Soulcalibur VI/Amy

Overview Move list Combos Matchups Strategy Resources

Introduction

Amy is a character with fast pokes, solid stance mixup options and excellent potential to steamroll the opponent with her pressure. Featuring a unique system where she must hit rose projectiles to unlock or upgrade moves, she naturally grows stronger over the course of a match.

Strengths	Weaknesses
Very fast attacks (i10 punish, i12 CE with WRP) Fast, unseeable lows Huge snowball potential Solid Lethal Hit variety	Weak offensive options and damage without roses Short-range Few approach options

Unique Mechanic

Rose Perception

Some of Amy's moves involve her throwing roses, either red or white. Each rose that hits builds a point, and once she reaches four points of a color, she receives permanent upgrades based on that color of rose.

Red Rose Perception (RRP) improves her offensive capabilities by granting her new combo tools, improved strings, and a buff to her command dash stance. RRP is widely considered easier to obtain and stronger than White Rose Perception (WRP). You will often see Amy's go only for RRP and ignoring WRP altogether.

White Rose Perception (WRP) increases the effectiveness of her parries by increasing the speed and length of the active parry window as well as providing additional one-time LHs on select parry stance attacks. A few new attacks and strings are unlocked. WRP also increases the damage of her i12 Critical Edge.

Once both RRP and WRP are filled, she enters Purple Rose Perception (PRP), Amy obtains the powers of both upgrades. PRP has the added benefit of turning her aGI stances into Resist Impacts and further empowers her Critical Edge, causing it to refund some meter on hit while dealing more damage than empowered RRP CE and retaining the speed of her i12 CE.

See Strategy for a full strategy breakdown.

Amy #SCVI_AMY
Amy had always accepted as truth the idea that despair comes from having hope, but if the time ever came in which she needed to embark in search of a light within the darkness, she now had her own symbol of hope: Albion, the sword from her father and mentor.

Key Moves

A

Laurier Cutter
AA

AA - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
12	8,8	-10	0	0	3%
Normal Hit Combo
AAA - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
12	8,8,16	-12	2	2	5%
Counter Hit Combo. Tech Crouch[16-24]
RRP AAA - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
12	8,8,4,4,16	-6	6	6	7%
Counter Hit Combo. Tech Crouch[16-24]

Air Blade
3A

3A - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
14	16	-8	4	10	1%
Tech Crouch[8-43]

Graceful Cutter
4A

4A - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
16	16	-20	0	0	1%
Tech Crouch[8-40]
RRP 4AA - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
16	16,8	-16	-4	-4	3%
Normal Hit Combo. Tech Crouch[0-42]

Falcon's Stride
66A

SC AS + (A)+(G) - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
18	59	KND	KND	KND	-
WR +1
Advancing tech crouching mid horizontal that is great for catching the opponent's movement at a distance
SC AS + 4(A)+(G) - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
18	59	KND	KND	KND	-
WR +1
66A has the option to go into each of her parries, allowing for a reverse mixup if the opponent blocks and attempts an i12 block punish.

B

Triple Botta in Tempo
6BB

6BB - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
10	8,6	-10	-4	-4	4%
Normal Hit Combo
6BB6 - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
10	8,6	2	8	8	4%
Normal Hit Combo. AS
On hit, Amy can choose to enter AMS for and attempt a mixup.
6BBB - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
10	8,6,16	-14	0	0	9%
Counter Hit Combo. Tech Crouch[11-21]
The third hit of the string combos on counterhit and can be confirmed

Decussate Strike
3bA

3bA - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
20	22,20	-8	KND	KND	10%
Normal Hit Combo. Tech Crouch[27-52]
One of the few strings from 3B in the game. Each hit allows Amy to combo into a red rose. The string allows for ambiguous offense and is a core component of her strong linear mix options.

Silent Impale
1B

1B - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
18	18	-18	KND	KND	2%
Tech Crouch[17-RC] after hitting opponent with a lethal hit 4 or more times
Unseeable knockdown low with very short range. Her best tool for opening up passive opponents. Grants a guaranteed red rose on hit.

Frigid signet
WR BB

WR BB - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
14	22	-12	2	2	4%
RR +1
Amy's easiest way to obtain roses from crouching under highs or punishing standing lows. Mainly used as a punish.

