Many evasive options
Stance-based
Zafina is a stance-based character with strong movement and space control. Her toolkit allows for stylish play, with some tricky moves and stance transitions, while still retaining the ability to play in a solid, fundamental way thanks to her backdash and spacing options. Zafina's strong movement and far-reaching moves such as f1+2 give her excellent space control, and her stance transitions such as wr1+2 and ws3 are effective ways to start her stance pressure, which can be devastating if the opponent lacks matchup knowledge. However, she pays for it with long and telling recovery on whiffs, and generally slow start-ups (her df+2 is i16, uf+4 is i17). Her early block punishment can be underwhelming in damage, especially from crouch, but she makes up for that by having a i12 heat smash. She has many evasive lows that shift her hurtboxes, allowing her to evade even mids sometimes, similar to Lili's Matterhorn and Xiaoyu's Art of Phoenix stance.
Many evasive options
Slow, committal moves; easy to whiff punish
Stances
- SCR (Scarecrow) – 3+4
- MNT (Mantis) – d+3+4
- TRT (Tarantula) – d+1+2
Heat Smash
{{Plainlist| * H.2+3 - High, i12, +3
- Azazel moves cost no health
- Can use Anathema moves
Strengths
Many evasive options
Good backdash and sidestep
Strong keepout
Good stance pressure and mixups
Azazel moves are highly damaging and many deal heavy chip damage and plus frames on block
Weaknesses
Slow, committal moves; easy to whiff punish
Lows outside of her stances deal little damage
Has the lowest damaging i11-i14 punishment from crouch in the game
No standing launcher until i16
Azazel moves consume health when not in heat
Moves to learn first
Signature and situational picks come from the guide; the fastest launcher and best unpunishable poke are derived from this character's own frame data.
- ParryiR1
i6 – b+1+3 or b+2+4 (power crush parry)
- Signature↗○
uf+4
Rahab
- Launcher↘△
i16 · 13 dmg · -12 on block
Lamashtu Claw
- Launcher↓□△
i20 · 8 dmg · -13 on block
Alraune
- Wall splat↘○□
i31 · 14 dmg · -9 on block
Miasma Bearer
- Counter-hit launcher□△
i16 · 17 dmg · -12 on block
- Counter-hit launcherMNT△
i13 · 19 dmg · -14 on block
- Heat engager→□△
i13 · 16 dmg · -9 on block
Malicious Nail
- Heat engager↘○□
i31 · 14 dmg · -9 on block
Miasma Bearer
- Heat engagerSCR△□
i21 · 17 dmg · -6 on block
Binal Venom
- Fastest launcher→R1✕○
i8 · 10 dmg · -11 on block
Gallu
- Safe on blockHeat△✕
i1 · 51 dmg · +3 on block
Curse of Azazel
Missing generics: {{Dotlist| * d+2 * d+3 * d+4 * Running slide
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