Introduction

Originating as a direct balance patch and later evolving into a larger project, The WuBor Patch is a modification for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate that aims to change the game in fun and interesting ways. While keeping Smash Ultimate at its core, The WuBor Patch is a unique experience with original system mechanics and overhauled characters.

This changelog is built off of the main branch of The WuBor Patch - this means that it will be up-to-date with any officially released version of the WuBor Patch.

This changelog is also HEAVILY UNDER CONSTRUCTION. Everything is subject to change while formatting and changelog content is being figured out.

Engine Changes

Input Buffer

Reduced Tap Buffer from 9 frames to 6 frames.

Crouch

It is now possible to crouch during the following states:

Dash
Run
Run Brake/Skid

Jump Squat

All jump squats have been increased from 3 to 4 frames (except for Kazuya, who is unchanged). Up Smash is no longer prioritized when attempting to perform a buffered Up Air.

Jumping

Jumping no longer has accelerated rising momentum, matching the momentum from previous games.

Falling

Actions that put you into the normal falling animation will instead use the unique double jump fall animation if you are out of jumps.

Fast Falling

Fast Falling is no longer canceled by performing an Aerial or Special.

Shield

Shield Mechanics

Shield Pushback was also increased by roughly 1.3x.
- Shield Pushback while Parrying was reduced to 0.
Shield Release frames were reduced from 11 frames to 5.
It is impossible to shield for 11 frames after the start of Shield Release (6 frames after you're actionable from Shield Release).
The natural Shield HP decrease was increased from 0.15 HP/frame to 0.18 HP/frame.
Shields can no longer be tilted.
Shield Lock (Siheld + Special or Shield + Shield) has been removed.
Shield shrinks while losing HP, however a more transparent shield will always be there to show how much space your shield covers.
- Instead of the above, Yoshi's Shield still fades to black, but it stops before turning black completely.
It is no longer possible to Shield Break yourself by holding Shield. Your shield can only break if the opponent breaks it.

Actions Into Shield

It is now possible to Shield during Dash and Back Dash (Ryu/Ken/Terry/Kazuya).

Actions Out of Shield

Out-of-Shield options have been significantly changed.

It is now possible to perform a Platform Drop like in previous games.
- It is also possible to perform a Platform Drop while in Shield Lock.
You can no longer directly perform actions out of shield. Performing any action while holding Shield will instead force a Shield Drop first, and then buffer the action.
- Spotdodges, Rolls, and Platform Dropping can still be directly performed.
- In addition, Grab, Dash Grab, and Turn Grab can still be performed directly while putting up Shield. Performing Grab otherwise will force a Shield Drop first.
Using the C-Stick will drop shield and perform whatever the C-Stick is bound to.
- Performing angled Tilts or Smash Attacks will require moving the left stick up or down after inputting the C-Stick horizontally.

Parries

Parrying has been moved to Shield Startup instead of Shield Release.
The Parry window was reduced from 5 to 3 frames.
- The Parry window is increased to 6 frames if Shield is held during a Parry.
Parries can only be buffered if the Shield button was pressed for less than 5 frames, otherwise you will shield normally.
- This does not apply if Shield is held during a parry.

Grab

The Grab Lockout Timer no longer exists.
Grab-techs are now active throughout the entire startup of grab, not just while the grab box is currently active.
All non-standard Grabs can no longer be grab-teched.
It is now possible to buffer Dash and Pivot Grabs.

Spot Dodge

Removed Spot Dodge Canceling.
All Spot Dodges have a base FAF of 27.
All Spot Dodges have intangibility from frames 3 to 18.
All Spot Dodges stale at the same rate.
On the last frame of invulnerability, Spot Dodge can be canceled into a fully-staled roll with frame 1 intangibility.

Directional Air Dodge

See Air Dash

Ledge Slipoffs

It is now possible to slip off of ledges during the following states:

Dash
Back Dash (Ryu/Ken/Terry/Kazuya)
Normal/Light/Air Dodge Landing
Special Fall/Freefall Landing
Taunt

Hitstop

Electric-property moves only deal extra hitstop to the opponent.

Knockback

The spinning knockback animation no longer is randomly applied, instead being applied at a consistent character weight + 33 damage threshold, meant to signify average kill percent.
Balloon Knockback has been reworked.
- Balloon Knockback now applies based on Launch Speed instead of total Hitstun frames.
- Maximum Balloon Knockback magitude has been reduced (6 > 4), making it have less of, but still a noticable effect.
Hitstun Canceling was removed.
Removes the raised lower blast zone when getting spiked.

Directional Influence

Directional Influence has been increased (9.74 degrees / 0.17 radians > 12.0321 degrees / 0.21 radians).
Launch Speed Influence has been removed.
The DI Guide Line has been removed.

Teching

The tap tech window has been increased from 12 to 20.
The tap window now applies to all states where it is possible tech.
Untechables no longer exist except for on moves where it is purposefully impossible to tech.

Ledges

Ledges have been reworked.

The 2 frames it takes to reach a ledge have been removed.
- This also removes 2-Framing.
The entire cast has had their ledge grab boxes adjusted to remove the phenomenon known as "Magnet Hands".
Certain characters have had new ledge grab boxes added to certain moves.

Tethers

All tethers have had their reel-in speed cut in half.
All tethers now grab the ledge the frame before their respective hitbox activates, if they don't already. This applies to:
- Samus (Grapple Beam)
- Young Link (Hookshot)
- Lucas (Rope Snake)
- Toon Link (Hookshot)
- Joker (Grappling Hook)
- Byleth (Sword of the Creator)
- Min Min (ARM Hook)
Tether's attack framedata and ledge grab boxes as a whole have been untouched for now.

Ledge Intangibility

Dropping from ledge no longer clears your intangibility.
Intangibility gets cleared if you are no longer in the falling or jumping states.

In addition, the Ledge Intangibility formula has been changed:

	Vanilla	WuBor
Ledge Grab Invuln (Inactionable)	19	19 (Unchanged)
Invuln from Airtime	Up to 60 Frames	Up to 30 Frames
Invuln from Damage Taken	Up to 44 Frames	Up to 30 Frames
Min. Potential Intangibility	4 Frames	11 Frames
Max. Potential Intangibility	123 Frames	79 Frames

This means an immediate ledge grab, from something like a ledge trump for example, at 0% will give you 30 invulnerable frames to work with. At maximum, from being off stage for 5 seconds and being at 0%, you will have 60 invulnerable frames to work with. While this seems like a lot, this scenario is very unlikely.

