The Official Fighting Games Topic - Page 20

If you want more in-depth info, the SRK thread has some discussion and a lot of NYC ego circle-jerking, but I play the game pretty often and keep up with stuff so I'm down with talking the nuances/specifics of the game.

That said...
Core system differences:
-5 buttons now, new button is dedicated to Arcana attacks and your guardcrush attacks (AH/AHF 6/3[C] attacks) as well as air attacks- if an old character had a j2C, it's jE now, for instance. For everybody else, jE is an entirely new move. D button is now completed dedicated to homing.
-meter builds a LOT faster. Like, start a combo with no meter and with some smart homing use, you'll probably be able to end with a super.
-Arcana homing: you can now homing cancel Arcana moves, including projectiles (which can be HC'd without hitting first).
-new super-finish bubble colors lol

New characters:
Angelia- boss loli. Not terribly good, but not bad. Normals are kinda sucky.
Catherine- giant robot bunnygirl. Best character in the game.
Clarice- demon nun. Strong character emphasizing strong zoning, punishing mistakes, and forcing high reward/low risk situations.
Dorothy - loli magician with cards, pretty weak overall. Damage output, range, defense modifiers, etc. are all pretty bad. Oki would be cool if she had a good overhead or if her [E] didn't suck.
Elsa- Belmont nun. Strong character, solid in everything, good damage output and good moves all around. Good starting character with simple but effective offensive options and good basic defensive options, with some advanced stuff that's really good.
Petra- gun girl. Straight-forward character who has to reload sometimes. Guns don't actually give her that much range. More of a mid/close range fighter, at least she has 623AB to anti-air people for free.
Zenia- Nanoha character ripoff girl. Very strong character, if fairly straight-forward offensively. More focused on winning through good movement and punching through things with her various invincible moves and quick normals. Has to get in to win against some characters but it's not that hard.

Old character synopsis:
-Fiona- way better; damage output is about the same/better as before but everybody else has been balanced to around her damage level; clean-hits are too good, clean-hit lvl3 is way too good. Normals just seem better all around.
-Heart- about the same; loses crazy loops like everybody else, but still has some loops, damage is still good, gets a buff new move in 6C (UPPA~), still the best clash character in the game.
-Kamui- her crappy 22x powerups got completely overhauled- instead of burning like 10% life for a measly meter or homing stock, now they power up your next special move (except counters and air 22x) into the super version for a minimal life cost. Keep in mind that it's like the old AH1 versions, so powered up j623x causes ground bounce and allows for combo followup. Other than that, slides now go through your opponent which changes her basic ground combo and her pokes feel a BIT slower, so she's more of an aggressive character with good zoning rather than an overly strong zoning character with decent offense.
-Kira- has more or less the same loop but shorter, seems to have more silly clash frames, still the same strike/throw mixup character as before but with a weaker rocket toss? Arcana of choice has changed to poison, apparently.
-Konoha- same as always, better overhead/crossup setups now with the way her jump/airdash works now, air 360 is better, lvl3 is beastly. Still the same fast, furious, low damage without meter ninja furry as always.
-Lieselotte- no more 2 minute loops for all your life. Pretty weak overall since people are still figuring her out. Has an infinite off her lvl3 that is the same glitch as time Kamui's infinite in AHF- patched in 2.1.
-Lilica- no more loops but gets jE and phat lovelazer combos. Damage output is still really good, trickery is still kinda there, still has a really fast 2E for burst punish and such.
-Maori- no more sister loops, so she has to rely on trickery and zoning... so pretty much AH1 Maor with a few new moves.
-Mei-Feng- no more loops and this hurts her the most since she doesn't really get a new crazy high damage option to compensate, and that's the only thing that made her stand out in AH1/AHF. New jE is pretty cool, though.
-Saki- same old same old, with a new roll move that's hilariously tricky with the right arcana.
-Yoriko- waaaaay better, super pentagram is good, damage output is right there with everybody else, pentagram mode is still stupid good, supers are better, pacing of the game fits her better...