The King of Fighters 2003/Shen

Introduction

「　Shen Woo　」

Shen is a character that excels on melee, he usually has problems with characters that can stay away and safe from his Zetsu geki ken (qcfx2 + P) using low projectiles. (Iori for example)

In general, he is a fairly solid mid-tier character and with a few interesting options that we will list throughout this page:

Strengths	Weaknesses
One of the characters with the most potential for stun has a few ways to deal with projeciles high damage combos that are simple to preform good buttons Easy tick throw setups Very easy to learn	lacks a good crossup can struggle defensively as he has no reversal ouside of meter only low confirm is with Kohyou rengeki (qcfx2 + K) a bit dependent on meter to get things going bad LDM

Data

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Colors

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Movelist

Normals

Far Normals

st.A

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	Special/Super	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
basic KOF jab useful for catching hops

st.B

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	none	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
despite appearances, this is not a low has a ton of active frames

st.C

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	none	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
whiffs on a crouching malin doesn't have armor on it compared to later iterations

st.D

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	none	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
optimal anti-air whiffs on all crouchers moves shen forward alittle bit

Close Range Normals

cl.A

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	CMD/Special/Super	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

cl.B

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	none	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
much like st.B, this hits mid

cl.C

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	CMD/Special/Super	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
main combo starter gives alot of frames to link MSA after

cl.D

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	CMD/Special/Super	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
does slightly more dmg than cl.C

Crouching Normals

cr.A

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	CMD/Special/Super	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

cr.B

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Low	-	-	-	-	-	none	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

cr.C

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	CMD/Special/Super	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
optiomal anti-air only the 1st hit is cancelable

cr.D

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Low	-	-	-	-	-	none	-	-	-	-	KD	-	-

Neutral Jumping Normals

nj.A

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Overhead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

nj.B

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Overhead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
good for hitting people above shen, but other than that, it's not really worth using

nj.C

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Overhead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

nj.D

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Overhead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
useful for air-to-air, just be weary of the slight start-up

Diagonal Jump Normals

dj.A
/+

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Overhead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

dj.B
/+

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Overhead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
very fast air-to-air

dj.C
/+

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Overhead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

dj.D
/+

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Overhead	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Throws

Kyakuten Zuchi
/+/

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Throw	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
hardknockdown leaves the opponent next to shen

MSA

MSA Startup
+/

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Strike/Projectile

MSA Entry
After MSA

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Command Normals

Fusen Kyaku

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	none	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
despite the appearance,this is an overhead pretty slow to come out when canceled into, it becomes faster and loses the overhead property. can be canceled into Special/Super if you cancelled into it.

Tenren Shuu

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	none	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
shen does a slow spin around before doing a fast kick horizontal knocksdown on hit cancelable from his normals but is too slow to combo from anything i don't recommend using this

Tenren no Kamae
(Hold)

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	Mid	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
by holding D shen will not preform the kick shen is vunerable throughout the entire spin can be an OKAY tool for mix-ups

Special Moves

Gekiken
(Hold)

Version	Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Super	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Can be cancelled with K.
Version	Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Super	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Can be cancelled with K. if fully charged it will become unblockable

Fukoku Geki ~ Kouryuu Geki
~

Version	Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
Fukoku Geki	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	Kouryuu Geki	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Version	Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
Kouryuu Geki	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
mainly used as a combo ender

Saikou Hougeki

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
command grab can also reflect projectiles except DM projectiles this command grab is not invincible, has short range and very few active frames If you K.O with your command grab, shen will be in the perfect position to cross-up the opponent.

Super Moves

Zetsu! Gekiken

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
light version has lower body invinicbility heavy version has upper body invinicibility will cause a counter-wire on counter hit is useful as to beat projeciles, but it depends on which one you use depending on the matchup

Kouhyou Rengeki

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
invinicbile on start-up this is unsafe on block; however, spacing it can make it hard to punish for most characters

LDM

Bakushin

Damage	Counter Dmg	Guard	Guard Damage	Damage Scaling	Stun	CH Stun	Meter	Cancel Properties	Startup	Active	Recovery	Total	Hit Advantage	Block Advantage	Invulnerability
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
shen's install super this will power up shen's damage output the entire transformation is a hitbox buff lasts for 7 in-game seconds if canceled into, shen will skip the start-up of the move despite what's been mention, there alot of drawbacks to using this: a unique drawback of this move is that shen's head will take much more stun dmg,this allows shen to be stunned very easily. when done raw, it starts up extremly slow, leaving you wide open to be punished it has extremly small hitbox when activating it you can not build meter while in the buffed state overall,shen as a leader is not recommended, as he gains major drawbacks using his LDM all for the price of more dmg

Battle

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Attack Strings

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Combos

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Strategy

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Match Up

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| - Ash:

| - Duo Lon:

| - Shen:

| - Terry:

| - Joe:

| - Tizoc:

| - Ryo:

| - Robert:

| - Yuri:

| - Kim:

| - Chang:

| - Jhun:

| - Leona:

| - Ralf:

| - Clark:

| - Gato:

| - Billy:

| - Yamazaki:

| - King:

| - Mai:

| - Mary:

| - Benimaru:

| - Shingo:

| - Daimon:

| - Athena:

| - Hinako:

| - Malin:

| - K':

| - Maxima:

| - Whip:

| - Kyo:

| - Chizuru:

| - KUSANAGI:

| - Maki:

| - Adelheid:

| - Mukai: