User:Oscuritaforze/PSP BBS notes: Difference between revisions

A character name in parenthesis next to an item on the list indicates that I've tested it with that character, but that it should be tested with other characters. All items are tested on critical mode unless otherwise indicated.

==Temporary notes/To-do==

(This section contains miscellaneous notes that don't fit in anywhere else - at least not yet - as well as a list of things to check.)

*Wheel Master seems to consistently fall over after 20 hits.

*Need to check bonuses for each character: Aqua is listed in the mechanics guide as gaining 6 bonuses to deck capacity while the other two only get 5. She's also listed as getting 6 10-HP bonuses and 4 5-HP ones in total, but that should put her critical mode HP at 78 rather than the 75 she actually has.

**It also seems to let your finish commands deal way more damage than they're supposed to, I don't know the details yet.

**Terranort in Terra's story takes about 20 hits from surges per HP bar with EXP Zero at level 1, which suggests about 10 damage per hit.

**Will also need to check this for every other Arena mission, preferably with a lower level character. Also need to work out a flow for determining enemy attack stats and multipliers.

**Maybe I should map out multiplier info for every command before tackling this?

**Heal Strike is described as consisting of three "Dashes" and one "Spin Swing", wherein only the latter heals. Personally I'd call them "Surges" and just "Swings" (since Terra's is an uppercut), but the actual inaccuracy here is that there are two of each type of attack (meaning you are healed twice). Guide says this heals 15% of max HP; this is accurate for all characters (Terra restored 106 * 0.15 = 15.9, rounded down to 15; Aqua healed 97 * 0.15 = 14.55, rounded down to 14; Ven healed 87 * 0.15 = 13.05, rounded down to 13).

**(NEEDS LOWER DIFFICULTY TESTING) Description of Cinderella's D-Link's Regen ability is "Recover 1% max HP every 1 second. Will always recover at least 1 HP." I already knew the recovery interval was off (which makes sense, as you'd be basically immune to death otherwise), but now I also know that the recovery % is off too. From 1 HP as Aqua, I have verified that a single tick of Regen restored 3 HP, which is either 3% or 4% of her maximum of 97. Testing with Terra confirmed that it is 4%, as he recovered 4 of his maximum 106 HP (3% would have recovered 3 HP; incidentally, 5% would've recovered 5). [It would not surprise me if the interval and recovery % were both quadrupled (4% of HP recovered every 4 seconds) for the international release specifically to make MF (the only superboss which D-Links are enabled against) more difficult.] ADDENDUM: Originally said interval and recovery were tripled; updated with information from testing as Terra to show that they were quadrupled instead. SECOND ADDENDUM: Going frame-by-frame in a video, it appears that the recovery interval is always exactly 3 seconds.

**Damage calculations section says that the difficulty multiplier is calculated after damage is capped based on what is taking damage. This doesn't seem to be true, as it would mean that a) normal enemies (damage capped at: max HP) shouldn't be able to be defeated in one hit on critical mode (which they can), and b) barring critical hits, you shouldn't be able to take a bar (200 HP) off a boss (damage capped at: 25) in fewer than 16 hits (which I'm certain you can; I've taken MF from just barely over one bar of HP to zero in exactly 7 hits[[#footnote1|^]]<span id="footnote1recall"></span>). Elemental affinities seem to work as outlined in the guide; normal enemies with fire resistance can't be defeated in one hit by Mega Flare no matter how high the magic stat.

***Down in another section, I brought up the question of whether there's actually a 0.5x difficulty multiplier for critical mode at all. The only things I've seen thus far that point to "yes" are casual observation that [[Flood]]s in Radiant Garden (18 HP and 6 defense, according to the wiki) aren't defeated in one hit by Terra with 31 str unless he gets a critical hit, which could just be the wiki's numbers being wrong (this is post-game where Radiant Garden has a battle level of 6 rather than 4); and Ice Colossus taking more hits than expected (though ''not'' twice as many) to fully deplete one bar of HP. Will need to test damage numbers (against MF, Ice Colossus, etc.) on a normal mode playthrough compared to the observations noted below.

