Polar Knight
The biggest and toughest knight from the Order of No Quarter is here! (Unfortunately he didn’t read the part of the invitation that said "newcomers get a free resprite")
Polar Knight is a heavyweight character around the size of Regigigas, but with a giant shovel to easily smack away opponents and keep them far from his golem-sized hurtbox. Unlike most other characters, he’s got 2 unique factors:
-Most of his attacks include a bit of soft armor each, so it won’t be easy to stop him.
-His first jump is very high, but at a cost his double jump barely lifts him up (this references Shovel Knight Showdown’s lack of double jumps on most characters).
His moveset plays around the strategy of staying on the safe ground, and avoid flying around except for combos and recovery, all this while shoving the opponent away using his huge shovel.
Some remarkable things about his regular moves are:
-Jab and FTilt, along with NAir and FAir, are very similar to each other, with the difference of the neutrals having more soft armor and the forwards having scaling knockback.
-DAir sends Polar Knight flying down with his shovel, but unlike Shovel Knight, he’s too heavy to pogo, and will keep going down unless he walljumps or touches the ground.
-FStrong has 2 hitboxes, one when he thrusts his shovel, and a second when he slashes the shovel back, as if picking up snow.
-DTilt doesn’t deal much damage, but it has a lot of knockback and hitstun. It’s very useful for edge guarding (even though in this game characters can’t hold onto ledges).
Lastly, his Specials are:
-NSpecial: A snowball that barely causes damage and freezes grounded opponents, but when used in the air, he’ll only kick up some snow and do an attack similar to DTilt.
-FSpecial: Polar Knight sprints forward while stacking up some snow on his shovel. This dash will last for as long as the special button is held. When used in the air, he’ll do a shorter dash, similar to Little Mac’s FSpecial, and he’ll end the attack in pratfall.
-USpecial: It’s literally Kragg USpecial. Yeah sorry there’s not much else to say. It’s just that. And believe it or not, it was by FAR the hardest attack to code.
-DSpecial: Polar Knight takes a chug of beer and temporarily gains soft armor and a bit of extra damage, but he’ll trip when he’s in the air. You know what they say "don’t drink and driv- I mean jump"
Oh yeah, one last detail, the taunts go for as long as you hold the button, but you’ll have to wait for him to finish his meal.
(Thanks everyone for all the support you’ve been showing to this character so far, I genuinely though this character would barely reach top 5 and then fade into oblivion, but you’ve proved me wrong. Please, consider leaving a like to help Polar Knight reach number 1 on the workshop’s most popular mods of the week)
