Advanced V.G. 2/Jun

Introduction

Aside from being an accomplished wrestler, Jun is also an astrophysicist. Her perfect synthesis of the two disciplines allows her to dunk people from outer space.

Jun very quickly and easily makes herself known as AVG2's grappler. And while she does quite dutifully fulfill this role, players who pick up Jun will find a surprisingly versatile character with strong mobility and no shortage of great pokes to be using in neutral. While her combos are short and fairly stable, she suffers from a lack of ways to confirm them compared to other characters, which causes her to rely on conditioning the opponent more. In short, expect to play a grappler, but one that is more than capable of holding her own in footsies.

Pros	Cons
High defense value Great neutral presence with solid pokes and movement options Explosive damage with her command grab and 0F grab super Does not pay the grappler mobility tax	Heavy normals are on the slow side, making her rely mostly on light normals Low combo potential has her relying mostly on conditioning or meter expenditure to get damage Somewhat lacking in options against projectiles

Movelist

st.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Mid		-	-	-
A strike right to the gut, chains into stLK and clHK for a combo and stHP for a frame trap.

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st.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Mid		-	-	-
A quick shin kick, no chains but can link into itself pretty easily. Can special cancel, but its tight if you are trying to combo into an Earth Shaker. If you wanna get tricky you can stLK, LK Kubota Sway if the opponent tries to mash afterwards, and then go for a Kubota Buster.

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st.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Mid		-	-	-
A lumbering downward punch, may look like an overhead but it is not. Does special cancel.

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st.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Mid		-	-	-
A leaping wheel kick, honestly not great at all because the range is not anywhere near as far as it may seem and has to be pretty far away to activate.

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cl.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Mid		-	-	-
A knee strike to the stomach. It has a further range than any close proximity normal I've ever seen, which is good because its a worthwhile normal to have access to thanks to it's long hitstun meaning you can get a Earth Shaker to combo off it.

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cr.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Low		-	-	-
A double-fist thrust, snappy enough for startup but has less range than you would like and has no chains. Special cancelable, but not enough hitstun to be worthwhile.

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cr.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Low		-	-	-
Outclasses crLP in every way. Actually hits low, has slightly more range, and has better hitstun meaning you can get a Earth Shaker off it (unless at max range). It's also her OTG pickup, so you will get very used to this button.

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cr.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Mid		-	-	-
A 2-hit axe handle strike, pretty much invalidates her stHP as a poke. It starts up much faster, can successfully special cancel of either hit into Earth Shaker.

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cr.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	Low		-	-	-
A decent enough sweep, range is very slightly less than the animation but it gets the job done.

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j.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	High		-	-	-
A glacerial double axe-handle strike. Shockingly slow for a light normal, it chains into jHP, jHK, and j2HP but you should never press this button when you have jLK.

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j.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	High		-	-	-
Arguably Jun's best air normal, she can hit this rising on a standing opponent and then chain into j2HP to hit cross up. It's also active for a full lunar cycle, so super jumping with this as an approach is a tasty proposition.

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j.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	High		-	-	-
A downward strike that is faster than jLP, but still not as good of an option as her other air normals.

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j.

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	High		-	-	-
A huge looking dropkick, but the hitbox doesnt extend all the way to her toes. A good chain ender for approaches where j2HP isn't as good.

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Command Moves

+

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	High		-	-	-
A rising double axe-handle command launcher. A bit on the slow side, but leads to good damage. Needs to be used preemptively due to it's slow startup, but works as a solid anti-air thanks to it's large hitbox.

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j.+

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
-	High		-	-	-
Legally mandated grappler body splash cross-up tool, You know what this is good for. It's Jun's go-to air-chain ender with how good it's hitbox is and invalidates a lot of her air normals in terms of effectiveness. jLK into j2HP will take you very far in this game.

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Target Combos
st.LP > (cr.LP) > cl.HK
st.LP > (cr.LP) > st.LK > (cr.LK) > st.HK
st.LP > (cr.LP) > st.HP > st.HK
cr.LP > cr.HK
j.LP/LK > j.HP/HK/j.d+HP

Guard Cancels
LP: st.LP
LK: st.LK
HP: LP Earth Shaker (qcb+LP)
HK: HK Kubota Sway (rdp+HK)

Jun's LP and LK guard cancels are some of the most devastating in the game for one strange reason: the damage of these GCs is dependent on the move being guard cancelled. This also applies to subsequent uses of the normal when chaining into itself. As an example, by guard cancelling Chiho's Super, it's possible to kill her in one combo just by repeatedly chaining st.LP into itself because of the damage boost. Because of this factor along, HP and HK guard cancels don't see a lot of use.

