Street Fighter X Tekken/Asuka

Asuka

Ideal Team Position: TBW

Asuka is a rushdown character that does not want to be on the defense. On she has great mixups ranging from ambiguous cross-ups to and guesses, all which lead to great meterless damage and another or can be combed to supers/cross-arts. Asuka's combos come from a mix of Tekken Chains and Links that with practice and muscle memory, are easy to get down. Her BnB is very usefull because it can be used as a hit-confirm to cut off the combo and make it safe.

Strengths	Weaknesses
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Moves

Normal Attacks

Name

Command

Notes

Standing Light Punch

Standing Medium Punch

Standing Hard Punch

Standing Light Kick

Standing Medium Kick

Standing Hard Kick

Close Light Kick

(near opponent)

Crouching Light Punch

+

Crouching Medium Punch

+

Crouching Hard Punch

+

Crouching Light Kick

+

Crouching Medium Kick

+

Crouching Hard Kick

+

Jump Light Punch

/ / +

Jump Medium Punch

/ / +

Jump Hard Punch

/ / +

cross-up

Jump Light Kick

/ / +

Jump Medium Kick

/ / +

Jump Hard Kick

/ / +

(two possible hits)

Unique Attacks

Name

Command

Notes

Demon Slayer

+

Tsuwabuki

+

vs airborne

Thunder Fall Kick

+

Dragon Wheel Kick

+

    Demon Slayer

Dragon Wheel Kick +

    Leg Cutter

Dragon Wheel Kick +

Jab Uppercut

vs airborne on 2nd hit

Jab Low Kick

Hyakujitsuko

+

vs airborne on 2nd hit

Lunging Mist Thrust

+

vs airborne

Whiplash to Toe Kick

+

vs airborne

Whiplash Sacred Blade

+ +

Heron Dance

+

on first hit
vs airborne

Heron Dance Whiplash Sacred Blade

+ +

Leg Cutter

+

    Kariashi Shiranui

Leg Cutter

    Leg Cutter 2nd Hit

Leg Cutter +

       Kariashi Shiranui

Leg Cutter 2nd Hit

       Leg Cutter 3rd Hit

Leg Cutter 2nd Hit +

          Kariashi Shiranui

Leg Cutter 3rd hit

Throws

Name

Command

Notes

Cloud Taste

or + +

White Mountain

+ +

Special Moves

Name

Command

Notes

Exorcisor

+

vs airborne

    Mist Palm Thrust

Exorcisor

       Raging Storm

Mist Palm Thrust +

on

Double Lift Kicks

+

Attack Reversal

+

 ;
vs mid
vs low

Falling Rain

+

vs airborne
can catch juggled state

Sweep Throw

+

Onikubigari

+

vs airborne
on

Super Combo

Name

Command

Notes

Kinshin Enbu

+

Move Analysis

Normal Moves

+ - 30dmg, 3f start, 2f active, 9f recovery, +6 on hit, +2 on block. NOT cancelable
Asuka does not have a spammable jab such as cammy, rolento, or raven, therefor she cannot rely on walking and jabbing. Also doesn not have very good range. Mostly used to hit-confirm her BnB

 +  - 60dmg, 6f start, 4f active, 18f recovery, -1 on hit, -5 on block. Cancelable

Cannot link but MP plays a main part of her BnB combo using her Tekken strings. Longer range than LP so can be used in place to hit-confirm combos

 +  - 90dmg, 11f start, 4f active, 25f recovery, -4 on hit, - 9 on block. Not Cancelable

Rarely EVER used unless emergancy ABC magic chain, and if you want to launcher combo there is a better option anyways

 +  - 30dmg, 5f start, 2f active, 12f recovery, +3 on hit, -1 on block. Cancelable

Amazing move that is crucial to Asuka's Mixup game. Only standing normal that hits low

 +  - 60dmg, 8f start, 3f active, 19f recovery, -1 on hit, -5 on block. Cancelable

Used in tekken chain as her BnB. Asuka takes a step forward before attacking make this a good more for footsies or punishing an unsafe normal as you can cancel this move to c.MP into bnb

 +  - 90dmg, 11f start, 4f active, 25f recvoery, -4 on hit, -9 on block. Cancelable

Strange hitbox on this move. The only time I messed with it was during a launcher combo and if i was not on top of my opponent, the HK would whiff. Starting using HP xx Launcher as a more reliable attack.

 +  - 30dmg, 4f start, 4f active, 7f recovery, +6 on hit, +2 on block. Cancelable

Not used, bad range, better moves for hit confirm

 +  - 60dmg, 5f start, 5f active, 13f recovery, +3 on hit, -1 on block. Cancelable

Ends all of Asuka's variations of her tekken chain and links, then canceled into a special move.

 +  - 90dmg, 9f start, 5f active, 27f recovery, +3 on hit, -12 on block. Crumple

This moves Crumple's on counter hit's therefor it is a good tool to throw out while trying to footsie someone from close range. Stand just outside of HP's max range and if you attack a outlying limb, it will crumble the opponent, setting up major dmg

 +  - 30dmg, 5f start, 3f active, 11f recovery, +3 on hit, -1 on block. Cancelable

Can be used to start her low game, but s.lk is much more ambiguous and harder to see coming.

 +  - 60dmg, 7f start, 4f active, 21f recovery, -4 on hit, -8 on block. Cancelable

Great utility, can be used to duck under normal fireballs (sonic boom, low tiger shot, and lk.Fajujin(spelling?) can still hit asuka)

 +  - 90dmg, 9f start, 3f active, 28f recovery, Hard knockdown, -11 on block.

An average sweep. can be chained into for the hard knockdown, otherwise not much use.

Unique Attacks

N/A

Normal Throws

N/A

Special Moves

N/A

Super Combos

N/A

The Basics

N/A

Advanced Strategy

N/A

Combos

Bread and Butters

• j.HP , st.MP ~ LK ~ MK ~ d+MP xx dp+K , f+MP , st.MK xx hcb+MP , st.MP ~ f+MP [355 dmg]
• j.HP , st.MP ~ LK ~ MK ~ d+MP xx dp+K , uf+HK , st.MK xx dp+MK , cr.HK [380 dmg]
• {{ jumping , , , , + , + , + , , + , + }} 389 dmg (corner only variation)

Note that, due to the game's engine, more damage can be obtained with shorter combos:

• {{ jumping , , + , + , , + , + }} 420 dmg

Hit Confirm Combos

• {{ , , , + , + , jumping + , land , + k}} 368 dmg

• {{ , , , + , + k}} safe on block

Advanced Combos

• {{ jumping , , , , , , + , + , jumping + , landing , + , + hk}} Meterless style. 330 dmg?

Combos Into Supers

• N/A