Street Fighter IV Remix/Elena

Overview Combos Matchups Strategy

Introduction

Elena hasn't been the same since Deejay abducted her and lost her in the beat. Now she's out for revenge but she's having a good time.

Elena is a unique neutral and mixup character who relies on her 214X Dance rekka to combo, pressure, and mix the opponent. On a base level, Elena sports the same normals that made her terrifying in Ultra, with her extremely fast and plus 2LP and long range 2MP and 2HK, and her fast and far 6MK overhead. She sports a wide variety of anti-airs as well, and an extremely good anti-air and reversal with 236P Scratch Wheel. She has a great dash and backdash as well, and a strong jump arc, allowing her to remain mobile and safely poke the opponent while buffering into her Dance vortex.

Dance is Elena's defining feature, and the core of her offense. Each of her 214 specials is a Dance move. Each Dance move can cancel to other Dance moves up to three times, including themselves. Dance moves can also cancel to Rhino Horn and Scratch Wheel, with the exception of 214MK Slide Dance, and all cancel to supers and 214PP Dodge Dance, regardless of how many you chained previously. Dance has great potential on offense with 214HK Smash Dance being a fast and airborne overhead, 214LK Sweep Dance being a long reaching launching low, and 214LP Leg Whip Dance being safe on block. 214MP Pull Dance vacuums to make sure these followups stay threatening and to help with confirms, and 214MK Slide Dance is a long reaching low profile slide that immediately starts her offense and is a hard knockdown ender for her combos. 214HP Launch Dance is the core of her combo theory as well. Elena's whole gameplan starts and ends with Dance.

Elena's main weakness is also Dance. Dance is the core of her mix, but this means an opponent privy to how Dance functions will be able to react to your offense much easier. While you can end safely regardless, Elena has no way to push her turn again once she enters Dance, and every Dance move besides Leg Whip Dance is punishable on block. If an opponent blocks you out, they can often net a punish for it. Elena is also on the lower health side, though she isn't in the lowest bracket. 214PPP Healing is still quite strong, and can be used in combos now as well, but a good punish in Remix will do more than enough to negate the health she regenerates.

Elena is a straightforward neutral character who can dance all over her opponents on offense and wall them out with strong anti-airs. She's great if you're looking for a simple character who doesn't require too much effort to play offense or net high damage with.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Dance Moves: Elena's defining feature. A variety of canned mixups, combo tools, and neutral options that all cancel into each other and her other specials as well.
Neutral: Elena has more than enough fast and long range buttons to keep opponents in check, and a wide variety of strong anti-airs to stop them from jumping, making it hard to approach her at all.
Meter Usage: Elena has plenty of strong EX moves and supers that keep her threatening with resources. She gets strong anti-fireball, extremely high damage,

Can't Stop Dancing: Once Elena starts a Dance string, she doesn't have many ways to end it and keep her turn without taking a risk or spending a resource. Her reliance on Dance for offense as well makes it a bit more obvious what she's going for, making opponents with strong defense feel hard to crack open.

Elena
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Character Data
Health	950
Chains	None
Walkspeed	1.6 (Average)
Forward Dash Duration	16 frames
Forward Dash Distance	1.6 (Average)
Backdash Duration	21 frames
Backdash Invuln	9 frames
Unique Movement	None

Normals

Standing Normals

5LP

Standing Light Punch
5LP

File:SFIVR X 5LP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

5MP

Standing Medium Punch
5MP

File:SFIVR X 5MP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

5HP

Standing Heavy Punch
5HP

File:SFIVR X 5HP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

5LK

Standing Light Kick
5LK

File:SFIVR X 5LK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

5MK

Standing Medium Kick
5MK

File:SFIVR X 5MK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

5HK

Standing Heavy Kick
5HK

File:SFIVR X 5HK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

Crouching Normals

2LP

Crouching Light Punch
2LP

File:SFIVR X 2LP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

2MP

Crouching Medium Punch
2MP

File:SFIVR X 2MP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

2HP

Crouching Heavy Punch
2HP

File:SFIVR X 2HP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

2LK

Crouching Light Kick
2LK

File:SFIVR X 2LK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

2MK

Crouching Medium Kick
2MK

File:SFIVR X 2MK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

2HK

Crouching Heavy Kick
2HK

File:SFIVR X 2HK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	CMD, SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

Jumping Normals

j.LP

Jumping Light Punch
j.LP

File:SFIVR X jLP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Overhead	SP, SU	X	X	X	~	~

j.MP

Jumping Medium Punch
j.MP

File:SFIVR X jMP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Overhead	SP, SU	X	X	X	~	~

j.HP

Jumping Heavy Punch
j.HP

File:SFIVR X jHP.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Overhead	SP, SU	X	X	X	~	~

j.LK

Jumping Light Kick
j.LK

File:SFIVR X jLK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Overhead	SP, SU	X	X	X	~	~

j.MK

Jumping Medium Kick
j.MK

File:SFIVR X jMK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Overhead	SP, SU	X	X	X	~	~

j.HK

Jumping Heavy Kick
j.HK

File:SFIVR X jHK.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Overhead	SP, SU	X	X	X	~	~

Command Normals

Command Normal 1

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	-	SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

Command Normal 2

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	-	SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

Command Normal 3

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	-	SP, SU	X	X	X	X	X

Universal Mechanics

Forward Throw

Forward Throw
5LP+LK

File:SFIVR X FThrow.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Throw	N/A	X	X	X	X	X

Backward Throw

Backward Throw
4LP+LK

File:SFIVR X BThrow.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Throw	X	X	X	X	X	X

Alpha Counter

Alpha Counter
HP+HK

File:SFIVR X AC.png

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	Mid	X	X	X	X	X	X

Special Moves

Special Move 1

LP	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
LP	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
MP	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
MP	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
HP	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
HP	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
EX	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
EX	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X

Special Move 2

LK	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
LK	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
MK	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
MK	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
HK	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
HK	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
EX	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
EX	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X

Special Move 3

LK	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
LK	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
MK	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
MK	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
HK	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
HK	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
EX	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
EX	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X

Special Move 4

LP	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
LP	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
MP	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
MP	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
HP	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
HP	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X
EX	Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
EX	X	-	SU	X	X	X	X	X

Super Moves

Super Move 1

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	-	-	X	X	X	X	X

Super Move 2

Damage	Guard	Cancel	Startup	Active	Recovery	On Hit	On Block
X	-	-	X	X	X	X	X

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General

Characters

Elena (エレナ Erena?) is a video game character from the Street Fighter series, first appearing in Street Fighter III: New Generation. She is a light hearted, nature-loving capoeira fighter from Kenya who is currently studying abroad.

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