Aaroy

Aaroy is a playable character in Madwatch 2. She was the second character fully developed for the game, proceeded by CLEAR and succeeded by Mercury.

Note: This article is outdated.

Aaroy is currently placed 6th out of 11 characters on the current tier list, placing her in the middle of B tier. She is infamous as the first 'jack of all trades' character available in the game, boasting tools for almost any situation. Her grounded normals function as largely reliable tools for granting and maintaining space, which work fantastically in tandem with her long ranged Forward Smash and her projectile based specials. Her aerials all have their usages, especially when combined with Aaroy's unique midair jump. Forward Aerial and Back Aerial are great spacing tools, Neutral Air can be used for juggling and drag down combos, Up Aerial kills off the top rather early with fair startup, and Down Aerial is own of the fastest spikes in the entire game. Her Smash attacks are all disjointed and boast either fantastic range or notable power, making her punish game potent from even long ranged. Her Specials are often considered the best in the game as a whole due to the sheer versatility provided, excelling particularly at space control. Blood Teller is a small projectile that travels along a path determined by Aaroy before remaining idle for 10 seconds, stunning enemies it comes into contact with and allowing a free, potentially deadly punish from Aaroy. Failnaught is arguably the best and safest edgeguarding tool in the entire game with its long lasting controllable nature. Escape is a teleport that grants invulnerability that can be jump cancelled to be used again midair, which can greatly mix-up Aaroy's recovery and landing options, which combined with Valasz can allowed Aaroy to easily escape most pressure situations and even pull an immediate reversal.

However, Aaroy is equally as polarizing as she is potent. While Aaroy's ranged moves are all exceptional, her melee attacks all bare terrible range outside of her Forward Tilt. Combined with Aaroy's only terrible air speed and mediocre grounded speed, Aaroy will be forced to rely on her ranged tools to be effective. Said tools, outside of Blood Teller, all have notable startup which make it easy for rushdown characters to get in on Aaroy if she hasn't had a chance to setup defensive measures beforehand. Aaroy cannot easily escape rushdown either once she is airborne, due to her low falling speed and terrible air attributes in general. Her aerial attacks either have very low range or have range but high startup, making them unable to relieve pressure. Instead she'll be forced to use Escape, which has landing lag even when teleporting directly to the ground and can thus be punished, or Valasz. While Valasz is often considered the best counter in the game, is it still punishable if read and put Aaroy is an even worse position than before. Aaroy can also find difficult in actually landing a raw kill, unusual for a heavyweight character. She has almost no kill setups outside of an opponent being trapped by Blood Teller or Failnaught, and throwing out her Smash attacks is likely to get her hard punished due to their high ending lag, forcing her to rely on her potent edgeguarding tools to net kills consistently. Her advantage state can be oppressive due to Failnaught, but it comes at the cost of Aaroy have almost no combo game to speak of, outside of very early percentages with Neutral Air and Up Air strings, which can be DI'd easily as Aaroy's poor air speed makes following DI difficult for her.

Overall Aaroy is a character character with a reliable advantage state and a workable disadvantage who's strengths are roughly on par with her weaknesses. While she excels at edgeguarding due to Failnaught, she is otherwise generally average in all other aspects, which allows a fair amount of flexibility in her playstyle, keeping her from being cemented as pure zoner.

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Trivia

 * Aaroy was the second character fully developed for MadWatch 2. After development of CLEAR, there was minor development of Jeanne who would release in version 0.0.6.
 * Aaroy is one of the initial 4 characters of MadWatch 2. She shares this distinction with CLEAR, Mercury, and Clover.
 * Aaroy is the first main antagonist to be playable in MadWatch 2.