Arcana Heart 3/AH3X/Almacia

Ice Arcana, Almacia

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Almacia started out as a penguin who decided it wanted to see the world, and through its incredible journey gained great strength, eventually transcending to a higher state of being. As it still enjoys wandering, it willingly accompanies Zenia on her travels.

Attributes

Passive

• Lioa: Instead of the normal forward step (66), move faster by sliding forward on ice. Similar to a 6D, but you maintain the properties of a normal forward step. While this is definitely better for movement than a normal step, short dashes that you would see in pressure and combos are slightly weaker as this dash has acceleration.
• Frjosa: Grounded E button attacks will freeze the opponent if they hit. This is somewhat similar to the Water Arcana's Cadus. However, unlike Cadus the effects will not come out on block.

Extend Force

• Vetur Heimur: During EF all of your normals will freeze the opponent like Frjosa. As a result, you can do some pretty interesting combos with this. Also, Nal and Klua have buffed properties during this time.

Special Moves

Nal

Nal 236E File:AH3 Almacia 236E.png

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Air ok. Fire a fast shard of ice. Holding the button down will make the ice shard bigger. Charged icicle will wallslam on hit (same hitstun effect as Frjosa in how it can be followed up). During EF this move will always start out fully charged. This is a very nice zoning move for controlling horizontal space both in the air and on the ground, if you get out some fully charged ones you can work in some strong chip damage too.

Klua

Klua 214E File:AH3 Almacia 214E.png	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Air ok. This will send out a snowflake diagonally downward. During EF you will send two of them out at once. Limited use as okizeme and mostly used as a fullscreen zoning tool.

Arcana Supers

Sprengja

Sprengja 236236E File:AH3 Almacia 236236E.png

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Create an explosion of ice shards around yourself, striking nearby opponents. You can use this move as a combo ender, but it is also great as a reversal. The start up of this move is 8 frames and it's fully invincible during it. It will also wall slam on hit. Much like Fire's Gouten Shou, the damage changes depending on how you hit the opponent with this. The closer you are to your opponent, the more damage Sprengja will do.

Kuldi

Kuldi 214214E File:AH3 Almacia 214214E.png	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Air ok. This is the super version of Klua. It will send out many snowflakes to assault the opponent. The attack range of this move is so big you could say that it attacks the whole screen, except for right below you if you are in the air.

Arcana Eclipse

Furzlegranal 214B+C File:AH3 Almacia 214BC.png	Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Attack the opponent with an iceberg from the ground.

Arcana Blaze

Verold 236A+B+C File:AH3 Almacia 236ABC.png

Damage Guard Cancel Startup Active Recovery Frame Adv Level - - - - - - - - Summon Almacia, who will send out a giant wave of ice from one side of the screen to the other, much like Kula Diamond's MAX version of Diamond Edge. This will guard crush if the opponent tries to block it in the air. That, combined with the multiple hits, make it essentially air unblockable. You usually don't get that much damage off of it but between the fast startup and how hard it is to avoid, it's actually quite practical to use.