Let Etalus Angle His Up Special Somewhat#679

With the recent change to Orcane’s side special indicating that y’all are willing to make rather dramatic changes to legacy characters’ moves, I think Etalus’s recovery needs another look. It’s not a terrible recovery by any means, but it has one key issue we see all the time starting around mid levels of play and continuing at the top level: it creates lots of prolonged edge guard situations where he has to charge up special near the blast zone repeatedly (with reduced max charge with repeated use) while each time the opponent has to wait for him to reach a place where they can hit him. It extends what’s already a pretty linear, boring edge guard.

I think it’s more interesting to make Etalus’s recovery more flexible, but also to get weaker faster. I think he should be able to slightly angle his up special while charging, at most perhaps 30 degrees from vertical in either direction. (He would need to charge more to angle it more.) In exchange, I think the charge limit should be emphasized, either with an even smaller max charge time limit, or by giving him an actual up special charge resource per airtime, in a similar manner to ROB’s up special in Smash. Some version of this I think would be a lot more interesting and interactive than his current recovery routes.

delete etalus