#01 · Heavy body

Poppy

Keeper of the Hammer

Heavy wall-carry setplayResource: SteadfastDifficulty

A short, sturdy heavy who throws her buckler for a damage-soaking shield, plants delayed Hammer Shocks that leave her plus, and charges you into the wall. Pick her if you want simple confirms, a real anti-air button, and a character who gets tougher the closer the fight is.

MeterSort29 combos

Magic series floor

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5L›5M›5H

The shared magic series: L -> M -> H on a standing dummy.

Damage: 1109
Hits: 3
Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +8

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: 2025
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +16
End adv.: +40

Hammer Shock cancel

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5L›5M›5H›22M

5L 5M 5H cancelled into the 22M plant.

Damage: 1775
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +13
End adv.: +1

Air chain into the OTG pickup

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›22M

Manual air chain, then the once-per-combo land L re-enters the auto finish.

Damage: 2549
Hits: 12
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +20
End adv.: +3
Legs: 2

OTG

Air chain into Skybound

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›22M›Skybound

Full air route, land OTG, then the Skybound finisher at 100 Style.

Damage: 3047
Hits: 13
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -80
End adv.: -12
Legs: 2

SuperWallstickOTG

Haymaker into Charge EX

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5L›5M›5H›236M›236EX

The special cancel sets up the 236EX finisher at 50 Style.

Damage: 2025
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -39

EXWallstick

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›22M

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 22M plant.

Damage: 2536
Hits: 16
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +19
End adv.: +3
Legs: 3

OTG

Toss into the charge

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5L›5M›5U›6U

5U tosses the buckler and gatlings into 6U Heroic Charge; the neutral confirm.

Damage: 1556
Hits: 4
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +11

Low chain into the flare

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2L›2M›2U

The low magic series confirms into the Steadfast flare at close range; the flare is the anti-air callout.

Damage: 1583
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +13

Flare into the EX charge

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2L›2M›2U›5H›623EX

The flare spends the leg's one special, so the follow-up is a normal then the EX reversal charge, which carries to the wall.

Damage: 2448
Hits: 7
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -35

EXWallstick

Hammer pop into a second chain

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5L›5M›5H›22L›5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H

22L's quick eruption pops them back up out of the plant, so the gatling runs a second time into the air chain.

Damage: 2746
Hits: 12
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +24
End adv.: +40

Hammer pop into the OTG pickup

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5L›5M›5H›22L›5L›5M›5H›3H›5L›5M›5H›22M

The eruption pop re-opens the gatling, then the 3H sweep ends the leg and the pickup opens the next.

Damage: 2979
Hits: 14
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +23
End adv.: +3
Legs: 2

OTG

EX Hammer Shock

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5L›5M›5H›22EX

The EX eruption wallsticks even away from the wall.

Damage: 1967
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -42
End adv.: +16

EXWallstick

EX Hammer Shock pin relaunch

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5L›5M›5H›22EX›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H

The eruption's fake wall pins the body while it slides down, so a 5H still links and the 2H lifts it into an air string.

Damage: 3177
Hits: 10
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -33
End adv.: +40

EXWallstick

Charge wallstick into Verdict

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5L›5M›5H›236H›Skybound

236H Heroic Charge carries to the wall and the stick holds long enough for Keeper's Verdict.

Damage: 2686
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -89

SuperWallstick

Charge stick into the full Verdict

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5L›5M›5H›236M›Awakening

236M is the combo wall carry; the charged Verdict cashes it.

Damage: 3171
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -89
End adv.: +56

Super

Reversal charge into the EX

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5L›5M›5H›623M›623EX

623M's strike invuln carries into the EX reversal for the extra untech and the fake wall.

Damage: 2058
Hits: 5
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -39

EXWallstick

Charge wall into the land pickup

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5L›5M›5U›6U›5L›5M›5H›22M

6U sticks them to the wall, she lands, and the pickup re-enters the auto ender.

Damage: 2694
Hits: 9
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +20
End adv.: +3

Charge wall into Verdict

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5L›5M›5U›6U›5L›5M›5H›22M›Skybound

The 6U wall stick sets up the pickup and the super.

Damage: 3527
Hits: 10
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -80
End adv.: -12

SuperWallstick

Air KD into the OTG charge

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

The air KD's pickup opens the second leg and 236M carries them to the wall to close it.

