| ATTACKS | GROUND | AIR |
|---|---|---|
| SIDE HOLD 🡆 + J |
WATERDANCER Arya does a COMBO while moving forward. |
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| NEUTRAL J |
NEEDLE STRIKE Arya steps back, CHARGES a forward rapier stab. |
KNIFE FLOURISH Arya twirls her knife downward. |
| SIDE 🡆 + J |
SHARP EDGES A COMBO of a rapier swing and a knife stab. |
AERIAL SLASH Arya CHARGES a forward sword slash. |
| UP 🡅 + J |
UPWARD SLASH Arya CHARGES and swings her sword upward. |
WHIRLING STAB Arya does an upward spin attack with her knife. |
| DOWN 🡇 + J |
ROLLING SLASH Arya rolls forward, crouching under attacks, then swipes her sword downward behind her. |
STINGER Arya CHARGES a precision stab straight downward. |
Arya Stark
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Arya Stark is a Fighter from the Game of Thrones Universe in MultiVersus. She was revealed alongside the game itself on November 18th, 2021, and is part of the game's initial release roster, having been playable since the first Tech Test.
Origin
Arya Stark is one of the main point-of-view characters from George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novel series and their TV adaptation, Game of Thrones. She is the third child and second daughter of Lord Eddard Stark and his wife, Lady Catelyn Stark, as well as the sister of the incumbent Westerosi monarchs. Her main goal throughout both the book and television series is to avenge her family by joining the Faceless Men and becoming an assassin.
Official Biography
She rejected being a lady. What she became was something far deadlier.
Website
Born the third child of Eddard and Catelyn Stark, Arya never wanted to be a lady or waste time with formality. She thought that was a boring task better left to her siblings. But when her father was murdered and her family deposed, young Arya found herself on a new journey that would take her across Westeros, and eventually to Essos where she trained to be a Faceless Man that transformed her into an accomplished swordswoman and deadly assassin. It was a transformation that would change the course of her life - and all of Westeros - forever.[1]
In-Game
A highly mobile master of Water Dancing-based combos and deadly assassin of the highest order. Steal your enemy's face to keep the rest of the battlefield on their toes.
Gameplay
Arya is a pure rushdown melee Assassin who specializes in elusiveness and high speed combos, being capable of pinning down her opponents in a flurry of moves, leaving them little time to react. She can effectively do that and put pressure to her opponents through her Side Special, Knife-Thrower, where she throws a knife, which can be attached to enemies, and, when the Side Special is executed again, causes Arya to dash towards her enemies (this can also be used on allies for repositioning/recovering). Other than that her main core mechanic is her ability to "steal" her opponents' faces through her Neutral Special, Face-Stealer, which, once she has a face in her possession, allows her to stun her opponents by using the Neutral Special again.
One of Arya's most important traits is her Turn Attack, a temporary buff that can be bestowed to Arya and her allies through her Down Special, and also whenever she neutral dodges an attack. This buff causes the next attack to break armor and flip the enemy to the opposite direction they're facing.
Arya's high speed and combo potential are offset by a relatively low range and small hitboxes, even though they are disjointed. On top of that, she is among one of the lightest characters in the game, meaning she can be ringed out at significantly low percentages. Nevertheless, her flexibility and powerful movement options makes her deadly in the right hands, specially considering her high skill ceiling.
For 2v2 fights, Arya finds the best in partners that can either keep up with her speed, allowing to keep opponents in constant hitstun to deal massive amounts of damage; Batman is an excellent partner as he can easily close the gap with his Bat-Grapple, while Harley Quinn has plenty of combo options that synergize well with Arya's. Alternatively, heavy and sturdy frontline characters are great to keep her protected, such as Wonder Woman, Iron Giant and Garnet, which helps circumvent some of her weaknesses.
Skills
| SPECIALS | GROUND | AIR |
|---|---|---|
| NEUTRAL K |
FACE-STEALER Arya grabs a fighter to steal their FACE. Once she has a face, press the input again to use one of the victim's ground or air moves. |
FACE-STEALER Same as ground. |
| SIDE 🡆 + K |
KNIFE-THROWER Arya throws a knife PROJECTILE that can attach to fighters. Attaching to fighters reduces COOLDOWN. Press the input again and Arya dashes to the knife's location, hitting enemies as she dashes. On COOLDOWN, Arya does a spinning stab forward that BREAKS ARMOR. |
KNIFE-THROWER Same as ground. |
| UP 🡅 + K |
DAGGER SLASH Arya does a knife swipe overhead. If she hits an enemy, she will dash in the direction they are knocked in. |
DAGGER SLASH Same as ground. |
| DOWN 🡇 + K |
BLADE-SHARPENER Arya dashes to a nearby ally and gives both her and her ally TURN ATTACK. TURN ATTACK causes the next MELEE attack to BREAK ARMOR and flip the enemy to face away from Arya or her ally. |
BLADE-SHARPENER Same as ground. |
PASSIVE ABILITIES
BACKSTAB
Arya and her ally deal increased damage with MELEE attacks if they hit enemies in the back.
Arya and her ally briefly gain TURN ATTACK whenever Arya neutral dodges an attack on the ground.
