Virtual-On Oratorio Tangram/Specineff

RVR-87 Specineff
[スペシネフ]

Introduction

Virtuaroid with the appearance of a grim reaper.
In addition to the ability to disable your opponent's weapons, it has penetrating attacks that will damage your opponent even through obstacles. Maneuverability in close combat is also high.
In contrast to its high attack power the defense of this virtuaroid is extremely low, making evasion the most important technique for victory.

Character Traits

See Notation / Character Descriptions

Strengths

Weaknesses

Strong baiting & zoning type character. One of the highest ground mobility units. Unique short ground dash. Can use automatic end of dashes to advantage. Sliding attacks have ’skating’ property allowing unusual movement while attacking. Attacks have high velocity. Multiple good sniper type attacks. Multiple piercing attacks and high priority attacks that are hard to erase. Excellent ability to play from behind walls using terrain piercing CW. Highly homing LW orbs for pressure, map control. Good close range ability. Diagonal dash cCW is exceptionally good at denying close range. ! Faster pressure and sniping attacks with execution heavy BTCW ‘Super’ cancels.

Very low health. Low jump and air dash mobility. Low ammo. Few erasing type attacks.

Commonly Used Attacks

See Notation / Common Attack Descriptions

Neutral projectile attacks

RW cRW cLW LW cRTLW CW / cCW RTCW / cRTCW cRTRW cLTCW LTRW / cLTRW LTLW / cLTLW

Movement check, Interrupt, Prediction Movement check, Skating movement Pressure, Skating movement, Piercing Pressure, Piercing Pressure, knockdown, Erase, Piercing Wall piercing, Prediction High damage, Prediction(range), Wall piercing High damage, Prediction(long range) Piercing, Erase, Anti-air Erase, Disable opponent RW Disable opponent LW

Ground dash attacks

GD9/7: cCW GD8: RW GD6/9/8: cLW

Punish, High damage, Anti-melee, Area denial Punish, High damage Situational Anti-Air

Air dash attacks

AD8: RW AD8: CW AD6/4: CW

Punish, High damage Punish, High damage Punish

Jumping attacks

jRTCW

Prediction, High damage

Special attacks

Both Turbo CW laser Rotating LW GD8: cCW (full gauge) Death Mode (Special button x2)

'Super Cancel' routes, Disable opponent CW Anti-melee Reposition, timeout Invincible for 13s or timeout, then self destructs

Melee attacks

Quickstep melee TCW melee

High movement speed Large hit area

Strategy

Matchup strategy

Specineff / Matchups

Advanced Techniques

Sliding movement

Using cRW and cLW while moving gives specineff a speed boost. Especially effective in diagonal back directions which are usually slower speed. cLW gives a larger boost than cRW.

Dash turning movement

Dash repeatedly and keep your opponent in sights by rotating during dash and dash end animation. Central movement technique with Specineff

BTCW Super Jump Cancel

60% CW gauge required.
Input: Neutral attack -> RT+LT+CW -> Jump -> Jump Cancel
Both Turbo CW startup can be cancelled with jump.

Various Right Turbo attacks can be cancelled into BTCW. You can jump cancel these attacks at any point by using BTCW as an intermediate step. Tight timing is required.

• Example attacks: cRTRW, cRTLW

Machinegun RW

Specineff RW can be cancelled by walking. Do this repeatedly to rapid fire the attack. Unlike temjin the gauge runs out quickly so use sparingly.

Rush attack movement

GD8:cCW rush attack can be combined with with turbo rotation to move around the stage and take cover behind walls.

High homing RTCW

While LW gauge is around 30-34%.
Input: on landing cLW -> RTCW
Difficult timing. Can also perform a high speed RTRW instead of CW.

BTCW Super Rotation cancel

60% CW gauge required.
Same as technique Super Jump Cancel but replacing jump with rotation input. Execution is harder.

BTCW Dash cancel

While CW gauge is between 60-75%.
Input: Hold a direction during an RT attack, input BTCW and you will walk/dash out of the attack.
Performs neutral CW if gauge is above 75%.

Additional Resources

External Guides

English

Specineff video guide by Anitaspawn (2019)

Japanese

Specineff in 3 minutes video guide by UNITED mench EMPIRE (2022)

Frame Data

Rough data collection by Porcupine. Startup frames, duration and forced recovery times. No data on melee attacks.

• Specineff framedata

Notable Players

Specineff / スペシネフ

• SILBER / シルバー
• RPO / RRR Plus
• Wataru / ワタル
• KaMNo
• Tyukyasya13