| ATTACKS | GROUND | AIR |
|---|---|---|
| SIDE HOLD 🡆 + J |
SLAM-A-PACK! Finn front flips forward then slams his backpack in front of him. The more COINS he has, the stronger this attack becomes. |
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| NEUTRAL J |
CHOP! CHARGE a forward chop. |
SLAM-BAM-IN-A-CAN! A kick that BREAKS ARMOR. Finn will dash behind enemies he kicks. The dash has a COOLDOWN. |
| SIDE 🡆 + J |
THE SWORD STUFF! CHARGE a stab that COMBOS into a series of swipes. |
FLYING SWORD MOVES! A COMBO of 2 forward sword slashes. The second attack can be CHARGED. |
| UP 🡅 + J |
SLASHER! CHARGE an upward slash that launches Finn. |
SKY PUNCH! An upward punch. |
| DOWN 🡇 + J |
LOW BLOW, BRO! CHARGE a plunging stab downward that BREAKS ARMOR and releases a shockwave that hits multiple times. |
GROUND CHOP! A downward chop. |
Finn the Human
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Finn Mertens the Human is a Fighter from the Adventure Time Universe in MultiVersus. He 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
Finn Mertens is one of the main protagonists of the 2010 Cartoon Network animated series Adventure Time, created by Pendleton Ward. According to Ward, he had created Finn, as well as the rest of Adventure Time, in the perspective of a Dungeons & Dragons session, while taking influence from his childhood, which was primarily spent indoors. Ward would produce a script for an animated short and pitch it to Frederator Studios and Nickelodeon, with said animated short airing on January 11, 2007 on Nickelodeon's sister channel, Nicktoons. Although the short gained almost 3 million views on internet reuploads and won an Annie Award for Best Animated Short Subject, any attempts at pitching the series to Nickelodeon fell through. Frederator, not deterred by the rejection, went over to Nick's competitor, Cartoon Network, for a final pitch. Cartoon Network accepted the pilot and would only greenlight it if Ward could prove that "the seven-minute short made for Nick wasn't a one-hit wonder". The network also suggested that Finn and Jake live in a treehouse and not be nomads as was the original short, with the showrunners additionally recasting Zack Shada, who had voiced Finn's prototype Pen in the short, for his brother Jeremy, due to his more youthful sounding voice as the former went through puberty. As the show went on and Jeremy went through puberty himself, Ward decided to age Finn to coincide with Shada's age and make the show delve into more mature themes.
Raised by the anthropomorphic dog couple of Joshua and Margaret, Finn is a young teenage boy with an undying thirst for adventure who lives alongside his second adoptive brother Jake and their best buddy BMO in the Tree Fort. He is believed by many to be the last human in the Land of Ooo (which, as Finn would later discover, is not the case).
Official Biography
He’ll slay anything that’s evil. That’s his deal!
Website
(Mostly) the last human from the Land of Ooo, Finn is a young warrior who has spent most of his life doing quests and helping the forces of good in their never-ending battle against anything and everything evil. With his sword, limitless imagination, and best friend/adopted brother Jake the Dog, there’s no villain he can’t defeat. When he’s not slaying evil, he loves just chilling and playing some video games with BMO.[1]
In-Game
Finn's bombastic sword skills will make short work of his opponents. The more hits he lands, the more coins he earns... and those coins can buy some pretty sweet power-ups.
Gameplay
Finn is an Assassin-type character specialized in pressuring opponents with his various sword strikes. His core mechanic lies in his coin system, where opponents that are damaged by Finn drop coins, which can be collected by him or his ally. These coins can be used to purchase special buffs from Choose Goose when Finn uses his Grounded Down Special, which grants effects to both Finn and his ally. These buffs last for limited time; if Finn is rung out while a buff is still active, he'll respawn without it.
