VF4FT Lion Arcadia Issue 52

Aim for the best with the fresh new FT Lion(top)

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.(top)

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 user-friendliness 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 strengthened 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(top)

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(top)

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
Text: Ohsu
Translated by: noodalls
Posted by noodalls on 10/09/2004
Edited by Myke on 03/04/2005