Mii Brawler (SSBU): Difference between revisions

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The Mii Brawler is currently ranked 36th out of 82 on the ''Ultimate'' [[tier list]] in the B+ tier, making them the highest-ranking Mii Fighter in the game. This is a significant improvement from his ''[[Super Smash Bros. 4]]'' iteration, where he were ranked 55th out of 57 on that game's third tier list before ultimately going unranked on the fourth one. Mii Brawler keeps many of his strongest attributes from ''Smash 4'': High mobility, early kill confirms, and fast frame data. Brawler's fallspeed was greatly increased, giving improved mobility in neutral. Additionally, Custom Moves allow for an extra degree of adaptability, and are commonly allowed in tournament play.  

However, not all of his weaknesses can be mitigated by specials. Mii Brawler has exceptionally poor range, even compared to other close-range fighters like {{SSBU|Mario}} or {{SSBU|Wolf}}. His fast fallspeed limits his edgeguarding and leaves them prone to long combos like {{SSBU|Fox}}, although his higher weight allows them to survive for longer.

Overall, Mii Brawler is widely considered a well-rounded, close-range fighter with tools to deal with any situation. Most Mii Brawler usage have been as a secondary from players such as {{Sm|Bloom4Eva}} and {{Sm|Rizeasu}}, however Mii Brawler has seen success as a solo-main, especially from {{Sm|KID}}.

However, Mii Brawler does not come without his own flaws. In exchange for his decent mobility and speed, his middleweight status doesn't grant them high survivability. This is further exacerbated by his fast falling speed and susceptibility to combos. Furthermore, the Mii Brawler lacks tools to force approaches and has to make hard commitments with moves such as neutral air or dash attack when approaching due to a lack of safe options.

The Mii Brawler has been the most extensively modified of the Mii Fighters. With its height and weight now being fixed, the Mii Brawler now has set attributes, now being a [[weight|middleweight]] fast faller with high mobility and effective close combat abilities, making his playstyle along the lines of other combo-oriented "footsies" fighters like {{SSBU|Little Mac}} or {{SSBU|Squirtle}}. The Brawler is also the Mii whose custom moves have been the most extensively modified. As a result of his moveset overhaul, the Mii Brawler has received a large mix of buffs and nerfs in the transition from ''SSB4'' to ''Ultimate''; while he was initially believed to have not been buffed enough to raise his standing on release, game updates would provide substantial buffs for the Brawler, and the changes to game mechanics have been mostly positive for them. Overall, the Mii Brawler was noticeably buffed in the transition to ''Ultimate''.

In terms of move changes, aside from some animation changes that set his moves apart from other characters, the Brawler's standard moveset has been noticeably improved. His moves' functionality has not been altered significantly, with quality-of-life changes like forward tilt losing its sourspot, forward aerial being faster, and moves such as his smash attacks and back aerial getting moderate to high increases in knockback. Similarly to the other Mii Fighters, the Brawler's default special moves have been buffed significantly, with them being the largest recipient of buffs: [[Shot Put]] has less endlag and sends at a lower angle that makes it more useful, [[Onslaught]] has increased KO potential overall, [[Soaring Axe Kick]] covers slightly more distance and the descending part now has to be manually inputted, and [[Head-On Assault]] can now KO and deals increased shield damage. These changes give them a larger abundance of powerful moveset choices, fixing one of the Brawler's former weaknesses and allowing the Brawler to function just as effectively without altered custom moves.

The Brawler also benefits significantly from some of the universal changes to the gameplay mechanics. The universally increased mobility has notably improved the Brawler's grounded mobility as it grants them a more respectable initial dash, as well as his ground-to-air and air-to-ground mobility due to his faster falling speed and gravity. The ability to [[Dash-canceling|perform any grounded attack out of a run]] and the universally lower [[landing lag]] also alleviate his notoriously poor grounded [[approach]]. These three changes have collectively improved the Brawler's [[neutral game]], which was a major weakness he had in ''SSB4''. The changes to [[air dodge]]s also allow the Brawler to catch opponents with more ease and potentially juggle them for a longer time, which is further compounded by the Brawler's improved mobility.  