**(NEEDS MORE REPETITION, NORMAL MODE TESTING, AND ***ESPECIALLY*** NON-ARENA TESTING) As Terra at level 43, I used Mega Flare with 25 magic and Fire Boost 3 on Buckle Bruisers and Sonic Blasters in the Mirage Arena (event was A Time to Chill, meaning 16 defense and respectively 168/137 HP). Without triggering Ignite, it did not kill any of them; this much was expected. However, the HP they were left on seems too low: the former were reduced to around a fifth to a quarter health, while the latter were reduced to a portion of HP that just reached the gap between the "H" and the "P" beneath the bar - with repeat testing, I estimate that I did about 125-127 damage to each enemy. According to calculations, both of them should have taken ((25 - 16) * 15.5 * 1.3) / 2 = ~90-91 damage. This would've left Buckle Bruisers at a little under half health and Sonic Blasters at a little over quarter health. With the same stats and no Fire Boosts equipped, I estimate that each of these enemies took about 98-100 damage. This roughly tracks with Fire Boost being listed as a 10% increase to base damage per level, but there's still a discrepancy between how much damage should have been done [which was ((25 - 16) * 15.5) / 2 = ~70)] and how much actually was. This roughly tracks with enemies having 4 less defense OR Mega Flare having a significantly higher multiplier. (Addendum: another possibility is the damage multiplier for critical mode not being what it's generally assumed as.) Ruled out enemies having lower defense by checking with a normal attack, which looks like it did the 18 damage I expected it to do (31 attack vs. 16 defense, x1.2 due to guaranteed critical hit from Sweetstack)[[#footnote2|^^]]<span id="footnote2recall"></span>. This leads me to believe Mega Flare has a significantly higher multiplier.

***Additional data: Leveled up once, boosting magic by 1. Damage without Fire Boosts went from 98-100 to about 110. This tracks to about a 20-22x multiplier for Mega Flare level 6. Leaning towards 22x. Tried using a level 1 and level 3 Mega Flare, still without Fire Boost. The difference is negligible, maybe accounting for a few points of damage between the two and level 6. This tracks with most other commands being +0.1 or so to the multiplier per level. My guess is it starts at 21x and goes up by 0.2 per level for a final total of 22x. Trying again with Pixie Petal equipped shows that each point of magic adds 10-11 damage without Fire Boost.

***Actual numbers vs. A Time to Chill - 20 magic (Chaos Ripper): 29-30 damage; 23 magic: 69-70 damage

**Usually this is the last enemy defeated, but individual 1-EXP ticks from EXP Walker are counted as well.

*Treasure Magnet and HP Prize Plus may be kept off in order to allow EXP Chance to be kept active for as long as possible.

===Locations===

(All of the numbers here assume EXP Chance is active. Difficulties lower than critical mode will get more EXP. Each method will indicate whether "EXP per clear" takes Victory Pose into account or if it is counted separately. Time per clear is an estimate measured from entry of the room to re-entry of the room after the encounter is completed.)

==D-Links==

*Pete:

**Bonus command gauge rate is based on picking up drops from enemies. The rate seems small but consistent (maybe 2-3%), regardless of what is picked up: large and small prizes as well as items and D-Link emblems all fill the gauge the same amount.

**Rumble Rave immediately teleports you to the ground if you drive off a cliff.

*Cinderella:

**Enchanted Step behaves differently depending on whether it's used by Aqua, or Terra/Ven. In the former case, it is basically a clone of Barrier Surge (ie. it blocks attacks rather than rendering you fully invincible); in the latter case, it is a sidegrade to Fire/Thunder Surge (in that it deals less damage in exchange for a much lower cooldown and letting you gain height at the end, but is still fully invincible).

*Reversal (and Reversal Slash by extension) seem to be able to trigger only once per attack.

===Aqua===

===General/Shared===

*Landing lag can be cancelled (or at least shortened) by jumping during it. This may only be true during non-hitstun landing lag. This has major applications for both combos and survival.

*The Zack D-Link's Attack Deflector will block physical attacks 50% of the time, but it only activates if your character would be able to use their block action in that moment. This means it will activate for Aqua while in midair, but not for Terra or Ven.

