YomiHustle/Cowboy

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Cowboy is the Your Only Move Is Hustle's Sword, Gun and Teleport Master. Sporting a well rounded moveset, Cowboy has a bit of everything for everyone at all levels of play - being it for you or your opponent.

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All-Rounder: Cowboy sports a good variety of strong options for neutral, offense, defense, advantage, disavantage, combos and setplay, being able to do well both on air and on ground, from roundstart to the end-game. Gun: Gives Cowboy ways to setplay and enhance their options, being the main neutral on the kit. By managing, shooting and manipulating bullets with ricochets, rifts and temporal shots cowboy can perform blockstings, pokes, zoning, traps, pressure, combo extensions, combo breakers and multi-purpose setups. Sword: Enables access to a good combination of range, speed and damage on their attacks, letting them press buttons where some other characters might not have any options and inflict consistent damage. Teleports: Instant Teleport and Foresight gives cowboy unmatched repositioning and area control compared with the rest of the cast, allowing for tricky escapes and approaches on neutral and amazing consistency on combo routes.

Technical: Cowboy is very much easy to learn but hard to master. At higher levels, you are expected to know how to manipulate your bullets well enough to guarantee your way in, because they are cowboy's only way to get a comparable advantage to the other character's neutral tools. Bullet Reliant: Without the presence of a reload function, you are stuck with 6 bullets. They are enough only if you are make them enough, and wasting even a single one can be very punishing because without them Cowboy becomes much more reliant on riskier, less rewarding strategies. Meter Reliant: Instant Teleport glues your combos and neutral movement together, Temporal Round gives you access to potent defense and offense, and 1000 Cuts can be your only way to return to the game once you are low on bullets. Inconsistent Movement: Without Bullets and Meter to make up for your lack of movement options comparable to other chararacters, Cowboy can often feel predictable and risky to play.

Cowboy

Move List

Movement

Walk

Walk	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 8-15 - - 0 - Actionability is on frame 8 by default Slider determines how much the frame of actionability is in neutral. (0 distance = 8 frames; 10 distance = 15 frames) Actionability changes depending on opponent’s Forward or Backward movement
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Back Walk

Back Walk	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 9 - - 0 - Always interruptible when opponent is able to act Does not become actionable if opponent uses forward movement
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Super Dash

Super Dash very anime very anime	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 25 - - 0 - Interruptible on the opponent's turn Cowboy takes a big hop forward, similar to his dash. Diferent to the rest of the cast, cowboy's super dash has very little charge time, making it a great way to close distance with out using meter
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Dash

Dash Will get you over some lows and mids Will get you over some lows and mids	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 8 - - 0 - Pretty fast for a movement option, and has invuln from 0-4 when using grounded Dash Sometimes useful on round start for steering around other pesky lows or such Burst safe due to the invulnerability frames
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Jump

Jump	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 8-15 - - 0 - Short jumps are 8f to act Grounded large jumps are 11f to act, but are upped to 15f if jumping straight up or backwards In the air, large jumps are always 11f
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Super Jump

Super Jump	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - - - - 0 -
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Teleport

Teleport For holding forward with maximum efficiency For holding forward with maximum efficiency	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - 5 - 14 - - 0 - Only available while the opponent is in hitstun Gets additional recovery depending on how far back the teleport was (up to +9f recovery)
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Spot Dodge

Spot Dodge	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - 4 - 10 - - 0 - Air OK Grab Invul frames 1-4 Invul frames 5-7 Cowboy teleports in the same spot to avoid grabs and attacks. This is THE grab counter of the game, but it can also be used to dodge some jabs and projectiles, or preserve momentum in the air, but other than that it isn't really worth using
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Normals

Pommel

Pommel The closest you can get to a 5P in YH The closest you can get to a 5P in YH	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 400 4 2 14 - High 2 -1 Can be chained into itself as a starter Spikes air opponents and ground bounces on the launching hit Important tool for close range RPS and to beat whiff cancels, your fastest button. Also useful for stabilizing combos if you have low frame advantage
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Horiz. Slash

Horiz. Slash Grounded versions Grounded versions Air version Air version

Ground Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1000 6/8 2/2 16 - High 1 -1 Has a shockwave hitbox that comes 2 frames after the sword hitbox Has an up-angled version that is considered a separate move and has an extra frame of hitstun Draw Cancellable Fast and long ranged, but has a relatively thin hitbox and low hitstun. A powerful roundstart option Air Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 900 6 4 19 - High - - Moves Cowboy forward Draw Cancellable Fast move with good range thanks to its forward movement. Sometimes useful as a last resort air movement option

