when you break Kragg's rock, the little pebbles will apply Brainfreeze

. I love this silly ice cream goof so much I want to eat his face.
Anyways they are very fun and I have feedback on things that can maybe be improved because this is seriously one of the coolest and cutest and highestly detailedest character mods I have seen so far!!

. So first the ice cream scoop mechanic. I think it's cool how you can set up a zone to slow down enemies to compensate for slow attacking speed. An issue with it to me though is that the icy zones work against you.
. You have to put in the effort to set up the zone, (which is somewhat slow and leaves you open if you want to make it big, and you have to actively maintain it. It basically has to be a triple scoop to be able to use it for combos as well.), and then once you set it up, it benefits both players equally, even though YOU are the one who put the risk into making it. On top of this, fast combo oriented characters benefit waaaay more from the icy zone than Scoop does, since they have an easier time approaching you to start combos, and they can get more hits in during the slowed down combo. What usually ends up happening as a result is that I never let opponents into the zone and never try to combo with it. I exclusively instead will stand on the edge of it and mash heavy attacks because the freeze benefits are super good, and the range of Scoop's heavy attacks is very good at denying opponents from entering. I think it would be more fun if only Scoop benefited from this zone, so it was more viable to safely attempt to use it for combos.

. And for his down special, I think it's maybe not very useful. It's the worst attack in his moveset, so it's main use is the utility of moving the ice cream scoops. It's so slow to do though that you can never actually do it mid-fight, and micro-adjusting their positions seems moooostly unhelpful. It is always much safer, faster, and easier control-wise to just create new scoops if you want the icy zone to be moved. I think it should be replaced with something that helps his moveset better. Like... The ability to instantly warp existing scoops to his spot? Then it would have a reason to be used over the side special, but you would still have to use side special to actually create the scoops. Or maybe down special can be something entirely different that can be used to cover a weakness of Scoops', like, I dunno, an ability that can make ice cream float, or the ability to eat scoops of ice cream to temporarily gain the icy attack effects outside of the field or gain an attack speed boost or something if you eat all 3. (No clue if those ideas are any good hah-)

. One last note, his up special is cool but using it in combination with the scoops to recover onto stages feels very limiting, since the only ways they work together in practice is if either you throw a scoop and immediately up special into it for more distance (Which is good but predictable), or you have to have placed a scoop on the edge preemptively to up special into. (And you are rarely ever gonna place a scoop on the edge, because if you stand in the icy zone there, then your back is to the edge of the stage, and you will only be able to stand in the half of the icy zone that is on the stage, which makes it less useful.)
I think it would be cool if using the up special and touching the icy zone itself could actually make you rise upward, like being lifted by icy winds. That way you can use it in more unpredictable ways, and it would make setting up triple ice cream scoops near the edge of the stage more rewarding and lenient for positioning and recovering.

. Also silly bug but if Ranno hits Scoop with his tongue while doing his side special animation, the bubble appears over Scoop but it doesn't function until he gets hit. You can run around in a bubble and it's funny.

. Anyways I love this character and everything else is super good, the sprite work and design and alts and stage and I love big spoon combat and everything is so top notch, I wish this character was in Rivals 2 a lot..!! I really want to see him become better and more viable and cooler so I can make my friends angry at me for playing as a Dairy Queen seal.

Originally posted by PrinceFluffs:

. One last note, his up special is cool but using it in combination with the scoops to recover onto stages feels very limiting, since the only ways they work together in practice is if either you throw a scoop and immediately up special into it for more distance (Which is good but predictable), or you have to have placed a scoop on the edge preemptively to up special into. (And you are rarely ever gonna place a scoop on the edge, because if you stand in the icy zone there, then your back is to the edge of the stage, and you will only be able to stand in the half of the icy zone that is on the stage, which makes it less useful.)
I think it would be cool if using the up special and touching the icy zone itself could actually make you rise upward, like being lifted by icy winds. That way you can use it in more unpredictable ways, and it would make setting up triple ice cream scoops near the edge of the stage more rewarding and lenient for positioning and recovering.

fyi you can throw icecream at the wall and itll stick there, with a little icy aura that lowers his gravity and everything. that plus his wall cling should let u mix up the recovery a lot more

thank u for the other feedback! i will have to get back to u on that tho, i dont wanna respond immediately without time to think it over lol (and am busy with projects so time to think it over will also have to be later)

That's totally fine! I just wanted to give my thoughts as some random player who enjoyed the mod, so take everything I think with a grain of salt as well. I also completely did not know about the recovery thing with the scoops, that is very helpful

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Kind of small and maybe only applies to me, but I don't really like how DTilt scoops up the globs. I suppose it's intended to make it easier to reposition it to platforms above, but it's such a pain when I want to combo opponents inside to take advantage of the effect radius, just to lose the effect because my DTilt bounced the globs around.

uhhh adatp stack a bigger radius so you can hit them and not the globs