Yatagarasu/Kou

Kou

Move List

Normal Moves

Move: Startup/Active - Hit Adv/Block Adv

LP: 6F/4F - +4F/+3F Standard jab. Chains to c.LP, hits Hanzo, Jyu and Chadha crouching

cr.LP: 5F/3F - +4F/+3F Crouching jab. Hits mid. chains to all light normals.

j.LP: 5F/11F - ?/? Randy Savage its not but, its an elbow. Stays out a long time.

LK - 8F/4F - +3/+2 Toe kick. Hits mid though.

cr.LK: 5F/2F - +1F/±0 Hits low, decent range.

j.LK: 7F/11F - ?/? Jumping knee. Good downward hitbox.

HP: 10F/4F - +4F/+1 Longer range than it looks. Hits crouchers.

cl.HP: 7F/6F - +2F/-1F Upwards hitting punch that may stop some crossups. Faster startup and slightly more damaging than cl.HK, but less frame advantage.

cr.HP: 9F/3~4F - -1F/-4F Good anti-air normal. Max damage normal. Slightly slower than Crow's.

j.HP 9F/4F - ?/? Awkward superman punch. Highest damage jump in.

HK: 8F/4F - +2F/-1 Upwards roundhouse kick. Hits crouchers.

cl.HK: 9F/10F - +3F/±0F Close knee kick with an unusually large amount of active frames as well as a high activation range. Strong meaty attack.

cr.HK: 9F/3F - -1F/-3F Low forward yo. Special cancellable, super cancellable. You're going to get real familiar with this normal.

j.HK: 7F/5F - ?/? Downwards jump kick. Crosses up.

Command Normals

LP+LK (Overhead) Short-hop j.LP. The box is out for a lot longer than it seems, and extends a bit farther down as well.

HP+HK (Unblockable) A slower f.st.HP. Despite low speed, has decent range.

3HK Sweep. Similar to Ryu's in that it extends out moderately far but recovers slowly.

6LP A standing overhead attack. Generally worse than LP+HP due to the fact that Kou can't combo after it, but may catch an unaware opponent more easily thanks to its lower visibility.

6HK A hop kick. The recovery frames may be canceled into a special move for a combo. +1 on block.

Special Moves

Ateyumi – Kagebi 236P Kou's fireball. Worse recovery than Crow's, but faster travel speed. LP: Lowest travel speed. Recovery slightly faster than the HP version. HP: Medium travel speed. EX: Two hits, fastest travel speed, significantly lower recovery and knocks down on hit.

Manchuin – Toriuchi 623P Standard anti-air uppercut. LP: Invincible to lows on startup. Single hit. HP: 3 hit DP. Fully invincible until the active frames at which point it has upper-body invincibility. EX: Fully invincible startup. 4 hits and fastest startup at 3 frames.

Himezori – Yuzuruha 214K A series of kicks similar to the standard Hurricane Kick from SF. The normal versions whiff on crouching characters, but the first hit forces standing and may be super-canceled. LK: Negative on block and hit, and won't combo from anything under any reasonable circumstances. Useless. HK: 5 hits. Knocks down on hit so it could see some situational use. EX: 6 hits. Hits crouching characters and combos from cr.LK. Gives Kou better more time to set up a wakeup game compared to ending a combo with DP.

Supers

Issha Zetsumei - Onibi 236236P A multi-hit fireball that knocks down the opponent. Juggles opponents in air. 5 hits.

Kasanejyumonji - Kijimuna 214214P A slightly slower cr.HP; on hit, Kou follows up with a knee and a spin kick. 3 hits.

Combos

0 bars:

• cr.LK, cr.LK xx 623HP
• 6HK xx 623HP
• UOH, cl.HK xx 623HP
• (meaty) cl.HK, cl.HK xx 623HP
• cr.HK xx 214HK
  • only works against standing opponents
• (aerial BLC), dash forward, 623HP
• (corner only) (aerial BLC), 623LP, 623LP, 623HP

0.5 bars:

• cr.LK, cr.LK xx EX 214K
  • gives Kou more time to set up oki than most of his other combos.
• cl.HK xx EX 236P
  • works from max range

1 bar:

• st.HP xx 236236P
  • Scary footsie tool. Also Kou's highest damage punisher.
• cr.HP xx 623HP xx 236236P
  • Lower damage than the previous combo, but more meter efficient.
• cr.HK xx 236HP xx 236236P
  • doesn't work from max range
• (air reset) 236236P
  • not a real combo, but safe even when fully parried.

1.5 bars:

• EX 236P, 236236P
• EX 214K, 236236P