He also has numerous strong cancel options into his Concealed Sabre Phantom Strike, granting good damage and knockdowns off of most punishes.

Good punishes: Ukyo's 3D, 66C and Tsubame Gaeshi are all very fast punishment options that lead into invaluable knockdowns.

He also has good meaty normals for forcing opponents to block and can use his Concealed Sabre Snowfall Slash special to punish wakeup spot dodges and inflict chip damage. Ukyo supplements this with his numerous excellent lows to create a strong mix-up game.

Mix-up machine: The dreaded Tsubame Gaeshi is one of the scariest instant overheads in the game due to its high damage and fast startup.

He is great at keeping opponents on their toes and scaring them into blocking, allowing him to start his mixup game.

Strong ground game: Ukyo has excellent dashes and a strong suite of fast and long-ranged pokes that make him a strong contender in grounded neutral.Ukyo Tachibana is a defensive mixup character with strong grounded neutral and one of the best 50/50 mixups in the game. Play him if you like simple effective playstyles, good neutral, mixups, long blue hair, or want to raise awareness for tuberculosis. If you want a character who’s basically guaranteed to be strong in one way or another, look no further than Ukyo. Like Haohmaru, he can also “fake” his Hiken Sasameyuki special to make the opponent commit to something stupid. On the ground, 2B is fast and covers the space directly above your head, so jumping is almost always a bad idea against Ukyo. While Tsubame is nowhere near the terror it was in previous games (most notably Samsho 2), it comes out in only 5 frames, granting him near unrivaled control over the airspace and making up for his unusually floaty jump. Once Ukyo has scored a knockdown, he can employ his deadly mixup-game, which include an instant overhead and a grounded cross-up.

He specializes in harassing the opponent from mid-screen with fast, high priority normals and punishing mistakes with his far-reaching strikes or a quickly executed TK Tsubame. Ukyo has everything you could ask for in a character: Fast movement, long reach, damaging punishes, reliable anti-airs, great mixups, you name it.

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