I've looked briefly through move lists, and the characters I looked for seemed to have 4 special moves each. Is this it? Or all the other moves not listed? One time when I asked, on CE, about the Smash games, someone told me each character has dozens of moves. So, are the listed moves just the best ones or something?
I mean...3D fighters usually have lots of moves per characters. It's more 2D fighters that only have a few moves per character.
The special moves are mostly intrinsically different from the numerous A-button moves. Take Mario, for example. B is fireball (projectile), Side-B is cape (reflector + turns the enemy around, is good for gimping recovery since it doesnt knock enemies out of the helpless post-recovery state), Down-B is FLUUD (can also gimp enemies and push them away since it does 0 damage) and Up-B is Super Jump Punch (Marios recovery move). Thing is, all of these moves have properties that rarely, if ever, show up on the A moves. Up-B is usually the recovery move (sometimes theres no recovery move for characters like Yoshi and Jigglypuff, sometimes theres multiple)
I must admit, I like Mario's moves. Fireball was a logical long-range attack, but FLUDD was cool as well. I'm surprised they put a nod to Sunshine in there, given how it's one of the least popular 3D main series Mario games. When did they add that move in? Has it been there for a long time?
FLUUD has been in there since Brawl, so like mid 2000s.
He used to have the tornado move that Luigi and Dr Mario have
They haven't changed it back yet?
Well, Smash is still dead to me then (at least post melee).
Thats why Dr. Mario and Luigi completely outclass regular Mario, the tornado is a much better move