DBFZ/Lab Coat Android 21/Strategy

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General Tactics

Lab Coat is a potent, well rounded character with no distinct faults. This lets her run many different gameplans and lets her pick whichever one the opponent is most weak to. Her neutral is strong between her Ki BlastsGuardAllStartup13RecoveryTotal 37Advantage-4, BeamGuardAllStartup17Recovery29Advantage-12, and anti-air toolsGuardAllStartup9Recovery12+6LAdvantage-4 which lets her effectively keep opponents out. When she wants to go in, her Savory SlicerGuardAllStartup13Recovery12+4LAdvantage-8 is among the best lariats in the game and is also Ki Blast invulnerable. In pressure, she has every option available to her: overheads, lows, command grabs, and even a decent crossup normal with j.H.

Deserving of its own section, Photon Pulse is a cut above other level 1 supers. Between the command grab itself, the damage boost, the debuff, and the invulnerability, it's an invaluable tool for Lab Coat. She can land it raw, she can land it in a combo, either way is good for her. In terms of defensive usage, BarrierGuardStartupRecoveryTotal 48Advantage- is better for catching buttons. However, when going for a command grab, Photon Pulse is both faster and more invincible than 214SGuardThrowStartup24~30Recovery24Advantage-.

Team positioning

Point

Lab Coat has everything you could want in a strong, functional point character. Her strong neutral is further augmented with assists, bolstering her keepout game or making her lariats plus. Her SD mixups are particularly devastating as she can use 5L midscreen and 2M in the corner. Her already above-average damage and metergain gets even higher with two assists at her disposal, letting her consistently two-touch opponents with even slight optimization.

Mid

While she's great point, she also makes a great mid. Savory SlicerGuardAllStartup20Recovery45Advantage+40 is a great assist as it's fast, highly advantageous, and Ki Blast invulnerable. She can do pretty much everything she could on point with minimal losses from having one less assist. She can use meter instead of an assist to extend blockstrings without a gap thanks to her beam.

Anchor

Lab Coat is self-sufficient to the point that she can be played anchor, but there are characters that have better assists in the same position. It mostly comes down to personal preference, but Lab Coat is definitely workable as an anchor.

Picking Teammates

Picking teammates with Lab Coat is more a matter of swapping a character on your team for her. She is that good. Find a shell you like and slap her on.

Blockstrings

Fitting as many normals into a true blockstring as possible gives you something like this:
2L > 5LL > 2M > 5M > 5H
This string has a total of 5 lows in it. You read that right. Any time before 5H, you can insert 6H for a high. 2L, 5LL, 2M, 5M, and 5S are all safe on block, lending themselves to being great pressure reset points. 3H will frame trap from 5LL and any M or H buttons but won't lead to high reward, so it's best off being used towards the end of a string. At any time, Lab Coat can cancel into 214S or 236HS for a command grab attempt.

After 5H, Lab Coat gets to pick a blockstring ender depending on what resources she has available. With an assist, she can cancel into 236L or 22L to remain safe on block and reset pressure. With meter, she can blockstring into 236S > Vanish to stay plus. If she wants to back off, she can simply gatling into her 5S to regain space.

Fighting Lab Coat Android 21

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