Fun fact: Wario WAS supposed to be in melee but was left due to time crunch. Sakurai said if he had more time, Wario would have been added

Everyone: WALUIGI IN ULTIMATE!!! Mish Koz: WARIO IN MELEE!!!

the 'hurry up!' phase for the stage is such a good touch lol

Imagine this wario wavedashing then doing neutral b

Wario should have taken Ganon's spot in Melee, and Ganondorf should have been a Brawl newcomer. This way, Wario would have been closer to his portrayal in Wario Land, and Ganondorf wouldn't have been rushed into being a Captain Falcon clone

I wonder why neither Wario or Mario have the ground pound as a move

I think “Have a rotten day” from Wario world should definitely be a voice line for his back throw

Obviously, it'd just be melee but better. It's WARIO, he improves EVERYTHING.

Personally, as much as I love WarioWare, I really wish there was a good balance with Wario Land moves in his overall moveset. As a Wario Land fan, this video was heartwarming :3

It's so funny; throughout the different smash entries since Brawl and various Smash fan games, it's Wario of all characters that has SO MANY moveset changes and different moves.

If Wario was planned for Melee, I doubt they could even pull a lot from Wario Land 4 because of the short development time. I could see concepts like Wario's transformations being done, but I don't think specific animations would be ready to be referenced.

i wished wario would have more wario land moveset in ultimate

The only man brave enough to ask "What if?"

His Star K.O. sound should be “OH MY GOD! WAAAAAAAH!”

Great video. Amazing attention to detail, from the model you used from Melee's Wario Trophy, and the wonderful renders produced from Blender, as well as the careful examination of the source material to develop his moveset and animations, and the mention of Project M. Sub'd!

the perfect wario would be two warios one wario that is the one that we have now (biker alt only) and wario land wario (overalls only) we have like 2 marios, 3 links, 2 samus etc. so this could work

The stage idea was *gold,* you just earned yourself a sub

Love this man’s content

Smash Remix is a very Wario Land and n64 spinoff Wario. I absolutely love these renders btw.

Nobody makes premium Wario content like Mish :D

Wario is by far the only character I don't want to change at all, is just perfect as he is, instead, what if we had two Warios? We have 2 Marios, 3 Samus, 4 Marths, and 3 Links, why not a 2nd Wario that resembles Wario Land?

If you zoom in on the back of Wario's head, you can see smile dog's eye behind his hair!!!

How has no one ever thought about wario's neutral special being him throwing bombs?! It's his most iconic weapon, and even his personal favorite! He's used them more than any other character, and certainly more than waluigi.

You want fun? Too bad, this is-a smash bros melee!

In actuality, even though I don’t play melee (or any smash games that much as I’m not big on the series) Wario would be sick in Melee, he’s just a chad

There are no custom melee characters yet, but we’re close to one. Edit: Now there are! This is now possible!

As someone who has recently gotten into the Wario Land series, I wish this is what we got for a moveset, I love this

I'm so glad you included vb wario land, imo it's the best one and you can see a lot of ideas starting to develop that would eventually be used in later wario land games. Great job on the video.

Actually, Wario does have Ground Pound in Ultimate in the form of his Down Throw. But I agree that it fits better as his Dair

I am still baffled that wario doesn’t have his shoulder tackle in smash 4

you sir are one of the greatest achievements, this moveset is fucking incredible

every day in the morning i sit up and i ponder questions like "why was golden plains made instead of a wario land stage?" "why isnt bowser's castle a stage?" "why did smash ultimate bring back rainbow ride instead of making the mario 3 airship a stage given that bowser jr is in the roster?" "why is every mario related stage a fucking stupid green plains level or 1-1? (except for rainbow road whose pride is selfjerking)" "if they want to not represent wario land in his moveset so much then why don't they just make a stage about it?" "who fucking let the entirety of wario land only have a single song in ult's soundtrack yet let have mario sports superstars have two?" "where is wario in melee?" glad to see a video address these issues :)

I think Wario's pummel (at least in current Smash games) should be him shaking the opponent like in Wario Land Shake It.

Good, a Waluigi reference that isn't Mario or Luigi.

This is actually a really cool video! Not only did you put a lot of work into the visuals, but you also were very careful not to reuse too many similar ideas between moves and animations. I love it! I've thought about a lot of what-ifs like this, too. Basically, what would Melee be like if it had more dev time and could represent each franchise more thoroughly? For example, I've always thought if they had more time, they might add Scizor to represent Pokemon Gold and Silver since he represents so much new content from GS between being a new pokemon, a new evolution, a new type, and even representing held items because of his method of evolution, all while fitting perfectly with the rest of the roster thanks to being bipedal. But I'd love to explore this idea further to the degree that you have with Wario.

