Thrill Kill/Violet

Violet Overview Strategy Combo Strings

Violet is considered to be the worst character in Thrill Kill. Her movement is bad, her best buttons don't lead to much damage, and while she has the potential to deal significant damage with combos involving Dislocating Stun, Cherry Picker, and Super Flex Float juggles, players who know how to play against Violet will simply counter out or punish you for going for it.

You are going to have to rely on single hit, low damage buttons such as Front Kick to mid crouching players as well as your crouching strings to mind-game your opponent and win through lots of staggers and 50/50s. The only thing making Violet usable is the incredibly fast mixup of , as well as Flex Float being a great move to attack players attempting to dash in against you, but unless you're willing to take great risk most of your options won't lead to much damage.

At a glance:
Pros	Cons
High Damage Potential: Violet has the potential do to massive damage thanks stringing together moves like Dislocating Stun, Cherry Picker, and Super Foot Waltz if you're willing to gamble on not being countered by your opponent.	Bad Movement: Violet is very slow, with terrible dash distance and below average walk speed. Bad Normals: A lot of Violet's buttons don't give you much advantage to continue pressuring opponents with and often get beaten or crushed by your opponent's attacks. No Punish Damage: None of Violets useful buttons to punish opponents lead to much damage.

Violet

Hitbox Diameter	4.4^u⌀ (Small)
Movement Speed	4.9^u/s (4^th worst)
Dash Distance	9.9^u (5^th best)

Move List

Front Punch

Slap

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	5^f	3^f	8^f	-4 / +4	2	2.8^u	-	-
Punish starter and stagger poke against standing opponents.

Straight Elbow

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	6^f	2^f	9^f	-3 / +3	3	3.1^u	-	-
Not useful in neutral as her Front Kick and Hyper Heel are better buttons. Cancels: - Super Flex Float

Wind Punch

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	9^f	3^f	14^f	-9 / +2	4	32.9^u	-	-
Short range, slow, useless in combos and followup (Footwaltz) is counter bait. Not useful in any situation. Cancels: - Limp Limb / - Super Foot Waltz

Limp Limb

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	9^f	1^f	16^f	-10 / -2	5	3.7^u		Switch
Not useful as a move by itself.

Straight Jab From Crouch

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	5^f	2^f	8^f	-3 / +4	2	2.2^u	-	-
One of the buttons you will be using a lot against most characters to interrupt string gaps. Not as useful against Mammoth and to a lesser extent Oddball and Imp since they have commonly used moves that crush this button.

Back Punch

Back Hand Slap

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	7^f	1^f	13^f	-7 / +2	3	2.6^u	-	Switch
Punish starter. Not useful by itself. Cancels: - Straight Elbow

Corkscrew

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	8^f	2^f	26^f	-20 / -8	3	3.8^u	-	-
The combo you can follow up with this move whiffs at the range it would be useful so it is not recommended to use this move at all.

Flex Float

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	6^f	3^f	17^f	-13 / +23	4	3.9^u		-
Launcher with good range. Good move against whiffed strings and habitual crouchers.

Super Flex Float

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	12^f	2^f	14^f	-9 / +32	5	7.9^u		Switch
Launcher used mostly in combos. Has really good range and can sometimes be useful to catch the opponent by surprise.

Uppercut From Crouch

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	7^f	3^f	17^f	-13 / +23	3	4.0^u		-
One of your best get-off-me moves, but has an issue with random launch knockback speed making it random if you're able to follow up with a combo or not.

Pretzel Stance

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	Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
Stance	-	26^f	-	-	-	-	-	-	Pretzel
Flip Kick		8^f	9^f	16^f	-17 / +22	15	5.4^u		-
Grab		0^f	-	78^f	- / +2	24	1.4^u		-
Hold a direction+block to leave the stance. You can also cancel into any neutral button if you press it right before the stance animation completes.

Running Hip Rush

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Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	10^f	13^f	18^f	/ +18	9	10.3^u		-
Although it hits mid, the hitbox is all in Violet's elbow which is lifted quite high. This causes the move to have significantly less range against a crouching player.

