Green Alloy (SSBB)
Green Alloy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl | |
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Universe | Super Smash Bros. |
A boss in | Brawl |
Availability | Hacking |
Tier | Banned |
Green Alloy (ザコグリーン Zakogurīn, Green Small Fry), is an unplayable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and only playable via hacking. He's a clone of Kirby, albeit with some throws from Jigglypuff.
When playable, much like many Multi-Man Brawl characters, Green Alloy is worse than a good portion of the Brawl roster. With a lack of special moves, no shield, a larger frame, higher weight, 40 frames of landing lag on all aerial attacks, and the inability to grab the ledge, it is very difficult for Green Alloy to mount an offence or defend himself. However, because of Green Alloy being built from Kirby, as well as having extra weight and higher ground speed, he's able to survive for much longer than his counterpart while being a bit harder to contest directly. Additionally, Jigglypuff's throws prove to be rather beneficial, with the up throw's changes being made a KO move of sorts. Green Alloy also has slightly larger hitboxes, in part because of his increased size, giving him slightly more reach, helping it get in; however, this does fail to solve issues such as a terrible Falco matchup, especially due to the lack of a shield. In general, Green Alloy does appear to have a niche over Kirby, in spite of such horrendous weaknesses, but is seemingly outclassed by King Dedede and Meta Knight in most respects.
If a player wins with Green Alloy, the game will crash without further modifications. When losing, the game will continue, with Green Alloy being in a pratfall state.
Codes[edit]
Green Alloy can be played as using the following Gecko codes and choosing any character on the Character select screen. These codes are for the NTSC release.
Player Slot | Code | |
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1 | 4A000000 | 90180F20 |
10000098 | 00000031 | |
E0000000 | 80008000 | |
2 | 4A000000 | 90180F7C |
10000098 | 00000031 | |
E0000000 | 80008000 | |
3 | 4A000000 | 90180FD8 |
10000098 | 00000031 | |
E0000000 | 80008000 | |
4 | 4A000000 | 90181034 |
10000098 | 00000031 | |
E0000000 | 80008000 |
Attributes[edit]
Green Alloy is a midweight, floaty character with a larger frame and 5 double jumps. This comes with the upside of having slightly more reach and better edge guarding capabilities compared to Kirby and Jigglypuff, but comes with the vicious downside of struggling mightily at a disadvantage.
Green Alloy has an increased size comes with multiple notable benefits to his ground game, in contrast to Jigglypuff and more similarly to Kirby. His up tilt can hit through platforms with relative ease and connect into itself decently, forward tilt is a strong midrange poke, and down tilt's 35% trip chance can allow for good follow-ups into his strong throws. These all end decently quickly and have large hitboxes, assisting greatly in a neutral game. However, this is brought down by Green Alloy's inability to shield, forcing him to play with these moves aggressively, rather than focus on spacing, lest he get overwhelmed with projectiles and long-ranged attacks like Meta Knight and Marth's strong aerials. Being unable to airdodge also makes him incapable of hitstun canceling, which makes him uniquely easy to combo, especially given that his aerials are not ideal combo breakers.
Differences from Kirby[edit]
Green Alloy is, on a surface level, a heavier, larger Kirby, with slightly different attacks and higher speed when grounded; in general, his ground game is much more effective. Uniquely compared to the other Fighting Alloys, Green Alloy has a few moves taken from a second character, with his forward and up throws being borrowed from Jigglypuff.
Aesthetics[edit]
- Green Alloy has a larger model, giving him more reach, but making him much easier to combo.
- Green Alloy is unvoiced.
Attributes[edit]
- Green Alloy has no special moves.
- Green Alloy can't shield and thus cannot roll or spotdodge.
- Green Alloy can't airdodge and thus cannot perform airdodge hitstun cancelling, making him uniquely susceptible to combos, though he can still hitstun cancel with aerials for a potential combo break, or to momentum cancel.
- Green Alloy can't grab the ledge and can't use any ledge options by extension.
- Green Alloy's walk speed is higher (0.95 → 1.1).
- Green Alloy's initial dash speed is higher (1.4 → 1.5).
- Green Alloy's dash speed is much higher (1.371 → 1.5).
- Green Alloy's traction is much higher (0.0493 → 0.06), making it easier to stop short when dashing, but reducing the effectiveness of sliding-based techniques like DACUS.
- Green Alloy's weight is much higher (78 → 98), adding significant survivability, but making Green Alloy more vulnerable to chain grabs and combos.
