UNIST

• VATISTA

• CARMINE

• SYSTEM

• PLUSMINUS

System🔗

Basic wheel:

• Throw > Block
• Crouch tech > Throw
• Assault > Crouch Tech (assault is frame 1 throw invul)
• Abare > Assault
• Safe pressure > Abare
• Block > Safe pressure

Main options selects:

• late 71 A,D plink: block ground, beat assault, tech throws
• late back AB,D plink: back AB = backdash and the delayed D add a tech if being thrown
• VO bait: Cannot cancel normal on which => quich chain 5A>5B, or 2A>2A on opponent wake-up, VO => whiff => no chain => can block, no VO => hit => chain => pressure
• Anti Wakeup CS: You can whiff cancel special into EX, meaty with special, use the 40f of CS to cancel into EX (read)
• CS at first opportunity: spam crouch block A+D(throw), will not activate shield and will CS at the first gap (spam D would activate shield with is potentially dangerous and will lock you in shield)

More:

• Vatista cannot be counter hit, ever. It's a vatista thing.
• The default is "ground moves cannot be air blocked", there are exceptions.
• Shieding overheads allow for 6f punish (jab).
• Basically every string that does not finish with an EX move is - on block.
• tons of strings when shielded must be CS EX beam punishable, but we get no traditional punishes
• Common: high become mid when charged, charged mid/delayed low is a strong mixup
• Many blockstrings are so tight you can't dp out, however you can still get hit high/low
• Ways to CS in a blockstring, spam 1A+D, spam 3D (add a mapping for A+D?)

The buttons🔗

• Buttons: A, B, C ,D
• Standard binding in (SFV notation): A->LP, B->MP, C->HP, D->LK
• EX moves are made with the C button and use half your meter

Directions:

For instance 2A would be "crouching light punch" (cLP) in SF parlance.

common specials

VO might not be throw invulnerable! VO should be able to be used multiple times (test).

Gattling ("Passing Link")🔗

• standard anime gattling + reverse beat: can chain from any button to any button, cannot use the same button twice (save some exceptions like 5A5A5A into rest of your chain)
• reverse beat (chain from a heavy to a light) is pretty useful to cancel the recovery of a slow move to a fast move to make your chain safe on block
• all these rules are valid in the air too

Autocombo ("Smart Steer")🔗

• 5A5A5A5A ... (test if it works with 4A and 6A! can we start charging during the autocombo???)
• Useful in some cases because moves in autocombo do not count in gattling restrictions (similar to DBFZ)

Recovery/Teching🔗

• Hold (or press) A/B/C + direction (air: forward neutral or back, ground: neutral or back, delayable)
• D does delay tech, air ~> delay to ground, ground ~> delay ground
• 8f throw invul
• air tech is full invul until landing
• tech recovers standing, but reversal can skip that frame (ex. reversal low to avoid some hilda meaties)
• bounce recovery: press A/B/C just before a ground/wall bounce (or you can simply hold D :p)

Wall/Ground bounces🔗

• 3 bounces max by combo, after the 3rd bounce the opponent becomes invulnerable (even if they do not tech recover)

Jump Cancels (jc)🔗

• no jc on block
• 1 jc by combo (bar character specific stuff)

Shielding🔗

• locks player in stand/crouch => easier to get grid crushed
• D during blockstun = "guard shielding" (green flash), does not stand/crouch lock but force to keep shielding
• guard shielding costs 10 exs meter (less if you dont have meter), consequent shield whiff = -1 grdblock, block = +1 grdblock
• ground shield => -3f blockstun
• air shield => -6f blockstun
• successful shield = small pushback, succesful guardshield = big pushback
• air guard requires shield
• shield disable gattling for air moves and impose 10f of landing recovery
• grd crush => cannot use D moves anymore (shield, assault, concentration)
• every hit of multi-hit moves must be shielded individually
• for air multi-hit moves, any hit shielded => 10f landed recovery, last hit shielded => -3f blockstun
• "just shielding" will auto reapply shield after 1st block, good for multihit moves, super bad for air move shield (you lose your punish)
• air shield is a move => landing recovery, you can get hit on landing

Throws🔗

• 4f startup
• 14f tech window
• can get thrown during hit/blockstun, 28f tech window
• throw whiff => -1 grd block
• 7f of gold throw protection out of hit/blockstun (28f tech window)
• in some cases dive command throw invulnerability during that window (bug?)
• 8f throw invul. after air/ground recov
• counterthrow is untechable (red flash)
• on throw tech, +2 grd block (ennemy -2), +8f advantage
• throw&hit on same frame => throw wins
• B button kara throw is a thing
• after guard shield (green shield), throw break =>
  1. ?frames yellow break state: autotech normal&command, still block but no shield)
  2. then throw counter state: no grd crush on normal throw, grd crush on command throw

Assault🔗

• throw invul.
• 5f startup
• ground => homing move, air => fixed trajectory
• cannot block until landing, has landing recovery frames
• gattling disabled during ground assault, gattling enabled during air assault
• combos from assault have heavily reduced untech time, and reduced damage
• combos from counterhit/grd crush assault have regular untech time, and regular damage
• air assount penalties = ground assault penalties
• can be kara in the first 2frames, ie. assault kara throw = 2f throw invul. into throw

