GODDESS ILIAS
DISCLAIMER: Goddess Ilias, while fully Safe For Work as a Rivals of Aether mod, hails from Monster Girl Quest, a strictly NSFW eroge. Please research with discretion, and be mindful of the age of those you share the mod with.
Goddess Ilias, the Cunning Goddess of Light, descends upon the world of Aether, bringing forth a ruinous twilight.
Ilias is an excessively oppressive character, tailor-made to violently blow through her adversaries with massive, yet slow attacks. Boasting high weight and crushingly powerful attacks, one would expect the Goddess to be slow, although such a thing could be no further from the truth. The Goddess is blessed with lightning fast mobility and slipperiness, deceptively shifting her hurtbox as she moves across the ground, while possessing multiple jumps in the air, all of which is complimented by an excessively mobile wavedash. Despite these obscene traits, Ilias is cursed with an incredibly large hurtbox, and, due to the general sluggishness of her moves, may struggle to escape combos, especially so due to her hurtbox growing in size while in hitstun. She may be able to dish out ruin and steal stocks in a flash, but her own cunning may be her very downfall, overextension often resulting in the Goddess’s untimely demise.
Spread via her Neutral Special and Down Tilt while Enhanced, Ilias may spread either Holy Ground or Holy Clouds, depending on whether she is grounded or airborne respectively. Both articles further boost the Goddess’s mobility, boost her gain of Holy Energy (Which itself is required to spread the articles in the first place), and enables Enhanced Mode when encompassed by her domain. Ilias’s entire moveset is drastically improved while Enhanced, oftentimes speeding up her dreadful frame data and boosting damage. Smart routing that either spreads or leads her opponent towards her domain will allow Ilias absolutely horrific combo potential in spite of her archetype.
Neutral Special (Grounded): Hallowed Ground
Ilias spreads her arms, encompassing the ground beneath her in Holy Ground. This is Ilias’s primary method of spreading Holy Ground, barring Enhanced Down Tilt.
Neutral Special (Aerial): Empty Sky
Ilias throws her arms out to either side of her body, energizing the air and spreading Holy Clouds on either end of her body. Holy Clouds function similarly to Holy Ground, and may be dragged around and detonated with DSpecial.
Forward Special: Spark / Thunder of Judgement
Ilias winds up, crackling Holy Lightning forming upon her finger before she releases a bolt of energy at the player’s desired angle. Ilias may fire directly ahead, upwards at a sharp angle, or downwards at a sharp angle, the bolt of energy reflecting upon the nearest Holy Article and aiming itself towards the nearest applicable opponent. The projectile has very fast startup and high hitstun, allowing Ilias to use it during combos.
Fully charging FSpecial will see Ilias launching her signature attack, Thunder of Judgement. This sees the bolt of energy transforming into an incredibly fast beam that explodes on contact with an opponent, retaining the aforementioned ricochet properties from uncharged FSpecial while significantly amplifying its speed and power. Smart Cloud and Ground placement allows Ilias to reflexively alter between belligerent, bully-esque gameplay with her massive normals and calculating FSpecial setups on the fly.
Up Special: Mach Ascent
Ilias winds up before performing a massive leap in the air. A fairly slow to start, yet quick-moving Up Special that may be difficult to catch. Receives a massive reduction in startup if initialized while Enhanced, and loses pratfall in tandem, allowing Ilias to use the move to rapidly approach airborne opponents.
Down Special: Samshir
Ilias holds her palm outwards, dragging forth a massive torrent of violent wind. Opponents caught within the wind will be dragged towards Ilias, as will any nearby Holy Clouds. Releasing the wind will cause Ilias to perform an attack, while detonating any Holy Articles caught within the wind. Performing the attack at close range will instead see Ilias grabbing her opponent, gaining meter as she does so.
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