VF5FS Lion Start Guide

Characteristics, Strengths and Weaknesses

Lion is one of the most versatile character in the game with a focus on offense. He has a lot of tools at his disposal to break his opponents defense. He is fairly easy to play.

Pros :

• Very good wall game and lots of ways to create wall situations
• Very good carry on his combos that help him for ring out tatctics
• Very good low game with a wide variety of lows
• Very good Anti sabaki moves
• Good low crush/high crush moves
• Good otg moves (moves that hit opponents of the ground)

Cons :

• Lightweight
• Punish game is probably the weakest in the game
• Damage decrease a lot as opponent weights goes higher
• Poor defensive moves

Close Range:
P, standing punch. Lion is blessed to have a fast standing punch at 11frames. This is Lion’s fastest attck and leaves you at a small advantage on block that won’t allow the opponent to interrupt your elbow. So after a Punch you can mixup with 6P or Throw.

If opponent is good at using fuzzy guard to beat this kind of mixup you can use P, followed by a low attack or delay your throw.