Brawl Dash Test

[Shrikeswind]

(AKA, the biggest waste of Shrikeswind's time ever.)

Hi! So, you may be wondering what this is. I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. Recently, I've decided to run some tests in Brawl on all 39 characters in Brawl. I performed them last night, and now I present my findings.

The testing ran as such: I built a stage designed for these tests with 16 blocks along the bottom of the stage leaving gaps only on the far left and right. Over the first and sixteenth blocks, I put a pass-through platform, and repeated putting these platforms above each other until they reached the top. Finally, I built two walls in the gaps that ran alongside these platforms. This was the stage, if you wish to build it. (For those who care, the song and design were "Multi-Man Melee" and "Nature Mountain," but neither really matter.)

I then went to Training Mode and selected two characters (for purposes of example, Mario was Player 1 and Luigi the Computer.) I set Luigi to Control and moved him onto one of the pass-through platforms and set Mario as far to the side as I could so that he was touching the wall. I then recorded Mario dashing all the way to the other side (16 tiles,) stopping my timer when he hit the wall. I did this three times, then averaged the times. I then had Mario jump and recorded which platform he landed on, then had him duck through the platform and do it again, this time double-jumping (no Up-Bs were used.) On landing after the second jump I recorded where they landed using both. I then did the same for Luigi. In the case of the flying characters, I measured all mid-air jumps to check to see if they reached the same height each time (which they did with no exceptions,) then used only one mid-air jump for the double-jump test (had there been any exceptions, they would have been recorded as well.)

For larger characters such as Bowser, another test was performed. They ran half the distance and their times doubled (with a smaller character running beforehand to ensure the test was accurate, it was,) and their doubled times being averaged as well.

Scoring for the Dash Test works as follows: I timed the characters three times to the hundredth of a second. I then averaged these times, again rounding to the hundredth of a second. On averaging, I rounded them to the nearest tenth of a second and multiplied them by 10 (therefore, an average time of 3.52 seconds became a score of 35.) Higher scores indicate a slower dash. I will order the characters by how they scored, from highest score to lowest.

Character	Average Time	Score
Jigglypuff	4.81 s	48
Ganondorf	4.42 s	44
Zelda	4.20 s	42
King Dedede	3.98 s	40
Luigi	3.92 s	39
Snake	3.91 s	39
Link	3.90 s	39
Kirby	3.87 s	39
Wario	3.86 s	39
Popo*	3.86 s	39
Squirtle	3.85 s	39
Peach	3.84 s	38
Ness	3.83 s	38
Olimar*	3.80 s	38
Ike	3.79 s	38
Lucario	3.72 s	37
Falco	3.69 s	37
Samus	3.67 s	37
Wolf	3.67 s	37
Mario	3.62 s	36
Lucas	3.60 s	36
Ivysaur	3.58 s	36
Bowser	3.52 s	35
ROB	3.49 s	35
Mr. G&W	3.46 s	35
Pit	3.33 s	33
DK	3.31 s	33
Yoshi	3.19 s	32
Charizard	3.12 s	31
Diddy Kong	3.05 s	31
Toon Link	3.05 s	31
Pikachu	3.05 s	31
Marth	2.95 s	30
Meta Knight	2.88 s	19
ZS Samus	2.79 s	28
Sheik	2.75 s	28
Fox	2.60 s	26
Cpn. Falcon	2.48 s	25
Sonic	1.80 s	18

*The Ice Climbers were tested with only Popo to keep after-images from obscuring the results. Olimar was tested without his Pikmin for the same reason.

I will soon add in the Jump Test results, which are being re-evalutated due to the fact that I tested it poorly.

[Koopaul]

"I then had Mario jump and recorded which platform he landed on, then had him duck through the platform and do it again, this time double-jumping"

Wait what? You lost me here.

[Shrikeswind]

Did you read the stage description? If not, please do. If so, please give me time to compose a more understandable description. That's how I can best explain the stage.

[nocturnal YL]

What, Fox has Captain Falcon's speed!?

Also, screenshot please, Shxwd.

[Shrikeswind]

Roughly, yes.

I have trouble with screenshots. The only way I can describe it is in picture. I MS Painted the maps.

Maps

The Full Dash stage was used for smaller characters like Ganondorf and Kirby. They sprinted wall-to-wall from 1 to 16 three times. The times were then averaged. (Originally, this lay-out was also used for the Jump Test, however, it was inaccurate. A new Jump Test stage is being devised.)

The Half Dash stage was used for larger characters like Bowser and King Dedede. They were lined up with a smaller character who tested similar in the Full Dash stage, the smaller character below. To test accuracy, Pit (my example is Bowser and Pit) would run first, running wall-to-wall from Block 1 to Block 8. He did this three times, which were averaged. Pit's average time was then doubled. The test proved accurate, as both times were close enough to where the only difference could be attributed to human error. Pit then went back to the Block 1, pressed against the wall. Bowser would then stand on Block 0 so that the front of his body lined up with the front of Pit's body. He then sprinted to Platform 8, then returned to his original position. He did this three times, the times were then averaged. Afterwards, his average time was doubled.

[Flip]

Bowser is faster than Mario?!

Wow... Brawl DID see a huge change in the big fella!

[Koopaul]

Dec 21, 2009 23:22:47 GMT -5 Shrikeswind said:

Did you read the stage description? If not, please do. If so, please give me time to compose a more understandable description. That's how I can best explain the stage.

Oh yeah I understood it until that part. I don't understand how jumping relates to running speed.

[Shrikeswind]

There is none, except that I can test them with a stage and there are no variables to alter the results.