For certain regular and special attacks, the recovery can be cancelled on contact by jumping. If you jump cancel, you can smoothly combo into air attacks, so it's very handy for air combos.

Jump cancelling inherits the properties of jumping, so you can use jump cancelling to connect attacks into special attacks that would have otherwise been impossible (save for RCing), as well as cancelling attacks into gold bursts.

Similar to jump cancel, a dash cancel is canceling your first action into a dash. Note that while the animations look the same, this isn't canceling into a run; you are only running a set distance and you must wait for the dash to finish before performing any other actions.

A Rapid Cancel (RC) is performed by pressing A+B+C after your attack touches the opponent and consumes 50% of your Heat Gauge. Note that some attacks can not be RCed, such as Tager's Tager Buster, but they are rare.

Rapid Cancels allows you to immediately interrupt your current action (most of the time), and is useful for allowing follow-ups to special attacks, or enhancing combos.

When you rapid cancel, the only thing possible on the next frame immediately after hitstop ends is guarding -- even if you RC and connect as quickly as possible into the next attack, there will be a 1F delay, so keep that in mind.

For attacks that make your hitbox airborne, if you RC, then aside from being able to throw out aerial attacks, you can also use double-jump and air dash. Not only that, but RCing also gets rid of any landing recovery, so RCing makes it easier to combo into ground attacks.

When the opponent is in a counter state and they get hit, they are put into counter hit (CH) state. The opponent will flash red and the announcer will say "Counter". In CH state, things like hitstun, air untechable time, and hit stop (opponent only) increase. Additionally, other effects will change/occur, like hit effects, or ground untechability. Moreover, attacks with high attack levels get very large bonuses to hitstop and hitstun on counterhit.

Some moves have the "Fatal Counter" property. If you counter hit the opponent with a move that has this property, the enemy will be in hitstun / untechable state for 2 frames longer for all subsequet hits in the combo. This means that you can do combos that your normally couldn't do.
You'll know which moves have this property because the announcer will say "fatal" and the words "Fatal Counter" will appear on the side of the screen.
Example: Jin hitting the opponent with 2C counter hit will allow you to combo 5C into 6C on standing opponents.

Example: Noel's 2C on counter hit will allow you to combo into her 3C. 2C has the Count Hit Carry property, so the second hit of 2C will have additional hitstun which gives enough time to combo into 3C.

To perform a normal throw, press B+C when near the opponent. There are 3 different types of normal throws: forward throw, back throw, and air throw
To perform a forward throw, press neutral or forward +B+C while standing on the ground.
To perform a back throw, press back + B+C while standing on the ground.
To perform an air throw press B+C while airborne.

• Ground throws can not throw enemies in the air, or enemies starting a jump. Air throws can only throw enemies in the air.
• Unlike other games, you can throw enemies in hit stun and block stun. However the enemy can escape the throw much more easily. See the throw break section for more details.
• After being thrown, normal throws can be escaped by pressing B+C.
• When you successfully throw your opponent, you are completely invincible through the entire throw.

Command throws are a special type of throw that are performed as a special input such as Tager's Tager Buster and Hazama's Bloody Fangs. These types of throws are special in that they can not be escaped normally. If use a command throw vs the enemy when they are in hitstun or blockstun, a purple exclamation mark will appear and they can escape it. See the Throw Break section for more details.

If you input your throw break before you are thrown, the game will show big red X when you are thrown and the words "Throw Reject Miss" will appear when this happens.
Throw Reject Miss occurs if you're thrown between 4-30 frames AFTER inputting your throw break attempt. However, if you "whiff" your throw break and the regular throw animation/motion comes out, then only frames 17-30 (after the throw break input) will be the "Throw Reject Miss".

In addition, for the purpose of considering a simultaneous input of B+C as a throw break attempt, pushing B and C at the same time in other situations will also cause a Throw Reject Miss state. (e.g. A+B+C for executing an RC; teching using B+C; etc.)

