Character Sheet: Durmite/Wisdurm

 DURMITE/WISDURM

Today, we begin our newcomers. I did say going into this that the RPGs would likely be the last shot for many of the frequent enemies you wouldn't expect to see on a Smash roster, but what I didn't expect was that the RPGs would actually come through for a lot of them. At least one I thought was never going to happen in a million, billion years. But here we are. The first ten are all Mario regulars who finally took the step up to playable. The other sixteen are originals to the Mario & Luigi games (or Origami King) specifically.

1. Toadsworth

2. Captain Toad

3. Buzzy Beetle

4. King Bob-Omb

5. Pokey

6. Ninji

7. Thwomp

8. Whomp

9. Mechakoopa

10. Nabbit

11. Mario & Luigi

12. Prince Peasley

13. Prince Dreambert

14. Olivia

15. King Olly

16. Broque Monsieur

17. Massif Bros.

18. Cackletta

19. Fawful

20. Princess Shroob

21. The Dark Star

22. Antasma

23. Midbus

24. Shroob

25. Popple

26. Durmite/Wisdurm

I wasn't going to include this one, as, even though the character had a bunch of moves, she didn't feel like an important enough character to include (similar to the Massif Bros. in this same batch), but then upon further reflection, I remembered Jonathan Jones, and Rawk Hawk, and Francis, all with an arguably smaller role than she did, and I really didn't have much of a case. Durmite is a strange parasitic worm the brothers discover inside of Bowser's body that they have to fight off, only to later discover that she is in fact a fairy guarding one of the Star Cures needed to defeat Fawful, and was transformed into a bug in order to get at the Cure.

She has three different forms, her bigger blue worm form Durmite, her tiny pink fairy form Wisdurm, and her pink worm form somewhere in between. I figure all three will be present, at least as color swaps but will still generally fight the same way. Across your various battles with her, she attacks you in various ways, including charging at you, sucking things up through a straw, eating enemies with her Birdo-like mouth, spit webs and swing around on them, get bigger, drop a giant heart crystal out of the sky on someone, shoot stars with her magic wand, and shrink you down. Definitely plenty to work with for me. Let's see what we can do.

Here's the moveset I came up with:

Standard B: Crystal Heart

She will wave her wand around, summoning a large crystal heart into the air a little bit in front of her and letting it slam down on anything beneath it.

Side B: Star Stream/Web Stream

This functions on the same principle, but appears differently in different battles. In one form, she shoots a string of web and sweeps it back and forth. In another, it's a stream of stars but acts much the same. This would play out on the smash stage as well.

Up B: Web Swing

She would spit a string up into the air, let it latch onto something, and then swing upwards the way she does in the game.

Down B: Straw

She would stick someone with her straw from the game and begin draining health from them for as long as she can hold them. This would restore her own health as well.

Final Smash: True Form

She would revert to her true form of Wisdurm, wave her wand into the air, making Star Cures appear in the air behind her, and then she cast a spell across the entire stage, causing every fighter to shrink down to minuscule size.

Entrance: She'd wriggle her way up from the underground.

Taunts: Up, she would wiggle her wand-tail around. Side, she would curl up and snooze for a second. Down, she would flare her snout and get angry for a second.

Thanks for reading! Next up, let's go over our rosters once again!