#05 · Heavy body

Leona

The Radiant Dawn

Armored shield tank who banks meter on defenseResource: SunlightDifficulty

A heavy sword-and-shield tank who gets stronger by being attacked. Blocking, armoring through hits, and landing her shield bashes all fill Sunlight, which opens her Solar Flare field and powers her Skybound. Pick her if you like winning turns with armor and a stun bash, then cashing the bar into huge field routes.

MeterSort50 combos

Magic series floor

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5L›5M›5H

The shared magic series on a standing dummy.

Damage: 1190
Hits: 3
Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +4

2H launch into the air chain

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H

5L 5M 5H 2H jump cancel into j.L j.M j.H.

Damage: 2256
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +8
End adv.: +40

Zenith cancel

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5L›5M›5H›236M

5L 5M 5H cancelled into the 236M Zenith Blade.

Damage: 1614
Hits: 4
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +9

Air KD into ground KD

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›3H›5L›5M›5H›236M

The air chain's j.H ends leg 0 and is picked up; the grounded 3H closes leg 1 and its pickup opens leg 2 before the 236M Zenith.

Damage: 2749
Hits: 15
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +11
Legs: 3

OTG

Bash into the leash

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5L›5M›5U›6U›623H

5U stuns into the 6U leash, and the 623H rise closes the string.

Damage: 1950
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +13
End adv.: +19

Bounce

Stun into the launcher

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5L›5M›5U›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H

The 5U bash stun is the opener; 2H launches and jump cancels into the air chain.

Damage: 2008
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +9
End adv.: +40

Stun, air chain, ground pickup

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5L›5M›5U›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›3H

The stun opener carries the whole air chain; j.H ends leg 0 and the 3H pickup opens the second.

Damage: 2323
Hits: 11
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +11
End adv.: +9
Legs: 2

OTG

Armored leash into the EX bash

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5L›5M›5H›236H›623EX

236H armors in and launches; the EX 623 finishes while the leash still holds them.

Damage: 2265
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -40

EXBounce

Bash string into the EX rise

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5L›5M›5U›6U›623EX

Stun, leash, then the EX rise instead of the H.

Damage: 1979
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -42

EXBounce

Shield into the EX rise

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5L›5M›5H›214M›623EX

214M eats a hit and banks Sunlight, then the EX rise closes.

Damage: 2045
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -41

EXBounce

Shield into Skybound

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5L›5M›5H›214M›Skybound

214M's armor holds the turn and Skybound slams for the wallstick.

Damage: 2917
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -91
End adv.: +19

SuperWallstick

Bash string into Awakening

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5L›5M›5U›6U›623H›Awakening

The bash route cashes the full sun; Awakening's Eclipse carries the wallstick.

Damage: 3760
Hits: 6
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -87
End adv.: +8

SuperBounceWallstick

Auto ender into Awakening

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5L›5M›5H›236M›Awakening

236M Zenith is the auto ender; the super cashes it for the wallstick.

Damage: 3520
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -91
End adv.: +8

SuperWallstick

Field route

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5L›5M›5H›22M

The bar is preset at 50, so 22M plants the field on the end of the string and the eruption joins the combo.

Damage: 1918
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +12
End adv.: +7

Three legs into the rise

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›3H›5L›5M›5H›623H

Air KD, ground KD, pickup, then 623H closes the third leg.

Damage: 2785
Hits: 15
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +11
End adv.: +19
Legs: 3

BounceOTG

Three legs into Skybound

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›3H›5L›5M›5H›Skybound

The full three-leg route cashes Skybound.

Damage: 3045
Hits: 15
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -90
End adv.: +19
Legs: 3

SuperWallstickOTG

Three legs into Awakening

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›3H›5L›5M›5H›Awakening

Awakening after the third leg.

Damage: 3182
Hits: 15
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -90
End adv.: +8
Legs: 3

SuperWallstickOTG

Style Cancel into a second leash

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5L›5M›5H›236M›SC›5L›5M›5H›236H›623EX

Style Cancel clears the special budget, so the 236M route continues into a second 236H and the EX rise.

Damage: 3151
Hits: 9
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -59

EXStyle CancelBounce

Corner: air chain into Skybound

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›Skybound

Started at the wall so the air KD's pickup and the Skybound wallstick both stick.

Damage: 3214
Hits: 11
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -91
End adv.: +15
Legs: 2

SuperWallstickOTG

Low flare into the rise

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2L›2M›214L›623M

The low starter. 214L's shield-edge flare rises into 623M on hit, one of her chains past the one-special rule.

Damage: 1152
Hits: 4
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +11
End adv.: +7

Low stub into the Eclipse bridge

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2L›2M›2U›214M›236M

2U hands the low string to the held shield, and 214M bridges into the leash on hit.

