Asura Buster: Eternal Warriors/Goat

Goat is a rough swordsman wielding a large black zweihander blade, as well as a spiked mace on a chain he can swing from his other arm. As Goat's nightmares about his family's death continues to increase and get worse, he fears and realizes that the growing stress and pressure of the nightmares themselves will drive him into a state of pure insanity. Goat resolves to eliminate this problem once and for all and sets his own sight on the mystery of the lost continent.

Goat is a tanky character with some big swings. One of his special features is that all of his heavy normals knockdown his opponent.

Overview Goat strives in the midrange and thrives off of trades and impatience.
Pros	Cons
High damage Easy access to knockdowns Long pokes Extremely strong in Last Stand thanks to armored Boost Mode Good lows for beating air blocking	No projectile Hard time confirming hits Slow recovery on many moves Detrimentally slow speed Defensive options are easily baited or even punished on reaction

Play Style	Big buttons
Dash Type	Run
Backdash Type	Airborne
Defense Modifier	1.0
Air Options	None

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Normals

Standing normals

5A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	7	-	-	M	normals	2	1
fast jab can be used as a pseudo-anti air Slow-ish framedata makes Goat rely on this as an abare or late anti-air

5B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	8	-	-	M	normals	-10	-11
Quick sword swipe with excellent range but an annoying amount of pushback. can be combo'd into launcher, 236EX and 623EX only it's after a dash the equivalent of a C normal on other characters

5C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	20	-	-	H	O	Knocks down	-26
slow but damaging attack Being slow and sluggish makes this normal look situational, but it has some interesting properties. it hits way higher than expected, so if you get used to the startup it can serve as a neat commital anti-air/reversal because of the hard knock down on hit Overall, if oppnenents are getting predictable with their unsafe approaches this is a very good move to use

Crouching normals

2A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6	-	-	L	normals	3	1
fast low jab

2B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	10	-	-	L	normals	-13	-14
fast low poke

2C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	14	-	-	L	O	Knocks down	-17
fast sweep pretty commital compared to other sweeps but has decent range

Jumping normals

j.A

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	4	-	-	H	special	O	O
fast combo starter the safest attack to throw out in air-to-air situations

j.B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	8	-	-	H	special	O	O
slash with unique downward angle, this practically will never whiff on anyone grounded can be used for crossup mixups hard to incorporate into combos due to the low horizontal range

j.C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	15	-	-	H	O	Knocks down	O
one of goat's greatest normals very fast, great range and angle, causes a sliding knockdown on hit and deals a lot of damage easily spammable due to short recovery deceptively very active

Command normals

6B

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	16	-	-	L	special	13	0
low kick resets combo scaling it's unknown if this property is intentional or an accident, but it means you can sneak in a 6b > 623C to the end of a combo for absurd damage in the corner, it also comboes into his 623EX or 214EX giving you a launcher

6C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	26	-	-	H	special	3	-12
overhead punch is the only way to combo into his supers or some of his specials

Universal mechanics

Launcher
any 2 buttons

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	7	-	-	M	O	Launches	inconsistent
on hit, Causes a big wall bounce and puts the opponent on indefinite hitstun until they hit the ground or use meter to tech it can be combo'd universally with A>B>C or A>B>Launcher combos. most characters can add an air special or delay the launcher and do a ground special if you hit an opponent with 3 launchers in the same combo they become completely invincible until waking up from the knockdown state a lot of EX moves (Rose's 214EX), few meterless specials (Taros j.236x) and very rarely normals (Rokurouta's 6C) have last hits with the properties of a launcher. these hits count towards the 3 launcher cap.

