The Best (And Worst) Of Glass Cannons In Smash

Download and play AFK Arena for free: bit.ly/2S4h60Z Use these bonus codes: BestRPG4BusyU and uf4shqjngq to get awesome rewards. | Glass Cannons are a very successful archetype in the Smash series, and today we dive in and find out why! Note that the upcoming Minecraft Steve looks like he may have some traits of this archetype as well, but due to the video's upload timing unfortunately can't be included if this is the case.
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Also yes, I already know that I called Fox a Falco clone a couple minutes in. I realized this weeks before the video was uploaded and could easily have rerecorded that line, but was sure it wouldn't be necessary. Everyone will know exactly what I meant, and feel absolutely no need to drop an "umm, actually" comment in response because we're all chiller than that. That's why I can safely put this information as an Easter egg at the bottom of the video's description. Right?

[@MrMockRock]

Thanks for watching everyone! This video was sponsored by AFK Arena, you can download the game here: bit.ly/2S4h60Z. Fun fact: that Link/Samus clip in the ad wasn't staged, I've been waiting forever for an excuse to use it. Glass Cannons were a really fun archetype to tackle, and I'm curious to see which one gets voted for next. First, though, will be videos on Minecraft Steve and the Falcon Punch, so please look forward to those! -Twitter: twitter.com/MrMockRock -Twitch: www.twitch.tv/mockrocktwitch -Patreon: www.patreon.com/mockrock -Teespring: teespring.com/stores/mockrock

[@Mr_Mimestamp]

1:46

[@shyboievris834]

@MockRock For a character that messes with their own and their opponents health, check out Mycolich from the Rivals Workshop. Definitely my current main, and it's super fun.

[@fupalover]

Can you do a video analyzing every archetype and deciding which you feel is the best/most efficient?

[@Samus-yz8of]

Still loving the announcer voice

[@andremorrison7626]

Can I ask? If Falcon doesn't qualify as a glass cannon because of his weight and versatility, what would you call someone who, if put in disadvantage at any point, would be one of the easiest characters to combo to oblivion?

[@soni-switch5270]

The title is wrong, it should be "The Perils Of Playing (And Designing) Glass Cannons And Styrofoam Nukes - Super Smash Bros."

[@soni-switch5270]

Thanks for the heart! Really appreciate it!

[@Champion919Games]

Agreed.

[@midnight2029]

I always called them "Paper machine guns" or rather " _Papier-mâché_ guns "

[@DeisFortuna]

@@midnight2029 that makes more sense for when they're death by a thousand cuts type of thing, which is generally referred to as a Fragile Speedster, since a glass cannon can dish it out, but can't take a hit, whereas the fragile speedster can't take a hit or dish out singular big hits, but can either deal a lot of weak hits quickly or is good at running away or otherwise being too evasive to hit. Cannons do have more firepower per shot than machine guns do. Props for the creative wordplay though.

[@bluehax6]

Glass Cannons, Styrofoam Nukes, and Papier Mache Guns. Three pretty good names

[@robby_zhang]

*hungrybox intensifies*

[@SJrad]

Playing any character: don’t get hit Playing lucario: hit me daddy

[@WillyMacShow]

I don’t think my definition is the same as yours for a smash bros “glass canon.” To me a glass canon in smash means that you need extremely high consistency and execution to make the character viable. Melee jiggly puff isn’t that in my opinion.

[@happycamperds9917]

The difficulty of the glass canon design is giving them a good neutral, but not one so good that the whole glass part is not ever used.

[@sircatsdunnocatsdunno7014]

I want all rounders next

[@yahirsanchez-silva2127]

At 7:45 you forgot to mention Joker.

[@theepicspy570]

Would Luigi fall under the category of Glass Cannon?

[@admirrad3777]

Idk if it's just me but i think the definition of a glass cannon is odd in this one, G and W is a glass cannon purely for being light?? What about Squirtle than? Is Kirby still a glass cannon? What about Meta knight? And if glass cannons are meant to be good at forcing interactions than how in the world isn't captain Falcon? It's just odd, i wouldn't know how to go about it but i don't think this was a good definition

[@floofbirb4436]

Ok, 1 by 1. 1) G&W is easily punishable offstage because either he sends you back up or you send him down. 2) Yes, squirtle is a glass cannon. 3) In essence, yes. 4) Fox isn't a glass cannon, so no. 5) Captain Falcon is durable.

