Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors/Alice

Alice
Pre-Jump Frames	3
Play Style	Puppet
Dash Type	dash / roll

Introduction

A young girl wielding a special book that gives her control over the undead.

Still determined to learn about the secret of immortality, Alice, who has now gotten a bit more powerful while learning new magic and necromancy, forms a contract with Dead Man Walking, a skeleton who is the reanimated corpse of a man falsely executed for murder.

Alice and DMW head off on a new adventure in order to learn about the mystery of the lost continent, believing that it could help with her current research.

Alice is a puppet character who can also plant stationary bombs on screen. Alice's Skeletal Familiar,「DEAD MAN WALKING」, will always try to follow her. However he moves much slower than she does. Certain attacks can also be used to change his position, and he can be controlled to attack remotely.

Alice is extremley difficult to master

the time and skill required to play her effectively is way higher than any other character. if you are a new player, consider keeping a pocket character.

Alice is very difficult to master. But in the hands of an expert, she's an unstoppable, deadly force. Use the Skull Tandem all the time, throw bombs everywhere, counter anything with 623+ AB, and jump around like a madman (madgirl?). Her small stature helps to avoid attacks, you can duck many normal moves.

DMW」is invincible and can do a bunch of damage in a hurry. Or get the enemy between the two of you and mash on the A button for a few seconds. And remember that the EX Skull Tandem works even as you're in the middle of getting beaten up by a combo. You can't go wrong!

Color Palette

Pros	Cons
Double Jump that can cancel any move she's currently in 「DEAD MAN WALKING」can be used with bombs to effectively shut down the opponent, severely limiting their approach options Remote damage with no risk from across the screen 「DEAD MAN WALKING」can attack even in situations where Alice couldn't, like in a knockdown or when she's in the middle of a move 「DEAD MAN WALKING」is completely invincible Disjointed Hitbox on many normals Very tiny hitbox Can do a total of four jump actions.	Extremley difficult to master Horrible Boost Mode Lackluster Super Underwhelming Normals Hard to escape corner

Normals

Standing normals

5A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6	-	-	M	normals	1	0
quick karate chop can be used as an abare

5B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	8	-	-	M	normals	3	2
Alice opens her book and summons a small skull of a T-rex to bite the enemy hits one time fast and can combo into launcher, however it has a lot of recovery

5C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	12	-	-	M	O	-9	-10
visually identical to 5B hits twice slightly longer range than 5B damaging but laggy cannot combo into launcher do not use as only a poke, use 5B or launcher instead

Crouching normals

2A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6	-	-	L	normals	3	2
5A but low

2B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	8	-	-	L	normals	0	-1
Alice opens her book and summons a small skull of a Pterodactyl to peck the enemy causes a decent amount of stagger and has decent range our main mid-range poke

2C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	11	-	-	H	O	-	-17
visually identical to 2B slightly longer range than 2B causes a HKD

Jumping normals

j.A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	4	-	-	H	special	O	O
Alice slaps you with inhuman speed fast but extremely short combo starter comboes easily into itself but it's harder to combo into other air normals

j.B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6	-	-	H	special	O	O
Alice opens her book and summons a small skull of a Styracosaurus to headbutt the enemy best option against aerial opponents

j.C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6	-	-	H	O	O	O
visually identical to j.B slightly longer range than j.B does more damage but has more recovery frames use at the end of combos

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

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	7	-	-	M	O	Launches	inconsistent
on hit, Causes a big wall bounce and makes 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

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	7	-	-	M	O	Launches	inconsistent
No difference from the ground version, but some characters have air launchers with slightly less recovery frames

Guard break
22C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6	-	-	don't	O	Stun	O
This replaces grab, a quick attack that stuns blocking opponents. common followups are combos, launchers, knockdowns and some supers countered by not blocking, jumping or attacking back