Special Moves

Earth Shaker

+

Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
		Mid		-	-	-
A generally very useful special move that mostly sees use as an OTG follow-up and as a meaty hitbox for the opponent to wake up into. A cornerstone of Jun's gameplan
		Mid		-	-	-
Does more hits and damage, but isnt really any slower to start up. If you have a confirm but lack the charge for Kubota Lariat, this is your best option.
+		N/A		-	-	-
The EX version functions almost like Potemkin's Slidehead in Guilty Gear, causing an unblockable hitbox to track to the opponent's position, launching them high into the air for a combo follow-up depending on positioning.

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Kubota Sway

+

Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
		Mid		-	-	-
Jun stands in place and sways, gaining full strike invulnerability for the duration of the move. There is no punishable recovery on the move, but she's completely open to throws. Extremely useful tool against characters who want to abuse instant supers, since she can buffer this during superflash. The LK version is only active for a snap, so it can be used as a special cancel option to mix up your pressure and go for a throw.
		Mid		-	-	-
The sway is active for much longer, better used for actually avoiding something.

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Kubota Buster

+

Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
		N/A	1	-	-	-
Jun's command grab, and boy is it a good one. The range is fantastic, and it even opens up combo opportunities if you can time an EX Earth Shaker. Incredibly strong move.
		N/A	1	-	-	-
HP Buster has the same startup, it does more damage but has worse recovery on whiff. Still, it's worth prioritizing for the additional damage it gives.

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Kubota Lariat

(Charge) +

Version	Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
		Mid		-	-	-
Extremely important move in Jun's combos because it provides one of the few hard knockdowns in the game, guaranteeing an OTG follow-up. However, this knockdown only occurs on the early hitbox, so the move becomes far less rewarding when used at longer distances. Its safety is also very spacing-dependent, so you want to be judicious when throwing this move out in neutral. The side that Jun ends up on when scoring the knockdown is somewhat inconsistent, so make sure you learn how to properly confirm your positioning so you don't lose out on OTG damage.

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Super Moves

Kubota Shuttle

+

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
	Low		-	-	-
A powered up Kubota Lariat that does dino damage when it hits. For reasons our best scientists have yet to adequately explain, this move hits low. Using this to end combos is a huge part of Jun's high damage, since one of the move's most terrifying attributes is that the damage from the falling portion of the move will never be affected by damage scaling.

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Kubota Special

cl. +

Damage	Guard	Startup	Active	Recovery	FrameAdv
	N/A	1	-	-	-
Mostly useful for the fact that it's 1F startup. While the damage is high, you often get better damage from HP Kubota Buster into EX Earth Shaker, so you mostly want to use this when you need speed more than damage.

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Strategy

Jun generally wants to approach the neutral game carefully. You have a few usable mid-range options in footsies, primarily f+HP, st.HP, st.HK and Lariat. You'll have a hard time against fireballs, but if you have meter then you can very easily discourage people from throwing them with EX Earth Shaker. Outside of that, you largely want to be using aerial approaches, primarily with j.LP, as it's a very reliable air-to-air button that is freely chainable into any of Jun's heavy jump normals -- j.HK is best for long range, while j.d+HP is best up close.
Once you've found your way in, the crux of your pressure starts with cr.LP. From here, you have a very strong tick into Kubota Buster. If the opponent tries to jump out, a chain into cr.HK will catch them, allowing you to score a combo with Lariat into an OTG follow-up. If you have two bars to spare, you can extend any of those punishes into Kubota Shuttle for monstrous damage.
On defense, you'll largely be relying on attempts to call people out for gaps in pressure, since you don't have any particularly good abare options. However, you'll be able to get some mileage out of defensive command grab supers, and you'll definitely want to be using Kubota Sway against opponents who try to catch you with instant supers.

Combos

Basic Combos
cr.LK > cr.HK xx Kubota Lariat, OTG~
(corner) cr.LK > cr.HK xx HP Earth Shaker, cl.HK xx Kubota Lariat, OTG~
f+HP, sj.LK > j.HK, cl.HK xx HP Earth Shaker/Lariat

Primary OTG Follow-ups
~cr.LK xx HP Earth Shaker (xx Kubota Shuttle)
~cr.LK > cr.HK xx Lariat
~cr.LK > cl.HK xx Kubota Shuttle

Throw Combos
HP Kubota Buster, EX Earth Shaker
HP Kubota Buster, dash cr.LK xx HP Earth Shaker (xx Kubota Shuttle)
HP Throw, walk forward cr.LK xx HP Earth Shaker (xx Kubota Shuttle)