Rivals of Aether

Rivals of Aether

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Frey

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Description
Overview
Frey, the Slated Emissary, is a swift, evasive fighter. No action done in half-measures, he leverages low air-friction, bursts of speed and his incredible jump height to weave and dance through and past his opponent's attacks.

Whilst Frey's top-momentum and ground speed is a sight to behold, he is also fairly vulnerable in the air due to his very low actual air-speed. He also pays for his speed and excellent grounded attacks in weight, being among the lightest of fighters (in spite of his impressive height and stone cloak and boots!)

Gameplay Mechanics
Brittle Stone:
Frey wields the power to shape and draw out stone from his surroundings, usually in the form of stone poles, though his stone is always remarkably brittle. As such, he shaped his fighting style around this drawback.

Evasive Strongs
With practiced grace and ferocious elegance, Frey's Strongs decrease his hurtbox for a brief window before his attack comes out. Though it sacrifices power, they're excellent counter-attacks if you can read your opponent.

Breakoff Guide, In Short

Breakoffs are shattered fragments of Frey's weapon. He uses these for various tricks and techniques.
Create Breakoffs by hitting your opponent with grounded neutral attacks.
Aerial attacks turn Breakoffs into projectiles. Frey bounces the opposite direction and regains his double jump.
Special attacks consume nearby Breakoffs to change or empower themselves. (Except N-Special, which pulls them in.)
Break-Dash is performed by hitting a Breakoff with Fair or Bair. From there, you can attack or jump.

And you are now ready to experiment with Frey, the Slated Emissary!
Though, for the inquisitive and curious, further Gameplay details and advice are further down, and at the very bottom a short summary of Frey's past.

Specials


Neutral Special: Frey causes all his Breakoffs to fly towards a point slightly above him. They don't stop moving, so use 'em or lose 'em.
Forward Special: Frey grabs all nearby Breakoffs up to a maximum of 5. Each adds more projectiles to the attack and increases its knockback.
Up Special: Frey leaps upwards, attempting to grab a Breakoff. If he does, he can throw it downwards as a fast, soft spiking projectile. He will also remain actionable if he does.
Down Special: Frey bounds up and spins downwards at blistering speed, dragging opponents down with him and grabbing Breakoffs on the way to a max of 5. The final hit's knockback scales with Breakoffs grabbed. It cannot be cancelled once started.

The Break-Dash

The Break-Dash is initiated by first hitting a Breakoff with a Forward or Backward Aerial attack, which will launch him in the opposite direction at high speeds. Now that Frey is in a Break-Dash, he will fall through platforms automatically.
Once you're in a Break-Dash, you have two options:
Jump-Cancel: Cancels the Break-Dash state, but maintains all the momentum you have. Frey will also turn to face the direction you hold when you jump-cancel a Break-Dash.
Break-Cleave By pressing attack, you perform the Break-Cleave! A devastating attack that comes out nearly instantaneously, hitting harder than most un-charged Strongs. Besides risky aerial combos that don't interact with Breakoffs at all, The Break-Cleave is your most resource-efficient way of getting kills, so learn when and how to use it! It also deals a high damage and can be used as a risky, but rewarding way to start combos at low percents.

Tips and Tricks
N-air's bounce off the opponent can be cancelled by holding down.
If you hold the direction you're travelling in when you jump-cancel Break-Dash, Frey maintains all momentum.
If you hold the opposite direction you're travelling when you jump-cancel Break-Dash, Frey will turn around.
You can fast-fall during D-Special and Break-Dash.
Frey's F-air and B-air are functionally identical. Don't worry too much about which one you're using!


Lore
Having grown up in a small village in a region famed for their tough, all-enduring warriors, a small, unkempt coyote named Frey dreamt of the day he'd stand with the legends, a true Hero! Known by all, villains would fear him, Kings would bow in respect of him, and above all; His family would be proud to have raised such a dapper young lad!