On the other hand, being at around 120% and immediately grabbing the ledge will give the minimum 11 frames of invulnerability, which should be enough to go for an immediate edge guard, but not much else.

Stale-Move Negation

Staling has been overhauled. The queue has been effectively shortened from 9 to 7, Freshness Bonus was removed, and many values have been reworked.
The values shown in the following table are multipliers to the move's base damage that get added during damage calculation.
If a move is in multiple places in the Stale Move list, all slots are added together.

Stale Move Slot	Vanilla	WuBor
0 (Freshness Bonus)	+ 0.05x	+ 0.0x
1	- 0.09x	- 0.125x
2	- 0.08545x	- 0.1x
3	- 0.07635x	- 0.075x
4	- 0.0679x	- 0.05x
5	- 0.05945x	- 0.05x
6	- 0.05053x	- 0.05x
7	- 0.04255x	- 0.05x
8	- 0.03345x	- 0.0x
9	- 0.025x	- 0.0x

1v1 Damage Multiplier

Removed.

Rage

Removed.

Attack Canceling

Removed.

Sliding Normals

All grounded normals (Jab, Tilts, Smash Attacks) will carry your momentum from your previous action.

The exception is Forward Smash, which will not carry momentum if performed during the initial frames of Dash.

Jab

Only Neutral Attack inputs will be valid when performing Jab combos. Pressing Tilts, Smash attacks, etc. will not count as a Jab input.

Aerials

Pressing Jump and Attack at the same time no longer forces a short hop aerial.
Short Hop Aerials no longer deal less damage than usual.
Aerial Landing Lag is increased by 4 frames if you generated a hitbox and did not connect with anything. This does not apply to moves that only generate projectiles. For example:
- Mario presses Neutral Air.
  - If Mario lands before a hitbox is generated, he takes 8 frames of landing lag.
  - If Mario generates a hitbox, does not hit anything, and lands, he takes 12 frames of landing lag.
  - If Mario hits a fighter or a Shield before landing, he takes 8 frames of landing lag.
- Mega Man presses Up Air.
  - Because Mega Man does not generate a hitbox that's directly connected to him, he will always take 20 frames of landing lag.

Respawning

Instead of already being in your idle animation, characters now start laying down, only to get up before the platform stops moving. (Did you know this was a thing in Smash 64?)

In addition, it is now possible to Taunt while on the respawn platform.

Due to… surprising complexity, Sora’s Up Taunt will not produce any effects.

New Mechanics

Air Dash

Directional Air Dodging is now Air Dashing. They have no intangibility, are cancellable into attacks on frame 15, and are fully actionable on frame 30. Vertical Air Dash distance is significantly less than horizontal Air Dash distance. Landing with an Air Dash has 7 frames of Landing Lag.

Air Dashes are grouped into “tiers”, with each tier affecting Air Dash distance. A character's Air Dash Tier is listed alongside their changelist.

Bad	Average	Good	Great

Hyper Hop and Super Jump

Flicking the stick down and jumping from the ground will perform a special jump, which changes depending on if you Short Hop or Full Hop.

Short Hop turns into Hyper Hop, which grants significantly more horizontal speed and movement.
Full Hop turns into Super Jump, which increases your jump height at the cost of horizontal movement. Both Hyper Hops and Super Jumps cut your horizontal control in half.

Dash Cancels

Certain attacks in the game can be canceled directly into Dash. When canceling into Dash:

Your Dash-to-Run frame is moved back by a few frames (the exact number varies by character's individual Dash-to-Run frame).
Your character is completely inactionable until the Dash-to-Run frame.

Stage Changes

Small Battlefield

In 1v1 matches, players spawn on the main stage instead of on the platforms.

WarioWare, Inc.

Spawns and Blast Zones adjusted to be symmetrical.

Castle Siege

The right-side platform was removed. Transformations were removed.

Wily Castle

Top Blast Zone reduced by 20 units. Yellow Devil was removed.

Yggdrasil's Altar

Only the tri-plat layout will appear and it appears shortly after the match starts, before the main platform takes off. In addition, the tri-plat layout is now inverted, with the side platforms higher than the center platform. Additional fly-in platforms were removed.

Intended Stage Lists

The current intended stage lists is as follows:

Singles

Starters	Counterpicks
Small Battlefield	Battlefield
Final Destination	Castle Siege
Hollow Bastion
Northern Cave
WarioWare, Inc.

Doubles

Starters	Counterpicks
Kalos Pokémon League	Yggdrasil's Altar
Battlefield
Wily Castle
Town & City
Pokémon Stadium 2

Character Changes

Legend

Color	Meaning
Green	Buff
Red	Nerf
Light Blue	Rework/Overhaul
Yellow	A Funny

Echo Fighters are located next to their base fighter in the list.

Mario

It’s still criminal that they haven’t updated Mario since Brawl. It’s time for us to do it. Mario now can use several of his iconic acrobatics to traverse the battlefield as an expert platformer.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average

Moveset

Smash Attacks

Forward Smash

Now performs a sideways hammer swing that can be angled.

Aerials

Forward Air

Now uses his hammer to perform an overhead swing downwards.
Holding Attack has Mario delay the attack for 16 frames and turns it into a spike.

	Startup	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Uncharged	14	12	361	30	80
Charged	30	12	290	30	80

Up Air

	Startup	Angle	FAF
Vanilla	4	75	31
WuBor	5	72	32

Down Air

Now performs the spin jump from Super Mario World.
Mario stomps on the opponent up to three times.
Stomping an opponent causes Mario to bounce.

Early Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Rehit Rate
6 - 31	4	15 Frames

If the opponent is standing on the ground, it will keep them in place.
If the opponent is in the air, it will push them slightly outwards.

Ending Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
32 - 52	4	40	60	90

The opponent is launched in the direction Mario was facing when starting the attack.

FAF: 60

Specials

Side Special - Galaxy Spin

Now performs the spin from Super Mario Galaxy.
Functions similarly to Cape but with a launching hitbox instead of the turnaround effect.
There is a strong hitbox in front of Mario at the beginning of the move. The rest of the attack as a weaker hitbox.
Strong Startup Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
10 - 12	10	361	65	65

Weak Lingering Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
10 - 27	5	361	65	50

Still reflects projectiles, but with a smaller window (9 - 20 > 10 - 14).
Ledge Grab frame: 28.
FAF: 35

Up Special - Super Jump Punch

	Startup	Intangibility
Vanilla	3	3 - 7
WuBor	6	6 - 9

Down Special (Ground) - Long Jump

Now performs the Long Jump from Super Mario 64.
The distance traveled by a Long Jump depends on the direction the stick is held during Long Jump's startup.
Mario can cancel Long Jump into other actions shortly after leaving the ground.
Mario can perform some (in)famous backwards movement through interesting momentum manipulation.

