Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors/Zinsuke

Zinsuke
Pre-Jump Frames	3
Play Style	Rushdown
Dash Type	Step

Introduction

A samurai who wields a katana while relying on fast strikes, quick defenses and well-timed reads.

Coming from a distant oriental country, Zinsuke is ordered by the emperor to investigate the mystery of the lost continent

to help him with his task, he has been teamed with the two siblings Rokurouta and Nanami. they are working together towards a shared goal and will try their hardest to fulfill their emperor's wishes

Zinsuke is an all round rushdown character that has great range that can either go all out or slowly chip away at the enemy's life bar.

Color Palette

Pros	Cons
Disjointed Hitbox on his sword allows for high-priority, safe responses to jump-ins and normals Long reaching normals Safe damage Great super that is easy to land in combos Very useful normals in footsies A ton of options to respond to aerial approaches 2 very long attacks that knock down	No projectiles Long recovery on heavy normals Low damage super Predictable mixups Harder advanced combos j.B and j.C are hard to land in a few awkward angles his main approach tool, 2146a/b/c, gets countered hard by any projectile

Normals

Standing normals

5A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	M	normals	-	-
fast hit with the Katana's hilt extremely fast

5B

"hey, i've seen this in anime"

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	M	normals	-	-
Zinsuke takes his katana out and sheathes it very quickly, creating a sharp cut first hit can be canceled into normals and specials but the second one can't. first hit's hitbox is much shorter than the second used to combo into his specials

5C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	L	O	-	-
fast and wide flowing cut a laggy but damaging big attack punishable on block

Crouching normals

2A

i feel like i've seen this attack somewhere?

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	L	normals	-	-
fast attack with the Katana's hilt

2B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	L	normals	-	-
Filler low normal

2C

How long is this sword???

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	L	O	Knocks down	-
Sweep that covers a sizeable portion of the screen will catch a lot of off guard opponents

Jumping normals

8.A

...

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	H	special	O	O
Zinsuke pokes the Katana's hilt downward comboes easily into itself but it's harder to combo into othis air normals

7/9.A

Zinsuke, the god of creativity

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	H	special	O	O
Zinsuke pokes the Katana's hilt forward literally just flipped 8.A comboes easily into itself but it's harder to combo into othis air normals

8B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	H	special	O	O
fast attack from behind looks very cool but is kind of hard to land if you launch an opponent too close to a wall

7/9B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	H	special	O	O
fast attack with good range that is cancelable on hit. best used in air combos

8.C

every Zinsuke main wishes this replaced 7/9C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	H	O	O	O
very wide vertical slash will reliably end your air combo no matter how awkward the angle is

7/9C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	H	O	O	O
great air normal very fast and amazing range but long recovery has high priority than othis normals

Command normals

3c

oops

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	H	special	-	-
Fast Slide that knocks down deceptivery long reach

6b

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	H	special	-	-
Fast cut notieably large range and used a lot for pokes

Universal mechanics

Launcher
any 2 buttons

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

Moon Shield - ムーンシールド
236A/B/C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	M	O	-	-
Zinsuke creates a circular wall that defends him from opponents will counterhit anything and everything, DO NOT f*** with the wall A version : standard fast attack B version : completely harmeless for a few moments before being active C version : Launches on hit but the recovery is too long to combo from it Button determines active frames and startup EX version dramatically reduces recovery, allowing for combos

Heavenly destination - 天国のようなデスティネーション
623A/B/C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	M	O	Knocks down	inconsistent
Great DP. Who needs I-frames when your entire body and the surrounding atmosphere is a hitbox? Zinsuke Leaps into the air, more horozontally than vertically, as he is covered by his slicing sword. knocks down EX version is longer and faster

speed-o-Sound knife - スピードオサウンド・ナイフ
214A/B/C

A version

B version

C version

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	M	O	O	O
Zinsuke unsheathes his katana and does a (badass) vertical slice, with angle depending on the button used very fast and can be used to end both blockstrings and combos EX version makes him do all 3 versions at once very fast, which will combo into eachother

dangerous pilgrimage - 危険な巡礼
2146A/B/C

A/B/C version

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	M	O	O	O
Zinsuke dashes then attacks with his katana button determines the length of the dash still unexplored currently EX version makes the hit a V.launcher, except you can't combo into or out of this, so it's just a waste of meter

Supers

Deciding Blade - 決め手となるブレード
214214A/B/C

speed-o-Sound knife on steroids

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	-	-	-	M	O	-	-
Zinsuke does a light slash with a faint outline at about 45 degrees upwards, reaching across most of the screen. If it hits, the opponent is frozen in place for a moment, then Zinsuke does a much more powerful slash along the same path. It is possible to hit the opponent with the first and then miss with the second, but it happens extremely rarely.

Boost mode (22+ABC)

Speed mode : Zinsuke moves faster and can jump higher, with some other properties :

• speed-o-Sound knife produces two strikes, with H version being a wall bounce

• C version of Flashing Slice is wall bounce