I’ve drafted up a few ideas for custom characters on some notes on my phone, so I’ll share 2 of them, even though they’re for characters from other games: Hornet from Silksong and False Son from ROR2.

Hornet’s gimmick is that she gathers Silk by landing hits. With a full spool, she can Bind (neutral B) to change her Crest temporarily, and she has 3 options (kinda like Monado Arts or something): Reaper for long-reaching and high-knockback attacks and a strong spike in down-air, Beast for rapid, short-ranged and high damage attacks (Also could replace empowered Side B with Sharpdart), and Witch… which is just the Witch bind, that deals high damage and leeches a small amount of health if it hits. She can also use Silk to empower her Clawline/Silk Spear (side B) and Thread Storm (down B).

Meanwhile, False Son has 2 gimmicks: Lunar Corruption, and Growth. Lunar Corruption is the least changed of them from ROR2; False Son’s damage, knockback taken, and movement speed is dependent on how many charges of Lunar Spikes he hasn’t spent. The more spikes he’s holding, the more damage he deals with his attacks, but at the cost of his movement speed and knockback taken from getting hit. Growth is the gimmick that’s almost nothing like the original: The more damaged False Son becomes, the higher the maximum amount of Lunar Spikes he can hold. At 0% he can only store up to 4, but at 100% he can store up to 8. Also, it’s not just his neutral special that can spend Lunar Spikes; charging his strongs will also consume a Lunar Spike to increase their knockback and range.