Shyrx (RoA)

''This page discusses the character addon for Rivals of Aether. For other uses of Shyrx, see Shyrx (disambiguation).Shyrx is a custom character made for Rivals of Aether'' that takes inspiration from SuperRhys217's appearance in World Traveler 64. Unlike how SuperRhys217's moveset was designed in M.U.G.E.N, Shyrx uses his Starlight Keyblade for a majority of his moveset, with the rest of his moveset being made up of kicks or magic.

Attributes
Shyrx is designed to mainly be a zoner-like character, though his Keyblade moves with long range combined with his quicker kick moves allow him to be a good character up close, too. His mobility is rather average, having a slightly slower run speed than Zetterburn and air movement that isn't anything noteworthy.

Perhaps one of Shyrx's biggest strengths is his edgeguarding. His forward air, especially with its great range and how it bounces Shyrx upwards with each hit, allows him to easily edgeguard opponents with little risk. His Strike Raid moves are also very useful for edgeguarding, with his forward strong being able to cover the edge of a stage and his forward special having the capability to hit opponents trying to recover from above. Shyrx's down air also has the capability of spiking an opponent, though it's risky as Shyrx could self-destruct when using it offstage.

Normals
Jab: A three hit combo, consisting of two kicks and finishing off with a swing from the Keyblade.

Foward tilt: A horizontal swing with Shyrx's Keyblade.

Down tilt: A slide kick.

Up tilt: A stab upwards with the Keyblade.

Dash attack: Shyrx swings his Keyblade upwards.

Neutral air: A spin with with the Keyblade, hitting twice.

Foward air: Consists of two hits, where the player can manually activate the second hit. The first hit is a weak kick that can combo into the second, which is a downward swing with the Keyblade that covers a lot of area.

Up air: A basic kick overhead.

Back air: Shyrx swings his Keyblade behind him. This move also covers some of the area below Shyrx.

Down air: Shyrx performs a dive kick.

Forward strong: Shyrx throws his Keyblade, performing a variation of Strike Raid. This deals four hits and knocks the opponent away at the end.

Up strong: A ball of light appears in Shyrx's hand, dealing three hits above him. Based off of Ori's up tilt.

Down strong: Two bursts of magic appear at Shyrx's sides.

Specials
Neutral special - Sonic Blade: A chargeable dash move that gets stronger the longer the button is held, with up to three levels of charge.

Forward special - Strike Raid: Shyrx throws his Keyblade in a boomerang-like fashion in front of him. The trajectory of the Keyblade can be slightly moved up or down depending on what direction is held.

Up special - Teleport: A simple teleport upwards. Shyrx can also teleport downwards if the player is pushing the joystick down. The appearance of the move is based on how Rhys teleported within a greenscreen fight test.

Down special - Magic Selection: A Kingdom Hearts-style menu appears, which gives Shyrx access to three different spells:
 * Fire: Shyrx throws a fireball that behaves very similarly to Mario's fireballs in Super Smash Bros..
 * Blizzard: A simple projectile that moves straight ahead and has fixed knockback.
 * Thunder: Two quick projectiles appear both in front and behind Shyrx. These projectiles have a bit more hitstun than the other two spells.

Taunt
Shyrx tips his cap, makes a coin noise, then puts his hat back on. Based directly off of SuperRhys217's taunt from M.U.G.E.N.

Costumes
All of Shyrx's alternate colors are based on SuperRhys217's alternate forms or other characters. His Keyblade's hilt also changes for each outfit.
 * Alt. 1 - Default
 * Alt. 2 - Classic: SuperRhys217's classic outfit.
 * Alt. 3 - Fire: SuperRhys217's outfit when he gets a fire flower. The Keyblade's hilt turns red.
 * Alt. 4 - Ice: SR217 DX's ice form from M.U.G.E.N. The Keyblade's hilt turns into a darker blue.
 * Alt. 5 - Lightning: SuperRhys217's outfit when a gets a thunder flower. The Keyblade's hilt turns yellow.
 * Alt. 6 - Bhys: Directly based off of SuperBhys712.
 * Alt. 7 - UltraGamer8: Based on SuperRhys217's brother, UltraGamer8.
 * Alt. 8 - Uatar: Based on Uatarlovegames. The Keyblade's hilt turns pink to reference the Kento Star.
 * Alt. 9 - SMF590: Based on SuperMarioFan590. The Keyblade's hilt turns white to represent his wing cap.
 * Alt. 10 - Mike: Based on Jediwarriormike's character, Mike Saber. The Keyblade's hilt turns green as a reference to his lightsaber.
 * Alt. 11 - IceDark64!: Based on IceDark64. The Keyblade's hilt turns into a green-ish color.
 * Alt. 12 - Chrono: Based on Chrono. The Keyblade's hilt becomes black, which represents Chrono's time emblem.
 * Alt. 13 - 'Shyrx': Based on the main antagonist of World Traveler 64, Shyrx. The Keyblade's hilt turns dark pink, which references Corrupt.
 * Alt. 14 - pink 'cause why not:
 * Alt. 15 - Sora: Based directly off of the protagonist of the Kingdom Hearts series, Sora. Starlight's hilt turns yellow to represent Sora's Keyblade, the Kingdom Key.
 * Alt. 16 - Ephemer: Based on the character Ephemer from Kingdom Hearts χ[chi]. The Keyblade's hilt doesn't change, as Ephemer also wields Starlight.

Reveal Trailer & Download
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlpQpbD4J4A&t=2s

Trivia

 * Even though Shyrx is meant to be a mostly separate character from SuperRhys217 DX in M.U.G.E.N, some of their moves have similar animations or function identically to each other.
 * The first two parts of Shyrx's jab use the same animations as SuperRhys217 DX's weak kick and medium kick.
 * Both Shyrx's down tilt and SuperRhys217 DX's medium crouching kick are slide kicks.
 * Shyrx's down air uses the same animation as SR217 DX's medium air kick, though it has a completely different function.
 * Both characters can teleport, though their versions have different animations and functions.
 * Shyrx's down special uses the exact same elemental spells that SuperRhys217 DX could use with his form specials. The fireball acts basically the same between the two characters despite using different animations, but the other two spells have different functions with the same animations. Shyrx also doesn't change his outfit like SR217 does for the spells, though he does have the three different forms as alternate costumes.
 * Their taunts are almost exactly the same, with the main difference being that they have different expressions while performing it.
 * The creation of this character addon was inspired by SuperG64 creating his own character for Rivals of Aether.