Scizor [01/14/2020]

[N_N]

Note that he is currently a beta. He has everything except hypers.

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[Download]

https://mega.nz/#!NMxRECwA!QNVKKtlRMeMvJBfqe6Huysu9iYEw7tH797Al7c-wDcw

 

[Comments]

The idea of creating a Scizor has crossed my head for a while as he's one of my favorite Pokemon and there were plenty of sprites available, so I made one. Feedback would be great.

[PlasmoidThunder]

And feedback you shall get, based on the small amount of time I spent testing it.

• ReadMe/movelist would be much appreciated.
• Ground hurtbox doesn't need to extend past the ground.
• Forward dash should probably have the same landing effects as his back hop considering it visually looks like he's leaping forward, even if functionally he isn't.
  • Seems strange that you can't act out of forward dash when you can out of his air dashes and back hop.
• His heavy Normals are mighty unsafe on block despite being on the slow side.
• Given that 2Y is an uppercut of sorts, it's odd that it gets cleanly beaten out by jump-ins; actually, its priority is pretty awful all things considered, especially with that large lingering hurtbox after the active frames.
• Kinda sucks that j.5B is just a slower (frame 11 compared to frame 5), more powerful version of j.5A, right down to it using exactly the same hit/hurtboxes; the startup frames also doesn't look much different to the regular jump frames, so it's difficult to even tell he's doing anything.
• Odd that he only has a forward throw, especially because it throws the opponent backwards.
• At worst, Quick Attack X is -12 on hit, Y is -24 on hit, unless the opponent is in the air, which is a hard knockdown for X, yet a techable one for Y...?
  • It's also pretty weak.
• I feel you should be able to at least grab Scizor out of Iron Head, especially if he's going to have permanent armour during the entire move.
  • On that note, I personally think he should only have one or two hits of armour, not permanent armour.
  • Should probably differentiate both versions a bit more than just distance travelled and damage dealt, especially since they have the same frame data.
• X-Scissor, well...
  • Grounded opponent doesn't SelfState when hit.
  • It looks really odd against a jumping opponent.
  • Jumping opponent doesn't SelfState if hit too close to the ground.
  • B version doesn't seem worth it since while it has more hitstun, it does less damage and both versions are -1 on hit anyway.
  • I'm not sure why you needed to make the hitbox a Helper, especially when it'd be more mechanically sound to have the root handle the custom stating.
  • It's also pretty weak.
• Swords Dance seems pretty good considering the buff occurs on frame 1, thus persisting even if you're hit during the rest of the move.

[N_N]

Thank you very much for the feedback. Though I could've sworn I included a readme in the archive. I'll get right to updating him.

 

Also one more thing, there wasn't much I could do with 8B, as the original only had 1 jumping kick animation (yeah, maybe I lied about the original having "plenty of sprites"). Hence why it looks so much like 8A. I'll try and do something about that though.

[jo19sh92]

Pretty excited to see this updated, cause so far, it looks pretty impressive.