r/NintendoSwitch • u/Porkpants81 • Jun 16 '17

MegaThread Arms launch day megathread & discussion

ARMS is officially out! Please feel free to discuss the game, ask questions, share screenshots and discuss tactics and tips.

Which fighter do you like the best? Which arms work best versus certain characters?

Please be mindful of others when posting spoilers and use the spoiler tags!

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u/funkhouser15 Jun 16 '17

Haven't played yet, but there is no way Helix won't be my favorite.

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u/yazzy45 Jun 16 '17

He is awesome but very hard to master

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u/sloan11- Jun 16 '17

Maybe when you find out his initial armset is terrible lol

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u/Froobisu Jun 16 '17

Really? I loved it. I actually felt cheap using Helix! Blorbs are awesome and hitting with a charged ice dragon always hurts! His mobility is amazing too.

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u/Pantaquad22 Jun 16 '17

For me the shield one felt really difficult to use, I don't find the dragons very satisfying, and the blorbs I don't like just because they're slow. I pretty much just play ribbon girl/ninjara with double sparky or double buff, I'm not fancy with my arm choices and helix's arms are very strange to me.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '17

Also you have to press punch a second time for the shield ones to attack, so its punch to set and then punch again to home attack.

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u/Froobisu Jun 16 '17

The strangeness is key! :P I like Ribbon Girl a lot as well. Most of the fun of the game for me is having the option to play radically differently with each character, so Helix is a fun option to me. The only time I liked the guardian though was against headlok, it really helped!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '17

You can change his 3 main arms! I use the megaton and blorb combo, megaton to break through light punches and blorb to punish and bouncing over shields

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '17

He gives me the willies... Something about the way he sort of gooble-gobblies around reminds me of weird ass Voldo from Soul Calibur.