Reindog

[blazing swift]

Season 1 right?

[unique grove]

yeah I can send you some to watch

I won a Big eu tourney

[blazing swift]

Ty

[blazing swift]

Gawd damn

I’m tryna play reindog but I don’t know which plays to go for mainly

And how Aggressive I should be

[vapid rampart]

What’s his best kill move?

[sick totem]

Either his grounded down heavy attack, down air, or his grounded side heavy but know that his kill power is the best so even those won't kill u till 100+ many times, it can be kinda character dependent but generally speaking thats what you're looking at

[blazing swift]

Also a good kill combo is this. I believe kills every mid weight at 90 #combos message

Jab IAD dair upair

[next hinge]

Nice, just beat hustle I’ll take it

[lucid silo]

Removing this character once I get hired

[next hinge]

Never

[quasi ice]

Luckly janitors don't get a say on the game's balance

[sick totem]

Genuinely fighting Samurai jack is so frustrating

[quasi ice]

Why did they have to add a delay to tether

FFS

I can't pull my teammate half of the time even if I'm straight up anticipating when they're about to die

[quasi ice]

PFG can eat my ass to be honest

[shell cargo]

The whole team? Damn you FREAKY

[sly wharf]

How do you play this dog anymore I’m doing it wrong but I haven’t run into any other reindog that does it right either

[quasi ice]

Do whatever works in the match is what I recommend

There's unfortunately no prescribed way to play this character

[solemn steppe]

I like how Jack's neutral air is a better version of Reindog's sair and Jack's side special is basically just a better pounce 😂

so jack gets basically the exact same move but better with better hitboxes and recovery/startup and knockback

[unique grove]

jack nair doesnt combo well , our sair combo at every percent. He can at least catch dodge which is great

We have better mobility when doing it too

is probably safer in the air

since we are smaller

[covert cosmos]

how do you use his neutral air?

it seems kind of bad

[stuck hearth]

Have the servers been garbage after the update for anyone?

A simple lag would stop my character from compelety moving or makes it walk off the edge to lose a stock

[solemn steppe]

yeah i thought it was just me

guess not

i hate it when they're slightly slow and you can't use moves lol

so you think you're gonna beat an opponent out but your attack doesn't come out

[earnest holly]

i tend to use it to get back on stage
i would use fireball then nair

[fervent bough]

reindog my goat❤️

[sick totem]

Nah there are a good amount that do it right there's just not a lot cuz its not a super popular character

[sly wharf]

I’ve seen 2 other reindogs and they’ve both had under 60 account wide kills

[quasi ice]

Just look at the in-game leaderboards and check if they have yt/twitch channels

Then just copy whatever they do

[wanton coral]

someone give me reindog combos or bread and butters

[covert cosmos]

side air into two jabs into up tilt into up air is a quick and easy combo

only do it if side air works thi

[lucid silo]

Just got off the phone with Tony. After much deliberation we have agreed that the Warner Brothers Fighting Game should only have Warner Brother Fighters. He agreed to remove reindog, the big ugly green stain of an OC in an otherwise perfect WB roster, to be replaced with an actual character!

[zealous minnow]

Huh?

[sick totem]

My guardian of Zanifeer will never fall🗣🗣

[lucid silo]

Nope

Ashes will be his future

[quasi ice]

Man I love dying at 65 to basic attacks

Not even charged ones or anything like that

Nvm 58 now to a WW

[shell cargo]

Reindog weighs the same as WW btw

[quasi ice]

Why do tanks like Black Adam and WW kill me faster than assassins like Arya and Harley lmao

[shell cargo]

Firstly, Black Adam is a bruiser who weighs more than 90% of the cast, secondly, it's because you don't deserve to have fun and high weight characters get all the kill power

[covert cosmos]

Lmao

How do you do aerials while still on the ground?

[shell cargo]

Instant air dodge (IAD for short)
You can search up some tutorials on YouTube, it's kind of old tech but essentially you input diagonally up on your movement and press dodge
Immediately after pressing dodge, you use an aerial (it'll consume half your dodge meter and will use an aerial on the ground)

[covert cosmos]

ngl it's kind of annoying how you basically must know how to IAD if u wanna consistently get KOs with reindog

[unique grove]

no

Lol

jab jump sair is as Quick or quicker than IAD

Also IAD is really easy to do

[solemn steppe]

his up air will not kill on the ground using an IAD until extremely high %s so I'm sure you can find other ways to kill. imo his best kill option is ptoo but that's harder to pull off in 1s (i'm a 2s player)

you can jab jab dtilt to knock them off and then finish them off

sair > dash attack

^ high dmg, good knockback combo

but you need to practice the sair > dash attack because it requires precision

[sick totem]

Not at all, grounded heavy will kill, his dair kills, poor can at a high enough percent, aerial fireball can get some early spikes

[quasi ice]

FACT: Tether should heal ur teammate and urself

[covert cosmos]

Who's the worst match up for reindog?

It's black Adam, right?

[shell cargo]

Black Adam singlehandedly being a contender for everyones worst matchup (guys he's balanced)

[quasi ice]

Everyone is a bad matchup save five or six characters, but Black Adam/Arya/Gizmo/Steven might be the worst offenders

[solemn steppe]

anyone with more melee range and faster attacks, so basically everyone 😂

[solemn steppe]

tether feels trash to use and teammates will never throw us... like just rework those 2 abilities imo. i feel like when you ball up, you should TP to ur teammate's hand on CD or something

because legit like .000001% of the playerbase knows reindog is a character and .00000000001% of people understand you can throw reindog in ball mode

[mystic ice]

I play Reindog sometimes I had no idea you could do that

[shell cargo]

God you're such a baby just learn to play Reindog better or something idk I always have good results on Reindog

[sly wharf]

Up b should have a hit box if you get enough momentum

[shell cargo]

Getting hit by a spinning reindeer dog hybrid moving at mach 12 should definitely hurt

[sly wharf]

It should also have the old sair launch angle

Because if you get edge guarded by that you deserve to get spiked

[quasi ice]

Not an argument

[quasi ice]

lol

I just looked you up on MVS ur plat 4 in 1s and silver 2 in 2s

Of course

[unique grove]

probably arya now

I don't see any other character worse than her

for reindog

maybe ww

[quasi ice]

Ironically enough I'd rather fight Arya than some other lower tier characters

[quasi ice]

If you can dodge her dagger she becomes significantly easier to deal with

[shell cargo]

I don't play 2s and I don't play 1s enough to get out of plat
Unlike you, who clearly no-lifes the game

But hey keep crying that your high tier character is bad even though he wins or has even matchups against most of the roster, has solid kill power, solid combos, he's top 6 in weight, etc.

[unique grove]

I would have listen to you if you said parry the dtilt but the dagger is not an issues I think

the only Arya that can proves this mu is ass for us are in EU

even if you parry the dtilt Arya player can miss the dtilt on propose and punish with jab because of her very low whiff on that move

up b as an anti air is very good for her

you need early kill to keep up with her

[quasi ice]

Get off plat and then u can talk lil bro

[quasi ice]

Uh idk I've beaten some m1 Aryas before but she's def still an issue for Reindog

[shell cargo]

Keep crying about your high tier character

[unique grove]

If you didnt fought Mitsukenshin, Usman or Sveet for me those are the only Arya that know how to play her properly

random Arya are easy to beat

top na too

[quasi ice]

I'm a few matches away from masters in 1s and I have not faced a single Reindog lmao

[unique grove]

I had only faced one other reindog on my grind to Master 1 reindog

[quasi ice]

At last Masters

It was ezpz ngl

Now onto m1

[quasi ice]

The more I play the more I realize that weight chart is total bs

I constantly see Arya surviving at 100+ dmg in both 1s and 2s

They must have messed up somehow because there's no way this is the most lightweight btch in the game

[shell cargo]

She's lightweight doesn't mean she dies at 0% lmao 😭

[quasi ice]

Shush platie

[shell cargo]

Keep crying about the lightest character in the game being too heavy for you lmao 😭🙏

You're such a baby for someone apparently in master

[quasi ice]

The only Aryas you face are probably those who picked her by accident tbh

[shell cargo]

Arya's busted that doesn't mean she's not light 😭

Arya is tied with Harley and a few others for lightest in the game

I think she has received a small weight buff since the beta

[quasi ice]

Doesn't matter what the numbers say

I'm not the only one who says this btw I've seen a lot of yters and streamers say the same

Things like "why does Arya have IG weight"

[shell cargo]

Gotta be a bug or just not hitting her with kill moves or something

Ig she can be pretty tough to kill sometimes since she just falls out of every attack in the game

Shaggys second jab can't hit her, Garnets upwards clap thingy just drops her, etc.