But, alas...
The boy was frail. Body as brittle as a pane of glass, or so the local doctor said. Unsuited for any particularly labour particularly occupation, and a warrior was completely out of the question. Though in despair of this revelation, something lit a fire in him that day, and he would start training, and keep training his however he could, whenever he could, in spite of those who'd tell him to spend his days better. Even the discovery of Frey's ability to shape stone seemed to mock him, being limited to thin poles of exclusively brittle stone. But nonetheless, he fought on.

In his early adulthood, Frey's village faced an approaching threat and a message needed to be delivered, but none were available whom he'd trust to deliver it safely. When Frey offered to deliver it, the chief gave him a task to prove himself capable, but when Frey came back successful, the Chief simply gave him another. And another. And though Frey came back victorious each time, it quickly became clear that the Chief would rather wait in perpetuity than hand the message to someone he deemed "Incapable."
Frustrated, Frey walked up to the chief, yanked the letter out of his hands and set off, in spite of their protests and attempts to stop him.
"My first task as a Hero, to deliver this letter and rescue my village..."

And now, years later, though the name of "Frey, the Slated Emissary; The man who'd brave any and all terrains and territories, Aether's most reliable messenger" echoes the halls of nobles, merchants and common folk alike, along the roads and pathways, he can't help but wonder...

"Was this the right path? Will this endless road ever lead where I wished to go..?"
13 Comments
Castanean  [author] 14 May @ 7:33am 
I don't have a personal discord server, but I AM present on the Rivals of Aether Extended Workshop server.
If y' ain't on my friends list and wanna chat with me more than just a quick comment, ping me on there!
suveranai 13 May @ 11:58pm 
do you have a discord? i'd love to join the server if you have one or friend rq you if you'd wanna talk hmhm
Castanean  [author] 13 May @ 12:08am 
Ah, well I'm honored ya like him enough to make him a main!
And yes, I'm aware of the bug-bounces. Truth be told I've no idea what causes them, it's part of why I wanna fully re-write his code. That, alongside some other Breakoff bugs.

Nonetheless! I'd be happy to hear your thoughts! I do have a couple moves I want to adjust or lightly rework. D-Air being a rather big one.
(That goes for anyone else too, the more feedback the better.)

That all said, I have a thing in the works that has a time limit, so until I'm done with that any major Frey adjustments will have to wait. Just so you're aware of that.
suveranai 11 May @ 2:52pm 
there's also a bit of a bug where if you do down air after another air move that hits the enemy and a break-off at the same time, usually neutral air, where you don't go down you instead just bounce as if you hit a break-off with Dair
suveranai 11 May @ 2:40pm 
If you ever wish to talk about frey with someone about what to do with his kit i'd be happy to help sometime, he's one of my two mains paired with helios and i personally would love to see the ideas that may happen with him. Especially the ones with his smash attacks cause they're a little wonk to use
Castanean  [author] 10 May @ 9:38pm 
Frey should be back in working order now!

It's not the polish he deserves, but I'll be honest; Doing it right will require a full rewrite of his code. Which do want to do eventually, but I'm a man of many passions and high distractability, so I can make no promises of when it'll be done.
Castanean  [author] 10 May @ 12:56am 
Oh, goodness, you're right Suveranai. Something in a recent patch must have broken it... I'll admit I wasn't intending to polish up Frey just yet, I wanted to get some more experience first to make sure I'd do it well, but the Break Cleave not working is simply not acceptable.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention!
I'll do my best to fix it as fast as I can, as soon as I'm available to do so!
suveranai 8 May @ 1:17am 
hey i think there's a bug with break cleave, i try to do it and nothing else comes out
Sample Text |Ham Mafia| 9 Aug, 2024 @ 6:34am 
Got the makings of a great character here, though he could use a bit more spit and polish.
The Scrapinator 27 Jul, 2024 @ 11:10pm 
this is way underrated wtf