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When you grab him. No you don't.
Ah yes, the only Sage I've met thus far...I didn't really care for him. Seen his trope far too many times for it to be compelling by itself.Forget all these characters from older games. Tulin for the next Smash.
Best Sage and Champion with the best attacks and power and the best character development.
Also, Rito are awesome.
Meta Ridley was tough. For a while I'd keep overextending and dying, or getting timed out for playing too carefully. Even after I got the hang of it he was always the one I was worried about losing the Boss Rush run to.
I can't help but feel glad in retrospect that Sakurai always considered Ridley high priority for at least some role in the game. His old opinions on his practicality as a playable character aside, it's very obvious he has some affinity for him. Probably straight up the most prominent nonplayable character in Subspace.
Only because Teba was definitely given the short end of the stick. The littlest amount of descendent interaction with Link out of the 4 descendants, than his son takes over for him in TotK. The only time he got more screentime and character development to be more a main character was Age of Calamity.
For some reason, my nightmare boss was Duon. Never really understood how to fight it, and the dude(s?) just never died.
I always remember Porky specifically giving me hell in higher levels of the boss rush back then, I think because the higher the difficulty went, the faster things like his running attack were, plus his giant laser sphere did an absolute TON of damage. I always prayed I got him early on so I wasn't already at high percent when I tried to do the Intense Boss Rush challenge.
I'm sure the Brawl boss fights played a big part in generating the Ridley craze. It was not just Metroid fans, those two very memorable boss fights + knowing about his personal history with Samus had to have moved many Smash players' needles in Ridley's direction.
Ridley's fanbase was already very big before Brawl's release.
It's hard to remember the Brawl and Smash 4 ones well at this point, but I'll try.
Man, I wish they did this in Ultimate, alongside a proper “boss” version of the Dark Emperor from Find Mii.
The main thing I remember about Pyrosphere Ridley is that he inexplicably has a stock icon. You'll barely ever see it, but it does exist on the results screen. No, really, look:
I imagine they didn't do Metal Face in this game in part because they chose Galleom as the SSB callback boss, and the two kinda overlap in terms of appeal (I.E. giant feral robots).
I remember back in the day there was big speculation on the stock icon being a different Ridley. Obviously a lot of people understood it was reusing assets, but I remember a few people were adamant that it could open the door for a DLC Ridley, sorta combining it with Other M Ridley like "Ah, so DLC Ridley will be Brawl's or a different one so it makes sense when they fight the Ridley on Pyrosphere" or something like that lol
Well, at the very least it would've been easily possible to have regular Ridley as playable anyway(not that he'd be easy to create, just that it's not hard to really justify why it'd work despite having a Boss-like version of him also there). They'd have to make a new icon for the Other M Ridley due to them having massive design differences and so it won't be confusing on the results screen, but that's kind of it.
Pauline ptsd
You're talking about the Pauline spirit battle?
I wouldn't even attempt to do those matches without spirits.
Try Fox. In the first phase his aerials hit like a truck and it's easy to evade most attacks, and in the second phase you can often hide in a corner and spam his laser.
Of course, and I was an early adopter myself. Been wanting him, and Dark Samus for that matter, since the Prime games where they had the coolest boss fights ever, but I feel like Brawl really pushed his general support to the next level. Like, at one point he was THE fan request.
I did that too! It's a crazy challenge but it's really fun, except for any fight that has strong winds. Those are atrocious.
The 13 Sentinels I had a heck of a time even figuring out how to do it, like 13 Ace level stamina opponents in less than two minutes? The only semi-consistent method I found for doing it was killing them with K. Rool propeller since it'd kill them in two or three hits every time.
I still get flashbacks
Yep, Caeda is pure pain. Never again.
But that's the thing: He was already the fan request going into Brawl, at least one of them. Back then you couldn't go on any forum without fans talking about the character, whether it be GameFAQs, Smashboards, hell, even now defunct forums like IGN or other Nintendo forums. Ridley was one of the most speculated characters from pre-Brawl's era, he never relied on his appearances to be that prominent.
For Phantom Thieves, Hero's Comrades, and I think Rauru, I used Chrom for things like that and used his Up B to spike all of the characters lol
Omega Ridley was fun, I think it's the first Legend I did. I just floated safely around the edges of the stage with Jigglypuff while he was getting killed by stage hazards lol.
I think for Omega Ridley specifically it was really funny because I hit him off the top platform with one Cross Chop since I'm pretty sure that fight is on Norfair, and since the Ridley was metal and everything, he bounced off of the rising lava like four times while falling through it and died shortly after lol