- Green Alloy's jumpsquat is worse by 1 frame (4f → 5f).
- Green Alloy's gravity is higher (0.061 → 0.075), helping Green Alloy land quicker and increasing vertical mobility overall.
- Green Alloy's fall speed is slightly higher (1.2 → 1.28).
- Green Alloy's fast fall speed is much lower (1.9 → 1.792).
- Green Alloy's air acceleration is lower (0.11 → 0.09).
- Green Alloy's air speed is higher (0.85 → 0.94).
- Green Alloy has a significantly worse meteor cancel window, tied with Wolf for the worst in the game (25f → 60f).
Ground attacks[edit]
- Jab 1 has increased endlag (FAF: 16f → 18f) and knockback growth (30 → 50), while also transitioning to jab 2 a frame later (4/6 → 5/6), making it slightly more likely for opponents to fall out and 2 frames worse on shield (-12f → -14f).
- Jab 2 does 1% more damage (3% → 4%).
- Jab 2 has increased endlag (FAF: 16f → 21f) and knockback growth (30 → 50), making it easier for opponents to fall out. The endlag makes it much worse on shield (-12 → -16).
- Rapid Jab has increased set knockback (4 → 8), making it easier for opponents to fall out.
- Rapid jab lacks the disjoint that Kirby's version has.
- Rapid jab deals consistent damage (2%/1% → 2%).
- Rapid jab doesn't use the Sakurai Angle like Kirby's does.
- Dash attack is functionally a different move, being a single-hit attack instead of using multiple hits.
- This makes it considerably less vulnerable to SDI, a big weakness of Kirby's.
- This single hit does more damage compared to the final hit (4% → 6%).
- It sends at a much steeper angle compared to Kirby's final hit (65° → 35°), giving more favourable situations thereafter.
- It travels much further than Kirby's due to Green Alloy's increased size.
- It has much less base knockback compared to Kirby's final hit (90/70 → 30), but consistent knockback growth (70/100 → 100). The reduced base knockback makes it unsafe on hit at low percents.
- The lack of multiple hits makes it much worse on shield (-13f → -40f to -20f depending on when it hits).
- The move, overall, has worse endlag (FAF: 50f → 55f).
- Forward tilt has a single hitbox and does more damage (8/7% → 9%).
- Forward tilt has higher endlag (FAF: 28f → 33f), making it worse on shield by proxy (-20f → -24f).
- Green Alloy's increased size allows up tilt to hit through platforms on stages like Battlefield, and it has increased knockback growth (102 → 105). This makes it strong platform pressure.
- However, it has slightly worse endlag (FAF: 21f → 24f), making it worse on shield (-14f/-13f → -17f/16f).
- Down tilt now only deals 5%, without a 6% hitbox. However, the 35%/30% trip chance hitboxes remain. The reduced damage makes it lose access to the -14f on shield hitbox as well.
- Forward smash comes out a frame slower with a frame less hitbox activity (12-16 → 13-15), with a frame gap between the initial hit and late hit (both being 17-21), causing it to have a frame perfect situation where it can miss.
- Forward smash's clean hit deals consistent damage regardless of angle (15%/14%/16% → 15%), and has consistent knockback scaling (100/98/96 → 98).
- Forward smash's clean hit has higher base knockback (38 → 45), improving the move's safety on hit at low percents, and its KO potential.
- Forward smash has consistent launch angles (~40°/~73° spanning 3 hitboxes → 361°/75°), with the clean hit using the Sakurai Angle.
- Up smash lacks foot intangibility, making it a worse anti-air.
- Up smash's clean sourspot deals 1% less damage (14% → 13%).
- Up smash's clean sweetspot has less base knockback (34 → 30).
- Up smash is much more vulnerable to low-profiling.
- Up smash's late hit deals more damage (12%/11% → 13%/12%).
- Down smash lacks foot intangibility.
- Down smash's clean hit deals less damage (14% → 13%).
- Down smash's late hit lasts 2 frames longer (15-22 → 15-24), making it better on the ledge.
- Down smash has less knockback growth on the sourspot hitboxes (85 → 80).
Aerial attacks[edit]
- All of Green Alloy's aerial attacks have 40 frames of landing lag, making them terrible on shield and reducing follow-up potential.
- All of Green Alloy's aerial attacks have worse FAFs (NAir: 73 → 80, FAir: 44 → 50, BAir: 41 → 44, UAir: 40 → 48, DAir: 55 → 60).
