actually, speaking from a "getting high scores" viewpoint, very few characters should even bother with speed equipment, and only Zelda should ever consider defense equips with no lol penalties (like harder edge grabs or weak item toss)



high attack = kills enemies much faster = gets lots of stats= you are overall pretty strong. people like Ganondorf or Robin definitively should pakc a speed equip to help them reach their enemies fast to begin with.



Spinning Blades are pretty good. For unlcoking custom moves i'd say pakcing ONLy variations of that with 3 speed equips should be great for roaming the maze and killing enemies, enough to get 6 drops.



one thing that is very important: Fly guys do NOT care for the 6 custom part limits. they will give you more drops (i dunno if these have a limit of their own because they are very hard to get), but it should help if your character can easily deal with polar bears and ghatlys in survive hard (unlike, say... jigglypuff)





To actually get a high score, tho? packing health recovery (you have low defense, and deaths seem to be a -30000 points + lost stats.... really bad) and the boss-slayer combo of hammer+Brief invincibility ()with maybe spinning blades at the same time) is awesome too.



Packing power bomb when you don't have really strong moves or fire attacks is good for Polar Bears in general. also great when you don't want to waste other powers if you come across Crystal Smash hard while your attack is not good enough for the job.