Mêlée Move List

A flat red bolt that crosses the screen in a blink. Barely launches — it forces your rival to come to you.

A blink-fast dash that leaves afterimages — and now a FEINT: tap for the full crossing, HOLD Special to stop short and bait the punish.

Wreathes himself in flame and rockets upward — the main way back when you're knocked low.

Out almost instantly, and now a TRUE REFLECTOR: enemy shots inside it are batted straight back at 1.3x. Their zoning becomes your offense.

Event Horizon — a drifting GRAVITY WELL that sucks everyone near it toward its path. Dodge the orb and you're still being herded.

A telekinetic flip that tumbles the victim straight up with barely any launch. Sets up juggles and Mind Grabs.

A true blink: he vanishes (untouchable), then reappears up-and-forward in a psychic shockwave that stings everyone around the warp exit.

Psy-Field — plants a psychic charge a step ahead that erupts ~0.7s later (ring telegraph). Walls a lane, traps a landing, covers a retreat.

A quick two-footed boot with deceptive range.

The dive through the ropes — a flying lunge that carries him head-first across the stage.

Spins up and over — his ticket back to the apron.

The orbit-drop splash — and it POGOS: a clean connect springs him back up with his air jumps refreshed. Chain splashes; whiffs eat the landing.

Hold Special to keep charging for up to 3 seconds — the orb swells between his palms, and you can steer left/right to aim mid-charge. A tap throws a quick bolt; a full charge releases a piercing MEGA-BEAM nearly three times the size that punches through two bodies.

The blur-rush — now with a real PHASE WINDOW: he's untouchable through the first travel frames. Time it into a poke and he simply isn't there.

Whistles up the little gold cloud and soars — the strongest vertical recovery on the roster.

A red shockwave of ki erupting off his whole body. Hits everyone around him.

The TRUE Giant Punch: hold to wind, release early to STORE the charge (kept through hits and stocks), and a full bank + a tap is the instant ~2x haymaker.

The skull-first hop now BURIES a grounded victim — planted to the neck, mashing out, while the bear winds the Pawnch. Airborne victims still eat the spike.

Arms out, whole body a blender. Strong sideways carry, weak lift — drift wisely.

Drums the ground around him, popping every nearby fighter up-and-away for juggles.

A tiny throwing star that zips flat and fast. Chip, chip, chip.

Rush Combo — a true three-stage rekka: dash-strike, rising cross, spinning slam. Each stage chains only off a CONNECT plus a fresh Special press.

Springs straight up off thin air.

The whirling sweep now LOW-PROFILES — her whole body folds to crouch height, sliding clean under chest-high projectiles to take the ankles.

A sweeping multi-hit crescent — and a TEMPO starter: landing it grants ~1.5s of +15% movement. Landing the dance speeds the dance.

Cartwheels through the air, kicking on the way — another TEMPO starter for the flow.

Handstand spring — rhythm gets him home.

Ginga — the sway becomes a counter: absorb a hit during the window and answer with a launch (and a burst of TEMPO). A yomi button with a recharge.

Shockwave Clap — a thunderclap WINDBOX: zero damage, pure shove, and it pushes THROUGH shields. Spacing, ledge-guarding, turtle-herding.

One enormous swing — and a SHIELD-CRUSHER: blocked, it chips 2.2x shield health. Two hammers leave a full guard about to shatter.

A huge rising cut — his deep-recovery tool.

Turns to stone and plummets, cratering whoever is below.

Announce it, wind it, and if it ever lands, somebody's leaving the screen. The hardest single hit in the game.

The burning dash-uppercut now CONFIRMS: once it connects, press Jump to cancel straight into the air for the true combo — and it lights a small BURN.

A blazing leap that scorches whoever he climbs through.

The flaming slide IGNITES: a clean hit leaves the victim burning for 3% over 1.5s with no flinch. Everything burns.

A flat, fast throwing star that drops over distance.

Slows, reverses, comes back — and can be CAUGHT: snatch the returning sai and your next sword swing is empowered 1.25x.

A rising 360° blade that clips everyone around him.

Kawarimi — the substitution: a stance where any hit taken strikes a log while Ronin reappears at the attacker's back. No damage — the free back-turn is the reward. ~4s recharge.

A fast forking bolt that banks STATIC on clean hits — the third stack (any mix of bolt and Electric Fly) calls the thunder down wherever they stand.

Electric Fly — the horizontal torpedo also banks a STATIC stack. Mixing zoning and rushdown builds the storm fastest; shields ground it out.

A lightning-charged rising uppercut. His recovery and his juggle starter.

Lightning Port — vanishes, reappears right behind the nearest foe, and discharges a burst that pops them up. Long ~5s recharge between uses (his amulet refills).

Gut Check — a heavy straight with super-armor: he tanks your poke on the wind-up and plows through. His kill button.

Double Leg — the command grab. Beats shield and ducking, plants you at his feet for the re-grab loop; past ~110% the slam launches for real.

Fireman's Carry — a rising belly-to-back toss, freshly re-tuned so the grappler actually gets home from deep offstage.

Mat Return — a fast driving spike at torso height. Bounces a grounded foe; offstage it's a meteor. Duck under it.

Ghostwriter — a slow ink wisp that HOMES toward you and stains on touch. The mark itself barely hurts; Fable's next melee hit on a marked fighter erupts the blot for bonus damage. Outrun it, jump it, shield it, or shoot it down.

Plot Hook — a quill harpoon on a golden thread. Catch someone (even through shield) and they're reeled through the air and planted stunned at his feet. Dodge i-frames slip it; ~1.3s recharge.

Deus Ex Machina — the Author's giant golden hand descends and lifts him back to the story.

Plot Twist — tears the page and rewrites himself where his feet were planted about 1.5 seconds ago. Untouchable through the vanish; the juggle escape and the mix-up. ~5s recharge.

Shard Choir — hold to charge a gold-seamed porcelain splinter. A body hit lands clean; a clash or range-out shatters it into a three-piece fan that keeps covering the lane.

Faultline Rush — drives the oversized ceramic shoulder through a light poke with 8% of armor. Grabs ignore the shell, and a whiff leaves a long punish window.

Reassemble — flies apart, vanishes, then the golden seams pull every shard together up-and-forward in a teal kiln-flash.

Golden Repair — the roster's first self-mend. Survive a fully vulnerable 24-frame channel to repair 12%; it cannot start below 18%, leaves real endlag, and takes ~6s to recharge.