Today i'm bringing you some information regarding changes to Louie.
In previous iterations, louie played very similar to olimar outside of his increased mobility and his new down b. With the fact that he no longer had any means of recalling his pikmin louie's playstyle heavily relied on him maintaining a constant stream of pikmin, even more so than olimar.
For version 1.7 these issues have been addressed to some degree.
Although this time around louie's pikmi count has been reduced from 6 to 4 making what pikmin he has more important but easier to manage
First is louie's new Down smash.
Louie now charge up and blows his whistle with the surrounding area around him producing a stun hitbox simialr to zero suit samus's down smash. The top area above him also has a hitbox that while doesn't stun pops opponents upwards for combos.
Louie's new up tilt not is a two hit attack where he lunges upward and slams his head forward
Jump into the air and lift opponents up
then slam down for a a safe landing
This move also has a sweetspot located at the nose where if landing will spike. The move seems more like a headbutt technique used in volleyball when used that way
As for louie's upsmash it's been replaced with his old utilt with notably more power.
Louie's playstyle now shifts between reliance on both his pikmin and himself for KO's and now he isn't necessarily useless without them.
also i'd like to point out one other change pertaining to mewtwo
Previously his new forward air (Psycho Cut) traveled at a very narrow diagonal angle making it a very niche KO move. This has been remedied by it now being a wide covering attack with multiple hitboxes spread throughout the move. Although the move has a bit more cooldown than before, the buff in it's application as a good spacing and KO tool for mewtwo helps makes it far more versatile.
- While i'm here i might as well inform everyone now that The newest version of Brawl DX will be dropping on Wednesday the 13th. This will mark it's release being 2 months apart from version 1.5 I hope everyone has been enjoying DX thus far and i'm looking forward to the number of people enjoying DX to increase with this newest update. I've been working hard to make this newest update feel as smooth and intuitive as possible so i hope your all looking forward to it.