Rivals of Aether

Rivals of Aether

Girlfriend
Girlfriend's moveset thoughts and improvements
Hi @jetie and @soka, I love Girlfriend's moveset and I thank you for adding this character to Rivals so I can play with my actual Girlfriend who is fan of FNF. Compared to Boyfriend which is severely lacking in moveset that I hope that creator improves, Girlfriend is a fun character to play around, but there are couple of complaints I hope you will be able to take as feedback. The character being ranged is good thing in competitive fights but there are some attacks that are simply not as viable.

Peanut Butter Punch: The move is too slow, it does decent amount of damage if it lands but the attack is not as smooth as just using her tetris sword which is faster and covers a good amount of range. The damage and knockback on this skill is excellent, I do feel it needs to be less laggy and able to move out of it faster. Also super armor doesn't seem to always apply, I seen cases where opponent has cancelled attack when it isn't supposed to.

Jump Height/Mobility: Her walk/dash movement and mobility jump height is a bit low, BF's is higher and faster and BF has better recovery, I feel lore wise it would make sense that they both share same height considering BF and GF share same traits and GF is a demon so she could be a bit more mobile. Buff walk/dash speed and buff the jump height a little bit.

Standard beep: It is ok for edge guarding but overall, the move is pretty bad even in its enhanced form, the damage and knockback is not great.

Cherry Soda: The CPU AI has trouble using it fully, is there any chance you can make the AI properly use the move instead of occasionally tapping it. The CPU AI also doesn't seem to use it as often making her fairly weak as CPU almost never takes advantage of filling bar like human players can. The move is good concept, just CPU AI needs to be improved in that aspect. I would also like if the gauge didn't deplete upon KO cause the AI never actually gets a chance to use her enhanced specials since they don't ever use cherry soda.

Demon Grab: Very good in range, but it could be a little stronger because it doesn't send opponents far compared to other fighters recovery so it is a bit lacking in KO potential.

CPU AI: Her AI while decent could use improvements, she doesn't really act well in tetherball often standing around even at level 9 CPU, her recovery AI is decent but sometimes she falls off and doesn't recover resulting in self-KOing, her fighting against other opponents is good but one major flaw is fact she doesn't use cherry soda a single time unless oppoents are KO'd but even then, she doesn't hold down move, just taps it. Hope her AI can be improved cause she's very easy to beat with flawed AI it is. Make the CPU able to use her taunt when she defeats opponents as it confuses me why she only uses soda when opponents are out of stage (soda isn't being held down for some reason on AI).

Voice Clips: Add voice clips to her moveset that smash bros crusade has. Smash Bros Crusade has this for each of moves yet Rivals GF is very silent and only says beep on one move compared to Rivals BF who has voice clips in most of his moves. Make her taunt say "That's how you do it" like Tutorial. And give her a voice clip when she gets KO'd.

More Costume Alts from mods: Flavor Rave Girlfriend (Saucy), Redux B-Side Girlfriend, Funkadelix Girlfriend, D-Side Girlfriend, B3 Girlfriend, HD Girlfriend

Overall, Girlfriend is nice character, excellent kit and feels fleshed out and it is shame that Boyfriend's kit is very weak compared to hers and hopefully creator for Boyfriend workshop will buff his moveset. I just hope you're able to take time and give Girlfriend a bit of boost on her AI and maybe buff some of her basic moves so they aren't lacking in competitive.
Senast ändrad av Always; 12 aug @ 19:38