Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors/Alice!

Alice!
Play Style	Zoner
Dash Type	Dash

Introduction

Alice! (referred to as Alice Blade in Japan) is a character ported from the predecessor game: Asura Blade: Sword of Destiny. She is a young girl wielding a special book that gives her control over the undead.

Alice is a young necromancer who happens to be the daughter of a prestigious king and that she seeks to discover the secret of immortality. Alice believes that the Sword of Dynasty can help with her current research and thus, she goes on a journey to find it from within her own time.

Alice!'s storyline from within Asura Buster implies that she had somehow time traveled three years into the future after the events of the first game and that she eventually gets herself involved from within the mystery of the lost continent.

Alice! is a port of the original Alice from Asura Blade, who played very differently from this game's version. She was good in Asura Blade, but here she's extremely strong. Little has changed, besides the loss of her weapon throw, so Alice! players should feel right at home.

How to select Alice!

Alice! is a secret character. To use her, either play for 1 match or highlight, then press Start on: Yashaou > Goat > Rose Mary > Taros > Zam-B. She then takes the spot of the upper random slot in the character selection screen.

Overview Alice! is a strong zoner with a simple gameplan and good mobility.
Pros	Cons
Nearly unapproachable if given time to set up in neutral Disjointed hitboxes on many normals Tiny hurtbox Consistent access to knockdowns Easy access to super thanks to small meter gauge Great metered options make her strong in Last Stand situations	Struggles escaping corner pressure Small meter gauge makes escaping juggles a luxury Boost mode lasts all of 3 seconds

Movelist

Normals

Standing Normals

5A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
6	5	-	-	M	-A-, -B-, -C-, -SP-, -UM-	2	1
Quick chop. More range than 2A.

5B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
16	8	-	-	M	C, SP, UM	-18	-19
Alice summons a skeleton who slashes in front of her. Strong poke. Gets low profiled by crouching Alice(!).

5C

Three attacks in a trenchcoat

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
12, 12, 14 (29)	9, 22, 37	-	-	M, M, H	-	Knockdown	+4
Summons a skeleton who performs a 3-hit combo ending with an overhead slash. The third and last hit causes a sliding knockdown. Guard cancel bait if in range of any of their options, but the last hit can connect from 3/4 of the screen away.

Crouching Normals

2A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
6	5	-	-	L	-A-, -B-, -C-, -SP-, -UM-	-2	-3
Quick low slap. Very little reach. Has a great cancel window, but is significantly worse on block than 5A.

2B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
16	8	-	-	L	C, SP, UM	-8	-9
Alice summons a zombie that shoots daggers out of its body. Has an amazing cancel window and cannot get low profiled, making it the superior B normal to use in pressure.

2C

Watch your feet!

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
22	10	-	-	L	-	Knockdown	-9
Summons a skeleton that performs a long-ranged low slice with two daggers. Knocks down. Can be good for catching opponents trying to walk in neutral, but not without risk. The recovery is so long that a wrong read can give your opponent a jump-in punish opportunity, while Alice! is still at a considerable frame disadvantage on block.

Jumping Normals

j.A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
6	3	-	-	H	B, C, UM, -J-	N/A	N/A
Alice! swipes with her book at inhuman speed. Very fast, but very small. Easily combos into itself, but can be hard to route into other air normals. Can be used as a last resort, unconfirmable instant overhead on most of the cast. Against Taros, instant j.AC actually confirms on a crouching hit, netting you a knockdown.

j.B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
16	7	-	-	H	C, UM, -J-	N/A	N/A
Shoots a white skull out of her hand. Great air to air option due to its horizontal disjoint.

j.C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
28	7	-	-	H	-J-	Knockdown	N/A
Summons an armored skeleton who performs a downwards slash. One of Alice!'s best tools, thanks to its great speed, range and damage while also granting a sliding knockdown. Unlike 5B, the skeleton summoned by this move does NOT have a hitbox. There is a blindspot between Alice! and the sword that can make the move whiff in combos or as a jump-in if you're not careful.

