Any moves taken directly from the games I'm not going to bother with descriptions for since they're easily found with accompanying gifs on WiKirby.
| Neutral Attack | Multispear Attack | Multipoke Parasol - Functions like Multispear Attack. |
| Forward Tilt | Spear Thrust | Parasol Swing/Shield - Hold the button to use Parasol Shield. Can be used to block some weak attacks and projectiles. |
| Up Tilt | Skyward Thrust | Star Thrust - Identical to Skyward Thrust but using the star shaped tip of the parasol. |
| Down Tilt | Slide | Slide |
| Dash Attack | Pole Vault Jump | Parasol Drill |
| Forward Smash | Hammer - BD pulls out a hammer like his king. The animation is pulled directly from Kirby's use of the Hammer ability. | Hammer |
| Up Smash | Hammer Flip - Ditto to the above, but with a more upward angle and launch trajectory. | Hammer Flip |
| Down Smash | Hammer Swing - A stationary version of the same move used by Kirby with the Hammer ability. | Hammer Swing |
| Neutral Air | Giant Swing - Uses the animation of the Hammer ability but utilizing the spear instead.
| Giant Swing - Uses the animation of the Hammer ability but using the parasol instead. |
| Forward Air | Air Spear Thrust | Air Parasol Swing |
| Back Air | Spear Slash - BD quickly turns, performing a short slash with their spear. | Star Slash - Functions identically to Spear Slash but using the star shaped tip of the parasol. |
| Up Air | Air Cutter - Taken from Kirby. Given their similar body type/shape I don't think it's too unreasonable to share the odd move here and there. | Air Cutter |
| Down Air | Down Thrust - An aerial version of the Underwater Downward Thrust | Parasol Dive |
| Forward Throw | Throw - The Throw Ability. | Throw |
| Back Throw | Brain Buster - The suplex from the Suplex ability, also taken directly from Kirby. | Brain Buster |
| Up Throw | Moon Drop - Following suit with Kirby and MK's up throws, this converts the Moon Drop move with the spear into a spinning pile driver instead. | Circus Throw |
| Down Throw | Megaton Punch - In similar fashion to Ryu and Ken's down throws, BD knocks the opponent to the ground before delivering a strong downward strike. References the sub-game of the same name. | Megaton Punch |
| Neutral Special | Spear Throw - BD throws a spear forward in a short arc. Can be charged to toss a volley. | Star Shot - The tip of the parasol functions like a replica Star Rod, being able to charge and fire Star Bullets. |
| Side Special | Nruff Ride - Spawns a Nruff BD can ride on and charges forward. Has light armor but cannot change direction, though BD can jump off early. | Nruff Ride |
| Up Special | Spear Copter | Parasol Drift - Functions much like Peach/Daisy's own Parasol special. |
| Down Special | Ability Change: Parasol | Ability Change: Spear |
| Final Smash | Waddle Dee Army - Shares the same name as Dedede's Brawl FS but is otherwise a completely different move. In this case, it takes inspiration from Tron Bonne's Servbot Takeout Hyper Combo from the Marvel vs Capcom series. BD will call upon a small army of Waddle Dees who run forward and overwhelm and trample opponents before launching them. |
So, a few explanations:
Why make BD a stance change character?
The answer is honestly kinda just why not? Kirby is a series all about switching between different powers so I think this is one of the cases where a stance change might make sense (BD has actually used both the Spear and Parasol ability sets in the Kirby games). Plus, it's not a full on move set change as I did want to keep BD fairly simple to understand.
Most moves between the two actually remain the same animation wise, with the idea for the key difference being range and damage. The spear has better range and damage making it good for spacing and general offense. The parasol would have shorter range but larger/wider hitboxes on certain moves, making it a bit easier to land some hits, but requiring the player to be closer overall. Plus, the shielding properties of f-tilt and better projectile make it a bit more defensive compared to spear.
I suppose you could argue that you could just as easily split the move set into BD with a Parasol Waddle Dee echo. I'd be fine with that too honestly. Maybe Parasol Dee could wear different hats like Sailor Dee and others while BD sticks to different colored bandanas?
Beam?
Rather than reference Waddle Doos by giving BD access to the Beam ability, I decided to reference his loyalty to King Dedede instead by giving him smash attacks utilizing the hammer ability. This was also in part due to feeling the spear and parasol don't lend themselves quite as naturally to Smash attacks that really sell impact and to prevent overlap with animations from the normal attacks. Basically, to avoid making stuff like forward and up smash just extra hard spear thrusts for example.
That said I did completely make up an ability for Parasol by giving it the ability to fire Star Bullets. Given its appearance (and with Kirby/Dedede already being able to do so), I thought referencing the Star Rod might be a good way to give the Parasol a projectile while staying within the bounds of its actual design rather than tacking on something from Beam.
What's a Nruff?
The most left field addition for most is probably going to be the Nruff.
They're not the most notable or iconic enemy in the Kirby series, but Waddle Dees have been known to ride them in the games they do appear in so I though it could make for a fun/cute move. The spear wielding BD charging into battle on a little boar mount was just an image I couldn't get out my head once the idea crossed my mind.