*If you take non-knockback damage while in midair, there will be a brief window where you can use another action (ie. Cure or block). If this window passes, then you will go into normal aerial endlag and not be able to do anything until you land (then you must either wait out landing lag or jump to cancel it).

*If the command gauge is completely filled while you are knocked back, then your finish command will not appear / your commands will not freeze (if you fulfill the requirements for a command style change) until you stop being knocked back. If this happens, you can buffer a D-Link activation, which causes the full command gauge to transfer to the D-Link so you can use a D-Link finish command immediately. The easiest place I've seen for this to happen is by setting mines and standing among them while MF is about to start Raging Storm.

*Ventus can use certain magic commands, then (usually[[#footnote3|^]]<span id="footnote3recall"></span>) air slide out of them immediately. Commands I've tried this with are both versions of Mines and the top tiers of Fire (as well as Fission Firaga), Thunder, Blizzard, Zero Gravity, and Aero commands, though I'm sure there are others - probably the status spells too. Terra can do this too but seems to be worse and less consistent about it. He also seems to have a smaller (or maybe just different?) list of valid commands - he can't air slide out of Mines or Aero, for instance. Notable general absences are Cure and Magnet, which never seem to allow this behavior for any character. When this behavior doesn't occur, characters lose more height from using the command than they do from using their base attack command (or, in Terra's case, Sonic Impact). (Aqua can't do this with any command, perhaps as compensation for her ability to block in midair and double jump.)

**This is strictly a midair phenomenon. On the ground, characters just execute the action in question once the command's normal endlag is done. Characters who can do this can also attack instead of dodging, and I imagine if Aqua were able to do this she'd be able to block or teleport. Will need to make charts (or at least lists) of commands which are air-enabled and/or can immediately be air dodged out of to keep all of this straight...

***Basic attacks (Zack D-Link active) - expected: 21 hits; in practice: 21 hits (ALL critical; 37 damage per hit; seems like the description of Berserk in the game mechanics guide is correct; do need to test with 25% and 50% crit rate Keyblades, however)

***Basic attacks (Sweetstack equipped; 56 strength, 55 magic, 100% crit rate, listed 1.2x multiplier) - expected: 25 hits; in practice: 25 hits (ALL critical; 30 damage per hit; this does correlate with a 1.2x crit multiplier)

<span id="footnote3"></span>[[#footnote3recall|^]]The exceptions may be related to the "Aqua's falling speed" point above, or they may be due to a hidden cooldown or input window narrowing based on using it too many times in a row. I could also see them being related to the order in which you sequentially use commands with this behavior, or any number of other factors.

[Getting accurate hit counts would probably require a beginner (or at least normal) mode playthrough, as several attacks (most notably Sonic Blade) hit multiple times per "swing" when it doesn't look like they would. Elements of his attacks are determined by what they're reduced by: any of the screens, Donald, Goofy, or nothing.]

Long Combo: 1.0x (?, single-blade hits/normal hits), 1.5x (?, double-blade hits/short combo finisher), >1.5x (maybe 2.0x?, actual finisher); ? hits [physical]: blockable; it seems that he is usually immune to damage from counterattacks (but ''only'' counterattacks) during this attack, though timing your counter well at the end of the combo will allow it to deal damage; certain attacks (most notably normals) that hit his weapons during this attack will be deflected as if blocked; the only way one of your attacks will interrupt him during this move is if he activates one of his defensive actions as a result of you hitting him during it - otherwise, this attack is super armored throughout

Whirlwind to the Void: 2.0x, 1 hit [probably null]; if you are hit by this, then your D-Link will deactivate once your commands are scattered, and the actual scattering will be slightly delayed from if you didn't have a D-Link active; if you are killed by this while you have a fully leveled Aqua link active, then your commands won't be scattered after Auto-Life finishes resolving; there's a slight delay (made worse by having a D-Link active) between your commands scattering and you being able to do some actions (notably blocking); in phase two, your commands bounce around for longer (maybe twice as long) before becoming collectible again (this could just be how it feels, however, due to how hectic phase 2 is - need to actually time this); similarly to X-Wave, he really likes retrying this attack after it's whiff punished (though it can't really be interrupted like X-Wave due to him seeming to have super armor before actually firing the whirlwind)