I hope Wario becomes more weird and crazy, so that Wario Land Wario becomes a newcomer I'd love to see both sides of Wario coexisting rather than merged with some serious biase towards one side

I'm glad you didn't completely trash on Wario's current moveset like a lot of other people do. Great moveset btw, there's a lot of great ideas here

Definitely one of the best interpretations of a more Wario Land-inspired Wario moveset, that's for sure. I also absolutely adore the stage concept. Great work on the video!

Hey, that's pretty neat. Those are some cool ideas for Wario, I've never played WarioLand so it was interesting to hear what a WarioLand fan would do, and I understood all of the nods and references as they were explained clearly. That was a really good video, I like it.

Mom: Why don't you go play with the neighbours kid? Neighbours kid: 15:40

I misread the title as “What if Mario was in Melee?”

*"I like this model."*

I too would like to live in a universe where official Smash Wario does not fart in his moveset anywhere.

I misread Wario as Mario both times this appeared in my recommended and I've felt stupid ever since

6:07 In fact, I didn’t come here for anything, you summoned me.

Where are his fart moves? Where's the garlic? I don't think you're a REAL Nintendo fan after all. - Miyamoto, 2020

This is gonna be the best video I watch today and its 7:46 am.

I feel like the shoulderbash would feel more natural as his side-B, since you could then possibly jump during it as well, making it more accurate to WL.

Have not been happier to watch a 30 minute video about a character I care 0 about in a series I care 0 about as well

Great video, man! Just finished watching and when it comes to your content, I love how in-depth you go when you want to explore something in/about a game.

Perfect. I've been thinking about this exact topic recently.

imagine an hbox set on the wario's castle stage

All the music stamps too! Love the extra work you put in your vids! It means a lot for both viewers and the composers

Excellent video. I still very much wish Wario Land was represented more in Smash, especially having more Wario Land moves in his moveset. Wario Land is one of my favorite franchises, and I'd love it if more of the Macho Man Wario from those games was able to shine through some more in actual Smash games.

"not every single move has to have an origin" DBFZ: i beg to differ

These are some really good ideas for how Wario or at least "Land" Wario would be like in Smash Melee. Really faithful to the series.^^

Models are definitely very hard to animate, but you might want to consider putting this version of Wario in Rivals of Aether workshop, especially since the moves that originate from Wario Land 4 wouldn’t have to be made from scratch

20:44 BOI BEYOND THICC that dumpy got me quakin. City hall gettin complaints over dat mfing dumptruck backin up

First the wario apparition now this?

You can also check the Wario moveset from the Super Smash Bros. 64 hack, Smash Remix, in which Wario was added into the game with a time appropriate moveset.

You did a great job here, I loved the ideas and what you pulled from. I wouldn't mind to see more of these.

Mish Koz: I don't wanna have two aerials that are too similar. Isabelle and Villager: *laughing hysterically*

Wario is one of my favorite characters in smash.

This is an interesting video and I would like to see you do more videos of this type for other characters if you were interested.

I have an idea for Wario's down throw, he would jump up in the air and drill the opponent into the ground. This would be a reference to Wario World.

Man, I love this interpretation of Wario so much, especially his specials like the Down B (being a special flatten state). He even still has super goofy, cartoonish angle. I like how you said that this isn’t a “Fixing Wario” moveset but rather a What if Moveset, it’s fun to look at characters and see what directions they would taken under right circumstances. I kind of like Wario’s actual moveset but I totally agree that he should have some Wario Land influence in his Smash design.

at last, Melee is finally good

Man, this deserves a lot more attention. Getting all of these models makes the video so much higher quality.

I love Melee, not really for its competitive gameplay (although that can be fun of course), but for its unique and weird aesthetic. As you described so aptly, its characters are sort of weird "HD" versions of their N64 appearances. My favorite is for sure Luigi, who I always affectionately refer to as "round-faced Luigi." I'd love it if you did another video like this one but explaining your ideal version of Luigi's Melee moveset based on Luigi's Mansion, but I understand a video like this is a big undertaking so it's just a pipe dream. Anyway, going back to the whole "Melee aesthetic" thing, for that reason I get a big kick out of you specifically using a Wario model that would represent his appearance at that time. I especially enjoyed seeing his model in all the extra weird poses for his special moves, and the alternate colors. Cool stuff. Cool video too! Nice work. Gave this one a like, which I don't do often.

