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[JediLink]

Is Mario... tripping?

That's his backwards trip animation, which can only be caused by items or attacks. Although, what I've always believed for situations like this is that Sakurai just puts the characters into the desired animations manually and nothing in-game actually causes it.

 

[User 73706]

We know that eye tracking exists in the Wii U version, but are their expressions somewhat adaptive, too? Maybe it's just a backward-roll but Mario's mouth opened because he's directly going into a fully-charged Eruption.

 

[Regulus Tera]

If I could fill in the rest of the cast, assuming the cap was 50, I would put in...

Wario
Mr. Game and Watch
Meta Knight
Ganondorf
Ice Climbers
Ness
Captain Falcon
Jigglypuff
Wolf
Takamaru
Chrom/Lucina
Chorus Men
Palutena
RIDLEY
9-Volt/Mona
Mii
Pac-Man
Isaac
Andy
Shulk

If only I could have made the entire roster from scratch. GOOD BYE TOON LINK

Kick out regular Link, keep toon Link in.

 

[SaintMadeOfPlaster]

We know that eye tracking exists in the Wii U version, but are their expressions somewhat adaptive, too? it's just a backward-roll but Mario's mouth opened because he's directly going into a fully-charged Eruption.

We do?

EDIT: Oh, I thought you meant the Gamepad tracks the player's eye movement. Whoops.

 

[Boss Doggie]

THE KNEE! IT IS BACK!

In Pokemon!

 

[Axiology]

At first I didn't use Eruption very much, but it has its uses. If you release it at the right time the super armor negates knockback, so you can use it as a get-up-in-your-face counter attack, and the unconventional hitbox means it's easier to catch people off guard with it.

I can see why it comes off as "yet another super powerful move, but worse", though

 

[Ezalc]

I want to include Snake, but having Snake, Mega, Sonic, and Pac-Man is a bit overkill. Also I'm not a big fan of Falco and if I had to choose between him and Wolf I would certainly pick Wolf. Also I'm not too crazy about Shulk but couldn't think of anyone else except for someone super obscure like Captain Syrup or Pockle. Actually scratch Shulk and put in Mallo from Pushmo.

No Ray 01 from Custom Robo? C'mon man, he was even an assist trophy and one of the few series from Nintendo with many games that has yet to get a rep. And he's a MECHA!

 

[georly]

I'm still worried about why mario is tripping

 

[Beelzebufo]

I'm still worried about why mario is tripping

I mean, random tripping is one of the few things that Sakurai straight up deconfirmed. I wouldn't be worried.

 

[Servbot24]

I'm still worried about why mario is tripping

Pretty sure Sakurai confirmed no tripping.

But if tripping did come back I would literally skip this game. Pointless.

 

[SmithnCo]

I'm still worried about why mario is tripping

Sakurai could've just put him in that animation for the sake of the photo. No way they will bring back random tripping.

 

[Village]

I'm still worried about why mario is tripping

Already confirmed to be out of the game.

If you keep getting riled up you will just start charging at people trying to bite them, while your stand post slowly breaks.

 

[Qurupeke]

THE KNEE! IT IS BACK!

In Pokemon!

Knee shoryuken!

 

[georly]

I mean, random tripping is one of the few things that Sakurai straight up deconfirmed. I wouldn't be worried.

Pretty sure Sakurai confirmed no tripping.

But if tripping did come back I would literally skip this game. Pointless.

Sakurai could've just put him in that animation for the sake of the photo. No way they will bring back random tripping.

Already confirmed to be out of the game.

If you keep getting riled up you will just start charging at people trying to bite them, while your stand post slowly breaks.

Oh I know he confirmed it. But I see no banana. It's just weird.

Knee shoryuken!

TIGER!

Hawlucha would be a great sagat/grappler!

 

[MagiusNecros]

Would be neat if Ike's Eruption caused wind to trip characters into a fully charged hit.

 

[IntelliHeath]

Oh I know he confirmed it. But I see no banana. It's just weird.

Well. Seeing that Mario already slipped on the Banana. So banana usually got tossed into the air after being slipped on. With Sakurai, he probably took a picture of the incident right after banana got out of the frame shot.

 

[Anteo]

Did Sakurai said No Tripping? Or no Random Tripping?
For example, Tripping is still in Project M, but Random Tripping is gone,

 

[ffdgh]

THE KNEE! IT IS BACK!

In Pokemon!

This is so absurd...I love it.

 

[IntelliHeath]

Did Sakurai said No Tripping? Or no Random Tripping?
For example, Tripping is still in Project M, but Random Tripping is gone,

No random tripping.. Tripping is still in the game due to Banana.

 

[georly]

Well. Seeing that Mario already slipped on the Banana. So banana usually got tossed into the air after being slipped on. With Sakurai, he probably took a picture of the incident right after banana got out of the frame shot.

Now i need to research how high bananas fly when you trip on them. brb!

 

[Kyzon]

If I could fill in the rest of the cast, assuming the cap was 50, I would put in...

Wario
Mr. Game and Watch
Meta Knight
Ganondorf
Ice Climbers
Ness
Captain Falcon
Jigglypuff
Wolf
Takamaru
Chrom/Lucina
Chorus Men
Palutena
RIDLEY
9-Volt/Mona
Mii
Pac-Man
Isaac
Andy
Shulk

If only I could have made the entire roster from scratch. GOOD BYE TOON LINK

Hello young link?

 

[fredrancour]

Hello young link?

Would only be worth it if he were allowed to pack the transformation masks, which has been ruled out by the no transformations thing.

 

[georly]

Would only be worth it if he were allowed to pack the transformation masks, which has been ruled out by the no transformations thing.