Doom: 1.5x, 1 hit [seemingly physical, not that it matters much]: blockable; normally starts being used in phase two; Doom is a status effect - Cinderella's D-Link gets a full command gauge from it; you die regardless of remaining health if the count reaches 0; base count is 5, minus one for every subsequent time you get hit by it; each count seems to last roughly 2/3 of a second; requires button mashing to escape (seems to require 13 button presses regardless of which hit it is); if the starting count is 3 or lower, mashing speed requirements become absurd; being hit during this will immediately break you out of it, but that is irrelevant most of the time due to requiring active Fireworks or very high levels (94+ for Terra, no lower than 99 for Aqua, impossible for Ven) to have more than 1 HP left after being hit by this to begin with

****Normal stagger - From most attacks. Puts him in a 1-second stagger animation. Can trigger Time Reversal.

****Knockback - From certain powerful attacks (such as the second hit of Terra's midair combo), as well as multiple attacks in a row when he's in midair. Puts him in a slightly longer stagger animation. Can trigger Time Reversal.

Renewal Barrier: He assumes a guarding stance that lasts for a second or two (though the actual block seems to last longer than the animation; need to time both of these) before he uses this move; if you don't attack during this time, then he won't block anything or recover any health. He uses this attack if he is a) staggered for too many attacks in a row, or b) takes too many hits in a row even without staggering. He doesn't always use this attack in these situations; sometimes he instead dashes away and starts a different move - similar to what he sometimes does if you attack him without an opening. Severely punishes certain multihit attacks (notably, Peter Pan's level 1 finish command can crash the game, at least in the HD rereleases), but not all moves are punished as much as would be expected. Pretty sure there's nothing he can't block with this, nor do I think there's anything he can't respond to with this. He can block things like mines and status effect spells (ie. things which deal no damage to him), though whether he regains health or not varies (the former do, some of the latter do not).

*I've heard it claimed that critical hits are more likely to trigger Time Reversal. I'm going to need to test this more, but if it's true, then from my observation it's pretty negligible: I've gotten long strings of hits in with Ultima Weapon without issue just the same as with Earthshaker/Rainfell.

<span id="footnote5"></span>[[#footnote5recall|^]]This has the side effect of making me fairly sure that his defense value is 27, as that is also the same as Vanitas Remnant and it was already my best guess.

*Dodge Roll/Cartwheel - Mash square for literal permanent invincibility.

*Slide - Mash square for not-quite-permanent invincibility.

*Cure/Cura/Curaga - Endless invincible healing with a not-too-unreasonable reload time of 15 seconds with all Magic Hastes installed. Has significant endlag which can easily lead to loops where you keep getting hit after healing ad infinitum, due to how fast this boss attacks. This can be mitigated by jumping before use, but midair endlag means you can still easily get hit by something before being able to act.

*Mines - He is immune to damage from these, but they're also the most reliable way by far to activate his jumping dodge. If you figure out the timing on his intangibility ending after his jump, this effectively allows you to set traps for him. Failing that, they can also delay his actions to keep you alive. They also still fill the command gauge, so they can be used for finishers or style changes.

====Everyone====

*Ice Slide - Once you shuffle your commands around so this doesn't trigger Doom in phase one, it's a solid sidegrade from normal Air Slide. Unlike Firewheel/Thunder Roll, this doesn't trade all of its invincibility for the ability to deal damage. Instead, it still retains invincibility on most of the animation, only losing some at the end. In return, it opens up several options for you, like dealing relatively safe damage (including while he's invisible), wasting time on Raging Storm, and even comboing into another attack (in particular, I've had some success with Ice Slide -> Aerial Slam during Raging Storm). The catch seems to be that the hitbox this produces is parriable<span id="footnote6recall"></span>[[#footnote6|^]] (at least for Terra?), which can lead to problems if you try dashing by him during a combo. The invincibility also ends before the hitbox does, meaning the tail end of this move can be affected by Time Reversal.

*Items in general - If Item Bracer existed in this game, then items would be my preferred healing method due to much lower end lag than Cure. Even without Item Bracer, however, they do still have their place - Megalixirs fully restore your D-Link gauge without having a year of startup like Balloon Letters, and will fully restore your HP as a bonus. I haven't experimented with other items against him, but I imagine a (Mega/Hi-)Potion above an invincible command (surge or Aerial Slam, probably) could do some work in letting you get damage on him immediately after healing.