Finn's Air Down and Side Specials have an interesting interaction with each other. His Air Down Special spawns a gem, at the cost of coins, and can use his Side Special (either ground or air versions) to dash towards the gem at high speed, functioning similarly to Garnet's Down Special, Gem Dash. This can be used both offensively or defensively, such as recovering from off-stage. Finn won't dash if the gem is too far away.
Unique to Finn, he's currently the only character in the game that can move while charging his ground attacks, giving him a lot of mobility and flexibility. All but his Air Up Attack use his sword, giving him extra hit with disjointed hurtboxes. This, combined with his above average movement speed and mobility, can make Finn a very oppressive fighter.
The bread-and-butter of Finn's lies in his Up Special, Backpack Attack!, which makes him spin his backpack around himself, hitting enemies multiple times. The backpack has a dragging-type hurtbox, meaning it'll effectively connect the hits. Finn can reliably combo his Grounded Up Attack with his Up Special against opponents on lower percentages, and many of Finn's other low knockback moves can also be chained into it.
Skills
| SPECIALS | GROUND | AIR |
|---|---|---|
| NEUTRAL K |
HIGH FIVE, DUDE! Finn CHARGES and delivers a powerful high five attack that REFLECTS PROJECTILES. When Finn high fives an ally, he releases a large blast PROJECTILE around himself, if the attack CHARGE is high enough. |
HIGH FIVE, DUDE! Similar to ground, but Finn bounces back on hitting a fighter. |
| SIDE 🡆 + K |
GET SKRONKED! Finn rushes forward shoulder first, creating a barrier that blocks PROJECTILES. If the attack hits, he can act again immediately. |
MATHEMATICAL AIR DASH! Finn does a dashing sword swing. The hit has a SWEETSPOT at the end of the move. If Finn dashes toward a fighter or COIN, he moves further and does more DAMAGE. |
| UP 🡅 + K |
BACKPACK ATTACK! Finn spins his backpack around, repeatedly hitting enemies who are caught in its VACUUM. The more COIN Finn has, the stronger his final hit is, but he will drop COIN on a successful hit. |
SOARING BACKPACK ATTACK! Similar to ground, but Finn shoots upward during the attack. |
| DOWN 🡇 + K |
SWEET DEALS! Finn shops for goods using his COIN. He can buy a STACK of HASTEN to increase his team's move speed, a STACK of BOOTY to give his team a PROJECTILE shield when he CHARGES attacks or BMO. With BMO, Finn will do a BMO chop instead of a high five. BMO utilizes the high five CHARGE meter as well. |
ALGEBRAIC STOMP! Finn stomps on his backpack, sending himself and his enemies upward. The more COINS he has, the more height he gets. |
PASSIVE ABILITIES
FAT STACKS!
Finn uses COIN to boost his special attacks. When Finn hits enemies, the enemies drop COIN. Finn and his allies can pick up the COIN and increase Finn's COIN count.
Finn can move while CHARGING attacks on the ground, but his attacks only gain power if he moves. His Grounded Neutral Special attack CHARGES whenever he moves, even if he is not attacking.
