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Rivals of Aether

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Fennek

Description
Yes, it is finally happening

-About-
Fennek is a Artic Fox/Raccoon hybrid who wields the Axe from his former best friend as his main weapon, his gameplay revolves around chaining up combos with your wide variety of attacks and specials.
He mostly takes inspiration from Devil May Cry, Castlevania and Blasphemous.

He can wall cling, his Forward Air can be pressed 3 times for an air combo, Down Tilt can be pressed twice for a slide jump

-Special Attacks-
Neutral Special: Throws the axe like a boomerang, it will automatically return to Fennek after a brief moment or you can manually call it back by pressing the button again (this will turn it into a follow up attack in the way back to Fennek)


Side Special: Its a forward dash, once you hit the oponent, you'll bounce upwards, allowing you to follow up with another attack, you can even use it on the Neutral Special axe projectile


Up Special: in the ground, you'll grab the oponent and pull them downwards, while in the air you'll be launched upwards as long as you hit something or use it on the stage or a platform, otherwise, you wont be able to recover vertically


Down Special: His main gimmick consists on throwing a lantern, it will place itself after bouncing once on the ground, when hitting the opponent or by pressing the button again


-Even More Specials-
By using your other special attacks on it, the lantern will be destroyed and the special attack will be upgraded for that use:

-Neutral Special: Covers the axe in fire allowing it to deal multiple hits until it returns


-Side Special: You'll bounce on the lantern making you go far away horizontally (useful for mobility and follow ups)


-Up Special: Your recovery will send you much higher and can recover without the need of solid ground or a platform, while in the ground, you'll pull the lantern downwards and cause an explosion that can kill the oponent or start a combo depending on the damage %


-Down Special: Allows you to make it explode manually as a remote attack



ADVICE
-To properly recover with Fennek, dont use your Up Special right away, you'll just fall to death if you arent close to the stage, it is recommended to use side special towards a wall and then you can use Up Special after you wall jump
-While his combos are cool, they arent always consistent and his neutral game might be a bit different from the usual, so please, take your time to learn what he does
-If you are both playing as Fennek, you can mutually use each other's lanterns

Fennek might not be a very complex character like my previous ones, but he's much more beginner friendly and easier to learn thanks to that, its up to the player to experiment with the stuff he can do!

-Final Words-
Thank you so much for patiently waiting during all these 4 and half years of development, I deeply apologize for taking so long... a lot of stuff happened on my life and there were times where I wasnt sure how to continue the character, but I hope the wait was worth after all this time, I apreciate all of you for having this much patience and for always believing
I cant wait to see what y'all are capable of doing with Fennek and I hope you enjoy my creation


Shoutouts to:

Blaner: For the base sprite that started it all
Keroberry1: For helping with Animations and the preview artwork
Krispy: For helping with coding the more complex stuff
VVizard: For helping me to put up together the trailer

and all my friends and former friends for all the support through all these years of development, if I managed to make it here, its all thanks to you guys

Thank You <3
51 Comments
Resonance 10 hours ago 
well i guess it makes sense, hes more extremely punishable and you cant use any of your attacks after throwing the axe (not even your scarf which i dont understand)
Fennie  [author] 20 hours ago 
well... like 2 times, once on release every time Fennek reached front page and again when I made some massive nerfs more recently
Resonance May 23 @ 1:03pm 
wait its getting disliked bombed?
Resonance May 23 @ 1:03pm 
till this day...hes still hell to play with
Conway™ May 18 @ 10:02am 
Hell yeah glad a notification was waiting for me to remind me to try fennek again. it's a very flowy comfy moveset again, definitely a different moveset and a different flow, but i think i like this about as much as the old. stuff feels more deserved than the original, and most of the stuff I thought was iconic is back/never left/meaningful again. also is that a new winscreen with risk of rain UES? it's cool
Fennie  [author] May 17 @ 8:37pm 
The spinning Down Strong is back along with some buffs, please stop dislike bombing the page already.... :GDHard:
Mouth Funny Memes May 3 @ 5:55pm 
I think this character is very cool but as someone playing against this character, I have no clue what the heck is going on at all
Lackey May 2 @ 10:21pm 
Is there a way I could play the 1.28 version of this character? No shade to the efforts to balance this character but i severely miss the old Nspecial and Dstrong as I used to play them all the time. Easily in my top 5 mods with the old stuff does anyone have the files?
Conway™ Feb 14 @ 9:55pm 
it felt really weird getting so incredibly effectively zoned out by the knight when I was like I swear it wasn't always this hard to get a half decent hit in
Conway™ Feb 14 @ 9:53pm 
I was just playing some N/A recently and started thinking about some of the characters Ive played before that their movesets and movement just felt right and intuitive and flow-y like that and as i was setting up to play a bunch of them like epinel, frostine, rhyolis, rykenburn, hornet, twenny, dwaalux, urotsuki, arboris, mii brawler, aur, snick, etc. just a bunch of them in a row against some of the stronger characters with AIs I've found on the workshop. And I think its genuinely kinda funny fennek was the first one i pulled up for that and I felt like I was being gaslit by probably one of the characters I would least expect to be rusty at.