Red Alloy (SSBB)

Red Alloy (ザコレッド Zakoreddo, Red Small Fry), is an unplayable character in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and only playable via hacking. He is a clone of Captain Falcon.

When playable, much like many Multi-Man Brawl characters, Red Alloy is worse than a good portion of the Brawl roster. Captain Falcon already struggled with landing combos and KOs, mainly due to Brawl's substantial mechanics changes from Melee, and Red Alloy suffers from this even more due to what more is removed: Red Alloy cannot shield or grab the ledge, and lacks all of Captain Falcon's trademark special moves. What really hurts Red Alloy, however, is the 40 frames of landing lag across all of Red Alloy's attacks: This makes utilising up aerial extremely difficult, and with a weaker Knee Smash as insult to injury, there is very little that Red Alloy can offer. The one thing Red Alloy has over Captain Falcon is generally stronger hitboxes, such as on up smash, down aerial, and dash attack, but this does little to make up for the extreme nerfs otherwise received to movement and endlag.

If a player wins with Red Alloy, the game will crash without further modifications. When losing, the game will continue, with Red Alloy being in a pratfall state.

Codes[edit]

Red Alloy can be played as using the following Gecko codes and choosing any character on the Character select screen. These codes are for the NTSC release.

Attributes[edit]

Red Alloy is a slower, lighter version of Captain Falcon, similar to the functionality of Male Wire Frame in Melee. However, whereas Male Wire Frame has unusually large hitboxes and access to techniques like L-canceling, Red Alloy doesn't necessarily make up for the reduced movement, aside from tripping less.

Red Alloy's attacks are largely the same as Captain Falcon's, but with a lack of special moves, Red Alloy has an extreme lack of burst options to close distance, relying primarily on dash attack in this respect. This, coupled with worsened movement and the same lack of disjoint as Captain Falcon, makes approaching with Red Alloy extremely difficult. While his aerials are somewhat improved — forward aerial doesn't have a sourspot on its early hit in exchange for some power, back aerial lasts longer, and down aerial has the nipple spike from Melee — the 40 frames of landing lag make them virtually unusable if not swinging for a stock. Ergo, Red Alloy can't approach reliably on the ground or in the air, easily being suffocated by characters like King Dedede and Falco in neutral, unable to shield against their overwhelming tools. However, Red Alloy can find stocks more consistently, with down aerial always landing a meteor smash and having an incredibly strong up smash, but with so many issues getting in to do meaningful damage, finding opportunities to use them is difficult.

Whereas Green Alloy has 5 jumps to make for a vaguely respectable recovery, Red Alloy has just one double jump to try and make it back to the stage. With an inability to grab the ledge and no Falcon Dive, this makes his recovery extremely easy to gimp, not even being able to recover if sent at even a Sakurai angle. With only average weight, it isn't hard to send Red Alloy off-stage either, especially given that being unable to airdodge also makes him incapable of hitstun canceling, which makes him uniquely easy to combo.

Differences from Captain Falcon[edit]

Red Alloy is a slower, lighter Captain Falcon, with a few traits that are seemingly from a previous revision of the character, such as a much stronger up smash and the infamous nipple spike from Melee.

Aesthetics[edit]

• 👁 Change
  Red Alloy has a slightly larger model, giving him more reach, but making him much easier to combo.
• 👁 Change
  Red Alloy is unvoiced.

