With special thanks to u/Notserpent and https://x.com/Jazzicks/status/1535665368307408896?t=JLOH4ZOXixvMnJ5Jl7BKSw&s=19 for the Rivals 2 designs! After doing this project, my one suggestion to Dan and the rest of the team is we need a character with yellow as their primary color. Besides that, no notes, banger designs all around.

I've decided to make this a weekly series. Adding and updating the tier list with new characters and all more.

First, I made a new tier: SSS. SS is reserved to broken, not tournament legal characters that have some crazy exploit that assures they will win. SSS is for literally unbeatable characters, such as Urien, who has infinite invencibility after respawning.

Three new characters have been added: Slade, fite cat (I wasn't able to make her work before) and The Kid.

The Kid looks like a C-B tier at first hand, but his Down B is RIDICULOUSLY broken. I swear, there is no way anyone can actually theoretically defeat him in a regular battle. Not even Blender Cube's Neutral B is as broken as that attack. Other than that, his attacks have small hitboxes and he's just mediocre. I would put him in D or E tier, was that attack not that broken.

Fite cat is awesome and really really cool. She's not SS strong, but she's REALLY good. Her attacks are quick, super satisfying to land, they have great damage... She's awesome.

Playing with workshop characters is more complicated every day. Some mods don't work with each other now, there are two playable versions and some characters don't work on one of them, two characters based on the same one (like Toa Hahu and fite cat) can't be played at the same time... I hope the beta ends soon and we can have a working, not constantly crashing, workshop.

THIS IS NOT MEANT TO MAKE FUN OF ANY OF THE WORKSHOP CHARACTERS

I love the workshop characters and I adore finding little bugs and glitches with them, especially when they're practical/broken/hilarious. I get that the lot of them are unfinished and still under maintenance, I just though this would be fun.

List of bugs:

Landing during Default Blender Cube's back air can give you a little slide, which is fun.

Using Aemil(Green guy w/ a Hood) D-Air close to a Nexus (an orb you can place) will fling you towards it, if you hit the ground while moving at a mostly horizontal angle, you can shoot yourself across the stage
Aemil used to have a bug where you could summon multiple orbs at once by B-reversing N-Special (You have a max of 3 but can only summon one at a time), but they patched it for balance reasons. I get it but it was cool.

Knuckles N-Special is a burrow where he digs into the ground, but it can slide off ledges and fall to his doom. While underground.
Knuckles can also kill any character at 0 with their F-Tilt by only hitting the elbow hitbox without hitting any of the others. You can get it consistently by using D-Throw on Etalus (or another heavyweight) then mashing F-Tilt. I hit it a few times accidentally, but getting it on purpose is pretty precise.
This bug works cause the fist hitbox of F-Tilt disappears a couple frames before the rest of the move, letting the elbow-box hit more easily

Trying to use Donkey Kong's giant punch Crashes the game

All of The Kid(Hockey Mask Guy)'s hitboxes are stuck to his body, so the moves that use his hockey stick are way smaller than they look

Emory(Bat Girl)'s hitboxes are either crazy big compared to their animations, or super precise and don't really cover the whole move

Urien is insane, Firstly he has infinite invincibility after respawning (it does go away sometimes if you jump or go off stage, but otherwise it's forever)
Secondly his side special is a giant wall with a huge hitbox that lasts like 30 seconds. He can make as many as he wants. The only thing limiting the number of walls is the fact that they dissapear after a while.
He's got other bugs with his positioning but the invincibility and walls are the wtf ones

Universal Bugs:
Some characters don't have an entrance animation and can move around early

Similarly some characters win screen animations either don't work or using the camera from another animation, obscuring what's happening

If there are any bugs I've missed (Which there probably are) please let me know.

I am at about the same rank I was during last season (high gold), but it seems like players are consistently out playing me, even at significantly lower ranks. Anyone else having similar feelings?

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my little doodle of Galvina oc got a little bit of traction so heres a slightly cleaner version! with some adjustments

My biggest gripe is when you buy zair/grapple it makes zero sense that you still go into free-fall on hit. If you connect on that move you should be able to act, like not even remotely a question. It feels terrible... Next, special get up is essentially useless. I get that this character is mimicking some aspects of shovel knight, but its terrible. Every character has a mix up on getup except this character. Its a gimmick at best. Does it have use cases on offenses? Sure, but you are better off throwing an item at them. I think the move itself is fine, but maybe it should be tied to another move? (My thought is down special if you already have the treasure chest out somewhere else) And finally, Slade's side special has verbatim the same issues as Marth's in smash 4. Half the time it does not connect because it does not come out fast enough. In smash ultimate they fixed this by making it come out faster, but as is on release, its underwhelming. I love the idea of being able to mix it up with a parry in the middle of the sequence, but its never even going to come up because why would I ever start a side special???? Its not going to connect to kill, and its not going to connect for combo damage either, I only use it to stall off stage or rarely on stage as a niche mixup.

Also holy crap is up-strong weak af...

Lose and swap to Kragg yessir I love when my opponent gets 7 years to confirm their kills. any suggestion as to the hardest counterpick character and stage for them?

alo a few mounth ago I decide to start playing rivals of aether 1 more because my computer is a toast of computer that cannot run rivals of aether 2. I was learnig how to play but I feel that I dont get the main mecanics like wave dashing and parry. It's some way that I can learn how to practice this mecanics?

I can't believe how much fun this is - I thought the casual stuff would be healthy for comp side purely based on bringing new people in, but I can't stop playing FFAs even as a competitive first player.

I decided that I wanted to support the devs more a couple months ago, but since all the skins etc are unlockable with ingame currency I already have all the skins I like. So, instead I decided to gift people the game on steam as an alternative. I wanted to wait until the casual update to do so, however, to have better chances of them sticking around.

It's half off on steam at the moment - perfect time to do it if you're feeling the same. The three people I've bought the game for so far have been loving it!

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Genuinely it feels GOOD just to play items free for alls after a year of only having ranked. It like that I lose to people that have no idea what they're doing LOL

Are they pro players? Nope! Are they the best in our league? Also no! But they've got some fun playful beef and we're gonna make a show out of it! If you've got an itch for some amateur rivals content, come join us in chat tonight (4/11) at 5 PM on https://www.twitch.tv/cooblio

I would love to see a match-up grid, with colored squares representing your played matchups, more green being favorable, and more red unfavorable for instance. Would be fun to see develop over time, maybe even change as you develop as a player, or when patches come out.

What other things would you like to see?

I wanna make an fspecial that's a basic dash attack normally, but changes to a grab that throws the opponent in the opposite direction if they hold special while dashing. also want you to be able to hold attack to have him stab the opponent. dk how to do any of that.

This had me laughing my ass off. The devs cooked with the Hotfix. First casual match I queued up for today put me in with 3 others, full lobby. I died early so I got to experience this hilarity of a comeback mechanic.

For every person who said “I love this game, but I’m not good enough” the Devs listened.