She's silly

[sick totem]

Do people really think reindog is high tier?

[unique grove]

he is for sure at least high tier

I get really mad when NA player put reindog like bottom 10 because this is just wrong

[covert cosmos]

reindog is very good, just not unfair to fight

[sick totem]

I've always said he is mid tier at best he has some good tools, but other characters just have better tools and stats

[shell cargo]

He absolutely is

He's very strong but unlike top tiers he doesn't have the kit or stats to make him broken

[sick totem]

He's got an alright combo game he can get some crazy strings but as far as true combos he aint got a lot. His projectiles are solid but slow and the lag on them him isn't the greatest (although grounded neutral was improved). His kill power is def on the lower side as almost all characters will live to 110+ unless you get a gimp or early ko close to the blast zone. He gets out sped and out ranged by many characters too

I don't think he breaks into the top tier when other characters are just better all around, also let me say I get good results with reindog, I love the dawg but just being honest I don't see how he is top tier

Reindog can be great when you know his kit and are skilled with him but outside of individual player skill just as a fighter compared to other fighters I don't think he's up there with the batman, ww, Samurai jack, supes, Rick, etc.

Black Adam☠️

[quasi ice]

Few combos dies easily struggles to kill large hurtboxes

But he's top tier because uuuuuuuuh

[shell cargo]

Nobody said he's top tier lol

[quasi ice]

Sry high tier

He's a generous mid

A very generous higher mid if you're good at the game

[unique grove]

that's your reindog problem

[quasi ice]

But if you've ever seen a newer Reindog player the only thing they do is side special and his neutral projectile and die ezpz

No that's a character problem as I consistently live to 100+ dmg and often kill lighter opponents at 40 or so with his up bite

I'm talking about the averages

[unique grove]

We have the best winrate in ranked

that's a true stats

we are few but win a lot

[quasi ice]

And? Joker has low wr% and he's arguably top 3 right now

[unique grove]

Probably my fault for that low% on joker

[quasi ice]

I played against a 10k+ BB a few days ago and the guy kept trying to harass me with safe even though I kept killing it in one hit with side special

Because guess what no one knows the matchup

Because there are like 8 of us

[unique grove]

There isnt a mu to learn against reindog, if you know how to deal with fireball and side special you good which most of my opponent do

yet I still win

To be honest today on my grind to first reindog against in ranked all the people I Lost to, I won all the runback its the opposite to me

[unique grove]

You know in EU , if I dont say reindog is top 5 I get argued on hard for downplaying

(this isnt even a joke that's the scary part)

[shell cargo]

top 5 is definitely pushing it

Arya, Finn, Joker, IG, BA, Batman, Morty, WW, and Gizmo are all better than Reindog

[quasi ice]

What's top 5 about Reindog?

He can prey on lighter characters he counters IG who's the most busted in the game he can camp with crystal and tether

That's it

90% of the cast can kill at the range Reindog can except often times a lot more easily and consistently

I guess he has a lot of passive dmg too like crystal tether fire but that's not nearly enough to put him on top 10 I think let alone 5

[shell cargo]

I don't play a ton of Reindog but when I did to prove he wasn't a low tier against a Batman main, his utilt seemed to travel ridiculously high sometimes, what's the logic behind that? Like I'd hit him at around 70-80% and with just one small hop and a uair I'd be able to push him into the blast zone instantly

[unique grove]

For me he is top 10

Reindog beat or do even with most of your list

[unique grove]

You dont need to camp IG to beat him lol, I can easily 3 stock bobo without being lame like that

Fireball and side special are the move in this mu

also ptoo and sair are very strong but depend

[quasi ice]

You misread what I said, I was bringing up the things I think theoretically place Reindog at the top

[shell cargo]

I wouldn't say a matchup determines how good the character is tbh
Just because Reindog has a winning MU doesn't mean the character still isn't ridiculous
Batman can spam the dive kick because he doesn't have to commit, Finn has a 0td (even though it's not true), Joker gets 50 damage off of one jab, Arya can just spam dtilt since it's a dodge attack and it's ridiculous that it only costs 1 bar of meter, etc.

[quasi ice]

I guess it's my fault for not using commas

You def don't need to camp against IG

[unique grove]

Reindog doesnt have broken tool he just has everything he need (to be honest I find our fireball and air side special to be our broken move)

sair is also very underated

[unique grove]

Reindog can punish any dodge

No other character can do it like reindog

[sick totem]

I use high and top tier interchangeably but fair enough, I don't see how he is high tier* like camper said high mid at best

[sick totem]

Sair is not underrated at all, everybody says that sair is basically one of his best combo tools

[sick totem]

Ofc you're gonna feel like that when you're more skilled, I saw the rankings you're like top 3 rn last I checked, when you can use his kit that well he won't feel like a mid tier character

I do think his utilt is underrated, fully charged it can go pretty high catching a lot of jumps or dodge ins and fully charged I've gotten some early kills with ut

[sick totem]

So glad they added best of 3 to ranked

[unique grove]

The online ranking dont really matter to be honest, its only grind (also im top1)

[sick totem]

It does to some degree, it's not 100% definitive its grind + skill, someone who's trash isn't gonna make it to masters

[unique grove]

if you are good enough (I will Say 60% winrate and more) its only grind

[sick totem]

You still need to reach that skill threshold though thats the thing

[unique grove]

When you have 60% winrate and more if you lose you can compensate easily by fighting worst player

you sadly not only fight people of your rank so you can grind on lower rank and lose on same rank for some

[blazing swift]

Reindog only has the highest win rate is because his play rate is one of the lowest

I don’t recall him even being in rotation for season1 + season 2

[unique grove]

looking at the total number is scary because I know i did liké more than 100 game with 80% win rate

it really mean there is only good player playing this character

and a few

[quasi ice]

They nerfed Reindog again hehehehe

[quasi ice]

It's easier to climb now it seems

So long as you win obviously

[kindred torrent]

Yall doggers how good is airwalker on dog? I get that it's useful but I like my air parry a lot. Thought I'd ask.

[quasi ice]

Ngl I'd rather play against a lot of top tiers than Jason

Holy fk this side special nerf hurts

[shell cargo]

It's the same, just each round counts as a game so where previous wins were 10, new wins are 20

[unique grove]

air walker is not really good on reindog, it doesnt seems to have true combo but can be useful in juggle with up tilt

[kindred torrent]

Epic. Thanks

[quasi ice]

I wonder how else they're gonna gut this character

[shell cargo]

Mild nerf and you think he was gutted? 😭🙏

[quasi ice]

You think it was a mild nerf because you don't play against good players who punish you with 60 dmg if you miss one side special

Which is an attack now that might as well say "please combo me daddy"

[covert cosmos]

I barely even use that attack

[unique grove]

Good player could already punish this move easily now its easier, its why I dont think its a real nerf at high lvl

[quasi ice]

Yes this move was already punishable, but the devs are awful at the game, or they don't play it

Or they listen to "pro" players who hate losing to Reindog

[quasi ice]

Finally hit masters 1

ez but grindy

[shell cargo]

I do, and Reindog has always been punishable so you better learn not to whiff

Reindog is still at least mid A tier

[sick totem]

Side special was always highly punishable, it's an attack that's meant to be that way, if it was unpunishable that would be broken

[earnest holly]

so true😂

[unique grove]

This change was supposed go give reindog better combo but it only gave more lag

it wasnt a nerf but a change on the patch

because they didnt test it its a nerf

[cursive peak]

I hope they nerf y'all again you suck

[blazing swift]

What’s ur main?

