Zappa summons three ghostly Triplets to help him in battle. While Triplets are summoned, Zappa becomes a trickster with access to extended pressure and screen control, capable of flooding the screen with numerous projectiles.
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- Zoning Extraordinaire: With 236P/K/S/H/D Zappa can control a ludicrous amount of space on the screen, warding off approaches and locking the opponent down.
- Misfortune Curse: If you manage to curse the opponent they will be forced to be careful of the random items, allowing Zappa to take the initiative. Misfortune items can also save Zappa from pressure, extend combos, or even set up unblockables.
- Tricky: Triplets give Zappa a variety of options which let him confuse and frustrate the opponent. Zappa can stall in the air with repeated triplet tosses, hit them with lingering hitboxes while jumping over their heads, cause chaos by spawning multiple items at once after comboing into 236D, and generally annoy the opponent to no end.
- Extensive Pressure: Triplet normals cancel into themselves and other Triplet normals allowing Zappa to perform extended pressure, especially with the help of curse items and his highly useful triplet toss FRC. When the other player is in the corner Zappa can continue pressure almost indefinitely if he has a good read on his opponent.
- Orb Generation: Landing Triplet Toss and doing Triplet combos consistently rewards Zappa with orbs that he can use to eventually summon Raou.
- Poor Damage: Triplets do extremely low damage and instead rely heavily on repeatedly opening up the opponent.
- Misfortune Interruption: When the opponent is cursed the random items can sometimes interrupt Zappa's combos or otg knocked down opponents.
- Limited Triplets: Should Zappa rely too heavily on his ghost toss specials or 2H/jH he will be left vulnerable until his ghosts return to him.
- Extended Hurtboxes: Most Triplet normals extend Zappa's hurtbox signficantly which can make them vulnerable to being counterpoked.