What if they were in Smash? Part 36

Maximinium 04/25/20

This took me almoat a year to actually do lmao

Hello everybody, Maximinium back here again. Back with a brand new character moveset to go over, and in a brand new style too. And finally, the first moveset I made where the character was requested by one of you! Thank you all for sticking around with me for so long, I look forward to welcoming you all in each installment of this series. So, without any more hesitation, welcome to:

Last time I talked about the next in line queen of the Adrestian Empire from Fodlan, Edelgard! Incase you missed out on that post, i'll leave a link to it right here. Today we are talking about the funny blue skeleton, Sans!

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Sans

Game Origin: Undertale

Race: Skeleton

Age: Skeleton

Talents: Skeleton, playing the trombone, puns

Main Weapon: Bones and laziness.

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⊰Table of Contents⊱

Moveset

The Stage

Possibility

Why should they be in Smash?

Others

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With each moveset, it's important to always try and incorporate a characters design and personalities alongside this moveset. Sans is lazy, doesn't want to work too hard. And while that alone is a good basis already, we still need to get stuff from his boss fight. Sans's attacks are fast, but usually deal a less amount of damage. It's just that when the player gets hit, they'll get hit rapidly. And then theres the thing where Sans will continue to dodge a lot of attacks, well, you'll see how I put that in soon.

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Neutral B: Gaster Blaster

Gaster Blaster works similar to Robin's Neutral B, with it being a giant lazer that just covers the entire screen. The biggest difference comes from how long each character has to charge the move. Robin has to charge the move super long, while Sans barely has too. This Gaster Blaster charges quickly.

However, Sans is weaker in out damage output. It deals less damage than Robin's Thoron, while only being a one time hit move as well.

Side B: Blue Bone

A very special kind of move that basically breaks/ruins a big part of the game. See, Smash is pretty fast paced. Not as fast as Melee obviously, but still pretty fast paced. No imagine a move that makes it so the opponent has to stop conpletely. Sounds weird yeah?

Well, that's what this is. In the original game, Sans and many other characters attack with different colored attacks, all with different meaning. If an opponent attacks with Blue, it means the player has to stop moving completely in order to not get hit. This is the entire basis off of the move.

So, to clarify what happens. Sans summons a blue bone, and shoves out infront of him. It's a very slow moving attack, but stays out for a long time. If an opponent walks through it or gets hit with it while attacking, they will then get hit instead. Little damage is done and little knockback is done, but it allows the Sans player to get a free hit in occasionally.

The player can of course just not move so they don't get hit, but then they're vulnerable to Sans. The opponent can shield the attack too, but it won't make the bone dissapear, still allowing Sans to come up and punish. And some characters are just screwed over by this since they may be bigger in size. Really, the only way to handle this is to jump over this. But that would posaibly be expected, so the Sans player can act towards that.

Up B: Black platform

This is a very different kind of recovery move, where instead of being taken straight up to the skys or something, you just don't. Instead, wherever you are, a platform is summoned right under Sans to keep him from falling.

After the presses Up-B, Sans will spawn a black box with a white outline, that acts as a platform. From here Sans can do a multitude of things. One being jumping. Sans can do a double jump from this platform, allowing him to recovery to ledge. He can't use his Up-B again thought, not without being hit or damaged first. Sans can also just simply drop down from the platform, as it does function like normal other platforms too.

Sans can also attack from this platform too. Imagine this. You're playing Sans, and hit an enemy far off the stage, but they don't die. You wanna give them a taste of disrespect, so you go down and spawn a platform. At the right time you grab them, and yeet them straight into the blast zone. Doesn't that sound fun to do?

Down B: Dodge

This might look really stupid at first, but trust me, it's just a funny thing I wanted to add in. Sans is very agile if he wants to be, and that shows a lot when fighting him, he dodges a lot of the players attacks. So, instead of just imagining that with Sans normal rolls and dodges, I gave it it's own spot on the moveset.

The move itself acts a lot like a counter, where Sans has to wait to be hit first. If no one hits him, thats fine, the move itself is super fast. Each frame of the move is an active counterbox or whatever anyway, so this is a very low risk move.

Once hit, the player can just instantly act out of it with whatever move. Sans will be given a short time with invincibility too, so go for whatever punish you want.

Be careful though, if you dodge a lot (like over 10 times) Sans will get more tired. His moves will come out slower and weaker, and the dodge just won't work at all. If you get hit during this dodge state while tired, Sans will take extra damage and knockback.