[cursive peak]

Jason

[earnest holly]

jason is combo meat

[unique grove]

he doesnt sucks

neither do reindog

[shell cargo]

Morty is still at least top 10 and Reindogs kill moves are his dash attack and I think his side b

Dair/fireball spikes are peak though

[unique grove]

Reindog doesnt have kill move but he has great kill confirm

[quasi ice]

Reindog is awful

Hence why no one plays him

Just like no1 plays lebron velma jake etc

[shell cargo]

He's good, nobody plays him because nobody watched the Reindog show as a kid

More people have definitely watched Batman or Adventure Time or even Samurai Jack as a kid than people have heard of Reindog from the dead platform fighter MultiVersus

He's top 10

Morty mains when they cant control the entire stage with one attack

[quasi ice]

Yeah I'm sure that's the reason LMAO

Hey guys this character is great and I'm a sweaty who only cares about winning but no I'm not gonna play him 😉 - Most of the playerbase

[shell cargo]

Reindog is a good character and I do play him occasionally, I also don't only care about winning which is why I play characters who I liked when I was little as opposed to playing Arya or something

[quasi ice]

I'm literally the last remaining Reindog SA

[shell cargo]

SA? You are the last remaining player SA

[quasi ice]

I'm sure NA isn't much different

When they enabled cross region play I faced maybe a couple of decent Reindogs

Oen of them being Flipstable

[shell cargo]

Idk I think the majority of players would be NA/EU

[quasi ice]

I think Reindog might actually be worse in 2s than in 1s nowadays

Certain character combos just negate him completely

And ironically enough he's team reliant more or less

And they still haven't fixed his up air being RNG

They suck so much at balancing it's unbelievable

Hopefully with Warner buying them they might get more funds to hire a bigger team but idk

[shell cargo]

I like having a Reindog teammate, I've been saved a lot by them

[shell cargo]

How is it RNG? The knockback direction is just stupid

[quasi ice]

Whether the second hit hits or not

It's pratically rng

They actually fixed it in the open beta but they broke it again in the re-release

Both tail swipes are also highly situational bordering being straight up useless in a lot of matches

Neutral projectile feels awful to use as well

And so on

[unique grove]

From what I understand of this move it can on some hitbox only send him up

This is weird like some part of the hitbox work perfect some dont (on the first hit)

[sick totem]

He def doesn't suck now

[lethal python]

should i try out reindog?

[unique grove]

of course yes

you should even try every character at least one

[supple flower]

had a game where my teamate Reindog just didnt go into the fight and kept spamming projectiles from the side. he just kept running away. is this how he's meant to be played?

[sick totem]

There is only the dawg

[hazy barn]

Bad reindog player

[supple flower]

Hoped so

Seems fun but his kit is hard to figure out

[shell cargo]

Thats how zoners play silly

[silk elm]

if you know how to play aerial playstyle then he is gonna be so good and really fun to play

especially if you know how to use the aerial up b move

[lethal python]

this is just from what ive seen but reindogs playstyle looks boring no matter how you spin it

hes either setting up camp on the other side of the map or juggling you with the same 2-3 moves

could just be me tho

[blazing swift]

Dawg

Why tf am I fighting nossages in ranked

I’m silver 💀

@unique grove let me win bro

[unique grove]

Wait what was your character ?

[blazing swift]

I was playing stripe

#clips message

This match

[unique grove]

unlucky for you

like one match out of 4 is player below diamond to me

[blazing swift]

Yea but silver is crazy 💀

Plat I get

[unique grove]

My Bronze character for me get the same matchmaking as my reindog

which is really crazy to me

[blazing swift]

Exactly bro

They should do ranked matches based on rank

And not mmr

Every match since bronze has been so close but when I look at other bronzes they are so trash

[unique grove]

The problem is that we will have to wait so much to find a player of the same rank sometimes

[blazing swift]

Yea

[unique grove]

and a lot of rematch will happen (which is already thé case)

today I fought like 3 set Hardcorefox

[covert cosmos]

Is it just me or is it hard to get kill confirms with reindog’s side special on the AT map?

Like I can do the sair into side b on the edge of the map when the enemy is at like 110 and it won’t kill

[sick totem]

Thats just reindogs lack of straight up kill power, it's not just you lol

Also your opponent could just have great di

[unique grove]

You can just do another sair to really confirm then

if they Di up you up air and the other Di is an side special

an sair at 110 on most character is just a true death

[left bronze]

what is this dog's best perks

[sick totem]

It depends on your opponent, for armor characters I run the fireball perk, for general purpose I run the crystal perk

[covert cosmos]

is the crystal perk good?

[sly wharf]

It is since it stop the opponent from just putting you in the blender

[unique grove]

For the main perk I would say 5% the other really doesnt do anything that useful

the other are very situational

[sick totem]

Is the 5% really that viable? I find many opponents live to high percent anyways so I'd rather improve my utility than damage

[unique grove]

The utility the other perk give are close to 0

so I would prefer a boost of stat

that is use everytime

[sick totem]

I wouldn't say close to 0, crystal following me gets me out of combos, edge guards, or just plainly splits their attention and leaves them open, and it can be a combo extender

[sick totem]

The fireball perk is def a lot more situational, I use that that with the other fire perk to proc the effect more

[unique grove]

Against better opponent the crystal is very hard to let him breath. Its very easy to play around and to break it, making it move make it easier for the opponent to destroy it

the crystal at least in 1 is mostly used to get the buff

[sick totem]

Thats part of the play, the crystal forces them to move and all I have to do is react, I like the crystal cuz it forces them to play your game just having it out and making them destroy it is free advantage

And as long as you don't go for max height it's pretty easy to get it out, it's not terribly slow

I just think it's let's me control the game more, also combo extensions with it are sick lol

[sick totem]

@unique grove what other perks do you run with it, I wanna try it, I'm assuming pugilist is def on the set if you trynna just increase stats

[unique grove]

pugilist , Last Stand (because better combo and kill power), press the advantage(for IG)/Snowball effect

Very boring perk list but work perfectly

I think pugilist and Last Stand need to be on every reindog

[sick totem]

Pugilist absolutely you'll find no argument from me there he needs it, last stand I don't really run

[unique grove]

This one if you dont put it you troll

[sick totem]

Fr😂

[unique grove]

Last stand makes you have a loop

better kill power

Its stupidly good

none of the other perk are worth taking against Last Stand

[sick totem]

One of my sets is pugilist, the movement speed perk, and snowball

[unique grove]

The movement speed is not worth Last Stand

this is a no brainer

You need to try if you really dont believe me

In 1s

[sick totem]

I def will try it, always looking for new perk comps, but my thought process was, when I get to 100% with reinddog that's damn near kill percentage so I wouldn't live long enough to get a good use out of it

On another set I'll run pugilist, the dash attack armor break perk, and that's flammable

[unique grove]

Reindog is heavy now he can live a lot of the time at this percent

And you only need one good hit to do crazy combo

[unique grove]

Dash Armor perk is Bad on reindog

When you have side special thats not worth to waste a perk on that

• our dash attack sucks on ledge

[sick totem]

Just gives me another quicker option then side special, and dash attack can catch jumps and the second hitbox ctached people off guard

[sick totem]

No way, I catch people on ledge with the second hitbox a good amount

It does "waste" a perk spot as in he already has an amorbreak move but side special feels so telegraphed many times

[unique grove]

No this is probably not what I talk about because at ledge it 100% drop

[sick totem]

Eh? I did not understand that sentence😅

[sick totem]

The dash attack that starts with his horns and then he jumps and does a slide that has a second hitbox right?

[unique grove]

yes

[sick totem]

Yeah I be catching people at ledge with that, obvisly they gotta be high enough but I'd say it's about as good as bats dash attack at catching at ledge, bats is better though

[olive lily]

do we have any concrete bnb with reindog?

[earnest holly]

True combo at 100 damage sair -> sair -> aerial side special
it never let me down

[unique grove]

and up air instead of aerial side special if Di in on that combo

[quasi ice]

Wow

Going from Reindog to Taz

Is such a weird experience

[random saddle]

perks ?

is the moving crystal good or no

also what’s his kill moves

nvm he ass i ain’t playin ta

[sonic tinsel]

Yeah, Reindog is very fun once you pass hour 1.

[random saddle]

I am NOT tryna up air my opponents at 145 and not kill them

Indubitably

Ye dw I ain’t like those dirty shaggy mains

[void parcel]

Jesus Christ you need to have a serial killer level of methodical thinking to play this character

[warm cosmos]

the inner workings of a reindog are an enigma

[sonic tinsel]

If you can play Morty, this magical dog is child's play.

[quasi ice]

Reindog is definitely harder

No stupid dirt and grenade spam to rely on

[sly wharf]

I want the old hit box on down tilt back

I miss hitting behind with it

[unique grove]

It does it up still

almost feel like behind

[sly wharf]

its not as big as it used to be

[unique grove]

And that's good

[lucid silo]

Hello tony, i speak for everyone when we say we are done with your OC. Please feel free to replace him with an actual warner brothers character.

