Samurai Shodown 3/Gaira Kafuin

花諷院骸羅, Gaira Kafuin

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Introduction

Gaira’s illustrious college football career came to a grinding halt when he accidentally killed someone during a game. He was expelled and sent to serve as a monk at a local Buddhist shrine in the hopes that he would learn to control his temper. He didn’t.

Gaira is the boisterous nephew of Samurai Shodown 2 veteran Nicotine Caffeine. He uses his large stature, the strength that comes with it, free guard cancels, and huge normals with surprising speed to pummel, grapple, and SHOUT his opponents into submission.

Slash Gaira could be classified as a more 'mixup' oriented incarnation, for lack of a better descriptor. He boasts an incredible anti-air grab, two threatening hitgrabs that form a high/low mixup at close range, and an all purpose high damage shoulder tackle that provides decent corner carry. This versatile toolkit lends itself to conditioning the opponent to block a certain way and hurting them for it. A lot.

Bust Gaira is all grappler, all the time, mixups be damned. His command throw is the star of the show. It cashes in hard on unjumpable setups, can combo on hit AND block, and it’s one of the best guard cancels a monk could ask for. He wants nothing more than to be in his opponent's face and hammer toss them to the ends of feudal Japan.

Stats

Damage taken: 95%
Rage rate: 100%
Rage duration: 3.5 seconds

Normal Moves

Far Slashes

5A (Properties) -

5B (Properties) -

5C (Properties) -

2A (Properties) -

2B (Properties) -

2C (Properties) -

Near Slashes

n.5A (Properties) -

n.5B (Properties) -

n.5C (Properties) -

n.2A (Properties) -

n.2B (Properties) -

n.2C (Properties) -

Overheads

5BC (Properties) -

u.5BC (Properties) -

Kicks

5D (Properties) -

6D (Properties) -

2D (Properties) -

3D (Properties) -

Jumping Normals

j.A (Properties) -

j.B (Properties) -

j.C (Properties) -

j.D (Properties) -

Dashing Normals

66A (Properties) -

66B (Properties) -

66C (Properties) -

66D (Properties) -

Unarmed Normals

u.5S (Properties) -

u.2S (Properties) -

uj.S (Properties) -

u.66S (Properties) -

Command Moves

j.2D (Properties) -

j.2C (Slash Only) (Properties) -

Special Moves

Universal

- 「Jishin Gan」 - 22AB (Description) -

- 「Katsu」 - 214A (Description) -

- WFT「Kenbu」 - 236236AB (Description) -

Slash

- 「Midare Uchi」 - 236AB (Description) -

- 「Kachi Age」 - 623S (Description) - (A version) - (B version) - (C version) -

- 「Tsukamuzo: Kumitenjo」 - 421A (Description) -

- 「Tsukamuzo: Ishi Atama」 - 421B (Description) -

- 「Tsukamuzo: Shiri Mekuri」 - 421C (Description) -

Bust

- 「Buchikoroshi」 - 236S (Description) - (A version) - (B version) - (C version) -

- 「Enshin Satsu: Ten」 - 2146AB (Description) -

- 「Enshin Satsu: Chi」 - 2146CD (Description) -

Strategy

both techniques press buttons and make combos happen sometimes

Slash

slash strategy

Bust

bust strategy

Combos

Universal

combos both techniques can do

Slash

slash-only combos

Bust

bust-only combos