Robin (SSB4)

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Robin in Super Smash Bros. 4
Universe	Fire Emblem
Availability	Starter
Final Smash	Pair Up

“	Robin Brings the Thunder!	”
—Introduction Tagline

Robin (ルフレ, Reflet) is a newcomer in Super Smash Bros. 4. Robin was confirmed during a live stream on the official Smash Bros. website on July 14, 2014. July 14 is one day before Fire Emblem: Shin Monshō no Nazo: Hikari to Kage no EiyūShe was released in 2010, and it is 2 days before Fire Emblem for the GBA was released in 2003. As with Wii Fit Trainer and Villager, both male and female variants of Robin appear in SSB4, just like how players could select a gender for the character in Fire Emblem: Awakening.

Moveset

Ground attacks

Normal

• Neutral attack - Robin starts with an upward slash, followed by a downward slash if A is pressed immediately after, each doing 3% damage. Robin can then finish in two different ways; The first is a Fire based finisher if "A" is held after the first two hits, dealing 5% damage, and can KO around 170%. The second finisher involves a Wind based attack that can hit multiple times by mashing "A", doing around 5-8% damage depending on what hits connect. Using either finisher counts as consuming a tome.
• Dash attack - A short sword swipe close to Robin's body, has poor recovery and little KO potential.
• Forward tilt - A sword slash angled slightly downward. 7% damage. Good for spacing, but poor KO potential.
• Up tilt - An upward sword slash, dealing 6% damage. Primarily an anti-air, little horizontal reach, and also isn't particularly powerful knock back-wise.
• Down tilt - A very quick downward slash, with quick recovery time. 6% damage. Knocks enemy down and away, around 150% causes a hard knockdown.

Smash attacks

• Forward smash - A sword stab in front of Robin, a viable close range punish. Without Levin Sword, KOs around 175%, doing 9% damage. With Levin Sword, can KO around 130%, dealing 16% damage.
• Up smash - An upwards slash, without Levin sword does 9% with poor knock back and horizontal reach. With Levin Sword, does 15% if hit at the tip, and 10% for side hitboxes. When tipped with Levin, can kill around 110%.
• Down smash - An overhead slash aimed in front of Robin. Without Levin Sword, does 8% and kills around 150%, and with Levin Sword, deals 15% damage, KOs around 110%, and has shockwave effect, which does 8% damage.

Aerial attacks

• Neutral aerial - A double slash, each hit doing 7% damage. Poor knock back and not optimal for approaching.
• Forward aerial - Robin hesitates and then does a swooping forward slash. With the Bronze sword, it does 6% damage and has very poor KO potential. With Levin Sword, does 11% damage and can KO around 140%.
• Back aerial - Robin leans back for a slash, angled a little downward. 9% damage with Bronze Sword, and 13% with Levin Sword. With Levin Sword, KOs around 110%.
• Up aerial - An upwards slash in a similar fashion to Marth's. 7% damage with Bronze Sword and KOs around 155%, 13% damage with Levin Sword, and KOs around 110%.
• Down aerial - A downward one-handed slash that also hits slightly in front of Robin. 7% damage with Bronze Sword. With Levin Sword, does 12% hitting the bottom, 10% hitting the side.

Grabs and throws

• Pummel - Zaps opponent for 3% damage, is fairly slow.
• Forward throw - Flings opponent in front of Robin. Seemingly impossible to KO with even at extreme percents, can be followed up with Thoron. 8% damage.
• Back throw - Turns around and tosses the foe a fair distance above and behind Robin, usually out of reach of a follow up combo. 11% damage.
• Up throw - Tosses foe up for 8% damage, with little KO power or combo potential.
• Down throw - Slams foe down, bounces them vertically. Potential for UAir follow ups at low percents. 6% damage.

Special Moves

In Super Smash Bros. 4, special moves can be swapped out for different variants. These are Robin's special moves:

Special Move	Basic	Custom 1	Custom 2
Neutral Special	Thunder	Concentrated Thunder	Speed-Reading Thunder
Side Special	Arcfire	unnamed	Fire Wall
Up Special	Elwind	Staggered Elwind	Slant Elwind
Down Special	Nosferatu	Long-Range Nosferatu	Goetia
Final Smash	"Double"	-	-

Durability System

Robin has a very unique mechanic that isn't used by any other character. It is called durability, all of his special moves, smash attacks, and his jab combos use this.

• Thunder Tome: Thunder has 20 points of durability and each of the different variations of Thunder have different durability costs.
  • Thunder is 1, which means it can be used 20 times before breaking the Tome.
  • Elthunder uses 3 durability up.
  • Archthunder uses 5 durability
  • Thoron uses 8 durability.

Another thing worth noting is that you can use 19 Thunders and still use a Thoron. So as long as you have a point of durability before it reaches the max of 20, you can use any Thunder spell.

• Arcfire and its jab combo finisher involving fire both cost the same durability, which is six uses before the tome breaks.

Since they draw from the same pool of durability. If you use Archfire 3 times and his jab combo finisher involving fire 3 times as well, the tome breaks.

• Elwind and his jab combo finisher involving wind also pull from the same pool. Elwind can be used 9 times before the book expires. However, the specifics on the wind jab combo have yet to be exactly known.

• Nosferatu has 4 uses.

Reveal trailer

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Palette swaps

Gallery

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  Male individual Robin.

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  Female individual Robin.

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  Artwork of Robin and Lucina from the official site.

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  Robin's introduction image.

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  The pic of the day shown during Robin's reveal.

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  Male Robin in the Wii U version.

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  Male Robin using Arcfire on Olimar.

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  Both versions of Robin in Kalos Pokémon League.

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  Male Robin fighting Ike.

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  Using Elwind on Fox and Captain Falcon.

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  With Chrom, who appears in his Final Smash.

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  Attacking Marth.

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  Female Robin with Lucina.

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  In the 3DS version, with the two Fire Emblem veterans.

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  With Link on Tortimer Island.

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  A female and male Robin, using the Levin Sword and a thunder tome respectively.

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  Robin using Arcfire.

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  Female Robin frozen on Mushroom Kingdom U.

Trivia

• Robin's poster on the official site is illustrated by Yusuke Kozaki, the art director of Fire Emblem Awakening.
• The official art of the Wii Fit Trainer and Villager has only their female and male forms respectively, making Robin the first character on the site to have their official art incorporate both the female and male versions (not counting the Mii Fighters, which have distinct fighting styles).
• Robin is the first Fire Emblem representative not to have Counter as a down special move and a neutral special move involving a charged sword strike.
  • Robin is also the first Fire Emblem representative to have a projectile.
• Robin and Bowser Jr. are the only characters in Super Smash Bros. 4 that have different poses for some or all of their costumes.