Pokemon: Close Combat/Great Tusk

Archetypes:	Superheavy; Mixup
Health:	33
Guard Health:	15
Walk Speed:	1.5/-1.5 (Rolling: 5.7/-5.7)
Prejump Frames:	9f
Fastest Attack:	6B (9f), Throw (8f)

Keep rollin', rollin' rollin'.

Introduction

Embrace your protohistoric power with Great Tusk! Tusk is an explosive, big body mix-up character with some of the highest damage on the roster. It may look slow at first, but once it gets up to speed, it's capable of rapidly hitting your opponent from all sides, leaving them with no room to breath. By taking advantage of its roll stance change, Great Tusk can hurtle across the screen and threaten a unique variety of offensive options. Utilize stomps, earthquakes, rolls, and of course your gigantic tusks to catch your opponent unprepared. Its combos are devastating, deleting the opponent's health bar with the help of its three-hit 6B. If you're looking to hit hard, tank through hits and look cool doing it, Great Tusk is a great choice.

Playstyle

Great Tusk is a beefy tank who can change stances on a whim to dash in and overwhelm the opposition.

Pick if you like

Avoid if you dislike

Pachyderm Pokes: 5A, 4A and jA dominate the screenspace with great hitboxes. Sturdy Spinner: Great Tusk the highest health values in the entire game alongside Bewear, in addition to a very high guard health, allowing them to shrug off tons of damage. Mammoth Mixups: Great Tusk has high/low, left/right, and throw mixups that are all incredibly rewarding. Devastating Damage: Great Tusk's optimal combos can turn the tide of battle very quickly, deleting your opponent's health bar in a couple touches. Keep Rolling: Great Tusk's roll stance allows them to quickly change their playstyle, which can be bewildering to the opponent.

Lumbering Giant: Great Tusk is huge, and their movement and attacks are all quite slow outside of stance, making them prone to pressure and combos. Unorthodox Style: Being a stance character, Great Tusk's gameplan can be a bit unobvious with so many options. High Risk, High Reward: While Great Tusk gets a lot of damage off their combo starters, they are almost all minus on block or unsafe. Low Meter Build: Great Tusk has no ways outside of counter hit to combo into sweep, making them rely on parry and throw to build meter.

Normals

5A	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 1 0 Mid Special - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 13 3 19 1 [-4] - Total: 34 Great Tusk extends their trunk forward. Great Tusk's best option for challenging, as it is their fastest normal. Typical combo ender into 6b. Very strong poke in neutral that can buffered into knockdowns.
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4A	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 1 1 Mid 5a, Special Upper Body - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 12 5 24 -6 [-4] - Total: 40 Great Tusk swings their trunk upwards. Go-to combo starter when aiming to confirm and stay safe, utilized by cancelling into 5a. Fantastic anti-air that combos into 6b on regular hit, and Roll 5a on counterhit for massive damage.
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6A	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 2 Mid C Cancel, 426B - Knockdown Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 26 7 31 +81 [-6] - Total: 63 Great Tusk uppercuts with their tusk. Mainly used as combo fodder, as it cancels from their 2A. Typically best way to extend combos when you have meter to spend.
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2A	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 2 High 6A - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 33 20 21 -7 [-9] - Total: 73 Great Tusk brings their tusk down on the head of the opponent. Tusk's grounded overhead, important to threaten as a mixup. Unsafe on hit and block unless cancelled.
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3A	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 1 1 Low - - Knockdown Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 14 27 31 +1 [-40] - Total: 71 Great Tusk sweeps the ground with their trunk. Tusk's grounded low, important to threaten as a mixup. Very unsafe on block, but builds Great Tusk a bar on hit.
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j5A	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 1 High - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 16 15 10 +23 [+21] - Total: 40 Great Tusk does an aerial slam with their tusk. Advantage assumes done at lowest possible height. Main jump-in, incredible frame advantage and hitbox.
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j2A	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 0 0 - - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 10 - - - - Great Tusk curls into a ball before hitting the ground. Enters roll stance as soon as Great Tusk falls to the ground. If j2A is used while rolling, Great Tusk will exit roll stance

