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Most of this is true. It can also double jump out of his neutral air to negate all landing-lag and mix up with a second attack, and most of its attacks destroy projectiles.

But remember, it has great strengths, but also some great weaknesses. It has:

- Below average health

- The slowest walk speed

- The teleport dash prevents it from using techniques like dashjumping. This makes Totem Monster's movement far worse than other characters

- The lowest weight in the game, allowing him to be juggled more easily than other characters.

- The lowest damage output out of all monsters

- Neutral attack (ground tentacle slap) is not as safe to use as it might seem at first. The startup is slow enough that if you are prepared for it, you can block on reaction (but it's better to anticipate it). If you block this attack, characters can often dash jump at TM and start a combo.

- Quite bad shield-breaking potential from a long range

- The slowest attacks to beat pressure from an opponent spamming attacks when it's blocking.

- No safe attacks to pressure a blocking opponent, unless during super

- All attacks are slow enough in startup or endlag that a patient opponent can always react to what happened (So nothing like Dragonfish & Lily crouch attack or Happy/Mad neutral attacks). TM is excellent at punishing unpatient players, but can also be punished hard by players who block at the right time.

Totem monster is definetely the character that people feel the most mixed about, but the more you play, the more you will see how big its weaknesses are. In my opinion, all other characters are stronger than Totem Monster. That being said, I know why some people think he's perhaps OP, and I will nerf the super attack in a future update.