[@kirbo6437]

DON’T GET HIT (unless your playing Lucario)

[@Endershock1678]

Or you're slightly below 100% as Terry.

[@timidy5541]

joker is not a glass cannon he's just a cannon

[@keeshuunedited5678]

@Wil E Or Little Mac, or Incineroar... or anyone with a counter/reflect/absorb really.

[@floofbirb4436]

@@timidy5541 no he's a pair of guns and a top hat

[@timidy5541]

@@floofbirb4436 you got me there

[@liammccafferty5638]

If you’re looking for a fighter that messes with health, I’d highly recommend taking a look at the custom RoA character, Mycolich. Phenomenal implementation of health pool based mechanics.

[@lxchristhebuff1303]

Will do

[@EternumTagerMain]

Killer Instinct's Mira and Under Night in-Birth's Carmine have specials that cost health but can restore their healths with certain specials.

[@Tooaster]

I thought of that character instantly when he said playing with health. That's one of my favorite Rivals of Aether workshop characters.

[@thesteelsquid863]

@@Tooaster Zetta main here. He can definitely be a pain to fight against..

[@Staticsheep28]

I can think of a self damaging, self healing glass cannon. Shadow Mewtwo from Pokken tournament. He has the lowest health in the game and half his moves deal self damage. However if you end a combo with one of those moves you can than use recover to regain everything you lost. However recover is move that requires a lot of commitment and if you get hit during it you won't regain anything. He's a fun and popular character.

[@stitchowi]

O

[@StickyTrap]

Shadow mewtwo is actually surprisingly balanced as well many shadow mewtwo players live in crippling fear of Machamp XD

[@killerbug05]

@@StickyTrap I thought living in crippling fear of Machamp was a problem the who cast (except for the zoners) deal with 😔🙏

[@StickyTrap]

@@killerbug05 hah i came name a few characters that can bully machamp (that aint zoners) like Pikachu, women pikachu, blastoise and weavile

[@Luna19912]

Shadow Mewtwo is probably the best designed glass cannon I've seen in a fighting game, simply because being a glass cannon is so baked into his design

[@EduardoFlores-bt4fo]

I thought zoners like Samus and Snake were next :( Oh well, I bet this is a swell video too, thanks!

[@MrMockRock]

It was very close between the two, zoners were brought back for another round of polling since they were the clear second place last time, I'll be doing that with most polling-based content.

[@NVS_Snake]

Snake is a trapper. But I suppose he can be considered a zoner. Just that his attacks are pretty good, and his projectiles aren’t fast. (Due to vulnerability of using them up close, and grenades having a timer) Piranha Plant and Isabelle also fall into this archetype.

[@fion3il258]

@@NVS_Snake plant isn't a zoner per se, just really good at staying just outside of someone's range while getting tons of damage and having good up close options

[@NVS_Snake]

Fion3il Thats why I said Plant and Isabelle are Trappers. Not zoners

[@kyurei4478]

Snake is essentially a zoner with trapper tools.

[@KorporalKReephdmkiytrecv69]

So practically everything about Little Mac, okay got it.

[@definitely9353]

I’m a simple man: I see a Korporal K. Reep comment, I like

[@colinmeier8140]

Bro I literally see u everywhere smash bros related

[@ricocarpenter2189]

It's even sadder since the whole point of a boxer is that they are a cannon cannon not a glass cannon

[@gupmoment]

WHY ARE YOU IN EVERY VIDEO I WATCH!

[@ihavenolife8651]

@@gupmoment cos you watch a lot of smash videos?

[@eriknelson3238]

I don’t remember if you used as games as comparisons in past episodes, but I really liked the implementation in this video. Smash is the only platform fighter I play/watch and it’s interesting to see how other games go about it. Specifically when compared to a game that I do know, so I don’t get too lost. Great content. Love this series.

[@nicocchi]

You should totally pick up Rivals of Aether man. The roster might be small and it's lacking in single player content, but the gameplay is on point, polished to high hell, and the characters are so diverse and gimmicky that two players of the same character will always have a notably different playstyle, as their tools are all powerful and allow a huge amount of expression. I have more fun playing Rivals than Smash honestly, but the small playerbase coupled with the lack of meaningful single player content limits that fun somewhat

[@ballisticboo7808]

@@nicocchi also you have workshop to play as almost any character you can think or

[@flaregamer64]

Class canon mains summarised My day be so fine 😍 Then boom. Took a hit.