- However, forward aerial and back aerial autocancel sooner (41+ → 38+, 22+ → 21+).
- Forward aerial does more damage (4%/3%/5% → 5%/3%/6%, 12% (total) → 14%), though with knockback mostly compensated on the final hit (scaling: 138 → 130).
- Back aerial has slightly less knockback growth (105 (clean)/110 (late) → 103/100).
- Up aerial now sends at the Sakurai angle (70° → 361°).
- Up aerial deals 1% more damage (10% → 11%) and has increased base knockback and knockback growth (BKB: 20 → 30, KBG: 98 → 105), making it a much more potent KO move.
- Up aerial has a frame less hitbox activity (10-15 → 10-14), causing it to not hit below or behind Green Alloy.
- Down aerial has slightly worse knockback growth on the multi-hits (107 → 100).
Grab attacks[edit]
- Green Alloy uses Jigglypuff's forward throw animation, but with damage adjusted to match Kirby's.
- Green Alloy uses Jigglypuff's up throw animation, but with Kirby's knockback values.
- Green Alloy's up throw launches at 90˚, like Kirby's did in Melee. Additionally, due to the new animation, it releases opponents higher up. These changes grant it improved KO potential without platforms.
- However, Green Alloy cannot use the throw below platforms to land on top of the platform and launch opponents from higher up.
- Green Alloy uses Jigglypuff's back throw animation, but with the damage and knockback of Kirby's back throw.
Moveset[edit]
- Unlike regular fighters, Green Alloy lacks special moves, can't shield, and cannot grab the ledge. He also lacks idle poses and taunts.
For a gallery of Green Alloy's hitboxes, see here.
Name | Damage | Description | ||
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Neutral attack | 2% | Green Alloy throws out a series of quick punches. Neutral infinite loops on frame 25. | ||
4% | ||||
1-2% | ||||
Forward tilt | 9% | A quick, angle-able roundhouse kick. | ||
Up tilt | 7% (clean), 5% (late) | A wide-reaching scorpion kick. Can hit through platforms such as those on Battlefield, making it extremely strong platform pressure. Has some follow-up potential, namely up aerial to send the opponent off-stage. | ||
Down tilt | 5% | Performs a legsweep with a 30/35% chance to trip[1] depending on the hitbox that lands. With a successful trip, a grab is near enough guaranteed. | ||
Dash attack | 6% | Green Alloy spins forwards, almost like a break-dance. Has a single hit, but the knockback is weak, so it only becomes useful when tumble is possible. | ||
Forward smash | 15% (clean), 13% (late) | Green Alloy lunges forward with a kick. Can be angled, but will always deal the same amount of damage. Hits on frame 8 from charge release. | ||
Up smash | 15%/13% (clean), 14%/12% (mid), 13%/12% (late) | Green Alloy does a backflip whilst kicking upwards. Hits on frame 8 from charge release. | ||
Down smash | 13% (clean), 11%/9% (late) | Green Alloy spins whilst kicking both sides. Lasts a noticeably long time, making it decent on the ledge. Hits on frame 8 from charge release. | ||
Neutral aerial | 12% (clean), 10% (mid), 8% (mid-late), 6% (late) | Green Alloy spins in the air. Extremely weak, but has a decently long hitbox duration for gimps. However, it is generally outclassed by other moves in this role. Extremely high landing lag makes it unusable in neutral. | ||
Forward aerial | 5% (hit 1), 3% (hit 2), 6% (hit 3) | Green Alloy kicks thrice, each hit leading into the other. Deals slightly more damage compared to Kirby's, but the massive endlag in the air or on the ground makes it hard to utilise. | ||
Back aerial | 12% (clean), 9% (late) | A backwards sex kick. Has large, quick, disjointed hitboxes, and just enough wiggle room to perform techniques like the Wall of Pain off-stage. | ||
Up aerial | 11% | A bicycle kick. Because of the Sakurai angle, this attack will send opponents in front of Green Alloy, making it largely akin to a forward aerial in use-cases. Thus, it can be effective for edge guarding or even merely getting opponents off-stage. | ||
Down aerial | 2% (hits 1-6), 2% (landing) | A downwards drill kick. Due to the enormous landing lag, it is useless for combos on-stage, and off-stage it's extremely weak, only working against characters with equally poor recoveries. | ||
Grab | — | |||
Pummel | 1% | Punches the grabbed opponent with fair speed. | ||
Forward throw | 8% | Jigglypuff's forward throw. Has noticeable base knockback and launches the opponent at a fair angle, giving good opportunity for follow-up attacks. | ||
Back throw | 8% | Identical to Kirby's, giving similar follow-up opportunities to forward throw, albeit with more opportunities to react by comparison. | ||
Up throw | 10% | Jigglypuff's up throw. It's weight independent and has more KO potential at higher percentages by comparison. At lower percentages, it has minor follow-up potential in up aerial. | ||
Down throw | 1% (hits 1-10), 2% (throw) | Green Alloy throws the opponent to the ground and tramples them. Can deal collateral damage in Team Battle. | ||
Forward roll Back roll Spot dodge Air dodge |
— | — | ||
Techs | — | — | ||
Floor attack (front) Floor getups (front) |
6% | Green Alloy gets up and does a spin kick. | ||
Floor attack (back) Floor getups (back) |
6% | Green Alloy gets up, then kicks on one side, then the other. | ||
Floor attack (trip) Floor getups (trip) |
5% | Green Alloy gets up then spins around, kicking. |
Stats[edit]
Stats | Weight | Dash speed | Walk speed | Traction | Air friction | Air speed | Air acceleration | Gravity | Falling speed | Jumpsquat | Jump height | Double jump height | Empty landing Lag |
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Value | 98 | 1.5 – Initial dash 1.5 – Run |
1.1 | 0.06 | ? | 0.94 | 0.01 – Base 0.08 – Additional |
0.075 | 1.28 – Base 1.792 – Fast-fall |
5 | ? - Base ? - Short hop |
? | 3 |
Announcer call[edit]
The Fighting Alloy Team has an unused announcer call intended for Classic Mode, which can be accessed if an Alloy is made selectable on the Character select screen. It is present in all versions.
In competitive play[edit]
Green Alloy is universally banned in competitive play due to only being playable via hacking. While the accessibility of Wii modding makes it relatively easy to add the Fighting Alloys to the character select screen, and they don't crash the game unlike the Fighting Wire Frames upon winning, the entry barrier still exists. This barrier also causes logistical issues that tournament organisers have to work around, such as the potential for installing further mods to cheat, consoles not having the appropriate mods installed that can cause setup disputes, and more. Due to the Fighting Alloy Team as a whole being largely inferior versions of their base characters, there is also little interest in changing that status quo. Ergo, the entire Fighting Alloy Team group has not seen much competitive experimentation, with no documented tournament matches. Should they ever be made legal, however, their influence on the metagame would likely be minimal.
In 1-P Mode[edit]
In Multi-Man Brawl[edit]
Green Alloy, as part of the Fighting Alloy Team, is a central figure in Multi-Man Brawl, where he spawns alongside the other Alloys to attack the player. He appears in all modes. In Cruel Brawl, his survivability makes him difficult to KO using simple tricks and exploits, creating a formidable challenge to players. Additionally, in each mode, Green Alloy will fight with a handicap, changing his properties by quite a bit.
Trophy[edit]
The Green Alloy trophy is unlocked by clearing a 15-Minute Brawl.
- Green Alloy
- The guy who clearly has the biggest head of all the Alloys. In fact, he's all head! When you face him in the 100-Man Brawl, he'll come at you in a group with other Alloys. While kicking around herds of these bad boys can be good fun, the highest-difficulty Brawl challenge is brutal--the Green Alloys will come at you like merciless demons!
- : Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Trivia[edit]
- When winning, if the game is forced to not crash, in lieu of a victory pose, all Alloys will use their default standing pose instead.
References[edit]
Bosses | |
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Super Smash Bros. | Master Hand · Metal Mario · Giant Donkey Kong · Fighting Polygon Team |
Melee | Master Hand · Crazy Hand · Giga Bowser · Fighting Wire Frames (Male · Female) |
Brawl | Master Hand · Crazy Hand · Petey Piranha · Rayquaza · Porky · Galleom · Ridley · Duon · Meta Ridley · Tabuu · Fighting Alloy Team (Red · Blue · Yellow · Green) · False characters |
Smash 4 | Master Hand · Crazy Hand · Master Core · Fighting Mii Team |
Ultimate | Master Hand · Crazy Hand · Rathalos · Galleom · Giga Bowser · Galeem · Dharkon · Dracula · Ganon · Marx · Fighting Mii Team · False characters |