That Patreon jingle is gonna be clutch

The final boss IS playing with cheat codes! Emerl's points cap out before getting enough to equip all the Ultimate moves like the final boss has.

Rouge: "I bet you can't KO me 10 times without using Special Attacks."
Emerl: "Little do you know, I only use Pathetic Attacks!"

sonic battle, but tails doesnt know how to fix a gizoid

Tfw your own moves are so unremarkable Rouge can't even classify them as "special" for her own rules

Cream is actually the most powerful character in the game outside of customized Emerl; she has an infinite as you found, you can juggle people with the tornado special, she has a double jump, she heals extremely quickly, and her aerial B move comes out SO fast, incredibly easy to spam

Rouge lying is in character ngl

As a kid, I got to the part where you have to dodge Rouge for 2 minutes before I realized upgrading Emerl was possible.
Safe to say the game got substantially easier after that.

When I played through the game when I was 5 I didn't even know how to install the upgrades on Emerl so I kinda did the challenge from my own stupidity.

"When Eggman gets knocked up..."

Good God man, phrasing

I’ve never actually played Sonic Battle but seeing the sprites in this video made me remember some fan made sonic browser games YEARS ago that I used to play quite often. Ahh nostalgia

the special that you don't chose is used up as a defense option. that means you automatically block whenever you are hit with the corresponding special. for instance getting hit by an shot special with shot as defense will block that move regardless if you press l or not which is why at 16:21 gamma blocks emeral's special in mid air.

It would've been SO funny if for the final boss you fought Emerl in his unupgraded state lmao

i accidentally did (most of) this as a kid, because i didn't know how to customize emerl, so i was stuck with his crap start moves. you have no idea how unfair i thought it was when he was the final boss and was way stronger than when i used him

Its cool to see a sonic battle challenge. We need more challenges with underrated games like this

So, the thing about Emerl's base special attacks. Most of them don't actually have the internal "special move" tag applied to them.
They do regular damage with no special properties.
That is why the ground trap and the air shot will completely bypass the auto guard function of the npcs, as well as not trip Rouge's "no special attack" rule.
If you use an actual special move ability, she does stop that fight.

Now the actual reason for this is interesting. Consider Sonic's special moves. His shot and trap attacks launch projectiles, which deliver the related properties of their special attack types.
If you use Sonic's shot attack like you would use emerl's, its ball form ALSO ignores autoguard.
My guess is that they specifically coded it so that Sonic's spinball will always hurt an opponent who isn't ACTIVELY guarding, and Emerl just got the gift of handmedown.

I've been playing Dark Souls and Sonic Battle for over a decade each.
And I only just noticed Club Rouge's central bumper looks like Solaire's shield.

Chaos and pain
Edit: emerl apparently has Marth range from melee

That final fight with Emerl would've been a perfect opportunity for Super Sonic.

The reason why sometimes enemies block specials in the air is because when you're choosing your special, the one that isn't chosen becomes an auto block for that special. So if you didn't choose POW, then you will auto block every POW special no matter what. What's interesting, though, is how you can fool the system. Namely with Emerl's and Sonic's ground shot. Because it's a rip-off of Sonic's, it runs on the same mechanics, and it just so happens that what the auto guard blocks is everything after the energy wave from the shot is generated. It doesn't consider anything else as part of the special attack. Which means that when Emerl and Sonic use their ground shot and attacks an enemy the first couple frames of the attack where they get in a spin ball and is about to release an energy wave (that doesn't exist in Emerl's case) doesn't get auto blocked. But because it's still part of the special attack animation, while the auto guard ignores it, the one hit K.O special bar doesn't. It sees it as part of the attack and thus kills the enemy in one hit even though the auto block should protect them.