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**{{change|Since Charizard has returned to Pokémon Trainer's team, [[Rock Smash]] has been replaced with [[Pokémon Change]]. While this reduces Charizard's own defensive capabilities, it can now change places with {{SSBU|Squirtle}} and {{SSBU|Ivysaur}} to adapt to certain situations.}}
**{{change|Since Charizard has returned to Pokémon Trainer's team, [[Rock Smash]] has been replaced with [[Pokémon Change]].
***{{nerf|The removal of Rock Smash hinders Charizard's landing options and eliminates one of its finishers.}}
***{{buff|}}It can now change places with {{SSBU|Squirtle}} and {{SSBU|Ivysaur}} to adapt to certain situations.}}
***{{nerf|The removal of Rock Smash reduces Charizard's own defensive capabilities, hinders it's landing options and eliminates one of its finishers.}}
**{{buff|Pokémon Change is much faster, as it does not need to load the next Pokémon during every switch. The quicker switch time allows it to potentially combo into another Pokémon's moves, work akin to an [[air dodge]], or supplement the Pokémon's recovery.}}
**{{buff|Pokémon Change is much faster, as it does not need to load the next Pokémon during every switch. The quicker switch time allows it to potentially combo into another Pokémon's moves, work akin to an [[air dodge]], or supplement the Pokémon's recovery.}}
**{{buff|Pokémon Change can now be used in the air. Like in ''Brawl'', it also offers brief intangibility upon switching out.}}
**{{buff|Pokémon Change can now be used in the air. Like in ''Brawl'', it also offers brief intangibility upon switching out.}}
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**{{change|[[Triple Finish]] replaces [[Mega Charizard X]] with the return of {{SSBU|Pokémon Trainer}}.}}
**{{change|[[Triple Finish]] replaces [[Mega Charizard X]] with the return of {{SSBU|Pokémon Trainer}}.}}
**{{change|Triple Finish has an updated animation, and its textbox closely resembles the textboxes in the {{s|bulbapedia|Generation VII}} ''Pokémon'' games.}}
**{{change|Triple Finish has an updated animation, and its textbox closely resembles the textboxes in the {{s|bulbapedia|Generation VII}} ''Pokémon'' games.}}
**{{change|Charizard now fires five Fire Blasts in a row.}}
**{{nerf|Charizard now fires five Fire Blasts in a row instead of six.}}
**{{bugfix|As a result, the [[undead glitch]] on the [[Stamina Mode]], and results screen glitch on the [[Time|timed]] [[team battle]] have been removed.}}
**{{bugfix|The [[undead glitch]] on the [[Stamina Mode]], and results screen glitch on [[Time|timed]] [[team battle]]s have been removed.}}

Revision as of 15:01, June 30, 2020

Aesthetics

  • Change Charizard's model features a more subdued color scheme, more closely resembling its appearance in recent mainline Pokémon games. Its legs and arms are more defined, and the flame on its tail is more vibrant.
  • Change During normal matches, Charizard uses the Pokémon Trainer's stock icon, name call, and Boxing Ring title instead of having its own. However, its own stock icon is seen in the Spirits mode as both a playable character and an enemy.
  • Change Charizard moves in a wave-like motion during its dash animation, similar to Lugia on the title screen for Pokémon SoulSilver. [1]
  • Change Charizard now hangs onto the ledge with one hand instead of two.
  • Change Charizard has two new taunts: one where it stands upright for its up taunt (similar to Ridley's down taunt), and another where it does a quick aerial flip and roars during its side taunt. Its former up taunt is now its down taunt.
  • Change While maintaining its Flare Blitz victory pose from Smash 4, Charizard regains its victory pose from Brawl where the Pokémon Trainer pets its neck, replacing the roaring victory pose from Smash 4.

