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Volcarona

Volcarona is a versatile aerial focused character who can enhance their abilities mid match. Sporting multiple mid air jumps and solid air speed paired with solidly disjointed normals and a solid mid ranged projectile option, Volcarona is good at controlling the pace of games efficiently. This gets enhanced by the usage of Quiver Dance, which allows Volcarona to increase their damage, mobility and gain access to powerful new special moves that let Volcarona secure kills more effectively. However, Volcarona is frail, deals low damage without charges, lacks strong kill moves without charges, and needs to commit heavily to get access to the charges they need for their best tools. If you are willing to build up power and overwhelm opponents like a true setup sweeper, the Volcarona is the character for you.

Using Nspecial, Volcarona can build up to 2 Quiver Dance charges which enhances the properties of Volcarona’s toolkit. For each Quiver Dance charge they have, Volcarona gains increased movement speed stats (walk speed, dash speed, wave dash speed, and air speed) and increases the damage of all of their normals by 1%. They also gain enhanced followups to their specials by holding the special buttons at the cost of burning 1 Quiver Dance charge, granting them powerful kill options if you have a charge available and are willing to spend it.

Be careful though, as if the opponent can hit Volcarona repeatedly without letting Volcarona escape for 1 and a half seconds, Volcarona will lose a Quiver Dance charge. This process gets easier the higher Volcarona’s percent is.
Volcarona spins around while swirling green scales around, generating a Quiver Dance charge with a flourish afterwards. A stat buff styled move that has no hitbox, forcing Volcarona to find the space to set it up.

Holding the special button with a Quiver Dance charge stocked during the initial spin causes the green scales to ignite in a spiraling blaze that sends opponents flying upwards. A powerful vertical kill option that can be used to catch opponents trying to go in and punish Quiver Dance recklessly or as a potential vertical finisher off the top. Firey Dance also has a generous vertical stall on it, making it useful as a horizontal recovery option or aerial stalling tool. Volcarona will automatically perform Fiery Dance if they have 2 Quiver Dance charges stocked already.

Volcarona flaps their wings forward, generating a wave of heat in front of them which travels forward while rapidly decelerating, eventually coming to a stop before fizzling out. A versatile mid ranged projectile option that is great at locking down the space in front of Volcarona while also sporting a brief air stall that makes it a flexible poke from the air. The move also sports a close quarters hitbox on startup that sets up into a delayed projectile hit, enabling unique and tricky combos if you can get in close enough to land it.

Holding the special button with a Quiver Dance charge stocked after the projectile shot causes them to release a massive, fast traveling blast of fire in front of them after the initial projectile shot. A powerful projectile attack that covers a ton of space, sports hefty kill power and has the ability to blow through most projectiles, making it a powerful brute force long ranged option and horizontal kill move.
Volcarona coils up before launching themselves up into the air with a flap of their wings. A versatile recovery move that doesn’t put Volcarona into Pratfall, making it an extremely useful movement tool and combo option. Holding the special button during startup will delay the startup and make Volcarona launch higher up, making it even better as a recovery tool and making it even better as a combo tool and a potential kill option off the top. You can only use Uspecial once per airtime.

Holding the special button with a Quiver Dance charge stocked after the wing flap upwards causes them to coil up while surrounded with flames before bursting forward in a direction of Volcarona’s choice, damaging themselves in the process and going into pratfall afterwards. A powerful omni direction recovery followup that is effective as a finisher or as a method of giving yourself more recovery distance in a pinch. The charge launches opponents in the direction Volcarona’s traveling, making it useful as whatever kill option you need, though do keep in mind that its kill power gets noticeably worse the later it hits.

Volcarona coils down while summoning green energy to grasp onto opponents, dealing light damage and stealing the opponent’s health on hit. A slow yet large disjointed grab that heals Volcarona a little bit on hit, making it a decent way to keep them healthy throughout a match. Volcarona isn’t left that advantageous on hit, limiting their followup potential afterwards to a jab if you land it close up. It also has a brief vertical stall during the initial grab, making it useful as an additional air stall option.

Holding the special button with a Quiver Dance charge stocked after landing the grab causes them to summon a flaming twister in front of them, hitting multiple times before launching opponents upwards. Fire Spin turns a previously low reward command grab into a god tier combo extension option that deals high damage and allows Volcarona to follow up with whatever the hell they want afterwards due to low knockback and high hitstun. This move also restores Volcarona’s double jumps on hit, allowing them to continue chasing opponents further if they can land this after burning all their other air resources.

Animation, attack implementation, playtesting, and lover of the funny moth – ArtistOfSeer
Quiver Dance VFX implementation –VVizard
Playtesting and feedback - VForce, Garfejus, JPEGWarrior, Kocacup, FuRi, TehEnd, and others
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