How do you play as him? I would love to give this a try.

wait until the next patch

What's a pocket character?

Secondary character
Pretty much a "backup" main

I vanquished the darkness! -Simon Belmont (2018)

So what do you guys think about Simon?
I think he's pretty good so far.

Meh.
He's not that good.

I'm just waiting for the online mode problems to be fixed so i can have a better look at how he fares against the other characters.

to be honest, he's not fun to play
his normals are just okay, but they feel so lifeless, his smashes sucks too
he's so over reliant on his specials that aren't even good to use, and n-spec is a kill option i never really liked using
he's just, i dunno, he fell pretty flat compared to the other characters, at least ryu is fun

his shield-break stun animation is hilarious to me, that's all i can say i guess lol

I don't really wanna spoil that but his dizzy animation lilewise Pit and Megaman's dizzy animation references about Captain N's wacky adventures.

It'd probably be nice for Simon if his up-air could tether, just to at least give him some sort of vertical recovery option without relying on UpB's that can awkwardly bump against the ledge and cause an SD
Or maybe at the very least just make it so he can still grab the ledge when bumping against it, i guess?

Simon Belmont is a pretty ridiculous character imho.

His normals are actually all pretty solid for a mixture of pure zoning (Fair, Bair, Dtilt), combos (Nair, Utilt, Dair), pure advantage state pressure (Uair), and just generally being threatening.

People trying to play Simon like Ultimate will not get very far. Each one of Simon’s specials is more about control above anything else - You use Holy Water to control the ground and either use it to advance with and cover jumps, you use Cross to cover your own approaches, force reactions, bait jumps or just deny a set of platforms because there’s so little lag on the throw, and you use Axe to deny the area in front of you whilst also having the ability to shift your momentum to retreat.

He does need some things to work properly, like up smash not working properly does definitely make him a little bit worse, but people are definitely writing off Simon way too early. High tier at worst.

Simon can use his Holy Water or Cross to add more damage when grabbing the opponent and pummeling them, at least while their knockback isn't too much.

Also, if you short-hop on the ledge and throw holy water (or stand at a perfect distance like i did when first discovering this, then i looked for ways to optimize this for ease of use), the flames will float in front of the ledge instead of staying on it.



There is absolutely no cooldown on his Cross either, he's only not allowed to throw more than one at a time.
This means that Simon can make the best out of his SideB by running forward and throwing it over and over

On the other hand, it has very little priority - it easily clanks with a simple fireball or a jab.



His axe deals pretty nice shield damage if the landing hitbox also connects. Simon can cause a lot of pressure with all his projectiles - if the opponent doesn't get away from the barrage, their shield will quickly break.

you could also use up-b after a short hop to gain a pseudo wavedash that allows you to traverse the entire final destination if you get the amount of jump distance right