So, The Fox, now that I've had more experience playing with them, are pretty good, but I feel like they could use some buffs and nerfs. For one, the Deer Form is apparently overpowered, but I feel like their fox fire, alongside not showing properly in predictions or going in the right directions, has too long of startup. That, and their meter gain is way too slow to be used outside of combos. The illusion part of Kitsune are missing, and I think that Chizuru or Maki or Quince could be a good reference point. Otherwise, they are relatively balanced, though it definitely feels like they're zoning and set-play isn't as connected as they could be, as again, the poetry slips are more for combos.

Stance change (transform) is a frame 8 IASA. this beats wait in speed.

Their fox fire prediction dosn't show anything, and I think the controls are reversed.

Blue sky, I know they are a kitsune, I was just wondering if they were supposed to be kemonomimi, and why they didn't have any illusion abilities (for mixups), I'd imagine.

Cool gimmick, really stand out!

Their Deer form is unbalanced, as it is a 6 frame variable guard break, making it incredibly powerful.

If the hanafuda cards and shape-shifting didn't give it away, the Fox is a kitsune - a Japanese-style fox spirit, either kind-hearted or mischievous depending on the individual.

>How many tails do they have?
Enough.

How many tails do they have? Why isn't there illusion magic? Why do they have a fox form if they are already a fox? Are they kemonomimi?

Diegetic indicators of something happening would be cleaner to show when something happens and you gain a Fox-specific resource, if you can't just add a tooltip. Wizard gets a moisture drop when they land a neutral melee attack or score a parry, but it just pops up on the HUD. The requirements for Fox's resources are a bit more specific - get cards from Koi-Koi, Hustle, "Lights," or a parry (forgot that last one until recently), and awaken the mask with "Lights" or "Viewing" - so more obvious in-game indicators would be neat, like a card fluttering when you regenerate your hanafuda or Fox's eyes flashing when the mask lights up. Plus, the Help HUD is only ever used for the universal HUD, so tucking explanations away in there wouldn't accomplish much.

very gimmicky in the best way possible

Cool character, like them as a whole, not really anything to say other than they are good and I have fun with them. God bless and keep up the good work!

I'm personally trying to keep things as close to the vanilla style as possible, so I'm somewhat hesitant about including tooltips. I'll have to investigate options; current thoughts are centered around either expanding the help overlay or doing something with particle effects to make it more obvious when an action refreshes your resources.

As for Flower and Moon Viewing, I originally used abbreviations under the impression that the full names wouldn't fit on the HUD, but I'll look into change them to the full names for a future release.

Fun character, one of the more unique toolsets I've seen in YomiH. I do have a couple of minor quality-of-life suggestions.

Have you considered adding a couple of tooltips to Fox's HUD to more immediately explain them without going to an external page? Like:
>Cards: These cards represent the available transformations. To restore them, use Koi-Koi or Hustle, or land a "Lights" super.
>Mask: Land a "Viewing" or "Lights" move to light up the mask and unlock Koi-Koi.

You may also consider posting the full names "Flower Viewing" and "Moon Viewing" in the move list instead of abbreviations that might miss the wonder and beauty of Fox's theming.

Bubble, my old nemesis...
I've noticed some really strange behavior with Bubble post block patch in general; I'll take a look and see if I can't figure out what's going on.

Got softlocked when bubbling a robot- I thought I'd hit them with an unblockable setup into bubble but they could roll before getting bubbled in the prediction ghost. I don't know what they did, but it wasn't roll in game but on release from the bubble they were invincible and couldn't move.

If I recall, it was another character doing something of a counter. It was like the orb hit THEIR attack and it tried to throw an error but then crashed immediately after.

I'll do some testing when I get time.

Considering I don't know what said issue is, I have not. Three Lights doesn't do anything particularly out of the ordinary from my experimentation, so I'll need more details on what you're encountering before I can fix it.

Have we fixed the issue with the floating orbs?

Update is out! Most of the numbers were tossed together based on intuition, so please let me know if their block pressure winds up being too intense.

Quick PSA, there's a few functions that were changed under the hood in 1.8.0 that might have actually broke the Fox. I'm planning to throw some changes together to get them updated to play nicer with the new Block system, so hopefully by this weekend they should be back up and running. Sorry for the inconvenience!

The spawned super attack, the lil floating orbs, seem to cause crashing with other characters.

I like characters that aren't power crept I just don't use them because they aren't fun to play as or against which is why I really value characters like this that are original and fun without being screen nukes

Yeah also prepare to take an L from literally every modded character and the main cast about 99.8% of the time, as you have zero competition with most of the moves that freely cancel, your range is completely outclassed by screen clearing boundschecking projectile spamming nonsense.
This is a lovely character, but it feels about a million miles behind power creep.

Love this character, feels a little weaker than main cast but extremely well developed kit.
Spray is mindblowing, to the point it feels like it could be unfair. Not inescapable by any means, but wow that feels great.
Bubble is a beautiful tool for harassment and making time to setup.
Poetry slip mechanics are :chefkiss:
Shapeshifting is... good, I think, but difficult to pull out effectively, hasn't served me well so far.
Fox's Melee category in general feels like it loses to every move in the game. Trip feels conceptually good but I've been unable to really apply it effectively, nor follow it up, using it primarily to make time or space myself. Chaining tailflip makes a maybe ok hostile mobility tool?, but overall I get completely taken apart in tight range, which feels like I need to learn some obscure feature of the tools, or the tools are weak.

Another incredibly balanced character with new and interesting mechanics.

Highly recommend.

Wave needs to be a little more risky and/or slow.

really nice and fun character and perfectly balanced unlike half of the characters here

loved the character even before it was on steam

Faced agaisnt fox, it was a fun fight so thumbs up you deserve it

s-tier mod

I LOVE FOX YO

One of my favourite modded characters!

yes the funny actually balanced furry is back

My very first main, back when there were barely any mods, pretty fun character