Soulcalibur VI/Sophitia/Introduction

Introduction

Sophitia is a simple and fundamentals based character, with a focus on whiff and block punishment. She has wide range of LH moves for lots of situations that let her punish opponents who over reach in their game play very easily and one of the strongest i14 punishes in the game with 236B. She has fast movement which helps to position her to whiff punish and avoid problematic situations very easily. Her strong aGI options and plethora of moves that Tech Crouch allow you to steal turns when pushing your offense or interrupting your opponents. She has only two stances, but both require some good execution to be able to utilize them and they are crucial to her basic combos and punishment game plan, making her a execution heavy character. Her offense is very simple having no string or stance mixups that are real, which leads to very low damage offense on hit until you get back into whiff and block punishes or okizeme. In short, Sophie is a hard to play character that has a lot of good tools for every situation. Her gameplan is simple, yet hard to execute, and requires you to really understand the fighting games and SoulCalibur fundamentally to excel.

Strengths	Weaknesses
Good move list with variety of LH's for almost all situations Fast movement ideal for getting whiff punishes and avoiding offensive pressure Strong aGi moves and lots of TC built into her move set helps disrupt opponents offense Very good whiff and block punishment	High execution required for most combos and situations Simple offensive pressure limits offensive capability Big understanding and memorization of the games frame data for optimal punishment Requires good understanding of your own and opponents move list to play effectively