Monster/Katze

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Introduction

Katze Wildfang. カッツェ・ヴィルトファング

This character was created by Shiki Maeda of Animal Genomix

Moves List

Normal Moves

Ground Moves

State	Input	Start-Up	Block Adv.	Hit Adv.	Crouch Adv.	Guard	Damage
Standing	A					HL	300
	B					HL	500,200
	C					HL	700
Crouching	A					HL	300
	B					HL	580
	C					L	600

Dashing Moves

State	Input	Start-Up	Block Adv.	Hit Adv.	Crouch Adv.	Guard	Damage
Dash Standing	A					HL	300
	B					HL	600
	C					H	450
Dash Crouching	A					L	220
	B					HL	540
	C					L	650

66B can be held to increase start-up and reduce recovery.

Air Moves

State	Input	Start-Up	Block Adv.	Hit Adv.	Crouch Adv.	Guard	Damage
Jumping	A					H	300
	B					H	400
	C					H	720

Throws

Input	Start-Up	Damage
6 A		1200
4 A		1200

4 A switches sides. If you throw while you are in the corner on 2P side, you stay cornered.

Special Moves

Special Moves

Name	Input	Start-Up	Block Adv.	Hit Adv.	Crouch Adv.	Guard	Damage
Right Fang	236A					HL	500
Left Fang	236B					HL	800
Aepyornis Wing	623A					HL	250,300x5
Aepyornis Hunt	214A					HL	700,100x10

Right Fang knocks down.

Aepyornis Wing knocks down. Decent wake-up option.

Aepyornis Hunt can cross-up.

Super Moves

Name	Input	Level	Start-Up	Block Adv.	Hit Adv.	Crouch Adv.	Guard	Damage
Judgement Fang	236C	Lv1					HL	2000
		Lv2					HL	3400
		Lv3					HL	4453
Thousand Basher	214C	Lv1					HL	592(1080)
		Lv2					HL	1740(2205)
		Lv3					HL	4552

Judgement Fang can wall bounce.

Thousand Basher can be canceled into anything before the final hit. In order to reach Lv2 and Lv3, Thousand Basher must be performed three times in a single combo without the final hit of Lv1 or Lv2 ever hitting.

Absurd Special

Cat's Eye - 214214C

Slows the opponent.

Shift

Shifting increases the damage of normals by approximatly 20%.

Monster

Special Moves

Name	Input	Start-Up	Block Adv.	Hit Adv.	Crouch Adv.	Guard	Damage
Right Fang	236A					HL	2351
Left Fang	236B					L,HL	923,923
Aepyornis Wing							755,587,
	623A					HL	479,359,
							297,239,119
Aepyornis Hunt	214A					HL	1199,100x20

Right Fang becomes very slow but very powerful (over 20% dmg). Useful during Power Break in which only one hit is possible? It has shorter range than normal.

Left Fang now hits twice with the first hitting low, now actually making the move faster. After the second hit the opponent is launched and able to be juggled.

Aepyornis Wing is a bit slower than normal and hits more.

Aepyornis Hunt is slower and hits more than usual.

Freedom

Special Moves

Name	Input	Start-Up	Block Adv.	Hit Adv.	Crouch Adv.	Guard	Damage
Right Fang	236A					HL	239
Left Fang	236B					HL	839
Aepyornis Wing	623A					HL	119,95,71
Aepyornis Hunt	214A					HL	119x5

Right Fang has shorter range than normal but, upon hit, you can cancel into anything.

Left Fang is pretty slow but recovers very fast. You can also cancel it, before it hits, into anything. You can also cancel when it hits.

Aepyornis Wing hits less but can be canceled into anything shortly after the wing appears.

Aepyornis Hunt can be canceled at any point after he attacks.

Tranquility

Special Moves

Name	Input	Start-Up	Block Adv.	Hit Adv.	Crouch Adv.	Guard	Damage
Right Fang	236A					HL	719
Left Fang	236B					HL	599
Aepyornis Wing	623A					HL	622,359x5
Aepyornis Hunt	214A					HL	839,119x7

Right Fang has more range than normal, it can chain into Left Fang and has invulnerable start-up. It's slower than usual but has great recover.

Left Fang has less range than normal, it can be chained into from Right Fang and has invulnerable start-up. It's faster than usual.

Aepyornis Wing has invincible start-up.

Aepyornis Hunt bounces you back on hit or block. After you are bounced, you can attack before landing but cannot double jump.

Strategies

Overview

Katze's gameplan revolves around his superior poking skill using 5A, 2A and (66)2C, which he can easily use to link into one of his heavily damaging combos. His zoning game is also among the best in the game, thanks to Apyornis Wing. In a way, he plays very much like a Ryu without fireballs.

Mode selection

Katze's best modes are definitely Tranquility and Freedom. His monster mode ends up being pretty useless due to how slow his specials become when shifted, which make it near impossible to do as much damage as in the other modes.

Tranquility mode

This mode is played very defensively, making use of dashing in with good pokes and backdash cancelling to pressure your opponent into making a mistake and falling into an Apyornis Wing or hitting him with one of your high/low mixup attacks, which can all be comboed into high damaging combos with relative ease.

Combos

From anywhere on the screen: 5AB(2hit)C 236A @ 5C 236A 236B 236C (~3800 and ~4800 damage)
Air-to-air combo: jABC (land) 5C 236B @ 5C 236A 236B 236C (around 4500 damage)
Dashing overhead: 66C 5C @ 5C 236A 236B 236C (3700 damage)
Dashing low attack: 662C 236A @ 5C 236A 236B 236C (~3700 damage)
Crouching: 2AAC 236B @ 5C 236A 236B 236C (~4400 damage)
On crouching opponents: Same as above, but replace 2C by 5C, deals about the same damage.