more consistent. Let me know what you thought! *Main channel:* ru-vid.com *Twitter:* twitter.com/MrMockRock *Patreon:* www.patreon.com/mockrock *Twitch:* www.twitch.tv/mockrocktwitch *Teespring:* teespring.com/stores/mockrock *TimeBolt affiliate link* (excellent software I use to speed up editing on my videos, use code "MOCKROCK" for a discount): mockrock--timebolt.thrivecart.com/order-page/

One thing I love about sephiroth neutral b is that the full charge dims the screen and even lowers the volume of the music. I don’t know of any other move that does that but it really emphasizes that there is a nuclear bomb you should probably pay attention to about to go off.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="130">2:10</a>:30 It's not just _any_ anime nonsense, it's a Kamehameha, which makes sense as both Hero and Goku are designed by Akira Toriyama.

Kirby wearing Ness's hat backwards is a reference to the Yo-Yo copy ability in actual Kirby games, same reason his Link hat wasn't changed to BOTW Link!

For Steve I would’ve personally considered the fact that the blocks change how they look/sound on some stages, along with the mining noises. It’s a great detail that I think moves it up to A tier

Some stuff that didn’t get mentioned: - Palutena’s reticle is pulled straight from Kid Icarus Uprising, where it’s your main way of targeting. I only noticed this after playing Uprising, but it’s a fun detail - I never noticed Charizard drools onto the ground when he holds his mouth open for Flamethrower, gross! I like it! - The wire frame alt for Little Mac uses a much more retro sound, neat detail

I think the main reason Mii Gunner's Gun isn't as animated as the ones from the space animals is because Mii Gunner has many different costumes with very different gun designs, having to add (different) details to all of those would be so much work i can understand why they didn't. This might also be why Charge Blast spawns the projectile so far away from the gun, its to accommodate for the different designs and lengths of the gun in all costumes, it probably looks better on the costumes with longer guns

MockRock: I'm not going to complicate myself by evaluating Min Min's Neutral Special for this list. Also MockRock: *Let's rank ALL of Kirby's Inhale Neutral Specials!*

I'd love to see a ranking of the idle animations. I always loved the amount of character that can be conveyed in the moments where you aren't even playing the game.

For shulk's sword blade vs hand for buster and smash art, my interpretation is that for smash art, he's not powering up the blade itself, just swinging it with more power. Thus higher knockback, and it affects his hands. With buster, he makes the blade itself more deadly, so it does higher damage, but there's nothing different about his swing, so no extra knockback. It's like if you swung a baseball bat. Smash art makes him stronger so he can swing the bat harder, so his hands. Buster art is like attaching spikes to the bat so it does more damage.

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Hero <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="132">2:12</a>:13 Banjo and Kazooie <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="133">2:13</a>:36 Bowser Jr. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="135">2:15</a>:19 Duck Hunt <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="136">2:16</a>:23 Meta Knight <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="138">2:18</a>:07 King Dedede <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="139">2:19</a>:11 Kirby

Link’s bowstring pull grip is used for compound bows. This is used to pull the bow even further back since compound bows have string on flywheels. It’s basically showing Link is pulling the bow back for even more power

Wow……that you would give Kirby THIS MUCH love at the end wasn’t what I expected. Your amazing for reviewing EVERY FRICKING ability

Hey MockRock. I don’t know if you know this, but the Hexagonal design of Lucas’ PSI is in reference to how Mother 3 does its PSI attacks. It’s kind of carried over for the two of them. I also really liked how you pointed out the design of Wolf’s blaster, didn’t realize it has a second hit.

Massive props for ranking all the inhale abilities, that seems like a nightmare. But it means we get to hear kirby's voicelines, so it's a win in my book.

You missed the fact that Peach and Daisy's NSpecial animations are subtly different. Peach cowers behind Toad and looks up when it's done to see if it's safe again. Daisy on the other hand just covers her ears and stands back up as if nothing's wrong.

