2.0m tall

This, Ridley and Mewtwo are the only two characters I can think of that are combo food despite not being super heavyweights. Matchups vs Sheik, Pikachu, Joker, etc are made more difficult because of how easy it is to keep strings going against them.

They're already massively cucking him with that massive tail hurtbox.

Without that hurtbox, all his tail attacks are now disjoints, and he becomes literally broken-tier. Every one of Mewtwo's flaws exists to keep him balanced.

Oh well, that works both ways with his massive bair and f-tilt. He's definitely high-mid or high tier at this point, very little to complain about. 70% of the cast in the game is worse than him.

We'll have to see. He was recently buffed, so that could be the case, but ultimately we'll have to see how much his results improve tournament-wise.

I consider it a shame because, Mewtwo is basically a Ridley archetype character done right in my opinion. I know their abilities don't have much overlap so I'll try to explain.

>Both are huge, with long tails, so long-sword like range on normals should be a given (Ridley actually has this in spades)
>Both are pretty much required to have good recoveries, which Mewtwo actually has and Ridley... Kind of has. At least Ridley's two recovery moves can kill you, which does help differentiate the two.
>It wouldn't make sense for either of them to be weak and hit like Shiek, so raw power should be a given. To be fair, Ridley actually does have this in spades and it's not the reason Ridley is bad.
>They both obviously need to have projectiles too, and while Shadow ball is both amazing charged and uncharged, as a combo tool, kill tool, zoning tool, and pressure too, Ridley's Plasma breath is bad and will mostly not help you as far as I'm aware.
>Their down specials effectively accomplish something similar, but Mewtwo's is much easier to land and will kill you while Ridley's is as ignorable as Falcon Punch because it will never hit anyone.

The only sensible weakness to give both characters was a light weight, and they have a lot of the same strengths implied in their design. Now, to be fair, Ridley isn't actually light. He's on the heavier side of midweight. It's just that they didn't go as hard on all of the strengths Ridley should have as much as they did with Mewtwo.

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He seems extremely slept on by high level players. Is it because nobody uses him in tourneys or is the gigantic hurtbox that big of a deal?

this is exactly what it is

There's a few reasons.

1. He was terrible for a long time early in the game's life so nobody actually tried to play him, by the time he became a decent character every relevant player already had decided their main and put months of time into it, except for WaDi who did try to push Mewtwo.

2. WaDi was engaged to Cinnpie, the girl who fucked the 14 year old, so he understandably has kept a low profile especially since that.

3. Since Mewtwo got his last two big rounds of buffs the tournament scene has been completely dead because of Covid.

When tournaments pick up again you can definitely expect Mewtwo to succeed if any relevant top players try to use him.

t. late 20s actual irl tourneyfag.

I don't mind all that, I just think it's weird he attacks with his tail so much

>mfw i'm still able to kill consistently with down-b > side-b > side smash
mewtwo is fucking god tier

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Arms: Jab, fair, dash attack
Legs: Dair
Energy/Psychic stuff: Side b, neutral b, down b, forward throw, back throw, up throw, nair, pummels
Tail: dtilt, ftilt, up tilt, bair, up air, down throw

He still mostly uses his psychic powers but granted tail attacks are more unique than just punching and kicking since most of the cast can do that anyways.

It's because all the high level players have been canceled now

I'd love Ridley if they just made his up special have more than 4 weird directions, and had an actual usable down special.

Apparently Void has been playing Mewtwo since he's using Mewtwo in the Gimr 8.0.0 invitational where only Minmin and characters buffed in 8.0.0 are allowed. Hopefully he actually plays the character seriously and doesn't just drop him some time later.

VERY cute feet

Obviously not you

Imagine how different Mewtwo would be if he was created as a DLC character, he'd probably have some cool gimmick related to his Psychic powers rather than a character that uses a tail for attacking.

Gimmicks are cancer

Only if it's shit like Hero's crits, or Banjo's side b, or Joker's Arsen, or Terry's super moves.
Ok, well I will admit that a lot of the recent gimmicks have been cancer, but that doesn't mean it's guaranteed to be cancer.

yeah but those thighs tho

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It hurts. I wanted so bad for him to just be a consistent high tier like in 4. Most people set him pretty low nowadays.