Attributes

  • Change Charizard is once again part of Pokémon Trainer, allowing it to switch to Squirtle and Ivysaur.
  • Buff Like all characters, Charizard's jumpsquat animation lasts 3 frames (down from 7).
  • Nerf Charizard walks slightly slower (1.2 → 1.187).
  • Buff Charizard's initial dash speed is exponentially higher (1 → 2.28), going from the slowest in the game to the 4th fastest.
  • Buff Charizard runs faster (2 → 2.2).
  • Buff Charizard's air speed is much higher (0.92 → 1.103).
  • Buff Charizard has significantly higher traction (0.04 → 0.11), no longer being tied with Mewtwo for having the second lowest traction in the game. This allows it to punish opponents out of shield much more easily.
  • Buff Charizard moves its head to a less vulnerable position during forward air, down smash, standing grab, and when hanging on the ledge.
  • Nerf Charizard now has hurtboxes on the base of its wings.
  • Change Charizard's midair jumps' animations have been changed to be more distinguishable from each other.
  • Change Charizard's falling speed and fast falling speed are much faster (1.4 → 1.52) and (2.24 → 2.432) respectively. This makes it more prone to combos, but improves its tomahawk and overall neutral game.
  • Nerf Charizard once again possesses hurtboxes on its wings like in Brawl, making it easier to hit from above.
  • Nerf Charizard takes small amounts of damage while swimming. It shares this attribute with Sonic, Inkling, and Incineroar.
  • Nerf Forward roll grants less intangibility (frames 4-18 → 4-16).
  • Nerf Back roll has more startup with less intangibility (frames 4-18 → 5-17), and more ending lag (FAF 33 → 38).
  • Nerf Spot dodge has more ending lag (FAF 28 → 29).
  • Buff Air dodge grants more intangibility (frames 3-28 → 3-30).
  • Nerf Air dodge has significantly more ending lag (FAF 34 → 50).
  • Change Air dodge's animation has been altered.

Ground attacks

  • Neutral attack:
    • Buff The first hit transitions into the second hit faster (frame 10 → 7), which transitions into the third hit faster (frame 10 → 8), allowing the whole combo to connect more smoothly.
    • Nerf The first and second hits deal less damage (3% → 2.5% (hit 1), 4% → 2.5% (hit 2)).
    • Change The first and second hits have altered angles and knockback to keep opponents close to Charizard, like other neutral attacks. This allows them to connect and jab lock more consistently, but removes their jab cancel setups against grounded opponents.
    • Nerf The last hit has fewer hitboxes, and the remaining hitboxes are smaller (6.5u/5.5u/5u/4u → 5u/4u/4u), reducing the attack range.
    • Change Charizard rears back in a more pronounced fashion during the ending lag of neutral attack's last hit.
  • Forward tilt:
    • Buff Forward tilt has a new sweetspot hitbox on frame 12 that is centered in front of Charizard's tail, with the original sweetspot remaining intact. This makes the sweetspot larger and prohibits issues with the z-axis.
    • Buff It has less ending lag (FAF 43 → 38).
    • Nerf It has more startup lag with a shorter duration (frames 11-13 → 12-13).
    • Buff The sweetspot deals more knockback (40 base/100 scaling → 45/104).
  • Up tilt:
    • Change Up tilt has an altered animation, with Charizard jumping higher and its wings spreading out more to its sides.
    • Buff In addition to the hitbox above Charizard, it possesses new hitboxes covering its wings as they spread out. This increases the move's lateral range above Charizard, although due to the high placements of these hitboxes, it still cannot effectively hit grounded opponents at Charizard's sides.
    • Nerf It has a shorter hitbox duration (frames 9-13 → 9-12).
    • Nerf It launches opponents slightly away from Charizard instead of towards it (96° → 78°/84°) and deals much less knockback (40 base/130 scaling → 50 base/80/85 scaling). It can no longer KO opponents below 200%, and the new angle and ending lag hurt the move's combo ability.
    • Nerf Due to Charizard gaining hurtboxes on its wings, the move is riskier to use as an anti-air option, as these hurtboxes extend upward during the active frames. This makes it easier for opponents' aerial attacks to trade with Charizard.
  • Down tilt:
    • Change Down tilt no longer has a windbox drawing opponents in.
    • Buff The changes to jostle mechanics allow down tilt to connect better against nearby opponents despite the removal of the windbox.
    • Nerf The hitbox does not extend as far (Z offset: 7-16 → 7-13.5), considerably reducing its range.
    • Change It features a tighter animation.
  • Dash attack:
    • Buff Dash attack deals more damage (11%/8% → 13%/10%) with knockback not fully compensated (100 (base)/45 (scaling) → 96/44), improving its KO potential.
    • Buff Dash attack deals more shieldstun (1x → 1.5x) which, combined with the increased damage, makes it safer against shielding opponents.
  • Forward smash:
    • Change Charizard no longer breathes fire during forward smash's animation.
    • Buff Forward smash deals more damage (17% → 19% (clean, late body), 14% → 16.4% (late head)) with knockback scaling not fully compensated (94 → 91 (clean, late body), 86 (late head)). This considerably improves its KO potential.
    • Buff Forward smash grants more intangibility (frames 22-25 → 20-24).
  • Up smash:
    • Buff Up smash's second hit comes out more quickly (frame 17 → 14), allowing it to connect better from the first hit and giving the move faster interruptibility (FAF 49 → 47).
    • Buff The outermost hitbox on the first hit now uses the 368° autolink angle instead of weakly meteor smashing them in place, allowing it to consistently link into the second hit.
    • Nerf Due to Charizard gaining hurtboxes on its wings, the move is riskier to use as an anti-air option, although to a much lesser extent compared to up tilt.
  • Down smash:
    • Buff The knockback scaling and angles on down smash's hitboxes close to Charizard have been homogenized with the tipper hitboxes (KBG: 85 → 79; angle: 46° → 33°). Despite the move's lower knockback scaling, the more horizontal angle improves its KO ability.

