(PS. I'm sorry for flooding and spamming this inactive comment section. I'm just a nerd who loves writing about things I'm passionate about. I also didn't realise Steam had a character limit per message (it's 1000.))

( 7 / 7)
And maybe add a way to dequip active badges without needing to buy more (maybe by pressing strong over the badge in the menu.)

Some new additions I think would be cool:
A crawl. Considering how she crawls and has a crouch in A Hat in Time, I've always thought it was a bit odd how you made her just plop onto the floor.
A Down Taunt of her sticking her tongue out, like how she does to the Mafia in A Hat in Time
Add the ability to press the Strong button to dequip badges.
A face to Back Air (I haven't been able to unsee it after I saw it missing)
Projectile Badge could be a cool badge to replace N-Special since they're both long ranged moves, but I'm not sure how this would work when Hookshot is already on N-Special. It could potentially be on F-Strong instead since it is a charge move in A Hat in Time.

Again, I don't think she's super overpowered, and I love the character, but she could do with a small rebalance to tune her down a bit imo.

Okay, love the character, bye bye.

( 6 / 7)
I always get Magnet first, then Hover. In some situations I may also get Hookshot, but usually I just stick to Magnet and Hover. Most of the badges are seemingly a downgrade compared to her base moveset which is a little disappointing.

Since there's no way to properly dequip badges, so I almost never even try to experiment with them in real battles since it's basically a 1 way trip, so any utilisation they could potentially have is never seen since permanently losing her best options isn't worth it.

TL;DR: Hat Kid is too fast especially with Dive, attacks have too little start up and end lag making her combos and kill moves too strong, attacks do too much damage, most badges are downgrades to her base moveset, her kill power is too strong with f-air hitting into itself and f-strong as well as dragging opponents into the blast zone, Air D-Special is way too good in general.

( 5 / 7 )
Giving up her potions isn't really worth the trade since the potions are really useful for pressuring the opponent in comparison to the hookshot that will punish you greatly for missing.
No Bonk Badge is probably the worst badge (ignoring 1-hit wonder,) it GREATLY reduces the speed on her best movement option, with the trade being that it makes her already good comboing move slightly better at comboing. I don't think I've ever intentionally bought this one in a real battle because her base F-Special is just too good and the benefit this brings isn't worth the downside.
Hover Badge makes one of her best moves even better. I'm not actually sure if this one has a downside like No Bonk does. But it lets her recover better and cheese earlier.
1-hit wonder is funny but also losing a game to a miss-input is painful since it's permanently equipped, there's absolutely no coming back.

( 4 / 7)
Some of the badges also aren't very helpful in my opinion,
The scooter's speed boost is barely noticeable and not worth trading her default dash attack for since her base dash attack is a pretty good combo tool at mid to low percents while her scooter dash attack doesn't really do anything. It could potentially be used to edgeguard, but it's way too risky to even attempt that since she has way better methods at edgeguarding. It also increases the turn around time which doesn't really matter since there are ways to get around it, but it does end up making it feel a bit clunky.
Hookshot is decent, but it has a good bit of end lag and start up, which makes it a lot more risky compared to most of her other moves. It can be used for recovering, but she already has a bunch of other good recovery options, so it's not necessary for that, since she has no issue getting back on stage.

( 3 / 7)

F-air is also really good when paired with Dive and can let her get really quick kills off the side since F-air can hit into itself again or hit into dive and then into itself.

Air D-Special by itself is partly at fault for how strong she is because of how versatile it is. It's kind of a do-everything tool. You can combo into it, combo out of it, and automatically tech chase since it continues homing in on intangible opponents. Air D-Special is so spammable and has so much range that you can pretty easily ladder combo with it and Up Air. The description says it doesn't target opponents who are above you but that's just not true. Pairing Air D-Special with Up Special allows you to get some really early cheesey kills from the top blast zone depending on the stage.