Down Special (Air) - Ground Pound

Now performs the Ground Pound from New Super Mario Bros.
Mario stalls in the air before dropping down.
Can only grab ledges in front of Mario.
Can be canceled after Mario starts falling by tilting the stick upwards only if the hitbox hasn't connected with anything.
Falling Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
19 - Landing	16	30	50	50

Landing Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Landing Frame Only	6	30	60	50

FAF: Landing + 30

Grabs/Throws

Down Throw

	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	90
WuBor	110

Donkey Kong

We were buffing the first member of the DK crew anyway, so we decided to finally give him the good old DK Barrel. And it’s… pretty powerful. Heck, even giving DK a nerfed form of the barrel item was a massive buff. But we nerfed his weight and didn’t compensate, and his recovery and disadvantage are still garbage, so… Just learn the counterplay.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Good
Weight	127	120

Moveset

Normals

Jab 2

	FAF
Vanilla	32
WuBor	25

Dash Attack

Now rolls off of ledges.
Donkey Kong falls at half the usual rate until Dash Attack finishes.

Forward Tilt

	Damage (Side/Hi/Lw)	FAF
Vanilla	8/9/9	34
WuBor	10/11/11	31

Up Tilt

	Damage (Shoulder/Elbow/Hand)	FAF
Vanilla	8/9/10	39
WuBor	9/10/11	35

Down Tilt

	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	361	10	120
WuBor	55	30	100

Aerials

Neutral Air

	FAF
Vanilla	39
WuBor	35

Forward Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	17
WuBor	15

Back Air

	Damage (Early/Late)
Vanilla	13/11
WuBor	11/7

Specials

Side Special - Barrel Pull

Donkey Kong now pulls out a barrel.

	Barrel Pull Frame
Ground	20
Air	31

Only 1 barrel can be pulled by Donkey Kong at a time. If he tries to pull another, he will perform a Down Taunt instead.
See Barrels for more information.

Link

The Master Sword deserves to be a safer weapon than Link’s legs. Just saying.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Air Speed	0.924	0.966
Gravity	0.096	0.108

Moveset

Normals

Jab 3

	FAF
Vanilla	35
WuBor	28

Dash Attack

	Damage	Angle	KBG	BKB
Vanilla	14/13/12	45/50/55	85/77	85/70
WuBor	14	50	85	85

Forward Tilt

	FAF
Vanilla	40
WuBor	36

Up Tilt

	Hitbox Duration
Vanilla	8 - 12
WuBor	8 - 13

Down Tilt

	Hitbox Placement
Vanilla	Y=1.3, Z=17.5
WuBor	Y=1.0, Z=19.5

Up Smash

	Startup	Damage (Final Hit)
Vanilla	10	11/10/9
WuBor	8	10

Aerials

Neutral Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	6
WuBor	7

Forward Air

	Startup
Vanilla	16
WuBor	14

Back Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	6
WuBor	7

Samus

More changes are coming soon. For now, “all I got was this lousy Up Tilt”.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Bad
Run Speed	1.654	1.777
Fall Speed	1.33	1.4
Fast Fall Speed	2.128	2.24

Moveset

Normals

Up Tilt

Now performs a three-shot burst diagonally upwards.

First Two Hitboxes:

Hitbox Duration	Damage
10 - 12 16 - 18	2

These two hitboxes keep the opponent in place to set up for the final hitbox.

Final Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
22 - 24	8	55	50	92

Specials

Up Special - Screw Attack

Only the Grounded version was adjusted

	Startup	Intangibility
Vanilla	4	3 - 7
WuBor	7	6 - 10

Dark Samus

Dark Samus has acquired enough entirely new tools to be treated as a brand new character, like Isabelle when compared to Villager. With unique air movement traits, lack of a tether aerial, modified knockback angles, and altered projectile properties, this Dark Samus has a completely fresh playstyle, based around preemptive projectile placement. (Or just call it Setplay Samus.)

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Bad
Weight	108	101
Walk Speed	1.115	1.2
Dash Speed	1.87	1.75
Run Speed	1.654	1.57
Air Speed	1.103	1.2
Gravity	0.075	0.066
Fall Speed	1.33	1.6
Fast Fall Speed	2.128	2.24
Aerial Tether	True	False

Moveset

Normals

Jab 1

	Startup	Jab 2 Transition Frame
Vanilla	3	14
WuBor	5	7

Jab 2

Is now a new move that shoots opponents away horizontally.

Startup	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
5	6	0	50	75

FAF: 35

Dash Attack

Has the same animation but deals multiple hits.

Multihits:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle
8 - 9 11 - 12 14 - 15 17 - 18	1.8	367

Final Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
20 - 21	5	72	120	40

FAF: 50

Forward Tilt

	Angle
Vanilla	361
WuBor	67

Up Tilt

Now does a quick claw-swipe in front of and above it.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
10 - 12	8	78	50	110

FAF: 35

Down Tilt

	Angle	Knockback Growth	Can Reverse Hit
Vanilla	75	65	True
WuBor	40	50	False

Smash Attacks

Up Smash

Final Hit Only:

	Angle	Knockback Growth	Hitbox Size
Vanilla	80	162	4.5/6.5
WuBor	143	140	4.5/8.5

Down Smash

	Angle	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	30	70
WuBor	80	95

Aerials

Neutral Air

Dark Samus gathers Phazon energy, hitting opponents multiple times. It then releases that energy outwards around it. The first time this is performed in the air, Dark Samus's fall speed is cut by 0.35x.

Multihits:

The Multihit hitbox barely surrounds Dark Samus.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle
8 - 9 15 - 16 23 - 24 31 - 32	1	367

Launching Hitbox:

Has the same placement as the multihit hitbox, except slightly larger.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
38 - 39	4	361	40	135

FAF: 54
Autocancel Window: 56+

Forward Air

Is now an animation based on its Forward Smash.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
10 - 14	12	53	40	100

FAF: 49
Autocancel Window: 42+

Back Air

(Early Weak/Early Strong/Late), if applicable

	Damage	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	12/14/9	30/42/20	98/98/90
WuBor	12/12/9	30/30/20	90

Up Air

Is now Captain Falcon's Up Air but with a modified animation.

