Pokemon: Close Combat/Blaziken

Blaziken performs a simple standing jab.

• Combo starter with excellent frame data

Blaziken does a roundhouse kick to the air.

• Great anti-air because of where it hits along with its upper body invulnerability

Blaziken steps forward a bit and hits in front of it with the back of its fist.

• Solid poke
• Converts into 5BB from a decent range
• Good in block pressure due to stringing into super from far away

Blaziken kicks out at the ground.

• Short-ranged cancellable low, key mix option after j8A or as a meaty
• Mostly combo fodder, as it gatlings out of 5A and strings into 2B
• Moves Blaziken forward slightly, allowing it to stay close to its opponent during combos
• Leads to parry/strike/throw RPS on block

Blaziken squats down and greatly extends its leg in a low kick.

• Has great range, making it a dangerous tool in neutral when combined with its run
• Hits meaty after throw and can be made safe with 2BB

Blaziken kicks in front of it in the air.

• Weak version of jA comes out on frame 19
• Very large jump-in to start your offense

Blaziken punches the air below it.

• Great jump in tool, especially when Blaziken has its opponent cornered
• Leads to high/low/throw mix thanks to its jB cancel

Blaziken kicks the air and sends out a spinning fire projectile.

• Advantage assumes done point blank
• All fireballs sent out by Blaziken's moves do the same amount of damage & endurance
• Primary neutral tool, allows you to space your approach options and you can challenge their parries rather easily

Blaziken uppercuts the air.

• Reliable anti-air
• Greater vertical but weaker horizontal range compared to 4A
• Situational reversal
• Blaziken travels much farther horizontally if the move is used while dashing forwards

Blaziken does a two-hit spinning kick, rising into the air as it moves forward.

• Burst option in neutral to catch the opponent off guard
• Excellent corner carry
• Blaziken travels much farther horizontally if the move is used while dashing forwards
• Safe on block at max range

Blaziken does a flip kick downward.

• Jump-in, trades the jump normals' speed and on-block advantage for size and movement
• Redirects Blaziken's aerial momentum, allowing for a surprise attack after jumping backwards
• Deceptively active, making it sometimes difficult to deal with
• Final hitbox is slow & rarely seen but hits cross-up

Blaziken sends out another fireball.

• Advantage assumes you either got hit point-blank or blocked the previous 5B
• Point blank 5BB is unsafe on block
• Extremely useful on oki when trying to cover tech options as well as making 5B more safe
• Combos into 5A or 2A afterward unlike 5B, converting a 6A into great damage

Blaziken sends out a fire projectile from its legs.

• Useful in neutral as it sends out a projectile combined with forward movement
• Can be used after destroying a projectile with 2B, punishing a fireball from fullscreen
• Makes 2B and by extension 3A safe on block
• The fireball sent out can be crouched under, although some low profiling moves and even shorter characters and simply go underneath it untouched

Blaziken unleashes a rising uppercut, its fist engulfed in flames.

• Reliable reversal
• Somewhat tricky to punish because of its horizontal movement
• Excellent for stealing turns on C-Cancel

Blaziken does 3 advancing kicks to the air.

• Excellent corner carry off the same starters as 2B
• Very high endurance damage, though it's unsafe if you don't get the guard break
• Similar counterplay to projectiles as its 2B counterpart but with even more burst range

Blaziken breathes out a giant fireball, burning anything near it.

• Great for pressuring low-endurance characters by cancelling 5B
• 6A 5B 426B allows you to convert a large normal into high frame advantage
• The final hit launches the opponent upwards, allowing Blaziken to continue its combo by jumping to follow up

Blaziken knees the opponent three times and sends them upward.

• One of Blaziken's best tools, leading to a meaty 3A or almost meaty throw loop
• Almost unique among throws in that it does not knock down the opponent

Blaziken rolls backward and throws the opponent away.

Blaziken strikes forward with its elbow.