how about you make this but for people like me, idiots. and make every character (not including workshop) as a buddy and press taunt to use the assist

@Sir_Kipper yes it is possible, the only thing this Buddy requires is multiple fighters

Dude thats genius good job :D

Is it possible for this to work in abyss mode?

This actually partially solved a problem for me. I couldn't fight Eye of Cthulhu as Minun & Plusle because he wouldn't spawn but I couldn't fight him as just Minun because that caused the other player to spawn, who he'd kill & the match would end as a result. Equipping the assist buddy on just Minun solved it by stopping the other player from spawning.

Unsure if you're still supporting this, but one thing I've noticed? The enemy will attack the middle of the stage while this is active. I'm 99% sure they still notice that your ally is spawned in, and will constantly attack them instead. Is there a way to fix this?

unsupported characters work to a bit

im so lazy i will just use it and see what happens lol

Glad you like it. I've been working on a patch that deals with cooldowns, allowing taunts, and some bugs. I just need to get the cooldown bar working correctly.

Legitimately my favorite thing on the workshop rn. A few critiques from my experiences:
- You can assist while in Ranno's bubble (or at least, you can if your assist is Orcane), which makes it kinda easy to avoid attacks.
- The cooldown is unclear and feels kinda short, so a meter similar to Elliana's would be cool
- Absa with Clairen assist is just... unholy
- Taunting while offstage causes this really weird lag spike if you have a grounded assist.
- Also: could you make taunts still available with a special input like Taunt+Parry or Up Taunt? That'd be cool, since Shovel Knight is able to do something similar.

Those aside, I have to say that this is genuinely super fun to play. The setups are endless and combo execution looks super cool. Good work on this!

I have a suggestion

A menu opens when the match starts (similar to the old abyss rune buddy) and you can input as move the assist character does (like in skullgirls)

Basically this is just fraymakers but early gameplay

so basically a simplified version of the MUGEN Ronald assist thing

would it be possible for you to add some kind of default attack like nair or smth for unsupported characters?

True, but I couldn't possibly add compatibility for every workshop character. Also I would rather the creators chose the moves themselves. If you have a particular character in mind, you could ask the creator to add compatibility.

It's a cool buddy, but it sucks that only 4 characters are compatible with this

I'll give each character multiple assists once I find a good way to implement it.

can you please make sylvanos assist up smash? it'd be really funny

when you have lily out and taunt the animation doesnt cancel

u should make forsburn's assit dtilt cus his down tilt it like one of the best moves in the game, or like bair or dair could be cool too but idk if assits should be able to kill the opponent

Also, I'll figure something out for shovel knight later.

oh, yeah. stick to normal skins for now

update: it didn't work cus i was using champ maypul, it doesnt seem to work on dlc skins.

What character are you using? Maybe their taunt works differently.

oh well it doesnt cancel your taunt, also canceling your taunt is a bad thing cus SK cant do his thing. Taunt cancel is a thing where you taunt and slide off a ledge. attack + special shouldn't be that bad? maybe like parry + attack instead? idk

I feel like attack + special would be inconvenient. What do you mean by taunt cancel? The buddy should automatically cancel your taunt input.

is it possible to have the assist be like attack + special instead of taunt so you dont have to taunt cancel everytime you want the assist?

nice

done

I figured as much. I'll go ahead and fix that.

Wait, once you've died, your assists still stay alive so the match never ends

Incredible