(Early/Late), if applicable.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
10 - 13	8	66	20	96
14 - 15	8	30	12	80

FAF: 36
Autocancel Window: 27+

Down Air

Spike Hitboxes Only:

	Damage
Vanilla	14
WuBor	10

Specials

Neutral Special - Phazon Orb

Dark Samus now shoots an orb that rapidly slows down to a crawl.
Charging a Phazon Orb only changes how fast it initially travels.
Upon charging a Phazon Orb, if one exists already it will be removed.
The charge of a Phazon Orb cannot be stored. Dark Samus will fire automatically upon reaching maximum charge.

Charging Startup	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
F25	9	85	45	25

Minimum FAF: 43

Side Special - Homing Missile

No longer explodes on impact with a fighter, instead automatically exploding when touching the ground or after 30 frames after firing.
Homing Missile now homes in more accurately.

	Firing Frame	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	Hitbox Size	FAF (Ground/Air)
Vanilla	18	8	0	26	25	2.4u	55/60
WuBor	13	8	30	45	25	15.0u	57/62

Side Special - Super Missile

Takes much longer to take off, and has no hitbox until it does.

	Firing Frame	Missile Take-Off Frame	FAF (Ground/Air)
Vanilla	21	50	58/61
WuBor	15	95	55/59

Up Special - Screw Attack

Only the Grounded version was adjusted

	Startup	Intangibility
Vanilla	4	3 - 7
WuBor	7	6 - 10

Down Special - Morph Ball Drop (The Dark Slamus?)

Dark Samus no longer drops a bomb. Instead, it curls into a ball, hops upwards, and drops itself.
Upon hitting an opponent or a shield, Dark Samus will bounce and uncurl, allowing it to immediately follow-up.
Opponents launched by Morph Ball Drop are sent in the direction Dark Samus was initially facing.
If Dark Samus lands while the hitbox is active, it will take 24 frames of landing lag.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	FAF
33 - 56	8	45	70	30	60

Yoshi

“...what, did you think I wasn’t gonna fix Egg Roll?” -Bor

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average

Moveset

Normals

Up Tilt

	Hitbox Duration
Vanilla	8 - 16
WuBor	7 - 16

Down Tilt

(Inner/Middle/Outer), if applicable.

	Damage	Angle	Damage Sound Strength
Vanilla	5/4.5/4	28/28/361	Medium/Medium/Small
WuBor	4.5	30	Small

... yes, the damage sound is an important patch note.

Smash Attacks

Down Smash

The move's weak hit now has the same properties as the strong hit.

Specials

Neutral Special - Egg Lay

Can no longer be grab-teched. See Grab.

Side Special - Egg Roll

No longer bounces when performed on the ground.

	Base Knockback	Max Roll Time	Min Roll Time	FAF
Vanilla	70	180	25	40
WuBor	43	150	15	33

Kirby

These may not seem so, but they’re major changes. Kirby had received round after round of buffs in the original game that never did anything significant. These buffs aim right at where Kirby is lacking, and also add a little bonus from the main series Kirby games. (Plus, a good airdash. Because why not?)

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Good
Air Speed	0.84	0.935

Moveset

Normals

Dash Attack

Uses the same animation but is now a multi-hit with a launcher.
Kirby can fly off of ledges using this attack. He won't start falling until the attack ends.

Multihits:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Rehit Rate
14 - 31	1	4 Frames

Launching Hitbox:

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
32 - 33	8	46	71	74

Down Tilt

Updated to be his iconic slide kick.
On hit, he bounces off with low FAF. On shield, he instead continues to slide.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
7 - 14	8	60	80	20
15 - 21	6	60	80	20

FAF (No Bounce): 40 FAF (After Bounce): 10

Aerials

Up Air

	Startup	FAF
Vanilla	8	38
WuBor	5	35

Specials

Side Special - Hammer Flip

(Ground/Air), if applicable.

	Startup	Base Damage
Vanilla	26/28	19/16
WuBor	20/20	19/19

Up Special - Final Cutter

	Startup
Vanilla	23
WuBor	15

Down Special - Stone

	Cancel FAF
Vanilla	32
WuBor	25

Misc

Side Taunt

Keep spinning! Slide to the side! Hit em with the flourish! Yeah, Kirby, you go!

Fox

These small tweaks should make Fox more comfortable to play, while not affecting his strength in combat too much.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Walk Speed	1.523	1.5
Dash Speed	2.09	2.24
Run Speed	2.402	2.337
Gravity	0.23	0.21

Moveset

Normals

Forward Tilt

(Neutral/Hi/Low Angle), if applicable.

	Damage	Additional Hitstun
Vanilla	6/7/7	0
WuBor	7/7/7	1

Aerials

Back Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	9
WuBor	11

Pikachu

This rat. This. Freaking. Rat. The bane of many players' existences, even if Pikachu isn't frontrunning the meta. Everyone loves to hate him, but we like him enough, so here's an anime-faithful rework of every single Special as well as making him a heccin' chonker.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Model Scale	0.96	1.025
Weight	79	77

Moveset

Normals

Jab

While it looks the same, the move has been overhauled:

Startup	FAF & Jab Repeat Frame	Damage	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	Additional Hitstun
3	13	1.2	20	30	3

Dash Attack

	FAF
Vanilla	36
WuBor	42

Up Tilt

(Innter/Middle/Outer), if applicable.

	Angle	Base Knockback
Vanilla	105	40/45/45
WuBor	107	45

In addition, opponents will always get launched in front of Pikachu.

Smash Attacks

Forward Smash

Looks the same, but has been reworked.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
15 - 19	15	50	70
20 - 23	18	60	75
24 - 29	12	40	60

Aerials

Neutral Air

	Startup	Landing Lag
Vanilla	4	9
WuBor	5	12

Back Air

Is now a kick inspired by Smash 64 Pikachu's Back Air, but more fierce looking.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
8 - 10	12	45	49	84
11 - 18	8	361	49	60

FAF: 36 Landing Lag: 13

Up Air

	Damage (Innter/Middle/Outer)	Angle (Early/Late)	Base Knockback (Early/Late)	Knockback Growth (Early/Late)
Vanilla	6/6/5	68/55	50/40	113/80
WuBor	5	63	50	75

Down Air

The landing hitbox only appears if Down Air had a hitbox while landing.

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	22
WuBor	25

Specials

Neutral Special - Electro Ball

Pikachu now generates Electro Ball using its tail. It then performs a tail swipe to launch the ball forwards.
The Tail Swipe itself has a hitbox that weakly pushes the opponent away.

