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Meta Knight is Kirby's rival who boasts unique and speedy swordsmanship.  Meta Knight is a great character for beginers because he is very easy to play.  His special moves make him very popular and fun. You will probably be seeing a lot of him when you play Brawl.

Meta Knight's special moves:

Neutral Special: Mach Tornado

Meta Knight creates a tornado around him that sucks up opponents.

You can move left or right while using this move, or you can tap the special move button to rise in the air.

Side Special: Drill Rush

Meta Knight will spin like a drill and rush into foes.

 You can control this move to make Meta Knight move up or down.

Up Special: Shuttle Loop

Meta Knight's recovery move sends Meta Knight up into the air...

... and sends him gliding horizontally.

Down Special: Dimensional Cape

This move makes Meta Knight disappear to avoid a move.

He will then reappear in another spot.

You can control where Meta Knight reappears by tapping a direction after he disappears.  A great way to take advantage of this move is by attacking right after he reappears.

I haven't practiced much with this guy, but I've certainly had to battle him enough. One of my friends plays as him mostly, and he's a formidable foe. He's quick and can spin his blades in such quick motions that your eye can hardly follow them. The problem is, they do exceptionally weak damage. One of the biggest problems I had with him was how hard it is to control his flight. You can glide with him if you hold down the jump button, or at the end of his up special attack. You must quickly angle him to glide in a straight trajectory. Otherwise you will go too high and stall, or too low and crash. Either way, if you're off the edge, you will probably die. Once you master his glide, it will make you very hard to knock off the edges.

That little guy is a PAIN. He's like a bat outta starbucks. He acts like he's got so much caffeine in his system and he's really cranky and jittery. He will rip you up so fast you don't know what hit you. He's hard to hit too and hes got wings. All the characters with wings are extra hard to KO off the sides cuz they can just glide right on back. No matter how many times you knock them off, if it doesn't cause a ring out, they will just be back.