AzuFight: Taisen Shiyo/Kagura

Kagura

Introduction

While Kagura makes appearances earlier on as one of Nyamo's students, she does not become a true acquaintance of the group until sometime later, joining Yukari's class in the 2nd year (Yukari selects her as a ringer to win the school athletic competitions). She devotes most of her time to the swim team but is an all-around good athlete. She also has a one-sided rivalry with Sakaki and attempts to outdo her in all activities, whether it is playing softball, sprinting, or even eating lunch. This is how her character was introduced to the rest of the cast, when during 1st year's field day, she was defeated by Sakaki in a running event.

Normal

EX

Overview

Playstyle
Kagura is a very fast and flashy rushdown character with dodges to bait the opponent into pressing a button.

Pick if you like	Avoid if you dislike
Dodges: Kagura has an incredibly fast dodge that lets her move around the screen while being immune to attacks for a bit, she can also do a follow-up after the dodge to let her get free cross-ups. Strong mix: She gets a lot of mix up options from stylish canceling her 214B and 214C since they put her in the air. She also has a proximity unblockable for some strike/throw mix. Crash Counter: She can attempt to escape from combos with her unique crash attack, if the opponent blocks or gets hit by it she can get a conversion off of it. Suffocating pressure: With how fast she is and having a tatsu that's safe on block without stylish cancel it can be really hard to get her off of you.	Extremely meter reliant: Kagura needs stylish cancels to do her combos (beyond just normals into a special) and a lot of her strong mix. Stubby range: All of Kagura's normals are pretty small.

Character Traits

Unique Attributes

Dodge
By pressing A+B Kagura can dodge attacks.
She can dodge left or right and follow-up with a counter attack by pressing C.

Crash Counter
Instead of a normal Crash Attack Kagura has a combo breaker.
She can only use it during her standing heavy hurt animation or a stagger.
The move has armor that loses to grabs and lows but if she lands the move she gets a full combo.

Outburst

Buffed dodges
Kagura's dodges become 3 times faster.
She can also cancel her normals into dodge.
She can also use her Crash Attack normally.

Move Descriptions

Normals

Standing Normals

5A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
4	-	-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-
A quick jab. Extremely basic jab. One of her better normals to throw out.

5B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
6	-	-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-
A right hook. Her second farthest reaching normal.

5C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
8	-	-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-
An uppercut. Very small, tends to whiff in combos.

Crouching Normals

2A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
4	-	-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-
A quick crouching jab. Less range than 5A, generally just worse.

2B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
6	-	-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-
An uppercut. Fast anti-air normal.

2C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
8	-	-	-	Low	-	-	-	-
Sweep. Kagura's farthest reaching normal. Really slow recovery.

Jumping Normals

j.A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
4	-	-	-	High	-	-	-	-
A quick overhead punch. Very active, good for jump-ins.

j.B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
6	-	-	-	High	-	-	-	-
Basic kick. Air-to-air and cross-up normal.

j.C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
9	-	-	-	High	-	-	-	-
A downward kick. Combo filler mostly.

Command Normals

Dodge

Shisa Elbow
6A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
6	-	-	-	High	-	-	-	-
Slow startup, basic overhead When cancelled into via normal attack, the move loses its overhead property, starts up faster, pulls the opponent inward and becomes special cancellable.

Universal Mechanics

Throw

Throw
6/4C (Next To Opponent)

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
20	-	-	-	Throw	-	-	-	-
Kagura punches the opponent a bunch.

Skylab

Skylab
j.236D~AABBC~(A/B/C)

Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
A Ender	42	-	-	-	High	-	-	-	-
Kagura punches the opponent a bunch and then does a rising uppercut. The starter whiffs if the opponent isn't above Kagura. Incredibly minus on hit if the opponent recovers. Never use this ender.
Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
B Ender	42	-	-	-	High	-	-	-	-
Kagura punches the opponent a bunch and then kicks the opponent to the wall. Wallbounces.
Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
C Ender	46	-	-	-	High	-	-	-	-
Kagura punches the opponent a bunch and then slams the opponent to the ground.

Slash Beat

Slash Beat
5D~ABAAB~(C/D)

Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
C Ender	46	-	-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-
Basic slash beat that ends with Kagura punching the opponent to the wall. Wallbounces
Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
D Ender	47	-	-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-
Basic slash beat that ends with Kagura uppercutting the oppponent, allowing her to continue with Skylab.

Crash Attack

Crash Attack
236D

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
20	-	-	-	Unblockable	-	-	-	-
This move can only be done when Kagura is in a standing heavy hurt animation or staggered. Has armor during the start up, she can be grabbed out of it if the opponent reads it. Wallsplats for a very long time, she can dash up and start a combo at any point in the screen.

Guard Push

Guard Push
6D while blocking

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
5	-	-	-	Unblockable	-	-	-	-
Uses the second hit of her rekka.

Specials

Manhattan Drop

Shisa Hook
236B

Flicker

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
10	-	-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-
Very far reaching punch. This is most of her mid-screen presence. Very minus on block.

Leg Trip Enzuigiri

Shisa Impact
236B~236C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
5	-	-	-	High	-	-	-	-
Overhead follow-up after 236B. Punishable on hit.

Koppo-Ryu Palm

Shisa Machinegun
63214A (close)

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv Hit	Adv Block	Invul
16	-	-	-	Unblockable	-	-	-	-
Proximity unblockable. The opponent can jump before the first hit which makes only the first 1 or 2 hits land consistently.

Shisa Kick

Shisa Kick
214C (air OK)