Fighter Mastery Track
Finn 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 1.4.0 Patch
- General
- + Air movement speed increased to 1900 from 1775
- ~ Boots of speed buff visuals updated
- Passive
- + Ally coin buff increased to 2 damage per stack from 1 damage per stack
- + Ally coin buff now loses only 1 stack on-hit, down from all stacks
- + Ally coin buff now grants armor break on max (5) stacks
- Ground Neutral Attack
- + Knockback scaling increased to 18 from 15.5
- ~ Hitpause increased
- – On-whiff cancel window delayed 10 frames
- Ground Side Attack 1
- ~ Animation and attack properties have been updated, hitbox size adjusted to match new visuals
- Ground Side Attack 2
- ~ Animation and attack properties have been updated, hitbox size adjusted to match new visuals
- Ground Side Attack 3
- + Damage increased to 6 from 5.5
- – Knockback reduced to 1750 from 1900
- – Knockback scaling reduced to 16 from 18
- ~ Knockback angle made more horizontal
- + Hitstun increased
- Ground Up Attack
- – Uncharged knockback reduced to 1100 from 1350
- ~ Finn now launches himself to one height, regardless of charge
- Ground Down Attack
- + First hit knockback influence multiplier decreased to 0 from 1.0
- ~ Second hit hitbox size adjusted to better match visuals
- – Second hit knockback influence multiplier increased to 1.15 from 1.0
- – On-hit cancel window delayed 3 frames
- Air Neutral Attack
- ~ Knockback angle made more horizontal
- – Hitstun reduced
- – Knockback influence multiplier increased to 1.15 from 1.0
- Air Side Attack 1
- + Hitstun increased
- ~ Hitpause reduced
- + On-hit cancel window advanced 1 frame
- – On-hit cancel window into Air Down Attack delayed 6 frames
- + On-whiff cancel window advanced 15 frames; now matches on-whiff cancel into Air Side Attack 2
- – Hitbox size reduced so the attack is less likely to hit behind Finn
- Air Side Attack 2
- – On-hit cancel window delayed 8 frames
- – Hitbox size reduced so the attack is less likely to hit behind Finn
- Air Up Attack
- + Knockback increased to 1300 from 1100
- + Knockback scaling increased to 14 from 10
- ~ Knockback angle made more horizontal
- – On-hit cancel window delayed 10 frames
- – On-whiff cancel window delayed 8 frames
- ~ Hitbox size adjusted to better match visuals
- + Now maintains more momentum during attack
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- – Start-up window increased 2 frames
- + Hitbox active duration increased 2 frames
- + Ally shockwave now always spawns when high-fiving an ally
- ~ Now limits fall speed during attack recovery
- Air/Ground Neutral Special (BMO)
- – Hitbox size reduced so the attack is less likely to hit behind Finn
- + Now breaks armor
- Air Side Special
- – Now no longer automatically tracks towards nearest enemy or enemy projectile
- – Now no longer has an active hitbox while Finn is dashing
- + Finn can now intentionally angle his side special dash up or down
- + Attack can now be charged, reducing minimum start-up window until movement by 8 frames
- + Sweetspot hitbox added to Finn’s sword tip
- Air Side Attack 1
- + On-whiff cancel window into Air Side Attack 2 advanced 6 frames
- – On-whiff cancel window into attacks other than Air Side Attack 2 delayed 9 frames
Season 3 1.3.3 Midseason Patch
Finn’s kit has been adjusted to focus more on being the anti zoner assassin, while changing the properties of Aerial Up Special to help reduce the strong effectiveness of the very early KO combos.
- General
- + Ground movement speed increased to 2250 from 2025
- Ground Dash Attack
- + First hit now more consistently combos into second hit
- Ground Side Attack 1
- ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds
- Ground Neutral Attack
- ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds
- Ground Up Attack
- ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds
- – Uncharged knockback scaling reduced to 15 from 20.5
- + Knockback charge multiplier increased to 1.25 from 1.0
- Ground Down Attack
- + First hit now more consistently combos into second hit
- + Movement increased
- ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds
- Air Neutral Attack
- – Knockback reduced to 2450 from 2650
- Air Side Attack 1
- + Now more consistently combos into Air Side Attack 2
- Ground Side Special
- + On-hit cancel window advanced 10 frames
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- ~ Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 1.5 seconds
- Air/Ground Up Special
- ~ Attack properties have been updated to a single-hit knockback away from Finn from a multi-hit vacuum
- – Knockback influence multiplier increased to 1.2 from 1.0
- ~ No longer launches Finn forwards
Season 3 1.3.0 Patch
Finn has a singular focus of carrying the opponents to the blast zone quickly due to many of his best combos being aerial based. This patch will address the power behind the “Backpack Strength” and some prevention to guaranteed carries.
