SoulCalibur VI in 2023 | 12 TIPS You Should Know!
166A quick crash course on how to play SoulCalibur VI while I patiently wait for SoulCalibur VII...
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1. Establish your AA pokes
2. BB when your opponent crouches
3. Use Break Attacks to pressure defensive opponents
4. Establish your AA after Break Attacks to discourage retaliation
5. Be careful of faster pokes in Neutral
6. Beat out fast highs with you Down+Horizontal Slash (2A)
7. Open up the opponent with Lows when defensive
8. Toss in throws against defensive opponent when at an advantage
9. When you're at disadvantage, please Block.
10. However, you can Guard Impact (GI) predictable retaliations
11. You can launch after a successful GI if you have enough advantage (+20 or more approx.)
12. Move safely with Step Guard (Step-G)!
*Additional Notes
- Throws in SoulCalibur are performed by pressing A+G or 4A+G. A+G throws are broken by pressing an action button (such as "A") + a direction other than back upon the throw. 4A+G throws are broken by pressing back + an action button upon the throw. Throw ranges vary between the characters. Characters like Nightmare have a large throw range whereas characters like Xianghua have small throw ranges. Characters such as Ivy or Astaroth in particular have strong command grabs requiring more complex inputs, with smaller throw escape windows.
- If you get knocked down, you can either just lie down on the ground (and block from the ground if attacked!) Or tech roll by pressing the Guard button + a direction right as you hit the ground. Beware of "Tech Traps", which are setups designed to hit you during a tech roll since tech rolls don't have complete invincibility. If the opponent uses tech traps, just lie on the ground and block what you can, if the opponent tries to immediately pressure or hit you on the ground a lot, back tech roll "ukemi" if you need to create space.
- Reversal Edges can be beaten by sidestepping then punishing like a linear Break Attack (or Nightmare's CE!). And before you ask, you can Reversal Edge a Reversal Edge.
- Nightmare's "AA" is actually i16, not i18 (Seong Mina's is i18)
*i10 Strikes: AA, 6B, etc.
- Cassandra
- Taki
- Xianghua
- Yoshimitsu
- Amy
- Azwel (Requires "Sword Mode")
*Slower than i12 AA's
- Astaroth (i20)
- Seong Mina (i18)
- Nightmare (i16)
- Siegfried (i16)
- Voldo (i14)
- Haohmaru (i14)
For Directional Notation
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3
Each number represents the corresponding direction. 1 for "Down-Back", 9 for "Up-Forward", 5 for "Neutral" or no input, etc. Quarter-Circle Back = 214, Quarter-Circle Forward = 236, Half-Circle Back = 63214, Half-Circle Forward = 41236, etc.
For Input commands:
A = Horizontal Attack
B = Vertical Attack
K = Kick
G = Guard Button
6G = Guard Impact
A+G = First Throw
4A+G = Second Throw
6B+G = Resist Impact
B+G = Reversal Edge
A+B+K = Critical Edge
236A+B+K = Soul Attack
Legend:
W! = Wall Splat
W!! = Second Wall Splat
GB! = Guard Burst
CE = Critical Edge
( ) = Held Input
: = Just Frame Input
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