Donkey Kong (SSBB): Difference between revisions

'''Donkey Kong''' ({{ja|ドンキーコング|Donkī Kongu}}, ''Donkey Kong'') is a character in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]''. He was first shown very briefly at the [[E3]] 2007 press conference. Rather than utilizing the recycled animal sounds from ''[[Super Smash Bros. Melee]]'' or being voiced by Grant Kirkhope or Takashi Nagasako (who voiced Donkey Kong starting with ''{{s|mariowiki|Mario Power Tennis}}''), Donkey Kong now uses modified tiger sounds sourced from the ''The Best of Saul Zaents Film Center'' CD included with Sound Ideas' ''Amadeus Sound Library''.

Donkey Kong is currently ranked 21st out of 38 on the [[tier list]] in the mid tier. This is a slight improvement over his ranking in ''[[Melee]]'', where he is ranked 16th out of 26 in the lower mid tier. Donkey Kong possesses a combination of incredible power with many great finishers (especially in his [[smash attack]]s), and incredible [[reach]] in his attacks. Along with this power and reach combination, Donkey Kong possesses above average movement with remarkably good mobility for a character of his size, and many fast attacks (such as his [[back aerial]] and [[tilt]]s). Additionally, Donkey Kong possesses by far the greatest horizontal endurance with his great [[weight]] and [[Spinning Kong]] [[momentum cancelling#Horizontal momentum cancelling|momentum cancelling]], as well as one of the strongest vertical endurances, and a [[recovery]] that gains great horizontal distance while protecting Donkey Kong, making Donkey Kong one of the hardest characters to KO. Donkey Kong's incredible weight is a double-edged sword, however; while it makes him incredibly difficult to KO, it also makes him incredibly easy to [[combo]], [[juggle]], and [[chain throw]], including making him vulnerable to [[infinite]] and zero to death chain throws (most notoriously from {{SSBB|King Dedede}}). Additional problems of Donkey Kong include most of his attacks having heavy ending [[lag]] (making it easy to [[punish]] most of his attacks if he misses), being very vulnerable to [[meteor smash]] gimps due to his recovery gaining much less vertical distance, his [[shield]] being too small for a character of his size leaving him heavily vulnerable to [[shield stabbing]], and lacking a [[projectile]], which when combined with his very large size and aforementioned shield issues, gives Donkey Kong severe issues dealing with [[camp]]ing. While his [[roll]]s and [[air dodge]] are about average, his [[sidestep]] is the second slowest, after {{SSBB|Bowser}}. Overall, while Donkey Kong sports good [[matchup]]s against lower-tiered characters that lack tools to deal with his power, he heavily struggles against higher-tiered characters that can chain throw him, and has achieved average [[tournament]] results over the game's competitive lifespan.

Although he can has excellent endurance courtesy of his high weight, he is quite vulnerable to attacks due to his large size, which is not helped by the fact that he has a tie hurtbox. His large size and heavy weight also leaves him open to many chain grabs (e.g. {{SSBB|King Dedede}}'s infinite chain grab without a wall, which cannot be escaped from), except Bowser's ground releases. Though given his attack range and speed, it can be difficult for characters with short-ranged grabs like the {{SSBB|Ice Climbers}} to grab him to begin with. His Headbutt attack allows him to get a free attack on the opponent, as many of his follow-up attacks have low startup time, and it also does very high damage to shields. His fully charged Giant Punch also heavily damages shields, and the [[armor]] it grants may allow him to trade KO moves with an opponent and survive. Even his grounded [[Spinning Kong]] does high damage to opponents or shields. Having three high shield damage attacks he can give high shield pressure. Donkey Kong has numerous KO options and no problems doing so: all of his smash attacks are powerful, with his [[up smash|up]] & [[down smash]]es coming out very fast; [[up aerial]] can compensate for a missed [[edge-guard]], three reliable [[meteor smash]]es, [[back aerial]] & [[back throw|throw]], Giant Punch (10 charges is actually more powerful than fully charged, but doesn't have armor) and the cargo [[stage spike]].

He can counter any ground grab releases because of his unique extremely short grab release animation, making him escape from release lag 10 frames earlier than any other character does and being immune to Bowser's grab release game with the addition of only Snake and Yoshi being able to force him to jump break from grabs. Donkey Kong also has a large grab range with powerful throws, and he is even able to chain-grab some characters. DK can infinite-Cargo release Lucas and Ness, and he can KO characters in low damage percentages when using the Cargo stage-spike. Donkey Kong can also perform [[Sacrificial KO|Kongocide]], although it has limited utility. Overall, Donkey Kong relies on his great power and range to limit opponent's approaches.

One noticeable nerf he received was to his grounded [[Spinning Kong]]. The hitbox grounded Spinning Kong once possessed which came out on frame 2-5, had invincibility and could kill opponents under 100% was completely removed, hindering grounded Spinning Kong's utility (although he does now have the "[https://youtu.be/O3CmvJM-Rq8 Invincicopter]" to give his grounded Spinning Kong some new utility). Besides the change to his grounded Spinning Kong, Donkey Kong did not receive any other significant nerfs to his moveset.

*{{change|Like all characters, Donkey Kong has received a massive boost in quality, having brighter and more detailed fur. In addition, he gains his current appearance from ''Mario Party 4'' onward.}}

*{{change|Donkey Kong has received new voice clips, though there are still stock sound effects.}}

*{{change|Another carrorober from his current appearance, Donkey Kong's teeth are yellow-ish white instead of white.}}

**{{buff|Forward aerial's sweetspot deals increased knockback growth (80 → 85) and can trip opponents if they don't take enough knockback to leave the ground. It's also superior for edgeguarding due to the meteor cancel changes and being much safer to use offstage due to DK's slower falling speed/gravity.}}

|dtiltname=Slouch Slap ({{ja|ロースラップ|Rō Surappu}}, ''Low Slap'')

|fthrowname=Kong Karry ({{ja|リフティング|Rifutingu}}, ''Lifting'')

:''See also: [[:Category:Donkey Kong players (SSBB)]]''

==Role in [[The Subspace Emissary]]==

[[File:Subspace donkeykong.PNG|thumb|250px|Donkey Kong in ''[[SSE]]''.]]

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