[sly wharf]

I miss it tho

It was funny

[quasi ice]

Reindog is not OC he's actually Marvel

[sonic tinsel]

You don't seem to have a sense of enjoyment.

Please return when you are ready to be a better person.

[summer timber]

Reindog is good boi

[earnest holly]

you definitely don't speak for everyone lol
Reindog here to stay

[lucid silo]

Nope i took a poll. 100% of people want this ugly little toothpaste animal with neither reindeer nor dog ears put down.

[sonic tinsel]

I can only hear the one person voting with the voice of Clarence.

[lucid silo]

Nope

[sick totem]

Ptoo is so fun to get creative with

[sly wharf]

Sounds like someone got dair spiked

[gentle jackal]

Love this character so much

[unique grove]

not anymore but hopefully with patch

[sick totem]

Nah I stay having fun with ptoo

Snipes, ricochets, sky Ball, I do it all

[main kraken]

reindog is cool

[quasi ice]

Fun fact: You actually need a Mensa level IQ to fully understand Reindog

[undone sundial]

Wsp

[real gorge]

Reindog>

[lucid silo]

Multiversus does not have spikes goofy

Nor have i ever played against more than 1 reindog player ever

[sly wharf]

Sounds like you got shmixed by said reindog player

[quasi ice]

Damn, NA does have quite a few Reindog players

[gentle jackal]

Ikr

I'm just surprised to he top 1k rn

Need to get higher but man this character has no knockback

Someone was alive at 190 and they killed me at 80

[gentle jackal]

The term spike comes from being hit down to the bottom blast zone

I think those are spikes c:

[unique grove]

he has great kill confirm with sair so its fine

[gentle jackal]

I have some good clips tho like I can ping you in some but idk I think I need to improve

[lucid silo]

Nope. No move does that except wonder woman,nakats favorite character, everyone else bounces you down 3 inches and thats IT

[gentle jackal]

Yeaaaah you've never spiked anyone

Nor do you know the definition of it

[blazing swift]

Please reindog mains

Don’t plays 2s if your gonna play passive

[unique grove]

down air can kill but its extremly easy to avoid

[gentle jackal]

Which is why you fake out with the fire

[unique grove]

Still easy to avoid

[gentle jackal]

Not to most

I usually catch their dodge

[unique grove]

maybe not against everyone but once they saw it enough time it wont work

[spring ore]

Best reindog perks?

[quasi ice]

Dmg ones

Crystal follow one if ur feeling adventurous

[sonic tinsel]

Tell me you have no game knowledge without telling me you have no game knowledge.

[lucid silo]

Nope

[spring ore]

So should I be using last stand instead of the 5% speed buff one

[silk elm]

the 5% speed buff is better

[sick totem]

Nossages is a big last stand flagbearer lol

[quasi ice]

You should almost always be surviving past 100% so Last Stand is a must in most medium to heavy characters

Speed might even mess up some of your combos although idk

[wooden pendant]

Last stand is the best perk in the game. You should never use speed perk over it

[sick totem]

Next perk set imma try out will prolly be 5% or crystal, snowball, last stand, pugilist

[quasi ice]

I love it when I'm not even doing loops or whatever and the anti ground bounce loop mechanic kicks in

Really makes me hopeful for this game's future

[sonic tinsel]

Ah yes, the one feature that forces you to learn combo resets in a game about making extensive combos.

[sick totem]

I like the tech I just wish they made it an input like in smash, automatic tech is nice but I'd prefer if it was skill that had to be learned rather than a get out of jail free card

But tbh it's that big of a deal just use other combos that don't require multiple ground bounces, it's not like ground bonuses are an integral part of Reindog's combos anyways

[sly wharf]

How does one deal with samurai jack?

[sick totem]

REINDOG BUFFS WOOOOOOOO

Nothing super crazy but a buff is a buff

[sick totem]

Don't rush in, and if they are a side b spammer use peojectiles or clash with it with heavy sair or grounded side special. Be careful at ledge cuz their sword makes them have so much advantage at ledge

Taz is the bane of my existence

[obtuse matrix]

Wsp guys, im new with reindog and i just bought it, what do you think about him?

[earnest holly]

The change to his sair seem like it was an improvement
now all this need to do is add more hit stun to his up tilt

[unique grove]

not sure this patch is a buff for reindog

the sair change is nice but not a Big buff

and the jab hitstun nerf is big

it destroy all possible Big combo route we had with jab

this will clearly be different

[sick totem]

I saw the hit stun nerf and I'm choosing to focus on the good rn, even if it's a small good🤷🏾‍♂️

But it's only jab 1 so it's jab >> sair that's gonna take the hit jab 1>>jab2>jab3>>down heavy should be fine

[sick totem]

Maybe with the aftereffects of the jab nerf it'll open up reindog to more buffs to open up his combo potential

[unique grove]

dair is the main move to buff right now

maybe even the kill power on dtilt

but that buff could be dangerous if not done correctly

[sick totem]

You'd take a dair buff before a fireball or ptoo buff? I would think ptoo is the buff that really needs to happen

[unique grove]

they try at least

but dair is forgotten

ptoo is very useful for some mu

dair is the worst move on reindog

[sick totem]

Thats fair for a move that looks as big as it is, I rarely win an interaction with many upairs or its to slow to even come out

[unique grove]

My issues with dair is that It poorly combo

the low percent knockback is very low

they should buff that to make it combo better I think

[sick totem]

But it's not really intended as a combo move, it has 1 or two confirms but it's not meant to be a combo move

[unique grove]

dair up air most of the Time isnt true

dair doesnt really kill for a spike

unless at high percent

it would be good to make it combo easier at least into up air

[sick totem]

I agree with that that part they should make dair to upair consistent, but I think they should lean into the kill power of it so it actually becomes a viable kill move like it's supposed to be

[earnest holly]

They took reindog ground side special into dash out
it not even in the patch notes

like why

[unique grove]

it wasnt true I think

[earnest holly]

it was true sometime depending on the damage cuz they would ground bounce so it connected most of the time
but for them to remove like that and not mention it is a lil disheartening

[unique grove]

They probably change some little property they didnt mention, or its just that they di

[earnest holly]

i hope that the case cuz the move just dont come out no more

[blazing swift]

Yes

No more jab sair?

[unique grove]

only on burnout now

[blazing swift]

Damn that sucks

[blazing swift]

Are you going into burnout to do the combo?

[unique grove]

when the opponent enter Burnout, jab into sair can work without the possibility of the opponent escaping

jab can still combo into the other grounded move its not that bad

[blazing swift]

Oh I misread mb

[quasi ice]

Seems like side special into dash attack simply wont connect anymore

[random solstice]

So I am new to reindog do we have combos that I can learn?

[earnest holly]

it still work i forgot i change my input buffer 😭

[sick totem]

Am I really this trash? I've been in Plat 1 on the cusp of diamond for days now and it feels like I've hit a wall

Like some characters just don't feel like I can win against

[quasi ice]

Reindog isn't easy

Also he's probably at his worst rn

[sick totem]

He for sure isn't easy

This is the first big wall I've hit with him

[earnest holly]

I feel like I have to relearn the reindog now so I been avoiding rank
crazy how changing one move affected him so much

[sick totem]

I can't tell if I'm missing punish windows or if reindog just can't punish like that

[sick totem]

Any reondogs wanna run 1s I need some new stuff in the bag and practice matchs

I'm getting g owned rn in Plat 1

[steep dock]

What has Reindog gotten since s1? Haven’t played him in awhile.

[unique grove]

sair change back to the first patch

I would not say he is bad but I would say he is balanced

[quasi ice]

Nerf after nerf with a few pity 'buffs' here and there

[lofty holly]

Goodbye superman, hello Reindog. My new main

[sonic tinsel]

Welcome to the club

[loud knoll]

nerf reindog

hes OP

[sonic tinsel]

No, he's pretty average. The only reason the people who you see playing Reindog are so good is because they are literally the only people who play Reindog, and they play Reindog a lot.

[harsh parrot]

So you think they’ll bring back astronaut reindog or?

[undone sundial]

I love this dog but why does he sound like Cujo?

[sly wharf]

They been doing that like reindog has gotten almost exclusively nerfs

[undone sundial]

When was that released?

