A Collegiate Player’s Advanced Guide to King K. Rool: Blunderbuss

I have returned! Been a bit busy with life and suffered many setbacks while this was under production, but my buddy and I pulled through with this informative video on the tech surrounding King K Rool's Blunderbuss! Thank you all for being patient with me, especially those that gave me thank yous in my DMs on my work thus far. Your comments on the video also gave me the motivation to get this very video out while inspiring me to do some other projects in the future. ;)
Now with the gratitude out of the way, here are my comments on the guide itself. The guide was made with the intent to inform and or inspire others to experiment with the quirky properties of King K Rool's Neutral Special. It goes over the execution, general utility, and how to use them in both Neutral and Advantage to the best of my knowledge (as of the time of my uploading of this video). I thought I might want to add a section for disadvantage with the tech of Blunderbuss, but as far as I could tell the use cases were extremely niche at best there. I do however want to say a bit about why I think this so that will be lower in this description if you are inclined to still pursue such knowledge. I also don't claim that this guide shows anything and everything about the tech since K Rool's tech is generally fairly unexplored as of the time of this being uploaded and it would be wrong for me to assume that I know all there is about the tech. If you find something neat about the tech in the video that I didn't mention, I'll be sure to make a pinned comment and credit you for the finding.
For the future, I plan on making some shorter videos over the summer too by time for the eventual second part of the "Advanced Guide" [which will be over "Crown Tech"]. I hope to get out about 3 (as that's the amount I have a clear idea for at the time of my writing of this), but if things come up I may not get a chance to get them all out by then. I will still eventually get them out though so be sure to sub to the channel to be informed as soon as they go live!
Disadvantage Niches for Blunderbuss Tech:
1.) Blunder-Bouncing
a.) Can sometimes be used as a sort of more volatile whiff punish, though the slow speed of the move makes using such unreliable
2.) Vacuum Delay
a.) Same ordeal as Blunder-Bouncing, but a bit less niche with it not requiring as specific of circumstances to use
3.) Blunder-Drop
a.) B-Reverse blunderbuss to do a whiff punish and then drop through a platform...? Clank Lag could help here, but probably not without Blunder-Bouncing.
4.) Fake Shot Vacuum Cancel
a.) Enables Blunderbuss to be used a bit better for the whiff punish niches said above, but the option is still really slow so still fairly niche
5.) Re-Shoot Delay
a.) uuuuuhhhhhh....
Chapters/ Timestamps
0:00 Exposition
1:22 Introduction
2:01 Blunder-Bouncing Execution
2:52 Blunder-Bouncing Utility
9:47 Vacuum Delay Execution
10:53 Vacuum Delay Utility
17:27 Bunder-Drop Execution
18:43 Blunder-Drop Utility
23:39 Other Tech
25:40 Outro
Big thanks to the staff of the King K Rool Discord and Plague Von Karma for helping out during the making of this video! Here are links to both mine and their stuff:
My Twitch (I do coaching and other stuff): / du_smithers
My Twitter (I don't use it much ATM, but it do be my twitter): / smithers_ssbu
My Discord: / discord
King K Rool Discord: / discord
Plague Von Karma KZbin channel: / plaguevonkarma
Plague Von Karma Twitch channel: / plague_von_karma
Here is a link to the script of this video: docs.google.co...
Blunderbuss Interactions Resource:
docs.google.co...
Music from the Reshoot Delay thingy:
• Donkey Kong Country 2 ...
Have a good one buccaneers! See you all around!
#SuperSmashBros #SuperSmashBrosUltimate #Guide #Esports #KingKRool

[@theBCEproductions]

Vacuum delay is so slick. I've pretty much mastered the timing so that I can get K Rool to start putting away the gun away before the suction starts every time. Now I mix it into my ledge traps to bait neutral getup. Even though I 'discovered' it organically through my own play, I couldn't even conceive of all the applications you've listed out in this amazing video. Highly underrated man, every K Rool main should be watching your stuff.

[@fruitlion8]

I didn't realise such a pudgy reptile overlord could be such a control freak over the laws of physics..! When you see all these tricks back to back, it makes me wish Rool had more representation.

[@themuffinbrothers1012]

He’s back!

[@drkong333]

Great guide smithers, trying to learn more technical rool stuff and these guides are great! (Even if my brain does hurt a little bit)

[@Mach56gss]

Love this! Keep up the creativity and K Rool rep!

[@smithers8360]

Kool Krocks that found additional Kool Stuff from Blunderbuss Tech go here: also first ecks dee

[@StealthKey]

I CANT BELIEVE ITS FINALLY HERE

[@joshuamangnall]

Here we are!!!

[@themuffinbrothers1012]

Such a good video!

[@LtheOriginal]

Yeah I'm literally at 0:00 but you're getting a like for using Palette 8 K.Rool. Edit: After watching the vid, I can say I definitely learnt quite a few new tricks from this. I'll have to come re-visit it and try to practice each part.

[@Rafiel_Mon]

I still don’t get how you do blunder bouncing

[@cesarolaf007]

Triste por qué no está en español:'( y no sé inglés jajaja

[@smithers8360]

Lo siento, no hablo español lo suficientemente bien para eso... 😔 Podría comenzar a agregar un enlace al guión en la descripción de mis videos y quien pueda traducirlo por sí mismo con una herramienta externa... ¿Crees que eso ayudaría a aquellos similares a tu situación?

[@cesarolaf007]

@@smithers8360 si estaría muy Bien

[@JANJANOJAN]

2:28 fastfall? 4:19 you sound so sad talking about extended hitboxes😢 there there its ok..