Tail Hitbox

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Fixed Knockback	Knockback Growth
22	5	38	70	100

FAF: 50

Electro Ball

Electro Ball starts off travelling slowly, but it will pick up speed on frame 10.
Electro Ball does not have a hitbox until frame 6.
On hit, Electro Ball lightly stuns the opponent in place.
Electro Ball also gains power the faster it travels.

Damage (Min/Max)	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
3 - 10	60	35	30

Side Special - Quick Attack

Quick Attack has been moved to Side Special.
The first Quick Attack can only be angled 20 degrees up and down, but can go in any direction afterwards.

	Startup	Quick Attack 2 BKB/KBG
Vanilla	16	20/150
WuBor	20	75/95

Up Special - Thunder

Pikachu now jumps up and fires Thunder straight down below him.
Pikachu has two body hitboxes that attempt to send the opponent below Pikachu to set up into the thunderbolts.

Body Hitbox

Hitbox Duration	Damage
11 - 18	2
31 - 35	4

Thunderbolts

The thunderbolts will begin to spawn on frame 34.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
1+	8	42	85	17

Transitions into normal Fall after use.
FAF: 54 Can grab ledge before frame 18 and after frame 54.

Down Special - Iron Tail

Pikachu leaps forwards with a few flips before slamming its tail down.

(Ground/Air Hitbox), if applicable.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
20 - 22	15	277/290	75/40	30/45

FAF: 42

Luigi

Ness

Ness is unchanged. His air dash tier is Average.

Captain Falcon

Captain Falcon is almost unchanged. His air dash tier is Good.

Moveset

Aerials

Neutral Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	7
WuBor	8

Misc Changes

Adjusted his Dash Back animation.

Jigglypuff

The smallest Quality of Life buffs for our pink balloon friend here.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Weight	68	71

Moveset

Specials

Neutral Special - Rollout

Can now be canceled after hitting the opponent.

Misc

Down Taunt

Jigglypuff's position actually matches its location now. I wonder what this can lead to...

Peach

This character used to be gutted by one change, can you guess what that was?

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average

Moveset

Aerials

Neutral Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	7
WuBor	8

Misc

Item Toss

Like with Turnips, Peach can now use Down Special to throw any held item.

Daisy

Bowser

A small work in progress. Bowser will be cleaned up another time.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Weight	135	125

Moveset

Normals

Dash Attack

(Early/Late Hitbox), if applicable

	Hitbox Duration	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	FAF
Vanilla	11 - 14 / 15 - 20	80	110/80	35/30	56
WuBor	14 - 17 / 18 - 25	42	85/65	50/30	43

Specials

Side Special - Flying Slam

Changed to be much slower. That's it for now.

Ice Climbers

The Ice Climbers are unchanged. Their air dash tier is Average.

Sheik

Zelda

Dr. Mario

Pichu

While making Pikachu a heccin’ chonker, we also decided that smol bean was a little too smol. Pichu is mostly unchanged, with two small exceptions.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Good
Weight	62	67

Falco

Marth

Lucina

See Yu Narukami

Young Link

Young Link is nearly unchanged. His air dash tier is Bad. All of Young Link's aerials which previously had 6 frames of landing lag now have 8 frames of landing lag.

Ganondorf

Mewtwo

Mewtwo is unchanged. Mewtwo's air dash tier is Good.

Roy

Roy is unchanged. His air dash tier is Bad.

Chrom

Meta Knight

Pit

Dark Pit

Zero Suit Samus

Wario

Snake

Snake is currently unchanged. His air dash tier is Bad.

Ike

Pokémon Trainer

Pokémon Trainer has no significant changes, but is affected by some universal systems changes. See each individual Pokémon for details.

Squirtle

Ivysaur

Ivysaur is unchanged. Ivysaur's air dash tier is Bad.

Charizard

Diddy Kong

Lucas

Sonic

King Dedede

Olimar

Lucario

R.O.B.

Toon Link

Wolf

Villager

Mega Man

I like playing Mega Man (the game). I just don’t explicitly want to play Mega Man (the game)… in Smash. Plus Mega Man (the character) is a zoner with good boxing tools, like most of the zoners in Smash, actually. This will change how Mega Man functions in a way that places him closer to a normal Smash character by moving all of his Mega Buster actions to Neutral Special, as well as reworking a few of his tools.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Bad

Moveset

Normals

Jabs - Mega Combination

Since Mega Buster got moved to Neutral Special, Mega Man has a new set of jabs.

Jab 1: Rock Corkscrew
(Inner/Outer), if applicable

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	Jab Transtiion Frame
6 - 9	2	90/100	30	15	11

FAF: 28

Jab 2: Mega Stamp
(Inner/Outer), if applicable

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	Jab Transtiion Frame
7 - 9	3	80/100	30	15	11

FAF: 36

Jab 3: Rolling Handspring

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
10 - 12	5	74	70	70

FAF: 35

Forward Tilt - Mega Haymaker

Mega Man also gets a new forward tilt that lunges him forwards and is safe on block.

(Ground/Air), if applicable.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	Shieldstun Multiplier
17	14	295/55	55	70	1.25x

FAF: 48

Smash Attacks

Forward Smash

Since Charge Shot is moved to Neutral Special as well, Mega Man gets a new, unexpected forward smash.

Neutral Angle: Mega Kick

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
16 - 18	10	361	60	75
19 - 24	7	361	60	75

FAF: 54

Up Angle: Mega Punt

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
15 - 18	12	75	90	60

FAF: 54

Down Angle: Mega Bunt

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
16 - 18	9	361	40	75
19 - 24	6	361	40	75

FAF: 48

Aerials

Neutral Air - Light Driver

A kick based on his j.HK from Marvel vs. Capcom.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
7 - 8	7	62	30	80
9 - 14	4.5	62	30	80

FAF: 41 Landing Lag: 7

Forward Air - Flame Sword

	Startup	FAF
Vanilla	9	41
WuBor	11	43

Back Air - Slash Claw

	Startup	FAF
Vanilla	4	45
WuBor	6	47

Up Air - Air Shooter

The projectile's properties have been completely reworked.
Instead of being an inconsistent windbox kill option, it now serves as a unique juggling tool with low vertical range.
The tornado starts slow, but on frame 20 it starts to pick up speed.

