for those how say that "i like the AI actully" (aka one person) i think that it's not good. one person said it was to be like an boss of some sort, but i imagine playing Dark Souls and the boss just parries you every time.
it dosen't make me play the character, it makes me rage-quit.

perfectly balanced

Yea whatever this new update for him ain't it, i cant do my combos with him anymore. The new lock on popup attack screws everything up

@Clone not even the maxed out one even at level 1 the ai is overpowered lol
not surprising from an oc character in my experience

The Lorax but he'll fight you for the trees.

I have this mental image of Android 17 dabbing up Alex and it's just so funny to me

does ANYONE ELSE notice that the maxed out AI can just frame one parry any move and you can overall barely get any hits in on it due to it's good approach options and overall just baiting out your own parries for a combo on you or is it just me?

would be cool if the reimu and meiling alts had voice options for those 2 since their are voice clips from a japanese touhou fighting game,and for the oyaku it could just be the vtubers voice,kinda same with kens,but its just an idea.

thats gay

Would

i wish Fspecial and Nspecial switched, it feel so wrong each time i need to recover from me dead, fail every time. Or don't do that since i'm just bad and need to git gud instead

please release a "day 1 Alex", it was so much more fun to play :(

"He speaks for the trees, respect the nature, or he'll break your knees"
best single sentence i've heard all day

All in all I LOVE this character an always will but please just show him some love instead of another kick to his combo potential. Other characters get to keep their weird perks and 0-death kills, so why keep hammering down Alex's best mechanic?

And also Raging Demon screen is the best thing I've ever seen in a mod good work :)

Sad to see the character get common nerfs. He still remains a very powerful combo based character, but its a lot less fun the more his potential gets tampered with. Its beyond me how neutral special was given special fall, which doesnt even tamper with combo potential like I assume it was supposed to, but instead just gets him killed 80% of the time chasing after enemies off stage with it. I also see a lot of complaints about CPU AI, but honestly I adore the difficulty, they just must not be used to Sai character difficulty. After all, playing against Alex CPU is how I started to learn the basics after his first rework and what got me into playing him again despite my fear of the changes. Though strangely enough, I keep catching the CPU not put into his newly nerfed special fall after chasing me down with the neutral special, those damn hacks.

Now I've heard of op furry characters, but this is ridiculous!

10/10 would cheese again

I also noticed cpu Alex never uses his projectile attack.

finallly correct the ingame tooltip and update portrait. keep forgeting these

at least your self aware ig

I know you tune the A.I. for your characters to be like snk bosses and not play by the same rules as the player. Aside from the obvious stuff like infinite recoveries did you also program them to act out of stun quicker ( I see this more often with saji where she can instantly counter with a D-tilt after being hit before you even recover from your attack animation) and lessen the cool down for them to use the dodge and parries?

I just had to come back here & comment on the absurd difficulty of maxed out A.I. It can parry pretty much any attack you throw out in neutral, and I'm convinced that the A.I. is just reading your inputs & reacting based on move data. Would love something that didn't feel so inorganic, even though I'd never expect it at this point.

Soul Seeking Footwork had only ONE falowup? its a kick that barely concects with a full combo. Whata hell happen with Alex? Im not counting the Nattack, it cant connect in a combo after all.

I miss only the demon rage

what

bring back interactions pls

so i heard the ispcc saw sam and alex f##king around on their phones

and now alex is from a human boy to a furry god of destrution

me too :(

I miss old alex :(

why they gotta change the dash attack?

i never experienced the old version of the marks and now they removed the grab?

well, that sucks :'(,
hope he does not get nerfed again after this.

i would like to spar with alex

The changes are definitely welcome after having messed around once more. The marks are less of an issue than they once were :D

casually Messatsu Shovel Knight

Is there a way to download the older version of the character

Those solutions do work, although the former is rather unengaging & the latter relies on your opponent using nspecial outside of a combo situation, or not just using dspecial instead.

That being said I do see your reasoning in regards to some of the cast like Zetterburn & Maypul (even if I dislike their gimmicks for similar reasons), although at least both of them have specific moves which apply their respective effects -- whereas Alex applies 1-2 marks with nearly every attack.

Of course, I don't intend to command any changes from you or your balance team -- I'm just putting out my two cents ^_^ he's still definitely fun.

just time it out or hit alex when he approach with nspec in neutral (he fly right into your face).

You could see that many workshop chars have short-term counterplay like hit = gone, while base game status effect like Zetter burn or Maypul mark (work samey, lead to kill confirm, earlier kill, and also roots you) doesn't go away when you hit them, and they apply from single hit unlike Alex have to build it up.

With that being said. I'm not hesitage to nerf things, got a balance team and they suggest patch regularly.

Alex's gimmick in concept is nice, but the fact that opponents don't have a way to remove their own marks in the middle of a fight gives it less counterplay than I might otherwise enjoy. Perhaps hitting Alex should remove marks?

Bug: Hitting sylvanos flowers with nspec sets y position equal to enemy sylvanos's y position. Presumably occurs for other articles.

Haha funny plant go spike but seriously great character

Nvm, most of SAI's characters have had their CPU ai's updated to be tougher now.
That's a good change, appreciate what you do for workshop.

Did the AI for the CPUs get updated, because he taunts after kills and feel a lot harder now.
If so, that's amazing, I love the difficulty!

It's like a mix of Akuma and Oni

You don't have to do this but the move that occurs when you neutral special after using fstrong should be the neutral special

OK thanks

@karusino Doing a down strong and pressing N special before the hitstun ends will cause you to do a down spike. Btw it kills most characters at 80% if near ledge

Once i was playing as alex and i ended up getting neutral b to spike. anyone know how that works?

hey, sometimes when im playing alex my neutral special will straight up teleport me to the marked character instead of just dashing me over there, anyone know how that works?

H E S C O O T

oh, sorry, it looked like he was wavedashing my bad

he foxtrot

in my first match, he wavedashed without me telling him to