Advanced V.G. 2/Saki

Introduction

Saki will cut you.

Saki is a simple character with a simple gameplan: make you explode. Sporting solid aerial normals and a HK button that almost plays footsies for you, Saki is able to turn a good number of errant pokes she'll land during neutral into incredible damage with her supers, leading to combos that often deal upwards of 50% damage in one shot. This simplicity is both a blessing and a curse, however -- her lack of solid pokes not attached to the HK button leaves her ground game feeling fairly linear, and her reliance on two-bar combo conversions for her damage makes resource management a very important question for her.

Strengths	Weaknesses
Simple and easy to pick up Solid pokes thanks to solid air buttons and a godlike HK button on the ground Frankly ridiculous damage with conversions into super	Neutral is somewhat linear, thanks to the HK button being your most valuable button on the ground Inconsistent defensive options Exceptionally meter hungry

Movelist

Command Moves
f+LP: A quick chop that (thankfully) doesn't hit overhead.
f+HP: A midrange elbow strike.
f+HK: A forward step kick. Very strong poke.

Target Combos
st.LP > st.LK
f+LP > st.LK > st.LP > (st.HP > st.HK) or (st.HK > st.HP)
f+HK > st.HP/st.HK
st.HK > f+HP > st.HK
cr.LP > (st.LP) > cr.LK
cr.LK > cr.HK

j.LP/LK > j.HP/HK

Guard Cancels
LP: f+A
LK: cl.HK
HP: LP Ren (hcb,f+LP)
HK: LP Sen (dp+LP)

Saki's best guard cancel is her HP guard cancel, since it's her command grab. When activated outside of grab range, Saki will simply maintain her blocking animation while becoming briefly invincible. This can lead to larger punishes that can potentially make up for the meter spent on the guard cancel.

Special Moves

Tetsu (qcb+P):
Ryou (qcb+K):
Sen (dp+P):
Shoku (dp+K):
Ren (close hcb,f+LP):

Super Moves

Homura (qcf,qcf+P):
Mizuchi (hcb,qcf+P):

Combos

Basic Combos
Depending on the character and screen position, sometimes Tetsu will only hit once, which can make the super cancel more awkward to perform. In many cases you'll accidentally get EX Ryou instead of Mizuchi, which is still pretty decent damage.

cr.LK > cr.HK xx HP Tetsu (xx Mizuchi)

far HK, cr.HK xx HP Tetsu (xx Mizuchi)
cr.LP(x1~2), cr.HK xx HP Tetsu (xx Mizuchi)
Yes, those are links.

Anti-Air Combos
st.HK xx HP Tetsu (xx Mizuchi)
j.LK > j.HK, land j.LK > j.HK, EX Ryou/xx Homura
j.LK > j.HK, land f+HK > cl.HK xx Homura

Throw Combo
Throw > cr.HP xx HP Tetsu (xx Mizuchi)

Frame Data

Soon.