Rivals of Aether

Rivals of Aether

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Rakugaki

Description
Kragg's old and withered grandpa finally decided to stop living under a rock.

This is Rakugaki! An in-game recolor of Kragg with an edited and re-arranged moveset. He's a little slower in movement stats, but the old man still knows his stuff.


Here's all of the changes in non-specific detail !

Rakugaki trades a single big double-jump for two, smaller double-jumps. Their total jump height is about the same, but Rakugaki has those old trusty beetle wings.

JAB is now a 2-Hit combo instead of a 3-Hit.
FTilt now braces for impact, giving Rakugaki brief super armor before the swing.
UTilt scoops infront of Rakugaki instead of behind him using his big ol horn.
DTilt slams the ground, which gently spikes aerial foes and bounces grounded foes. Use repeatedly to be funny.

DAttack is a tactical roll, which is good for getting combos going!
FStrong is slower, but is slightly stronger and gives you a bigger shove on the swing.
UStrong is a big punch ala Up Air. It shoves you forward a bit as well
DStrong is unchanged.

NAir now functions like a traditional Neutral Air, specifically akin to Donkey Kong. It's quick, it's strong, it's late hit can combo.
FAir lingers much longer and trades knockback for combo potential. It ends early if you hit!
DAir hits slightly behind Rakugaki instead of slightly infront. Otherwise identical!
BAir is Kragg's FAir! It's just as strong as you remember, it's just behind him.
UAir is unchanged. funny punch go weeee

NSpecial is unchanged. It's good ol' rock, just as he taught Kragg.

FSpecial is now a lunching grab! It'll slam anyone you grab into the floor (and if there isn't a floor, he makes one!), and can also vault off of objects like bubbles, crystals and even his own rocks! It's great for combos, followups, the works. Old man's got the moves

USpecial is the spinning spikeball! That's right, Rakugaki has no pillar to save him. He'll spin into the air for a flurry of multi-hits, ending quite powerfully. It's not the best for recovery (minus the super armor, of course,) but it packs a wallop.

Grounded DSpecial lacks the spikes like Kragg's does, but has lots of armor and stuns anyone who dare match their forehead against Rakugaki's. You can follow up with a quick Strong, or set up for some combos if you'd like. Parry > DSpec > UStrong is very funny to me. Aerial version is the same as Kragg!

Rune E (DSpecial has more knockback) has more stun on grounded version instead of knockback.
Rune I (DSpecial creates more spikes) creates a massive, screen-sized shockwave that stuns anyone on the ground.
Rune M (All DSpecial spikes appear at once) cuts the startup of DSpecial significantly.
Every other rune works as you'd expect! Or maybe they're funnier than you expect. I think they're pretty funny

I am not good at pixel art so this is visually just a recolor, sorry ! But I hope you have fun with him! I wanted to just make a character for fun and I thought a skin would be a good way to do that
Take care !
13 Comments
christian 1001 17 Feb @ 5:03pm 
this is a master piece babyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!:steamhappy::steamthumbsup:
Bedoop!  [author] 7 Apr, 2024 @ 1:43pm 
thank you for enjoying rakugaki !
making alternate skins is a bit harder than you'd think (especially since they're all timebombs at the moment, see the messages below) and i'm much more afraid to touch other characters' gimmicks than i am kragg
if i were to make one for anyone i think it'd be Elliana, there's definitely a few things i'd change to suit my mood more but i think i'd like to work on other things for now
hopefully he can inspire other people to make their own "alternate" characters ! ..maybe after they stop crashing
high noon 431 6 Apr, 2024 @ 7:23pm 
i love the "alternate" kragg, just having like an sol-order sol dinamic makes me happy, could you do that to other characters? (not clarien, that one is done to death)
Bedoop!  [author] 5 Apr, 2024 @ 3:53pm 
further update. big advancements. i think i found out how to circumvent it

BEFORE THE TIME BOMB IS SET UP (if you played a match with Rakugaki BUT NO KRAGG,) if you play a match afterwards ((be sure to not load kragg!!)) with Neither Rakugaki NOR Kragg ((no rock bugs present)), that SEEMS to reset the timebomb (you can play a match with them together again)

you do not need to reset the game as long as you're very careful !! i think? maybe. from my testing that SEEMS to work
Bedoop!  [author] 5 Apr, 2024 @ 3:40pm 
you can play rakugaki whenever you want, but ;

-if the first match you play with Rakugaki DOESN'T Have Kragg, never play Kragg until you're done playing as Rakugaki

-if you first match you play with Rakugaki DOES have Kragg, play Kragg for as long as you want, but as soon as they Stop Being Kragg (once the match has No Kraggs, you CAN trade WHO plays as Kragg as long as there is always atleast 1 Kragg on the field) never play kragg again until you're done playing as Rakugaki

this seems to reduce the crashes to none ((i hope)), this info also applies to other skins (or atleast Shovel Knight ones) so

i hope this makes sense !
ciswhiteheterosexualmalenumber2 5 Apr, 2024 @ 3:11pm 
ok so If I have this right: Play rakugaki while someone else is playing kragg, and then from there never play kragg again?
Bedoop!  [author] 5 Apr, 2024 @ 7:08am 
update-update. it also happens with other character skins (or atleast with Shovel Knight) so i guess skins in general are just really crashy and there is definitely nothing i can do . im sorry :(
Bedoop!  [author] 5 Apr, 2024 @ 5:58am 
Update. awesome update. i figured it out. i labbed it
IT IS NOT RAKUGAKI'S FAULT ((it happens with other Kragg skins i tested)) It occurs when you re-load Kragg, it's nothing i can fix myself. so what is very consistent is like

-Playing a match with Rakugaki, but without Kragg (sometimes you need another workshop character present, sometimes it just works with basecast)
-after that match, if somebody selects Kragg, Rakugaki "refreshes"
-the game is dead at that point. rakugaki (or any other kragg skin) becomes a timebomb even if you deselect them (the game continues to work fine if you just play as someone else with rakugaki gone but pick him again and game go boom)

so the best advice i can give is to load Rakugaki and Kragg TOGETHER and as soon as kragg leaves the room consider him dead and never pick him again until you reset the game i guess
that's not the response i would've liked to tell you but that's how it is i guess :os_niko:
Bedoop!  [author] 5 Apr, 2024 @ 5:12am 
because i know that if you press F5 to reload custom content while standing on a rock the game just explodes, which is very weird because i did not touch rock or his colission box at all, and the crashlogs just point to loading things and not really any scripts
so i have no clue if the crashes are even in my power to be able to fix??

if i knew how to code rock there's a likelihood that i could just make rakugaki his own character slot instead of an advanced skin and that MIGHT fix the crashing ?? but i don't know how to code . so that's troublesome
Bedoop!  [author] 5 Apr, 2024 @ 5:09am 
i honestly have absolutely no idea what is causing the crashing, whenever the crash happens it's during a loading screen (atleast for me it was) and it only happens Sometimes. sometimes it works just fine and others it crashes even when you do the exact same things

it might just be an advanced kragg skin problem??? i haven't really played with other kragg skins but i was just hoping that it would just Work Ingame but if you're saying that it happens in free-for-alls thats very concerning