Damage: 1693
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +16

Eclipse bridge

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5L›5M›5H›214M›236H

W into E: the held shield special-cancels into 236H, so the armored string ends on the launch.

Damage: 1976
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +14
End adv.: +7

Eclipse bridge into the EX rise

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5L›5M›5H›214M›236H›623EX

Three specials in one leg: the bridge, then the leash cashes into 623EX.

Damage: 2507
Hits: 6
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -36

EXBounce

Stun, wide flare, leash, EX rise

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5L›5M›5U›214H›236H›623EX

The 5U stun opens the wide flare, the flare bridges into 236H, and 623EX finishes.

Damage: 2344
Hits: 6
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -34

EXBounce

Eclipse bridge into Skybound

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5L›5M›5H›214M›236M›Skybound

236M stays grounded, so the bridge can cash straight into the sun slam.

Damage: 3382
Hits: 6
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -86
End adv.: +19

SuperWallstick

Eclipse bridge into Awakening

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5L›5M›5H›214M›236M›Awakening

The same bridge spent on the full sun.

Damage: 3698
Hits: 6
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -86
End adv.: +8

SuperWallstick

Zenith pin

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5L›5M›5H›236EX›5L›5M›5H

236EX pins the body where it stands (the EX wallstick), so the armored leash buys a fresh magic series.

Damage: 2337
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -44

EXWallstick

Zenith pin into the air slam

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5L›5M›5H›236EX›5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U

Pin, re-string into the 2H launch, and ride the air chain down with the j.U slam.

Damage: 3190
Hits: 12
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -39
End adv.: +31

EXWallstick

Zenith pin into the stun launch

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5L›5M›5H›236EX›5L›5M›5U›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H

The pinned body eats the 5U stun, then the launch.

Damage: 2821
Hits: 11
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -40
End adv.: +40

EXWallstick

Sun field, rise, leash

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22M›5L›5M›5H›623H›236H

Plant 22M at 50 Sunlight, walk the eruption into a string, and while the sun burns 623H extends into 236H.

Damage: 3160
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +25
End adv.: +7

Bounce

Sun field, rise, wide flare

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22M›5L›5M›5H›623H›214H

The same field extension, spent on the wide flare for the Sunlight-safe ender.

Damage: 3031
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +25

Bounce

Small sun extension

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22L›5L›5M›5H›623H›236H

22L is the quick plant; the extension still opens while it burns.

Damage: 2654
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +22
End adv.: +7

Bounce

Sun field into the EX leash

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22M›5L›5M›5H›623H›214M›236EX

The field extension into the held shield, then 236EX pins at the end.

Damage: 3389
Hits: 8
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -25

EXBounceWallstick

Sun field into Skybound

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22M›5L›5M›5H›623H›214H›Skybound

Field, rise, wide flare, and the sun slam: her biggest meter route.

Damage: 4561
Hits: 8
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -75
End adv.: +19

SuperBounceWallstick

Corner: sun field into Skybound

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22M›5L›5M›5H›623H›214H›Skybound

The field route against the wall.

Damage: 4561
Hits: 8
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -75
End adv.: +15

SuperBounceWallstick

Corner: Zenith pin into the air slam

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5L›5M›5H›236EX›5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U

The pin route against the wall.

Damage: 3190
Hits: 12
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -39
End adv.: +31

EXWallstick

Launch into the air slam

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U

j.H cancels into the j.U shield slam for the air ender.

Damage: 2632
Hits: 8
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +10
End adv.: +31

Low launch into the air slam

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2L›2M›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U

The same air ender off the low string.

Damage: 2109
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +9
End adv.: +31

Air slam, ground pickup, sweep

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U›5L›5M›5H›3H

The slam knocks down, the OTG 5L opens the second leg, and 3H sweeps.

Damage: 2932
Hits: 12
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +12
End adv.: +9
Legs: 2

OTG

Stun, air slam, Eclipse bridge

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5L›5M›5U›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.U›5L›5M›5H›214M›236H

The stun launch lands on j.U, and the second leg ends on the bridge.

Damage: 2746
Hits: 12
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +15
End adv.: +7
Legs: 2

OTG

Stun, low flare, rise: the sun opener

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5L›5M›5U›214L›623M

The Sunlight opener. The 5U bash banks 10, the 214L flare 8, the chain into 623M 20 plus the rise 12: 50, so the field is open on the knockdown.

Damage: 1476
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +13
End adv.: +9

Wide flare carry

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5L›5M›5U›214H

214H is the carry ender: a 9 m/s send toward the corner instead of the leash guard or the rise Sunlight.

Damage: 1323
Hits: 4
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +11

Eclipse bridge, guarded leash

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2L›2M›2U›214M›236H

The oki ender. The bridge banks 20 Sunlight and the landed 236H leaves the Solar guard up for 60f, so the pressure after it is guarded.