5A while rolling	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 1 - - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 10 15 23 +75 [-20] - Total: 47 Great Tusk charges forward when rolling. High risk, high reward launcher. Causes Great Tusk to rapidly accelerate in the direction he's facing during roll. Causes a 1-damage stalactite to fall on the opponent if Great Tusk collides with a wall
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Change direction while rolling	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 1 0 - - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 34 10 18 +14 [+0] - Total: 61 Dust sprays violently outwards when Great Tusk makes a sharp turn.
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Specials

Whirling Fortress get off me get off me	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 4 Mid - - Armor, Knockdown Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 24 30 34 +39 [-29] - Total: 87 Great Tusk spins on the spot. Most reliable meterless reversal in their kit, blowing up frametraps and untrue meaties.
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Heavy Slam B while Rolling	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 5 1 Low - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 23 10 18 +91 [-10] - Total: 50 Great Tusk uses the momentum from its roll to slam down on the opponent.
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Stampede 6B	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 1, 1, 3 1, 1, 1 Mid C-Cancel - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 9, 9, 10 7, 7, 10 24 +59 [-9] - Total: 75 Great Tusk charges forward to deliver a devastating three-hit combo.
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Quaking Stomp 2B

Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 1 Low - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 21 10 28 +50 [-13] - Total: 58 Great Tusk charges up an earth-quaking stomp. This attack can be charged to multiple levels based on how long you hold 2. An enemy hit by this attack will be knocked towards Great Tusk. Great Tusk is invulnerable during the startup of the stomp as well as during the active frames. Has armor against standard projectiles while charging starting frame 8 Getting hit by a projectile will instantly increase 2B's charge to the next level.

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Quaking Stomp (Mid Charge) 2B	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 5 2 Low - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 39 10 28 +81 [-6] - Total: 76 An enemy hit by this attack will be knocked towards Great Tusk.
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Quaking Stomp (Full Charge) 2B	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 7 4 Low - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 65 10 19 +90 [+10]/ - Total: 93 An enemy hit by this attack will be knocked towards Great Tusk.
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Crashing Footfalls j.B	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 5 2 High - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 32 20 34 +53 [-1] - Total: 85 Great Tusk delivers a mid-air stomp to the opponent's dome. This variation of the attack will be used when Great Tusk is high up in the air.
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Crashing Footfalls (Ground) j.B	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 1 Low - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 5 (+3 in air) 15 34 +70 [-24] - Total: 53 Great Tusk stomps the ground, causing a quake around them. This variation of the attack will be used when Great Tusk is about to hit the ground.
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EX Moves

Don Drift 6B while Rolling	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 1, 1, 3 0, 0, 2 - - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 12 42 62 +75 [-20] 1 Total: 115 Great Tusk drifts into a spinning U-turn, plowing into anyone it their way.

Super

Headlong Rush 426B	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 13 1 - - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 91 [-74 Super Freeze], 26 27, 15 34 +52 [-24] 3 Total: 192 Great Tusk lets out a bellowing roar before charging forward, taking the opponent all the way to the corner and delivering a barrage of blows.
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Throws

Forward Throw 6C	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 - Unblockable - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 8 2 41 - - Total: 50 Great Tusk spins the opponent around before tossing them forward.

Proto Boost (Forward) B while performing a forward throw	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 - - - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 8 2 41 - 1 Total: 50 Great Tusk spins the opponent around before tossing them up into the air, then swapping to roll stance to pursue them.

Back Throw 4C	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 3 - Unblockable - - Knockdown Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 8 2 41 - - Total: 50 Great Tusk thumps the opponent into the ground before tossing them backwards.

Proto Boost (Back) B while performing a back throw	Damage Endurance Damage Guard Cancel Invul Property 9 - - - - - Startup Active Recovery Advantage Cost 8 2 41 - 1 Total: 50 Great Tusk thumps the opponent into the ground before spinning directly on top of them, swapping into roll stance as well.

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