Special moves

Skull mine - スカルマイン
236A/B/C

Size guide

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	24 / 26 / 28	-	-	M	O	-	4 / 3 / 2
Alice throws out a bomb that rests on the ground or hovers in the air for a few seconds or until your opponent touches it. collides with other projectiles as normal. There doesn't seem to be a limit (apart from the timer on the bomb) to how many you can have on screen. The damage on this move seems a bit random... Aerial versions have significantly quicker recovery than grounded versions. Active frame numbers above refer to grounded numbers. If the bomb hits immediately during the animation, she will be in hitlag. number of hits is 2>3>4 depending on the version EX version mades Alice throw a large bomb which lasts 2 seconds. It seems to do only one hit, but won't explode until the 2 seconds are up. When it does explode, it shoots out 4 little bombs with a medium-sized bomb in the middle

Skele catapult - スカルマイン
623A/B/C

EX Finisher

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6 / 4 / 4	-	-	M	O	-	inconsistent
「DEAD MAN WALKING」throws Alice. You must be near 「DMW」for this move to work, and you're invincible until you land. A : Alice gets thrown backwards a short distance B : Alice is thrown forwards, quite high and pretty far C : Thrown forwards, low and more than a screen's length EX : active on 16. 「DEAD MAN WALKING」 picks Alice up and carries her as he runs forward. Does up to 11 hits. You're still invincible for the duration of this move.

Tandem curse - タンデムカース
214A/B/C

it's time to get funky

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	29 / 29 / 29	-	-	H	O	-	-
This is why you came here Alice snaps her fingers and 「DEAD MAN WALKING」flashes, and can then be made to attack. He is invincible at all times. On all versions besides EX, DMW flashes on frame 1 for 7 frames, and becomes actionable on frame 8. He can be controlled before Alice recovers from her animation. Alice recovers faster from the aerial version than the grounded version. Control duration for A, B and C versions are 2, 3 and 4 seconds respectively Even without snapping her fingers, you can do the move at other times (i.e. when knocked down) and he will still flash, but is sometimes controllable and sometimes not. It seems to work with EX at any time though. There seems to be a cooldown after being controlled for a certain amount of time (not sure if tandem button determines length of cooldown). 「DMW」 may attack in different directions, he will always attack towards enemy 「DMW」 won't turn on his own when they cross him up because he only turns around after an attack is over, meaning you will have to waste an attack. is it a bug or a feature? nobody knows 「DMW」 can't do his low attacks unless Alice is crouching Likes his coffee black

214a/b/c ~> A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Quick jab don't underestimate this very useful pressure tool or abare will keep your opponent blocking

214a/b/c ~> 2A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Quick low quick don't underestimate this too it forces them to block low, meaning they have to crouch and stop their momentum

214a/b/c ~> B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
stylish side kicks the most used combo tool has decent range and decent damage

214a/b/c ~> C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
「DMW」 hops forward and kicks the most used option the short hop allow you to quickly reposition him, which you will need to do a lot while playing Alice deals high damage and encourages you to use it randomly to catch people off guard

214a/b/c ~> 2C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Slide kick forward hits low causes a HKD has the most range out of the followups

214a/b/c ~> AB

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
punches high, does up to 2 hits Does absurd damage always try to catch aerial opponents with this has the most startup but it's negligeable

Tandem Curse EX

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
「DMW」runs forward a few steps, then automatically does a series of attacks: 2A, 2A,B, C, A, 2C, AB. The last hit acts like a launcher, but doesn't count towards your limit of 3 moves per Skull Tandem. Can be done at any time no matter what Alice is doing, whether Mid move, Mid Combo, getting combo'd, going to the local Dairy Queen for Ice Cream, you name it.

Supers

Doppleganger Rain - ドッペルギャンガー・レイン
236236A/B/C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	62(53+9)	-	-	M	O	-	inconsistent
A large number of Alice clones fall from the sky and explode on impact. Seems to be unavoidable, but not very damaging. It usually does around 12 hits.

Boost mode (22+ABC)

Necrofantasia :

• Pointless. This boost mode sucks. Don't use it.

• Makes her move a tiny bit faster and jump a little higher.

• Attacks are slightly faster, but it's barely noticeable.

• Universal overhead (6B) Launches

• Strangely, Alice can still do the EX version of the Skull Tandem (214 + AB) in boost mode. It still costs a segment of super meter. Don't use this during Boost Mode.

• Her increased speed and height seems to impact how she gets hit by other charatcer's Boost Modes, making her combo fodder for characters like Yashaou.