**Ice Cream - Is only as good as the style it puts you into. Aqua/Ven have the option of Milky Way before they have Sky Climber to let them immediately get a normal finish command, which can be a neat strat.

*Sliding Dash - One of few commands that can combo into the same things your normal combo can, which makes it more safe to throw out than many moves. Its range means that it can secure punishes that you would otherwise miss, too. However, I still think its best use is in just extending air stalls (by untargeting then using it in midair after an air slide).

*Blizzard Edge - Probably the best of the edge commands due to the extra damage from the ice shard, but that isn't really saying much. It's still too slow and unwieldy to hit with when it isn't being comboed into, and the reward it gives when it ''is'' being comboed into isn't worth the risk.

*Aerial Slam - Sleeper hit. Air-enabled and fully invincible, which makes it ideal for landing safely. First two hits are all but guaranteed if no other attacks precede them; the last hit is unreliable but powerful and very close to unpunishable. You can even stop after any of the hits to try doing something creative instead of going forward the last hit. It's also the best (IMO) counter to Raging Storm that's available to all characters - hitting with it [which does take a little bit of timing (and/or possibly luck)] allows you to just wait out the rest of the move by air stalling. Biggest problem this has is that whiffing with the first hit does not let you continue to the extensions, which cuts down the invincibility significantly. This combined with how short a whiff lasts makes it pretty easy to get into a bad situation through careless use of this move.

*Blitz - Opening with it without hit confirming actually often allows all three hits to successfully connect. Otherwise, you'll probably want to cut one of the extensions. Can trigger Time Reversal and has the same problem as normal attacks when it does (namely, pressing triangle will buffer the next swing and lock you into it). Overall, probably only worth it at a low level, as it's basically doing three normal combo finishers in a row, with all the associated risks and rewards that description implies.

*Magnet Spiral - Some ''weird'' behavior with this one. The magnet pull effect this attack puts out count as several separate attacks, and he reacts as such so long as he isn't in any kind of super armor move. This means that he will teleport around, cancel/restart attacks, and even put up Renewal Barrier (which restores an absurd amount of HP off of these pseudo-attacks in spite of them doing no damage). I even got knocked down to 1 HP during this attack, executed the actual damaging spin attack, and then got snagged by Colision Magnet...which proceeded to deal no damage as if Once More was in effect.

*Zero Graviga - He may be immune to the status effect, but this still works properly as far as the quick moderate AoE damage is concerned. Its vertical tolerance is a little bit suspect, however. Doesn't stagger him at all - even right after a Whirlwind to the Void or X-Wave - but can cause him to raise his guard (ie. prepare Renewal Barrier). If this actually hits his guard, it actually causes ''you'' to stagger, for some reason.

*Rockbreaker Command Style - (NEED TO TEST THIS ONE OUT: videos show it to be useful - including while he's invisible - due to a lingering hitbox. My speculation is that its utility is significantly diminished if you aren't using Slide.)

*Dark Impulse Command Style - ''Does'' trigger Time Reversal, much to my disappointment - perhaps there's a different factor in other dark element commands that cause them to not do so. At any rate, this is a pretty fun command style to use against him, though I'm unsure how practical it is. The biggest thing to talk about is the uppercut which starts close combos. It is (as far as I've tested so far) the only attack Terra gets which moves him towards enemies that are below him. It also knocks him back rather than just staggering him, which makes the second part of the combo only hit with one or two hits (which is probably a good thing, considering). However, the biggest thing to watch out for is that it is superceded in priority by the distance closer attack, so Terra will probably just attack harmlessly over the enemy's head if they are below him but also sufficiently far away.

*Meteor Crash - Risky. The midair hover at the start of the move is out of his reach (as I expected) and the meteors have a really large area of effect, but the dive leaves you vulnerable and being hit at the wrong time by the wrong kind of attack will cancel the meteors outright. The leap basically working as a dodge means that this works against two of the three counters from Time Reversal (the one it doesn't dodge is the kick). It also seems like certain attacks of his will continue targeting your old location during the leap, as I've seen his Sonic Blade whiff entirely from this attack used at the right time. I'd have thought this would be a useful counter to his clones due to the AoE, but it's slow enough that you're likely to get interrupted or just outright die.

