Devoted to training from an early age, she possesses tremendous combat ability despite being a woman. After graduating from the Military Academy, she took an active role as the Lieutenant of the organization known as the 0th Division. Following the events of Calamity Trigger, she travels to the city of "Kagutsuchi", to assassinate Jin and her former classmate and best friend Noel for deserting the NOL.
Health: 11,000
Play-style: Balanced; Rush-down, Mix-up
Movement Options: 1 double-jump/airdash, run-dash
Drive: Install
Pressing 5D, 2D, or j.D will cause her to “charge” her install meter. Holding the button on 5D, 2D, or j.D will cause charging to accelerate at a specific rate. Gaining and using charges effectively is key to being successful with Tsubaki. The D versions of her specials have properties that can lead to new mix-up options, damage, and combos which will be explained later. She can only hold a maximum of 5 charges at any time during a round and any left over charges will not be carried to the next round. Some of Tsubaki's normals can be "charge-cancelled" which is used to cancel the recovery of those moves. The normals that can be charge cancelled are noted below.
Overdrive: Second Install
After activating overdrive, Tsubaki automatically gains charges at a set rate for however long OD will last when used depending on her health. For example, if you choose to use her OD in the beginning of a match, you will gain, at most, 2 charges before it ends. Charge cancelling recovery are faster during OD. Her normals 6A, 6B, 6BB, 6C, 6CC, 2C, j.CC can be OD canceled.
If you try to activate her distortion drive "Macto Maledictus" aka Tsubaki Mugen/Install (214214D) and then OD to gain the benefits of both, Mugen will take priority. This means that her charge bar will start to drain instead of gaining charges. However! Her charge bar will drain slower during Mugen in OD.
Some general information on overdrive (OD) as it is a new system mechanic in Chrono Phantasma:
- You activate OD by pressing A+B+C+D when you are not blocking or taking damage, as OD and bursts use the same input.
- The OD gauge becomes 3/4 depleted after being used but it recharges with time. How much has been recharged will carry over to the next round.
- Since the gauge is used for both OD and bursts, if you use OD you can not burst until the gauge is full again and vice versa (if you burst you can not use OD).
- The lower your health, the longer OD will last and the match timer will also freeze while OD is active.
- You can NOT burst out of combos during OD.
Pros/Strengths:
Cons/Weaknesses:
For a list of changes that Tsubaki received in Chrono Phantasma and discussion check out this thread!
Offense
Tsubaki has a good okizeme option with her 3C(C). This is usually done mid-screen after a knockdown from 22X with a followup dash, though it can also be done in the corner. However, it's not as ambiguous as if it were done at mid-screen. Be wary of your meter to ensure you can still rapid cancel if you make a mistake due to it still being highly unsafe when blocked. You can also feint the second hit of 3CC to block DPs/reversals.
Her ability to delay many of her gatlings is actually quite useful for punishing IB specialists and mashing alike, you just have to know what options are available to you at the given time and predict the move of your opponent that you can punish.
Blockstrings
Resets
Tsubaki Install/Mugen
This is more beneficial to Tsubaki now as it maximizes her damage output with her drive specials as well as her charge meter not going down during hit-stop.
Defense
Charge Setups