[@lukasnoecker9873]

JFK would main zss because of boobies change my mind

[@electricenergy116]

@@lukasnoecker9873 no, because you are entirely right

[@FoxIord]

@@lukasnoecker9873 Not in Ultimate. She got nerfed almost as hard as FF7 remake Tifa. Now the biggest melons goes to Jigglypuff or Kirby in doubles.

[@lukasnoecker9873]

@@FoxIord hard disagree if it’s not ZSS it’s Wii Fit

[@FoxIord]

@@lukasnoecker9873 It was a joke about Kirby and Jigglypuff being large pink squishy spheres. In all seriousness, or at least as much as this conversation allows, yeah probably Wii Fit. Wii Fit also has my vote for the single best move in the game with Deep Breathing. Yes, even better than Monado Arts.

[@oricalu448]

I feel as though a pokemon would be a really cool character for the "messing with their own damage" concept. Give them life leech moves, recoil moves and such, but you also have options like belly drum, which gives you a permanent attack boost for that stock, but instantly gives you 50% damage, or high jump kick, which is super strong, but damages the user a lot if it whiffs.

[@trickytristan1]

breloom could be a pokemon that works like this. It can learn absorb/megadrain/gigadrain, leech seed, and ingrain. While it doesn't learn Belly Drum or High Jump Kick in game, it's not too hard to justify it being able to use those moves in the context of a platform fighter.

[@coolguyc4sey]

​@@trickytristan1 breloom using belly drum would be funny as hell

[@Icemario87]

And considering that Smash characters have for Special moves while Pokemon have a set of four moves means you could pretty efficiently create a smash-style game that would be even more fun than Pokemon Stadium. Even in smash, alone, you could introduce various pokemon trainers. like Red, Lance, Agatha, Lorelei, etc.

[@agentdiamond9211]

"A character that plays with your health" Steve is going to play with your health, alright.

[@MannFace51]

Idk, I wouldn’t really consider melee Falco to be a glass canon. More a plexiglass canon

[@Hernie819]

I love this series.

[@MrMockRock]

Thank you!

[@soni-switch5270]

Me too, it's my favorite series now!

[@Fives_Waffeleisen]

All of his Videos are amazing and the best Smash/Nintendo content on KZbin

[@dariusonly1384]

12:52 imagine getting spiked by Little Mac. I'd actually quit playing if that happened to me.

[@davidclout6286]

I’ve been maining Mac since Ultimate came out and only pulled it off once one a Pit at 120.

[@4whomittolz846]

Look up Paper-Will, aka Air Mac. He is the proof that Little Mac has aerials

[@armanroyai6601]

ahh the styrofoam nuke strikes again

[@TheEpicMeeps]

As a Kirby main, I am flattered by the fact that Kirby was present in the image of the top tier ultimate characters...

[@garlicbreadloaf]

i mean its not ultimate but yeah

[@jmurray1110]

That was for every gage just using the ultimate art he was top tier with pickatu in 64

[@jazzabighits4473]

Kirby is top tier in Smash 64, like way top tier

[@TDG386]

@@jazzabighits4473 not better than Pikachu, but he is design to be braindead

[@jazzabighits4473]

@@TDG386 I'd argue Kirby is better than Pikachu is smash 64, Pikachu would be 2nd on my tier list. I could elaborate if you wanted me to, but I don't think anyone cares about tiers from a game from the 90s lol.

[@iamfat6164]

No the phrase is clearly "Don't get hit on" especially in the smash community.

[@Mr_Mimestamp]

Turn on Final Smash Meter for any character to become a glass cannon! -Me, a filthy casual

[@bensonhatch5423]

Except the encourages you to get hit so you can get the final smash, so more like turns everyone into Lucario

[@watermelongaming3698]

@@bensonhatch5423 Then high-Aura Lucario + final smash is insane. I have 0-to-deathed many characters/CPUs because I used Lucario's final smash while at like 80-100%.

[@midnight_gmr8562]

11:55-12:08 One example of this idea is in Under Night In-Birth. I'm primarily talking about the character Carmine, who has a multitude of life-leech and self-damaging attacks. He falls more into a trap-based zoner with the occasional burst of rushdown, but he is the best representative of your concept that exists in a fighting game to my knowledge.

