2 years later and this is still my favourite character

I would play this character a lot more if down special was a interesting move instead of a "no, I win" button
fe characters don't need to have counters, they honestly shouldn't in smash

i love her a lot i just wish she had more range/speed on some moves

I just wanted to say that this is amazing and really fun. Amazing job! Her counter is especially satisfying to land. Its amazing!

I do hope we could see more FE characters.

Nonetheless amazing job!

Stage Fire Emblem?

@Reedjos I'm fine with it. It's clearly a meme character, and I am credited in the author's description, so I feel like it's mostly harmless.

Now if someone were to try to make a serious character and rip most all of my work, that'd be a different story. I don't mind using my work as a baseline or as an example (I mean I do it too to be honest, Lyn's counter was based off of Yoyo's (with the author's permission)), but it's a blurry line for some people between inspiration and theft.

At the end of the day, it's a modded character with open source code that anyone who downloads the mod can look at, so I'm aware of the risk of publishing it, and I think as long as people are reasonable about things and it's in the name of good fun, I don't mind stuff like the Ross character reskinning since credit is given.

Hey! I'm writing an article on the workshop community and wanted to ask you something about your character. My question may be laughable but I thought I'd ask anyway because its relevant to my piece.

How do you feel about Ross? The character that was made using your work on Lyn? I'm just fascinated by how ownership works in a community like this, where you don't own the character or sprites or Ip, but the work you put into the character is yours and someone else takes that work and makes Ross from Friends out of it... I'm just curious cause I kind of love, everything about this.

Another fire emblem char... leave that crap in smash

Cool mod, I subbed

Ewww another Fire Emblem Character, Like smash already had enough of these anime sword fighters and now they are invading other platform fighters Noo seriously out of digdug, bubsy and Leaser suit Larry they kept on choosing fucking Fire Emblem, but hey at least its not sora or even worse...GENO ugh.

right now i feel like her dash attack is to powerful and easy to use. playing her just feels like dash attack into dash attack/f-tilt rinse and repeat untill they are at a high enough percent that it doesn't work but by then you can just f-smash for a kill. nerfing dash attack would make her less one dimentional, and force the player to be more creative, lyns moveset without dash attack is already good.

Could you please make ike

is it possible for you do do something like this with the other FE7 lords, like hector? i would love to see that.

Oh okay then.

@Seven If a sprite artist wants to lend their expertise to the character, I'm happy to do so, but I'm not an artist.

I worked with the limited knowledge I have and did do some cleanup of the sprites (e.g. saturating colors a bit, making the border colors the same black as RoA main cast, ensuring the "pixel" size was the same as RoA main cast), and I know portraits and such don't really match very well, but I don't have the skillset to make it look good myself, unfortunately.

I suggest to make all her sprites and potraits ingame and outgame to make it looks more polished and belong to roa. Still a good char somehow. Thanks.

@TheCubicalGuy Because her recovery is already good enough that I didn't feel like it needed to be an attack. One of her weaknesses is being able to easily punish that uspecial while she's trying to recover (although it's still difficult-ish to punish with how maneuverable she is in general and her recovery mix-up options)

Why does uspecial not have a hitbox?

She is amazing! Thank you!

I feel like Lyn is supposed to land in her original position after her counter

that would fix the wall-glich as well

she is a great character and all but there is a glitch with her counter, maps like practice room and maps with a wall she can glitch through the wall with her counter.

this is literally all i've ever wanted out of a fighting game character thank you. Holy shit she is so fun

even rivals isnt safe from fire emblem

damn, we need hector now

I like this character and would love to play her against friends, but i find alot of her moves are too spammable, and her running attack mixed with side special can be an absolute nightmare. i would like to see things like end lag or more frames creating a slower move, so that it feels more fair when im playing lyn.

Next is Eliwood

I think her counter needs more end-lag. Its way too spammable.

Glorious.

Finally one of the FF7 lords in a smash-esque game. I've wanted this since Melee (I guess Roy is essentially Eliwood, but its not the same). Rivals does what Nintenwon't.

Lyn was EXTREMELY well made. Easily my favorite sword character I have ever played (used to play melee and pm too). Very well designed, extremely fun, and cool ass kit. Big fan of this character and she is now my other workshop main (dual maining her and emolga rn)

so we getting more fire emblem characters?

Quite fun. Glad to see someone give us the Lyn Sakurai won't.
A little issue I had with her is that her counter sends you forwards instead of ending where you started, which is kinda weird to me.
And that her Up special is just a jump, maybe add an attack after/during the flip so that you can choose between a double jump and an attack?

Was pleasantly surprised by this mod. Thought it would just be another lame Fire Emblem swordie but the katana makes her stand out a lot. Very cool hitboxes, also the sound effects are great.

I love her! Lyn is some of the most fun I've had in Rivals in a long time. My only complaint is that B-air has a tendency to pull opponents in sometimes, making it unreliable for edgeguarding. Of course F-air is good too, but it doesn't have the same ridiculous range...

The character is a lot of fun but in my opinion her side special and side smash feel a little too similar. Maybe make her side smash like clouds from smash with three strikes? It would keep the same feeling of speed. But besides that I love this character. Please keep up the great work

By popular demand, Lyn's bow Neutral Special can now be canceled into a slightly slower and much weaker version by pressing special again before the spin is done. Thanks for the feedback everyone!

I love this character, exceptionally fun to play and not gimmicky like a lot of these characters based on other IPs. If I had to criticise one small thing it would be the NSpecial. Being able to either cancel the lengthy animation or having a short-range weaker version by tapping the button would be nice

If Alpharad saw this he would automatically love you.

A great character! Really fun to play, good variety, feels balanced. I feel like it'd be good to remove the shadow from her sprites, since, unlike Fire Emblem, this is a side-view. It's a small thing but I think it'd help to make her feel a bit more at home in Rivals of Aether.

good character! it feels good to play!

I like this character, although I kinda wish the animations had some consistency with the swords. I know it's from the games but it felt odd seeing norrmal katana then rapier, lol.

The regular taunt also kinda jitters a bit oddly enough. I also agree with the neutral-b, it would be cooler if you had the option to charge the crit or to shoot a normal arrow.

Amazing job on the character! I'm having a great time playing her, her moveset is really fun.
The only complaints i have is that her neutral-b's startup animation is way too long, so i find it hard to use it, and that a few times when i used her counter, it ended with me out of the stage.

this character is pretty good and fun, but the walking animation seems a bit off

Perfect

Please make more fire emblem characters!

Praise be to Alpharad, praise be. A bunch of really cool mods have been released ever since his last RIvals video, so here's hoping that this inspires him to make a new one sometime soon!

@yikes! Fixed it, thanks for the report!

Oh, how'd you do this? I kinda want to do something similar with Roy.

For some reason even though I usually prefer custom sprite stuff having everything about this character just be FE7 sprites and sound effects makes Lyn that much cooler. Very nice work!

Grounded Side-B goes into special fall