The Roaring Knight

The Roaring Knight is a swordfighter that must use their ultra, Create Dark Fountain, to gain powerful new uses for their ultra meter. Ultra : Create Dark Fountain The first step to the Knight's gameplan. It enables Darkness Stance and Darkness Cancels, with DCs in particular being pivotal to making up for the Knight's bad frame data. The incredibly long startup is the main thing that must be worked around. It takes roughly 3. 6 seconds to start, so the opponent has plenty of time to interrupt it. This sets the Knight back to 95% ultra, so they must land another hit in order to get another attempt. Mechanic : Dark Cancels Once the Dark Fountain is active, the Knight can cancel any attack into any other attack or a jump by using 25% Ultra Meter. This allows for combos that were previously impossible, and significantly higher reward off of certain moves. Neutral Special : Shadow Step A simple yet versatile teleport. Great as a recovery tool, a decent way to traverse the stage, and useful in combos to reposition. It also has invulnerable frames near the middle of the animation, giving it some evasive ability. Side Special : Knife Flurry An extremely active high damage multihit with very slow startup. It also disables vertical movement, allowing for some use in recovery. Up Special : Sword Dance A two step projectile. The first use spawns a sword slightly above the knight, while the second use sends it out towards the opponent. The sword homes in on the opponents position on startup, and stuns for very easy followups. Down Special : Crescent Slash An alternative to Shadow Step. It gains invulnerability much earlier and has an attack, but also has nearly double the total frames. As it doesn't share the same usage limit as Shadow Step, both can be used in the air for long distance recovery. The attack itself is nothing special, but comes with the ability to reflect projectiles. Mechanic : Darkness Stance A unique stance entered using Taunt. This gives the Knight access to