Arcana Heart 3/AH3LMSS/Kayatsuhime

Flower Arcana, Kayatsuhime

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The guardian Arcana of the Inuwaka clan, it is believed to have once been one with the guardian of the Koinumaru, Moriomoto. However, instead of manipulating vegetation, Kayatsuhime governs their growth and vitality.

Attributes

Passive

• Roka (Beautiful Dew): Fully charged Grounded E attacks will drain some of your opponent's Arcana Gauge.
• Mamori no Hanabira (Petals of Protection): The Flower Arcana prevents counterhits from occuring. It sounds plain but extremely effective in reducing massive and random damage from your opponent. Paired with the Flower Arcana's super fast Force Gauge recharge speed for bursts, this Arcana ends up being one of the most sturdy, defense-oriented Arcanas.

Extend Force

• Utsuroi no Hikari (Light of Change): Activating EF will cause all of the plants on the stage to instantly mature one level. If a plant is already at level 5, then this will cause that plant to wither and die.

Special Moves

Hitoezaki

Hitoezaki 236E File:AH3 Kayatsuhime 236E.png Solitary Blossom Solitary Blossom	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - This will fire a flower-shaped projectile in front of you. Holding a directional command+ changes the direction it travels. This is almost a pure zoning tool as it is much too slow to be used in combos. However, the recovery is good, so if you land a hit on the ground you can step (66) then follow up for a combo.

Hana ni Arashi

Hana ni Arashi 236E during Hitoezaki File:AH3 Kayatsuhime 236E236E.png Blossom Storm Blossom Storm

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - By inputting the motion again while a Solitary Blossom is out, you will cause it to scatter into five petals, covering a bigger area. The window for this is a bit restrictive; you cannot use it right after sending a Solitary Blossom out, it has to be in motion first. Also, you can't wait too long to do it. If it is already disappearing, you'll just end up doing the motion for Blossom Storm but the flower will still fade away without scattering.

Maboroshi no Hana

Maboroshi no Hana 214E File:AH3 Kayatsuhime 214E.png Flower of Phantasms Flower of Phantasms

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Randomly summon one of three spirit flowers. You can plant up the three at the same time and they will even last in between rounds. They grow through 5 stages over time before wilting and will automatically mature due to the passage of time or rounds. As mentioned earlier, they will also mature if you use your Extend Force. When you are (very) close to a flower, it will accelerate your Arcana Gauge recovery or increase your max if you are already full. The more that are near you, the faster your gauge will recover. Type 1: Stage 1 Gauge Increase: Minute - Harvest: Nothing Stage 2 Gauge Increase: Minute - Harvest: 100 HP Stage 3 Gauge Increase: Small - Harvest: 300 HP Stage 4 Gauge Increase: Moderate - Harvest: 600 HP Stage 5 Gauge Increase: Small - Harvest: Super armor for 450 frames for 1 hit Type 2: Stage 1 Harvest: Nothing Stage 2 Harvest: 100 HP Stage 3 Harvest: 300 HP Stage 4 Harvest: Gauge Increase Stage 5 Harvest: Proration times 1.1 for one hit Type 3: Stage 1 Harvest: Nothing Stage 2 Harvest: 100 HP Stage 3 Harvest: 300 HP Stage 4 Harvest: Max GUTS proration up by one Stage 5 Harvest: 1000 HP

Tsumika

Tsumika 623E File:AH3 Kayatsuhime 623E.png Flower Gathering Flower Gathering

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Harvest a spirit flower. The effect varies based on the flower's type and stage of growth. Your force gauge still recovers without picking any flowers. You cannot harvest a level 1 spirit flower. The benefits are the same between each of the flowers up to stage 3. You can harvest a dream (super) flower at stage 1 and the benefits are the same as the spirit flowers at higher stages. The animation for this move will still come out even if you are nowhere near a flower, so be careful. Fortunately the whole duration of it is very short. As a matter of fact, you could use this move with some characters for zero gauge follow ups to 2Es (i.e. 2E → 623E → NH).

Arcana Supers

Yaebeni Higan

Yaebeni Higan 236236E File:AH3 Kayatsuhime 236236E.png Spring Cherry Blossom Spring Cherry Blossom

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Fire a huge flower blossom. After traveling a short distance, it will scatter into several petals. This is basically the super version of Solitary Blossom. It will automatically scatter out much like Blossom Storm for an extremely wide attack area. This move will keep your opponent in a long blockstun so it serves as a good setup for mixups. There is no invincibility on it however, but it comes out relatively quickly and is guaranteed so it has some functionality as a reversal as well.

Yume no Hana

Yume no Hana 214214E File:AH3 Kayatsuhime 214214E.png Flower of Dreams Flower of Dreams

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Summon a huge spirit flower that grows faster and has stronger properties than regular spirit flowers. You can only plant one of these at a time. Stage 1 Area Gauge Increase: Minute - Harvest: 100 HP Stage 2 Area Gauge Increase: Minute - Harvest: Proration times 1.1 for one hit Stage 3 Area Gauge Increase: Minute - Harvest: Super armor for 450 frames for 1 hit Stage 4 Area Gauge Increase: Minute - Max GUTS proration up by three Stage 5 Area Life Increase: 300 HP every 90 frames - Harvest: 100 HP & Max GUTS proration up by three

Arcana Eclipse

Yayoi no Sora 214B+C File:AH3 Kayatsuhime 214BC.png Sky of the Third Moon Sky of the Third Moon	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Flower petals are summoned in midair. After a period of time, they attack the enemy. If flowers are planted, petals will be summoned from them as well.

Arcana Blaze

Sakura Mori 236A+B+C File:AH3 Kayatsuhime 236ABC.png Blossom Guardian Blossom Guardian

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Summon Kayatsuhime, who will attack with a shower of cherry blossoms. The opponent can block this in the air. The petal blizzard in the beginning is a lock move, will damage the opponent after 19 more hits. It does hit the whole screen, so you could use this to punish the opponent if they are not paying attention to the fact that you are using this arcana since the start up is pretty fast. Unfortunately the damage is just "OK" so it's up to you if you want to risk not having Force Gauge for a while to use this.