Total Lifetime: 51 > 40
Starting Speed: 0.1 > 0.2
Max Speed (Start): 0.2
Max Speed (Frame 20+): 1.5
Acceleration: 0.07 > 0.1

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	Rehit Rate	Blockstun Multiplier
1 - 29	0.75	367	N/A	N/A	3	0.5x
30+	4	92	90	50	0	0.5x

Specials

Neutral Special - Mega Buster

Mega Buster can be B-Reversed and Wavebounced in the air.
Mega Buster will now be chargeable by holding Special during any action. If Mega Man takes knockback while charging, he will lose the charge and have to start over.
Mega Buster only has three states: Pellets, partially charged Charge Shot, and fully charged Charge Shot.
- Partially charged Charge Shot requires 32 frames of charging from when you start holding Special, and is indicated by effects around Mega Man’s hand and the classic charging sound effect.
- Fully charging a Charge Shot takes 160 frames from when you start holding Special and produces a bigger flash around Mega Man.
Mega Man can attack using any move except for a Special Move while charging.
Releasing B fires the charge shot. If Mega Man can’t fire the charge shot within 6 frames (the length of tap buffer), he will lose the charge.

Charge Shot Type	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Partially Charged	9	361	50	85
Fully Charged	15	361	40	90

Side Special - Metal Blade

Metal Blade is moved to Side Special, with a minor tweak to the move's angle detection.

Up Special - Rush Coil

	Jump Startup	Rush Active Frames	Rush Gravity	Rush Max Fall Speed
Vanilla	5	120	0.05	0.7
WuBor	7	360	0.07	1

Down Special - Leaf Shield

Leaf Shield is no longer thrown automatically - press Special to throw it. If the hold timer runs out before throwing, Leaf Shield automatically disappears.
Leaf Shield can be held for longer before disappearing (40 > 120 frames).
The individual leaves disappear when the corresponding hitbox hits.
The leaves rotate around Mega Man slightly slower than before.
Mega Man can now Air Dash while Leaf Shield is active. Attempting to perform an Air Dodge will force an Air Dash instead.

Wii Fit Trainer

Rosalina & Luma

Rosalina & Luma are unchanged. Rosalina has an Average air dash. We do not know how air dash affects Luma.

Little Mac

Greninja

Mii Brawler

Mii Brawler is nearly unchanged. Their air dash tier is Average and their neutral aerial's landing lag is increased to 7 from 6.

There is also currently a change to Thrust Uppercut nerfing the move to frame 5 startup from frame 3. This will be removed sometime soon.

Mii Swordfighter

Mii Gunner

We recommend not selecting this character. WuBoy has... plans...

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Run Speed	1.37	1.45

Palutena

PAC-MAN

Pac-Man is unchanged. His air dash tier is Bad.

Robin

Shulk

Bowser Jr.

Duck Hunt

Ryu

Ken

Cloud

He's pretty perfect, and it didn't take much to make him even more perfect. But, you know, if you can’t grab a flat man while he’s shielding, what’s the point?

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Run Speed	2.167	2.02

Moveset

Normals

Up Tilt

	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	46	100
WuBor	66	80

Aerials

Back Air

	Damage	Landing Lag
Vanilla	13	6
WuBor	11	10

Up Air

Smash 4, but frame 9.

	Hitbox Size (Early/Late)
Vanilla	4.0/3.0
WuBor	3.0

FAF: 45 > 47

Grabs

Standing Grab

Cloud's standing grab has had its range extended outwards by 1 unit. Grab the flat man, Cloud.

Specials

Neutral Special - Blade Beam (Non-Limit)

Added a melee hitbox to the normal version that sends opponents upwards.
If this hitbox connects, Blade Beam does not spawn.

Hitbox Duration	Damage	Angle (Inner/Outer)	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
24 - 25	8	75/81	90	20

Blade Beam Spawn Frame: 26
Blade Beam Speed (Ground and Air): 1.8
FAF: 48

Down Special - Limit Charge

	Run Speed Multiplier
Vanilla	1.1x
WuBor	1.15x

Misc

Up and Down Taunt

Holding the respective Taunt button will have Cloud hold his pose.

Side Taunt

Double Tapping Side Taunt will cause Cloud to start doing squats. You can continue to squat by pressing Side Taunt at the right time, but it's possible to mess up and end your squats early.

Corrin

Bayonetta

Inkling

A combination of small nerfs from back when Inkling was perceived as a top meta threat, and a suite of buffs to help Inkling get back to their former self and actually incentivize trying them in the WuBor Patch.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Weight	94	90
Dash Speed	2.118	1.965

Moveset

Aerials

Neutral Air

Neutral Air can cancel directly into an Air Dash upon hitting an opponent.

	FAF	Landing Lag
Vanilla	33	5
WuBor	44	7

Forward Air

Forward Air's first hitbox originally had a weaker sourspot hitbox at the tip that has since been updated to match the sweet spot.

Back Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	6
WuBor	8

Up Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	6
WuBor	7

Down Air

Sourspot Hitbox:

	BKB
Vanilla	60
WuBor	47

Ridley

What started as a small request from a friend turned into a nice little suite of buffs... and then some. Ridley features an extra-long-range airdash, and is expecting another small update in the future.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Best
Weight	107	111

Moveset

Normals

Down Tilt

Down Tilt's tipper hitbox is now prioritized over its tail hitboxes. All of Down Tilt's hitboxes' Z positions have been moved inwards by 1 unit to compensate for its larger hitboxes.

	Angle (Tipper Only)	Hitbox Size (All)
Vanilla	80	4.5
WuBor	95	5.5

Back Air

	Landing Lag
Vanilla	17
WuBor	14

Down Air

Down Air now borrows a landing hitbox from Ganondorf's Wizard's Foot. Both of Down Air's hitboxes' Y positions have been moved upwards by 1 unit to compensate for its larger sweet spot.

	Landing Lag	Hitbox Size (Meteor Hitbox)
Vanilla	32	3.5
WuBor	27	4.5

(This section of the changelog is unfinished.)

Simon

Richter

King K. Rool

I'll tell you what, we'll trade, like a stock exchange!

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Bad
Weight	133	123
Air Speed	0.945	1.045
Walk Speed	0.903	1.25

Smash Attacks

Forward Smash

	FAF
Vanilla	62
WuBor	55

Isabelle

Incineroar

Our goal was to make Incineroar more fun, without being broken. You be the judge of that…

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Bad
Weight	116	110
Walk Speed	0.62	1.0
Dash Speed	1.76	1.86
Run Speed	1.18	1.43
Air Speed	0.88	1.025
Air Acceleration	0.06	0.075

Moveset

Normals

Forward Tilt

	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	85
WuBor	68

Smash Attacks

Forward Smash

(Weak/Strong), if applicable.