Air launcher
any 2 buttons

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	7	-	-	M	O	Launches	inconsistent
No difference from the ground version, but some characters have air launchers with slightly less recovery frames

Guard break
22C

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	6	-	-	don't	O	Stun	O
This replaces grab, a quick attack that stuns blocking opponents. common followups are combos, launchers, knockdowns and some supers countered by not blocking, jumping or attacking back

Special moves

Buster Hammer - バスター・ハンマー
236A/B/C

A version

B version

C version

EX version

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	14 / 14 / 14	-	-	M	O	-1 / -1 / Knocks down	-13 / -13 / -13
Goat swings a morning star flail, with good range. angle depends on button EX version swings at standing height for up to 6 hits. Can combo into another move if done from right up close.

Phantom Crash - ファントムクラッシュ
623A/B/C

A/B/C version

EX version

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	12 / 14 / 16	-	-	M	O	-14 / -16 / Knocks down	-11 / -15 / -13
Goat does a big and fast swing. speed and number of hits depends on button frame data is not incorrect, it's that fucked up EX version swings very fast and does six hits. Last hit floats. So, you can combo in the corner

Buster horn - バスターホーン
214A/B/C

A/B/C version

EX version

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	14 / 19 / 23	-	-	M	O	inconsistent	inconsistent
Goat runs forward with his sword out. Lots of start-up and recovery time. Can only be combo from the overhead punch. distance and number of hits depends on the button EX version travels a very long distance, with super armour. Does up to 14 hits. Will do more damage than with C from far away, but up close it's almost the same. A bit less start-up time though.

Supers

Bastard's Cradle - ろくでなしのゆりかご
236-236A/B/C

'YOU PRESSING BUTTONS??'

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	80(53+27)	-	-	H	O	HKD	-19
Goat rushes forward on his opponent. Hits overhead, If he hits he will start a series of swings which result in a 18-hits autocombo. If the first hit misses or is blocked, Goat won't follow through with the rest of the move. This move is long to come out and can be combo only from his overhead punch. Due to a bug, Goat can cancel into a special move just as he hits the floor when he jumps back and lands to perform the final hit. This has varying degrees of usefulness depending on the character it's performed against, as well as Goat's position on the screen as Bastard's Cradle connects. (example)

Iron Rage - アイアンレイジ
214-214A/B/C

a bit overkill to punish a jumpin, but it does the job

Damage	Startup	Active	Recovery	Guard	Cancel	Adv. Hit	Adv. Block
-	60(53+7)	-	-	M	O	HKD	-33
Goat gets his dragon punch from Asura Blade back. He will leap into the air with his sword pointed up. More easy to use in combo than his first super. It can be use from a medium attack. This super does less damage than Bastard's Cradle and hits up to 9 times. You can use it in a air combo but the angle can be hard to find. Pretty useful as a guard cancel against multi-hitting air normals such as rosemary j.b, but it can be inconsistent/hard to pull off at times.

Boost mode (22+ABC)

This boost mode has a very good name cause it does exactly what it's suggests. During Hyper Body, all Goat's attacks (normals and specials) will have super armour. Goat is now a super tanky character with no fear of counter hit. Some of his attacks profit of little changes.

• Standing C, Jumping C and Overhead Punch do more damage. Overhead Punch is also significantly faster.
• Last hit of C Phantom Crash is now a vertical launcher. But because of the pushback of the attack it's very hard to combo from it unless you're very close of the opponent.
• Last hit of C Buster Horn in a launcher. The last hit is now very rewarding. But because the pushback of the 2-3 last hits of the attack is huge, the last hit can be hard to land on the opponent.
• Final pullback hitbox of Buster Hammer gives slightly better frame advantage.

Combos

Combos	Damage	Notes
2A > 5AB > j.B > j.C	38	Bread-and-butter launcher followup. Most consistent.
66 > 5A > 5B > 5AB > j.Ax2 > j.B > j.Ax2 > j.B > j.AB > j.Ax2 > j.B > j.Ax2 > j.B > j.C	46	Meterless BnB. Video: https://streamable.com/pdojr8
5B > 623AB > j.B > j.C	58	Metered corner combo.
236AB > 2A > AB > 6B > 623B	90	Optimal 236EX followup. Video: https://youtu.be/HQxBfsgnVqw

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