A reliable ninja who is prepared to spill his blood for love and justice. After fleeing from his home country of Ikaruga, he became a vigilante, biding his time until he could restore his country's honor. After learning of the existence of his former lord's son, he appears on the scene once again.
Bang is a rushdown character with lots of diffrent tools. His great mobility, nails and drives give him great options in neutral allowing him to force himself in to pressure. With Bumpers and FRKZ, Bang has hard to react and rewarding mixup, but when compared to other strong characters, Bang's oki is rather weak, making him depend upon reads on your opponents wakeup options.
Overall, Bang is easy to pick up, but if you want to become great with him, you are in for a harsh ride that will require good execution, reactions and a lot of creativity.
Drive: Burning Heart
Bang's Drive is called "Burning Heart". Drive attacks will have an auto-guard period, in which the attack itself can block most incoming attacks. After blocking an attack, Bang will continue with the "D" attack and can perform "Secret Art: Bang's Shadowstep Jutsu" (or simply put, "Teleport"). Each "D" attack has different auto-guard attributes, and each button pressed (A/B/C) after an auto-guard will cause Bang to travel different distances. New in CF, Bang can now perform the "Secret Technique: Bang's Pulverizing Blast Jutsu" during auto-guard, by pressing D again, creating a big explosion that allows Bang to go for a damaging combo when hitting the opponent, or to simply disengage.
When any of the "D" attacks hits your opponent, an icon in the "Fu-Rin-Ka-Zan" Gauge will light up, gaining a 20% damage increase for that respected drive. If all seals are lit up, all drive moves gain an extra 25% damage increase and unlock his Distortion Drive: Hurricane Fury.
Overdrive: FuRinKaZan (FRKZ)
FuRinKaZan, previously a Distortion Drive, is now Bang's Overdrive. It offers similar properties as before where Bang loses the ability to block (however he still has the ability to Barrier Block) in exchange for very strong movement options. He gains a dash that goes in 8 ways which he can cancel into normals and specials for strong mixup and good combos. Both of Bang's fire punches now wall bounce both in corner and midscreen and his drives have almost as much hitstun as on counter hit. Generally used to close out a round, it isn't used very often in neutral due to its relative short period duration compared to previous iterations. Within blockstrings, the ability to special cancel most of Bang's normals make this very strong for mixup. Bang's Overdrive can be buffed further by gaining each different seals.
During Overdrive, any currently lit seal gives the following buff:
- 5D = Fu - Gives 4 Airdashes in FRKZ and Allows Bang to dash through characters in FRKZ.
- 6D = Rin - Gives Bang projectile invulnerable dashes that look like teleports in FRKZ.
- j.D = Ka - Gives Bang a 20% Damage boost to every attack in FRKZ.
- 2D = Zan - Makes all Drives full guardpoint in FRKZ, allows Bang to block whilst dashing, and guardpoints can block unblockable attacks.
When Bang activates his overdrive below 35% HP, the old FRKZ super animation plays during the activation. Although this is simply cosmetic, any system timer (meter/barrier gain or cooldown) will still be active during the animation and any jump momentum done prior to OD activation will be canceled.
Strengths/Weaknesses
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Weaknesses
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- Strong neutral game
- FuRinKaZan
- Really good mobility, such as two airdashes, bumper dashes, a fast ground dash, and a float (j.22A).
- High Health (11.5K to be exact)
- Most confirms have amazing corner carry and can convert off of some minor scrambles easily.
- Nails offer a variety of options in helping with the neutral game, pressure, and mobility.
- A solid mixup game with Highs, lows, command grabs, and more.
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- Very poor defensive options without meter
- Guardpoints have very specific uses, and generally are weak defensive options, even with the Drive followup.
- Stronger combos are execution heavy and are rather character specific
- Nails are a non renewable resource. Once they are gone, Bang becomes incredibly weak.
- Despite having a variety of pressure and mixup tools, his mixup can feel very linear without creativity.
- Pressure becomes very vulnerable to reversals when your opponent manages to instant block your strings very well, as well as being weak to instant barrier in general.
- Lacks an actual head invulnerable anti air, so he's forced to use 5A anti air, preemptive j.A anti air, or just avoid the situation.
- Has extremely poor midscreen crouching confirms.
- FuRinKaZan and Bumpers are hard to control correctly.
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Notes
- Still a work in progress. ~ GreekAscendedDust