Lina Inverse
Where treasure glitters, I’m there to claim it!
Where an enemy rises to face me, victory will be mine!!
This character is a collaboration with AppleHeck for the ExW server’s Anime Jam 2023 event. We hope you enjoy playing as this goofy sorceress just as much as we enjoyed making her!
The prodigal and hot-headed protagonist of Slayers, Lina Inverse, joins the fray in search of treasure, food and glory! (but mostly the first two). Lina is a lightweight and flexible zoner who can easily alternate between bursts of aggressive play and defensive zoning thanks to her versatile assortment of spells and explosive damage output. She also comes with her signature move from the show, the devastating Dragon Slave. Underestimate this beautiful sorceress and you’ll be gone in a flash!
A magical stance that offers 4 fiery spells for you to charge up:
Level 1: One Finger Fireball The most basic (and low-effort) projectile. Good at pestering people when you don’t have time to charge.
Level 2: Burst Flare A more reliable projectile similar to FSpecial, trading speed for damage.
Level 3: Mega Brand A slow-travelling ball of energy that traps hit opponents inside a powerful multi-hitting explosion. Excellent at continuing combos and edge-guarding, but beware that Lina can be caught in her own explosion if the Mega Brand ball is parried back at her!
Level 4: Dragon Slave Lina’s signature move, an overwhelming beam of energy that can wipe mountains out in a single shot! Continuously charging Level 3 will slowly fill up your Dragon Slave meter, taking about 25 continuous seconds of charging to fill all the way up. But if you can somehow charge it up in a single life, it’ll be lights out for the fools who stand in your way!
Lina hurls a swirling javelin of light forward! This reliable move is at the crux of Lina’s neutral and combo game. While it lacks the kill potential of Lina’s NSpecial spells, its versatility makes it useful when you don’t have a good spell charged up.
Lina charges up an energetic shield of wind and takes off to the skies! This windy shield dissipates after only a second, but you can hold down Special during Lina’s flight to keep the Raywing shield around you once the move is over!
This shield will make Lina much floatier, granting you a safer recovery and an easier time weaving around in the air for your neutral game and combos in exchange for being more vulnerable to kills off the top of the screen. Raywing will go away after 6 seconds of being active, or until Lina either parries or gets parried.
Lina winds back and unleashes a large, disjointed pentagram in front of her. Foes hit by it will be trapped for a few seconds, shocked repeatedly before being knocked away. A niche tool given its start up and noticeable end-lag, but one that can still catch foes off-guard when used in combos or cheeky edgeguard plays.
Each hit of DSpecial will also boost your Dragon Slave meter, giving you an extra way to work towards that devastating blast without solely committing to charging it up.
Moveset Conceptualization, Animation, Balance, Coding – TheMH06
Art (Base Sprite, Up-Special, Down-Special, D-Attack, Portrait), Animation Cleanup, Feedback/Support – AppleHeck
Jab Code, Playtesting, Feedback – ArtistOfSeer
DStrong/DSpecial/USpecial SFX – Hei Komori
Providing this Gremlin’s iconic voice – Megumi Hayashibara
Creating Slayers – Hajime Kanzaka
Revisions:
Old revisions of this mod are available below. Click the link to download.
