This is my work-in-progress moveset for Meowth.
Neutral Attack (Fury Swipes)
Meowth scratches right and left like in the gif.
Neutral Combo (A+A+A) (Fury Swipes)
When you keep tapping the A button, Meowth will leap and suspend in midair to scratch the opponent multiple times like in the gif.
Dash Attack (Slash)
Meowth zooms past the opponent and slashes them.
Side Smash (Pay Day from the Pokemon games)
More coins scatter when the original coin hits the opponent and these coins can hurt nearby opponents who didn't get hit by the original coin. Meowth, that's right! Collateral damage!
Neutral Aerial (Pay Day from Smash 64)
A homage to the original Smash 64 game. The coins fly in all directions and they hit enemies. It seemed like an ideal move for a neutral aerial move.
Forward Aerial (Double Scratch from the Pokemon trading cards)
Meowth scratches the enemy two times... it sounds simple and bland on paper but look at how flashy it really is in that nifty gif!
Back Aerial (Iron Tail)
It is like
meteor smash move. God, I love that move in Brawl.
Up Aerial (Iron Tail)
It is like
Up Aerial where Meowth hits the opponent with his tail. Do you want to see Meowth doing that to Pikachu in Smash?!
Down Aerial (Fury Swipes)
Meowth scratches around so fast it can hit opponents multiple times... kinda like
Down Aerial (Mario Tornado).
Neutral Special - PAY DAY (Pay Day from Brawl and SSB4)
Another homage to Meowth's Smash history! Just hold down the button and Meowth will keep on throwing coins till he runs out of coins... it functions like
and
fire breathing moves.
Side Special - THIEF
The description of the move Thief states, "The user attacks and steals the target's held item simultaneously. It can't steal if the user holds an item."
So, like you see in that gif, Meowth pounces in one direction like
Side+B move. When Meowth lands on the opponent, he steals their held item and then jumps off them. If the items are turned off, well, Meowth can just meteor smash them straight down anyway.
One of the custom moves could be Snatch where Meowth doesn't steal generic items but he steals character unique items and effects of healing and stat-changing moves. Meowth can steal the effects of
deep breathing,
Monado Arts... Meowth can also pick up
bananas,
pocketed items,
vegetables,
bombs,
gyros, and even
Pikmin.
Up Special - FURY SWIPES
It controls like
Up+B move where Meowth pauses midair for a moment before he launches in the direction you choose... and he will scratch enemies multiple times on his path. Meowth is very agile and acrobatic so I think this move would have a good distance.
I imagine Meowth's animation for this move and certain scratch-based moves (Neutral Combo, Down Aerial) would be based on the gif below.
Down Special - FEINT ATTACK
Just to be clear, Feint Attack used to be called Faint Attack. Anyway, when Meowth does this move, he leaves behind several afterimages like in the gif above... you know, like how
leaves behind afterimages in his Side+B move.
Meowth does a flip jump like
does in the gif above but with afterimages trailing behind... and instead of kicking, he pounces like Cat Mario does in the gif below.
One of the custom moves could be Dig Claws where Meowth buries the opponent when he pounces on them... kinda like
Down+B move. Dig Claws is from one of the Pokemon trading cards. Oh, and Meowth can learn Dig in the games, too!
).
