Frame Data - Player

## Abbreviations

- **S**tart-Up 発生.
- **A**ctive 持続.
- **R**ecovery 硬直.
- **A1**, **A2**, **A3**,... different steps of **Active**.
- **Min:Max** interval from minimum to maximum.
- **Reg** Regular/Normal.

## Special Mechanics

The following three events occur in different but consecutive frames:

- A skill hits enemy.
- The skill damages enemy. (number pops out)
- The skill knockbacks enemy and interrupts enemy's attack.

The **Active** frames begin at the frame when *A skill hits enemy*.

There is still one frame which uses the sprite of controllable state, but the character in fact isn't controllable after **Recovery**. All **Recovery** frames below don't contain this frame.

The **Recovery** frames of *Knockback* are 20 for all combat units, including enemies.

## Frame Data - Arche

Skills with similar sprites or similar Japanese names are grouped into a same category.

### 斬り・後ろ斬り Slash • Snap Slash

```
S 	A1	A2  	R
6 	6 	12  	12	Reg
6 	6 	1:32	12	Air
12	6 	12  	12	Back
```

### 斬上・真空斬上 Arcing Slash • Twirling Slash

```
S	A1	A2	A3	A4	A5	R
8	4 	16	- 	- 	- 	8
8	5 	5 	5 	5 	5 	10
```

### 回転斬り・飛び回転斬り Wide Slash • Leaping Slash

```
S 	A1	A2	R
12	6 	12	12	Reg
10	5 	10	15	Leap
```

### 突き・後ろ突き・騎槍突き Thrust • Snap Thrust • Knight's Thrust

```
S	A 	R
8	12	6 	Front
8	14	5 	Back
8	16	12	Dash
```

### 二段斬上・二段回転斬り Combo Slash • Combo Wide Slash

```
S	A  	R
12	18	8	Up
18	20	8	Front
```

### 下突き Down Stab

```
S	A1 	A2	R
10	1:∞	20	8
```

### ジャンプキック Jump Kick

```
S1	S2	A   	R
8 	4 	12  	1:12	Pass
8 	1:4	0:12	1:24	Block
```

If it's blocked in **Start-up** step 2 there are no **Active** frames.

### 車輪斬り Wheel Slash

```
S 	A1	A2	A3	R
8	4  	4 	4 	9
```

### 円月斬 The Full Moon

```
S 	A1	A2	A3	A4	R
4	4  	4 	4 	8 	0
```

### 飛び込み前転・バック転 Roll • Cartwheel

```
R
24	Front
30	Back
```

## Frame Data - Sana & Stella

### 杖 Smack

```
S 	A 	R
16	18	12	Reg
14	12	12	Back
```

### ウォーターシュート Water Shoot

If Sana is interrupted, the projectile won't disappear, so Sana doesn't have **Active** frames. The **Projectile Start-up** begins when Sana's **Start-up** ends (so the first frame of **PS** is the first frame of **R**).

```
S 	R   	PS	PA
9 	51  	9	10	Up
16	52  	10	12	Short
16	60  	15	17	Long
12	1:17	12	13	Down
```

### 短剣 Stab

```
S 	A	R
11	16	4	Reg
17	12	8	Back
```

### ファイアーハンドリング Fire Handling

```
S 	A 	R
8	32	6	Up
12	28	4	Down
16	32	0	Front
```

### バックステップ Leap Back

```
R
13:47
```

When a Skill Changes into a Normal Attack

## Some Terminologies

- **Action** and **Free State**

The term **Action** here isn't its usual meaning. In fact, *A character is in an action* and *A character is in the free state* describe opposite states of a character.

To define whether a character is in an action or the free state, it can be assumed that a skill is input at a certain frame. If the animation of this skill starts at the next frame, the character is in the free state, otherwise the character is in an action.

- **Buffering**

*Jump Buffering* can be searched on some other websites. *Skill Buffering* has similar meaning, and only it will be discussed here.

Imagine that if someone wants to link two skills without breaks. Since skills can't be executed when the character is already in an action, the second skill needs to be input frame-perfectly right after the first skill ends. This is too difficult and isn't what developers want to see. To make it easier to link skills, a certain period is considered before the end of the first skill. If the second skill is input in this period, this skill will be executed right after the first skill ends. This second skill is called **Buffer Skill**, and the process is called **Skill Buffering**.

## Attack Skill Activation Mechanics in Free State

- Normal attacks can be activated when the pressed-released state of the Attack/Select key is switch-backed within *24 frames*.

which means not only press -> release can activate normal attack, but release -> press can also activate normal attack.

### Attack/Select Key (press -> release) with an Arrow Key

- The arrow key can be pressed earlier or later when the Attack/Select key is pressed. If the time between pressing two keys is short enough, the corresponding skill will be activated correctly.

### Attack/Select Key (release -> press) with an Arrow Key

If the time between pressing two keys is short enough, it depends on which key is pressed first.

- If the Attack/Select key is pressed first, the normal attack will be activated immediately, so the arrow key has no effect.
- If the Arrow key is pressed first, the inputs sometimes activate the corresponding skill, but sometimes activate the normal attack. This phenomenon seems to be random, and it isn't the game mechanics, it is the key functions, so the Select function also works.

## Attack Skill Buffering

- If the Attack/Select key is pressed within the last *24 frames* of an action, the skill inputs will be converted into a buffer skill.
- If the Attack/Select key is pressed again in this period, the buffer skill will be overwritten, which means only the skill decided by the last pressing of the Attack/Select key will be converted into the buffer skill.

However, when a buffer skill will be correctly activated depends on when the Attack/Select key of the buffer skill is pressed.

- For one-arrow-key skills, a buffer skill will be correctly activated only if the Attack/Select key is pressed within the last *12 frames* of the action.
- For two-arrow-key skills, the above *12 frames* changes to *18 frames*.
- Except for these situations, all buffer skills will be changed into normal attacks.

Nazwa	Autor
Frame Data - Player	FuibaFuyu 7 months ago
When a Skill Changes into a Normal Attack	FuibaFuyu 10 months ago