r/RivalsOfAether • • 5d ago

Events Heat Wave 9 | October 23rd - 25th | Feat. Soulrifle211, stro, AlphaStone, Air Gordon, Pugx<3, CPU0, Necroflyer, ThatBupGuy, and more!

27 Upvotes

Heat Wave 9 | October 23rd - 25th | Phoenix, Arizona

Heat Wave 9 returns as the largest annual event for Arizona, coming in hot as a silver tier R2CS event, and a super regional level event.

This event has two players in attendance who stand far above the rest, Soulrifle211 and stro. Soulrifle211 has been in his hottest streak for Rivals 2 ever, with him taking home the CEO belt and getting multiple top 4s at recent majors. With him basically guaranteed to enter top 10 this upcoming season, this event is looking likely to bolster his resume. That said, he has one opponent who absolutely threatens the title of champion for this event: stro.

stro is Arizona’s best player, and by a wide margin. Having one of the best winrates of any player in the entire game, stro hasn’t dropped a set to anyone from Arizona in over a year! It would be easy to assume that their win rate is inflated beyond their level, but they have gone on amazing runs whenever they travel, or defeated many opponents who come to them. With Soulrifle211 coming in hot, this could be stro’s opportunity to defend their state from one of the hottest rises of any player in recent times.

Heat Wave 9 also comes in with TWO exclusive palettes: OG Heat Wave Forsburn, and Streetware Lovers Olympia. Pick them up here!

Other players I’d like to highlight: AlphaStone, Air Gordon, Pugx<3, CPU0, Necroflyer, ThatBupGuy, PlasticDinos, Bucketfullabiscuts, and SBS (Rivals 1)!


Events


Streaming Information

Event Schedule (Times in MDT):

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Friday, October 23rd:

  • 16:00: ROA1 Doubles

  • 19:00: ROA2 Doubles

  • 20:00: ROA1 Workshop

Saturday, October 24th:

  • 10:00: ROA2 Pools Wave A

  • 11:30: ROA2 Pools Wave B

  • 13:00: ROA2 Pools Wave C

  • 14:30: ROA2 Pools Wave D

  • 16:00: ROA1 Pools Wave A

  • 17:30: ROA1 Pools Wave B

Sunday, October 25th:

  • 10:00: ROA2 Top Cut

  • 13:00: ROA2 Top 8

  • 16:00: ROA1 Top Cut

  • 19:00: ROA1 Top 8

ROA2 Seeding

  1. Dansmello Soulrifle211 Maypul [Georgia, USA]
  2. DEGEN kqt stro Clairen [Arizona, USA]
  3. Alphastone Fleet [???, USA]
  4. AJ Air Gordon Fleet [New Jersey, USA]
  5. Pugx<3 Wrastor [Tijuana, Mexico]
  6. PQ2 CPU0 Fleet [Arizona, USA]
  7. Necroflyer Wrastor [Arizona, USA]
  8. Kragg ThatBupGuy Kragg [Colorado, USA]

Other Information

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r/RivalsOfAether • • 21d ago

Rivals 2 Patch 1.7.3 - Workshop Full Launch, In-Game Move List, and more!

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224 Upvotes

r/RivalsOfAether • • 2h ago

Rivals 2 Got all of the achievements except the hardest one

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35 Upvotes

r/RivalsOfAether • • 15h ago

Rivals 2 Catzerker Skin for Clairen Coming to the Game this Thursday!

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234 Upvotes

“⚔️ The mystery sword was Catzerker Clairen's, straight out of Aethermancer!

You can pick her up in our Aethermancer Bundle releasing this Thursday”

“We're super excited for the crossover. Kragg is headed into @moi_rai_'s Aethermancer this Thursday too with their big Maverick Compendium update.

🔖 https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2288470/view/713413492630096405 “

Source: Here


r/RivalsOfAether • • 14h ago

Rivals 2 Free Absa react for your balance discussion needs.

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176 Upvotes

r/RivalsOfAether • • 2h ago

Rivals 2 Encountered Cheater

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11 Upvotes

Are there any proper channels to report my opponent?


r/RivalsOfAether • • 13h ago

Fanart I love rivals 2 :) Custom Pokemon Card!

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60 Upvotes

r/RivalsOfAether • • 15h ago

Clip Could I interest you in some Shen-ant-igans? (and Elephant)

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40 Upvotes

r/RivalsOfAether • • 4h ago

Discussion If kill power was generally increased across the board, do you think the game would suit 4 stocks?

6 Upvotes

Just really a hypothetical. Let's ignore the logistics of the devs having to rebalance every kill move around being more explosive and the combo game becoming stronger and more Melee-like to help it.

Do you think you'd want a Rivals of Aether 2 like that to be played at 4 stocks instead of 3?

