Basic Attacks
Normal Moves
All characters have a set of 18 normal moves. Each button represents a distinct normal move for standing, crouching, and jumping normal states. Normal moves can chain cancel in combos, making many of them useful only in a sequence of attacks instead of on their own. Although normal moves usually represent a punch, kick, or an otherwise less complex action than other attacks, some of them have unexpected properties that make them more important than more advanced techniques.
Command Normals
Some characters have command normals, additional normals that require a directional input with the attack button. Command normals will generally work exactly like the same button normal in a chain combo.
Normal Throws
All characters have a normal {{#motion:throw}} and {{#motion:airthrow}} with LP+LK. Normal throws will miss aerial opponents and normal air throws miss opponents on the ground. A back throw (← + LP+LK) switches sides with the opponent. All normal throws are unblockable, but have start up, active, and recovery frames on whiff like any other move. On hit, a throw starts animation that cannot be interrupted by any other characters or attacks on screen. Both characters in the animation are invincible, even if it is an Ensemble character throwing a point character. Throws deal 100% recoverable damage and are subject to the same damage scaling and meter gain per hit as any other move. Recovery after normal throws, or the animation after the hits, cancels into special and Blockbuster moves.
All normal throws will miss opponents while they are in hit stun or block stun, meaning combos into a throw are not possible under most circumstances. Opponents in a stagger or crumple stun can be hit with a throw as a combo. Characters are vulnerable to throws on the first frame after hit stun or block stun. There are no additional frames of throw invulnerability, but holding up will avoid ground to ground throws that hit on the first frame after the stun.
All normal throws have a 7f of start up, stay active for 1f, and have a tech window ending 13f after the throw hits. It is possible to cancel the start up frames of normal move into a throw, but only LP and LK. The popular kara throw technique, as seen in other 2D fighters with a 2 button normal throw command, is possible but considerably more restricted than in older games. Throws cannot cancel the active or recovery frames of any move.
Special Moves
Performing a special move, often the most distinctive attacks for a character, requires a sequence of directional inputs, or motion, before pressing an attack button.
{{#motion:throw}} special moves usually have a LP+LK in their command. Most cannot be broken, but if they can it's also with LP+LK. A 
command throw can be blocked and used in a combo. If two special move or Blockbuster throws connect on the same frame, one randomly chosen throw will succeed.
Blockbusters
A Blockbuster uses 1 or more levels of Dramatic Tension to executes a character-defining, high damage attack. Typically, Blockbusters are the most common use for a team's Dramatic Tension. Most Blockbusters have some {{#motion:startupinv}} and can be used as a reversal. Blockbusters that use more than one level of tension have minimum damage scaling to ensure their potency, with a 45% minimum scaling for level 3 Blockbusters and a 55% minimum for level 5s.
During start up, a Blockbuster causes a super flash effect. This effect stops the timer, zooms in on the attacking character, and displays a background portrait image of the attacking character. Inputs during a super freeze will count towards preforming an action on the first available frame after the end of super freeze. At the end of the super freeze, the defending character is forced into an induced hit stop before the attack begins it's active frames. For most Blockbusters, the induced hit stop can prevent the defending player from blocking the attack on reaction at short ranges. {{#motion:proj}} based Blockbusters typically induce less frames of hit stop, often allowing the opponent to block on reaction. {{#motion:throw}} based Blockbusters have no induced hit stop.