Introduction
Ken Masters is the blonde shoto.
TO-DO: Add frame data, as well as missing sprites
Gameplay
Ken is a shoto who can use his invincible uppercuts to punch your opponents. Ken's main strengths are uppercutting people but his weaknesses is being a pretty normal character.
Strengths | Weaknesses |
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Character Summary
- Fireball
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- Dragon Punch
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- Hurricane Kick
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- Command Roll
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- Shoryureppa
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- Shinryuken
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- Shippu Jinrai Kyaku
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- Type α - Anti-Air Type
- Assist:
Dragon Punch
- Counter:
Dragon Punch
- Combination: Shinryuken
- Type β - Projectile Type
- Assist:
Fireball
- Counter:
Fireball
- Combination: Shoryureppa
- Type γ - Expansion Type
- Assist:
Hurricane Kick
- Counter:
Hurricane Kick
- Combination: Shoryureppa
Moves List
Assists
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Alpha Counter | Team Hyper Combo |
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- | - | - | - | ![]() |
Shinryuken |
invincible |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Alpha Counter | Team Hyper Combo |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | ![]() |
Shoryureppa |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Alpha Counter | Team Hyper Combo |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | ![]() |
Shoryureppa |
Great to combo off of, but requires a little timing. |
Normal Moves
(keep only one of these, and update the inputs for their medium attacks as needed)
-When grounded, [charactername] has the Hunter type Magic Series, meaning they can follow the >
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>
>
>
cancel tree.
-When grounded, [charactername] has the Marvel type Magic Series, meaning they can follow the /
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/
>
>
cancel tree.
-When grounded, [charactername] has the 2-Hit type Magic Series, meaning they can follow the /
>
/
/
/
cancel tree.
Ground Normals
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Air Normals
(keep only one of these, and update the inputs for their medium attacks as needed)
-When in the Normal Jump state, [charactername] has the Hunter type Magic Series, meaning they can follow the >
>
>
>
>
cancel tree.
-When in the Normal Jump state, [charactername] has the Marvel type Magic Series, meaning they can follow the /
>
/
>
>
cancel tree.
-When in the Normal Jump state, [charactername] has the 2-Hit type Magic Series, meaning they can follow the /
>
/
/
/
cancel tree.
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Command Normals
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
- | None | - | - | - | |
Only available during magic series chains. This move is only used for the infinite, strict window to cancel it off of anything so use with discretion. |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
- | None | - | - | - | |
The slowest of his air fierces but with the most stun, you should definitely consider ending a corner infinite on sentinel with this so you can land and combo into shoryu reppa xx hail. it has nice horizontal range so it may be a good candidate to use against sentinel but then again so may j. HK. |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
- | None | - | - | - | |
2 hit overhead kick. His farthest reaching normal, the down side to that is that if you do it at max range you get only 1 hit instead of two leaving you with only 5 damage. All in all it’s a overhead and that in itself is useful enough. |
Universal Mechanics
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
Launcher (high) | - | - | - | - | |
Every character has at least one of the two, sometimes both. |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
Launcher (away) | - | - | - | - | |
Every character has at least one of the two, sometimes both. |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
- | - | - | - | - | |
Every character has at least one of the two, sometimes both. |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
- | - | - | - | - | |
Every character has at least one of the two, sometimes both. |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
- | - | - | - | - | |
Every character has at least one of the two, sometimes both. Unless you're Thanos. |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - | |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock | |
- | - | - | - | - | |
Every character has at least one of the two, sometimes both. Unless you're Thanos. |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Moves
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Hyper Combos
Damage | Startup | Active | Recovery | Guard |
---|---|---|---|---|
- | - | - | - | - |
Special Property | Cancel | Adv. Hit | Adv. Guard | Adv. Pushblock |
- | - | - | - | - |
Taunt
Colors
First row: ,
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,
,
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Combos
-Jump HK \/ d.c.LK > c.HP /\ qcb + HK
-Jump HP XX qcb + HK \/ d.s.LK > s.LK > s.HP XX qcb + KK
-Jump HP \/ d.s.LP > s.LK > c.HP XX qcf + KK
-Jump HP \/ d.s.LP > s.LK > s.HP XX qcf + HP XX qcb + KK
-Jump LP > LK > HP \/ d.s.LP > s.LK > s.LP > s.LK XX qcb + HK
-Jump LP > HP \/ d.c.LK > c.HP /\ sj.LP > sj.LK > sj.LP > sj.u + LK, f + HP
-Jump LP > HP \/ d.s.LP > s.LK > c.HP /\ sj.LP > sj.LK > sj.LP > sj.LK XX f,d,df + HP
-Jump HP \/ d.s.LP > s.LK > c.HP /\ sj.LP > sj.LK > sj.LP > sj.LK > sj.HP
-Jump HP \/ d.s.LP > s.LK > s.HP XX qcf + P XX qcf + PP
-Jump LP > LK > HP \/ d.s.LP > s.LK > s.LP > s.HP XX qcf + P XX qcf + PP \/ d.c.LK > c.HP /\ sj.LP > sj.LK > sj.LP > sj.LK XX f,d,df + HP
-Corner Jump LK > HK \/ d.c.LK > c.HK, qcf + KK \/ /\ Jump LP > LP > LK > HP > HK
-Corner Jump LP > LK > HP \/ d.s.LP > s.LK > s.LP > s.HP XX qcf + P XX qcf + PP \/ qcf + KK \/ /\ Jump LP > LP > LK > HP > HK
Infinites
On most characters if they are at normal jump height: (Jump j.LP > j.MP > qcb + j.LK) repeat. Video: off Rogue throw assist, off Rogue throw by VDO, off Akuma-Y by EXProminence, off Spiral-Y by Kelm (also uses the 3 u.MK infinite), off Rogue throw starting midscreen by VDO. You can use either hurricane kick strength.
On most characters if they are at normal jump height: (Jump j.LP > j.MP > j.u.MK) repeat. Video: off Psylocke-A by Kelm
On Sentinel at normal jump height: (j.LK > j.MP > j.MK > j.HK) repeat. Video: off Akuma-Y by Khaos
Strategies
The "Dodge Roll" can prove quite useful. This move can be used to roll behind your opponent and launch a surprise attack.
Advanced Strategy
There's more useful discussion of the practicalities and strengths of Ken in SRK's old The only ken thread you will EVER need.