In an upcoming patch, Finn will be receiving changes to improve the overall combo game retaining his rushdown gameplay, while also bringing focus away from the off stage carries.
- General
- * Fixed an issue where certain props would disappear when rendered too far from the camera
- Air Neutral Attack
- + Now maintains more momentum during attack start-up
- + Now allows fast fall during attack start-up
- – Repeat-move lockout increased to 20 frames from 8 frames
- Air Side Attack 1
- + Now maintains more momentum during attack start-up
- 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
- + Now allows fast fall during attack start-up
- Air/Ground Neutral Special (with BMO)
- ~ Now ignores player collisions during movement; this should fix issues where Finn would get stuck next to enemies without hitting them
- Air Down Special
- * Fixed an issue where parrying this attack would not put Finn into parry stun
- – Hitstun reduced
- ~ Knockback angle made more downward to allow ground bounces
- ~ Hitbox size is now consistent regardless of coin value
- “Backpack Strength” Perk
- – Up special maximum knockback bonus from coins reduced to 125 from 225
- – Dash attack maximum knockback bonus from coins reduced to 100 from 200
- – Maximum damage multiplier from coins reduced to 1.25 from 1.5
1.2.2 Mid Season Patch
Finn is living up to his ideal as a speedy, combo-heavy assassin a little too well right now with his ability to carry opponents across the stage resulting in very low damage ring outs. We want to promote a little more offense from Finn by reducing his ability to charge his attacks for extended periods of time, while also making his combo game a little easier to deal with.
- Ground Neutral Attack
- – Maximum charge time reduced to 1.5 seconds from 4.0 seconds
- – On-whiff cancel window delayed 4 frames
- Ground Side Attack 1
- – Maximum charge time reduced to 1.5 seconds from 4.0 seconds
- – On-whiff cancel window delayed 6 frames
- Ground Up Attack
- – Maximum charge time reduced to 1.5 seconds from 4.0 seconds
- – On-whiff cancel window delayed 6 frames
- Ground Down Attack
- – Maximum charge time reduced to 1.5 seconds from 4.0 seconds
- Air Neutral Attack
- – No longer launches Finn forward on-hit; cooldown removed
- Air/Ground Neutral Special
- – Maximum charge time reduced to 1.25 seconds from 4.0 seconds
- Ground Down Special
- + Boots of Speed buff duration increased to 25 seconds from 10 seconds
- Ground Neutral Attack
- + Knockback scaling to 15.5 from 14
- Ground Up Attack
- + Knockback scaling to 20.5 from 19.5
- Ground Down Attack
- * Fixed an issue where this attack was not breaking armor on both hits
- - General
- Weight reduced to 49, down from 51.
- ~ General
- Added Finn’s backback to his Ugly Sweater skin.
- - Air/Ground Neutral Special
- Active hitbox window starts 1 frame later and ends 1 frame earlier.
- - Air/Ground Side Special
- Ground version projectile shield active window decreased 4 frames.
- - Air Down Special
- Gem can now be destroyed by melee attacks while it is idle.
- Gem now costs 200 gold, up from 100 gold.
- ! Air Neutral Attack
- Fixed an issue where this attack could destroy certain projectiles.
Hotfix Patch
- 1: Reduces Finn's weight slightly from 51 to 49.
- 2: Finn being able to change direction during the leap portion of his grounded down attack.
- 2: Should read Fix for Finn being able to change direction during the Leap portion of his Grounded down Attack. (it's a hard to reproduce bug, so hopefully you won't be able to turn during that anymore.)
- - General
- Weight: Reduce Finn’s weight to 51, down from 55
- ~ Air Down Attack
- Shifted the active frames on Finn’s Ground Chop by 2 frames and adjusted the hitbox in order to better align with his sword’s animation
- - Ground Up Attack
- Delayed jump and dodge cancel at the start of Slasher! by 5 frames.
