World Spriter's Tournament 2014 Entry

Man, now THAT was really fun to make!  Anyways,here's my entry for dark-the-lizardhog.deviantart.… <--- this guy's Wolrd Spriter's Tournament. I had never, ever heard about such a thing before, so I'm glad I managed to enter in that thing in time, because trust me, it's awesome!

Now, BIG WARNING. Long description ahead, because detailed character profiles arrive.  Ready? Good. Those who've seen my gallery know those two already :3

Oh, by the way. Musics listened while making comic:
-DBZ, Solid State Scouter www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm77VC…
-RWBY, Red Like Roses II (www.youtube.com/watch?v=euuxPo…); Time to Say Goodbye (www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdWCLT…); This Will be the Day (www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNtcP6…)
-Waterflame (various, most notably Hexagon Force www.youtube.com/watch?v=afwK74… and Super Slam Dunk League www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7dU9Q…)
-My Name is Trinity, main theme (www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_mMMI…)

Enjoy!


Team Deadly Strikers.
Member 1: Deadly Dart. (Sheet: postimg.org/image/th5v2nm8j/fu…)

Full name: Target Striker Deadly Dart

Age: 13 years old.

Nickname: Dart, Double D (Tortwag only)

Allies: Gimmick Hunters

Background:

Dart was an intelligent Yoshi living in an abandonned island with other tribes. Each year, the Yoshis had to prove who was the best tribe of the island by participating in various trials together, one of which being the Target Strike Trial, where Yoshis had to prove their skills at throwing objects at specific moving (or not) targets, and eventually Yoshis from enemy tribes. Dart was among them and failed several times at being his tribe's best, resulting in him desiring more power. He left the island and journeyed around the world in order to get better.

He came across the Gimmick Hunting Army of the self-proclaimed Shell Master Tortwag and challenged him to a Target Striker duel, in which Dart was easily defeated. Tortwag proposes him to join his army and gives him an artificial target-locking device named “D-Locker”. Upon joining Tortwag's forces, the Yoshi swore to follow his orders and find any powers he comes across in order for the Gimmick Hunters to replicate them and use them to upgrade their own. And thus Deadly Dart's peculiar journey across multiple universes and dimensions began...

Personality:

Deadly Dart is very different from most of the Yoshis of his kind. Before his encounter with Tortwag he was already serious, reserved, cold yet cunning and skilled in Target Striking. After his numerous defeats and final humiliation against Tortwag, he became even more reserved, almost mean, and yet he still belives that worthy fighters deserve respect. He however solely cares about his missions and will do everything in his power to complete it, no matter the obstacles.

Specific traits: He has a formal language and is used to elongate his sentences, which is again in complete contrast with the average Yoshis from the Mario universe. This habit of his tends to fade away when he loses his cool in battle.

Abilities:

Lock Shift: Dart's main ability. Over the years he has developped different types of Lockers that boosts his physical and targetting skills depending on what Locker is equipped.

Evoldart: Dart's ability to create and throw egg-shaped projectiles to his opponent. Effects different depending on Locker equipped.

Tongue Whip: Like any Yoshi, Dart can use his tongue like a whip to strike a foe, eat a projectile (almost anything, depending on the size), or use it like a sticky grappling to get away from tight situations.

Evolrush: An adaptable version of the standard Yoshi's signature egg role move, where Dart turns into a giant egg and tackle his foes. Effect, speed and strenght different depending on what Locker equipped.

Flutter Jump: A Yoshi's signature double jump that make them hover for a couple of seconds. usable multiple times.

Striker State: Dart's altered form. All the Lockers he has merge into one. His skin turns orange and his eyes completely blue for a short period of time, during which each effect from his lockers are combined into one. When the transformation ends, Dart receives tremendous strain on his body.

Equipment:

Evolbombs: Dart is also equipped with bombs, with effect altered depending on Locker equipped. He doesn't have an unlimited amount of those however (20 throw per type of bombs).

D-Bomb: explodes upon impact.

S-Bomb: release sharp crystals on the ground and in the air that will swiftly pierce through enemies.

M-Bomb: releases a very powerful blast.

A-Bomb: follows the enemy for a couple of seconds. When detonates, releases a “black hole” type of explosion that will attract the enemy into the center of explosion and inflict massive damage to him.

C-Bomb: is set on any surface (usually the ground) and modify the area affected by it. Standard set is Ice, AKA transforms the area it is put into into an ice field, freezing enemy in place.

Locking System: directly replacing his right eye, this system allows Dart to efffectively strike any target with 100% precision (not to mention he can plan ahead the ricochet effect of his eggs). He can however still miss if the target is good enough to dodge the hits. Each Locker has its own effects on Dart's body and equipment:

-D-Locker: (light blue) standard dart Locker. Gives Dart standard speed and strenght (which is quite a lot considering he's a Yoshi), average precision in Target Striking and average power for Evolrush

Max.Potential Skill: D-Machine Gun. Dart throws eggs at a very fast pace (10 eggs per second, and he keeps going for 6 seconds).