*Chaos Blade - All of the commentary on Sonic Blade applies here, as this is another version of that attack but more costly and with additional downtime between swings. The teleports might give a tiny amount of invincibility, but not enough to matter. ADDENDUM: Revisited this one due to Stickman Sham claiming that it can't trigger Time Reversal. This seems to be true, and I'm thinking this might be a property that applies to dark element attacks in general (SECOND ADDENDUM: nope). Suffice to say, this changes this attacks evaluation significantly, as all it really has to worry about are blocking (which might be beatable by delaying extensions - needs more testing) and the occasional teleport counter.

*Dark Haze - Tested this due to the above "dark element attacks" theory. It seems to hold true with this command, too: I have never seen Time Reversal trigger from Dark Haze. The command itself isn't particularly exciting. When the conditions are met for skipping its windup (which seem to include attacks and Air Slide in addition to normal Slide), it's kinda like a sidegrade to Sliding Dash. Otherwise, it's a single-hit Sonic Blade. Neither the worst or the best command.

*Zantetsuken - This is a teleport slash which ''will'' hit if you're locked on and will usually let you walk away unscathed afterwards due to invincible cooldown during the pose (preventing Time Reversal, by the by) after the attack. However, this is majorly limited by how vulnerable you are during its excessively long windup. The only times you can make use of this attack are if you start it while he's in the air for Collision Magnet or starting an X-Wave (and you're guaranteed to take damage in the latter case), if you make time for it somehow (like air tossing him with Fission Firaga or something), or if you just get lucky. I could only realistically see this being being considered at low levels where the single hit at a high multiplier might be valuable. The "failed" version of this attack is also better due to knocking back rather than just staggering and having a shorter ending pose, which uniquely gives a reason to take a lower level version of this command.

*Brutal Blast - Excellent. The initial blast comes out quickly and air-tosses, which ensures the follow-up spinning strike will hit. Only hits twice so there's little danger of Renewal Barrier, and I don't think either hit can be affected by Time Reversal (only so long as both hits connect - if the second hit is the only one that connects, it can be reversed). Is even more reliable against Raging Storm than Aerial Slam, and makes Aerial Slam easier to follow up with due to his movement pattern change after he's hit.

*Limit Storm - Easily the worst of these three commands. It hits once, DOESN'T inflict air-toss, and its shtick of "executes immediately if used right after Sacrifice" doesn't matter since Sacrifice is an actively useless liability.

*Sacrifice - Completely useless. I believe I managed to get it to hit once, it dealt as much damage as Zantetsuken (while not having the utility of hitting from anywhere), and I immediately got hit by a combo afterwards.

*Warp - I mostly tested this out as a joke. All it can do is cause him to raise his guard if used after you manage to hit him enough. It doesn't even heal him if it hits while he's already guarding. (Mostly documenting this as I suspect it's how all non-damaging status spells work on him.)

====Ventus====

*Stratosphere - The best ultimate finish command for this fight, in my opinion. Due to being able to delay each extension, you can virtually guarantee 3-4 of the 5 attacks connect even if he tries to block or dodge. (The only way he can guarantee dodging one of the hits is by using Collision Magnet.) Additionally, the final hit has a massive AoE and air tosses if it hits, which covers the ending period where you can't do anything and may even let you hit him a couple more times afterwards. The only downside to this attack is how poorly it works versus invisibility, where the final explosion is the only hit likely to connect.

*Cyclone Command Style - Outright useful. First attack from far away is a disjoint which tracks very well, is actually safe to throw out in most circumstances, and which Time Reversal (usually) doesn't even guarantee a hit on. <s>Other attacks are fast, but will probably be stopped by a Renewal Barrier before you can go too crazy with them.</s> Finisher is three hits which are basically guaranteed to hit the damage barrier - normally mediocre, but at least you probably don't have to worry about triggering Renewal Barrier. ADDENDUM: The initial close range spin attack is just as good as the disjoint, due to how ''fast'' it is. It's fast enough that even if he blocks it you can still often hit him with it again after he drops his guard.