Pretty much yeah, unless changing masks changes only 1 move (doubtful), it won't happen anymore :/

Reasearch done:

Banana out of frame: Plausible

 

[Blizzard]

Mario looks to me kind of like part of a hit/falling animation, or a dodge animation, but I imagine if I had the Brawl Mario tripping animation in front of me it would prove me wrong.

 

[georly]

Mario looks to me kind of like part of a hit/falling animation, or a dodge animation, but I imagine if I had the Brawl Mario tripping animation in front of me it would prove me wrong.

I'm having a hard time finding images/footage of his backwards (aka banana) trip animation. I can only find his forward (dashing) trip animation.

 

[Babymario26]

But its been said thousands of times tripping is not returning, why would they back track on that?

 

[Beelzebufo]

You can trip people by hitting them with certain attacks too right?

 

[Otakumegane]

Aww I'd wished Ike would have gotten his eruption changed a bit, maybe make it more useful for edge guarding at high percents because of how the invinc frames work.

EDIT: So like if you have like 0 invinc frames at 150% you should be able to use the lingering hitbox of ike to just crush em.

 

[fredrancour]

But its been said thousands of times tripping is not returning, why would they back track on that?

Smashgaf runs on baseless assumptions and spectacular ridley gifs.

 

[theprodigy]

You can trip people by hitting them with certain attacks too right?

In Brawl? yes, hopefully that doesn't come back either (that's random too)

 

[georly]

But its been said thousands of times tripping is not returning, why would they back track on that?

Smashgaf runs on baseless assumptions and spectacular ridley gifs.

I'm not saying that random tripping is back at all. I know sakurai said it's gone. I'm just wondering WHY it looks like mario is tripping. Does Ike's attack cause people to trip? Is there a banana off frame? Is some new unkown thing causing him to trip?

 

[SmithnCo]

Sakurai could've probably just posed them like this with dev tools.

 

[Berordn]

Sakurai could've probably just posed them like this with dev tools.

Which he probably does regularly because otherwise he'd be putting hours upon hours into making scenes like this:

And as cool as it to imagine Luigi roleplaying the Once-ler, I'm sure he's got better things to do than make screenshots.

 

[Kyzon]

Would only be worth it if he were allowed to pack the transformation masks, which has been ruled out by the no transformations thing.

Oh yeah... I forgot about that.
Classic Link it is then. Roc's Cape Recovery, Fire Rod Neutral Special, Quake Medallion Down B, and Pegasus Boots Side B.

 

[DaBoss]

In Brawl? yes, hopefully that doesn't come back either (that's random too)

 

[georly]

Sakurai could've probably just posed them like this with dev tools.

Which he probably does regularly because otherwise he'd be putting hours upon hours into making scenes like this:

SNIP

And as cool as it to imagine Luigi roleplaying the Once-ler, I'm sure he's got better things to do than make screenshots.

I like to imagine that he's a wizard and he and his team actually just DO set up pictures like that

GAH! Maybe some strong attacks do have an additional 'tripping' property added to them.

 

[Anteo]

Wait, the banana got confirmed already? I missed this.

Edit: Huh..

 

[theprodigy]

damn it

 

[Kyzon]

:O I just noticed that Bowser walks like he does in the Mario and Luigi games.

 

[Anteo]

List of tripping attacks in Brawl:

Bowser:
Forward tilt (angled down) 40% Chance
Down tilt 30% Chance

http://www.ssbwiki.com/Tripping

 

[AlexMeloche]

Pretty sure Mario needs a facelift... dat cheek.

 

[georly]

List of tripping attacks in Brawl:

Bowser:
Forward tilt (angled down) 40% Chance
Down tilt 30% Chance

http://www.ssbwiki.com/Tripping

Wonder if that's back, or if some attacks are guaranteed to trip now.

Also, Ike's not on that list, so I wonder if he's been added.

 

[Anteo]

I dont like that some attacks have a chance of tripping (in Brawl), make it so at certain % (i.e. below 12%, or below 22% if DI'ng down) the oponent trip.

 

[georly]

Pretty sure Mario needs a facelift... dat cheek.

The cheek is just because the ring of light from ike's move is bisecting it.

 

[SovanJedi]

I dunno, it looks just like a neutral dodge pose to me.

 

[Tan]

Pro marth play

 

[Beelzebufo]

Oh yeah... I forgot about that.
Classic Link it is then. Roc's Cape Recovery, Fire Rod Neutral Special, Quake Medallion Down B, and Pegasus Boots Side B.

That could work, but I'd probably replace the cap with his spin attack from ALttP, the Pegasus boots with the classic boomerang, and get rid of the quake medallion in favor of bombs. He should probably have a bow and arrow over the fire rod too, it's a more famous item.


Also, that's cool that that kind of tripping is back. It's much more skill based and strategic.

 

[Tripon]

Quick and dirty edit:

Why are the flames Purple now?

 

[georly]

That could work, but I'd probably replace the cap with his spin attack from ALttP, the Pegasus boots with the classic boomerang, and get rid of the quake medallion in favor of bombs. He should probably have a bow and arrow over the fire rod too, it's a more famous item.


Also, that's cool that that kind of tripping is back. It's much more skill based and strategic.

I'd love a link that shares 0 specials with other links, though. There's so much he could do. I think roc's cape is great, honestly.

 

[Beelzebufo]

I'd love a link that shares 0 specials with other links, though. There's so much he could do. I think roc's cape is great, honestly.

But it would be weird to have a Link that doesn't use any of the most memorable Zelda attacks, wouldn't it? It would be like if a Mario had the flying squirrel suit instead of fireballs.