YomiHustle/Ninja

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Ninja is a mix-up heavy rushdown character, capable of using her superior movement abilities and high number of options to force highly advantageous situations, while almost always having an escape option. As the only character with a projectile invincible attack, an invincible "reversal" in the form of Uppercut, and a frame 4 interruptible movement option, Ninja is capable of using her superior tools to alternate between forcing her opponent's hand, and explosive offense and punishes.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Fast: Possessing the fastest dash in the game, an omnidirectional airdash, and two separate movement specials in Substitution and Store/Release Momentum, Ninja can rapidly create pressure and score hits where other characters may struggle, while constantly building meter. A tool for everything: Ninja has a tool to beat nearly every option an opponent has while in neutral and advantage. This is amplified at close-range, with Punch beating all offensive options and movement except for grab, and Drop Kick beating or evading all basic defensive options. Setplay: Sticky Bomb, Summon, and Shuriken are incredible tools to control space and force opponents into unfavorable guessing situations, frequently denying some options from being used. Resets: Ninja is able to use her various tools to keep pressure and extend combos, with Free Cancel enbling potent frame traps and callouts. High corner carry: From mid-stage, Ninja can consistently bring opponents into view of the corner from a single clean combo starter, especially on DI out. This enables her to loop pressure and constantly retain advantage. High reward for high risk: Ninja is the only character with moves possessing Initiative Bonus invincibility, beating offensive options outright if used before your opponent is acting. This opens the door for terrifying situations, as Ninja can simply power through a majority of aggressive options and convert into high damage combos, complementing her speed and pressure.

Small range (without meter): Without long range options, Ninja's threat range is the smallest in the game without dash momentum or projectile setplay. Quick Slash remedies this by being extremely long-range, but has low conversion ability against good DI, and costs 1 bar of meter per use. Setup reliant: Most character are able to move or control space in a way that denies Ninja her preferred point-blank range. Against defensive play and optimal spacing, Ninja may need to rely on setplay to get into range to begin pressure and mixups. High risk for high reward: The more oppressive an option Ninja has, the more punishable it is on read or on whiff, losing to simple defensive options and movement without pressure and conditioning to back up the play. This can lead to taking long combos or spending resources to make up for whiffs.

Ninja

Move List

Unique movement

Dash

Dash	Forward Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 8, 7 (Hold) - - 0 - Can be interrupted when your opponent becomes actionable. Back Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - 4 - 14 - - 0 - Has 4 additional frames after it becomes interruptable.

Airdash

Airdash	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 8, 7 (Hold) - - 0 - Can be interrupted when your opponent becomes actionable.

Normals

Punch

Punch Ground version Ground version Air version Air version	Ground Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 300 4 2 15 - High 2 - Tied for fastest strike in the game. Air Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 400 5 2 22 - High 0 - Can be used as a DI mixup in air combos on DI down.

Kick

Kick Ground version Ground version Air version Air version

Ground Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 5 3 19 - Low 1 - Decent combo extender due to its range and on-hit advantage. Air Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 5 7 40 - High 0 - Sends the opponent downwards with hard knockdown. Your main DI mixup in air combos, use it on opponents who are looking to DI up. Will ground bounce on launcher hit, giving it massive hitstun, especially if your opponent DIs up.

Sweep

Sweep	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1200 7 2 29 - Low -1 - Usable in NunChuk stance. Special cancellable. A niche punish and combo tool. Has great damage and proration, but can hard to follow up on due to its Hard Knockdown property. Easier to follow up on with DI neutral or up, but can almost always combo into stomp.

NunChuk

NunChuk NunChuk NunChuk NunChuk (High) NunChuk (High) Chuk Heavy Chuk Heavy Chuk Jump Chuk Jump

NunChuk Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 800 7 3 19 - High 0 - NunChuk (High) Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1000 6 3 19 - High 0 - Enters into NunChuk stance (on hit or whiff) Stance can be exited by doing a non-chuk move. NunChuk (High) cannot hit grounded opponents. Chuk Heavy Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 600x3 9 2,2,2 22 - High 0 - Only available after NunChuk. All 3 hits increase combo scaling. Chuk Jump Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1200 16 4 32 - High 0 - Only available after NunChuk. Has extremely limited followups: Chuk Spin, Grab, Store/Release Momentum, Instant/Burst Cancel. Chuk Spin is usually the best followup. Even if it whiffs, it makes you actionable sooner than landing normally.

