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The closer you are the more damage it does. If you are far away it does even less damage.

If it gets blocked you are going to get launched.

It's linear.

It has a relatively short range.

According to that video it's 17 frames.

In regards to it being linear and having such a massive recovery, if you sidestep a body check you could do a hell of a lot of damage to your opponent. You may even have enough time to net a back crumple.

It is an very powerful tool for Akira and I expect to see it be the cause of many a surprise comeback but at the same time I expect to see a lot of good players bait it out and smack folk for trying to use it.

If we get FS in the west and it has online play expect to see a hell of a lot of scrubby players go Akira and make bodycheck their sole win condition.

EDIT: This just got me thinking.

Aoi's reversals should scale in damage according to which move she beat. Reversal bodycheck would be pretty funny to see and it would give her reversals a little more use.

 

They already do.

 

That would be awesome! Hell, why over half life? Bodycheck should take out a WHOLE ENTIRE LIFE BAR. I mean, it happened in VF2, right? Right? Let's take it back to those days.

On second thought, fuck a whole life bar, how about this:
Akira's body check hits you on CH and you lose THE WHOLE MATCH. Not 1 round, not 2 rounds, ALL 3 ROUNDS. Akira's the weenerrr! Yaaaaayyyy, Akira! Akira! Akira!

Fuck it, you win at the character select screen, whoever picks Akira first is the weennerrrr! Yaaaaaay! Akira! Akira! Akira!

J/k, fuck all that nonsense above, that's not enough! You win before the system gets turned on just by saying his name!
AKIRA!!!
^Pronounced like the old Sega commercials when they would say "SEGA!" All you have to do is say AKIRA!!! Real fast and loud and when you turn on the system there's a win on your record and an loss on your opponent who didn't say AKIRA!!! fast or loud enough.
...
AKIRA!!!

 

Akira doesn't have a full circular.

 

Really? I've never noticed it before. Maybe the scaling is quite small.

Is it like that in Vanilla VF5?

 

I don't have my VF terms down yet.What does that mean?

 

An attack which can hit an opponent who is evading.

He has half circular attacks but to hit an evading opponent you need to guess which direction they will evade in.

You can also delay attacks to catch an evading opponent but you risk losing your advantage i f they choose not to evade and you delay your attack for nothing.

 

Is that the same as a full spin move?

 

Yeah, but instead of saying spin we say circular.

 

It should just stop time like Dio's "Za Warudo" (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure).


Has anyone seen a vid of the boodycheck done in a combo (or even better as a wall combo ender)???

 

seriously people Akira is known for this kind of damage and greater... get used to it already.

Check the first combo in the vid which takes 1/2 a bar of life and trust me in VF2 on a back turned hit / counter hit like this you can tack on another 30% or so for massive damage. Tetsuzanko has always been the come back move from hell. It's nothing new... just a return to what was.


Sorry couldn't find a better vid so watch carefully... you might have to rewind a few times, but it's clearly half life.
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Really ? They do in Tekken with the williams sisters' reversals. Never noticed for Aoi.

 

Nope, not been anything like that in any of the vids so far.

Said it before myself but have to quote this, maybe people will listen

 

Bodycheck has powerful damage against side and back turned.
Imagine how painful if you are hit by a iron mountain.
Use 66 as a dash move can make close to the opponents.

 

Showing old videos from VF2 to justify the damage of a single move in VF5 imo is pretty stupid especially considering how bodycheck wasn't the only move that had the potential to take out half life (Jacky back flip Kick also did similar dmg back then so did other moves). Especially you Konjou..didn't you used to complain about the damage Jeffery can do? lol this is definitely bias opinions on the whole Bodycheck damage topic

 

I have to say, just seeing that bodycheck damage got me all happy inside! Look at the excitement its generating in the forums even! Shiiiet bring back Bodycheck fuckery SEGA!

I think a few other characters should have some pretty WTF damage moves too. GS going back to old damage would be fierce. Jackys flipkick did used to be crazy too, but it was entertaining!

I don't see the bodycheck as being abuse able despite.

 

I wasn't saying it's ok for Akira to have this sort of damage and others shouldn't..... I was just pointing out to people that this type of damage is not new to VF and also trying to give people verification that Akira is already known for doing this with this one particular move.

I guess I should have added that eventually we will learn to deal with it just like we learned to deal with Jeffry's knee which can take 80-100 points very easily in Vanilla and imo is actually worse than tetsuzanko because the reward for blocking it wasn't really that great.

Again I only posted the vid because we were specifically talking about Akira doing OMG damage. But you are right many other characters could also do OMG damage as well.


Also wanted to add that if you read all of my previous post to body check damage you could clearly see I was being an over exaggerated ass because everyone else was complaining. Also remember we already talked on the phone about this I believe the first time it was seen and even I agreed no move should have that kind of damage. If it wasn't you then it was Akmaal I was talking to about it. Probably was Akmaal, I can't remember at the moment.

 

Like i said My counter claim to this arguement was to give jacky his 80 percent on the backflip back.

 

It's a 17 frame move (the frame counter doesn't compensate for inputs, so it will be in practice 18 frame minimum unless your buffering skills are beyond awesome) and minus whatever you want on block. I don't see a major problem, if more Akiras want to spam this I say: GOOD!.

 

I'm not really complaining on the move itself I just wanted to post on what I believed to be bias thoughts as well as what I felt about posting up VF2 vids. @ Konjou yeah I figured you was only posting because everyone was complaining just wanted to be extra sure.. soon you will see me complain and whine towards you if you start constantly hitting me with that move lol... If the game ever comes out that is