[@absoul112]

I love that character.

[@fryenchill2817]

Mira from KI 2013 is probably a better example since she is a rushdown/mixup character with incredible tools that are only really balanced by their health cost and shadow counters

[@midnight_gmr8562]

@@fryenchill2817 I'm hitting myself for completely forgetting her. Then again I do play a lot more Under Night than KI but still.

[@elivcdxv1852]

Carmine is great, fun to fight against too.

[@epicvoyager5938]

imagine being a glass cannon, this post was made by ken

[@trip9196]

Haha ken mains unite! He has great recovery and he's a midweight, yet he can kill mario at like 10%. I don't know if he's actually balanced, cuz he requires a lot of skill, but it feels like I get too much reward. Not complaining tho 😄

[@epicvoyager5938]

@@trip9196 even if he's not balanced, playing him at a high level is super fun! And getting a touch of death combo with him is a whole different feeling entirely!

[@trip9196]

@@epicvoyager5938 yeah it's super fun. Starting out with ken is hard but I believe my best tip is to watch other people play. You can pick up a lot of things, and the reward from playing him is so cool.

[@UnknownSpooky]

Alternative title: The Perils of Playing Against Steve

[@JB_CY]

Ooo it's time Best smash content creator there is

[@Jack-dt7rw]

AsumSaus would like to know your location

[@Storm-jj6nq]

Ikr?!?!

[@richpichu1272]

Just a SSB nerd who is that

[@Jack-dt7rw]

@@richpichu1272 a melee content creator that specialises in fantastic editing and rewatchability. He's a blast to watch. Although he doesn't upload very often

[@Galaxia_EX]

I mean, the beefy smash doods are also pretty good. And we wouldn’t get awesome character guides without Izaw.

[@elemangell2981]

To quote the great Fawful's Minion on Mr. Game & Watch: "If you're ballsy enough to upgrade you glass cannon to paper bazooka, you've got an interesting Smash career ahead of you, man."

[@2tmb904]

Hey mock, I hope you get through whatever you are struggling with, and I really appreciate that even through your issue you still managed to make an epic upload. Awesome video as always!

[@milansubotic7674]

I remeber once i was playing as zss at my last stock at about 140% against a bowser who was at about 80% on his first stock, took him down to 200% on his last stock, didn't win but still proves a point

[@ZXaria]

Happened to me with Bayonetta, took Ridley to 200%+ and couldn't find the kill. And again with K. rool, 250%~. Belly Armor against Bayonetta's low single hit damage output is so annoying.

[@it_a_me]

@@ZXaria my favorite was when I lived to 250% as jrool vs bowser jr. Crown armor can tank most his moves/projectiles and I never had to leave center stage

[@linguine4500]

That one is one you, Ridley is lighter than samus

[@ZXaria]

@@linguine4500 All Bayonetta has in terms of Kill Power is back air, Smash Attacks are far too laggy and telegraphed. Down air can be seem from a mile away.

[@papersonic9941]

@@linguine4500 they are both still pretty heavy, though.

[@as-lb8rb]

Dude, keep this up! This is such an interesting series, and seeing you continue it from the Heavies video is so cool!

[@BestgirlJordanfish]

Ooh I can't wait to see episodes on zoner, grappler, or "summoner" design archetypes. I'd also be fascinated of seeing where the Smash series can go in a future iteration, since they always try to do more than just have more stuff. There are always fun side gimmicks, activities, and core mechanical changes

[@floofbirb4436]

i've actually only seen 3 summoner archetypes. mycolich and engineer from the RoA workshops, as well as keicho nijimura's mugen form. are there any summoner archetypes in smash? edit: i forgot olimar

[@BestgirlJordanfish]

@@floofbirb4436 I guess the "puppeteer" in rosaluma and ice climbers so there isn't too much there. I guesd now I'm wondering about design spaces and how new commander or puppeteer styled can work for an advanced wars character

[@floofbirb4436]

@@BestgirlJordanfish as i've said, keicho is exactly what you're looking for. during the fight, he can spawn units from a large pool that doesn't refill that do chip damage and small hitstun. he also kinda sucks at cqc but has a bow super that will fucking OBLITERATE you if it lands.