- Added 2 frames of whiff lag
- Slasher!’s active frames now start 1 frame later and end 2 frames earlier. This change will better align Finn’s active hitboxes with Slasher!’s animation and reduce lingering hits.
- - Ground Down Attack
- Removed the hitbox on Finn’s hand, on Low Blow, Bro!
- ~ Hitbox Changes
- Experimenting with a systemic change to eliminate Z-axis issues; as a side effect, all of Finn’s hitboxes have been resized slightly.
- Arm and shoulder hitboxes have been removed from Finn’s sword attacks.
- Fixed the hitbox on the base of Finn’s sword not being attached to his skeleton correctly, causing it to activate inside Finn’s body during sword attacks.
- Feedback welcome on this change. We will roll this update out to the rest of the characters, if this update works well.
- - Ground Neutral Attack
- Increased whiff recovery by 11 frames
- - Air Down Special
- Apples now have 2 ammo with a 10 second recharge
- This is to prevent extremely passive play by constantly throwing an unlimited supply of apples
- - Air Down Attack
- Land cancel window delayed by 6 frames
- Increased whiff recovery by 5 frames
- - Air Side Attack
- Increased whiff recovery by 7 frames on the first hit of Finn’s Air Side Attack
- ! Air/Ground Side Special
- Fixed an issue where Finn would use the Air version of Side Special on the ground if an apple was on the screen
- + Air/Ground Side Special
- Slightly increased the size of Finn’s Ground Side Special’s projectile-blocking shield
- ! Bug Fix
- (Fern Skin): BMO VO lines added to BMO summon.
- ~ Grounded Side Special
- Knockback angle adjusted to be more vertical to prevent repeated ground bounce.
- - Weight
- Reduced weight from 55 to 49
- - Aerial Neutral Attack
- Active hit frames start 2 frames later
- ~ Armored Buns
- Block buff is no longer consumed by light projectile attacks
- ! Ground/Air Neutral Special Attack
- Removed errant hitbox on Finn's body.
- - Air/Ground Neutral Special
- (High-Five): 4 frames of endlag added
- High-Five had nearly instant recovery previously. This change should give it a small window to be punished.
- - Air Neutral Attack
- Increased whiff lag (whiff recovery) by 5 frames.
- - General
- Set dodge meter return to 7s from 6s.
- ! Bug Fix Side Air Attack
- Can no longer ignore air special limits when branching into the attack.
- - Air Down Attack
- Instant cancel on hit removed.
- - Ground Side Attack
- Instant jump cancel on hit removed.
- + Assassin Passive:
- Removed 5% damage taken debuff.
- + Passive:
- Increased starting gold to 200 from 100.
- + Air/Ground Neutral Special:
- Fixed an issue where the shockwave from high-fiving an ally would not hit enemies.
- + Air Up Special:
- Adjusted vacuum hitbox to more consistently combo into the final hit.
- + Ground Down Attack:
- Increased minimum distance traveled.
- Adjusted vacuum hitbox to more consistently combo into the final hit.
Since we removed some power from the Backpack on Finn, we’re pushing some additional power into the rest of Finn’s attacks to give him more kill options.
- + Air/Ground Neutral Special:
- Increased base damage from 5 to 6
- This base damage is increased by holding and charging the attack
- Increased base damage from 5 to 6
- + Air/Ground Down Special (BMO Chop)
- Increased Damage from 18 to 20
- Increased Knockback Scaling from 18 to 20
- + 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%.
Fighting against Finn felt too difficult as Finn felt a bit too safe and could throw out attacks without much fear of a punish due to how quickly he recovered. Hurt/Hit box foundational updates are coming soon, but will not be in this patch.
- - Passive - Attacks affected by Attack Decay no longer spawn coins
Finn now spawns with 100 gold instead of 200
- + Air Down Special - Fixed an issue where the gem required 200 gold to spawn, but only cost 100 to spawn. Gem now requires and costs 100
- - Air Side Special - Added additional whiff recovery.
