3: Slash (the wall as soon as you touch it)
Difficulty: **
Notes: This isn't a particularly hard move to do, but it's effective for
getting you airborn fast. The hardest part of this move is gauging your
distance to the wall and timing the slash, and that's about it.
In reality, propel is a canceling move that happens fast enough that it
appears to be one move. What propel really is, is a wallrun that gets almost
instantly cancelled with a jump slash.
Practice: Any wall will do fine, but Town is usually the best.
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VIB. Attacks
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VIB1. Void Step
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A dashing block-slash. The main purpose to use this is if you're new to
k-Style, and need to learn how the mechanics of butterfly works.
Steps:
1: Dash
2: Slash
3: Block (at the end of the slash)
Difficulty: *
Notes: This is basically a canceling-dash. By repeatedly using this move, you
do a quick burst forward followed by a block-slash. The timing in this move
needs to be a bit slower than normal canceling, since the blocking animation
will override the slash very quickly. Despite being a stepping stone for
another move, it actually has its uses. Depending on your skills, this can used
in melee combat, and to counter Butterfly if they happen to come straight at
you.
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VIB2. Light Step
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This is an advanced jump-slash, or perhaps an easier Flashstep.
Steps:
1: Jump
2: Dash
3: Slash
4: Dash
Difficulty: **
Notes: A simple move to do, but it has its uses. First of all, this move is
very similar to Flashstep, in that it allows you to dash twice in succession
but also attacking in between. It is best used by dashing one direction, but
using the second dash another direction.
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VIB3. Slashshot
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The single most recognized move of k-Style. It's designed to slash a person
with a sword while almost simultaneously blasting them with your weapon of
choice. At long range, it's used to confuse movement.
Steps:
1: Jump
2: Dash
3: Slash (and hold)
4: Switch (to gun)
5: Gun fires
Difficulty: ***
Notes: While this is technically a melee-to-close-range move for offensive
attacks, it's not uncommon to have people who do it at mid-range and
long-range as evasive maneuvers. Generally, the best weapons to use for
slashshot are shotguns and rocketlaunchers, since they have a large damage
radius, but occasionally you'll see people do it with revolvers, pistols,
or automatics. People who use automatics will usually use them to chip life
away, as opposed to powerful single shots. Revolvers and pistols are
popular with some people, but accuracy is a must.
Once you've mastered doing this forwards, it is imperative that you learn how
to do it sideways, and then learn how to jump to one side then slashshot the
other way. It's far more common and also more effective if it's used sideways
rather than forwards. There are many ways to use this move besides just
sideways: you can do it off walls and use it to climb up them.
It's not uncommon to break this move up as well. An application to learn is how
to jump in and slash with your sword, but then to dash backwards and shoot
before people can react.
Once you've learned how this works, you can pretty much understand how
other techniques work from here on.
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VIB4. Butterfly
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Another well-known move of k-style, it practically dominates melee combat and
is one of the few melee-only k-style moves that don't involve switching
weapons to cancel. In gladiator matches, you're guaranteed to see players
butterflying around each other like a dance, trying to chip off their
opponent's HP.
Steps:
1: Jump
2: Dash
3: Slash
4: Block
Difficulty: ***
Notes: Butterfly is technically an easy move to do, it's just very difficult
to master. You're doing a light step that gets canceled with a block
Practice: The best way to know you're butterflying right is to do it against
a wall and watch your slashes appear. Any large wall will do.
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VIB5. JSD
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An alternative to Slashshot, but involves no actual canceling. It's a bit
slower because of that fact, but because it's also useable by dagger, it
has its redeeming qualities.
Steps:
1: Jump
2: Switch (to gun)
3: Shoot
4: Switch (to melee)
5: Dash
6: Gun fires
Difficulty: ***
Notes: I find this move actually harder to perform and utilize than slashshot.
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VIB6. Half Step
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A Half Step is an evolved form of Slashshot, using an extra streakless dash
after the shot as an evasive maneuver.
Steps:
1: Jump
2: Dash
3: Slash
4: Switch (to gun)
5: Dash
Difficulty: ***
Notes: The difficulty with this move besides performing it, is trying to make
sure your shots land where you want them to. The shot will fire as soon as you
land, right before the second dash comes out, but depending on how you perform
this technique, it may fire during the second dash. I feel this is one of the
moves that it's okay to use scrollwheel on.
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VIB7. Half-Half Step
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As if Half Step wasn't good enough, there's Half-Half Step. This move not only
uses a streakless dash, but a jump right before, causing a sort of bouncing
movement.
Steps:
1: Jump
2: Dash
3: Slash
4: Switch (to gun)
5: Jump
6: Dash
Difficulty: ****
Notes: The most difficult part about this move is getting the extra jump into
it.
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VIB8. Flashstep
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This happens to be my favorite attack. This doubles as an attack and also a
movement technique, so it's incredibly useful. Because it slashes, you can use
it for an alternative aerial melee attack (like butterfly), because of the dash
you can use it as an alternative to dashing altogether, and you can also scale
walls with it faster than normal wall climbing.
Steps:
1: Jump
2: Dash
3: Slash
4: Switch (to gun)
5: Switch (to melee)
OR...
6: Dash
Difficulty: ***
Notes: If you happen to do this very quickly, to others (and in replays) it
will appear that you will be sliding along the ground.
Practice: Go find an open space and drill yourself in dashing different ways.
I suggest left/right, forwards/backwards, and then clockwise/counterclockwise.
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VIB9. Swapshot
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Using a non-automatic weapon, this technique produces faster fire in slower
weapons. Revolvers, rockets, and especially shotguns benefit well from this.
It's easy to do, and that makes it efficient for dishing out damage faster.
Steps:
1: Pull out weapon 1
2: Hold left-click (gun fires)
3: Switch to weapon 2 (gun fires)
4: Switch to weapon 1 (gun fires), etc.
Difficulty: **
Notes: This move is actually different depending on what weapon you're using
at the time. Shotguns are easy to swapshot, since their switching time leaves
enough delay that you don't have to worry timing it - hold left click and swap
like hell!
+--------------+ Nothing's scarier than the sound of a 10 shot rocket salvo.
|ROCKETLAUNCHER| Rockets are very easy to swapshot, but they do require a
+--------------+ slower switch. Once the first rocket fires, switch to the
second. If you do it too fast, you might end up canceling the shot.
One of the unique things about rockets is that you can spam a 1-2 combo of
rockets if you time it just right. While holding the first rocketlauncher
left-click and hold. As soon as the rocket fires, press weapon 2. If you time
it just right, you'll fire two rockets faster than you normally could if you
just swapshotted them. This only works for the first two rockets, and
continuing to swapshot will only send them at their normal rate of fire.
+--------+ Again, revolvers are different than shotguns when swapshotting.
|REVOLVER| Switching between weapons too quickly will cancel the shots very
+--------+ easily, so you have to take your time while doing it. You can
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