[harsh parrot]

Around feb 2023

[undone sundial]

Ohhhh

[quasi ice]

Since the open beta even lol

[unreal sinew]

Does reindogs up air special actually has a use or it just works to be faster

[unique grove]

Its great to stall, chase opponent up and recover obviously.I also use it a lot when I want to do deep edge guard with sair

[sick totem]

It's 100% useful but you still have to be creative with your recovering, it's mad fast for horizontal recovery if you wanna get space or for stalling at ledge

[quasi ice]

Ruff Beindog

[sick totem]

Lemme just say a well aimed ptoo/ricochet ptoo is one of my favorite things to do

[sly wharf]

I used to like sending people into the abyss with sair but they changed the angle so you can’t do that anymore :(

[unique grove]

yes you can now

it send foward and down now

[sly wharf]

did they change it back?

[unique grove]

yes

[neat fiber]

PFG should buff big dog by allowing him to grounded side-special off stage more consistently like u can with grounded up-attack

[quasi ice]

You'll get a nerf to his sair and you'll like it

[sick totem]

Jason is just such an easy character bro, jab>jab>ghost teleport anx it's a free stock every time on close stages

[sonic tinsel]

dog

[neat fiber]

i gave up on Reindog. I just wanna see cooler clips

[sly wharf]

What characters does reindog have a neutral matchup against? Most characters I can think off have a positive or negative matchup.

[neat fiber]

Iron Giant

Reindog's side-air is about the same speed as his neutral-air

but Reindog can make Iron Giant dodge a lot

and that usually makes him lose

[sonic tinsel]

dog

[rocky surge]

Dog

[quasi ice]

"increased KO power when thrown by a teammate"
Lmfao

We did it Reinbros, ourguy is top 3 now

[sonic tinsel]

Neutral Special Cooldown decreased

[sick totem]

To 16s from 24s is kinda nice ngl

[quasi ice]

It is

[celest jackal]

How can I punish his up ground air 🗣💥💥💥💥

[sonic tinsel]

That is a nonsensical sentence

[celest jackal]

I mean upground attack xd

Idk what its called 🗣💥💥💥

[sonic tinsel]

I guess dodge in as the hitbox is happening and land your own up attack?

Or if the dog chooses to slide off the edge, you can try to keep them from returning to the stage.

Not entirely sure, there's too few people who actually play Reindog for me to know for certain.

[unique grove]

Against up tilt you can do what you said , Parry (never saw that) or if I charge it just follow it and up air (or something else). Also a disjoint just work

[sonic tinsel]

thx

[minor yew]

PSA: Astropup Reindog is available for anyone. It's no longer an exclusive skin.

[sonic tinsel]

Because people wanted it?

[quasi ice]

I love how they say Reindog needs a bit of help in 1s

And out of the three buffs they give him, two are 2s oriented

And one of is the buff they're giving everyone anyway

[sonic tinsel]

I mean, Neutral Special can tag on damage regardless if it hits an ally, so the fact that it takes 8 less seconds to refresh is welcome.

[timid monolith]

True

[quasi ice]

You shouldn't settle for scraps tbh

[earnest holly]

crystal lighting now cant go through platform 🫤

They just failed to mention that (nerf)

[sonic tinsel]

Well, it's a buff if you play on Townsville, because previously the shock fell through the stage.

[earnest holly]

How is that a buff?
That was more of a bug on that specific map

[sonic tinsel]

It also happened on Scooby's Haunted Mansion sometimes...

[earnest holly]

still not a buff

[unique grove]

not sure if its a nerf tho

[earnest holly]

It was more useful when the platform didnt block it

[last sable]

It's still always so funny to me that Reindog is classified as a Mage and has such a mystical design but a good portion of his kit is just him mauling you to death.

[quasi ice]

Is that so?

Yet another stealth nerf

[unique grove]

not sure its really a nerf, also it fixes all the issues we got for specific map problem

[quasi ice]

How is it not a nerf?

90% of the match will not be spent on the platforms for either players

[quasi ice]

lol

Crystal is borderline useless in platform stages now

What an embarrassment of a company

Are they just embarassed to add these sh1i1t changes to the patch notes so that people can't call them out?

Imagine the average player actually knowing the truth of "oh yeah they've been nerfing Reindog almost nonstop for the past two years"

Instead of this lie they've been perpetuating of "occasionally they nerf him but yeah they buff him sometimes to make up for it"

It'd make them lose even more hope for this game (rightfully so)

[unique grove]

ok to be honest I think they didnt mean to fix it at first lol

They fixed superman laser but that made reindog cristal do the same now

they are coded the same it mean so it just mean they fixed the stage

[quasi ice]

Is that so?

I didn't know they were 'coded the same'

[earnest holly]

Honestly, if Reindog had less end lag on the air and ground side special and ground neutral special, better kill power on a few moves, and if the up air attack didn't drop so often, Reindog would be nearly perfect.

Other then some bugs like using ground down special near a platform would destroy the fireball
crystal bugging out if near the edge of the map and the fact that it cant go through platforms now 😭
Those are a few i can think of off the top of my head

[sly wharf]

That’s a lot to buff lol

[earnest holly]

compare to other character i dont think it asking for much
especially after this patch

[sly wharf]

What did they do to my boy now

[earnest holly]

Air Down Attack
Now maintains more downward momentum during attack start-up (This is some thing pretty much every character got in some way)
Air/Ground Neutral Special
Cooldown reduced to 16 seconds from 24 seconds (minor change)
Air Up Special
Ally throw knockback scaling increased to 21 from 17 (DO ANYONE REALLY USE THIS 😭)

[sly wharf]

They really don’t want up tilt and down tilt to kill

[quasi ice]

I have easily over 20k matches in MVS and I have never ever ever ever ever seen anyone throw Reindog on purpose other than to fck around

I myself have like 14k wins with him and none of my teammates have ever used it if not by accident

This is pretty much something they did just so that Reindog doesn't feel so isolated and abandoned in the patch notes

Imagine if the patch notes for Reindog was just "Air/Ground Neutral Special
Cooldown reduced to 16 seconds from 24 seconds"

[sly wharf]

They should fr just turn reindog into a throwable smash item like peaches radishes when he’s picked up

[earnest holly]

I totally get where you're coming from. I've also put in countless hours with Reindog, and honestly, it's rare to see anyone deliberately throwing him either. Most of the time, it's by accident or just for fun. It does feel like they added that change just to give Reindog some presence in the patch notes, like a bit of attention to avoid him feeling completely sidelined.
And yeah, imagine if the only change was "Cooldown reduced to 16 seconds from 24." It'd feel like they threw a bone just to say they did something. Reindog definitely deserves more impactful updates to really shine in the meta, especially for those of us who dedicate so much time mastering him.

[quasi ice]

The only way that move would ever be good is if Reindog exploded on impact

And even then

You're throwing a character who's generally vulnerable in melee

[last sable]

It genuinely feels like they don't want to meaningfully update him at all, which is kind of sad.

Are they afraid they'd be accused of favoritism for their own OC if they did? x3

[sonic tinsel]

Their favoritism already lies in Shaggy.

No one would even notice.

Except the few who actually play him, which is us.

[last sable]

Poor guy's so forgotten they're eventually not even gonna bother throwing him little tweaks in the patch notes.

They'll be like "Who?"

[quasi ice]

I love just randomly running out of moves mid air and just falling to my death

Really makes me hopeful for this game's future

[sly wharf]

thats a skill issue

[quasi ice]

Didn't happen in the open beta

[sly wharf]

Seems like you need to track your moves

[primal flax]

Is Reindog good?

[quasi ice]

I love how the anti-loop system blocks my three-hit "combo" but does nothing to stop Batman from dragging me across the screen with a billion attacks

Really makes me hopeful for this game's future

I'm serious by the way how did such as system make it past testing

I get that it's just a band-aid to infinites but it's legitimately triggering when it shouldn't

[sonic tinsel]

That's the neat thing. There is almost no testing.

[wooden pendant]

There's no way they play test anything. They released ppg with a 1 move 0td

[lethal jacinth]

Will Reindog ever get a Badge for total damage dealt?

[earnest holly]

you know i been wondering the same thing

[lethal jacinth]

ikr :C

[sly wharf]

What if reindog actually had kill power on moves that should kill hat would be cool I think

[quasi ice]

No you see, he DEALS DAMAGE

That's something that's 100% unique to Reindog so we can't just have the only character in the game to DEAL DAMAGE and also kill

[unique grove]

• he already has great way to kill for a damage character, sair can just make you have an early kill

[quasi ice]

So did they just nerf all of this character's attacks or what

Seems like everything just deals less knockback

Or is it just the usual Reindog poopyness

[unique grove]

Nothing really changed much outside of reindog feeling smoother I think with the momentum patch

[candid dagger]

I love reindog

[coarse patio]

Whats that pfp?

