How To Play Loxodont in Rivals 2
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Loxodont is one of the newest characters being added to the brand new game Rivals 2 which is coming out later this year. Rivals 2 is a platform fighter that is looking to shake up the genre with it's innovative game design and amazing gameplay.
Loxodont is a character all about standing your ground. His unique mechanic encourages him to setup magma rifts that grant him charges to perform special actions. As long as you stand steady and don't let your opponent in you can build up your magma armor to finish off your opponent in style.
There's a lot to learn about Loxodont and I unfortunately only had a weekend to play as him but I hope that what I was able to learn in this first beta weekend is still helpful to those who want to learn how to main the future immortal emperor of Aether.
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lox: u thot i was a grappler… i am a zoner
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Looking forward to seeing you talk about the other characters to.
Loxodont joins Wario, Incineroar, Ike, and Ridley in the kingdom of “heavy with a carried nair”
Something to note about Loxodont's ftilt 1: On grounded opponents it's slightly negative on hit unless you cancel into ftilt 2. That said, that doesn't mean it's bad. Once you hit with ftilt it's mixup time. Your fastest options (other than ftilt 2) are jab, grab, and block and those are all great for building a gameplan around because they all serve a different purpose, and while none of them are true they're all fast enough to be unreactable.
Imo the default option is ftilt > jab. You can get this without canceling into ftilt 2 by hitting jab just after Loxo's ears swing back forward in his ftilt 1 animation. Jab can lead into a grab or any tilt, including linking back to ftilt and looping the situation until they do something about it. Figure out their response to the situation and adjust your post-ftilt punish accordingly. Do they mash a fast button? Block and shield grab. Do they block? Grab. Do they spot dodge? Meaty the i frames. The hardest response to deal with is roll, as you'll need to read the direction or have some great reflexes. Roll in is the easiest, as you can just pivot > pick a move. I think roll away can lead to side b, but I didn't get a chance to lab that. Ideally, you want to do this close enough to the ledge that their roll away will stay in ftilt range or on a platform (though the latter is a lot harder to set up).
This is super informative! I like all of the mix-ups in advantage that f-tilt can provide and I think you do a great job of laying out the general flowchart. I love it when new characters get added to games because we get a chance to theorycraft stuff like this.
That thumbnail goes hard.
love the way you explain man
Thank you that means a lot!
i played the beta for 15 hrs and i must say. lox is the only character i'm decent at. i love his mixup options. my favorite strategy is forcing people into tech situations or just knowledge checks. i.e. dthrow without the magma confused so many people which let me react to their options such as a ftilt 1 or a dsmash. sometimes it led to an upstrong or side special. my personal favorite set up is ftilt 1 to utilt, which can lead to juggles.
He feels like the character that I wouldn’t main but I’d still somehow consistently beat all my friends with him instead of whoever I do main. I dunno any better way to describe it.
I can’t wait for people to give dumb names to all his kill confirm, he’s gotta have one called the Wowie Zowie because elephants.
You seem like a nice guy, I will comment because it is strong! (against the algorithm)
I love when viewers help me out against my hardest matchup (the algorithm).
He looks so damn cool man
He is so damn cool man
Mammoth go brrrrrrr
love the kaladesh renegade flag in the background
Thanks! My LGS was going to throw it out and I took it instead lol. I've had it for years now even back when I was a Magic content creator.
Really hoping we get Orcane soon :3
There's a pretty good chance that they are the next character! Although I'm rooting for Etalus personally.
RAHHHHHHH LOXODONT GUIDE
Instead of magma armor, since itsnot defensive wha if we call it magma jacket
so good!
I just realized there aren't any water characters yet. Wild.
Ranno counts but yeah there will only be two water characters when the game releases and four fire characters.
@@TuesdayTastic OH RIGHT I... Legitimately didn't see him when I was looking at the roster. Oops!
There’s ranno, but i’m surprised at the lack of orcane
@@not_really_greg This month for the July beta ;)
So loxodont doesn't wear underwear so his is techinally naked
Fun facts brought to you by @Daniel12pixelRbMc
@@TuesdayTastic make art of him naked
He's not naked he's wearing trumps!
@@mightybear5441 TECHINALLY!
There are only three characters in this game that have pants.
Muxh love
honestly I know the music is cool but please tone it down next time (it's slightly hard to hear you)
otherwise thanks for teaching me somethings
That was just the in-game volume. I had it turned down to 20% and it was still really loud. I'll keep that in mind when the next beta comes around though!
IT'S NOT MY TIIIIIME
EVERYONE ADD COMMENT FOR RETENTION (also dont make it the same as mine and dont spite me either)
I love you spud
Oo la la
I don’t know whether I am alone with this, but your BGM seems to be WAY LOUDER than your commentary, which made it a bit harder to listen to your voice to me!
Yeah it has been a common thing people have said. I didn't find the setting to lower the game volume until after this I think.
Ough, algorithm.. .
Now go play King Dedede for 2 weeks 💅🏽💅🏽
Anything to get my Loxodont fix