- No air gordos for safety of waddle tossing to recover
- Maybe a different Nair? I REALLY don't find his current Nair very helpful at all. The only thing he ever does out of shield is grab, Bair, and wavedash, I guess. A not so seemingly ehh Nair would be nice.
- As for Uair, I'd really like it changed, but I don't know what would work, considering his Fair is pretty much used as an Uair as is.
- A slightly faster/more useful jab.
so there is a ton wrong with these 4 things.
1. For all the people complaining about throwing gordos while waddle dash recovering just listen to your game. And if you are one of those people who turn your volume down sorry. Downward angle weak waddle toss allows you to waddle dash without wasting a jump if your momentum is going back towards the stage. If you see yourself throw a gordo you have a big scary shield covering your recovery. Gordos are always boss just pay attention. Gordos dont mess with anything in Dedede's neutral game. Waddles are not meant to be thrown in the neutral game. They are meant to be thrown when Dedede is at the advantage. Then having the waddles down increases the potency of your neutral game. That being said they are not the be all end all of Dedede's Neutral game. He has other tools in the neutral game. If you decrease the endlag on Grounded waddle toss it becomes spammable and thats not fun for anyone. Use the move correctly or get punished is how i feel about it.
2. Nair is one of Dedede's best moves. Flub nair combos into its self 3 times then into Fair. It also wrecks fast fallers out of up throw. Nair out of shield isnt supposed to be good.
3. UAir does what nair does but with a massive disjointed hitbox above Dedede. Thank god its no longer multihit and smash DIable. Fair is not a combo tool like Uair and Nair. They function in completely different ways. I will admit that I dont like the fact that Nair and UAir function in very similar ways but you just gotta use them in their different situations.
4. If Dedede's jab was faster it would be broken as all hell. Considering Jab>Jab>Grab, Jab>Jab>DTilt, and Jab>Jab>DownB works or pretty much everyone for long percentages. His defensive game isn't supposed to be in his shield. He has the range to keep his opponents at bay. Someone mentioned him having short horizontal range. I think you have his Fair mixed up with someone elses.
@ 9bit - being able to toss a Gordo at will would be stupid good.
Oh and Inhale is already really good. With the ability to DI while falling you can suck people away from the ledge without suiciding and in double you can turn your partner into an invincible projectile which is hilarious. Also it wrecks Spacies when you land it cause They almost always do the same thing. Break out of the star and immediately side b. Beat that crap with up tilt.
So many different buffs being called for. Not every move has to be good. Dedede is fine. He has bad matchups like anyone else in the game and he is hard as hell to kill.
I do like the Idea of spitting the items back at people when inhaled. Just like I think wario should get +15 seconds of fart timer for swallowing an item.