*Salvation - Is unusably slow outside of trapping him into jumping at it with mines. Even then, it's really difficult to set up and he just teleported out and used Whirlwind to the Void one of the times I actually pulled it off (lol). It being blocked at any point (which is pretty likely) will also cancel the rest of the attack.

*Tornado Strike - He seems to be outright immune to this one; the command gauge increases, but no damage is dealt and no knockback is sustained. I'm going to guess it's because of the air-spin effect, in which case Tornado will probably have the same non-effect.

====Aqua====

*Finish - Longer startup than I would like, but air toss makes up for that and you're absolutely guaranteed to have this no matter how much playtime you have. Need to test this more as an extension of jump attack looping.

*Ice Burst - I put this on to test it a while ago and then just never took it off, so I have a disproportionate amount of data on this one. The spin attack at the start is the most reliably damaging part of the move, while the three ice blasts are more to give him something to dodge so the move ends more safely. Strange corner case: the final projectile can trigger Time Reversal if you're unlucky enough to have it hit him when you're no longer invincible after the move has "officially" ended.

*Sky Climber Command Style - See Ventus's section.

**One extra note on this style is how doing a single hit will put you really close to the ground, and when you land you can jump again immediately. This leads to some really cool possibilities, but they only occasionally work against MF due to too-high hit counts on the style's attacks.

*Barrier Surge - Non-elemental surge! On the character who gets her normal finisher from non-elemental attack commands! However, it's not as good as it sounds since it doesn't give full invulnerability; instead, it just protects you from blockable attacks.

**Subnote to mention that, when used by Terra and Ven, Cinderella's Enchanted Step is not a full clone of this attack in spite of appearances. It actually gives full invulnerability like elemental surges. Enchanted Step also pops up at the end of the move; this combined with its low reload time allows it to air stall indefinitely.

*Wishing Edge - Slower than Blitz (to the point that it can effectively only be comboed into), but only needs to connect once to deliver all three of its hits. All three hits will be delivered even if he dodges away, and can even make him teleport/guard/stagger with no further action from you. If this is hit by Time Reversal, then the other two hits will do nothing unless he tries to counter with X-Wave (in which case he'll be interrupted basically before he starts). Time Reversal can also activate on hits other than the first.

*Time Splicer - Like Magic Hour, but with tighter timing [both for continuing the attack (to the point that delaying the next extension is impossible) and for dodging] and invincibility only during the teleport. Also more prone to triggering Renewal Barrier and healing him for significant HP when it does.

*Triple Blizzaga - Has many of the same strengths and foibles as regular Blizzaga, though the triple cast is both a blessing and a curse. You update your facing with every cast to shoot directly at the enemy, which means that it isn't totally blanked by a single dodge. However, it also locks you into the casting animation for all three ice shards, which means you're more vulnerable than with other spells if the first hit gets countered. It still doesn't have any vertical tolerance at all, so I think this is more trouble than it's worth.

*Glacier - See Deep Freeze. The spin that knocks frozen enemies away hits, but doesn't seem to deal damage.

*Firaga Burst - I've (somehow) never seen Time Reversal trigger off of this, and the large number of projectiles means that he'll often get in a loop of staggering (if you're lucky), teleporting, and canceling/restarting attacks as he gets hit by them. There also might be some invincibility somewhere, somehow, as I've activated this (by mistake) at 1 HP while clones were active, and the clones' combos were just going right through me. Basically, this move is way safer than I'd have expected it to be, which translates to it being way more useful than it has any right to be.

*Raging Storm - This is probably the highest risk command Aqua has, and I don't think the reward is worth it. Ludicrously long startup which gets you either interrupted or killed by just about anything means you need to do this during something like a failed Collision Magnet or during the downtime after the end of Laser Orbs. Even then, you're still vulnerable to everything during the attack due to how slowly and awkwardly you float around. It deals high damage and air-tosses him, which can be valuable. However, the biggest reason to use this command (the rapid hit exploit) will just hit enough times to get him to block, which cancels the attack entirely...though that might be what you want if he uses Laser Orbs while you're already executing this command.

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