- Great Crouch Cancel: Roy has a great crouch cancel, since his crouch is extremely low and he can easily open up with down tilt off of a successful CC and begin his punish.
- Punish Game: Despite all his flaws, a skilled Roy can wield a surprisingly scary punish game. Dtilt can lead into many combo routes at all percentages, and he has a strong endpoint to work towards with a confirmable Fsmash. His punish game is especially good on fast fallers, where he has access to longer strings.
- Grab Game: Roy has a great grab, which he can both threaten raw and confirm into off openers like dtilt. On fastfallers, he has access to a powerful chaingrab with up throw, which can also lead into platform tech chases or set up DI mixups.
- Good Ledge Trapping: While Roy cannot edgeguard well, he can ledge trap fairly proficiently with Neutral-B and dtilt, which have their own followups.
- Dashdance: While his movement isn't as fluid (or as threatening) as Marth's, he does have the same basic tools to work with. Roy shares Marth's long, low dashdance, which he can use to threaten safe openers like grab or dtilt.
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- Wet Noodle: Roy has an inverted version of Marth's sword - the sweet spot is at the base, and the sour spot at the tip. For some reason, the base starts bad, and the tip is even worse; Roy's sour spot can be so weak that landing hits with it can put you at disadvantage. Some moves' hitboxes don't actually cover the entire sword, and his frame data has been made worse than Marth's across the board. The result is that Roy's range is highly misleading.
- Susceptibility to Camping: Roy cannot really deal with being platform camped at all. He lacks the platform sharking tools, juggle potential, and mobility around platforms that make Marth powerful in the same position. Another reason to go to Final Destination ASAP!
- Weakness to CC: Roy struggles with his weaker attacks being easily crouch cancellable. Although he can combat this with grab, it remains a huge issue at the beginning of every stock.
- Terrible Recovery: Roy falls like a rock, with a very short double jump and lackluster air speed. Worse, Roy’s Up-B is very easy to exploit; it's slower, shorter, and weaker than Marth's equivalent, and opponents can easily slip out of the multihits and punish anyway even if caught.
- Fall Speed: Roy is a fastfaller, and suffers all the ways they do, but with few of the tools that let characters like Fox mitigate those weaknesses.
- Edge Guarding: Due to his previously mentioned recovery issues, going offstage for any reason as Roy is likely to sign off on his own death. He usually needs to remain on stage to ledge trap unless a good situation is presented to him to capitalize on, which limits his options.
- Floaty MUs: Roy just doesn't have good combo routes against floaties, and he doesn't have the raw power to beat them with stray hits. Roy has no recourse to being camped, dies to a light breeze offstage, where many floaties are in their domain, and is basically incapable of challenging their recoveries in return. Worse, his anti-air hitboxes are universally poor.
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