Great ideas. Most of Smash's mainstays have very outdated or misrepresented movesets, I even made full sketches of Sonic's moveset.

7:29 Its not too far off. Sakurai gets permission to take a look at games early before making fighters sometimes. But since Brawl released 7 years after Wario Land 4 it wouldn't make much sense in this case.

YES NEW VIDEO

@6:13 His jab combo should just be ripped out of Wario World (punch-punch-headbutt) given how the game pretty much handed him one.

Yeah... everyone talks about Wario Land 4, but what about Wario World?

Or redesigning/recreating certain games and levels, like romhackng?

I like to imagine how people would see in the hurry up segments of Wario Land 4. It’s crystal clear the closer things are to you but the farther you see the more distorted it gets, until you actually get there in which it’s clear again

With Melee Modding starting to become more accessible, I hope to eventually see Wario in Melee with a moveset like this. It's only a matter of time now.

I want someone to mod Wario into Melee. I'd definitely main him.

I gotta say I love all these moves except the Neutral B, Neutral B is meant to be an iconic move that would be fitting for Kirby to Copy. It should definitely be his Shoulder Charge. His entire series is built around it. Having said that, the forward Smash should be a huge fist, emphasizing his power over Mario and Luigi. It should also show off the W on the glove like the punchy gloves found in his castle. Also you forgot FTilt, which should be a belly barge. Also Down Smash would definitly change to the Shake It Ground Slam eventually.

2:21 hey they were all released on the 21st of a month, neat.

With how you mention Rivals of Aether so much makes me think that you want someone to make this Wario for the Rivals Workshop haha

You kinda missed the oppurtinity to use the pot items from wl1 and vbwl but awesome moveset,this is really close to my dream wario moveset.

20:14 for the all famous "E-E-E-Excellent!" By the way, the song at 1:58 is the Graham Blvd cover of Secret Agent Man featured in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show episode _On Her Majesty's Sewer Service._

please make other redesigns like the luigi you mensioned! your ideas are cool!

I just wish Wario's down throw was more like the piledriver move from Wario World, where he grabs an opponent, spins abit in the air and slams into the ground with them, burying them in the ground. The spin throw is also a sort of reference to Wario World which I like, in Wario World you grab enemies and spin them around before throwing them.

this video gets a "brb injecting garlic injto my blodstream" out of ten

Fun fact:sakurai said himself if he added 1 more character in melee it would been wario

I'm glad to see you're back! I'm happy you're ok :) I love this video, keep up the great content

Fyi, I'm already working on wario in melee :) Just saw your video after 2 days of developing on wario. Now, that wolf exists in melee, it seems like the tools that got used to implement wolf are enough to do the same with wario too.

One word *EXCELLENT!*

Wow, that's what I call quality

15:33 This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

i love this, i always wanted more wario land representation in smash, especially that stage sounds amazing

The tweak I would make to this move set would be his down throw being his ground punch From Wario Land shake it, where he would throw his opponent down, pause for a second, and slam his fist into their chest

you should make a video about what if luigi was added in melee, and was entirely based on luigi’s mansion

I love this video, I had the same idea but for Princess Daisy in melee. Obviously, most likely she'd be a peach clone, however I wanted to base her moveset on Mario Land with little reliance on spinoffs. I'll say using the sky pop, marine pop, super balls, and the false Daisy's for her moveset was fun. I invite you to try to make a moveset for her. I think her taunt could be the lil can can dance the characters do if they lose this one guessing minigame in party 3, or her animation from winning a round from tennis 64 or her animation from winning in Party 3. Peach's daisy costume would be replaced with a Pauline costume, while Daisy's colors would be red from her Super Game Boy (game boy games played on the SNES), her blue costume would come from her NES open tournament golf dress, and her green dress could come from Peach's NES open tournament golf dress but im more inclined to make it gameboy screen green, and he final costume would be her purple dress from N64

So, basically, a super floaty character with good recovery and combo options, but limited kill options it's jigglypuff but thicc

Very creative, renders & ideas, and the course idea is phenomenal! I like how you think differently, but I do think abilities from Wario Land series are way less limited if used as smash attacks and aerials. very similar to Kirby's copy abilities as all of his moves, and Mr. Game & Watch. Up aerial as the basic Bull Cap already shows much more possibilities, and like Mario, special moves as his signature moves; B as his charge, B+Down as his ground pound, etc.

The neutral air belly flop reminds me of the archetypical "body splash" air attack in fighting game grapplers popularized by Zangief from Street Fighter.

I love What you're doing for wario land I love This game Not many talk about this series