This train of thought was inspired both from watching Melee recently but also some Rivals 1, where the kill power did just feel higher than Rivals 2's kill power.


r/RivalsOfAether • • 5h ago

Rivals 1 Error sans vs RALSEI

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5 Upvotes

leave a comment what do you think this is the versus video


r/RivalsOfAether • • 22h ago

Workshop (ROA1) Shy Guy's Definitive Edition release is out for RoA Workshop!!

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36 Upvotes

My classic year 1 Workshop fighter, Shy Guy, just got his full Definitive Edition rework, just in time for his 7 year release anniversary! How time flies, huh...

Shy Guy: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1898782296
Subcon: https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1909704309
And here's a full presentation going over the update as well!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyLCMTfwmiM


r/RivalsOfAether • • 20h ago

Rivals 2 Retro Land Icon

14 Upvotes

I have no clue if anything as been stated about this anywhere but I LOVE those retrol land icons and was wondering if the newer characters were to be included later.

I am a Galvan/Oly main (like Sandstorm but bad) and can have neither of them :(


r/RivalsOfAether • • 15h ago

Workshop (ROA2) We need a Get Off Luigi workshop mod please thanks ty

2 Upvotes

Have all versions of Luigi been designed to deliberately fall out of all multi hits? To anti-anti-air your anti-air with the same nair they were doing regardless? To do nothing but full stage wavedash back and forth fly by spam? To have seemingly all moves be + on shield and also combo into up B? To systematically accidentally low profile under 85% of moves in the game? Am I a ghost or something?

This is mostly a joke post but also it is not a joke post at all


r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Discussion So..... People are starting to use ai to make rivals workshop characters now...

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209 Upvotes

I REALLY hope this isn't the start of slop in roa...


r/RivalsOfAether • • 15h ago

Seeking Advice Anyone else have trouble closing the game?

1 Upvotes

Ever since I installed all the workshop stuff, which I've since uninstalled for this, the game never seems to close properly. Steam will always show it as running, despite it being closed. Trying to reopen it unsurprisingly gives me the "game already running" message.

Only fix I've found thus far is force exiting steam and reopening the game.


r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Rivals 2 Anyone know what to do about this? Feels like it happens every third game now and I'm forced to take the ranked loss.

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26 Upvotes

Anyone have any recommendations? I really want to play but its so hard knowing this can just happen and there's nothing I can do about it


r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Workshop (ROA2) Globglogabgalab Workshop Character Trailer

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102 Upvotes

r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Seeking Advice Potential player. Convince me to play

17 Upvotes

Just as the title says im interested in playing roa2. I've only ever played traditional fighters and wanted to play a platform fighter for once. And with smash ultimate coming into its final years (as smash 6 is inevitable) I wanted something with more long-term. So I came here. I've only watched a few videos covering the very basics of the game and I'm interested. What I want is to be completely sold on playing this game. What's so good about it? Why should I play it instead of smash ultimate? What's the community like? What are some beginner character recommendations? (Particularly interested in kragg) and anything else I should know.


r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Rivals 2 Hitboxes

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25 Upvotes

r/RivalsOfAether • • 2d ago

Other Day #599 of Posting Snake Facts Until Elliana Gets Announced

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53 Upvotes

Solid Snake makes a hidden, uncredited cameo appearance in the post-game area of Yu-Gi-Oh! 7 Trials to Glory: World Championship Tournament for the Game Boy Advance.


r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Seeking Advice Question about ranked leaderboard display...?

5 Upvotes

My username in the ranked leaderboard isn't my actual steam name, but just steam_stringofnumbers. wondering if this is a common issue, and how to fix it?


r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Seeking Advice 1000elo zetter looking for insight

6 Upvotes

I've been hovering around 1000 for a bit now. my biggest challenge is long range defensive players (fleet, lox, and especially claren) I can play vs these characters until then hunker down and start spacing me out with long normals.

Ik it's a skill issue but what skill is most important in these mu, should a be more aggressive or slow it down aswell.


r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Rivals 2 CPU local versus character change

3 Upvotes

Hoping this is an easy answer, how do you change the character on a cpu character without a mouse? If I use a mouse, I can click the cursor on their character and it will let me change, but if I don't have a mouse I can't seem to figure out a way to do it.

In fact I'm pretty sure I remember not being able to select one at all without using my mouse and clicking the cpu icon on the active character box. I am not at home right now but does anyone else know why I might be having trouble figuring this out and/or explain how you would do so with just your controller?


r/RivalsOfAether • • 1d ago

Rivals 2 How to swap controller in lobbys?

2 Upvotes

If i accidently click on something with my mouse, i can no longer use my xbox controller in lobbies.


r/RivalsOfAether • • 2d ago

Rivals 2 I really really want Mollo now

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32 Upvotes

After playing the fun port of RoA1 Mollo to the RoA2 workshop I can’t stop. Never played RoA1, so I’ve never played with Mollo. But he is so much fun. Still rooting for Elliana to end a certain reditor’s snake-fact suffering, but after that I really want Mollo as a returning rival.