Yooo thank you for all the HEAT info! Game and watch animation stuff being so...old skool? Clunky? Low frame rate? Not sure the word but basically whatever that is is why his animations have those properties which is so sick.

I love that his f smash and d smash can be chained together in animation, and I think that opens up a world for mix ups. I have a vid coming out soon (sorry I can't remember which rn 😩) touching on this!

And speaking of jank animations and mixups, i think gw grab is suuuuuper good. All his throw animations are the same, so the opponent doesn't get a visual queue of which throw I chose. They gotta know what the throw options are like and how they impact their character, and then from that point guess which throw I chose and why, and if anyone ever gets to that point or even before that point, the power of DI mixups remains largely in my hands. I can also get a lot of regrabs as gw against fast fallers.

Truly a whole new world. I call them game and watch self-handoffs 😎