I'm training my amiibo. Here's my questions.

Question 1: It's a pretty decent setup, yes. Though to be honest, you should probably bump up his power and bring his power down a bit. The reason behind this is because Charizard has trouble landing moves sometimes, so it works better if you give him a bit more reward per hit. As for equipment, I'd recommend giving him a Smooth Lander badge if you can. It'll keep his aerial attacks from being punished as badly if he randomly throws them out.


Question 2: I think this one might take a bit more work on your end, but its possible.

Basically, you'll wanna test out a couple different types of playstyles depending on what works best for beating Link. The easiest way to shift his playstyle is to work with him in a team battle and play in the way you think you would work best, whether it be offense, or defense. Have him face Link, then see how he fairs against him. Take notes or something, they come a long way. Not like major ones, but ones like if he uses a move too much or he isn't blocking well enough.

If you're worrying about if he'll beat the other amiibo, that might be a bit harder. Although amiibo usually keep their playstyle constant if they win against a certain character, the other character will always adapt to what made them lose. So if your Charizard won by offense against a Mario or something like that. Charizard will most likely stay the same way, but Mario will pick up on it and mix it up to counter his pressure.

Question 3: The biggest one is his Forward Aerial. The move is so difficult to get him to stop spamming, you have no idea. He can't short hop the move and auto cancel it like we humans can, so he just ends up suffering from quite a bit of cool down time. That's why I recommend using the Smooth Landing badge from earlier. Because even if he whiffs the move randomly, it won't be as bad like I said. Another big one is that he drops down throw combos every single time. It's seems like he was coded to get damage off of it, but he wasn't coded for the extra cool down frames that were added with a previous patch. So he just sits there.

The best combos I can recommend are to up tilt a bunch of times at low %'s, and to use jab into forward air. That's literally it though.

Question 4: I have trained this amiibo a ton. Not only that, but I know the character so well itself, that I can easily point out what the amiibo is doing wrong that would make it better. If you want to make the most out of your Charizard, experience really is everything. He isn't too bright at first, but he grows into something much more fearsome later on.

Question 5: Honestly, I would say that it might be worth a shot. Though you do risk Charizard's recovery options, which aren't exactly fantastic to begin with. If you think he needs a bit more "ump" to him, go right ahead!

Question 6: If I remember correctly, amiibo don't really know how to dodge in the first stages of training, but boy, are they grabby at lv. 50. The thing I would recommend for this is to get within grabbing range and spam the Spot Dodge. If you don't know what a Spot Dodge is, its when you hold down the shield button and flick your control stick down. Its the fastest of all dodging techniques, but also the one with the fewest invincibility frames. If you train your amiibo like me though, chances are, your Charizard won't know how to react to the Spot Dodge spamming. But it will teach him that the option is there, so that's more than enough.

The alternative is to set ups some Timers and use those for slowing down your Charizard so you can react to the grab. That's what a majority does, but I personally don't use it, so I can't tell you how effective it is...

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