Tough Love Arena/Pork

Overview

Pork is the grappler of TLA who also can play as a midrange character. They have strong strike-throw pressure with Caber, can wall their opponents out in neutral with Heavy Punch, and can do a ton of damage. They have these strengths at the price of sometimes having a hard time on defense and sometimes struggling to approach.

Strengths	Weaknesses
Pressure: With a varied kit of frametraps combined with a command grab, Pork always makes the opponent nervous with 50/50s. Okizeme: Getting knockdowns sets up scary strike/throw mixups or safejumps. High Reward: Pork’s most common starters lead into great damage, great corner carry, and favorable knockdowns.	Defense: Pork struggles to counter most blockstrings, meaties, and frametraps due to having a lack of a frame 1 reversal. High Risk: Pork’s approach options have a high layer of commitment due to slow startup and can be stuffed/punished.

Move List

Notation

Basic Moves

Gutpunch
5L

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
50	5	10	10	+5	+1	-
Pork'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	-
Pork'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	-
Pork moves forward into a shoulder tackle, followed by an uppercut that launches the opponent. Pork 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 followup to Heavy Punch. Cancels: S, 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
Pork'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	-	-
Pork 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 1000 meter to use. 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 1000 meter to use (essentially half meter/one bar of meter). Pushes the opponent a short distance away. Allows Pork 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 2000 meter to use (essentially full meter). Pushes the opponent full screen and acts as a full reset to neutral.

Special Moves

Caber Toss
5S

The reason you play this character.

The fake out for the reason you play this character.

Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
Caber Toss	80	10	64	15	+30	-	-
A sliding command grab. Unlike normal throws, Caber keeps the opponent on the same side that they were on. Pork can also combo off of it, leading to higher damage and better knockdowns. However, it has shorter range than throw and slower startup. Pork starts sliding forward on frame 26. First Hit Scaling: 3 Hits Cancels: 4 (during startup)
Version	Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
Shy Caber Toss	-	-	-	10	-	-	-
Pork stops before command grabbing you. Can only be done before the move starts sliding forwards. Takes 20 frames from Caber Toss startup to fully whiff in neutral. Canceling any normal into Caber Fake will result in the normal being 1 frame less advantageous if canceled quickly.

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Chop
4S

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
100	20	5	20	+9	-8	Armor vs. Air and Projectiles 1-4, Armor 5-25
Pork's reversal, an armored two-handed chop. A high risk, high reward reversal that sets up into oki and pressure. Chop also makes for a great antiair, as it either knocks down or catches the opponent on their landing frames depending on timing. First Hit Scaling: 3 Hits Cancels: RC (on hit)

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Empty Jump
6S4

A jump with no hitbox

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block	Invuln
-	41	0	0	-	-	-
Pork fakes out a Jump Attack and lands with no hitbox.

Colors


Pork	Striped Pork	Mint Pork	Peach Pork	Plaid Pork. Unlock by getting Peak MMR of atleast 1700 in Ranked Match.


Porkenstein	Golden Pork	Normal Pork	Rose Pork. Unlock by winning an official major tournament.