Hyuk is a Criminal character who excels at space control. He has good normals, great zoning and pretty good offense, allowing him to be played in a lot of different ways.
Playstyle
Hyuk is a versatile character who can play all sorts of playstyles, although he specializes in zoning.
Strengths
Weaknesses
Great Neutral: Hyuk's normals, fireball and grenade are all excellent ways of controlling space and force opponent approaches.
Excellent Projectiles: Hyuk's fireball is the best in the game. On top of that, his grenade has an absurd hitbox is easily spammable, while still useful for baiting BCs in neutral.
Great Normals: Hyuk's normals have great reach and can cover most approach angles.
High Damage: Hyuk is one of the three characters with a ToD. Without it, his damage is still decent.
Good Corner Carry: Hyuk's combos covers lots of horizontal space, allowing him to reach the corner. Unlike most characters, Hyuk's damage doesn't plummet to the ground when reaching the corner.
Only One Bullet: Hyuk has the shortest ammo capacity in the game, meaning his access to fireballs is more limited than others.
Long Reload: Hyuk's reload speed is the slowest in the game. This makes safely reloading in neutral harder than for other characters.
Slow Normals: Hyuk's normals are on the slower end, making moves somewhat more commital than average.
Move List
Normal Attacks
5A
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
60
Mid
2
4
2
-
+4
-
Total: 7
Quick jab. Mostly used as a close range anti-air.
5B
Jesus Kick
Jesus Kick
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
60
Mid
4
7
4
-
-3
-
Total: 14
Hyuk's main poke. Great range and easily hitconfirms into BB.
5C
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
Mid
3
11
3
-
-5
-
Total: 16
A longer, slower punch. Could be used as a poke if it didn't whiff on crouchers, so instead it's mostly used as a far range anti-air.
5D
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
Mid
4
10
3
-
-6
-
Total: 16
Hyuk's dedicated anti-air.
BB
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
Mid
1
4
0
-
+14
-
Total: 4
Main BC move, as well as combo filler. Also can be used to cover both ground and air approaches when cancelled into from 5D.
BBD
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
160
Mid
5
3
4
Launch
+1
-
Total: 11
The best string in the game. On top of being plus on block, it also advances Hyuk forward a lot, which is great for space control. However, BBD is mostly used in combos, where it can loop into itself on hit, leading to Hyuk's midscreen ToD.
c.P
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
60
Mid
2
-
0
-
+8
-
Total: 7
Universal unexploitable plus frames.
c.K
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
60
Mid
2
7
0
-
+2
-
Total: 8
Not useful in the slightest.
2A
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
Low
4
10
3
-
-5
-
Total: 16
A worse 2C. Could be used as a poke, but it is also outclassed by 2B and 2D in that aspect. Don't use.
2B
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
Low
3
8
3
-
-2
-
Total: 13
Low poke. While it's shorter and slightly slower than 2D, it hits low, allowing for some mindgames in the midrange.
2C
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
Low
2
5
2
-
+4
-
Total: 8
Your actual jab and abare button. Also outclassed by 2B and 2D.
2D
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
High
2
-
3
-
-2
-
Total: 12
Crouching overhead. Works well as a poke. Also used in conjunction with 2B for a high/low 50/50.
j.P
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
High
1
13
0
-
~
-
Total: 13
Very good air-to-air. Not much use outside of that.
Whiffs on crouchers
j.K
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
80
High
3
13
3
-
-~
-
Total: 18
Hyuk's jump-in.
Special Attacks
Assault Rifle ]A[
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
75
Mid
3, 12, 20, 28
-
Total 36
Launch
-9 ~ -1
1
Total: 36
The best fireball in the game, although you only got one of them at a time. Guaranteed to win projectile trades.
Frame advantage assumes point blank. In the corner, the 4th bullet won't connect, making Hyuk more minus than usual
Whiffs on crouchers
Rifle Low ]A[
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
200
Low
3, 10, 18, 22
-
Total 40
Launch
-9
1
Total: 40
Low variant of the fireball. 4 frames slower, its main use is for covering low approaches, although it's kind of redundant with Grenade for that purpose. It can also be used at the end of combos to tack on additional damage
Frame advantage assumes point blank
Rifle Butt Keyboard: 66B Pad: 236B
You're going to look very dumb if this whiffs
You're going to look very dumb if this whiffs
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
240
Mid
4
13
3
Launch
-7 ~ +6
-
Total: 19
Would've been a great combo ender if it wasn't for CSing. Because of that, it actually works best as an advancing anti-air.
Becomes plus at max range
Can't be used by player 2 if they're using a controller
Grenade Keyboard: 46D Pad: 214D
The hitbox is way better than it should be
The hitbox is way better than it should be
Version
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
Grenade Throw
240
Mid
2
-
Total 39
Launch
-14
-
Grenade Explosion
240
Mid
97
-
0
Launch
-
-
Total: 38
Hyuk's main zoning tool, alongside fireballs. Since it also has a hitbox on the throw, it works rather well as a combo ender when up close. The explosion itself has an extremely deceptive animation, as the hitbox is twice as big as the sprite would imply while also being active for an extremely long time. On top of that, it also has little recovery, making this move very spammable in neutral. This makes 46D probably the best zoning and walling tool in the game, as it is extremely hard to contest for most characters.
The explosion can also hurt Hyuk
Universal Moves
Grab
Version
Damage
Guard
Startup
Active
Recovery
On Hit
On Block
Ammo
Bomb Set
120
-
2
13
0
Launch
-
-
Bomb Explosion
240
Unblockable
600
1
0
Launch
-
-
Total: 14
Bomb throw. Applies a timer on the opponent, which will trigger an unblockable knockdown once it reaches 0.
The explosion can also hurt Hyuk, although this is unlikely to happen
Strategy
General Gameplan
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Neutral
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Defense
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Offense/Okizeme
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Matchups
Gun
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Gyeong
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Hyuk (mirror)
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Jae
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Minso
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Reese
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Si'u
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Yohan
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Combos
Midscreen
5B/2D > [BBD, walk]*n (300/320 to 2000 damage)
Hyuk's midscreen BnB. Unlike other ToDs, this one can be done regardless of player 2's controller choice. Somewhat hard to do, since you hate to late OTG, but still doable
BB > [BBD, walk]*n (240 to 2000 damage)
BC combo that leads into his ToD
Throw, [walk BBD]*n (520 to 2000 damage)
Hyuk can start his ToD after landing a throw
Corner
2B/2D > BBD (300/320 damage)
Hyuk can't go into loops in the corner, making his damage output tank quite a bit. However, he gets to perform 2B/2D mix after it, which is better than nothing.
Anti-Air
5A/5D > [BBD, walk]*n (300 to 2000 damage)
Hyuk also gets to perform loops from an anti-air. It's very unlikely to kill, but it still does great damage!
