Rage of The Dragons/Billy

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Billy Lewis
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Unique Partner Lynn
Life 180
Stun 100
Guard 90
Profession The Blue Dragon

Story

Billy is the younger brother of Jimmy who accompanied him on many adventures in the city. However, both brothers soon grew tired of the physical abuse and moved to Sunshine City with their uncle. There, both brothers were introduced to Master Lee Song, who taught them the Ryu Zui Ken techniques. Billy was taught the ways of the "Blue Dragon" to best fit with his mellow and devoted nature.

Although he tried to stay away from gangs, Billy felt attracted to Jimmy's girlfriend, Mariah. Wanting to confess his feelings to her, he asks her to meet him for a private talk. Unfortunately, one of the gangs was after his brother killed her while she arrived for their meeting. Once Jimmy hears that his brother was involved, he broke off all ties with Billy and blamed his younger brother for her death.

Billy eventually recovered from the loss by becoming a famous street racer and continued his Ryu Zui Ken training. One day, he received a phone call from Lynn, frantically telling him that their master had been killed. Sensing an evil dragon, he helps her enter the tournament to investigate. In his ending with Lynn, he leaves her to take care of the dojo and begins his search for his brother. In the game's special ending with Jimmy, he implores his brother to join forces against the "Black Dragon". Their conversation takes a sour turn when he tells Jimmy to forget about Mariah. Both brothers part again with Billy wishing his brother luck in the future.

Introduction

Billy is a rather strong character that relies on solid neutral and hit confirming his 6B overhead. Billy has great B buttons that can be used to poke or even hit confirm. A majority of Billy's moves are safe on block and are frame traps, making them abusable if your opponent can't deal with them. Billy is also one of the few single-wall stun characters that deals a load of stun off of the 6B overhead. You can stun most characters with one combo. However, Billy's overhead has a large amount of start-up and can be jabbed out of, so don't rely on it without conditioning.

Pros Cons
  • Good B buttons.
  • Easy one-wall stun combos on 80 and 90 stun characters.
  • Light Blue Rage is safe on block and is abusable as a frame trap.
  • Heavy Blue Rage can be used to extend your combos if you don't finish the rekka.
  • Light Slash Cross has a huge hitbox.
  • Lightning Tail is a hit grab that catches stray hurt boxes.
  • Heavy Ko-Ryu Kyaku can low profile moves thanks to the low sliding start.
  • Back Slash super is a great anti-air.
  • Instant overhead jumping Blue Rage using the TK technique.
  • Long recovery on heavy buttons.
  • 6B overhead has a very slow start-up, it can be jabbed out
  • Both versions of Ko-Ryu Kyaku slide forward, sometimes missing jump-ins.
  • Ko-Ryu Kyaku isn't air unblockable.
  • Light Slash Cross is not a good zoning option.
  • Both versions of air Blue Rage are punishable on block.
  • Character-specific and crouching-specific stun combos.
  • Limited combos without 6B confirm.



Movelist

Command Moves

Axe Kick
6B
Get used to this move, it starts 90% of his combos.
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- High - -
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Slow overhead, starts Billy's best combo using the 214D rekka. Don't use often since it can be punished without conditioning but the reward for it is amazing.

First Impact

Impact
CD
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Billy's Impact has some good horizontal range and enough vertical range to catch hopping opponents.
You can do this move in the air by tappig 8 after hit-confirming CD. Air impacts provide much more meter than ground impacts. However, air impacts have limited combo routes.

  • BC (ground) B,A,C,D,D
  • BC (air) A,B,B,C,D

Special Moves

Light Slash Cross
236A
Finish the rekka.
Slash Cross
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

First hit of a rekka. Has a decent hitbox but should always be followed up. The Rekka window on this move is rather tight and may require some precise timing. See the follow-up below.

236A >> 236A
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Folllow-up to light slash cross. The second hit becomes a projectile. Not the best for zoning but it has a decently big hitbox, some characters struggle to get over it such as Abubo.


Heavy Slash Cross
236C
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Just like the light version, this special is a rekka. Unlike the light version, Billy finishes the entire cross before launching. See the follow-up below.

236C >> 236C
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Billy launches a short ranged flaming cross that does a knockdown, the knockdown has quite a long range and is good for wall carries. This move is great for linking off of 2B.


Ko Ryu-Kyaku
623A
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Fast dp that slides forward a bit. Heavy version is arguably better.


Ko Ryu-Kyaku
623D
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Low - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Argueabliy the better version of DP, starts with a low sliding kick into a two hitting dp. If the low sliding kick whiffs it moves faster into the DP. Hitbox shrinks on the sliding kick as well, making it a nice guard cancel bait if needed.


Lightning Tail
236B/D
百裂拳
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Hitgrab with good wall carry. Hitbox flickers in and out until it hits something or the move ends.


Blue Rage
214B
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

Just a single flying kick, safe enough on block to frame trap.


Blue Rage
214D
First hit
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

There is honestly nothing notable about this starter, it's very simmilar to Light Blue Rage and should ALWAYS be followed up. Can also be done in the air. See the follow-up below.

214D >> 214D
Second Hit
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

This is the good part of the rekka. On hit, you can shorten your rekka and link into a normal or you can follow it up for the final hit of the rekka. Can also be done in the air. See follow-up below.

214D >> 214D >> 214D
Final hit of the rekka
Damage Guard Stun Cancel
- Mid - N/A
Startup Active Recovery Adv. Hit Adv. Guard
- - - - -

The finisher to the Blue Rage rekka. This last hit has great wall carry but is over shadowed by the second hit since you can get more off of it. Can be done in the air (I said this already)

Combos

Here's a video of Billy's Basic Combos:



Basic Combos
9D > 2B > 623D

9D > cl.D (2 hits) > 623D

9D > cl.C (1 hit) > 236A > 236A

9D > cl.C (1 hit) > 236C > 236C

9D > cl.C (1 hit) > 236D

6B > 214D > 214D > cl.C (2 hits) > 623D

(Crouching Only) 6B >> 214D > 214D > cl.C (1 hit) > 236A >> 236A > 623D

9D > cl.C (2 hits) > 2141236B or D

(Crouching Only) 6D > 214D >> 214D > 236A >> 236A > 236A >> 236A > 236BC >> 236BC


Wall Combos
9D > cl.D (2 hits) > 623D (WH) > CD (ground) > 6B > 623D

9D > cl.C (2 hits) > 623D (WH) > CD (ground) > 6B > 214-236B or D

6B > 214D >> 214D > cl.C (2 hits) > 2141236B (WH) > CD (air) > 236BC >> 236BC


Character Specific Combos
These combos can only be done on Pepe, Jimmy, Kang, Jones, Alice and Sonia. Anyone with 90 stun or more, these combos cannot be done on.

(Crouching Only) 6B > 214D >> 214D > cl.C (1 hit) > 236A >> 236A > 623D (WH) > CD (ground) > 6B > 623D (Stun) > 6B > 214D >> 214D > cl.C (2 hits) > 2141236D

(Crouching Only) 6B > 214D >> 214D > cl.C (1 hit) > 236A >> 236A > 623D (WH) > CD (ground) > 6B > 623D (Stun) > 6B >214D >> 214D > cl.C (2 hits) > 2141236B (WH) > CD (air) > 236BC >> 236BC

Strategies

confirm 6b = win

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