	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	71/94
WuBor	71/71

Up Smash

	Base Knockback
Vanilla	89
WuBor	79

Down Smash

	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	73
WuBor	55

Aerials

Neutral Air

(Early/Late), if applicable.

	Damage	Landing Lag
Vanilla	13/7	11
WuBor	11/7	8

Back Air

	Knockback Growth	Landing Lag
Vanilla	73	11
WuBor	60	14

Down Air

(Spike/Non-spike), if applicable.

	Base Knockback
Vanilla	30/50
WuBor	20/50

Specials

Neutral Special - Darkest Lariat

Is no longer invincible, always deals 10 damage and always launches upwards, but it can move horizontally twice as fast as before.
It can be jump-canceled after frame 21 if you're on the ground and the move hits the opponent.

Side Special - Alolan Whip

(Lariat/Shoulder), if applicable.

	Damage	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	20/12	88/128	40/34
WuBor	16/9	88/96	36/34

Up Special - Cross Chop

Early Spike Hitbox Only

	Fixed Knockback
Vanilla	175
WuBor	120

Down Special - Revenge

Similar to Sephiroth's Scintilla, Revenge now automatically activates after the counter window is over.
Revenge gets stronger depending on how damaged Incineroar is, dealing 8 damage at 0% and 36 damage at 165%.
A special zoom-in will happen if Incineroar hits an opponent with the counterattack if he's taken 80% or more. The counterattack's damage is calculated after he takes damage or automatically transitions to it.

Counterattack Window	Automatic Transition Frame	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
8 - 26	33	8 to 36	45	60	69

Counterattack FAF: 48

Piranha Plant

Joker

Joker's pretty rad as is, but we wanted to rework the character and make him like the Persona 5 Arena that never was. I think. Maybe.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average
Weight	93	87

Moveset

Rebelion Gauge

Rebellion Gauge now only builds by dealing damage.
Rebellion Gauge no longer resets on death.
Joker no longer automatically summons Arsene. See Down Special - Summon/Unsummon Arsene
Arsene lasts for 15 seconds.
While Arsene is out, taking damage no longer decreases the Rebellion Gauge.

Aerials

Forward Air

	Startup
Vanilla	7
WuBor	9

Back Air

(No Arsene/[Arsene (Mid)/Arsene (Outer)/Arsene (Inner)]), where applicable.

	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	90/[102/114/98]
WuBor	82/[102]

Up Air

	Startup	Landing Lag
Vanilla	5	14
WuBor	7	15

Specials

Neutral Special - Gun/Gun Special

The first gunshot has increased startup (12 > 15). However, you can transition into any other Gun action, including itself, on frame 13.

Gun Jump no longer shoots bullets, but:

Cancels into other Gun actions on frame 19.
Cancels into Gun itself on frame 24.
Actionable on frame 39.

Gun Dodge no longer stales nor contributes to your normal dodges' staling.

Gun Spiral no longer shoots in bursts of 3 - the timing is always consistent.

All actions have increased landing lag:

	Vanilla	WuBor
Gun	10	15
Gun Special	13	15
Gun Dodge	10	20
Gun Jump	14	20
Gun Spiral	20	20 (Unchanged)
Rainstorm	10	20

Side Special (No Arsene) > Phantom Dash

Joker now dashes forwards with a slash, launching his foes upwards.
If the attack hits an opponent's shield, he stops in place.
On the ground, holding Special duing startup has him take longer to dash, but this version of Phantom Dash is fully intangible and has little to no endlag.
Ending Phantom Dash in the air puts him into special fall. Landing after frame 33 has him take 20 frames of landing lag. Can grab ledge.

(Ground/Air), if applicable.

Startup	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
18	8	80	80/70	20

FAF (Normal): 48 FAF (Held): 50

Up Special (No Arsene) - Grappling Hook

The air version is now a command grab, like the ground version. This move was affected by the global tether changes.

	Damage
Vanilla	11
WuBor	6

Down Special - Summon/Unsummon Arsene

Joker now summons or unsummons Arsene.
Joker can only summon Arsene if he has at least 10% of his Rebellion Gauge filled.
Joker can cancel his Jabs, Tilts, Smash Attacks, and Aerials into this special, but it costs 20% of the Rebellion Gauge.
This special now carries momentum from your previous action.
Thes special can be B-Reversed and Wave-Bounced.
Joker's full-screen portrait cut-in was disabled.

FAF: 15

Throws

When Arsene isn't summoned, all of Joker's throws deal 50% damage, but can cancel into any special move.

Forward Throw

	Angle
Vanilla	45
WuBor	30

Back Throw

	Damage
Vanilla	10
WuBor	7

Up Throw

	Angle
Vanilla	90
WuBor	85

Hero

No significant changes yet. But there's at least two things worth mentioning.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Bad
'Acceleratle' Movement Speed Multiplier	x2	x1.5

Moveset

Aerials

Up Air

Animation adjusted so that Hero kicks in an arc instead of directly upwards.

Banjo & Kazooie

Terry

Byleth

Min Min

Min Min is currently unchanged. However, her air dash tier is Good. We understand that this may end up being a very powerful ability in her hands... but it is canon. And besides, Bor never even bought Min Min in the first place.

Steve

Steve is an interesting case starting out as an experiment to see how much we could nerf him without completely destroying his character. You can be the judge of how we did.

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Bad

Moveset

When he uses his fist, Steve's attacks can no longer be SDI'd.
Because many of Steve's attacks have large amounts of hitboxes, we won't be listing all of the individual hitbox data for those moves.

Normals

Jab / Forward Tilt/ Neutral Air / Short Hop Forward and Back Air

Damage reduced by 0.7 (0.5 for Iron/Diamond).

Dash Attack

Damage reduced by around 1 to 2 (sometimes we can’t do math).

Up Tilt / Up Air

Damage reduced by 2 on all versions. Base Knockback increased slightly.

Smash Attacks

Forward Smash

Damage reduced by 4 on all versions.

Aerials

Forward Air / Back Air

Damage reduced by around 2.5 on all versions. No longer deals more damage on the later hitbox.

Down Air (Anvil)

Startup increased (12 > 16).
Anvil's Hitbox no longer covers the standing surface of the Anvil.
Ground-only Hitbox Angle changed (78 > 58).
Additional Shield Damage removed.

