Ranking EVERY Up Special Animation In Smash Ultimate

I guess technically Whirling Fortress was taken inspiration from some of the shell spinning Koopas are known to do.
And with him being basically a giant Koopa that's also king of them... It makes sense.

Penguin #1

Wario Up B is actually from Wario World. Corkscrew Conk

Meta Knight. Didn’t his up air at one point in the series let him glide? I swear he has a glide in smash

Is no one going to mention that the girl from the ring is just casually walking around mockrocks background and he FOCUSED ON HER?! No comment. No text. Nothing.

I thought Squirtles up smash was actually Aqua Jet for the longest time.

these are great I love how you go in depth and the videos are long it helps me fall asleep

Another cool thing to point out about Fox and Falco is that for Fox’s Up B the head of the attack is more rounded where Falco has that sharper edge to it, kinda representing his beak in a way being sharper.

TIL extreme speed has a hitbox.

Totally not agree with Mario’s, I know they could do something better if they want to, but his for me is a unique concept.( Also even I am a Doc main, his is DEFINITELY not better than Mario)

something interesting to note is that young links spin attack being much more precise with the blade might have to do with the fact that young link might have more adventuring time since majoras mask happened and who knows how many times link had to loop which would drastically inflate the experience accrued over multiple loops

Man I watched until the very very end of the video curious where my main would be placed, only for her to land an F tier lol

kirby should have more like the animation of ike and chrom based on the sword ability

What would of been cool to change marios up special eould be the hat throw, kinda like a fake tether. I dont know how well it'd work but it would be interesting

Homie did not charge too links up b

Clouds limit break for hazard climber?

Gannons Up-B can be shockinlgy oppressive against opponents trying to get back on the stage from up high. Thr lauch is great, and can get pretty high.

If there ever was a video that needed timestamps, it's this one.

Dude i don’t wanna hear the “kirby up special sfx” ever fucking again you don’t know how much that sound effect has tortured me on my 4 and a half hour plathrough of the great maze (from subspace emmissary)

I guess I’ll never know what he thought of Helicopter Kick

I'd like to possibly see, like, the cap twirl be used for mario's up special in future games. bring in the cappy rep full time like how down special is sunshine and side is super mario world, it can keep the multihit property without needing to change its function much but give an animation upgrade and new reference (ideally I'd actually like the animation for super jump punch as his jump 1, like it is in mario 64/galaxy/etc as the first part of the triple jump)

ideally I'd also like, like, the mario spin back but with the cape too to reference the super mario world spin jump, but I also get that it'd prolly be a bit too much gameplay wise to make it both an attack and reflector/disruption tool

also god, kirby really just... feels like he needs a full new moveset. like even his series references feel bad and innacurate save stone. at least give him his hats when using them...

also also probably could have called greninja's up-B Aqua Jet. like it matches quick attac in being a priority move and he's jetting around using water. not the best fit but more fitting than hydro pump

Byleth does spike with his up special when the opponent is high enough percent. One of the most satisfying spikes to pull off

Mega Man in this one instance can't really be anymore lively...

Jumping off of Rush Coil has never had any kind of animation in any of the games 16-bit or 2.5D. Outside of 2 instances you couldn't call the animation in any Mega Man game lively, but Rush Coil specifically is one that they would've just had to personally iterate on regardless of the source material.

They could have kept Mario's up B the same style of attack, but instead of him "jumping" he could do a "player 2 cappy bounce". Like he could still keep the multi-hit uppercut, but just with getting bounced by cappy. Easy! Cappy could have even kept in place or something for half a second or something for opponents to also bounce off of (like sonic or megaman's up B)

When I was younger I thought it was like the purple coins would appear and you’d deal extra damage if the hitbox was at its closest range (like roy reverse tipper) rather than it being a random chance cosmetic thing

Link's spin attack would work perfectly as a down smash

just watched a whole 1 hour and 40 minutes video waiting on the mii stuff just to discover they were put into a whole other video 😭