[unique grove]

Just reindog licking finn because why not

[quasi ice]

I love how the anti-loop tech update made Reindog's down air even more useless

Most things that combo into it make it so it literally has no knockback and triggers the anti-loop instead

[unique grove]

this could have been useful if dair got less end lag because now we can't follow up the tech chase with dair combo

[quasi ice]

The only thing it's good for right now is spiking but honestly even then it's risky as hell lol just because it's so slow and clunky

[hushed sandal]

How are all 5 reindog players doing today

How do u play this character

Cus

Lmao

Its an intriguing one

For sure

Hard to play tho idk since everyone else broken asf

[sly dome]

up tilt up air

sair a lot

[hushed sandal]

How tf do u kill tho

[craggy hill]

Is there a Reindog discord

I'm switching from Iron Giant bc I'm tired of being carried

Also he's cute

[unique grove]

sair into whatever

[tawdry veldt]

Edge guarding
Sair > anything
Juggling

Idk if it's consistent but I can 0 to death light weight fighters with slightly charged up tilt > uair > A > uair

Finn easiest for me

Sair > special sair is a consistent kill confirm at high % (best if opponent likes to jump a lot)

Edge guarding is self explanatory, fireball setups or just sairs and dairs

[tawdry veldt]

I think it's a good addition to remove long loops (even tho Batman and Smith still makes you unable to play for a minute if u get hit once) but now fireball > dair, which couldn't loop, is free tech punish in exchange for 2 hits 😭

[candid dagger]

Is it just me or the down air kinda useless unless they got 150 damage

[sly wharf]

its awesome when it works

[tawdry veldt]

I rarely use it

[low peak]

Why does this character have infinite hitstun on his fair

Like I'm getting carried across the stage for no reason because I buffer dodge or jump too early

[sonic tinsel]

Why does his fair take a full second to activate its hitbox?

[low peak]

Idk it's a weird move tbh

[sly wharf]

It has lots of hitstun cuz it’s a combo move

[sonic tinsel]

You know who else has a combo move with mass amounts of hitstun?

[low peak]

Yeah but like it's an abnormal amount, like I'll be sent out and my momentum will stop but I'm still unactionable

[sly wharf]

He needs it

So many characters could probably punish him out of it otherwise
I don’t know for sure but I would be surprised someone on the balance team hates this dog

[quasi ice]

A lot of his moves are borderline punishable even on hit

Also me when I'm playing Reindog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6k5YHu6fcU

[tawdry veldt]

My mom

[sly wharf]

Real asf

[sonic tinsel]

dog

[sly wharf]

Dawg

[hybrid atlas]

DAWRG

[sly wharf]

Borf

[quasi ice]

Yes borf Reindog

[sonic tinsel]

Bork

[quasi ice]

Are you guys ready for Reindog to get nerfed again? Place your bets

His s.air is def getting nerfed

Maybe even fireball because why not

[sonic tinsel]

Yet they give Shaggy a way to kill at 40 on the ground?

[sly wharf]

Reindog doesn’t need kill power when you have blast zones :)

[willow zealot]

Anybody got advice on how to tackle the Finn MU I can’t get my head around how to even approach

[earnest holly]

The best way to approach Fin is to avoid approaching altogether.
I usually try to bait him into using moves like his aerial or ground side special with my projectiles.
If I see him charging his jab, I try to pressure him with a projectile or tether. The key is to make him chase you and punish him when he overextends.

[willow zealot]

Thanks, I’m still finding it to be a tricky MU but at least I’m going in with somewhat of a game plan

[hybrid atlas]

What’s up dogs

What are our worst matchups right now?

What are our best matchups??

[unique grove]

superman Steven Arya I would say

[unique grove]

For the good mu against good character we have probably ppg, finn, maybe bugs

[hybrid atlas]

Thank you, Master Nossages 🫡

[sonic tinsel]

Updog?

[hybrid atlas]

Honestly kind of floored to hear that Finn is a good matchup. I have a tough time with that one historically. (Thanks for the tips, Lux.)

I’ve clawed my sweaty, scrubby little paws into the top 100 Reindogs and I swear I still have no idea how to actually play this game. 💀

[quasi ice]

Superman? I don't have that hard of a time against him

For me it's Steven, Arya, and probably Harley

Superman is def up there though

For good matchups Shaggy for some reason I have an alright time against him

Even beat the #20 gm the other day

Jack as well

I will say I'd rather play Arya than many other weaker characters like Bugs tho

Just annoying asf

Same as Shaggy, I'd rather play him than say Harley

[hybrid atlas]

^ ^ ^
Local Reindog “main” confesses that he’d rather play as Shaggy

Very shocking and upsetting news, everyone please keep your families safe

[quasi ice]

Against, not as, silly goose

[hybrid atlas]

I’m sorry, I couldn’t help myself

The silliness just came out of me

Like water from a spring

[unique grove]

I dont see the issues you all get against Harley, she just lose to reindog for me. She can be an annoying fighter to fight against tho

[quasi ice]

It's just the hammer, spinning kick and bomb moves that infuriate me

Whereas with Superman you can harass him more or less safely and if he starts pressuring you outside the zone you can just up air special away from most of his shenanigans

I feel a lot more 'free' to move around against Superman, same as pressuring him, unless he's spamming armor in which case he's as annoying as Harley

This is probably just a 'me' thing though, I was watching a streamer's video on his worst matchups against Supes (I think it was crazynoc's) and he says Reindog is a favorable one

Same reason why I'd rather fight Shaggy than some objectively weaker characters

[unique grove]

Stronger character need less brain power to play so they allow themself to play agressive with it which is not that hard to beat. The weaker character need to play a lot more passive to win

reindog has everything to deal with passive play in theory

[sick totem]

I'm actually at a loss here, Ranked feels worse than ever

[sly wharf]

Boss up

[quasi ice]

Reindog patch notes be like

• Increased knockback of attack A from 100 to 101
• Upgraded his name (now it's ℜeindog)
  ~ Fixed bug from two years ago

• Made move knockback more horizontal or vertical for literally no reason
• Stealth nerf
• Stealth nerf

[unique grove]

nah this is some good change

the side special can probably combo into aerial now

ptoo on the ground might combo now

and finally crystal just working as intended is more that just a small but fix

[quasi ice]

Ground ptoo might combo if you iad or something lol but probably not

[tawdry veldt]

47 damage true combo
sair > sair > jab 1, 2 > side B > up tilt > jump > up air

*After 41% it's no longer true

[urban swan]

The second sair has to be hit so they don’t ground bounce

Past 41% you just do side air special after the side b

[urban swan]

Jab 1-jab 2 isn’t true, I was messing up in the videos you only do jab 1

[tawdry veldt]

I put a bot on dodge after hitstun and it doesnt dodge with jab 1, 2

[urban swan]

Yeh but look at the combo counter it resets back to 1

[tawdry veldt]

Hold up

[steep dock]

How is dog cookin this patch?

[tawdry veldt]

42.7 damage Reindog true combo (10 hits)
IAD > S/Air > Jump > S/Air > Jab 1 > Side B > Up tilt > Jump > U/Air

[tawdry veldt]

Better than before patch, we are cooking rn

[quasi ice]

Reindog feels better this patch

Still underwhelming tho

If u confirm side special it basically has no recovery

[quasi ice]

Which is awesome

[sly wharf]

We got combos now we just need kill power

[blazing swift]

Wtf is SDI

[tawdry veldt]

IAD*

[tawdry veldt]

Rein can kill at 60 with sair I'd say he's pretty good rn

80 if close to center stage

[blazing swift]

It’s pretty nice thanks

[tawdry veldt]

If you tether and apply shocked while using all damage perks it does 74 damage

Yw

[quasi ice]

How much is that in 'real character' units though

Like 32 damage?

[urban swan]

What do you mean by ‘real character’ units?

