VF4 / Lion [ print friendly ] [ command view ] Arcadia Issue 52 - Lion
Text - Ohsu
Aim for the best with the fresh new FT Lion
Lion, with easy to apply new moves and change moves, and minimally
weakened existing moves. He has been relatively powered up.
There are only a few, but his new moves have good
properties.
Among his new moves of note, the special mid half circular .
The execution is fast and the recovery is speedy. From it you can
string to two types of moves, the has the same special
high property of the first hit. On CH it gives large advantage, so
you can continue to attack. The other string is , a special
stance that lets you got to two types of attacks. First, the
. It is a two hit mid attack, and if you stop on the first
hit it will leave you back turned. The other attack from stance is
K, which on CH causes a chin crumple.
His + is a slow executing move, but even on small
counter it will cause stomach crumple, and you can continue to
attack. Because it has high-attack avoiding properties, its
userfriendliness is good.
Because there are no major changes to his main moves, you should
attack by integrating the new and change moves to cover for what
were weaknesses up until now. What was a deficit for him up until
now, his limited mid (and special high) moves have been
strengnthened noticeably. Within those moves, the
move is very useful, as all three hits are mid, and the first hit
is fast, so it can be used as a set move, in okizemi and
plentifully in strings. Stopping at the second hit is beneficial,
as it is only medium disadvantage. The is an effective
follow on.
The + is a move that lion will be thankful to have.
When you have a large advantage (such as after staggering the
opponent) and when you read that the opponent will go for a big
move in abare style, you should try to go for this.
Change moves
The first change move, his A2 (VF3 version) is a move that
has knee class execution, is middleweight punch counterable on
block and knocks down on hit. It will float on CH, and you can get
some combos from it.
The second change move is his B2 which is a mid
string with back, stomach, back half-circular properties. It combos
up until the second hit. It doesn't seem to have been changed much
since VF4.
Footnotes
New moves and changes to existing moves - The +
stretches the opponents joints and then knocks them away, causing
them to stagger. The actual damage is only 20, which isn't very
advantageous, so it's probably best to keep aiming for
+. The has lost its stomach crumple on
sabaki and normal hit, but when they're in open stance you can hit
them with +, so the damage hasn't dropped that
much.
Source: Arcadia Issue 52
Translated by: noodalls
Posted by
noodalls
on 10/09/2004
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Edited by
Myke
on 03/04/2005
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