#someone pls gift me the new uni game or the new gbvs game pls ;w;

[cai-tan]

fairly certain it's real? and fighting game combos have never really been like what you've said?

In standard combo notation, numbers are used to denote control stick positions (because old arcade fighting games don't have analog control sticks, they're switch-based, meaning they only read semi-cardinal directions), and are based off of a keyboard's number pad: 2 is down, 6 is forward, 4 is back, 3 is both down and forward, etc.

Also button inputs are kind of on a per-game basis, usually going off of whatever official documentation the game has; Guilty Gear has [P]unch, [K]ick, [S]lash, and [H]eavy Slash, as well as [D]ust. Anything that involves putting a number next to a button involves pressing that button while the control stick is in that position (think Smash tilts; 6P is just "forward tilt Punch").

However, special attacks are done with "motions", which is a sequence of control stick positions, otherwise annotated by the motion: quarter-circle back (214), half-circle forward (41236), etc. so 41236S is Zato's Shadow Gallery attack (I think???)

I can't actually tell you what -H- or -D- means off the top of my head since GG isn't my realm (more Street Fighter and Under Night) though I could guess it's a hold-input? (usually in UNI we'd annotate it 5[H] )

There's additional denotations for different versions of an attack that's usually a lowercase letter and a period; j.5H would mean "jumping" neutral Heavy, c.2P would be "close" crouching Punch (sometimes attacks are different depending on how close you are to the opponent), etc.

The IAD part is annotating an Instant Air Dash, a motion used in Guilty Gear to very easily perform an "air dash" while also performing another motion or attack at the same time. FRC is probably referring to a type of cancel, probably Roman Cancel, but again I've never gotten into the GG scene all that much.

inb4 you yell nerd at me YEAH I AM ONE CRY ABOUT IT

i play exclusively zato in every guilty gear game but like dont ask me combo shit. i dont know what most zato players are even doing there.

what is this. you are making shit up thisis not real.