Advance Splitter Crescendo
66B

(1)_(4)_(7)AB2B+K - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
28	31	-12	2	LNC	10%
[4-14]. LP
Amy's main counterhit tool to launch the opponent and obtain a rose. Very high reward on CH if Amy has RRP. String follow ups allows for stagger pressure from single 66B usage.
(3)_(6)_(9)BA - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
16	20,17	-8	KND	KND	4%
Normal Hit Combo
Use 66BB to obtain a red rose from a punish
(3)_(6)_(9)B - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
16	20	-8	4	LNC	2%
Very damaging string and combo start that can be used to punish or as a strong lvl 2 post GI option. The second hit can be ducked if the opponent blocks the first hit.

Soaring Flutter
22B

(3)_(6)_(9)B2B+K - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
16	16	-12	2	2	2%
[4-14]. LP
Potentially the best pound for pound whiff punish in the game. Safe launcher with long range and TC properties. Can combo into either rose on hit and has RO utility to several directions. Reward jumps drastically when Amy obtains either WRP or RRP.

Multi

Nocturne Strategeme
FC A+B

FC A+B - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
18	14,6	-8	KND	KND	3%
RR +1. Can be held.
Amy's most reliable method for obtaining a rose from a horizontal starter. Grants a rose upon a confirmable counterhit. Grants a rose if used upon a downed opponent. Safe on block.

Amaryllis Spin

Amaryllis Spin
236

(2)_(8)B+KGK - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
22	20	-12	4	KND	1%
Tech Jump[9-17]
Amy's advancing, tech crouching stance. Is frequently used to chase down opponents with tech crouching option or in oki setups.

Fridgid Moon
AMS KK

AS KB - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
18	10,4	-18	-8	-8	4%
Tech Jump[2-37]. WR +1
Safe string which cannot be reGId and provides a knockdown. High reward against grounded opponents.

Fridgid Moon
AMS A+G

AS A+G - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
18	50	-	-	-	-
AS 4A+G - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
18	50	-	-	-	-
4
Amy's main mixup tool out of AMS which is an RE safe command throw, which leaves Amy +10 after a successful throw. AMS A+G has both a front and back throw option, although both throws are same in every other regard. In SC, successful throw grants either red or white rose, Amy's choice.

Lilith Parry

Lilith Parry
B+K

AS 8B+K - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
-	-	-	-	-	-
[4-14]. HP
Colloquially known as "mid parry." An aGI stance transition which works against all mid attacks, as well as special lows and special mids. Once in each of her parry stances, Amy can also enter into another a different parry stance and obtain active parry frames. Followup attacks out of stance cannot be reGId if the opponent gets parried. Mid parry serves as a fantastic compliment to Amy's strong and fast tech crouching moves like 3A. When Amy obtains WRP, the parry window is active [2-22].

Arctic Dance
MP AK

MP A(A) - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
16	14,16	2	18	30	3%
Normal Hit Combo. [4-14]. into HP
Arguably Amy's strongest move out of stance. High damage horizontal mid attack that combos into red rose. Second hit can be GId if the opponent blocks the first attack.

Merrow Parry

Merrow Parry
2B+K

MP 8B+K - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
-	-	-	-	-	-
[4-14]. into HP
Colloquially known as "low parry." An aGI stance transition which works against all low attacks, as well as special lows. Once in each of her parry stances, Amy can also enter into another a different parry stance and obtain active parry frames. Followup attacks out of stance cannot be reGId if the opponent gets parried, and even fast followup attacks from other parry stances may be guaranteed after parrying from one parry and transitioning to another. When Amy obtains WRP, the parry window is active [2-22].

Biondetta Parry

Biondetta Parry
8B+K

LP 8B+K - Attack Level:
Impact	Damage	Block	Hit	Counter	Guard Burst
-	-	-	-	-	-
[4-14]. HP
Colloquially known as "high parry." An aGI stance transition which works against all high attacks, as well as special highs. Once in each of her parry stances, Amy can also enter into another a different parry stance and obtain active parry frames. Followup attacks out of stance cannot be reGId if the opponent gets parried, and even fast followup attacks from other parry stances may be guaranteed after parrying from one parry and transitioning to another. When Amy obtains WRP, the parry window is active [2-22].