When Arya rings out an enemy, she spawns a pie that will both HEAL and deal SLOW to enemies.
When Arya's ally is rung out, Arya is ENRAGED and will apply additional KNOCKBACK on her next MELEE attack.
Fighter Mastery Track
Arya Wins |
125 Perk Currency |
150 Perk Currency |
175 Perk Currency |
500 Fighter Road XP |
250 Perk Currency |
275 Perk Currency |
300 Perk Currency |
325 Perk Currency |
1,000 Fighter Road XP |
500 Perk Currency |
600 Perk Currency |
700 Perk Currency |
1,500 Fighter Road XP |
150 Gleamium |
Bonus Rewards (RARE) |
Update History
Season 4 1.4.3 Patch
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- * Fixed an issue where Arya could get stuck in her transform animation if hit under certain conditions
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- *Fixed an issue where Arya could cancel the start-up of any face-steal attack
- General
- + Ground movement speed increased to 2190 from 2125
- Ground Down Attack
- ~ Hitbox size adjusted to better match visuals
- Air Neutral Attack
- ~ Knockback angle made more horizontal
- ~ Hitbox size adjusted to better match visuals
- ~ Now limits fall speed during attack recovery
- Air Side Attack
- ~ Hitbox size adjusted to better match visuals
- ~ Now limits fall speed during attack recovery
- Air Up Attack
- ~ Now limits fall speed during attack recovery
- Air/Ground Side Special (all versions)
- ~ Now limits fall speed during attack recovery
- Ground Side Attack 2
- * Fixed an issue where this attack could cause more knockback than intended
Season 3 1.3.3 Midseason Patch
- Air/Ground Side Special (Dagger Dash)
- – Hitstun reduced
- Air/Ground Side Special (Cooldown)
- + Movement increased
- General
- * Fixed an issue where certain props would disappear when rendered too far from the camera
- Air/Ground Side Special
- ~ Fixed certain projectile clank interactions causing the dagger to float in the air
- Air Neutral Attack
- * Now maintains less momentum when executed after dodging off of a platform ledge to prevent a bug that was causing unintentional “extreme” travel speed (It’s still fast)
- Air Side Attack
- * Now maintains less momentum when executed after dodging off of a platform ledge to prevent a bug that was causing unintentional “extreme” travel speed (It’s still fast)
- Air Up Attack
- * Now maintains less momentum when executed after dodging off of a platform ledge to prevent a bug that was causing unintentional “extreme” travel speed (It’s still fast)
- Air Down Attack
- + Now maintains more momentum during attack start-up
- General
- – Head hurtbox size increased; will fix certain projectiles whiffing versus Arya on the ground
- Dodge Land
- * Fixed Arya’s neutral dodge playing the wrong animation
- Ground Neutral Attack
- – Hitbox active duration reduced 2 frames
- + Forward movement speed increased slightly; distance unchanged
- Air Side Attack
- – Charge knockback multiplier reduced to 1.25 from 1.6
- Air Down Attack
- – Repeat-move lockout increased to 20 frames from 8 frames
- Air/Ground Up Special
- – Repeat-move lockout increased to 20 frames from 15 frames
- Ground Down Attack
- – On-whiff cancel window delayed 10 frames
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- * Fixed an issue where Arya’s facesteal of Rick could cause a desync
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- ~ Stun attack from face-stealing another Arya now applies incapacitate-resistance buff to incapacitated enemies
- Ground Dash Attack
- ~ Updated knockback to hit more consistently near the ledge
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- * Fixed an issue where Arya would float into space while attempting to use face steal
- Dash Attack
- ~ Reduced input buffer window for follow-up attacks
- ! General
- Fixed a bug where Arya would always throw items at a diagonal angle when trying to throw them upward.
- Fixed a bug that caused some of Arya’s attacks to not share attack decay where they should.
- ~ Air/Ground Side Special
- Enemies that dodge an Arya dagger now gain the benefits from dodging an attack.
- Allies that are rung out while a dagger is attached will no longer respawn with the dagger still attached to them.
- ! General
- Fixed a bug with Arya’s disguise where if Arya stole Ultimate Warrior Shaggy and used nair, it would cause a brief freeze.
- ! Air Up Attack
- Fixed a timing issue that was causing on-hit cancels to be delayed by 2 frames.
- - Air Neutral Attack
- Added 2 frames of whiff lag to Needle Strike.
- ~ Air Side Attack
- Adjusted the hitbox on Aerial Alash so that it no longer hits behind Arya as much
- - Ground Side Attack
- Increased whiff lag of Jab 1 by 4 additional frames.
- - Ground Up Attack
- Added 4 frames of whiff lag to Upward Slash.
- - Ground Up Attack
- Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames.
- - Ground Up Side Attack
- Increased whiff recovery by 1 frame on jab 1.
- - Air Down Attack
- Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames
- - Air/Ground Up Special
- Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames.
Others: Updated move list text for Arya, Batman, and Velma.
- ! Bug Fix
- Betrayal signature perk enraged buff will apply 3x weakened stacks as outlined in the previous patch notes
- - Signature Perk
- Betrayal perk enrages allies/Arya but they will deal 3x weakened on hit down from 5x.
