Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS/Palutena



The Goddess of Light, Palutena joins the fight with a varied arsenal of moves. By default, Palutena is a moderately defensive zoning character, using attacks that are slow but with long reach to keep foes out, with special attacks that lets Palutena counter other projectile users effectively. However, one of Palutena's greatest strengths lie in her selection of Powers as custom special moves, all unlocked from the start. With customization, she can be played as a projectile harasser, a powerful striker or a deadly glass cannon. Palutena also has a range of strong standard attacks, all featuring either great range or speed. Palutena is one of the most flexible characters in the game. Master all of her moves and you can unlock her godly potential.

Basic attributes
Palutena is one of the faster characters in the game, having above average dash speed and pretty good walking speed as well. However, this also makes her one of the lighter characters in the game, being around the weight class of Marth. Palutena's evasive options are some of her best features, as every roll, sidestep and airdodge turns her invisible briefly. All of her dodges are very fast albeit with short travel distances, and the invisibility makes it very hard to predict or react to how Palutena is dodging. Spamming several dodges in a row can actually work out as a defensive measure due to how fast they are.

Final Smash - Black Hole Laser
This Final Smash is made up of two components, Black Hole and Mega Laser. First, Palutena creates a fairly large black hole in front of her which sucks in nearby enemies and holds them in place but doesn't do damage. She then dashes off screen and fires a huge Mega Laser through the center of the black hole to deal multiple hits to the trapped enemies. A neat feature of the Final Smash is that the laser can hit enemies that avoided the black hole as well, since the black hole is only there to keep foes stunned and in position. The laser also slowly sweeps downward, making it harder to evade it completely. While this Final Smash has immense range, from the large Black Hole to the screen-crossing Mega Laser, it suffers from below average KO power.