[@BestgirlJordanfish]

@@floofbirb4436 ahhh that sounds dope. Definitely that unit resource management that sounds engaging. Like how Robin represents that element of durability juggling, I'd love a fire emblem or advanced wars character that translates commanding or working in a squadron.

[@ragsdale5028]

Everyone in the comments is called glass canons "styrofoam nukes". What about a bubble supernova?

[@ADAJ342]

Lets start a chain where we make up sinonims for glass canons. Egg-jugernauts

[@tyeus3673]

I'd really like to see you analyze Rivals of Aether and how it relates to smash, considering you use it as a means of comparison in your essays quite often.

[@PinkieOats]

MockRock my Emotions 9:50

[@bluehax6]

A glass cannon with healing, self damage, and benefit from damage would be a high risk/reward character. Make it so that they get ko'd around 100, and make 100 the peak of their benefit, then u got a good ol' glass cannon. Their gimmick could also be that rage not only increases knockback, but also damage. Devastating. But they would have to be on the lighter side. Maybe they could pull a Robin, and make down b tied to healing when it lands on another character, but down b temporarily weakens moves, making them even less powerful than they were at the percentage they end up at. They could have a neutral b that sets you on fire or something, but it would make your attacks stronger, as well as having a fire effect. As a trade-off, you would take damage over time for the duration of the effect, something like 10 seconds maybe. A high risk/reward character, with conflicting specials and a new but vanilla feeling gimmick.

[@Nokyyyyy]

_Glass cannons can kill early_ Yoshi : yeaaahshi ! _...but it goes the other way too_ Yoshi : nope

[@BaconBurgerKing]

11:29 that “oookay_brandon” fellow really is something else! Haha, love that Artist gameplay! Huge fan!

[@MDLZero]

I hear he's quite the looker as well! Awesome to see another fan :)

[@BaconBurgerKing]

@@MDLZero I'd hit it!

[@sniv4780]

7:26 Kirby: there is 1 imposter among us

[@Peanut_SSBU]

Glad I could rep mac for the 5 seconds I was in this video lol

[@bluehax6]

I feel like Steve will be broken unless made a glass cannon. He's gotta be EXTREMELY light, otherwise he'll be *too* OP.

[@henrit1902]

End result: medium weight whose weakness is Rushdown. Firmly high tier, but not quite top tier. High aggression prevents Steve from mining and crafting, and if he exhausts his iron, he loses two very useful attack options as well

[@jamesyoung4604]

as a sheik main i love seeing videos about the hypest character archetype

[@ricodo1244]

7:47 Sad terry noises

[@FelineDeskFan13]

I heard glass cannon and IMMEDIATELY thought Jigglypuffs rest ability.

[@yankee1147]

Chrom as a swordfighter glass canon fits well He gets hit.....and dies....kinda like in his main series game.

[@Denizu]

Your script writing is as neatly written as it is all encompassing. How you manage to pack so much information in a rather short amount of time never fails to surprise me. Keep it up, and please do take care of yourself

[@krosshair450]

A new MockRock vid on my feed? FeelsGoodMan

[@bretfinck1665]

Only so far in: I guess I consider Ganon and other bulky powerhouses to be “tanks”. They have vitality as in “can be hit”, but their movement and variety in recovery is ass... such as Ganon, incin, possibly Ike, etc my thought of a “glass” cannon is that just the fact this character should be wary of “unsafe options” at even low percents while they can still confirm kills fairly early. Pre-patch Pichu is a perfect example. This part is debatable, but Strong characters with beatable recoveries that keep better movement than the bottom tier are just “gimpable/predictable” to me. Like a Chrom, Link, Falcon, (maybe even DK by broad strokes) etc... they’re really just susceptible to early kills if you’re not careful

[@RaiAkashi]

I gotta say, the hits incineroar can* recover from, with a little creativity in movement, are remarkable for the class.

[@videakias3000]

you reaaaaaaly need to change the title of this video. when I saw the title I was expecting a list of characters but you just kept talking about what makes a glass cannon a glass cannon.

[@Shredster7]

11:59 I strongly advise checking out the Rivals of Aether workshop character "Mycolich" by Giik. The character can temporarily have all incoming damage dumped into a separate entity only to have it all dumped back onto them after passing a certain threshold, and they can also briefly reduce an opponent's damage to zero in order to facilitate combos, only to have all of their damage returned to them a couple of seconds later. They're probably also the best example of an aerial grappler in any PlatFighter, but that's besides the point.

