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HermitHelmet With Mii Swordfighter Tech

LiteralGrill

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Mii Swordfighter is often lamented as not only being the worst Mii of the three, but even one of the worst characters in Smash 4. However there is more to this character than meet the eye as under the surface lurk some advanced techniques. HermitHelmet on his Youtube channel has shown off a few of these secrets. The first of these cool tricks is the fact that Mii Swordfighter can be invincible during battle using his Shuriken of Light. Watch the video to see how it can even save him from Ganondorf's Warlock Punch.


There are also some interesting techniques that be used with his up special move Hero's Spin. It was buffed in damage output during the most recent balanced patch, and it's not only a solid out of shield option, but can be used to creatively grab the ledge, to die offstage in a hilarious fashion, or for this newly discovered technique Boost Spinning.


Hopefully this convinces some players to try out this underrepresented character and adds new tools to the arsenal of any current Mii Swordfighter mains! To learn more and discuss Mii Swordfighter visit the Mii Swordfighter forums here on Smashboards.

As a Mii Swordfighter main these videos made SmashCapps extra excited! Follow him on Twitter to keep up with everything Smash and to discuss all things Mii.
 

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I'm so happy to see more tech for Swordighter. He's my personal favourite of all the Miis. This is good news for the very few number of people who uses Swordfighter.
 
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ChikoLad

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The Boost Spin might be cool for edge-guarding. But the Invincible Shuriken looks waaaaaaaay too siuational. Like, you'd have to get a really, really hard read to do it. The invincibility period is only a split second and the start-up and end lag for the move is too great for this to be a worthwhile tactic. Even against a slow powerful move like a Warlock Punch, you're better off just maneuvering around it and punishing it.
 

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The Boost Spin might be cool for edge-guarding. But the Invincible Shuriken looks waaaaaaaay too siuational. Like, you'd have to get a really, really hard read to do it. The invincibility period is only a split second and the start-up and end lag for the move is too great for this to be a worthwhile tactic. Even against a slow powerful move like a Warlock Punch, you're better off just maneuvering around it and punishing it.
not to mention that the move at that range is only worth 1% with no knockback. I COULD see it as some form way of wining projectile wars especially if you run reversal slash
 

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This is kinda off topic but the comments didn't load before I refreshed and it was just a bunch of code everywhere and it scared the crap outta me.
 

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This story is sexist, always labeling Mii Swordfighter as a him. WHAT ABOUT WOMEN SWORDFIGHTERS?

I'm so triggered.
 
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Honestly I don't see the Invincibility tech being much useful but the Hero's Spin tech does seem rather interesting. I can't wait to see what people do with it.

It's always nice to see new techs discovered for "below average" characters tho. Who knows what will be discovered next.
 

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This story is sexist, always labeling Mii Swordfighter as a him. WHAT ABOUT WOMEN SWORDFIGHTERS?

I'm so triggered.
you wanna know why He is labeling Mii swordfighter as 'him'? HE IS USING A MALE MII! If he was using a female Mii, He would label the Mii swordfghter as 'she'!
 
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Jaedrik

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you wanna know why He is labeling Mii swordfighter as 'him'? HE IS USING A MALE MII! If he was using a female Mii, He would label the Mii swordfghter as 'she'!
Browny is joking.
Real Social Justice Warriors aren't so straightforward with their rhetoric. If they use too many buzzwords and popular sentiments, casual listeners can't take them seriously for a second.
 

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OK When Bowser Up-smashes he has superarmor on the shell, which makes sense since his shell is supposed to be really strong. I guess the same would go to Little Mac.

And Mii Swordfighter gets superarmor by.........throwing stars.

Logic.
 

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This story is sexist, always labeling Mii Swordfighter as a him. WHAT ABOUT WOMEN SWORDFIGHTERS?

I'm so triggered.
don't worry about it bruh second video got you covered

OK When Bowser Up-smashes he has superarmor on the shell, which makes sense since his shell is supposed to be really strong. I guess the same would go to Little Mac.

And Mii Swordfighter gets superarmor by.........throwing stars.

Logic.
it's not super armour as swordfighter does not take damage, it's intangibility
 
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OK When Bowser Up-smashes he has superarmor on the shell, which makes sense since his shell is supposed to be really strong. I guess the same would go to Little Mac.

And Mii Swordfighter gets superarmor by.........throwing stars.

Logic.
Ninja Parrying, son.
 

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", it's intagibility"-HermitHelmet

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! NEW UN-HEARD OF TECH: INTAGIBILITY. ONLY EXECUTED BY MII SWORD FIGHTER HIMSELF. HOW WILL THIS ADVANCE THE META-GAME?

(Just kidding bruh, I was just really bored.) :lol:
 
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Now TOs need to allow Mii Fighters with their moves even under custom off environment globally.
 

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", it's intagibility"-HermitHelmet

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST, FOLKS! NEW UN-HEARD OF TECH: INTAGIBILITY. ONLY EXECUTED BY MII SWORD FIGHTER HIMSELF. HOW WILL THIS ADVANCE THE META-GAME?

(Just kidding bruh, I was just really bored.) :lol:
shshshshshhhhhhhh
 

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Browny is joking.
Real Social Justice Warriors aren't so straightforward with their rhetoric. If they use too many buzzwords and popular sentiments, casual listeners can't take them seriously for a second.
Also, we know how to properly use the word "triggered."
 
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None of this is going to do us any good till we can use Miis in FG. :p
 

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Mii Swordsfighter is one of my, I guess "mains" or perhaps a pocket main and I play him often a lot when I'm not playing Mega Man and I love him. The only thing that really sucks is I want to play around with his custom moves but none of my local tournaments bothers with using custom moves so I'm usually forced to practice with the 1111 style.
 

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I would be okay with Miis in non custom play and tournaments if the community assigned a "default" moveset and weight to them.
 

ChikoLad

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Part of loving Swordfighter comes from accepting he's not really viable.
That's what makes winning with him so satisfying.
That's the exact reason why I modelled my Mii Fighter of this guy as a Swordfighter:



"I intentionally made Mii Swordfighter the worst in the game, so I could put myself in the game and, quite literally, kick people's butts as the worst character in the game, proving my superiority and dominance over you mere mortals."
 

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Ah thats cool. The power Spin.

The other week i found this out with Link, only to find out this tech has been around since Melee apparently. :/ Pretty cool for BF with platforms.

Its easier just to Jump-cancel with Up B Slide OFF the stage. imo.
 

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YAY MII SWORDFIGHTER IS TOP TIER!!!






oh wait, you can't use him in tournaments...
 

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Who do you think is the worst character in SSB4, For me, it's either Charizard or Olimar, :4charizard: because I don't know that many combos for him and bad recovery, and :4olimar:because I don't know how to use him and he's pretty weak.
 

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Fun fact: Link can also Boost Spin. Not sure about Gay, but I'd assume so.
 
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Who do you think is the worst character in SSB4, For me, it's either Charizard or Olimar, :4charizard: because I don't know that many combos for him and bad recovery, and :4olimar:because I don't know how to use him and he's pretty weak.
Olimar has one of the best grab in the game, Seriusly, is grab is stupidity good that even reflected with mario cape still can grab you and trhow you.
After all, Olimar is REALLY Hard to use.

Charizard super armor and Strengh is soooo good. I was fighting with a charizard main that actually, not matter what tier they given him, he never give up ion charizard amd mow he wrecked with him.

But we all have opinions.

After all, Mii was one of the worst, there were like the new Brawl Ganonnondorf and I glad people are looking there more and supporting the sword fighter.
 
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