However, the Mii Brawler has also received some noteworthy nerfs. The Brawler's set attributes are a double-edged sword, as his lower weight, slower air speed, and higher falling speed and gravity makes them easier to combo and KO and renders his aerial mobility more polarized, while also removing his neutral and forward aerial's ability to autocancel from a short hop. Additionally, some of the Brawler's best moves have been nerfed: down throw's higher knockback scaling limits followups after mid percents despite the Brawler's streamlined jumpsquat, vastly reducing the KO power of his combo strings, save for Thrust Uppercut. The Brawler's best followup options from down throw also have weaker KO potential, since [[Helicopter Kick]] has lowered knockback and Thrust Uppercut's knockback is lower compared to Piston Punch. As a result, the Brawler must now use his tilts and aerial attacks in order to combo.

Despite Soaring Axe Kick's vastly improved utility and distance, some of the Brawler's other recovery choices have been nerfed in distance, making the Brawler's recovery less reliable than before: Onslaught travels a reduced distance if performed in the air, [[Burning Dropkick]] now has a fixed distance and cannot be charged (which also reduces its utility) and [[Feint Jump]] travels at a more downward angle, which when combined with the Brawler's increased fall speed and gravity gives the move less distance. The changes to the Brawler's special moves have also removed two of the Brawler's approach options, as the loss of Ultimate Uppercut removes a [[super armor]] option in exchange for invincibility when Flashing Mach Punch connects, and the loss of [[Foot Flurry]] removes one of his only approaching attacks in exchange for a counterattack in Counter Throw (though due to the Brawler's improved mobility, the loss of these two moves is overall alleviated). Finally, some of the changes to gameplay mechanics adversely affect the Brawler as well. The removal of perfect pivoting removes a useful microspacing tactic, while the changes to air dodges, while improving the Brawler's juggling and edgeguarding ability, also makes them easier to edgeguard.

Patch 3.1.0 gave a mixed bag of changes, with his neutral attack and Flashing Mach Punch connecting more consistently. The Brawler's notoriously high falling and fast falling speeds were also reverted back to his ''SSB4'' values, making them less susceptible to combos and juggles while also allowing forward aerial to autocancel out of a short hop. However, his [[airdodge]] and [[footstool]] animations were made laggier.

Patch 4.0.0 significantly improved the utility of what was commonly considered his two worst custom moves: Flashing Mach Punch was once again buffed by decreasing its startup and has more invulnerability if it connects, while also increasing the final hit's knockback, while [[Thrust Uppercut]]'s final hit has more knockback, allowing it to actually KO at reasonable percents. However, the Brawler's infamously fast falling speed from earlier iterations has returned, resulting in the Brawler once again being easier to combo, forward aerial losing its ability to auto-cancel in a short hop, and the Mii Brawler's recovery being worse, but making them harder to juggle in return, as well make his airdodge and footstool animations less laggy.

|dairdesc=Swings both fists beneath themself in a double axe handle. The clean hit is a powerful [[meteor smash]], and sends grounded opponents diagonally upwards as a fairly strong kill move. However, it is the Brawler's slowest aerial in terms of startup lag, ending lag, and landing lag. Autocancels from a full hop and double jump fast fall.

|grabdesc=The Brawler reaches in front of themself.

|bthrowdesc=Kicks the opponent behind themself.

|ssc1desc=Extends both legs in front of themself, charging forward to deliver a dropkick while covered with flames. Unlike the previous iteration of this move, it is no longer chargeable, dealing set damage and knockback. Furthermore, it now covers a set, albeit vastly reduced distance, and can now miss entirely if started right next to an opponent. As a result, it has lost a majority of its utility from ''SSB4'', though it is still an effective approach option due to its quick startup, and can KO at high percents. Additionally, it is still a significantly better recovery option than Onslaught and Suplex due to greater distance and not inducing [[helplessness]] after the animation is complete.

|ssc2desc=A [[command grab]] in which the Brawler dashes forward a short distance with his arms out in a grabbing motion. If it connects, the Brawler will jump into the air, lifting the opponent with them, and do a backward suplex, slamming the opponent headfirst into the ground. The Brawler gains 14% heavy armor when grabbing an opponent, and any opponents nearby for the grab and slam will take collateral damage. The move has extremely low knockback scaling, but can be used to effectively rack up damage and set up juggle situations. If used in midair, the move causes helplessness (although it has vastly reduced total frames); it can grab foes near an edge and drag them off as a [[sacrificial KO]], though it will always KO the Brawler first. In addition, Suplex makes for a poor horizontal recovery option, as it travels less distance than Onslaught and halts the Brawler's momentum completely upon ending in midair.

|dsc2desc=The Brawler enters a defensive stance, bringing his arms close to his face. Upon being hit, the Brawler will [[counterattack]] by grabbing the opponent and slamming them on the ground behind themself. The slam will lightly damage nearby opponents. Unlike other counters, Counter Throw has a short duration, but low ending lag, allowing it to be used more flexibly. It has a damage multiplier of 1.5×, tying it with [[Slip Counter]] and [[Gut Check]] for the second-highest damage multiplier out of any counterattack in Ultimate, surpassed only by [[Tetrakarn]]. However, unlike other counters, Counter Throw completely fails against projectiles and attacks that hit his legs (i.e. attacks from underneath the Brawler), and moves with sufficiently disjointed hitboxes will cause the retaliating grab to miss. As a result, the counterattack can be rather inconsistent.