[tired moon]

man, this character is cool but why does he have 5 billion years of hitstun on sair?

please, i wish to live 😔

[sly dome]

yea somewhere around 25-30%

[sly dome]

it’s really strong but has a lot of startup

[tired moon]

but shorter than the hitstun

[sly dome]

depends on %

realistically most characters can jsut hit him before his sair is active

[tired moon]

nah, not the point, also, he is a camper at heart, he can make it happen

[sly dome]

i’m talking about offstage

[tired moon]

just feel like hittingg sair sair cz ur opponent is still in hitstun, while jumping the second sair, in this version of the game, is insane

[sly dome]

you shouldn’t be getting hit by a raw reindog sair on stage

[tired moon]

meh, whatever

u can, its a move ;-;

[sly dome]

dodge it

it’s slow

you gotta DI up and away from him if it hits

[tired moon]

just cz a move is slow doesnt make it bad

or impossible to hit

at least not in plat fighters

[sly dome]

brick wall lmao

[quasi ice]

I love how basically every map has platforms everywhere now

Automatically nerfing fireball and crystal

[last sable]

Half the time I don't get why people even auto go for the crystal anymore, it's not like it's going to even get them with all these platforms.

[unique grove]

Its the opposite now the crystal hit them more because of the platform but we get less buff

[crimson oxide]

Recommended Perks for Reindog?

[unique grove]

no have fun with your perks

[hybrid atlas]

Last Stand 🥲

[tawdry veldt]

42.7

[tawdry veldt]

Same as everyone else tbh

No specific perk that fits him amazingly like last stand for jason or fire perk for rick

[quasi ice]

Snow Ball Last Stand Pugilist

Maybe air walker or whatever it's called perk if u wanna get fancy

[hybrid atlas]

Anyone here still running Flammable over Snowball at this point?

I like Crystal over 5% and I don’t know if that’s actually the right choice strategically but I have a lot of fun with it.

[tawdry veldt]

All you have to do is avoid making it drift off stage, but it's a good perk to get you out of long hitstun combos
5% is overall better but crystal has its moments

If you get comboed a lot Crystal is better

[crimson oxide]

Is Snowball Effect good on Reindog bc he does get comboed a lot aswell

[tawdry veldt]

I mean Rein does at least 300 damage per game for me so I use it

[crimson oxide]

Yea i gave him:Crystal Pal,Snowball Effect,Speed Force and Puglist is that a good build?

[hybrid atlas]

That’s ME, baby! 🤣

[tawdry veldt]

Thats what I use except for 5% sig but that's interchangeable

Pretty good

[hybrid atlas]

Really curious, what’s your reasoning for using Snowball over Flammable?
(I’m very mid and I’m trying to sip on other people’s brain juice right now.)

Are we simply boxing so much that we expect Snowball will yield more?
Is it that we’d rather ignore the prompt to chase down opponents if we’ve already established zoning?
Does landing projectiles become too unreliable at higher levels of play?

[quasi ice]

Yes to all

[earnest hawk]

he looks like a Neopet

Toasty is the petpet 💀

Someone please do a mockup of this

[sonic tinsel]

Don't forget to feed your Neopets

[tawdry veldt]

Rein does a lot of damage so snowball is pretty much always active
We can already apply fire with down special and people usually just walk over it for some reason, adding more fire doesnt stack
Ptoo isn't very consistent and Rein is bad at approaching so chasing to apply fire isnt good nor worth it

[hybrid atlas]

Iiiinteresting. Really appreciate the insight!! I’ve been mainly running Flammable for months now, just based on an old intuition, but I was starting to wonder if it’s become suboptimal as I’ve gotten better.

Here’s my previous thought process, in case literally anyone is curious about scrub notions:
• Any single ignite is a pretty decent payoff.
• If they’re flagged and they ignore it, I’ll often get the ignite for free.
• If they’re flagged and this makes them cautious, that means they’re giving me space for free.
This all sounds great on paper, but there are some baked-in assumptions—most notably, “I will regularly land fireballs”—that clearly don’t hold up very well against stronger players.

Don’t listen to me, I’m just spitballing (Reindog pun heck yeah)

[hybrid atlas]

@quasi ice Heyyy, congrats! I just saw the rankings.

[quasi ice]

Thanks dude!

[jagged galleon]

Reindog is the best!

[coarse patio]

Hey should i buy the new reindog skin

Or save up till next battle pass

[tawdry veldt]

I dont think the skin looks very good but thats my personal opinion, your choice

Worst epic skin imo

[hybrid atlas]

So! Anybody have any big thoughts about how shields will affect Dog life?

[quasi ice]

Reindog spends a lot of time in the air so it's probably not gonna be very useful for us

[hybrid atlas]

Okay, sick! That’s what I was thinking too. (I don’t have the experience with other plat fighters to fully trust my intuition alone on this.)

I feel like if I’m where I “should” be during a match, I’m almost never in a situation where using shield even comes up. Shielding is for when things have already gone wrong: I got hit and put in a bad spot, or I messed up and put myself in a bad spot, or I’ve intentionally taken on a bad position to try and bail out my teammate while tether is on cooldown, or something.

Maybe I’m just huffing fumes here, but I feel like Reindog already has a fairly good time pressuring shields. Am I naïve or crazy for thinking that opponents shielding isn’t actually gonna change that much about how we structure our offence?

[steep dock]

Maybe yes and maybe no. I found shielding pretty useful when setting up crystal cause they may run to hit me and then I shield and they get hit by crystal.

[brazen heath]

Reindog Moveset Tierlist from the #1 Reindog both in 1s and 2s @upbeat rapids

Moveset Tierlist

#clips message

[sly wharf]

Is sair in s or a tier

[quasi ice]

Bro I'm seeing Velma more often than Reindog

BJ and Jake might be the only two characters I see less often

[lofty fulcrum]

Hi guys,any guide for reindog?

[cursive peak]

Why is reindog fun

[tawdry veldt]

Idk, his combo game always fit my playstyle since the beta
He has a bit of everything so you never feel like you can't do anything in a matchup and his strings are just satisfying to hit

His combos aren't boring like shaggy nair spam or jab jab upB

Although some might disagree considering sair is hated now

[cursive peak]

I agree

I always hated his guts but he's actually extremely fun

[tawdry veldt]

He has good disadvantage and extremely good advantage, the issue is his neutral state
He has the tools to adapt to pretty much any matchup but in neutral you're gonna want to do a lot of spacing and only approach following a whiff punish.
Rein has one of the worst approaching tools. His only combo starters are jab, which has a very small hitbox and primarily SAir, which has a big startup, big whiff and isn't active very long

To master reindog you basically need knowledge on spacing, timing and whiff punishing

Is there anything you specifically struggle with?

The usual issue is not being able to kill
He has a few true combos that kill at 60, 80 and 90 but he can also kill with edge guards (which is his strong point) and dodge read juggles

[lofty fulcrum]

Fast characters bc of the whiff

[tawdry veldt]

That's his worst matchups
Depends on the fighter, finn for example you can use sideB to catch them off guard while charging their attacks or sairB which comes out fast and can also punish charging his normals. Other than the usual ways to countering Finn like DIing away from his strings there's not a lot u can do. Rack up damage using tether and fireball and space his attacks

Never approach first, rein has terrible whiff

[lofty fulcrum]

And spam his proyectiles?

[tawdry veldt]

Kinda, ptoo is pretty bad and fireball you basically only use to keep the burning stat going or setting up edge guards

Most good reindog players never use ptoo as far as I can tell

Me personally I only use it in the Jab>ptoo>dash attack combo

Spamming fireball in neutral is good tho yeah, just careful to not get punished

Grounded fireball has a lot of end lag so you're always gonna want to do air downB but if u get hit after doing that you have 2 less rescources

[lofty fulcrum]

Ok thx

[tawdry veldt]

Do stuff like setting up crystal that forces the opponent to approach first just like Banana Guard buff or Shaggy rage

U can adapt accordingly

Just again careful with being punished, crystal has end lag too

If u want some combos lmk

[lofty fulcrum]

Yes

[tawdry veldt]

The best kill confirm you will always see people do is sair > sairB which is true. If you read a dodge you can play very aggressive and do
Sair > Jump > SairB (this combo is only true if you jump because it cancels most of sair's end lag)

To set up this confirm from stage you can do
Sair > GB > sideB > jump > Sair > jump > sairB
It looks great and kills at 70
(GB means ground bounce, u do it by hitting a low SAir)

I'm not gonna say huge move lists because that's confusing but I can say what moves can combo to eachother

Jab can be comboed after Sair, ground bounce or not
Sair can combo into Sair if you hit a ground bounce
Jab1 and 2 can combo into sideB
SideB at high % can combo into sair or sideB
Sair can combo into SairB in high %

[lofty fulcrum]

To kc i use side b side b on high %

[tawdry veldt]

Combining this with the fact sideB combos with jab1,2 and sair combos into sair u can do
Sair sair jab1,2 sideB sair sairB

[tawdry veldt]

It's the best way to kill but only kills at very high %, at mid percent u can combo sideB>sair>sairB which can consistently kill

[lofty fulcrum]

Ok

[tawdry veldt]

I might do a combo guide on YT whenever i have the time because its easier to visualize

I js suck at editing with sharefactory

[lofty fulcrum]

I have a friend that is pretty good on fighting games like smash so i will be practicing

Thx

What's your youtube channel?

