How To: Read Frame Data

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@FinchoMatic

I look at the data in the links you gave me and it is indeed correct in this way of looking at it. I decided to go with the way that it was detailed in the Training Mode, including adjustments noted in previous updates. Both ways articulate frame data enough to describe it, I just decided to follow with the game’s definition of what frame data is considering that this is what we have to work with.

Here’s the problem with that…

KI Character Frame Data Spreadsheets Inside

Here, this might help. I recorded Thunder doing shadow grab + Jago doing wind kick next to him (so you can see exactly when the opposing character stops moving because the super freeze is active). Notice how Jago is frozen in place after the 5th frame (ie, the frame that will hit him). This might help you understand why I say “you are hit the frame before the freeze happens”, and it might help you with that whole “counts the first active frame” thing. Notice that the Thunder grab hitbox is actu…

Your sheet for thunder currently lists 5LP and shadow COTE as having different startup times, even though they’re both 5-frame moves using the street fighter way of writing frame data.

As a simple ease of use thing, listing first active in the startup is much more convenient when quickly skimming through frame data looking for something like punishes, as you simply take the startup of a move and compare it against another move’s frame disadvantage–no adding 1 frame required.