Aerial attacks

  • Buff All aerials have less landing lag (20 frames → 10 (neutral), 22 → 19 (forward), 24 → 20 (back), 20 → 13 (up), 33 → 21 (down)).
  • Neutral aerial:
    • Buff Neutral aerial has faster startup (frame 9 → 8) and significantly less ending lag (FAF 60 → 40), making it safer to use off-stage.
    • Change Its animation has been sped up. This shortens the duration of its hitboxes (frames 9-25 → 8-20) but allows it to hit faster around Charizard.
      • Nerf The auto-cancel window is unchanged, increasing the move's ending lag before it can auto-cancel.
  • Forward aerial:
    • Buff Forward aerial has less ending lag (FAF 47 → 46).
    • Nerf It no longer auto-cancels in a short hop, as Charizard's faster falling speed causes its auto-cancel window to fall short by one frame.
    • Nerf The sweetspot has been moved inwards (X offset: 7.5 → 6), reducing its range.
  • Back aerial:
    • Buff Back aerial's animation has been rotated slightly to prevent issues with the z-axis. The last active frame is now directly behind Charizard, increasing the move's vertical range and enabling it to punish opponents from below.
    • Buff Due to the Sakurai angle being lower, DI is less effective when back aerial hits an airborne opponent. This improves its KO potential.
    • Nerf The first active frame does not contain the 16% sweetspot.
  • Up aerial:
    • Buff Up aerial auto-cancels earlier (frame 41 → 38).
    • Nerf The move's initial auto-cancel window has been shortened (frames 1-4 → 1-3)
  • Down aerial:
    • Buff Down aerial's lower landing lag alongside the removal of teching for grounded meteor smashes enable it to function as a potent combo starter onstage. The sweetspot also has a longer duration (frames 18-20 → 18-21).
    • Nerf The clean hit has received a sourspot on Charizard's body that does not meteor smash, making it slightly harder to use for edgeguarding. The late hit also has a shorter duration (frames 21-26 → 22-25).
    • Nerf It auto-cancels later (frame 41 → 42).
    • Buff Its initial auto-cancel window has been lengthened (frames 1-4 → 1-5).
    • Change Down aerial's animation has been altered.
    • Bug fix Down aerial's landing animation no longer causes Charizard's tongue to clip through its head.