- - Ground/Air Up Special - Reduced the strength of the vacuum effect on the backpack
- Weaker hits of the backpack will no longer “overwrite” stronger knockbacks from other attacks
- Whiffing with all hits will still drop a coin
- Added whiff recovery.
- Hitboxes should better match the attack (not perfect until our planned hurt/hit box system overhaul)
- - Air Side Attack - Reduced active frames to diminish Finn’s ability to hit fighters behind him
- - Ground Down Attack - The distance Finn covers with this attack now scales with how charged the attack is.
- - Ground Side Attack - Increased whiff recovery for the first hit.
- + On The House perk - Fixed an issue where Finn still spent gold on gems spawned by the perk
- Slightly reduced the launch speed of gems spawned by the perk – this should fix issues that arose when this perk was combined with the “Make it Rain, Dog!” perk
The goal of these changes are to reduce the easily achievable blazing movement speed Finn has access to.
- ~ Grounded Down Attack:
- + Hit 1 and 2 chain together more reliably
- - Reduced knockback on second hit.
- + Aerial and Grounded Up Special: Hitboxes now connect into each other more consistently.
- - Base Movement Speed: Reduced from 2200 to 2100.
- - Grounded Down Special: Boots of Speed now gives 10% increased movement speed on first purchase, 5% on the second stack and 3% movement on each subsequent stack, reduced from flat 10% on all stacks. It is now capped at 10 stacks reduced from unlimited stacking.
- - Down Air Attack: Hitbox starts a bit later.
- - Side Air Attack 2: Increased whiff recovery.
- - Neutral Air Attack: Increased whiff recovery.
- ~ Down Air Special: Crystal now counts as a projectile for perk application
Closed Alpha, May 19th 2022
- Finn the Human was a playable fighter in the Closed Alpha.
November 18th 2021
- Finn the Human was revealed to be a playable fighter in MultiVersus.
Trivia
- Finn's original design was originally going to feature his robot-arm from the episode "Two Swords", as seen in his concept art.
- The original design model would later appear the trailer for MultiVersus x NHL Face-Off: Avalanche Vs. Golden Knights real-time animated presentation, alongside Finn's Night Sword. Weirdly enough the Night Sword would later also be referenced in the Full Launch, appearing on various Rift backgrounds, and even having its model inside the game since the Tech Tests.
- This could suggest that Robot-Arm Finn could've been later repurposed as Variant that would've used the Night Sword instead of Finn's normal Scarlet sword in order to differentiate it more from the Default Variant.
- The original design model would later appear the trailer for MultiVersus x NHL Face-Off: Avalanche Vs. Golden Knights real-time animated presentation, alongside Finn's Night Sword. Weirdly enough the Night Sword would later also be referenced in the Full Launch, appearing on various Rift backgrounds, and even having its model inside the game since the Tech Tests.
- A large amount of Finn's interaction lines with Garnet reference a supposed crossover. What this is referring to is unclear, as Adventure Time and Steven Universe have never formally crossed over.
- Fern also mentions this in his interaction lines with Garnet.
- Prior to the Full Launch, Finn used to have his sword in his backpack during his victory and defeat animations. This has been changed to not involve it in his backpack anymore.
- When emoting with Default, the sword will still be in Finn's backpack.
- Also prior to the Full Launch, Finn's Air Down Special used to be Throwin' Stones. This move involved Finn throwing a gem that he could've grabbed and teleport to with Mathematical Air Dash. It was changed to Algebraic Stomp due to Throwin' Stones being too clunky and out of character.
- Despite being featured on several covers for the MultiVersus: Collision Detected comic series, within the comic's actual storyline Finn only appears as a small cameo in Avia's daughter box game in issue #2 and as evil robots created by a Rick-controlled Brainiac in issue #3.
External
References
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