Rivals of Aether

Rivals of Aether

Carol the Wildcat (2.0/DE Update)
Aperson  [developer] 20 Mar, 2022 @ 5:09pm
In Depth Carol info
This thread is designed to explain Carol's moveset in more detail and highlight a few things you may not know.

Carol's Jab, Up Tilt, Down Tilt and Forward Tilt are all multi hit moves. During the process, pressing a direction will allow you to cancel your previous multi hit move to extend the combo length. After cancelling a certain number of times you will no longer be able to extend your combo and it will play out in whichever multi hit move you're in.

Carol's Forward Strong sees her slide forward, Down Strong is Sonic DStrong from Smash while Up Strong is a back foot swipe that's particularly effective against opponents from behind, the counterpart is Up Special which is more front based.

Neutral Air is the regular variant of Wild Claw, Forward Air is Low Kick from FP2, Up Air is Boot Swipe, Bair is Kragg FAir but in reverse. DAir sees Carol encased in a bubble from Jade Creek and goes bouncing on the stage.

Wild Kick is attached to the meter below Carol which indicates when you can use it and how long it will be active for. The move is a 17 hit attack and does 1 damage for each hit with the last hit having large knockback provided you do the whole move. Let go of the button to end the move. You can use it provided there is enough charge about the yellow line.

Jump Disc is adaptable. Either press the button to throw the disc or hold the button to warp to the disc. If you use this move this way you cannot wall jump more than once. Likewise, wall jumping more than once means you cannot use this move for a bit. The Walljumps counter on the HUD indicates how many Walljumps you have at your disposal at that specific moment.

Hold the Special button down during Pounce to gain additional height. Cancel into Wild Claw on hit for extra damage.

Down Special then allows you to get on and off the bike. While on the bike, fuel is consumed and when it runs our you automatically get off it.

The bike however changes a number of moves. Carol has entirely new Strongs on the bike, including a spinning move on the ground as well as physically swinging the bike at opponents for both Forward Strong and Up Strong. She even swings it with FAir! She's one strong cat!

The bike can ride up walls. Just hold jump while next to a wall to ride up the wall!

Carol has different aerials while on the bike, with Neutral Air an overhead swing that damages in a wide radius. Bair and Uair grt boosted range while Fair and Dair are Bike swings. Down Special in the air is a projectile move but at a cost, you lose the bike when you use it. However, the bike is thrown downwards and burns anyone it comes into contact with, so its quite useful from that perspective.

Carol can be a voiced or unvoiced character. To turn on voices, press the button. Carol has 29 alts based on unused stock alts, other Freedom Planet characters, other cat characters as well as Ratchet and Rivet from the Ratchet & Clank series, Valentino Rossi, Kamen Rider and even a vTuber!

Carol has unique voice lines if Lilac is KO'd as a teammate in battle or if she hits Lilac.

The alts are as follows:
Red Scarf
Yellow Scarf
Pink Scarf
Blue Scarf
White Scarf
Corazon
Lilac
Milla
Neera
Mayor Zhao
Garfield
Ratchet
Rivet
Abyss
Early Access
Big
Blaze
Honey
Solid Gold Motorbike
Litten
Sprigatito
Mio
Niko
Doraemon
Kamen Rider
Trans Rights
Carrie
Wes
Valentino Rossi
Mumei

The Corazon alt has an entirely different victory theme.

Carol talks on the victory screen.
Last edited by Aperson; 11 Oct, 2023 @ 1:34pm