Throws and other attacks

  • Grabs:
    • Buff Standing grab has been moved forward (Z offset: 5-13.6 → 7.5-16), improving its range.
    • Buff Dash grab extends further (Z offset: 5-12.3 → 5-16.5), improving its range.
    • Nerf All grabs have more ending lag (FAF 34 → 40 (standing), 42 → 46 (dash), 40 → 43 (pivot)).
    • Nerf Dash and pivot grab have more startup (frame 10 → 11 (dash), 11 → 12 (pivot)).
    • Nerf Pivot grab doesn't extend as far (Z offset: 4-17.6 → 4-17.2), worsening its range.
    • Change Standing and dash grab's animations have been altered, with Charizard lunging farther forward, matching their increased range.
  • Pummel:
    • Nerf Pummel deals less damage (2% → 1.6%).
    • Nerf It has much less ending lag (FAF 17 → 8), but deals considerably more hitlag (4 frames → 15), increasing its effective duration.
      • Change Relative to the rest of the cast, Charizard's pummel is among the slowest but most damaging, rather than average on both accounts.
  • Forward throw:
    • Buff Forward throw deals more knockback (60 base/65 scaling → 63/70).
    • Change Charizard spreads its arms out during the ending animation of forward throw.
  • Back throw:
    • Change Back throw releases opponents faster (frame 29 → 26), though with its interruptibility frames unchanged. This makes it harder to DI, but gives it more ending lag.
      • Buff Despite this change, it has increased combo ability due to Charizard's much faster initial dash speed and jumpsquat.
  • Down throw:
    • Buff Down throw deals less hitlag, allowing it to execute faster.
    • Change Down throw's looping hits now deal knockback to bystanders (0 (base)/0 (scaling) → 0/100).
    • Nerf It has slightly more ending lag (19 → 22 frames), hindering its combo potential.
      • Nerf The decreased hitstun in tumble knockback exacerbates this nerf.
    • Change It has an altered animation where Charizard hovers slightly while breathing fire onto the opponent.
  • Edge attack:
    • Buff Edge attack deals more damage (8% → 10%).

Special moves

  • Flamethrower:
    • Change Flamethrower's color is more vibrant compared to in Smash 4.
  • Flare Blitz:
    • Buff Flare Blitz deals drastically more damage (4% → 6% (hit 1), 15% → 18% (hit 2); 19% → 24% (total)).
    • Buff Flare Blitz deals more knockback, KOing middleweights under 80% from the center of Final Destination.
    • Buff The tumble animation following Flare Blitz's collision cannot be jab locked.
    • Buff Grounded Flare Blitz has more range below it, being capable of hitting every character lying on the ground and a few hanging on the ledge.
    • Nerf Flare Blitz is now only able to grab the ledge starting frame 45 (about two-thirds of the way).
    • Change Flare Blitz causes Charizard to emit orange flames on startup instead of glowing blue. Its flame effects are much more intense.
    • Change Charizard's voice is now louder when using the move, allowing players to hear it without adjusting the Sound settings.
  • Fly:
    • Bug fix Fly no longer suffers RCO lag.
    • Buff Due to rage being changed to not affect hitboxes with set knockback, Fly no longer launches opponents away from the rest of the hits when Charizard has rage, allowing it to connect more reliably.
  • Pokémon Change:
    • Change Since Charizard has returned to Pokémon Trainer's team, Rock Smash has been replaced with Pokémon Change.
      • Buff It can now change places with Squirtle and Ivysaur to adapt to certain situations.
      • Nerf The removal of Rock Smash reduces Charizard's own defensive capabilities, hinders it's landing options and eliminates one of its finishers.
    • Buff Pokémon Change is much faster, as it does not need to load the next Pokémon during every switch. The quicker switch time allows it to potentially combo into another Pokémon's moves, work akin to an air dodge, or supplement the Pokémon's recovery.
    • Buff Pokémon Change can now be used in the air. Like in Brawl, it also offers brief intangibility upon switching out.
    • Nerf Spamming Pokémon Change will grant no invincibility frames for a period of time. It also has a cooldown of 140 frames (2.33 seconds), which can be skipped via a special move.
  • Final Smash: