G&W's Bucket is confirmed to be able to absorb energy projectiles, and reflect physical projectiles

[Paper_Marzio]

Honestly this is huge, I've always felt like it was bad game design to exclude physical attacks from the Bucket's anti-projectile capabilities
Source Video I got the screenshot from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuCcTgIRWeE [About 4 seconds or so into the video it gives the tip]

 

[Rakurai]

That change was nice (Particularly because the bucket seems to have a lot less endlag now), but I noticed he also has a totally new fair (Around the 1:00 mark) that looks extremely good.

It's from Mario's Bombs Away, and has him shove a bomb forwards, except if it whiffs, he drops it and it falls to the floor afterward and blows up.

This means he now has a low committal method of harassing people below him which I think is going to be a game changer because the only thing he could do before was his laggy dair.


Also, his dtilt is faster now but it has a new animation that reduces its disjoint, as he kind of slides his head under the left edge of the manhole to lift it

 

[HeavenWolfHD]

I didn't saw that Bucket change !
Look so good

 

[WarioJim]

He also seems to have a new F-Air, where he drops a bomb.

 

[xDrippyx]

Did I spy a new Ftilt?
Watch at around :31

 

[xDrippyx]

Also, his new Fair looks like it'll be useful, but the hitbox on the explosion isn't very big. Smaller than the animation of the explosion for sure.

 

[Rakurai]

F-tilt is the same, but it can be angled now.

Also, uair apparently got revamped so it works like Megaman's and fires an air blast that inches upwards, carrying people along with it, but all of its knockback is now from the windbox (Meaning it only causes minimal flinching on the initial hit). I have really mixed feelings about this because it makes it superb at harassing/damaging people who are trying to land, but also takes away one of G&W's kill options, because the knockback seems really low even if it connects fully.

 

[xDrippyx]

F-tilt is the same, but it can be angled now.

Also, uair apparently got revamped so it works like Megaman's and fires an air blast that inches upwards, carrying people along with it, but all of its knockback is now from the windbox (Meaning it only causes minimal flinching on the initial hit). I have really mixed feelings about this because it makes it superb at harassing/damaging people who are trying to land, but also takes away one of G&W's kill options, because the knockback seems really low even if it connects fully.

I just logged in to correct myself and say basically what you just said haha.
Ftilt does look faster now.
I wonder if G&W will be lacking any reliable kill moves besides up smash.

 

[Paper_Marzio]

I just logged in to correct myself and say basically what you just said haha.
Ftilt does look faster now.
I wonder if G&W will be lacking any reliable kill moves besides up smash.

Yeah I hope he has good kill options

Hopefully the F-Air bomb has good knockback growth so it can kill off of a good edge-guard when falling

 

[xDrippyx]

Let's hopee. He'll be pretty good at edge guarding to say the least, but I'd like for him to have some reliability.
Also, I was thinking, have we seen his Nair yet? I wonder if that has changed at all.

 

[Rakurai]

Nair seemed basically the same. Still does high damage and still juggles well.

If anything, it might an easier time connecting fully, as there seemed to be more hitstop on its multi-hits.