Her battle stance follows Chinese folk tales/stories about the undead. If I recall correctly, you would basically have one person heard a bunch of undead and the Talismen is used to control them. They can no longer walk so they hop and they always have their arms out like that.
Anyways, I’ve been looking forward to this reveal since I saw her name on the leak list. Her game play style from VS is pretty much intact and I’m really glad that all of her supers are Level 1. Tenraiha being a Level 1 was really key for me since it was integral to her game in VS. I can see her 3 assist being pendulum, gong, and projectile. The pendulum assist would be ideal provided the assist version crosses over and combined with the Dark Force super the opponent has to fucking deal with it.
I feel she would be best partnered with Sentinel but it’s really hard to shake off the MVC2 Sentinel image despite MVC3 Sent looks really slow. I can imagine some really nice trap tactics with her and Sent like a block string, call sent force assist, that low trip, cancel into Pendulum then force a cross over mix up by changing the time you normal cancel it. If she can still cancel her air dash you could probably force a similar assist mix up ideally with Doom rocks. I hope Tenraiha on block still gives her mix up options and the potential lock down with Sent or Doom assists would be awesome. Could she be the 2nd coming of Stridoom?
I think she could definitely have unblockable setups because that trip of hers should be a low and if you combine it with say Viper’s overhead Burn Kick assist you might get some interesting results. The other possibility is that if the first hit of Tenraiha is an overhead like in VS then you can do a low assist like Wesker’s and then do Tenraiha after.
Right now I’m testing her in 3 teams:
Sent/Hsien-Ko/Doom
Sent/Hsien-Ko/Dante
Hsien-Ko/Viper/Dante
Am I the only one who likes her voice a little? But that is me.
Her moveset is just unique, where the draw is. I mean, a looney tunes walk for an air dash and her ground dash functions like an air dash plus with the unpredictable object throw. Plus an hyper that gives her hyper armor? Come on. The pendulum is gonna be fun for catching people in the backward strike.
Also both of her damaging hypers will be good for offensive and defensive, and both can set up some mean DHCs.
Wait, somebody said Windy betrayed me by making this thread? I wasn’t online when SRK went back up, so Windy got the thread. That was the deal and I don’t have a problem with that at all.
I literally love everything I’ve seen out of her so far. That little sound effect that plays during her air dash is just too much. Poor Arthur, he’s not gonna be able to do a damn thing to her. Match looks totally free at the moment.
And I’m thinking about a lotta shenanigans I can run with her. Tron drill assist for lockdown then pendulm swingan all day erry day. Swords hyper carries em’s towards the corner too which is exactly where Tron wants you when she’s on point. If her DF armor stays on her assists and she gets Pendulum assist can we say lock down cross up city? Yes please.
I also like her voice, especially how she says Tenraiha. My only gripe is she sounds almost EXACTLY like Felicia, it’s kinda weird.
She also seems like she has some good supers, I agree. Sword Shockwave hyper juggles by itself, which is awesome, although I need to see more of her Darkforce Hyper and Tenraiha to make an opinion, I wonder if the anvil part of Ten still is still an overhead as the hardcore DS players say.
In times of war, when dead warriors were brought home in China, their bodies were fixed atop long bamboo poles to make it easier to transport them. From a distance, it looked like the corpses were ‘hopping’, which kind of birthed the whole jiangshi legend.
I noticed that she only seems to have one combo method, which is a little disappointing. Hopefully we’ll find more pendulum combo tricks with her.
Her voice is fine if you ask me. It’s her derpy ‘lol, I am so kawai’ animations that boil my piss. She was never like that in her other incarnations.
I’m pretty underwhelmed by her moveset as well. So slow! That air dash is useless. Gong was the only thing I picked up on as interesting. Maybe she just has the misfortune of being revealed alongside a fantastic Sentinel trailer, but I’m pretty disappointed by one of my favourite dark stalkers. :sad:
I really hope it is an overhead and her sword hyper is going to set up some nice fullscreen DHC’s. Sword xx Zero’s level three or on a team of Ammy and Storm, dare to say massive constant damage? Damn, she just seems to have so many uses. And pendulum hopefully is an assist.
That will be good cross up as well as hopefully a good AA due to its high priority.
by the way, it looks like she can follow up houtangeki with dash into tenreiha.
Robo I don’t think her airdash looks useless. You can cancel it anytime and it looks like it’ll keep her up in the air for quite a while. Good for stalling, perhaps.
I consider the instant momentum a disadvantage. It makes her easier to react to. Whereas when Ammy launches the vine you don’t know whether she’s gonna dart out or cancel the dash. If she does dart out, it’s so quick that it’s hard to AA on reaction. Ammy’s AD is a whole other league.
It looks like Hsien Ko’s will only be for runaway.
I wasn’t online when SRK went back up, so Windy got the thread. That was the deal and I don’t have a problem with that at all.