Super Mario question

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

Just a small question about Mario & characters for versus threads and future references.

What do Mario characters typically start with in versus matches in character?

 

[Zamasu_Chan]

I think Mario leads with fireballs.

 

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

So none of them lead with anything haxy?

 

[Zamasu_Chan]

I'm not so sure. Cal would know more about it.

 

[Robot972]

If I remember correctly, one of the first special moves Mario/Luigi gets in the rpgs is always the Fire Flower.

I'd agree on the notion that of their arsenal, they certainly lead with fireballs, though it's just as likely that they may try stomping/ground pounding/punching/hammer, etc. before hand depending on the opponent.

Bowser absolutey leads with fireballs.


but no, Mario Characters rarely lead with their hax

 

[ProfessorKukui4Life]

Okay, thank you for the clarification.

 

[DatOneWeeb]

I wouldn't say Mario starts with fire balls. Honestly, it is difficult to pinpoint what they start off with as it is more of a player decision. And sometimes, if the game has a gimmick such as Cappy, then the game wants to focus on that specific thing.

 

[Robot972]

More often than not, Fireballs can be considered one of his lead attacks

 

[GyroNutz]

Mario and Luigi use fireballs very commonly, but that's without their stronger equipment like golden flowers, stopwatch etc. If it's just base Mario or Luigi, then they'd lead with fire/electricity respectively (pretty sure base Luigi can't use fireballs). With equipment, then they'd be likely to lead with something haxy, but it's impossible to say what exactly.

Bowser's most common lead would be fire, but he's also used transmutation on a few occasions, and every time he's had equipment (e.g. star rod) he's abused it from the get go. Same goes for the Koopalings, but switch out fire for wand attacks (though some use fire attacks too)

Yoshi would lead with egg throwing, then transmutation in extended melee/cqc range.

Wario... probably punching.

Princess Peach is a bit weirder. She wouldn't usually go for CQC, but more 'hax' abilities like telekinesis etc.

 

[LuckyEmile]

I think Mario could also be seen as someone to lead with jumps, which are actually kinda haxy in some games. In Mario RPG, he gains the special to jump before anything fireball based if we appeal to RPGs, and it's more-or-less his go-to in the proceeding RPGs. In games such as Mario RPG, Super Mario Bros 3 and possibly Super Mario 64, his jumps are seem as more powerful than his punches (for example, in Mario RPG, punches are standard moves and jumps are specials, in Mario Bros 3, his punches require a Super Mushroom to break a brick block, whilst even as small Mario his jumps can break them, etc), and considering how versatile his jumps are, with numerous techniques, it makes sense for him to want to use them. Plus, in basically every platformer in the mainline series it's his standard move and general go-to (of course, with some exceptions, but it's still there for him). Since he can change the effects of his jumps in some RPGs, such as making a spiked ball occasionally fall or making it so jumping on a spiked foes has no ill effect, not to mention his unenhanced jump seems to drain foes of their paint/colour, which appears to be their life force (such as how a colourless Toad became a lifeless envelope, or the game over screen being Mario drained of his colour), you truly can't blame him for being Jumpman. (not to mention his possessed body did this).

So, whilst it's an appealing argument to say he leads with fireballs, I personally think jumps are also a very good candidate.