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Vert. Slash

Vert. Slash Ground version Ground version Air version Air version

Ground Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1150 10 2 13 - High - +3 Causes ground bounce on ground hit Initiative bonus: startup reduced to 9f Spikes on air hit Draw Cancellable Lets you frame trap grounded opponents if they get up right away, forcing them to softblock, and putting them at a -3 frame advantage Has enough hitstun on ground hit to whiff Parry then Teleport and continue the combo, allowing you to safely counter immediate Bursts while not ending your offense Air Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 5 2 18 - High - - Your fastest air move and main restand tool

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Upward Swipe

Upward Swipe Looks like a DP. Is not a DP Looks like a DP. Is not a DP	Ground Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 8 4 23 - High - +1 Air OK Draw Cancellable in air only Is useful for calling out some aerial options from approaching opponents, and has a ton of hitstun during a combo
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Stinger

Stinger round start flip draw cancel stinger is my favorite opener round start flip draw cancel stinger is my favorite opener

Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1200 11 2 21 - High -1 0 Draw Cancellable Wallsplats Making it a very solid option in the corner. Especially with 1000 cuts Guard breakes It is very useful in block strings to open the opponent up, similar to impale Can't follow up with a combo if the opponent DIs down Sometimes useful as a last resort movement option due to the forward lunge Cowboy does when using this move. In round start, you can use this move flipped and draw cancel to get some distance from your opponent, wile entering the gun stance. And then, you can choose to shoot or setting up foresight for later use

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Ankle Cutter

Ankle Cutter "Round start low disjoint?" "Round start low disjoint?"	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 7 2 18 - Low - +0 Draw Cancellable Most useful as a frame trap due to it hitting low and having Draw Cancel
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Downward Cleave

Downward Cleave i can hear the kazoo playing... i can hear the kazoo playing...	Ground Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 11 4 18 - High - +2 Airborne frame 4 Air Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 9 Until landing 4 landing recovery frames - High - -
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Throw

Grab You're landing this after tp aren't you? You're landing this after tp aren't you?	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1500 3 3 15 - Throw 0 - Air OK Leads to a knockdown if the opponent hits the ground during hitstun Useful as a combo tool in the air and general point blank RPS scenarios
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Specials

Lightning Slice

Lightning Slice Neutral Skip Detected Neutral Skip Detected	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1100 9 (5) 1 17 - High 1 +1 Air OK Can be cancelled into itself, but once cancelled cannot be aimed Values in parentheses are for the followup version Neutral version of the move has 12 hitstun instead of 18
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Impale

Impale nothing personnel, kid nothing personnel, kid

Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 500+1500 13-21 4 41 - High - -4 Startup increases with distance from the opponent Teleports on frame 7 Second hit has Minimum Damage 600 Burst cancellable For capitalising your hard reads Can be canceled into grab Can NOT be free canceled in the newest version of the game. In older versions this move could be free canceled, making it a the best (and fastest) way to close distance. Today it can only be used to make a hard read or to finish a combo

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BackSlash

BackSlash HUGE hitbox goes brrrrrr HUGE hitbox goes brrrrrr	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 500, 600 5, 7 2, 3 35 - High - +0 Has a frame 9 sweetspot that deals 1600 damage Puts you at a severe frame disadvantage if your opponent softblocks the first hitbox, potentially leading to a combo Your dedicated anti-air button. Very strong, but also very predictable
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3Combo

3 Combo 3 Combo 3 Combo 3 Combo Down 3 Combo Down

3Combo Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 400, 500, 1600 8, 13, 25 2, 2, 3 38 - High - +2 Air OK Uses an air action Last hit has min damage 500 The last hit is your highest damage option besides Izuna Drop, but it's easy to DI out of if you get the first two hits in. With enough frame advantage, you can try and set up to only land the third hit 3 Combo Down Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 400, 500, 1600 8, 13, 25 2, 2, 3 38 - High - +2 Air only Last hit has min damage 500 The last hit is your highest damage option besides Izuna Drop, but it's easy to DI out of if you get the first two hits in. With enough frame advantage, you can try and set up to only land the third hit

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Quickdraw

Quickdraw Quickdraw Quickdraw Holster Holster Shoot Gun Shoot Gun Shoot Dodge Shoot Dodge Shoot Hitbox Shoot Hitbox

Quickdraw Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 8 - - - - Air OK Enters Gun stance Shoot Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 600-1500 5 2 10 - High 0 - Uses a Bullet Shoots a fast projectile that can be ricochet off walls or future sight multiple times, using the DI wheel to choose the direction of the ricochet The velocity and the size of the Bullet falls off with distance Wallsplats and causes a hard knockdown The Bullets can not be parried ShootDodge Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 600-1500 5 2 22 - High 0 - Uses a Bullet The velocity and the size of the Bullet falls off with distance Wallsplats and causes a hard knockdown The Bullet can not be parried Invul frames 4-16 Holster Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - - - 10 - - - - Leaves Gun stance