Damage: 2439
Hits: 11
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +19
Legs: 2

OTG

Three legs into Verdict

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›3H›5L›5M›5H›22M›Skybound

The full three-leg shell ends on the charged Verdict.

Damage: 2821
Hits: 17
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -81
End adv.: -12
Legs: 3

SuperWallstickOTG

Three legs into the full Verdict

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5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›3H›5L›5M›5H›22M›Awakening

Awakening after the third leg.

Damage: 2891
Hits: 16
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -81
End adv.: +56
Legs: 3

SuperOTG

Style Cancel into a second charge

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5L›5M›5H›236M›SC›5L›5M›5H›236H

Style Cancel clears the special budget, so the 236M route continues into a second charge.

Damage: 2580
Hits: 8
Difficulty: ★★★★★
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -6

Style Cancel

Corner: charge wall into the EX

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5L›5M›5U›6U›5L›5M›5H›22M›236EX

Started at the wall so the 6U stick and the EX both land against it.

Damage: 3067
Hits: 10
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -30
End adv.: -1

EXWallstick

Hammer pop, air chain, OTG

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5L›5M›5H›22L›5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›22M

The 22L pop re-opens the ground chain, 2H launches, and the OTG pickup cashes 22M. The special bridge is what beats the plain three-leg route under the chain tax.

Damage: 3069
Hits: 17
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: no meter
Style net: +28
End adv.: +3
Legs: 2

OTG

Hammer pop route into the EX charge

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5L›5M›5H›22L›5L›5M›5H›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›22M›236EX

The hammer pop route, ended on 236EX off the 22M.

Damage: 3126
Hits: 17
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 50 Style
Style net: -23
Legs: 2

EXWallstickOTG

Charge wall into the full Verdict

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5L›5M›5U›6U›5L›5M›5H›22M›Awakening

Toss, charge to the wall, land pickup, 22M into Awakening.

Damage: 3749
Hits: 9
Difficulty: ★★★☆☆
Starts with: 100 Style
Style net: -82
End adv.: +56

Super

EX charge, Style Dash chase, relaunch

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2L›2M›2U›5H›623EX›SDC6›2L›2M›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›22M

The 623EX charge carries the foe past any plain Style Cancel pickup. SDC6 hops one dash length after the send, so 2L 2M 2H relaunches into the air chain and the OTG 5L string ends on 22M.

Damage: 3849
Hits: 20
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 75 Style
Style net: -47
End adv.: +3
Legs: 2

EXStyle CancelWallstickOTG

Heavy charge, Style Dash chase, relaunch

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5L›5M›5H›236H›SDC6›2L›2M›2H›jc›j.L›j.M›j.H›5L›5M›5H›22M

236H sends too far for a plain Style Cancel to reach. SDC6 closes the gap, 2L 2M 2H relaunches, and the OTG pickup cashes the air chain with 22M.

Damage: 3283
Hits: 17
Difficulty: ★★★★☆
Starts with: 25 Style
Style net: +4
End adv.: +3
Legs: 2

Style CancelOTG

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

One regular special per leg. After a special cancel, the next special in the same leg has to be an EX, a super, or come after a Style Cancel. The knockdown pickup (j.H or 3H, then land 5L) opens a new leg and resets that rule, up to three legs.
Autocombo: mashing 5L (or 5M) walks 5L 5M 5H 22M, then the next tap spends Skybound at 100 Style or 236EX at 50.
Neutral confirm: 5L 5M 5U 6U. 6U is plus on hit, so it links into 5L 5M 5H 22M for a full meterless route, and with a full bar it ends in Awakening or Skybound.
Low confirm: 2L 2M 2U, with 5H 623EX at 50 Style for wall carry.
Best meterless damage: use 22L's pop instead of just re-running normals, e.g. 5L 5M 5H 22L 5L 5M 5H 2H jc j.L j.M j.H 5L 5M 5H 22M. Repeating the magic series costs damage each time, so specials and U buttons are how routes grow.
Wall carry: 236M sets up Awakening; 236H sticks long enough for Skybound.
One bar: 5L 5M 5H 22EX 5H 2H jc j.L j.M j.H uses the fake wall to relaunch.
Style Dash: 236H and 623EX send too far for a plain Style Cancel; SDC6 chases them into 2L 2M 2H for a second launch.