Farore's Wind Mechanics

[FinalKai]

I've noticed that Farore's Wind does some fire damage and some knock back to anyone who is within or near the radius of reappearance. Has anyone tried playing around with this as a better means of safe recovery onto the stage instead of having to sweet spot back on? Or perhaps as a teleport into battle?

 

[Wildfire393]

I've noticed that Farore's Wind does some fire damage and some knock back to anyone who is within or near the radius of reappearance. Has anyone tried playing around with this as a better means of safe recovery onto the stage instead of having to sweet spot back on? Or perhaps as a teleport into battle?

The problem is, there is still a fair bit of landing lag, and there is still a pause between appearing and falling to ground (and while falling you are helpless). Yes, you might be able to knock the opponent away, but it probably won't knock them enough away to make up for this lag. It's still probably safest to try to sweetspot, or to airdodge through the edgeguard attack (is her airdodge still amazing?), or to teleport across the stage from them.

 

[FinalKai]

Hmmm...interesting...I suppose I'll just have to wait for the game and see what I can come up with myself...still it makes me happy that they improved its properties so offensive even if not intentionally.

 

[NeoZ]

Actually teleporting just past the edgeguarder will push him off the stage or onto the edge, making this perfectly safe if you do right.
To FinalKai: Zelda is awesome now, but she plays differently(harder sweetspots on fair and bair make you use other attacks) so you might come up with a lot of new things just by messing around with her attacks(din's fire, uair, dsmash, dtilt) also Upsmash and Fsmash were made a lot harder to escape.
And to wildfire393: air dodges are no longer directional, so it would be just like ledgehopping onto the stage without attacking.

 

[darkatma]

Actually Farore's is also nerfed.
Apparently you can't grab the ledge in the middle of the animation anymore, meaning it is much harder/impossible to sweetspot the ledge (someone prove me wrong, i'll be very happy), but from what i've seen and tried, she can't sweetspot with farore's.

 

[goodkid]

I think Farore's has super armor, not sure but I remember seeing it in a vid.

 

[FinalKai]

Yea....i've seen several good players miss the sweet spot several times...so it kinda worries me a bit...but i think the addition of the offensive potential might make up for it...perhaps?

 

[Iris]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=iTlYr5aqdgw

~2:54. It sweetspots.

 

[~Twilight~]

Ugh, I can't wait any longer! I need to play as Zelda!