-S-Locker: (violet) switf type Locker. Gives Dart Super speed and agility but little strenght, although the force of impact makes up for the lack of sheer power.

Max.Potential Skill: S-Sniper and S-Impactor. S-Sniper allows Dart to throw one very precise and piercing egg at the opponent, which will inflict massive damage if it hits. He has up to 6 throws.

S-Impactor is a speed-enhanced version of the Evolrush, which strikes the foe at the speed of sound.

2 strikes only.

-M-Locker: (blue) mighty type Locker. Gives Dart enhanced strength and endurance but little speed, although the Yoshi's natural talents makes up for the lack of speed/agility.

Max.Potential Skill: M-Rocket and M-Wave. M-Rocket transform Dart's eggs into exploding projectiles upon impact. Up to 12 throws. M-Wave allows him to use a powerful ground pound, shaking the ground and creating an energy wave is released.

-A-Locker: (yellow/red) aim type Locker. Gives Dart perfect precision in Target Striking, meaning his Evoldart gain the head-hunting ability. No other enhanced features.

Max.Potential Skill: A-Chaser. On top of head-hunting, this skill gives Dart's eggs a peculiar ability which allow Dart's egg to search for a target and go around any type of natural protection to effectively find the target. No effect on supernatural barriers or counter hits. The eggs also get bigger when Skill is in use.

-C-Locker (VERY light blue and light yellow): Crafty type Locker. Gives Dart enhanced agility. His eggs can be set as exploding traps in any surface, including the foe's body, implying that Dart will mostly rely in his physical skills in this state.

Max.Potential Skill: C-Burstpod. One shot allowed. This skill transforms one of Dart's egg into a giant one, which will explode when Dart wants it to. It will release multicolored energy beams that will spread in a wide area (all directions) and explode upon impact, destroying everything in the area.



Member 2: Scalgon the Gizoid

Full name: Scalgon MkI (Sheet: postimg.org/image/snzqamwk5/)

Age: 3 years old (well... It's a robot, so not sure if that's important...)

Nickname: None.

Allies: Gimmick Hunters

Background: Scalgon is an experimental Gimmick Bot and the first of its kind. Created by Shell Master Tortwag, it holds the latter's original Gimmick power, Shell Shift. This robot can also replicate and store any power he sees, but he cannot equip it, unlike Tortwag can. He can however equip it to others, including Dart. Scalgon is Dart's default partner due to his usefulness.

Personality: in his G-Orb form, He shows no feelings whatsoever and acts and talks like a robot. In Battling Mode however, although he still talks like a robot, he taunts his opponents like a true fighter would and swaggers around, which immensely irritates others. He only does this to trick his opponents and get them to do stupid things, which makes him a very tricky foe.

Specific traits:

When summoning Scalwag, he tends to become very reckless but still manages to keep a certain sense of teamwork. He does anything possible to complete a mission and collect as many data as possible, but if Dart has to stop him, he will obey.

Abilities:

-G-Orb form: In this form, Scalgon can analyze his opponent faster and this understand his pattern, moves, powers and eventually replicate said powers to store them away. He can also dash, teleport and tackle enemies. He usually starts the battle in this form in order to distract enemies and analyze them for both him and Dart's sake.

-Dash Impact: Scalgon likes to involve dashing in most of his physical attacks, most notably when using his signature move, Impact Kick. Dash Impact allows Scalgon to Dash almost constantly in order to strike at high speed and power.

-Shell Shift Gimmick: the Shells are shell-like adaptable projectiles that have different effects depending on their color.

*Green: fast projectile that goes straight into the enemy. Fastest shell.

*Red: average speed head-huntign projectile. Most precise shell.

*Yellow: projectile that bounces multiple times. Strongest shell.

*Blue: explodes upon impact. Most damaging shell.

On top of those effects, the shells can be combined with each other, creating double-colored shells with double effects (example: Red+blue = red and blue head-hunting and exploding shell)

-Scalwag Summon: Scalgon summons a giant mechanic cartepillar out of a green capsule in order to support him. The mouth-like cannon can fire bigger versions of the robot's shells, and the combining effect still works. Only this time, it depends on the body part's colors. (example, if there are 3 parts in green and 1 in red, the fast effect will be priorized (and enhanced), but the head-hunter one won't be too powerful. Also, each of Scalwag's body parts (except the head) can be detached and used with one of the shell effects) His booster allows him to dash and/or blast away enemies coming from the rear.




Wish of the team: Let the Gimmick Hunters host their own event (implying they will get fighters to come from all around the multiple worlds and replicate their powers)