Fun fact: Wii Fit Trainer's Sun Salutation is unique in that it is the only move in the entire game that deals "Solar" damage, which is an on-hit visual effect similar to fire or lighting attacks, only instead it surrounds the opponent with those little circular lense flares.

I always thought Toad pepper sprayed the opponent. The fact that he shoots out his own spores as a counter attack is pretty cool…and a little creepy

Three hours. Wow. Also I do agree that R.O.B.'s base level charge is more satisfying than his fully charged one, lol.

I believe you misinterpreted Wolf's recoil animation, it is in fact there it's just that he keeps the recoil energy into the blaster itself hence the huge swing up. The reason why Fox and Falco's body moves back a little is because they're holding the blaster steady so the recoil energy transfers into their body more just so they can keep their aim. Wolf uses the blaster's recoil to his advantage as he also uses it as an attack with the blade.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1815">30:15</a> Not to be a super mega nerd but in Street Fighter lore it's explained that a Hadouken is not actually a fireball, instead it's pure force. It's essentially just a ranged punch, which is why it's always used basic hit sound effects

It continues to be inspiring to see how much effort you put into what you consider your “more casual” channel, seeing a nearly three-hour fully edited video here was totally unexpected.

This video came out for the perfect time for me as I was in a hotel struggling for entertainment so I just pinned watched all of this though I was wondering why there was so much of the video left when you did the last character only to find out you were doing all the Kirby hats

I can guess who'll go into A or S tier: Captain Falcon, Kirby and King K Rool.

I also really like how the whole world goes dark when sephiroth's gigaflare gets launched

I don't know if anyone's said it, but I love Kirby's backward hat when he inhales Ness. It's a reference to the hat he gets for the yoyo ability in the Kirby games, which is in itself a reference to Ness' main weapon.

I love how Nintendo didn’t try to sugar coat jokers gun and just called it gun

Just so you know, you're definitely one of my favorite youtubers, and I watch a lot! Every single new video is like a little treat 😄

Mockrock: Says the word "Sorry" during the intro. Me: Is violently reminded that he's Canadian.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="501">8:21</a> "The bayonet causes damage" *damages Bayonetta*

Dang, what an incredibly thorough video. Absolutely worth every minute of its run time. Well done! Just a couple notes: - The charge-up to DK’s punch actually spins faster towards the end. It’s a nice touch in line with moves like Shuriken of Light that accelerate, but this is also how the move looked in, of all things, Subspace Emissary. The way DK swings his arm when he’s about to punch Diddy out of harm’s way is strangely reminiscent of this Ultimate animation in a way I love. - Kinda bothered by how much of Rosalina’s face is covered during her charge-up. I wish her body and head tilted backwards or more towards camera, so that we can see her one eye during more of the charge-up than just the very end. - In Xenoblade, Monado Enchant (which despite the name, seems to be what Buster is based on) is an effect placed on Shulk and his allies’ weapons, to let them cut through enemies their gear otherwise bounces off of. As a result, I kinda like Buster only lighting up the sword and not the hands, like Smash. - Kinda wish Kirby got plush Pikmin in the same vein as the plush Kazooie. Maybe for other moves, too? - Like you said about White Kirby with Robin’s copy ability, I think a couple skins kinda make it harder to look at certain animations. As cool as the Dark Link skins are, for example, almost everything is the same shade that it’s easy to look at it all as one blob. It’s also really easy to miss how Toon Link’s bow goes straight into his front foot this way, too. - Huge agree on Daisy. Why DIDN’T they give her a Shy Guy or something instead of Toad? Maybe make her look more like she’s sending them forward instead of cowering? - Not enough love given to the smooth animation transition from unshaved MockRock to shaved MockRock. Very nice swap from one to the other, and the coffee mug on Frame 3+ really helps hide the missing facial hair. Good sound design on the sip, too.

Two things: Little Mac has a unique animation for when he uses his neutral B in the air, he awkwardly gets lunged with a shocked expression, it's amazing. Kirby's Bowser animation is a reference to his Fire ability.