[tawdry veldt]

Sorry I was labbing
@tawdry veldt

Oops

Same as my discord user

@ alternateaqua

[serene light]

If Canperstrike that played Reindog is in here your gameplay is pure trash. Climbing the ranks in 2 by just spamming projectiles shows how trash you are without a just as trash teammate that plays Velma that does trash spams as well

[quasi ice]

Cry about it

[sly wharf]

Womp Womp

[quasi ice]

I don't know why I bother using ptoo

At least half of the times I'm using it even when I think I'm safe I get punished for it

[tawdry veldt]

Ye ptoo is pretty bad

Id argue worst neutral normal in the game

If u want to make it work i'd recommend doing dash attack right after ptoo tho

As soon as the projectile hits it cancels the animation so u get a 3 hit combo with decent damage

I do Sair>Jab1>Ptoo>Dash attack a lot

30ish damage and is true, plus it's fun to do, lots of inputs

[quasi ice]

lol dash attack sucks too

[tawdry veldt]

Yeah 2nd hit always drops on ledge but it can catch dodges pretty well

[quasi ice]

Even as a finisher I'd rather just do another sair into air side special or whatever

[tawdry veldt]

Dash attack def not a kill move on reindog, leave that to batman lol

Raw sideB kills at lower % pret sure

[serene light]

You can fight me too 😤

[quasi ice]

Fun fact

Reindog's crystal can deflect Lebron's balls

[steep dock]

Reindog can kill me at 200. Please fix.

[earnest holly]

Just watch my clips that all you need 🐶

[lofty fulcrum]

I find a new 70% true combo

Side b > sair > jab > jab > side b > sair b

[lofty fulcrum]

It's like a kill confirm more than a combo

[unique grove]

only work on bad di

ground side b air side b part should be true for most character

[near canyon]

yall agree with this? Last time i ever played the game so idk if rein even needs a buff

[quasi ice]

Bros there's no gm Reindogs in 1s

[unique grove]

Im gonna fix that this weekend

Dont worry

[quasi ice]

Good

I got 2s covered

[tawdry veldt]

Plats in top 100 is worse

[lofty fulcrum]

There is a 0td with reindog???

[neat fiber]

hell no lol. Reindog is an honest mid-tier

[tawdry veldt]

Not reliably

Pretty much all fighters have a 0td

Depends on blastzone but Rein can kill at 0 with uptilt>uair>uair

Has to be fully charged up tilt, bad DI and dodge jump for height

And the opponent gotta be near the top of the hitbox

Caught a Finn's jump on batman cave and KOd at 0

More reliably you can do sair jab1 jab2 sideB uptilt upair into a dodge read upair, if you consider that a 0td

[hybrid atlas]

Season 4 1.4.0 Patch Notes

Reindog

General

• Ground movement speed increased to 2165 from 2150

Ground Side Attack 1
– Hitbox size reduced so the attack is less likely to hit behind Reindog

Air Side Attack
~ Now limits fall speed during attack recovery

Air/Ground Neutral Special
~ Tether projectile now ignores platform collisions
~ Tether projectile now ignores blast zone collisions

Air Side Special
~ Now limits fall speed during attack recovery

[hybrid atlas]

Movement speed movement speed movement speed 👹

[hybrid atlas]

It’s a 0.7% increase 💀

[steep dock]

That was definitely worth the adjustment

[quasi ice]

Our bottom of the barrel character didn't get nerfed, so let's celebrate

At least it's something

Did they nerf our counters i.e. Steven Shaggy Arya Superman? I'm too lazy to read the patch notes

[upbeat rapids]

he got nerfed

lost spindash

[gentle jackal]

Another patch

Another day of Reindog not getting touched

[gentle jackal]

WHAAAAATTTT?!?!?!

THATS LITERALLY HIS BEST MELEE MOVE WTF

Wait no he didn't

Thank God

[upbeat rapids]

Spindash is up b tech

Let me go horizontal

[gentle jackal]

OHHHHH NOOOOO

I use it to get away

It's funny to use

[quasi ice]

Seems like they still haven't fixed up air consistency

They fixed it in the beta then broke it again and now after four seasons still nothing :\

[tawdry veldt]

Yeah I lost a beautiful clip day 1 cus multihit dropped

[quasi ice]

So uh, Reindog just got two stealth nerfs

Fireball is just going through people, probably broken hitboxes

And tether is much much harder to connect now

It was relatively generous before this patch and now the tether will pretty much just go wherever it wants

[terse matrix]

Hey reindog players. What’s the optimal perk set on him??? Thanks

[tawdry veldt]

No great combination, the usual
Snowball, speed or broken wings, pugilist

For signature, fire fluff is useless, crystal pal is decent cus it frees you from long hitstun combos, 5% is my personal pick

[terse matrix]

Thank you! Totally didn’t wanna waste perk currency on his signatures and find out they were lame lol

[tawdry veldt]

Oof lol

[azure jewel]

@ember panther YOU FRAUD

[onyx pelican]

Am I bad or is this character kinda good

[tawdry veldt]

Sometimes

Reindog has a very bad neutral state so if you space our options we can't do anything

Rein only works with whiff punishes

In 2s yeah he's good

[steep dock]

Pretty good against IG cause hitting their combos are easier.

[hybrid atlas]

Reindog is a character that specializes in fun. 😀

[onyx pelican]

Maybe when you're playing as him but definitely not on the receiving end lol

[hybrid atlas]

I always hope my opponents are having a good time! 99% of the time, I’m having a very good time. 🙂

[tired moon]

Pls don't say this, I cry when I get hit by sair 🙂

[hybrid atlas]

Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Sair jab1 jab2 ptoo. 😘

[tired moon]

[sonic tinsel]

Well said.

[upbeat rapids]

Homeless combo

[hybrid atlas]

Hobo tactics 💯

[hybrid atlas]

Ringing people out by knocking them into a slow fireball will never not make me feel like the world’s biggest genius in the world.

Even when it happens by accident

Especially when it happens by accident

🗣️

[sly wharf]

Real af

[lofty fulcrum]

How i can play on ground?

[tawdry veldt]

Tbh you just don't. Reindog's only real grounded options are dodge jab and sideB, but sideB is risky with the whiff lag and fully stops working if the opponent adapts to it

[upbeat rapids]

Tether

Reindog is really good on the ground

And uptilt is broken

[tawdry veldt]

It's kinda obvious

[tawdry veldt]

Lmk how you use it because it's good for catching jumps and ducking moves but not on neutral for me

[unique grove]

Its the same speed as jab so moment where you want to react but not sure exactly where the opponent will be up tilt is really good

[tawdry veldt]

Interesting

What's the follow-up tho

[sly wharf]

Up air into up air

[unique grove]

read or up air, it depends on your opponent

[tawdry veldt]

Jab seems better for damage but I'll keep it in my book

[tired moon]

Also do the nossages and just get the orb + tether and spam utilt in place (could've been hoodie but they kinda mesh in my mind)

[lofty fulcrum]

Delete shields

[lofty fulcrum]

Shields can help reindog?

[hybrid atlas]

@upbeat rapids @outer notch @astral ice

KINGS for representing The Animal offline.

[upbeat rapids]

@flyingpanther

[hybrid atlas]

@carmine dune 🕵️‍♂️

[serene light]

Reindog is to powerful on here

[serene light]

At this point if I play against a reindog I just jump off stage lol

Cause there is no point in trying to play against a broken character

[unique grove]

He is not that broken yet

there is still a lot of counterplay for now that you can use

[serene light]

He is to me with myself playing garnet

[serene light]

Idk not much counter play that I know of. Even some of the top Garnet players I’ve seen on stream have a really hard time beating reindog

[unique grove]

Garnet does quite good against reindog actually, reindog is really an really good character in this meta right now so that's why everyone can struggle now.

I hope to see some NA reindog in top 8 more that would be fun to watch.

[upbeat rapids]

He is not good into this meta