- We were finding that weakened influenced the gameplay of Arya and their opponents too greatly at higher level play.
- - Ground/Air Up Special
- Moved hit frames back 1 frame.
- Branching to Side Special (Dagger throw) on hit moved back 6 frames.
- - Ground/Air Side Special:
- Dagger Hitting Ally or enemy now returns 25% of cooldown down from 50%
- Betrayal Signature Perk - dagger hitting ally now returns 25% of cooldown down from 50%
- Branching to Side Special (Dagger throw) on hit moved back 6 frames.
- Dash to dagger from minimum travel time increased to 0.275 seconds from 0.23 seconds.
- ! Bug fix
- Fixed bug where if an enemy died with the knife in them, it would remain in them when they respawned.
- ! Bug Fix
- Fixed an issue where dashing to the knife on Arya traveling at a downward angle would continue to throw her at speed downwards often causing her death.
- ! Bug Fix
- Fixed an issue where Face Steal could cause desyncing and frame rate drops
- + Ground/Air Up Special
- Enemies have 70% KBI instead of 100%.
- This is a stopgap measure before a larger change comes in. The fix is still in testing and since we won't have full confidence in our solution until more testing is done, we have to push it into the next patch. The goal is to make Up Special more consistent and skill based where the opponent has control over the outcome and follow ups from Arya require a read.
- + Ground/Air Side Special
- Dash to Knife when attached to enemy hits more consistently when traveling long distances.
- + Air Up Attack
- First hit should drop out of the combo less
- - General
- Set passive dodge meter return to 7s from 6
- ! Fixed issues where Arya could deal much more damage than intended.
- ! Neutral Special
- Fixed issues that were causing hit boxes on stolen attacks to not hit reliably.
- We are still looking at updates to Arya’s up special, but could use more time to make it right. Expect an update in the near future.
- + Assassin Passive:
- Removed 5% additional damage taken debuff.
- - Air/Ground Up Special:
- Reverted to Early Access version of up special.
- We were finding that skill and counterplay was being removed from Arya with the addition of the vacuuming effect making follow ups nearly always true. This revert will give opponents the ability to affect the outcome by use of Knockback Influence (KBI) and Arya air control to compensate for the opponent’s KBI.
- ~ Air/Ground Up Special:
- Fixed a bug that caused Arya’s dash on hit to stop working after Taz turns her into a chicken.
- ~ Air/Ground Neutral Special:
- Fixed an issue with long lingering hitboxes on Arya stolen face neutral special.
- + Assassin Passive:
- Reduced extra damage taken from 14% to 5%.
- We’re evaluating if this passive should be removed entirely. We want to take a step towards that while trying to not to go too far too fast. We don’t want to create an assassin dominated meta.
- Movelist Description of this change will not be updated until the next patch
- Reduced extra damage taken from 14% to 5%.
- + Air/Ground Up Special - Hitting a fighter will now more accurately launch them at an angle to allow follow-ups for Arya
- + Air Up Attack - The first hit will now more accurately combo into the second hit.
- + Neutral Air Attack - Now has earlier branching on hit.
- + Ground Side Attack - Arya will retain velocity on first hit of side attack.
- + Ground Down Attack - Now has slightly earlier dodge branching
- ~ Air/Ground Neutral Special - Fixed a bug where Arya would not copy over capsule hitboxes on her normal neutral attacks when stealing a fighter's face.
- Set Arya's hurtbox to match her victim's hurtbox while she is disguised as them.
- Fixed a bug where Arya's top UI would be offset incorrectly when she steals a face.
- Fixed bug where Arya's disguise attack hitbox could get disconnected.
- Fixed bug where Arya's original hitboxes would be useable [sic] during disguise attacks.
- Fixed bug where the hitboxes from Arya's disguise would stay active during her normal attacks.
- ~ Neutral Air Attack:
- + Earlier branch on-hit to make combos more reliable.
- - More recovery when whiffed to allow for a slightly larger punish window.
- + Aerial and Grounded Up Special: On-hit movement follow is more consistent.
- + Aerial and Grounded Down Special: Cooldown reduced from 20s to 18s.
- This is to give Arya a bit more access to armor pierce as the match progresses.
- + Grounded Up Attack: Has earlier on-hit cancel frames to allow it to combo more reliably.
- - Side Air Attack: Hitbox was shrunk to better match the attack animation.
- - Grounded Side Attack 1: More whiff recovery to give the attack a bit more risk for its reward.
Closed Alpha, May 19th 2022
- Arya Stark was a playable fighter in the Closed Alpha.
November 18th 2021
- Arya Stark was revealed to be a playable fighter in MultiVersus.
Trivia
- Arya's illustrated render erroneously depicts her with black hair (as opposed to her in-game model's brown hair) and a slightly different skin tone. The colors of her outfit are also slightly more darker compared to her in-game model.
- Arya is portrayed wearing gloves in promotional material done for the game, including on her illustrated render, despite her not wearing gloves in-game.
External
References
| Fighters in MultiVersus (Dynamic List) | |
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