"Guard point" is a defensive feature that certain attacks are endowed with, which allows them to guard during the move. Guard point allows a move to come out while defending against an attack from the opponent, so it has a similar feel to moves with invincibility, but from the opponent's perspective, the situation is handled as though you were blocking their attack, which means that they can still cancel their attack. However, one important difference between blocking and guard point is that guard point incurs no hitstop (for the character using the guard point move). Therefore, it's often the case that using a fast move with guard point will allow you to hit your opponent during their hitstop.
One last point: among the moves with guard point, there are moves that only provide a specific kind of guard point: protecting against only certain attribute-imbued attacks; protecting against only lows (or only highs); etc. There are also some moves with guard point in only certain parts of the hitbox, so keep that in mind when checking a character's frame data and attack explanations.

• While in any sort of hit state or knocked down, from the moment a throw attack, super, or Astral Heat starts (superfreeze included) until it ends
• After getting thrown, being hit by a Distortion Drive, or Astral Heat, and until being hit by another attack
• While performing any attack

• The Barrier Gauge is 10,000 units when full
• Each usage of barrer block instantly consumes 130 units. For each frame past the initial expenditure (hitstop included), 20 units are consumed per frame.
• If you barrier block an attack, the amount of barrier used up is equal to 10% of the incoming attack's base damage value
• The Barrier Gauge starts to recover 124 frames after deactivation at the rate of 16 units every 10 frames.
• If you use barrier to protect your last guard primer, you use up 3194 units of barrier.
• When the Barrier Gauge is completely drained, you will be put in the Danger State for 600 frames. After this time is up, you will no longer be in Danger State and your Barrier Gauge will be restored to 5,000 units.

• 100% Heat Gauge
  
• one available Break Burst (not greyed out)
  
• You are one round away from winning the match
  
• Opponent's health bar is below 35%
  

• When blocking an attack that removes Guard Primer(s), the Primer will be removed no matter how you block.
  
• If blocking the attack would reduce your Primers to zero, you can Barrier Guard to retain 1 Guard Primer, but you will lose approximately 1/3 of your Barrier Gauge.
  
• Guard Primers recover very slowly over time; 625 frames to recover 1 guard primer.
  
• After getting hit by or blocking your opponent's attack, Guard Primer recovery will temporarily stop. Guard Primer recovery will not resume until 120 frames have passed after hit stun, block stun, or after recovering in the air.
  
• Whenever you lose a Guard Primer, the 625 frame recovery timer is reset.
  
• Some attacks remove more than 1 Guard Primer at once. For example the last hit of Taokaka's Hexa-Edge removes 2 guard primers on block. Barrier Guarding one of these attacks when you have 1 or 2 Primers left will reduce you to 1 Primer and consume 1/3 of your Barrier Gauge.
  
• Guard Primers will be restored to their maximum amount after a Guard Crush, but Guard Primers lost from doing a green Break Burst will not recover until the next round. Characters with a lower number of Guard Primers should be careful about using green Break Bursts.
  
• Arakune's Astral (n to infinity) will automatically Guard Crush if blocked normally. You can avoid being Guard Crushed by Barrier Guarding, but you will be reduced to 1 Guard Primer, so be careful.

When your Guard Primers are reduced to zero, you will be Guard Crushed. If Guard Crushed while standing or crouching, you will be in a standing state or crouching state respectively, and will be completely vulnerable for 120 frames.
A mid-air Guard Crush will cause wall-bounce, and the player will not be able to Emergency Tech, so you can attack them while they are in a lying on the ground.
Upon guard crushing your opponent, the damage from the next attack with will not incur its P1 proration value, so use an attack with a high P2 value. Note that a 90% damage proration value will be applied to this first attack, instead, but this proration has no effect on the air untechability time. Additionally, throw attacks cannot be broken out of, and since the throw damage will be 100%, characters with command throws should take advantage of this situation.

• Normal attacks can be overwritten by special attacks or barrier usage
• Special attacks can be overwritten by barrier usage

When in Negative Penalty, your character will have a bunch of vertical red lines around you and you will take more damage just like Danger State: the first hit of a combo does 1.5x more damage; all subsequent hits deal 1.2x more damage. Throws still only do their base damage.
Negative Penalty happens when you perform too many "Defeinsive Actions" in a row without performing any "Offensive Actions". Performing Backsteps, walking backwards, air dashing backwards all count as Defensive Actions. Running towards the opponent, attacking the opponent, etc. cout as Offensive Actions. Your character will flash red and the screen will show the text "Negative Warning" before you actually get Negative Penalty, so use that as a sign to stop turtling!