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Button Priority

Button priority in this game goes A > B > C > D.

For example:

  • pressing B + C would have your character perform a C.

Because there are so many commands that are 2 or 3 buttons, the rules for determining what command you get is simple: The command that uses the highest priority button wins. One More! Cancel has highest priority if available.

Examples:

  • Pressing A + B + D would execute a Furious Action (B+D) instead of an All Out Attack (A+B).
  • Pressing A + B + C + D would execute a burst (A+C+D), or if no burst is available, then a throw (C+D).

Hitting Two Opponents with the Same Attack

The same attack can hit two characters (the opponent and his persona) at the same time. Usually an attack's remaining active frames get converted to recovery frames after hitting an opponent. In this game the remaining active frames can still hit the other enemy!

This leads to visually strange situations like Narukami's 5B hitting the opponent's persona, then a moment later, the enemy jumps into the active frames and gets hit. This is further compounded by the fact that hitstop only applies to the attacker and the target, thus allowing the attack to hit the unaffected character with the active frames plus the hitstop frames!

Hitting two opponents this way does not remove two Persona Cards.

Super Flash Buffer

During an opponent's super flash/freeze (when they perform a super attack, the screen freezes briefly), you can input commands and they will be executed immediately after the super freeze ends. This means that provided you are not in the middle of an attack, it is trivially easy to react to an opponent's super attacks with an attack of your own.

This buffer is often used to execute an invincible attack (such as a B+D or a A+C) that will hit the opponent out of their super! This is because supers usually have a bit of startup even after the super flash. If you can have an invincible attack before the opponent's attack becomes active, you can avoid the attack!


Some supers are special: they have no additional startup after the super flash. This means that you cannot use this super flash buffer to beat these supers because the attack will already be active immediately following the super freeze.

Kanji's Super Throw (Burn to a Crisp!) is a prime example of this. In short, you must already have some way to avoid Kanji's Super Throw BEFORE the super flash if you want to beat it.


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