Attributes[edit]

• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy has no special moves.
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy can't shield and thus cannot roll or spotdodge.
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy can't airdodge, and thus cannot perform airdodge hitstun cancelling to escape combos, making him uniquely susceptible to combos, though he can still hitstun cancel with aerials as a potential combo breaker, or to momentum cancel.
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy can't grab the ledge and can't use any ledge options by extension.
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy gets no respawn invincibility.
• 👁 Buff
  Red Alloy's walk speed is higher (0.85 → 1.1).
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy's initial dash speed is much worse (2.05 → 1.5).
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy's dash speed is much worse (2.18 → 1.5).
• 👁 Change
  Red Alloy's traction is slightly higher (0.05 → 0.06), making it easier to stop short when dashing, but reducing the effectiveness of sliding-based techniques like DACUS.
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy's weight is worse (104 → 98), reducing survivability.
• 👁 Change
  Red Alloy's gravity is considerably lower (0.1027 → 0.075), reducing vertical mobility, but allowing for increased air time from jumps, and improving vertical survivability, due to Brawl introducing a new mechanic which increases vertical launch speed for characters with higher gravity stats.
• 👁 Change
  Red Alloy's fall speed is worse (1.837 → 1.28). This again reduces vertical mobility, and worsens vertical survivability, but again improves air time, and improves Red Alloy's recovery somewhat, as well as making him less susceptible to combos.
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy's fast fall speed is much lower (2.5718 → 1.792).
• 👁 Buff
  Red Alloy's air acceleration is higher (0.06 → 0.09).
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy's air speed is lower (1.18 → 0.94).
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy has a significantly worse meteor cancel window, tied with Wolf for the worst in the game (25f → 60f).
• 👁 Buff
  Red Alloy's double jump goes much higher, allowing him to pursue opponents into the air better, and somewhat offsetting the worsened recovery caused by lacking special moves or the ability to grab ledges.

Ground attacks[edit]

• 👁 Buff
  Jab 3's (Gentleman) sweetspot does more damage (6% → 7%).
• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy's rapid jab input window functions like Captain Falcon's does in Melee, making it much more difficult to just perform the 3-hit combo without the rapid jab.
• 👁 Nerf
  Rapid Jab has more endlag (FAF: 10f → 15f).
• 👁 Buff
  Dash attack does overall more damage (8%/6% clean/late → 10%/7%) and launches at a Sakurai angle (65°/40° → 361° universal).
  • 👁 Nerf
    However, it has much worse base knockback (80/65 BKB clean/late → 30/10) in exchange for knockback growth (40/40 KBG → 70/40). This makes it unsafe on hit at low percents.
• 👁 Nerf
  Angled forward tilts don't have earlier FAFs compared to the unangled version like they do with Falcon (32f angled up/down → 37f), preventing Red Allow from making the move safer on shield by angling it.
• 👁 Nerf
  Up tilt has more endlag (FAF: 40f → 46f), and has lower base knockback (BKB: 50 → 40).
• 👁 Buff
  Forward smash has an extra frame of hitbox activity (18-20 → 18-21) and has higher knockback growth (85 → 100).
• 👁 Nerf
  Forward smash's damage no longer varies with angle, instead always dealing less damage than any variation of Captain Falcon's (20%/19%/18% → 17%).
• 👁 Change
  Forward smash sends at the Sakurai angle (45°/43°/40° → 361°), launching at a lower and more favourable angle against grounded opponents at high percents, but a less favourable angle overall against aerial opponents.
• 👁 Buff
  Up smash has drastically higher knockback growth (Hit 1: 90 → 100/110, Hit 2: 102/103/110 → 128/126/110, KOing much sooner than Captain Falcon's.
• 👁 Buff
  Down smash has higher knockback growth (85 (Hit 1) / 90 (Hit 2) → 100 (Both hits).
• 👁 Nerf
  The first hit of down smash's sweetspot does less damage (18% → 16%).