Luigi’s fireballs could also be a reference to how the fireballs are in Mario Bros, where they’re both green in color and travel in an arc unaffected by gravity.

Fun little detail about Shulk. The sound effect you hear when you switch from one Monado art to another when using the wheel, is the exactly the same sound that you can hear in Xenoblade chronicles when switching arts in battle UI

Kirby not changing impressions while using Giant Punch fits him so much because he has "not having a single idea of what's currently happening" feeling to him all the time

I’ve always thought Luigi was doing a gun pose as if he was shooting off the fireball Also absolute mad respect for doing every single one of Kirby’s

I thoroughly disagree about corrin's dragon mask, I think how over-the-top it is perfectly suits the dragon abilities and because of that it's one of my favorite kirby hats. It makes him look like some world-destroying ball of death. It's a mess but I think that's kind of the point, to give off a bit of eldritch horror vibes. But that'll just be different opinions

Greninja canonically does pull water from his “leg sacks” as you put it, but in his home game, he’s supposed to throw one at a time as a 2-5 hit move, not enlarge them in his hands.

Something I noticed about Charizard is that there's a little drool effect where small droplets drip onto the ground beneath his mouth if you look closely enough. Kinda gross, but also kinda cool I guess. Same with Bowser as well.

Love that Kirby practically goes into the splits when doing Roy's and Chrom's neutral special

For his neutral special, MockRock wields Talk. Which becomes Gun when subscribed.

My one complaint with Hero's Kafrizz is that the lingering fire effects on the ground look like they should be dealing damage if an enemy touches them.

The fact that you went over every Kirby copy ability is why I always say you deserve way more subscribers. Thank you for your great work, my favorite RU-vidr!!

No mention of gigaflare darkening the screen? that's my favorite thing about it

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEW SERIES! Edit: as a classically and historically trained fencer in Italian and Spanish rapier (among other weapons) the Shieldbreaker animations hurt my soul :p Also I laughed aloud at the Falcon Punch XD

This video is as long as Sonic Forces

One minor thing that really bugs me about Bowser Jr's cannon is that they didn't use the super distinctive "ba-Boom" cannon sound effect from the cannons in the airships of the Mario games or bullet bills. Even though they don't always use that sound effect in all the modern Mario games I think it would have added a lot of character to the move similar to Mario's fireball having the old-school fireball sounds from Mario games.

the grip link uses isn´t in breath of the wild, there he puts between the middle and ring finger while pulling with all four fingers in smash he uses the index and middle finger to pull the string back and yes he does it with his back of the hand towards the face in Breath of the wild aswell. also link is preparing to land with the forward foot first in the air animation.

Jesus Christ 3 hour long video... Let's be honest Falcon should have his own tier. It is the most iconic move in smash and one of the most memorable in the FGC as a whole, and the fact that it was made without any source material is kind of a miracle. It rivals stuff like Akuma's raging demon in how badass it is. Fatality (the best Ultimate Falcon) once said that even though Falcon punch sucks he wouldn't trade it for anything

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="63">1:03</a>:00 if you're wandering why does it do 14% it's because you can charge the move and it's basically like Pyra neutral b but stronger and only hits one side

As one of two swordfighter mains, Blurring Blade can be held for a stronger startup/chamber animation

I absolutely love how there's a liquid dripping from charizard's mouth during flamethrower

The simple Mii Gunner Laser is probably more because of all the costumes they can wear.

I really hope this becomes a long-standing series. It's SOOO good to just put on in the background and chill with while I write or work.

The whole Kirby segment at the end was one of the greatest things I've ever seen in a video

These have been a real amazing series and I enjoy getting to see the animations in more detail and hear them discussed, keep it up man

You forgot about the pits' aiming upwards! It transitions between the sideways and upwards positions well and is just fun to mess around with midmatch. Also, why gunner's cannon doesn't have any flaps or steam etc. moving is likely cus the cannon changes per costume, and none of them share the exact same features so they have to go with a default "no extra animations" sadly. Would look odd if cuphead's finger started smoking from flaps that don't exist, you know?