Command Normals

6b

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	17	-	-	H	special	-3	-4
overhead book smash quite slow and has slow range just use guard break instead

Universal Mechanics

Launcher
any 2 buttons

File:AB Alice! AB.png

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	7	-	-	M	O	Launches	-3
on hit, Causes a big wall bounce and puts the opponent on indefinite hitstun until they hit the ground or use meter to tech it can be combo'd universally with A>B>C or A>B>Launcher combos. most characters can add an air special or delay the launcher and do a ground special if you hit an opponent with 3 launchers in the same combo they become completely invincible until waking up from the knockdown state a lot of EX moves (Rose's 214EX), few meterless specials (Taros j.236x) and very rarely normals (Rokurouta's 6C) have last hits with the properties of a launcher. these hits count towards the 3 launcher cap.

Air Launcher
any 2 buttons

File:AB Alice! jAB.png

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	7	-	-	M	O	Launches	N/A

Guard Break
22C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6	-	-	U	O	24	N/A
A quick, unblockable point blank attack that stuns grounded opponents. Throw function. Of note for Alice!, 236EX can be used to as a followup into a potential full combo in the corner.

Special Moves

Hello Skull! - こんにちは、スカルです!
236A/B/C

the skeleton

The projectile

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	24 / 26 / 28	-	-	M	O	Knocks down	4 / 3 / 2
Alice! summons a skeleton that shoots its own head. do not underestimate this head, it will kill you Button determines startup and speed knocks down on impact Skulls cause float, but there's not much chance to follow up. EX version makes it a multihit, allowing for combos and extentions

Skull Upper ! - ヘスカルアッパー!
623A/B/C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6 / 4 / 4	-	-	M	O	Knocks down	inconsistent
Alice! summons a skeleton to punch out from the ground. Causes a knockdown and juggles aerial opponents Button determines distance from Alice! EX version summons 5 skeleons that appear in a row. Oddly, they can do up to 8(?) hits total. Last hit is a v.launcher.

Skull Field ! - スカルフィールド !
214A/B/C

get used to seeing this attack

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	29 / 29 / 29	-	-	H	O	Knocks down	-
Arguably, the best move in the game. Alice! summons 3 skulls in a pattern around her. Each skull can cancel out a normal projectile. Skulls cause float, but there's not much chance to follow up. Damage is somewhat inconsistent, doing minimal damage if the skull appears right where the opponent is. if an opponent Alice! uses this move, you just can't approach, so don't let them do it EX version is bonkers throwing this out in neutral is almost risk free

Supers

Cranium meteor - 頭蓋骨の流星
236-236A/B/C

no puns just a shoutout to the lead artist for this insanely big sprite that still looks gorgeous

the debris

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	54(53+1)	-	-	M	O	Knocks down	inconsistent
A very very large skull drops into the center of the screen and explodes into several pieces. Each piece plus the skull itself can hit one or more times, and causes float. Number of hits is very unpredictable, I've gotten as few as 3 and as many as 9. If you do hit, you have lots of chances to follow up with other moves.

Boost Mode (22+ABC)

Skull Swarm : Skull assist

Four skulls float down from the top of the screen to surround Alice!.

• Any time you press button A, be it to attack or not, a skull will float out a small distance doing extra damage if it hits.

• Unfortunately, Alice !'s meter is so small, that the boost mode is half-over by the time the skulls reach her.

• Jumping B also sends a skull out, for whatever reason.

• Alice!'s normal attacks all do more damage, even if the bonus skulls don't hit.

• 6B becomes a vertical launcher, counts towards the 3 launcher cap.

214A/B/C now does different patterns of skulls :

• A does 4 skulls in a triangular pattern (one in the center) near to Alice !

• B does the same pattern but more spread out

• C does 7 skulls in a hexagonal pattern (one in the center, again)

623A/B/C summons several skeletons and does a few hits. Last hit on C floats.

Color Palettes