Grd🔗

• passive generation, lower when closer to the corner
• grd gain scales down with grd
• some moves steal grd (ie. gordeau command throw, byakuya webs)
• Actions that generate grd:
  • Concentration
  • Any forward movement (assault = ~+0.5grd)
  • Any opponent backward movement
  • Aerial forward tech
  • Opponent immediate ground tech
  • Blocking/Shielding attacks (shield connection = +1grd)
• Actions that lose grd:
  • Opponent concentration >30f (faster when using grd)
  • Any backward movement (backdash = ~-1grd)
  • Any opponent forward movement
  • Guard shield whiff (green shield) = -1grd
  • being thrown/having a throw teched = -2grd
  • throw whiff
  • Ground back teching = -1grd

Concentration🔗

• up to 420f
• generate grid from frame 1
• after 30f, concentration will burn your meter to gain extra grd
• when you burn meter, draining grid from your opponent gets a huge boost (does not happen if you have no meter to burn)
• gain from drain >>> concentration drain

• gain from drain >>> concentration drain => if eltnum has meter and hilda does not, even with a terrible modifier eltnum will outdrain hilda in a concentration war

also

• In a mirror, with meter, hold 5D at same frame => Player 2 wins

Vorpal🔗

• timer = 17s
• player with the most grd gets vorpal
• grd crush or 0grd => no vorpal
• nobody can get vorpal => timer reset
• vorpal => +10%dmg and character specific stuff
• at the cost of vorpal + all grd you can:
  • CS and convert all your meter into EXS meter (will carryover vorpal for a little bit)
  • Guard cancel without spending meter or getting grd crushed (note, during CS carryover vorpal, guard cancel will still not guard crush you but you it will eat your meter)
  • IWEXS without getting grd crushed (keep requirements: 200 meter and <30% health)

Veil Off (VO)🔗

• cost: 100 meter, then drain meter to 0
• gain: 1grd, remove grd cush, +20% dmg (additive stack with vorpal +10%)
• in VO: ,EX move cost = becomes 1/3rd of VOmeter, IW(EXS) cost = remainder VOmeter (removes grd crush cost of IWEXS)
• only from ground, move itself is airborne & strike/fireball invulnerable
• on hit, opponent loses vorpal, on raw hit opponent gets grd crushed
• CS during VO slows down meter drain (scales with CS should-have-gained-meter and grd)
• VO 20-68f startup, -13 to -14 on block

Counters🔗

• throw counter (countering with a move) is untechable (red flash)
• normal counterhits (counter with B,C or a special)
  • countering a normal => "Counter" => increased hitstun, 1.5x untech time if airborne (both first hit only)
  • countering a special => "High Counter" => increased hitstun, 2x untech time if airborne (both first hit only)
• (high) counters give a little bit of extra hitstun during the whole combo (not well understood)
• throws cannot be counterhit but can be "throw countered" in recovery frames
• Counters and High Counters from assault remove the assault penalty

Superflash and Screen Freeze:🔗

• EX moves => 20f freeze (1f superflash + 19f freeze)
• CS => 40f freeze (1f superflash + 39f freeze)
• IW => ??f freeze
• superflash frame is throw invulnerable

Input Buffering🔗

• input timers continue during frozen frames
• inputs are buffered for ~4f, to avoid dp on walk forward hadou, insert 4f of neutral

Fuzzy Protection🔗

• moves can hit overhead only on the way down
• if ennemy is holding back down, press a button, and get hit by a rising overhead move, resulting combo deals 50% less damage
• penalty applies to air move that make the character rise
• penalty stacks with assault penalties

Crossup Protection🔗

• on fast crossups, can block in both direction
• blockstun deny left/right mixups
• shield works as if in blockstup and deny left/right mixups
• each attack/fb has a "facing" direction you block away from. For most fireball it's the direction when shot, but for seth orb, carmine puddle it's from direction of triggering (delayed homing).
• walking backwards before crossup extends the duration of crossup protection

Same Move Proration🔗

• Using the certain moves twice in a combo reduce untech time
• Might be all special moves, might be all moves more (specials) or less (normals), nobody knows

Dashing/Backdashing🔗

• 6A+B dash, 4A+B backdash, or forwardx2, backwardx2
• 6A+B>4 within 2 frames becomes a backdash
• dash movement start after ~2f
• dash can be cancelled at any point

Meter Gain🔗

• Meter is generated at a flat rate based on the damage a move deals on hit, not taking into account any proration.
• On-hit:
• • Attacker: 0.7% of the unscaled damage of a move is converted into meter gain. This includes any extra damage from being in vorpal state.
• • Defender: The player who gets hit will gain half the meter that the attacker gets for each hit.
• On-block:
• • Attacker: If a move is blocked, the attacker gains half of the meter they would have gained on hit.
• • Defender: When blocking, defenders gain 80% of the meter than the attacker gets from having their attack blocked.
• EX moves and mid-combo CS cause any subsequent moves to generate only 25% of their normal meter gain for a few seconds (approx. 5 seconds?).
• • EX moves in neutral still cause this effect, even if they are blocked or whiffed, but CS in neutral does not.
• • This penalty ends immediately when a penalized combo stops, or when the timer runs out, whichever occurs first.

Training Mode🔗

• training mode recording does no the play on the first frame a bot exits hit/block stun, there is 1 frame of delay...
• when counter is enabled, only the 1st hit of a string will counter, even if there are gaps in the string...

Extra Info🔗

Landing recovery

Jump startup

• hitstop seems to be 8f for A move, up to 12 frames... (not well known)
• Most specials can be cancelled directly in EX moves on whiff
• IWEXS throw invul. only frame 1, strike/fb invul. until hit but can get hit after first hit, can trade with fireballs between hit and cinematic
• some special moves can get new cancels based on what comes before them (don't know if bug)

PlusMinus🔗

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