Damage: 1781
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +16
End adv.: +7

Air slam into the bash pickup

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U›5L›5M›5U›6U›623H

j.U slams after j.H, and the pickup spends the second chain on 5U 6U into the rise.

Damage: 3352
Hits: 13
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +14
End adv.: +19
Legs: 2

BounceOTG

Air slam into the Eclipse bridge

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U›5L›5M›5H›214M›236H

The pickup cashes the 214M -> 236H bridge.

Damage: 3209
Hits: 13
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +15
End adv.: +7
Legs: 2

OTG

Air slam, bash, bridge, EX rise

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U›5L›5M›5U›6U›214M›236H›623EX

Stun pickup into the bridge, then the EX rise.

Damage: 3684
Hits: 15
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -34
Legs: 2

EXBounceOTG

Air slam, bash pickup, Awakening

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U›5L›5M›5U›6U›623H›Awakening

The air slam route ended on Awakening off the rise.

Damage: 4188
Hits: 14
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -86
End adv.: +8
Legs: 2

SuperBounceWallstickOTG

Sun field, flare, Style Dash up, pickup

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22M›5L›5M›5H›623H›214H›SDC8›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›3H

The sun field route ends on 214H; SDC8 hops up into j.M j.H and the OTG pickup sweeps with 3H.

Damage: 3791
Hits: 13
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 25 Style
Style net: +4
End adv.: +9
Legs: 2

Style CancelBounceOTG

Air slam, bash leash, Style Dash air finish

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›j.U›5L›5M›5U›6U›623H›SDC8›j.M›j.H

Air slam into the bash pickup; the 623H leash is normally the end. SDC8 hops up after it for j.M j.H.

Damage: 3468
Hits: 15
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 25 Style
Style net: -11
End adv.: +9
Legs: 2

Style CancelBounceOTG

Zenith pin, air chain, forward Style Dash

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5L›5M›5H›236EX›5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›SDC6›j.M›j.H

The air forward SDC: after the pinned launch's j.H, SDC6 carries Leona a dash length forward in the air to restart j.M j.H.

Damage: 2977
Hits: 13
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 75 Style
Style net: -64
End adv.: +31

EXStyle CancelWallstick

Notation

7 Jump back
8 Jump up
9 Jump forward
44 Backdash
66 Dash
jc Jump cancel
j.66 Air dash
IAD Instant air dash
SC Style Cancel (spends 25 Style, 10f screen freeze)
SDC6 Style Dash Cancel forward
SDC4 Style Dash Cancel back
SDC8 Style Dash Cancel up
SDC2 Style Dash Cancel down
236EX L+M version of a special (costs Style)
Every route is replayed in the real sim on a standing dummy; damage and advantage are the results.

Combo notes

Bash into the leash (bread and butter): 5L 5M 5U 6U 623H. Meterless, banks Sunlight twice, and leaves her well ahead.
Stun launch: 5L 5M 5U 2H jc j.L j.M j.H. 5U's stun lets 2H link, and j.U can end the air chain instead of j.H.
Eclipse bridge: 5L 5M 5H 214M 236H, cashed into 623EX with 50 Style. Off the stun, use 5L 5M 5U 214H 236H 623EX.
Low starter: 2L 2M 214L 623M (the low rise), or 2L 2M 2U 214M 236H (the bridge, ends with the Solar guard up).
The Sunlight opener: 5L 5M 5U 214L 623M banks exactly 50, so you can plant 22 on the knockdown.
Air slam legs:
- 5L 5M 5H 2H jc j.L j.M j.H j.U knocks down.
- The OTG 5L opens a second leg: 5L 5M 5U 6U 623H (3352, meterless), or 5L 5M 5H 214M 236H.
Zenith pin (50 Style): 5L 5M 5H 236EX, then a full fresh 5L 5M 5H 2H jc j.L j.M j.H j.U.
Field routes (50 Sunlight):
- Open with 22M, walk the eruption into 5L 5M 5H 623H, then extend while the sun burns: 236H, 214H, or 214M 236EX.
- With 100 Style: 22M 5L 5M 5H 623H 214H Skybound is her biggest route at 4561.
Supers:
- Skybound cashes off 214M, 236M, or 623H.
- Awakening at the end of the air slam legs route (... j.U 5L 5M 5U 6U 623H) is her biggest route without a field.
- The more Sunlight you have, the more Skybound pays.
Style Cancel: 5L 5M 5H 236M SC 5L 5M 5H 236H 623EX buys a second Zenith.
Style Dash: SDC8 or SDC6 after a launching special (623H, 236H) keeps the leg going when you've already spent the special cancel.
Autocombo: mashing L walks 5L 5M 5H 236M, then Skybound at 100 Style or 236EX at 50. The field is never in the auto: it needs Sunlight you only build on defense.