[@ADAJ342]

Huh

[@nightfall4434]

FINALLY someone who respects Chrom

[@floofbirb4436]

who's crom? that one mii costume from smash 4?

[@ken7007]

"Chrom is broken" hit's him with a long the lasting nair kills him at 20% or combo him into Oblivion or DK gets a grab at 50% near the ledge gg

[@alphaaether597]

Ragna from BlazBlue and Carmine from UNIST are two very interesting glass cannon characters. Ragna has low health in comparison to the rest of the cast but regains health when he damages an opponent and his attacks are rather strong. Meanwhile, Carmine is the closest character to the kind of glass cannon you wish to see created because he hits quite hard but damages himself like Pichu, however, he can regain health using certain attacks, and has low HP. However, I should state that Carmine is more of a zoner-trapper character, so think of him like Olimar, but with self-damage and regain health moves.

[@versenh.1982]

Don't get grabbed

[@XiphosCreates]

10:57 hey that's me

[@Zekken_The_Lodestar]

That combo was awesome dude.

[@sicarius7246]

Nice

[@floofbirb4436]

gaming

[@ronald000610]

Gaming

heavy would make for a good glass cannon that plays around with his own health: strip a teleporter on his back, so that most of its moveset consists of other mercs popping out of the teleporter, increasing his hurtbox, before using a specific weapon. His upB could be a rocket jump, and along other moves, you could build the character around the idea that having high mobility costs health, while his downB could be him summoning Medic, an AI that follows him while grounded, healing him, but doesn't have much health itself and needs to be protected (the summoning of medic could be a very slow move that deals 15-20% selfdamage)

[@StoryTeller796]

I prefer more ghostly characters that sacrifice vitality for a mixed and big bag of cool tricks. Also, for your character that you would like to see, I believe Dark Samus or Ganondorf could fit that title best, since they have very evil traits to them. Phazon seems like a toxic genetic improver and the calamity seems to sacrifice Ganondorfs very sanity and mind in exchange to be the most powerful being of all. Also, if you want to replace Ness and Ganondorf for being the most annoying character and the King of Disrespect, I would recommend Waluigi and Nabbit respectively.

[@fullmetalzombieeater]

Is Pokémon Trainer a Jack-of-all-Trades character or smash’s take on an install character? 🤔

[@webbowser8834]

@Grima the Fell Dragon So an install character is a fighting game archetype where a character essentially swaps movesets by using a specific move (usually a super move). Sometimes this new form is just a suped up version of their normal form (think Giga Bowser vs normal Bowser in Brawl), other times its just a variation of the same moveset but with different properties (imagine if Ryu could turn into Ken mid-battle for some reason), and other times it's just a completely different moveset (see Pokemon Trainer). Personally, I see Smash Ultimate's Pokemon Trainer as the greatest design triumph in the game. Nintendo has wanted to make a transformation character since Zelda/Shiek back in melee, but every time they tried to do so there were serious problems that prevented players from actually using the switching mechanics as intended. Pokemon Trainer fixes this by giving all the mons their own strengths and weaknesses while also giving the actual swap move some defensive utility, which not only reduced the amount of tempo lost for using it but also allowed a player to swap to gain back tempo. Using smart swapping to take you from a bad situation to a good one is a key part of Pokemon, so I'm really happy to see that concept to finally translate to Smash.

[@SuperNimi35]

It's the closest thing Smash has to a stance character.

[@floofbirb4436]

@Grima the Fell Dragon don't worry, funny minecraft man can fix that. also swiss army knife characters tend to suck (see: orcane)

[@ThunderSwordman]

If you took a look at Pokkén Tournament's Shadow Mewtwo, he does fulfill two of the three aspects of health manipulation. Although he doesn't benefit from low health other than a blanket rage mechanic for all characters, all of his enhanced special moves drain his health with massive benefits, and his lost health from using those special moves can be regained through passive assists and a move that recovers health but renders him vulnerable for 3 seconds.

[@gilles4prezudent650]

I've always described pichu as Smash's take on Street Fighter's Akuma. A character that gives you every tool you could ever want at the cost of leaving very little room for error on the player's part.

[@craigstephenson7676]

Personally I prefer the Class Ganon archetype. Too many Ganon mains go for the disrespect, they should really learn their manners. My Ganon is classy and sophisticated

[@prinnydadnope5768]

You might want to try Roof Rage, also a platform fighter with diagonal moves and momentum usage, really fun.

