Ridley - Know Your Moves

Ridley - Know Your Moves is the 1st episode of Know Your Moves - Super Smash Bros. Ultimate and the 36th episode overall for Know Your Moves. It was uploaded on Feburary 7, 2019.

Synopsis
Alax begins the episode by welcoming back the audience and introduces his new collaboratiors in this series, Source Gaming and the series's main editor: TheDukeOfDorks.

The video itself preludes by explaining each of the various Nintendo villains such as Bowser and Ganondorf. While each of these villains may be evil, none are like the character focused in the video, Ridley.

His character origins are introduced as a big fan favorite despite him being usually regulated as a regular boss character being overshadowed by other villains. Alax explains the huge contrast between him and other villains, Ridley is a vile creature while Bowser is a funny family-man. He theorizes people like not because they relate to Ridley but because he's such a menacing creature. The video continues by explaining Ridley's tortured history with the Super Smash Bros. series, having appeared in some way in every game before making his playable debut in Ultimate.

After explaining the trials and tribulations the character had to face before becoming playable, the video moves on to his actually interpretation as a character in smash. While many of his moves do have origins, much of his moveset is argued to be based on his terrifying appearance. Notably, his overall appearance in Smash is argued to reinforce his menacing nature, using many of his appendages such as his wings and claws to form attacks. Alax states that Sakurai likes to reinforce the idea of character silhouettes in motion so he had to find a way to incorporate his animilaistic features in his moveset. To conclude, Alax states that even though they had to limit what the character could do, they nailed Ridley's cunning beast-like attitude that fans grew to love.

Cast

 * RelaxAlax (writer)
 * Source Gaming
 * NantenJax (writer)
 * TheDukeOfDorks (editor)
 * Ganondorf (cameo)