Spectral vs Generation/Orochimaru

Orochimaru
Health	500
Pre-Jump Frames	4
Play Style	All-Around
Dash Type	Run

Character Background

Race: Drgon
Motivation: To preserve order
Weapon: Rising Sun
Likes: Alcohol, Women, Fighting
Dislikes: Marriage

Character Overview

Orochimaru is the most neutral heavy character in the game. he relies on excellent positioning, great intuition and smart use of his stance to take advantage. he benefits from an easy execution for his optimal combos and good pokes
However, he is rewarded with extremely poor damage compared to everyone else for relatively high risk. Which, coupled with his lack of disjoints, projectiles and his very slow air speed, lands him at the bottom of all tier lists

Pros

Cons

Normals

Far Standing Normals

5A	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - Orochimaru does a light wide slice while having fast startup, it cannot combo into anything so 5B is generally more useful

5B	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - can cancel into stance Your main poking tool. very fast startup and one of the longest normals in the game

5C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - Orochimaru does a heavy slash that slightly staggers oppnents on hit. it's very unsafe on hit so other than 5B>5C this is rarely used other than predictions

5D	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - a quick kick, but better normals do the same job can not be added to BNBs and is outclassed by 5B in every aspect

4D	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - Orochimaru jumps in the air and kicks immune to low enough attacks

Close Standing Normals

cl.5A	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - Orochimaru taps the enemy with the pommel of his sword, has fast startup and recovery, allowing you to tick throw with this

cl.5B Bonk Bonk	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - very quick attack the most common close BNB starter alongside cl.5A

cl.5C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - can cancel into stance quick vertical slash with average range visually identical to 2C with a few differences

cl.5D	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - 5D but a bit lower

Crouching Normals

2A	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Specials - - - - very similar to 5A but he is crouching

2B	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block 30 Mid Specials - - - - slash slightly longer than 2A

3B	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid - - - - - stab that causes a hard knockdown. this is the most frequent and reliable way orochimaru gets knockdowns hits OTG

2C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Low Specials - - - - visually identical to cl.5C with a few differences

2D	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Low Specials - - - - A short kick.

Jumping Normals

j.A	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - High - - - - - Orochimaru pokes his sword out downwards until he lands.

j.B	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - High - - - - - completely horizontal slash Orochimaru's best air-to-air

j.C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - High - - - - - wide slash, Orochimaru's main jump-in good damage and can combo off of it if done low enough

j.D	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block 10 High - - - - - Air kick.

Chain Specific Normals

A -> B -> C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - High None - - - - 5B and 5C are faster than their non-chain counterparts

2B -> 2C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - High None - - - - 2C becomes an upward slash that slightly launches opponents. this property is yet to receive any practical use

Throws

A+D Forward Throw the 2nd coolest throw in the game the 2nd coolest throw in the game	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Throw N/A - - - - Orochimaru grabs his opponent and headbutts them

B+D Back Throw the coolest throw in the game the coolest throw in the game	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Throw N/A - - - - similar to A+D but instead they get throw behind fully untechable and can be followed up with OTG 3B

Sword Series Slash (Dust)

5B+C Standing SSS	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - High N/A - - - - Triggers an air chase when you press A. To complete the air chase you must do AAABBBCCCD > 236D.

2B+C Low SSS	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Low N/A - - - - Same as standing SSS but hits low. Triggers an air chase when you press A. To complete the air chase you must do AAABBBCCCD > 236D.

Chaos Breaking (Parry)

A+B Standing Parry Standing Parry Crouching Parry Crouching Parry Jumping Parry Jumping Parry	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - - - - - - - Dodges projectiles and counters any physical, non-grab attacks. The Standing and Jumping versions parry anything that can be blocked High, but is vulnerable to grabs. The Crouching version only parries lows and cannot be grabbed.

Special Moves

214A/B/C Rekka starter Rekka starter 214A/B/C - Rekka first followup 214A/B/C - Rekka first followup A/B/C - Rekka second followup A/B/C - Rekka second followup D - Rekka final followup D - Rekka final followup

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Super - - - - short slash with somewhat slow startup Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Super - - - - followup to 214A/B/C can cancel into stance Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid Super - - - - final followup. can SOT cancel. D can be added for extra damage and a wallbounce it's possible to get a wallbounce and SOT at the same time if the inputs are done fast enough

236A/B/C 236A/B/C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - High Super - - - - big move that can SOT cancel A version is stationary and is a single hit B and C versions are multihits and advance Orochimaru

632146D 632146D	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Command throw N/A - - - - Command grab with decent range can be comboed off of but scales combos a lot

Stance Stance Stance Forward dash Forward dash Back dash Back dash 5A 5A 2A 2A B B C C

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid - - - - - Stance that can be entered with cl.5C, 5B, 214A/B/C ~> 214A/B/C Stance can also cancel into throw or (very difficult) command throw will disable automatically if no followup is selected Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid - - - - - Orochimaru hops forward a short distance has a fair ammount of end lag so the opponent can grab you first if you attempt to grab them Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid - - - - - Orochimaru does a short hop backwards exits the stance Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid - - - - - quick overhead that causes a hard knockdown exits the stance Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid - - - - - quick low that causes a hard knockdown exits the stance Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid - - - - - very fast and very damaging poke Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid - - - - - armored move that guard breaks on block or causes a knockdown on hit is stopped by multihits and lows and parries needs further testing, but if attacked near the end of the animation orochimaru will attack instantly exits the stance

Super Moves

Level 1 Supers

236-236A/B/C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid N/A - - - - very very short attack that on hit initiates a sequence ending in a knockdown while it can be used as a reversal, it can't reliably punish jump-ins it's range is so short that most BNBs can't end with it

236-236D

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - - N/A - - - - this breaks mizuumi guidelines but please never use this a parry super with tons of damage however : - if the opponent's attack is active during the superflash it will not counter it - it's beaten by lows - it's beaten by throws - it will almost never be timed correctly to punish a jump-in, since they can empty jump when they see the superflash

214-214A/B/C	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid N/A - - - - fire pillar super with good reach has a very long startup. opponents can attack on the superflash but still recover and block in time aerial opponents can air dash forward on the superflash and end up behind you it is often used in long advanced combos but it scales damage a lot

Level 3 Super

214-214-214D Translation : you dead Translation : you dead

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Adv Hit Adv Block Chain Adv Block - Mid N/A - - - - a very wide slash that on hit initiates a short sequence the main damage comes from a single slash so it's not affected by scaling as much as other level 3s while one of the best level 3 supers,it is hindered a lot by it's 3 motion input, as it makes it very reactable when done raw and a bit hard to get used to doing it fast enough mid combo