Waku Waku 7/Mauru/Introduction

Introduction

Mauru (Marurun) is a big animal living in the woods, who understands human words to some degree. Likes fruit and singing. Met Mugi, a little girl, when she was lost and crying alone in the woods.

The big buttons characters of the game, with a really strong High/low/Throw Mix up game. Huge normals that can be used to check the opponent and poke them safety. Mauru has a high risk high reward game due to his big damage but unsafe specials that make part of his core gameplay.

Strengths	Weaknesses
Completely invincible backdash. Really good DP, being the ES version 0F. 0F DokiDoki. Good normals. Second fastest Harara startup behind Fernandez. Can make HaraHara setups of his normal Throw. His Throw will always launch the opponent to the corner meaning that if the opponents techs or not they will always eat damage.	236A/B can be blocked on reaction and punished. 214C/D has a decent speed and have some anti air uses but due to huge disadvantage on block can be punished really badly. Can suffer against heavy zoning. Mauru Doesn't have any reliable AA outside of meter. Mauru is notable for not having a single winning MU.