I think wolf's problem with his laser is that he stops to 'aim' it but only for like that instant so it really just makes it feel weaker.

I think you should've mentioned how ridley's plasma breath has an animation for when he's interrupted during the charge, which is taken from the original games and is super interesting! Still watching though, what a behemoth of a video!

Loved this, wasn’t expecting the Kirby section to be so robust, so I had a good laugh with it. I always like seeing Mockrock’s analyses, can’t wait for the next one

Leaving comment for the algo. I LOVE this series, so interesting to watch the little details they put into such critical parts of the game. And when I realized that only three characters were left, that there were 30 minutes left, and that one of those characters was Kirby… Can’t believe you actually ranked them all, didn’t even notice how cute Kirby sounds making those voice lines. Wonderful work.

Another thing you didn't mention for ridley is the special animation that happens if you hit him out of it, I'm curious to know your thoughts on that

Incredible video and i just can't het my head around all the work you put in for a MockRockTalk video. Getting through generally the most important important/iconic move of every character and analyzing with such attention to detail, and even going through all kirby costumes certainly required a lot of effort, specially for an second channel upload. Goes to show how you care for the quality of your content, even in a laid back format. The video was a lot of fun and go easy in the next episode in this series. Maybe an tilt or something ;)

lol what did bullet seed do to this man. all jokes aside I love this series, it feels like peak game dev appreciation hours and it makes me realize how much love was put into even the tiniest poses and movements. I would love to see Back Airs, it’s such an odd move that every character uses differently and I could see that being really fun to analyze!

Dark Samus better be getting a high tier. That animation looks absolutely immaculate

I think back throws would be really cool, they often have really strong animations. Krool back throw is amazing

Incredible video, loved how you dealt with Kirby at the end, awesome end

Amazing video Mock! I didn't watch much of your content before this series, but discussing animation like this drew me right in, keep up the good work!

roy's feet pretty much serves as a indicator point to where the explosion willa ctualyl take place. its why it is stretched out like that, so the player can know that the hitbox is a bit more pushed forward compared to the other moves of the character that have pretty close hitboxes. its also the reason why he holds his feet like that in the air. looks a bit unnatural with the step back? yea. makes sense, if you consider he is meassuring his reach? also yes.

A couple points of kirby hat trivia: -There's actually a character who wears that exact Lucario hat in Pokémon Battle Revolution, so that's a pretty nifty touch -The plush/hand puppet Kazooie is actually also seen in Banjo-Tooie, where it's used in multiplayer versions of the minigames; for the FPS-mode ones, it's what characters other than Banjo use in lieu of a live Kazooie to shoot eggs with (also, I feel like that thing Greninja is doing -- which also a canon animation -- is less actually drawing water from its legs than just mimicking the motions of a ninja pulling shurikens out of their pants)

amazing work on this video, love these so much

The sound of your absolutely tired voice with the deep-fried effect explaining Inhale going into S-Tier both scared me slightly and made me bust out laughing. Absolutely hilarious way to end the video. Awesome video in general, keep up the awesome work!

I always appreciate the high effort put into these videos, and the content is great

Funny you mentioned Sora's voice acting, the voice clips they used are from Dream Drop Distance and IMO those are his worst voice lines by a huge margin.

Very interesting, and the way you are analysing we can see a lot of little details which is great

Amazing video, love the dedication that went into this. Have you considered doing a video about the character's victory screen? I believe it would be fun, though it would rely on you knowing each of the characters personality, history (w/ Game history too) and the likes.

If I may give one piece of advice, it would be to add more tiers. Having more choice in where to put characters, makes it easiers to understand where the characters truly deserves to be, instead of it being crammed in with a hundred of other characters in B tier

Found out about you through your front smash animation tier list, and am now knowingly subbing to your second channel before your first channel because I love this series so much

This feels more like a stream than a video lol. I love all the effort you put into your vids mock! Fantastic job.

