Mario Tornado is a great attack, but it doesn't make sense as a D-air, because its hurtbox is at his sides and top, while a D-air is meant to attack from above.
So, BAD move. FLUDD would have worked fine as a final smash if they wanted to put it in, but it was a redundant move through and through.
Mario Tornado as a Down B, drill kick as a D-air, FLUDD as a final smash functionally identical to the Mario Finale. Bam, done.
I'm fine with it the way it is. Some variety in how certain moves deal damage is fine, especially since Mario Tornado still has a decent downwards hurtbox and can thus be used from above, if less effectively than others, and if I remember right it's a good landing move, as another bonus. Plus, FLUDD provides a lot of interesting outplay potential alongside the cape when dealing with certain recoveries (a reality I am quite familiar with experiencing), adding an interesting tool to Mario's kit now that it isn't a really mediocre move.
I'm not sure about Luigi getting the Poltergust given that that's already his final smash and I prefer the focus on crazy movement options for Luigi using his floaty as hell tornado. I don't particularly care about that detail enough to make me super against it, but I personally would prefer he stay the way he is in terms of moveset.
edited 31st Oct '15 9:02:57 AM by Alfric
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said it. Full Moon misunderstood completely.
I think while the FLUDD is an interesting and under-represented part of the Mario series, it's not defining enough to Mario to be a Final Smash. I mean, when you think Mario, you don't think water. You think fire. It'd make for a really weird looking Final Smashing if he sprayed water everywhere.
I think FLUDD is a good move, and down-air as Mario Tornado works fine enough. My personal opinion is that Mario & FLUDD should be their own combination character that replaces Dr. Mario, but it's fine enough as it is.
I'm pretty sure the concept of Law having limits was a translation error. -WanderlustwarriorI do think Mario has enough stuff to his name not to make up something on the spot for his finisher.
And the "I don't think water" argument... Yeah, doesn't that invalidate FLUDD? Or even fucking Super Mario Sunshine? And people kinda think "jumps" when thinking about Mario over "fire", I'd assume.
And a high pressure water whirlpool being sprayed sweeping opponents out of the stage would make about as much sense as the same thing with fire, with the added value of making some sense (and also looking neat next to Luigi's similar Final Smash in 4; Final Smash that would have worked better in Brawl than random color inversions).
That doesn't invalidate FLUDD because it's still a part of Mario history. It's not like he never had the FLUDD in his arsenal, but at the same time, it's not what he's known for. It works fine as a special move. Mario Finale feels very "Mario," which is to say it's a pretty basic Final Smash with no weird gimmicks, and involves an element he's known for across many of his games. Every one of his spinoffs associates him with fire, and I think fire is easier to play with in terms of making an attack than jumping.
I'm pretty sure the concept of Law having limits was a translation error. -WanderlustwarriorMario's entire body is a hitbox in his D-Air, not just the sides and top. It works perfectly for attacking from above.
FLUUD is a perfectly okay move and Mario is not losing anything by having it substitute his Mario Tornado and is fact getting a way to better edgeguard people. I don't see what's the problem here.
@Baffle Blend: you yourself are misunderstanding completely due to your dislike of FLUDD. I'm suggesting for Luigi Poltergust being an opposite to FLUDD, and similar to Gravitational Pull.
As for Ganondorf, my suggestions would make his Down+B and Up+B into a harder hitting variant, and he still has his smashes and other moves. And if he must have a Warlock Punch, it could easily be his forward smash, instead of an elbow. A punch would be a more effective use of range at that position, and another difference from Captain Falcon.
edited 31st Oct '15 10:42:30 AM by wanderlustwarrior
Ignoring this weird, largely irrelevant debate on whether a move is "popular" enough to be in the game or not, you may have missed the part where the move was stated to function as the exact opposite of FLUDD, as mentioned above.
There's all sorts of clever ways to design a move focused on drawing your opponents towards/past you, and even in the inevitable worst-case scenario where it ends up as a 1:1 DDD Inhale clone, frankly that would be far more healthy for the game overall than his current "unconditional throw-into-KO at anywhere near unhealthy percents" Down-B.
As far as anybody's concerned, he has in fact ate up development time that could have gone into Alph.
What on earth is this argument, anyway? Nobody has any realistic expectations that these will all be applied to Smash 4 after its storied history; this is all on the assumption that the characters mentioned return in a future game, and Dr. Mario certainly better have something worth considering after being nothing more than slapdash roster filler for 2 games in a row.
We apparently have not been over Ganondorf since clearly we're still under this bizarre illusion that the fanbase as a whole is content with him being consistently pigeonholed into the moveset of a racer from a dead series.
Oh. Good to hear, though it doesn't really shake my stance on it.
edited 31st Oct '15 10:55:31 AM by Demonfly
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edited 31st Oct '15 11:15:07 AM by wanderlustwarrior
While I definitely respect your opinions on the changes and definitely agree some of them would be really cool, I personally don't think any of those characters need extensive changes to make them feel more like how they are in their games.
If we really insisted on the characters being exactly like how they were in their games, Ness and Lucas's specials would ALL be completely different because they never actually learned most of those moves in their games. But no one raises a voice for them because they like their movesets and the Mother series isn't nearly as popular as the Zelda series.
Ganondorf may not have a moveset that reflects his abilities in his actual games (which I fully admit is disappointing and would like it to be changed or, EVER BETTER, moved to another character while giving him a new one), but neither does those two, Zero Suit Samus, Fox/Falco/Wolf, Captain Falcon, Pac-Man, or Bowser Jr.
And please don't respond with, "But their moves reflect THIS aspect of..." or "they don't count because their original games was (insert game genre here)". I know where a bunch of their moves originate from. I just mean a ton of their moves and how they work were still made up for Smash.
edited 31st Oct '15 12:07:16 PM by NoLimit
Guys, I like Dr. Mario and want him to stick around though. I, for one, enjoy his nuanced differences and would prefer his moveset changes not a bit.
...just felt like throwing that one out there.
Same here. I actually like Sakurai's justification for Dr. Mario staying the same: He's (barring being slower) basically Melee Mario.
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You're quite right. I mainly went with those particular characters because those are the ones I like or want to see more from Ness and Lucas are unfortunately somewhat afterthoughts for me, and at least for Ness I feel he's pretty cemented and fine as is, and I'd really rather not come up with entirely new movesets for anyone.
There are only two big changes I want made for Samus (aside from obvious frame data changes):
1) Samus can charge her shot while in the air.
2) Samus's homing missile behaves like the Mii Gunner's homing missile.
I actually checked this: Gunner's missile homes WAY better than Samus's, even doing 180 degree turns, and that SUPER CONFUSES ME.
edited 31st Oct '15 12:12:52 PM by NoLimit

I just never used FLUDD
AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH!!!!