Baxter (DeviantART Stars)

Baxter is a playable character in DeviantART Stars and, along with and was one of the first three characters confirmed to be in the game and that first appeared to be playable. His moveset has been based on his various attacks from Main Baxter games and drawings on DeviantART.
==Attributes==
Baxter has a great projectile game with having five non-smash attack or aerial projectiles. He has a spammable projectile with Fireball which he can use to projectile camp, hinder his opponents approach and aid him in his combos. Baxter can use Flame Cutter to gimp his opponents recovery or to gain some stage control. He can use Fire Hole Bomb to hold his opponent in place so he can attack them. Heavy Flame has good priority in the move and does splash damage when broken. He can use Fire Sticky Bomb to KO his opponents after a combo which can stick on the opponent. Baxter has a reflector with Fire Tatsumaki which can be used as a horizontal recovery and good to reflect projectiles back to the opponent. Baxter has good combo ability and good reach in the majority of his attacks. He has KO moves in a fully charged Fireball, his side smash, his up smash, his down smash, up and back aerials and Fire Sticky Bomb. He has different ways to recover with Fire Uppercut being his main means of vertical recovery, his down air can be used to help him recover horizontally and he can use Fire Change to help stall in the air, he can use Fire Tatsumaki by mashing the opponent to rise up while going horizontally. He has good approach options with spamming his uncharged fireball projectiles and his forward air.
However, Baxter's falling speed and weight makes him susceptible to combos and chain grabs. His best KO moves are projectiles which can put him in a bad position if the opponent has a reflector. His recovery is very exploitable if the opponent knows how it works and can trick the player into canceling the move before they can get back to the stage. Also his pyro shots do not make his opponents flinch which greatly worsens his approach game and makes his recovery even more risky since he can not protect himself.
==Moveset==
===Ground Attacks===
Attack 	Description 	Damage
Standard Attack	Mini Fireball; Baxter shoots small mini fireballs out of his hand. 	2%
Down tilt 	Fire Slide; Baxter slides extending his foot forward. 	
11%7%
Down Smash 	Magma Slide; Baxter charges up and does a fast slide forward leaving a trail of lava. 	14%
Side tilt 	Fire Swipe; Baxter creates a fire-like whip and slashes it in a arc forward. 	
5%
Side Smash 	Fire Knuckle; Baxter charges and fires a fist projectile that deals decent knockback and fire damage. However, due to it being a projectile it can be reflected and absorbed.	16%
Up tilt 	Fire Jump Punch; Baxter jumps off of the ground and punches the opponent upward with a fiery punch. 	10%
Up Smash 	Fire Swift; Baxter fires two pulses of fire upwards. When both hits connect, are sweetspotted, fully charged. 	4%12%
Dash Attack 	Fire Spin; Baxter spins forward dealing multiple hits before stopping with good knockback. 	
1%10%
===Ariel Attacks===
Attack 	Description 	Damage
Neutral ariel	Fire Kick; Baxter performs a fiery sex kick. 	10%
Forward ariel	Fire Spike; Baxter's pyrokinesis on his right hand influences a drill forward creating multiple slashes. 	1%
Back ariel 	Fire Pulse; Baxter turns back, then fires off a flaming discharge behind himself from his arm while putting another hand on his arm, propelling himself slightly forward. Has devasting knockback.	15%
Up ariel 	Fire Twister; Baxter fires a small and weak whirlwhind from his arm. This attack has a wind box that pushes the opponent upward. Can hit multiple times. 	2-3%
Down ariel 	Flame Noise; Baxter fires a small sound wave of fire straight downwards and boosts himself slightly upwards. 	11%
===Grabs and Throws===
Attack 	Description 	Damage
Grab 	Reaches out with both hands. 	N/A
Pummel 	Baxter quickly jabs the opponent in the face. 	2-3%
Forward throw	Tosses the opponent forward. 	11%
Back throw 	Baxter leaps onto the opponent's abdomen and does a suplex piledriver at the opponent. 	11%
Up throw 	Baxter tosses the opponent upwards as he teleports up and does a series of combos and launches the opponent upwards. One of his best KO moves at high percentage.	3%6%
Down throw 	Baxter throws the opponent underneath him and does a series of kicks and stomps on the opponent's spine. 	3%10%
===Other Attacks===
Attack 	Description 	Damage
Ledge attack 	Baxter crawls back onto the stage and kicks the opponent. 	5%
100% Ledge attack	Fire Touch; Baxter crawls back on the stage with his hand on fire thrusting it out	5%
Floor attack 	Baxter stands on 2 hands kicking each side. 	3%5%
===Special Moves===
Attack 	Name 	Description 	Damage
Standard special move	Fire Use 	
Baxter uses the weapon selected by his down special move: Fire Change.
*Fireball: Hold the special move button to charge energy for a more powerful shot, the player also can move and jump while charging. Every match, Baxter starts with this ability.
*Flame Cutter: Fires a fiery spinning blade that travels at a certain direction and damages anything it touches. The projectile will continue to move, pushing opponents aside as it does so, allowing it to effortlessly push opponents off the stage. It also has a great range more than entire of Battlefield.
*Fire Sticky Bomb: Baxter shoots a grappling bomb that sticks to walls and opponents and unleashing an explosion after a few seconds pass, the player can also detonate the bomb by pressing the special button again.
*Heavy Flame: Baxter pulls out a meteorite of thin air and throws it as the meteors separate into four pieces if it comes in contact with anything.
*Fire Hole Bomb: Shoots a controllable large black and red projectile that "detonates" into a flaming black hole upon releasing fire. Unlike in the original game, the projectile has a delay before it can be detonated, can only be moved up and down, and continuously moves forward. The projectile moves slowly and sucks characters towards it in a small radius.	4-6%7-8%10-12%25%9%12%6%10%4%
Side special move 	Fire Tatsumaki	Baxter spin kicks forwards like a top with one leg outstretched. It will not go over ledges when used on the ground, despite appearing to be airborne. This move can be used as a decent horizontal recovery due to it slowing Baxter's fall while moving and not causing helplessness (which gives him quite a good recovery if combined with Fire Uppercut), although the move can only be used once in midair. 	2-3%8-9%12%
Up special move 	Fire Uppercut 	Baxter attacks using a powerful uppercut. A successful hit causes a flame effect around the opponent. The move has almost no startup, making it incredibly difficult to predict, but has severe ending lag if it misses, making it a high risk move, high reward move. The knockback and damage dealt by the move decreases as time passes, meaning it is most powerful during the first few attack frames. As it gives Baxter a height boost, it is his primary vertical recovery move. Baxter technically becomes helpless only after he travels the same distance downwards as he has jumped. However, due to this move's massive endlag he cannot do anything else.	15%
Down special move 	Fire Change 	Baxter wraps out with multiple choices to make to switch his standard special. 	N/A
Final Smash 	Special Blast 	Baxter charges up with firey energy and sways his arms back charging up all the energy from fire and plasma and thrusts forward unleashing a powerful yellow blast of fire and plasma at the opponent with huge amount of damage. 	40%
===Misc.===
Misc. 	Description 	Description 	Description
On-screen appearance	Fire teleports into the stage. 	Fire teleports into the stage.	Fire teleports into the stage.
Taunts 	Standard: Baxter raises fire on his right hand and does a pose.	Side: Unknown 	Down: Unknown
Victory pose 	Unknown. 	Unknown. 	Unknown.
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