Overview
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 CT, she travels to the city of "Kagutsuchi", to assassinate Jin and her former classmate Noel for deserting the NOL.
Health: 11,000
Guard Primers: 5
Play-style: Rush-down, Mix-up, Flashy
Movement Options: 1 Double Jump/Airdash, Run-type Dash
Drive: Install
Tsubaki’s drive is 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 among other things. The D versions of her specials have properties that can lead to new mix-up options 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.
Tsubaki also has a Distortion Drive called "Macto Maledictus" (214214D) or more commonly referred to as "Tsubaki Mugen/Install" which will use up all charges that she has but will allow you to use as many D specials that you want for a certain amount of time depending on how many charges were used to initially start it.
Note that:
- Tsubaki will be in a CH state while she's charging.
- Using a D special will always use up 1 charge (unless you're in Mugen/Install).
- In terms of recovery: 2D > 5D > j.D
- In terms of charging speed: 5D > j.D > 2D