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Lasso

Lasso

Lasso Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage - 9 until cancelled 22 - High - +1 Air OK Enters Lasso stance on hit Lasso~Izuna Drop Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1900 - - - - - - - Minimum Damage 900 High damage combo ender. Leaves you even and miles away from your opponent. Probably the coolest way to end a round Lasso~Pull Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 400 - - - - - - - Angle can be adjusted Strong combo extender, as long as you can hit your opponent with Lasso

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Foresight

Foresight

Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 800 3 - 11 - High - +0 Air OK Places a stain on the screen While the stain is on screen Cowboy has access to three toggles: Shift, Rift and Drift Shift Teleports Cowboy to the stain and delays whatever action they do at the same time by 5 frames (uses an air option if Cowboy is airborne). Teleports Cowboy on frame 7 Rift implodes the stain on frame 6 and spawns a stationary hitbox Activating Rift and using the Shoot Dodge and Shoot Gun Specials will cause the bullet to shoot from the stain instead of the portal. The direction of the shot can be controlled with the DI wheel The stain will also ricochet bullets passively Drift requires one bar of meter and allows you to use a grounded move or variant of a move while aerial (such as Impale, for an easy example), and vice versa. Note that in order to do this the stain needs to be either grounded or aerial (depending on which move category you intend to access) and will not be useable if you are on the same axis as the stain The stain will implode if: 100 frames pass, Cowboy or the stain is hit by an opponent, or leaves its range In addition, Cowboy has a Shift Toggle that allows him to place a stain on his position one frame into using any move. This costs one bar and can be useful for setting up either a Drift combo or any combo in general

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Gun Throw

Gun Throw

Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 800 9 - 19 - High 0 - Recoils up and shoots a bullet if it hits Causes Cowboy to lose access to Quick Draw, Gun Throw and Lasso until the gun comes back The gun projectile is totally independent to cowboy The gun has the lasso tied to it, causing it to go back to you like a boomerang, useful for a lot of things such as: Block strings The gun cannot be parried, so if you throw it behind the opponent it will go back in their direction, and as it accelerates it will be harder to avoid it forcing them to block Neutral control If you and your opponent are in the long range, throwing you gun forward prevents them from running in your direction, but now you have lost your ability to shoot, so it is kinda useless if you don't have a Temporal Round already set up Comboing It can be a great combo extender because of the shoot it does after a successful hit, that does 30 frames of hitstun

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Supers

Temporal Round

Temporal Round wait for iiiiittt . . . BANG! wait for iiiiittt . . . BANG!

Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 700 5 - 10 - High - +2 Costs 1 bar Air OK Can only be done after Quickdraw Bullet stays in place with no hitbox for 67 frames, then fires a projectile similar to a normal bullet DOES NOT cost a bullet The velocity and the size of the bullet falls off with distance Wall splats and causes HK You can choose to turn on a switch to make it fires at 24 frames instead of 67 The bullet doesn't hit cowboy until it bounces at least once The direction of the bullet is controlled with the DI wheel The shot comes out early if the temporal round gets hit. You can hit it yourself to try and catch your opponents off-guard

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1000Cuts

1000 Cuts

Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 500 6 2; every tick 12 - Low/High/High - +1 Requires 3 bars, slowly drains your meter over time Install Super that lasts for 145 frames; disappears when Cowboy is hit Cycles between a low tick and 2 high ticks Air OK Destroys some projectiles on contact Has 7 frame gaps in between every tick Can be ended early with Fatal Cut or Time Splitter A powerful tool, especially when used in tandem with evasive movement options like Teleport or roll since the swords can still hit while you're invincible. 1k: Fatal Cut Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 900 - - 20 - - - -2 Requires 1000 Cuts to be active Costs 1 bar and will remove 1000 cuts upon use Air OK 1k: Time Splitter Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 1450 - - 76 - 2 - 2 Requires 1000 Cuts to be active Costs 1 bar and will remove 1000 cuts on use Air OK Teleport to a place within range, a sweeping barrage of cuts trailing you. High commitment and is easy to block/dodge due to its long startup time, so be careful using this move

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Taunt

Hustle I am the gun I am the gun	Damage Startup Active First Actionable Frame Advantage * Guard Proration Block Advantage 200 24 2 61 - High 0 +0 Builds 1 bar of super on frame 45 Useful to pressure your opponent into approaching, or to build meter after a combo when your opponent is in a lot of hitstun or if they are far away. It also has a hitbox, which makes it an incredible BM tool if you can fit it into a combo
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