Mach Rider Discussion

Mach Rider
Mach Rider's Idle/Standing/Initial position references the start up screen of the Arcade version of the game:

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He holds his gun at all times ready for action, which differentiates him easily from the idle poses of characters like Captain Falcon and Excitebike Racer. Mach Rider also uses the knife the woman on the right has.

Neutral Special - Rapid Fire. Shoots his gun repeatedly. It's the same as the original Crusade's N-Spec. While riding the Bike he instead shoots with it, which releases 2 ammo instead of 1 akin to the original game. Bike Ammo is the same as Standing Ammo, it just extends the hitbox further down because instead of a single o shot, instead he shoots a 8 shot that looks like the game's horizontal oo
Side Special - Mach Bike. Mounts his bike which appears with a reform animation as start up, then drives forward ramming into enemies as he passes. Different from Crusade, He would be able to Jump once. However It doesn't matter if it's on the air or on the ground, only one jump (example, Jumps while on the ground but can't double Jump. OR slides off the edge and then Air jumps)
Up Special - Reform. He breaks into pieces and reforms like a Zelda Farore's Wind, but the direction he takes is a little more telegraphed due to the pieces moving like Mega man's Yellow Devil boss. While riding his bike he can also break that into pieces and teleport with it to quickly reappear already mounted.
Down Special - Summons the frontal half of his bike. It stays there like a sentry gun that shoots 3 crusade shots at sporadic intervals. The Bike piece itself can be used as a shield against projectiles, but it has low HP. Mach Rider can use his Side Tilt to kick that part and send the bike off like an extra projectile of sorts. Using Side B gets rid of the sentry gun.
When riding the bike (Side B), he instead dissipates the back part while he comes to a stop and the frontal part keeps moving forward like a projectile.

Jab - Hits with his elbow forward in a quick twist (Ref. Ryu Sm4sh Up Tilt) > Using the opposite leg, he Knees forward > Then with the leg that matches the attacking elbow performs the old Down B of Feet Flurry attacks
Side Tilt - Performs A kick straight forward. This move can interact with his Down B.
Side Smash - Summons the frontal portion of his bike and releases a mid-range flurry of shots. Multi-hit with a finisher similar to Mii Gunner F-Smash
Up Tilt - Uses Knife to slash above him with an arc flow similar to Roy Sm4sh Up tilt.
Up Smash - Aims diagonally upwards and releases a shotgun blast in front and then above him. First hit pulls enemies into the 2nd hit.
Down Tilt - Uses Knife with a slashing motion that is opposite in direction to Peach's Down Tilt.
Down Smash - Lays on the ground and charges up a sniper shot.
Dash Attack - Reverse grip knife stab forward with a little build up. For reference imagine Ganondorf's Warlock Stab (Custom Neutral B) from Sm4sh but moving forward.
Neutral Air - Similar to Samus' Sm4sh N-Air, Mach Rider kicks forward and uses that motion's impulse to spin himself and kick behind him.
Forward Air - Shotgun Blast in front of him that propels him backwards.
Up Air - Lifts gun above him to hit similar to Cloud's Sm4sh Up Air.
Back Air - Similar to Greninja's Sm4sh Back Air, Mach Rider uses his knife instead to perform 3 quick stabs behind him. One diagonally up, then diagonally down and finishes up with a straight behind stab.
Down Air - Points below him and shoots 3 normal bullets. Doesn't Spike and all have weak knockback (though the last bullet has slightly better KB)
Grab/Pummel - Dissipates his Gun to hold the enemy with both hands and lift them by the shirt. Pummels with a Helmet Headbutt
Forward Throw - Throws forward, reforms his gun and shoots a barrage of shots similar to Mewtwo's Forward throws with the Shadow ball barrage.
Down Throw - Reforms Gun and hits with the base of it to smack the enemy down to the floor.
Up Throw - Knees the enemy stomach, then quickly follows up with the other leg to jump and knee the enemy at the chin, launching them this way.
Back Throw - Throws behind, reforms his gun and shoots once similar to Falco Back Throws.

Victory Animation 1 - Imitates the Ending from the Arcade game, Dissipating via squares and turning into the woman seen on the image above.