Chuk Spin

Chuk Spin	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700*3 6 4,4,3 40 - High 0 - Air only. Your standard air combo move, has good damage and is easy to combo off of, but usually needs a resource to combo off of on DI up. This is your best tool to combo into sticky bomb in air combos.

Drop Kick

Drop Kick	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1150 11 5 22 - High -2 - Airborne frame 1. This is your best starter in most situations, due to its high damage and proration, but can be somewhat difficult to combo off of on DI out if not hit up close. It can also loop into itself in the corner. Can be a strong mixup, as it beats both grab and high block.

Dive Kick

Dive Kick	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 600 12 (6) Until Landing Until Landing+4 - High 0 - Has 3 possible angles. Startup is halved with Initiative. Special cancellable. Useful for restanding opponents close to the ground, in combination with shuriken.

Universal Mechanics

Throw

Grab	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 900 3 3 23 - Throw 0 - Universal throw. Usable in Backsway and NunChuk Stance. Weak to DI down, but can often still be a combo starter due to Stomp OTG.

Specials

Shuriken

Shuriken	Ground Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 400 6 - 11 - High 0 - Air Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 300 6 - 11 - High 0 -

Uppercut

Uppercut	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1200+600 4 2,4 41 - High 0 - Invincible during startup with Initiative. First hit is super cancellable. Second hit is not cancellable. Usable in Backsway Stance.

Stomp

Stomp	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 11 4 23 - Low 0 - Hits OTG. Jump and super cancellable. A useful combo tool due to its ability to continue combos on hard knockdown.

Jump Kick

Jump Kick	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1000 11 8 Until Landing+15 (43 Grounded) - High 0 - Air OK. First 24 frames have projectile invulnerability. Super cancellable.

Sticky Bomb

Sticky Bomb

Grab Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 400 10(16 on whiff) 4 Until Landing+4 (28 Grounded), 16 After Grab - Command Grab 0 - Detonation Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 800 (1000) 2 2 - - High 0 - Air OK. Sticky Bomb explodes by itself after 120 frames. Can be detonated manually at any time when Ninja can choose an action.

Summon

Summon	Kunai Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700x3 5+24 - 11 - High 0 - Air OK. Can be done at 3 different angles. Slide Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 0 4 30 11 - Low 0 - Air OK. All versions add a slight upwards boost in the air.

Store/Release Momentum

Store/Release Momentum The flex tape of the ninja community The flex tape of the ninja community	Store Momentum Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage N/A 1 - 11 - - 0 - Air OK. Useful for stopping quickly. Release Momentum Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage N/A 1 - 4 - - 0 - Air OK. Costs 1 bar. The shortest total duration move in the game. Can be used to make many options reactable.

Store/Release Momentum

Substitution

Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage N/A 5 - 8 - - 0 - Air OK. Swaps ninja with the most recently generated projectile within a certain range. Can swap with the summon before the kunai projectiles are thrown. When multiple projectiles are thrown (kunai, caltrops) substitution will prioritize the lowest thrown kunai, or the farthest thrown caltrop. This is not affected by your distance to the projectiles.

Whip Wave

Whip Wave	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 800,400 11,13 2 19 - Low 0 - Only available after NunChuk. Cancellable into itself. Has an initial melee hit before the projectile comes out. Projectile has hard knockdown.

Backsway

Backsway Backsway Backsway Palm Strike Palm Strike Slide Kick Slide Kick

Backsway Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage N/A - - 13 - - 0 - First 9 frames are invulnerable with Initiative. Transitions into Backsway stance. Palm Strike Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 2000 5 5 30 - High 0 - Minimum Damage: 700 Not cancellable. Usually a combo ender, since it resets to neutral, but has high minimum damage. Can be comboed off of with Caltrops for massive damage late in combos, however. Slide Kick Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 5 10 30 - Low 0 - Low profiles starting on frame 3. Not jump cancellable. Very long and active poke, can be used to punish out of Backsway when Uppercut won't hit.

Supers

Quick Slash

Quick Slash Footsies Footsies	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 400 7 1 21 - High 1 - Costs 1 bar. Air OK. Invulnerable frames 5-6 with Initiative. Interrupted sooner by landing. Super cancellable.

Caltrops

Caltrops	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 500 6 - 21 - High(Airborne) Low(Ground, Unparryable) 0 - Costs 3 bars. Air OK. Incredible combo tool due to high hitstun. Can be used to set up unblockable situations with meaty grab.