Front Kick

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	7^f	1^f	11^f	-5 / +2	3	5.5^u	-	Switch
Best and longest range poke. Only active for 1 frame so don't overuse this button by itself. Cancels: - Thrust Float - Split Kick - Crouch Kick

Fierce Knee

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	7^f	1^f	18^f	-12 / +27	5	2.6^u		Switch
Mostly used in combos and not by itself. Can cancel back and forth infinitely into Dislocating stun. Cancels: - Dislocating Stun - Flex Fury

Thrust Float

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	11^f	2^f	16^f	-11 / +27	4	3.7^u		Switch
Launcher used in combos. Not useful by itself.

Chiropractor

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	24^f	8^f	17^f	-18 / +24	15	17.0^u		-
Troll roll. Gimmick move that is unsafe on block and highly choreographed. Can cancel the end of the move into Cherry Picker. Cancels: - Cherry Picker

Split Kick

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	8^f	1^f	17^f	-11 / +17	2	3.3^u		-
Low launcher, low damage. Decent move if you need a 10% combo (Split kick > Flex Fury) to take the round. Cancels: - Flex Fury

Crouch Kick

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	6^f	1^f	14^f	-8 / +2	2	2.3^u	-	-
Low combo starter. Terrible range and recovery making it useless as a low poke by itself. Cancels: - Split Kick

Back Kick

Hyper Heel

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	6^f	2^f	13^f	-8 / 0	3	4.7^u	-	-
Good poke and stagger button to get crouchers to stand up. Cancels: - Dislocating Stun - Flex Fury

Foot Loose

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	13^f	1^f	17^f	-11 / 0	4	4.7^u	-	-
Very slow mid that leads to another bad button (Corkscrew) or a move that is easily punished on hit, block, and whiff (Flex Fury). Don't use. Cancels: - Corkscrew - Flex Fury

Dislocating Stun

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	10^f	2^f	14^f	/ +46 (+4)	5	4.8^u		Switch
Used in high damage combos. Can cancel back and forth infinitely into Fierce Knee. Cancels: - Super Flex Float - Fierce Knee - Cherry Picker

Cherry Picker

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	14^f	1^f	16^f	-10 / -2	13	4.3^u		-
Violet's best damage ender; deals 26 damage when linked into from a Dislocating Stun. Rarely used on its own.

Flex Fury

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	8^f	8^f	41^f	-42 / -17	2/hit	3.4^u		-
Kill combo ender. Only use as a combo ender if it's going to kill. VERY unsafe on whiff, block, and hit.

Tweaked Crouch Sweep

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	9^f	4^f	15^f	-12 / -5	3	2.7^u	-	-
Good in combos, but avoid poking with its terrible frame data at all costs. Cancels: - Split Kick - Dislocating Stun

Super Foot Waltz

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Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	6^f	15^f	14^f	-8 / -3	2 x 4 hits	5.9^u	-	-
Combo ender. Move by itself or in the middle of combos is counter bait against anybody who knows how to play against Violet.

Running Ball Roll

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Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	12^f	8^f	35^f	-36 / -22	7	18.9^u		-
A very useful long ranged low attack. It bounces back a fair bit after the roll, but its long recovery leads to a neutral reset at best and your opponent punishing it on hit at worst.

Grabs / Misc Moves

Violet's whiffed grab animation is 18^f long.

Private Pounder

Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
	0^f	-	151^f	- / -23	14	0.9^u		Switch
A very bad grab. Low damage, and Violet back flips so slowly away that anybody's wake-up attack will land free-of-charge. Avoid at all costs.

Violet Hold

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	Hit	Startup	Active	Recovery	Adv. (Block / Hit)	Damage	Range	Property	Stance
Grab		0^f	-	-	-	-	0.9^u	-	Violet Hold
/ Switch Sides	-	-	-	31^f	-	-	-	-	Violet Hold
/ Release	-	-	-	21^f	- / 0	-	-	-	-
Front Grab	-	-	-	108^f	- / -27	17	-		-
Rear Grab	-	-	-	101^f	- / +8	10	-		Grounded
Every single one of Violet's grabs are bad.