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Forward Smash: Bone Slide

His Smash Attacks are very easy to explain, so I won't spend too long on them. Basically, Sans summons a large bone around the size of him, and sends it off away from him. After a short while it disappears. If it instantly hits an opponent, then it disappears faster. Ok damage and knockback, can kill at decent percentages.

Up Smash: Bone Toss

This bone is smaller than the Forward Smash, but it starts off hitting at a farther distance, and instead makes it's way up. The bone goes a little past Sans head. Roughly the same amount of damage and knockback for this move.

Down Smash: Bone puncture

Something much different from the past two moves. Instead of one big bone going in one direction, it's multiple little bones. While having much less range and less power than the other Smash attacks, this one makes it up with speed. Sans's fastest smash attack

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Jab: Whoopee Cushion Smack

I'm scraping the bottom of the barrel now, aren't I?

A one hit move, much like ganondorfs. A big difference being that it is super weak, and nit very good overall...On the bright side, it comes with a funny gimmick. Sans takes a whoopee cusion and smacks it across the opponents face. The outcome, the opponent trips and falls, allowing for possible roll reads or easy punish's. That's about it.

Dash Attack: Slip and fall

Sans fighting while wearing slippers? Heh, hope ya don't SLIP while fighting. haha, get it? see the joke is about slipping and uh...yeah you get it. I warned y'all, we gotta cover every basis of the character, this includes all the puns Sans makes.

So yeah, a literal joke move. Sans slips and falls, while having a hitbox on his body and head. So it's pretty similar to DeDeDe's dash attack.

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Tilts: Arm Swipes

Sans is pretty lazy, he probably wouldn't give every single move full power. He'd probably lazily flail around to hit opponents. So, for basic tilt attacks, why not use basic moves and aninations.

Every tilt is just an Arm swipe. He swings his arms horizontally for each tilt. So the Up-Tilt is similar to Isabelle's Up-Tilt. Side-Tilt is similar to Donkey Kong. And Down-Tilt is similar to Greninja. Each moves comes out around the same speed and deals similar damage and knickback...which isn't much. The tilts don't deal a lot of damage, but they can possibly lead into other things.

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Neutral Air: Bone Swing

Funny how the gif uses the Sans mii outfit too lmao. But yeah, this is it. Sans takes a bone, swings it around him. Nothing special. Normal damage and knockback ratio, decently fast.

Forward Air: Get Dunked on

I'll be honest, I didn't actually plan for this to be the original forward air. But as I started crafting some stupid joke in my head, I Mario's F-air and how he kinda literally dunks people. Bam, easy forward air.

Animation wise, Sans doesn't just swing one fist, he swings two. He swings it like how you would dunk a basketball, except he just doesn't have one. So I guess it's more like DK's foreard air. Either way, the move is very strong, but a little slow. And of course, it has a meteor effect.

Back Air: Bone Swing

Simple move, Sans takes a bone and swings it horizontally. I used Link as an example, but I don't imagine Sans spinning around and swinging again. Just once. And of course, this is for a backwards aerial, not a forward aerial. Overall relatively ok speed, ok damage output. Not too strong of a move, but still a reliant kill option.

Up Air: Another Bone Swing

Another very simple move to discuss. Sans takes a bone and swings it horizontally. The bone deals mininal damage and knockback, allowing easy combo'ing. The move is fairly quick to continue that combo potential.

Down Air: Trombone

Fun Fact: Sans plays the trombone.

I seeing a fan created Rivals of Aether moveset for Sans, and he used the Trombone, but as an up-air. Well I still wanted to use it in some way, and the best way I can think of without copying is by flipping it's Y-axis, and making it a down-air!

Sans blows through his Trombone with one mighty blast. A very strong down-air, but lots of endlag. This too as a meteor effect, but only at the start of the move. The slider part of the trombone has it's one small hitbox too, it's used to opponents can fully get hit by the meteor effect.

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Final Smash: Special Attack

The very first attack he uses on you, put into a Final Smash. Ok, so here's how it works.

The specific part I want to look at is the Gaster Blaster Barrage. 4 Gaster Blaster blast in a cross motion, then an X motion, and a cross motion again. Lastly, two big Gaster Blasters come down and shoot one big lazer from the side. The only way to dodge this is to jump and use your Up-B.

Instead of it trying to kill you, the point of the Final Smash is to deal so much damage to you, that you end up dying to the final blast. So if the opponent does get hit from any of the previous blasts, they will only take damage and no knockback.

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