Donkey Kong (ASB)

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Donkey Kong (ASB)
Default Boxing
Universe	Donkey Kong
Appearances in Smash	Super Smash Bros Super Smash Bros. Melee Super Smash Bros. Brawl Super Smash Bros. for Wii U & 3DS Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Ultra Smash Bros. IV
Availability	Starter
Final Smash	Jungle Rush
Homeland Stage	Kongo Jungle (Melee)

Donkey Kong is a playable Starter character in Arcade Smash Bros.and makes his seventh return (eighth if you count Ultra in) in the series since Super Smash Bros., being one of the recurring members of the Original 8 alongside with the Hidden 4. He was confirmed two months later when Arcade's got announced after the last fighter of Ultimate's Fighter's Pass Vol. 1. Donkey Kong is classified as fighter #02. Donkey Kong also has his own alternate costume with boxing gloves, inspired from Punch-Out!!. He has Funky Kong as his Echo Fighter.

According to his history, Donkey Kong began as an antagonist of Mario where he kidnaps Pauline in Mario vs. Donkey Kong. He climbed tall buiding until he reached to the top, guarded his captive and threw barrels to Mario with other various obstacles. Donkey Kong also had a few titles where he became captive of Mario and needed to be rescued by Donkey Kong Jr. Later, Donkey Kong became very popular in the Super Nintendo Entertainment System games such as the famous titular Donkey Kong Country trilogy, where him, Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong (with the help of Kiddy Kong) capture the stolen bunch of bananas taken from King K. Rool and the Kremlings, his minions, and also save the Kong's island. Later on, as the series progressed, new characters became involved in other games and became popular by today standards such as Cranky Kong and Funky Kong. Donkey Kong, sometimes with the other Kongs, also participated in a variety of Mario spin-off games such as go-kart games, party games and even sports games.

Unlike other Smash titles, Donkey Kong now is voiced by Takashi Nagasako, the main voice actor from his recent Donkey Kong games, instead of realistic gorilla voices. Takashi also voices Ganondorf in this game.

Changes from Ultimate

Aesthetical

• Thanks to the introduction of EX Costumes, Donkey Kong now receives more than eight alternate costume, being unlockable in the game.

Ground attacks

• Up tilt:
  • Up tilt has now a slightly new animation: Donkey Kong leans more on the side instead of being infront of the screen, swinging his arm as an arc in a more dynamic way.
    • This greatly improves its range and approach.
• Down tilt:
  • Down tilt has less ending lag, allowing Donkey Kong to combo opponents at low percents more reliably, including improving his pressure game.
• Forward smash & up smash:
  • His forward smash and up smash have little windboxes that pushes opponents away after clapping his fists.
• Down smash:
  • Down smash sourspot hitbox bubbles, located in his upper parts of his arms, are slightly larger, improving its range (4.0 → 5.0).
  • Down smash clean hit now buries grounded opponents to the ground. This greatly improves his punish game.
    • However, its knockback values are not much as high as before, making to the opponents to escape more easily.
    • It also altered its angles (70° → 270°).
    • Its sound effect is now a kick sound effect instead of a punch.
  • Down smash's clean hit now meteor smashes aerial opponents, greatly improving its edgeguard potential (70° → 265°).
  • Down smash no longer has a late hit, having less duration for the whole move.

Special moves

• Spinning Kong:
  • Aerial Spinning Kong reaches slightly higher than before.
  • Aerial Spinning Kong's final hit has more knockback improving significantly its KO power.

Moveset

	Name	Damage	Description
Grounded attacks
Neutral attack
Forward tilt
Up tilt
Down tilt
Dash attack
Forward smash
Up smash
Down smash
Aerial attacks
Neutral aerial
Forward aerial
Back aerial
Up aerial
Down aerial
Grab & throws
Forward throw
Back throw
Up throw
Down throw
Special moves
Neutral special	Giant Punch
Side special	Headbutt
Up special	Spinning Kong
Down special	Hand Slap
Final Smash	Jungle Rush

Alternate costumes

Default
EX Costumes
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