* Lets start with something minor - our grab. 0.9b MK had the most "off" grab in the game, seeing as he couldnt grab opponents right infront of him, but in turn had a grab that reached very far out. As I expected, this was ironed out, and our grab is now more reasonable and works as it should both afar and upclose. While this means no more Melee Marth callbacks, we can now properly shieldgrab against poorly spaced aerials, so Ill be quiet

* UTilt. This is where Im starting to get a bit pissed. New animation looks clean, no doubt. Hitting the move seems to be rewarding as well, so no complaint here either. My big gripe is the animation not fitting the hitbox at all anymore. For reference: Beta UTilt has an animation that clearly indicates a horizontal range buff at the loss of the back hitbox, and this is true. Well, except for the whole "bigger horizontal range" part. The new hitbox feels incredibly small and kinda "cuts off" once it reaches MKs head. Im fine with the full body coverage being gone, but at least make the move hit the space it looks like it hits. MK doesnt need a Royzone.

* Speaking of the Royzone, USmash has fallen to this disease as well. Maybe Im just doing it entirely wrong, but USmash lost almost all its usage against grounded opponents from what I can tell rn. The hitbox also feels notably worse now, having less range (I think) and linking worse than it did and should imo. I cant even tell if its still the good combo starter rn because I actually havent gotten it to properly work yet. The smaller hitbox also means the loss of our other grounded anti-air other than UTilt, and with both being considerably worse than before now, I kinda want one of them back to old form. USmash preferably, assuming UTilt hitboxes properly match in the future.

* Down Air. I am really trying to be as un-rude as possible, but whoever was in charge for that one is in dire need of a punch to the head. The move still has its 0.9b startup - which I am fine with - but the knockback of the move has gone down to what roughly equals a weak Knee, if not worse. Question is, why? Why does a move with FSmash-esque startup have so incredibly little KB? The angle of the move is still the same as well (or maybe even sends higher), which makes Dair entirely obsolete as an edgeguarding tool now. If the move had a lower angle or a small meteor hitbox at the very tip of the move (nothing strong either) or a major KB buff or just not the year of startup it has rn I would be happy, but as of now Dair is propably the worst move in our kit. It saddens me, really. Just do something about it please.

* Midair jumps. I honestly cant tell if Dair being trash now or... whatever the hell our midair jumps are now was the worse change going from 0.9b to Beta. To give an explanation, MKs jumps now gradually decrease in height. The 3rd midair jump only barely keeps him at the same height, and the last two jumps go so low now that they actually lose height. What kind of counterintuitive stuff is that? If I press the jump button I kinda expect to go up, and not down, ya know I get that some sort of nerf was more than neccessary given MKs busted offstage game, but Im not sure if that was the right choice. Maybe a PM-esque approach would be better, restoring MKs jumps to what they used to be, but limiting his number of midair jumps to three instead?


Im also requesting Uair hitboxes to be moved more to the center of the move. Currently Uair has 0 range in front, but rivals Bair in terms of backwards coverage. Im assuming this is intentional, but it feels very off to say the least.