Tough Love Arena/Beef

Overview

Beef is a yellow person that tosses a variety of items, most notably a Lemon. Beef is a very well-rounded character that has good tools for close-range brawling, mid-range poking, and long-range zoning. Versatility and a lack of weaknesses is where this character shines, and that makes Beef great for anyone picking up the game.

Strengths	Weaknesses
Neutral: Beef has an easy time passively whittling you down with pokes and fireballs. High Damage: Beef packs a punch off common starters into lemon loops. Combos have good damage, oki, and corner carry. Defense: Flex is a great reversal for getting out of tight pressure situations. Lemon RC: For just one bar, Lemon RC makes throwing lemons much less committal and gives Beef a projectile to follow behind, letting them force their way in. Flexibility: Beef does not have one single significant flaw and can be strong in many positions.	Limited Mixups: Beef has a good foundation of mixups, but there’s nothing notable about Beef mix compared to other characters. Limited Mixup Opportunities Without meter, Beef's midscreen combos give lackluster oki and leave them unable to push a mixup.

Move List

Notation

Basic Moves

Gutpunch
5L

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
50	5	10	10	+5	+1	-
Beef's fastest attack. A low punch to the gut. Has short range but is useful in scrambles, combos, and pressure. Can not anti air jumps like other 5L's. First Hit Scaling: 2 Hits Cancels: H, S

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Heavy Punch
5H

The big punch.

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
80	9	5	15	+5	-5	-
Beef's heavy attack. A big beefy punch with an excellent combination of range, startup, and damage. Cancels: L, H, S, RC

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Uppercut
5HH

Tackle

Uppercut

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
40, 80	10,10	10,10	34	+29	-20	-
Beef moves forward into a shoulder tackle, followed by an uppercut that launches the opponent. Beef is put right next to the opponent. Useful for combo extensions and creating pressure. Cancels: RC

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Palm
5HL

Talk to the hand.

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
70	13	5	20	+2	-8	-
A low-risk, low-reward follow up to Heavy Punch. Cancels: RC

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Jump Attack/Spike
6S

Rising Knee.

Falling Kick.

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
150, 100	11, 18	6, 6	5	KD, +20	+10	Armor vs. Air: 6-17
Beef's Jump attack. The attack has two parts: the rising knee at the beginning and the falling kick. The rising knee is a fast anti air attack that leads to an automatic knockdown on hit. The falling kick occurs if the rising knee did not hit anything and functions similar to other jump attacks. First Hit Scaling: 1 Hit (Falling Kick portion only) Cancels: 4 (During startup)

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Universal Mechanics

Throw
5T

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
200	5	10	10	KD	-	-
Beef chucks the opponent behind them with a grunt. Throw can not hit most attacks during startup and active frames. Moves with armor can be hit with Throw during armor frames.

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Rapid Cancel (RC)
6T (during hitsun or blockstun of a move)

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
-	35	0	0	Stop Time Frames 1-35	Stop Time Frames 1-35	1-35
A universal metered option that removes the end lag of a move. Costs one bar of meter. Allows for combos and setups that are not possible otherwise.

Reject
6T (while blocking a move)

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
-	10	5	15	±0	-2	1-15
A universal metered option that acts as a low risk, low reward reversal. Costs one bar of meter. Pushes the opponent a short distance away. Allows Beef to reset to neutral when they are under pressure.

Burst
4T (while in hitstun)

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
-	20	2	28	KD	-24	1-22
A universal metered option that combo breaks. Costs full meter. Pushes the opponent full screen and acts as a full reset to neutral.

Special Moves

Lemon
5S

Lemon.

Fake Lemon.

Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
Lemon Roll	100	27	1	29	+10 (point blank)	±0 (point blank)	-
Beef chucks a Lemon at their opponent. The lemon moves forward with unlimited range until it leaves the screen, connects with the opponent, or connects with another projectile. While Beef's lemon is on the screen, Beef can't throw another lemon. Useful for baits, zoning, and combos. Cancels: RC (on whiff), 4 (during startup)
Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
Indecisive Lemon	-	14	-	11	-	-	-
Beef decides to put away their Lemon instead of tossing it. Useful as a fake out tool.

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Flex
4S

Flex

BEEFCAKE

Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
Flex	-	0	8	35	-	-	Parry 1-8
Beef's parry. If a strike connects within the first 8 frames, Flex will automatically cancel into BEEFCAKE. Useful as a wakeup option and an anti air.
Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
BEEFCAKE	160	30	1	29	+35	-5	1-31
The automatic follow-up to a successful Flex. Knocks the opponent up for a juggle. First Hit Scaling: 3 Hits Cancels: RC (on hit)

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Air Lemon
6S4

Beef is Ballin'

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
100	41	1	16	+18 (point blank)	+8 (point blank)	-
Beef chucks a Lemon at their opponent while in the air. The lemon moves forward at a downward angle with unlimited range until it leaves the screen, connects with the opponent, or connects with another projectile. While Beef's lemon is on the screen, Beef can't throw another lemon. Useful for baits and approaching.

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Colors


Beef	Striped Beef	Grape Soda Beef	Baby Blue Beef	Plaid Beef. Unlock by getting Peak MMR of atleast 1700 in Ranked Match.


Bloody Beef	Tiramisu Beef	Normal Beef	Checkered Beef. Unlock by winning an official major tournament.