[@scorinnotborin2652]

Not a SSBU character but I think that Shadow Mewtwo from Pokken is an amazing version of this archetype. When they work they really work.

[@padre764]

I mean personally I would’ve just not gotten hit

[@themackie2763]

Dude, that intro was so sick. Very well done video.

[@dannyc5989]

pre-patch pichu i miss him ):

[@renaultft1917]

Nerfed too early :(

[@nintendope8837]

No melee puff in the thumbnail not the character that can kill one character at zero unless they di at a perfect angle but that character can also kill them at 30

[@senpai2.054]

when I hear glass cannon, I think of Deoxys-Attack. perfect example.

[@nintentwins1867]

I appreciate the fact when talking about Mac you showed clips of Peanut. That man plays like a god, and has been on VG bootcamp countless times, even winning tourneys like The Grind occasionally.

[@methanebrain7375]

7:42 lucario mains : "hey I also try to avoid getting hit.. kinda"

[@royale0722]

As a Lucario main, my game plan is indeed to run in and take a beating until I can sweep

[@lulu82o]

I love those those video, some of the best on youtube. You show your hardwork and passion in a way rarely seen on the plateform. Keep up the good work

[@kingrhoam93]

The whole video I felt like he was giving an intro for the archetype.

[@Vernias]

But what if I wanna get hit?

[@floofbirb4436]

then go play lucario and embrace your inner furry.

[@sarasaland4709]

An analysis on Swordfighters would be a feature film.

[@cranesalvation8391]

Your videos are well edited and your perspective great. One of the few you tubers I’m subbed to

[@Liggliluff]

AFK Arena, a game that plays itself ... so what's the point?

[@thegameloaf7811]

So it’s just Pichu pichu and PICHU right?

[@eret3]

I really want mockrock's next video on the series to be about zoners, it's not that i like them, but it would be great to have a more well researched and formulated opinion on this class of fighters. Pretty sure it's going to 🅱️ a really SPECIAL video for this community.

[@usrnm9076]

Sheik is definitely a glass canon though. The glass is her weight and the fact that she loses every trade. The Canon is that anything that doesn't contribute to her glass is incredibly good. Frame data, recovery, combo game, ledge trapping, edge guarding, mobility, neutral.

[@coso703]

Smash 4 bayo isn’t a glass cannon, it’s a glass nuke

[@nicodegallo7886]

Falcon is another big glass cannon in Melee, his recovery is substantially worse than both Falco and Jiggs and he depends on hard reads and hard punishes most of the time

[@echorealistic8211]

You deserve so many more subscribers I love your content

[@j03man44]

Sad that there was no mention of kirby fighters 2

[@press8704]

God, I love Little Mac. Nothing feels better than wiping the floor with someone using my favorite bottom-tier boy. No one ever plays him so no one knows how to play against him, and if you play stupid aggressive it’s hilarious how often you’ll demolish others. Of course, it’s also hilarious to get demolished in return, which Little Mac excels at

[@floofbirb4436]

if you wanna trade real good, use any of the kamikaze characters or just lucario.

[@epsilon9669]

""Positive Force (Gamma Mix)" - VVVVV OST" You used a siivagunner video that's a rip of Kitsune^2's "Rock My Emotions" for background music. That's either an incredible deep cut or a really funny accident.

[@tap7645]

As a Bayo main, she is a great definition of one.

[@archusdraisen2786]

Grapplers would be an interesting topic

[@timidy5541]

Can you make a video about grapplers

[@mordykinz4228]

I'm super excited to hear about zoners and swordies.

[@indexRight]

shadow Mewtwo from poken-tournament

[@countertopconfessions9975]

YES! I love this series! For a moment, I thought you dropped it 😁♥️

[@Synthesssauce]

how sonic should be, man :(.....

[@Adam-to5xu]

yay thanks

[@newrocktwink]

Puff mains, where are my brothers

[@CroqueNWO]

Pichu and mac in a nutshell, now I NEED to watch this

[@skiddy3715]

And then there’s terry. The character who forgot the glass part lol. Love terry

[@floofbirb4436]

terry is like little mac but cosmic ronald. strong, but no mmph

[@rodgeers7347]

I've been saying, sm4sh alternate title was "Glass canon, the game"