Tested Saji recently. At least when playing as Saji, Dspecial allows you to teleport to any marked enemy. Enemies are marked with Saji's blades and exhibit a sword below them.

This ai is what I see in my nightmares

Do not if it is intentionnal, but holding NSpecial while walking with Saji continuously shoot swords.

finally got my revenge against this cheating AI

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for whatever reason the AI versions of Saji and Alex are programmed to just become intangible at random intervals to any attack, completely ignoring whatever attack that should be hitting them; I've got replays where they do this, but the most reliable way to test it is when they are running at you from across stage. Alex especially just ignores the rules of the game and phases through attacks.

Is there any way i can play with the same moves as the AI version? that thing was absolutely sick and i want in!

We all love Saji but man was he stronger than Zetta for a while

Saji had finally been gutted, at last. Now I don't feel bad for using him lmao

I love fighting this character. At first it keeped destroying me and I hated it but now he is quite easy compared to other character (Alex, Zetta and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Hollow Knight I hate this guy). Sad most of the workshop characters don't have hard CPU.

While the moveset changes were an overall positive - she feels more fun to fight as and against, I feel like the art update is a downgrade.

Her d-tilt animation was changed to a low slice attack from a slide kick (possibly different properties, idk), when she teleports to you while you are in hitstun, the vacuum affect is more pronounced, it seems to pop you up more and and stop all your momentum no matter how fast you were going when hit (which usually saves you from dying, how kind of her). The only Ai specific changes I can think of is that the AI expends its sword mark resource upon using d-special (the player saji always expended the mark and had a cool down on top of that), it used to just be able to keep on popping up behind you until you got hit or she did, I welcome the change since that was annoying. I think Saji should still go into parry stun if you parry her blades since they are way faster now.

Any reason AI Saji doesn't use their f-special at all still, Sai?

I always have more fun Fighting Saji than playing her since it's still a challenge without feeling too cheesy (Like Alex). The AI isn't really that complex, it's mainly carried by the automatic swords letting her teleport to you constantly and keeping you in a blender (some of this is changed). Since Sai usually doesn't leave notes for the changes he makes, I'll list what i've noticed from old Saji (v.0.97) to current: Swords are way faster across the board and they don't put Saji into parry stun if you parry them, Saji doesn't get the big crescent Blade beam or the cheesy, big, long active, and intangible d-special explosion since she doesn't get that halo resource anymore from hitting a marked opponent.

the swordhalo mode doesn't activate anymore is this intentional or not

To be honest, at least half of the time I spend on Rivals is watching AI fight. It's so nice to see an AI that's knows how to use the character effectively, since a lot of characters either don't have their own AI or have bad AI.

im subscribed to this comment thread just to look at ppl malding about the AI
it's lovely

Bro the AI and moveset on this is so good that it could actually beat Ronald Mcdonald AI vs AI. Saji only lost one stock too.

the swordhalo mode doesnt activate anymore

hmm, rare saji update and new art. What else was changed?

epic

fr if you can't beat this bot you just have chronic skill issue

SnK Boss CPU and is not matter or related to the player-control version of the character. No changes needed.

Nerf this thing please! It took me and two level 9 CPUs Just to Cheese this thing out of three stocks.

my mental sanity has been murdered

it really is

seeing ppl complain about the cpu here is really funny

oh man i love being taken to 100% by a combo within' the first start

first random workshop game on today, played as Chara, had a strong lead against Lvl. 9 Saji but then things started going even, and eventually lost the high ground, sad

Crazy high stats, nearly heavy as Etalus with high ground and air stats too. Not taking into account the cpu version's capabilities, but that D-special burst version is overtuned; Giant hitbox that's active for way too long, plus you are invincible for an equally long time during the start up.

cpu do things player cant

I'm wondering how lv9 cp did that...It can release one single sword(like Nspecial) when moving. I tried many times but still can just release 3 swords and had a recover instead of using other movements. Who can tell me about that?

congrats, I've never had less fun against a cpu
but never been so satisfied by winning

FINALLY I WIN!!!WITH POWER OF SPARDA ON A CHAIR, this character is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ BS, , but I finally beat this piece of garbage...10/10 I loved it

Took me an hour and a half just to beat this character on LVL. 9, used Lynk.
Was an interesting experience getting used to the absolutely insane pressure, but fun nonetheless.

I will not argue with that

Probably because you were play Pyro who is almost on %fox level of broken lol

I tried to 1v1 each of your characters (except the meme one like UI Nolan or Yeeta or bosses) with George Seinfeld's character Pyro since I'm best with him. This one, Zetta and Alex gave me the most trouble. I do love all your characters. They play good and are very well animated. Even though they trash talk me.

RIP thwomp, you served well in your crusade, but alas...

challenge accepted

The AI is just a whole level of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Sai just make Saji Perfect cell at this point from dragonball

aight i think i should finally make it so it perfect-cancel the shine more .. perfect.

LMAO

Fix the AI. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ridiculous.

love this character

sakamoto? hmmmmm

eh, this one have an AI that read input and pretty advanced so I'm not surprise.

Not OP, just play super optimal and leave no openning.

This character is quite powerful. Pit him against any team of 3 original rival characters and he destroys them. Pit him against Ronald and he almost always wins. Very much reminds me of the OP Zetta...

I'm not complaining though, I enjoy every single one of your characters and am currently maining both Zetta and Katie. Two very different playstyles, but very fun to play.

Needs one more update for niceness.

So you know how there's a bug with Fuki's meter? I noticed that this happens with Saji as well. My suggestion is maybe adding a check for if the other player is a teammate and another variable making sure the player is the one that should have it (so it doesn't switch between players unless you hit them with the attacks that are supposed to give the sword indicator). I'm not 100% sure if this would work, or my suggestion for Fuki's bug would work, as I'm unfamiliar with GML and Rivals' modding tools.