*'''Side taunt''': Moves his fists in front of them in an "X" motion and assumes an altered crane pose, before punching downwards and swinging his open hand outward, performing a knife-hand block stance.

|Mii! || Mii! Mii! Mii Mii Mii! || Mi - i! Mi - i! *clap 4 times* || Mii Mii! Een twee drie! || Mii Mii Mii!  

|Mii Mii Mii! || Mii! Mii! Rah - Rah - Rah! || Mii! -- Mii! -- Mii!|| Mii! Mii! Mii Mii Mii!  

Early metagame opinions on Mii Brawler were lackluster: many players quickly noticed the severe nerfs to their strongest and infamous abilities from ''Smash 4'', most notably the heavy nerfs to down throw (which could KO opponents at extremely low percents through the use of [[Helicopter Kick]] and [[Piston Punch]]). In addition, they received nerfs to their core moves (the smaller hitboxes of neutral and back aerials, and the loss of the [[autolink angle]] for forward aerial), and suffered from laggy and/or short-ranged moves, a poor approach, an ironic lack of safe KO moves, and a high vulnerability to combos and gimping. Due to this, they were quickly considered them to be the weakest of the three Mii Fighters, as they had the ability to rack up damage very quickly, yet were unable to safely secure stocks.

As time went on, Mii Brawler received several notable buffs to their movesets that gave them a better combo game and KO power. Most notable among this was the buffs to [[Thrust Uppercut]], which gained some notoriety for being able to confirm from some moves, most notably down throw, and KO at early percents on some stages. In addition, the character saw success as a secondary or pocket character, especially from {{Sm|Rizeasu}}, who has won or came close to winning several events with Mii Brawler, as well as other players who have picked up the character on occasion such as {{Sm|Bloom4Eva}}. Although Mii Brawler's solo-main results still remained underwhelming at a national level, it has still seen some success thanks to the efforts of players such as {{Sm|Ghost}} in the early metagame and {{Sm|KID}} in the post-online metagame. Due to all these factors, opinions on Mii Brawler, as well as their representation in the metagame, have risen, particularly in the post-online metagame, and as such they are ranked 37th on the current tier list as a high tier.

Although the Mii Brawler doesn't appear in the World of Light opening cutscene, they were vaporized and later imprisoned alongside the rest of the fighters (excluding {{SSBU|Kirby}}) when Galeem unleashed his beams of light.

The default Mii Brawler was one of the many fighters that fell under [[Dharkon]]'s control upon Galeem's first defeat. They can be found in the [[Sacred Land]] sub-area after completing an optional time puzzle on the Triforce of Wisdom, which is hinted by an Owl Statue located in the Triforce of Power's section left path, by setting the time to 4:40.

|style="background-color:#EEE;"|•{{SSBU|Mii Brawler}} {{Head|Mii Brawler|g=SSBU|s=20px}} (Moveset [[Flashing Mach Punch|2]][[Onslaught|1]][[Soaring Axe Kick|1]][[Counter Throw|3]], Heihachi Wig, Heihachi Outfit)<ref group="SB" name="DLC"/>

Mii Brawler unlock notice SSBU.jpg|Mii Brawler's unlock notice when obtaining them in [[World of Light]].

* The Brawler is the only type of Mii Fighter to have a non-special move named in one of their tips; namely, their up smash, which is called "Cartwheel Kick".

*Mii Brawler’s pose in the panoramic artwork for ''Ultimate'' resembles their [[neutral aerial]].

*Many of the Mii Brawler's special moves resemble the attacks of a variety of characters from different fighting games, such as [[Counter Throw]]'s animation resembling [[Geese Howard]]'s Jōdan'ateminage counter and [[Flashing Mach Punch]] resembling [[Ryo Sakazaki]]'s Zanretsuken. These similarities are taken further in Mii outfit showcases and [[Spirit]] battles, where the Brawler is seen using certain special moves as a homage to their outfits.