I'm interested to see how he ranks the Miis in this one since they have 3 neutral specials. In my eyes none of the Miis have fantastic ones so I'm not expecting any (except Brawler for having Falcon Punch number 3) to be better than C unless points are given just for having three animations Edit: Also I appreciate how on Wolf's gun, with the bayonet, the enemy chosen was Bayonetta

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="63">1:03</a>:47 Just wanted to point out here that this move is chargeable and I wanted to know if you had just forgotten about it or just found it not important enough to comment on? Either way I love this video, especially as an aspiring animator and smash fan Edit: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="65">1:05</a>:52 I'd imagine they didn't bother animating the default gun option when the character's outfit is fully customizable Edit 2: Very specific detail but I really like how when villager takes an Item out of their pocket and not a projectile they'll do the same animation from animal crossing, its just very cute Edit 3: <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="105">1:45</a>:56 This is actually an odd detail lifted from the anime but Greninja actually makes the water shurikens in the shape of the shuriken pattern on its legs, not the sacs of water, so basically Greninja's using them as a mold. Either was it's super cool looking Edit 4 (holy crap this comment is long wow sorry): Another really cool detail I want to point out is for mac's KO punch, during the wind up, it almost looks like he might be feinting a straight punch and then coming in for the uppercut at the last second which is not only really cool if true, but also explains why it goes through shield

Hope these are getting the attention they deserve - you got some really nice commentary

Like always great stuff, thanks for the quality content man

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1162">19:22</a> I understood that reference :>

As someone who goes into Training Mode just to look at animations, I would love to see this as a series.

Really love these videos, great way to pass time at work, thanks for putting in all the work!

Watching mockrock rapid fire Kirby inhales is one of the best things I've seen on RU-vid. Followed by him being done for the night was also hilarious. Good stuff.

For Mythra, while charging the move, you can see ether lines become more visible on her body as she charges the moves. They’re more noticiable on her legs if you’re using a skin with darker leggings. Dunno why they didn’t do something similar for Pyra.

the animation of greninja touching the crosses on the legs happens even in pokemon if you look at the animation in gameplpay with the bad camera cuts, in the anime i think its sometimes ignored for the sake of animation, there he also charges it by just pure willpower in the champion finals match.

So glad to see another episode of this. Hope it continues.

I love all the love and effort put into this video. Well done!

I’m a little surprised you didn’t seem to know mii sword’s blurring blade can be charged, but I honestly don’t think that’d change the ranking much, it just feels a little punchier and that’s kinda it

I love seeing another Pit main’s view on aspects about the 2 characters.

4 days late but glad I finally got around to seeing it. I’m definitely interested in seeing the differences in more uniformed move slots though (similar to forward smash video, moves that are mostly suppose to do the same thing) as I think that yields interesting results. That said, I love this video and it was pulled amazingly! I’m still a large supporter of the idea of using these videos to tally up character results to find who your theoretical favorite character in Smash should be… and how it compares to your actual favorite character and why it doesn’t 1-to-1 translate. I think that would be such a fun essay video, and it could work well on your main channel, and it also promotes this channel!

I love your stuff man you do amazing video essays

I enjoy this video and I think it deserves to be seen by more people.

For Marth and Lucina, their only differently animated moves are their neutral and down specials I believe. So you only need to look at them separately one more time, unless you want to compare hair physics, voice lines, or sword particles (obviously gameplay wise they’re different).

I've learned a lot more about animation than I ever thought I would from your videos.

I believe Kirby's baseball cap being backwards after inhaling Ness is intended to be a reference to the Wheel ability from his home series, where he similarly dons a backwards baseball cap.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="111">1:51</a>:15 Perhaps the designers of Lucario's animation chose him to have a preferred side is relative to actual fighters being either orthodox (right hand dominant), or south paw (left hand dominant), with Lucario being partially a Fighting Type and the only fighting type playable Pokémon in Smash. In this case, Lucario favors an orthodox stance. Maybe a further analysis on his attacks can help clarify how well this theory holds up.