Aerial attacks[edit]

• 👁 Nerf
  Red Alloy cannot air dodge.
• 👁 Nerf
  All of Red Alloy's aerial attacks have 40 frames of landing lag, making them terrible on shield and reducing follow-up potential.
• 👁 Nerf
  Neutral aerial and back aerial autocancel later (NAir: 32+ → 34+).
• 👁 Buff
  Down aerial autocancels sooner (39+ → 36+).
• 👁 Buff
  Neutral aerial has more hitbox activity (Hit 1: 7-8 → 7-12, Hit 2: 20-21 → 20-29).
• 👁 Buff
  Neutral aerial overall does more damage (Hit 1: 4% → 6%/5%/6%, Hit 2: 6% → 7%).
• 👁 Nerf
  Neutral aerial's second hit deals much less knockback (40 (base)/100 (scaling) → 45/125), KOing later despite the increased damage.
• 👁 Change
  Neutral aerial's first hit does less set knockback (55 → 40).
• 👁 Change
  Forward aerial's early hit deals consistent damage, rather than having a sweetspot and sourspot (19%/6% sweet/sour → 13%), and consistent knockback values (base: 30/35 → 20, scaling: 93/80 → 100). This consistent hit is much weaker than the regular version's sweetspot, but much stronger than its sourspot.
• 👁 Buff
  Forward aerial's late hit deals much more damage (3% → 10%), and has altered knockback (35 (base)/80 (scaling) → 20/100), dealing much more knockback overall.
• 👁 Buff
  Back aerial has more hitbox activity, notably having 2 extra active frames on the early hit (Early: 10-11 → 10-13, Late: 12-15 → 14-17).
• 👁 Nerf
  Back aerial does less damage (Early/Late: 14%/8% → 12%/7%).
• 👁 Buff
  Down aerial has more hitbox activity (16-18 → 16-20).
• 👁 Buff
  Down aerial has the nipple spike hitbox from Melee, dealing 13% with a knockback angle of 290°, although due to changes to meteor cancelling in Brawl, it is no longer a true spike. However, this means Red Alloy's down aerial will always meteor smash, rather than launching opponents away like Falcon's does if landing the upper hitbox.
• 👁 Buff
  Down aerial has consistent 40 base knockback, instead of a 10 base knockback hitbox.

Moveset[edit]

• Unlike regular fighters, Red Alloy lacks special moves, can't shield, and cannot grab the ledge. He also lacks idle poses and taunts.

For a gallery of Red Alloy's hitboxes, see here.

Stats[edit]

Announcer call[edit]

The Fighting Alloy Team has an unused announcer call intended for Classic Mode, which can be accessed if an Alloy is made selectable on the Character select screen. It is present in all versions.

In competitive play[edit]

Due to Red Alloy only being playable via hacking, he has been banned in competitive play since Brawl's release. While the accessibility of Wii modding makes it relatively easy to add the Fighting Alloys to the character select screen, and they don't crash the game unlike the Fighting Wire Frames upon winning, the entry barrier still exists. This barrier also causes logistical issues that tournament organisers have to work around, such as the potential for installing further mods to cheat, consoles not having the appropriate mods installed that can cause setup disputes, and more. Due to the Fighting Alloy Team as a whole being largely inferior versions of their base characters, especially in the case of Red Alloy, there is also little interest in changing that status quo. Ergo, the entire Fighting Alloy Team group has not seen much competitive experimentation, with no documented tournament matches. Should they ever be made legal, however, their influence on the metagame would likely be minimal.

In 1-P Mode[edit]

In Multi-Man Brawl[edit]

Red Alloy, as part of the Fighting Alloy Team, is a central figure in Multi-Man Brawl, where he spawns alongside the other Alloys to attack the player. He appears in all modes, including Cruel Brawl, where he becomes quite overwhelming. Additionally, in each mode, Red Alloy will fight with a handicap, changing its properties by quite a bit.

Trophy[edit]

The Red Alloy trophy is unlocked by defeating five Alloys in Cruel Brawl.

Red Alloy

A member of the Fighting Alloys. This one's sporting a red body. Built like an everyday hero, he fights like one too. Typically, when groups are divided into colors, red tends to serve a leadership role. Although this does not necessarily apply to the Alloys, the Red Alloy somehow feels the need to step it up.

👁 Wii
: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Trivia[edit]

• When winning, if the game is forced to not crash, in lieu of a victory pose, all Alloys will use their default standing pose instead.

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