( 2 / 7)

Her speed is incredible, and imo should be reduced. It's really difficult for her enemies to escape or catch her because not only is her ground speed really fast, but her air speed is pretty good too. Her F-Special (dive) makes her chasing capabilities really strong because it allows her to move really fast and also combo out of it, allowing her to essentially drag her opponents into the side blast zones if the set up is right. Dive being so fast also makes her recovery super good and with her other recovery options, makes it really difficult to actually edge guard her.
Her combo potential is also really high where almost all of her moves lead into other ones, which is admittedly really fun, but since the damage on a lot of her moves are pretty high, and have little start up and end lag, it allows her to rack up damage really really quickly. Which is a bit problematic with how good her F-Strong is, killing around 70 at the edge while not having much end lag or start up.

(1 / 7)

Howdy, Hat Kid player here.

I love this character and she's insanely fun to play but in my opinion, she's a bit too strong, so I tend not to use her over other characters who feel more fair.

This constructive criticism is just my opinion, I don't mean any bad feelings towards you or your creation. It's your character and you can make them however you want.
She isn't super overpowered like some other characters, and she's really fun to play so she's completely fine how she is currently.

With that said,

@Schmampus I asked tdude about this once, he says he isn't interested in adding any more alts. Believe me I would want the Freedom alt too.

Bit ironic that HK doesn't have any alts based off of the unlockable colors you get in the game
How can I play as this character if I can't change my alt to THE FREEDOM

Funni dance. Very fun character too

must be your PC? it dose not crash for me..

How do I fix this from crashing every time I try to do an actual battle as her? She works fine in the training area, but it completely crashes the game outside of that.

can i still use this a a pfp

bro i love it but the chin bro

For a smol little time traveling child she's VERY strong.

this one's fun to play and the model is really cute. great work.

very good mod but missed oppertunity to make the snatcher skin the skin you get by beating the death wish "seal the deal"

I turned hat kid black fully how?

love the character

I love this mod but unfortunately it can crash an entire server because of a buggy skin :(
10/10 tho

question, will the other characters (like rocky) get DE versions as well?

I am so loving the new version, I'll be honest i didn't care for the original version of the character, especially the spritework, but now one of my favorite video game characters is finally done justice in a rivals mod, every animation is super expressive and really fun to watch, and the reworked moves are way more fun to use. Easily top 5 rivals mods

I love the rework. She is very fun to play now.

Holy molly, i love the sprite work.

HOLY SHIT HAT KID GOT UPDATED

Love how fair is still strong, and combos out of hookshot sometimes

it crashes my game now

nice

Really enjoy seeing this improved

The new animations are fantastic

Awesome to see a new version of this Mod.

It's about time

yes.

I can't figure out what the No Bonk badge does. It says it lets you cancel the side special on hit but I don't get how that's any different from what you could already do & no matter how much I test it with & without the badge, I don't see a difference.

Regardless, Hat Kid is one of the funnest characters I've used in this game & she's my favorite character in fiction in general.

oh yeah

EXACLTY BROTHER, FORWARD AERIAL BEST!!!!!!

HAHA FORWARD AIR GO BRRRRRRRR

i might be late on this but i cant seem to get the other alt colors after 10, it just loops back to 1

if you dance long enough you`ll get Peace And Tranquality music

oh never mind, lol

Someone used your hat kid mod for smash crusade

hay just wondering if you can lend me your sprites i love your work and i want to make an among us mod using these sprites i will give you all the credit for the sprites if i even make the mod poblic

hey just asking but can you make hat kids spaceship to go along with this

incredible

Smug dance 11/5

Also, in the "smug dance" emote, can you add Music?

I love this character, everything about this is amazing. However, I noticed that the scooter is used for walking, running, and the dash attack all in one. I was think that maybe the walk could be standard hat, the run could be the sprint hat, and then the dash features the scooter? I understand if you don't want to, it seems like a much more complicated animation. This is just a suggestion from me personally.

HATKID MY MAIN!!!!!!
also i do love if u add some hatkid voicelines for more epicness