Introduction
A globally popular dance music superstar, Dee Jay is always ready to have a good time. With a burning love for music and fighting, this Jamaican sensation drives audiences wild with hot new songs and stylish moves.
Dee Jay's playstyle relies on mind games and long normals, centering around baiting opponents into acting early or reacting wrongly to something before covering ground and punishing them for it. Once he establishes his pace, Dee Jay shines at making opponents second-guess themselves so that he can go for mixups of some kind or another.
To this end, Dee Jay has a lot of very fast movement options; his forward dash and particularly his Drive Rush are incredibly quick, which pairs well with his longer normals and command normals (namely, 5MK, 2MK, 5HP, and 6MK) in addition to his throws to get him in and on top of his opponents if they're not prepared to stop a dash or a Drive Rush. His Drive Impact also has incredible reach due to its animation, and getting a Punish Counter with it is one of many ways to set up for a combo ending with Machine Gun Punch to cash out for damage.
Jus Cool is another tool that helps sell his trickiness, as it's a special move that lets Dee Jay sway back to avoid getting hit before advancing with one of five followups, each with their own particular uses, and Overdrive Jus Cool adds on to Dee Jay's excellent Drive Meter usage by both swaying and launching the opponent with a hit. Dee Jay's special move selection is rounded out by Air Slasher, a charge fireball with some anti-fireball applications when the HP and Overdrive versions are used, Jackknife Maximum for anti-airing, and Rolling Sobat to cover ground and either stagger or knock the opponent down. The most notable trait of these three moves, which winds up tying back into his trickiness, is that their light versions are all feints, which allows Dee Jay to deliberately bait people into thinking he's going to use one of them only to recover faster than expected and pop them for overextending.
That said, Dee Jay mainly has to work around one major tradeoff on his longer normals, which is their lack of cancel windows. While he makes great use of Drive Meter, some of his opportunities to use it are limited if he hits opponents with his buttons tailor-made for poking, since he can't cancel them into Drive Rush or special moves. Armored moves, especially or particularly Drive Impacts, will break right through these longer buttons if he doesn't use them carefully. Additionally, because his primary reversal is Overdrive Jackknife Maximum and he uses a lot of Drive for conversions, Dee Jay generally has a hard time in Burnout. This is especially true if he doesn't have enough meter for a Lv. 3 Super Art, since his Level 1 Super Art crushes lows for part of its animation but doesn't have invulnerability otherwise, and his Level 2 Super Art doesn't have consistent enough invulnerability to carry him through many moves. If you enjoy cool beats and slick dance moves, though, do the dancehall ting with Dee Jay.
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