Down Air (No Anvil)

No longer stops your momentum.
Now has a hitbox identical to Jab's fist hitbox, except facing down.

Specials

Neutral Special - Mining

Now only uses the "generic" mining pattern used on Battlefield.
Now only uses the Pickaxe to mine.
All previous instances of Diamond were replaced with Redstone. Diamond is now mined on the 75th item mined. Mining Gold and Redstone gives only 2 pieces each.

Neutral Special - Crafting

Gold tools only require 2 pieces to craft and repair.

Side Special - Minecart

Startup increased (18 > 26).
Command grab base duration reduced (60 > 30).
Has a hitbox on the front of the Minecart that can confirm into the command grab.

Down Special - TNT

Friendly Fire is enabled, allowing the larger hitbox to hit Steve (or whoever activates it).

Sephiroth

Sephiroth was one of the first characters we gave particularly funny things to, which is really interesting because he's... not known for having fun. Or is he? I'm not sure...

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Average

Moveset

Specials

Up Special - Blade Dash

Launch Angle is determined by Blade Dash's angle.
The angle varies between 90 degrees (horizontal) to 65 degrees (vertical).
The angle will always point upwards.
On hit, Blade Dash can be canceled into itself, Octaslash, Jumps, and Air Dash.
Blade Dash can cancel into itself 3 times until Sephiroth lands on the ground.
If canceled into Jump or Air Dash, Blade Dash loses the ability to cancel into itself.

Up Special - Octaslash

Startup increased (36 > 41).
Similarly to Blade Dash, the launching angle of Octaslash is determined by Octaslash's angle.
If the angle is within 15 degrees of 0 it always launches at the 361 Sakurai angle.
Othwerwise it can be between 60 and -60 degrees.
If the angle is below 0 degrees, Base Knockback and Knockback Growth are modified.

	Base Konockback	Knockback Growth
Above 0 Degrees	64	104
Below 0 Degrees	55	30

Throws

Down Throw

	Angle	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	56	94
WuBor	70	80

Misc

Side Taunt

Can be held to hold the pose.
Pressing A while holding Taunt will perform an uncharged Forward Smash.
Pressing A at the right time will perform a special version of his Forward Smash that deals 777.7% damage.

Down Taunt

Can be held to hold the pose.

Pyra/Mythra

Pyra

Mythra

Kazuya

We’d like to keep Kazuya’s highly technical, all-or-nothing playstyle intact, while providing an opportunity for the opponent to play the same game right back at him. As it turned out, we didn’t really need to change much to accomplish that at first… but when a character has this many moves to mess around with, why not try a few changes out?

Stats

	Vanilla	WuBor
Air Dash Tier	N/A	Bad
Weight	113	109
Walk Speed	0.66	0.8
Air Dodge	3 - 30	4 - 30

In addition, his passive light armor has been removed.

Moveset

Standing Normals

Jabs

Made it easier to stop his jab combo intentionally

Jab 3

Pressing Down + Back and Attack during this Jab will have him perform Twin Fang Stature Smash. Unlike the usual Stature Smash, this one doesn't trip the opponent.

Jab 4

Pressing Down and Attack during this Jab will have him perform Spinning Backfists. This puts Kazuya directly into Nejiri Uraken.
Pressing Up + Back and Attack during this jab will have him perform Back Fist to Side High Kick, putting Kazuya directly into Jumping Side Kick.

Down Tilt - Nejiri Uraken

Canceling Nejiri Uraken is now fully intangible until Kazuya is able to act.
It is now possible to cancel into Crouching attacks.

Double Forward Attack - Left Splits Kick

	Reflector Multiplier
Vanilla	2.4x
WuBor	1.7x

Up + Forward Attack - Roundhouse to Triple Spin Kicks

Pressing Special will have Kazuya perform the finishing kick early.
If done on the first spin, the finisher will be stronger than usual.

	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Normal (After 1st Spin)	10.5	50	83	50 (Vanilla: 86)
Early (1st Spin Only)	14.5	44	75	65

Down + Forward Attack - Tsunami Kick

The follow-up kick has been adjusted:

	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth
Vanilla	10.5	50	78	67
WuBor	9	350	79	5

Crouching Normals

Crouch Down Attack - Crouch Jab

	Damage
Vanilla	5
WuBor	3

Crouch Down + Forward Attack - Tombstone Crusher

	Damage	Trip Chance
Vanilla	16.5	0%
WuBor	9	100%

Smash Attacks

Forward Smash - Glorious Demon God Fist

No longer has armor.

Up Smash - Devil Twister

No longer has armor.

	Startup
Vanilla	12
WuBor	17

Down Smash - Lion Slayer

Startup increased to 26, but it has infinite Super Armor from frames 4 to when the hitbox disappears.
He also takes 1.5x hitstop for dramatic effect.

Grabs and Throws

Pummel

	Damage
Vanilla	3.4
WuBor	2.7

Gates of Hell

Can no longer be grab-teched. See Grab.

Crouch Dash Actions

Crouch Dash

Now only has upper body intangibility.

Wind God Fist

(Ground/Air), if applicable.

	Startup	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	Additional Hitstun
Vanilla	8	13.5/13	88/73	102/90	5	15/13
WuBor	10	9/7	80	90/80	5	0

Electric Wind God Fist

Now only has upper body intangibility.

(Ground/Air), if applicable.

	Startup	Damage	Angle	Base Knockback	Knockback Growth	Hit Effect	Additional Hitstun
Vanilla	8	14.5/14	88/81	102/92	5	Paralyze	19/14
WuBor	10	14/9	80	90/80	5	Electric	8

Dragon Uppercut

Intangibility was replaced with invincibility on frames 7 to 25.

	Startup
Vanilla	20
WuBor	22

Spinning Demon to Left Hook

No longer kills, instead launching opponents low with fixed knockback.
On hit, Kazuya can act earlier than before (66 > 55).

Aerials

Forward Air - Searing Edge

(Early/Late), if applicable.

	Damage	Hit Sound Strength
Vanilla	13/10	L/L
WuBor	10/7	L/M

Up Air - Rising Toe Kick

No longer has leg intangibility.
In addition, the toe hitbox that hit exclusively grounded opponents was removed.

	Damage
Vanilla	12
WuBor	9

Sora

Yu Narukami

Items

Barrels

Random Explosion damage reduced (22 > 6).
Shield Damage reduced (5 > ??).
Increased Barrel's hurtbox size (8u > 10u).

The WuBor Patch Complete Changelog