Louis
"No matter how much civilization advances, in the end it’s instinct and strength that matters most." – Louis
From the Beastars Wiki:
Louis was the head actor of the Cherryton Academy drama club and was the candidate for the title of Beastar. He also served as the boss of the Shishigumi for a time. Louis appears to be arrogant and self-righteous, but underneath him lies his insecurity about being physically weak.
In Rivals, Louis has good range on his normals. His game plan is centered around obtaining his adoration meter to full. He operates at a brawler range but lacks strong set play tools.
This is a small meter shown in the bottom right that tracks how much the crowd loves him. For every 2 stacks of adoration, his attacks get 1 frame of start up and endlag reduced, so at max stacks (6) he will get 3 frames faster for start up and endlag on all of his attacks. At max stacks, he will start to glow in the limelight and will have access to a powerful showstopper that consumes his stacks in return for a powerful option.
Doing these will increase stacks:
– Hitting opponents
– Standing in the spotlight
– Rehearsing Moves for later
He will lose stacks
– Being hit (1 stack per hit)
– Using the Dspec show stopper (all stacks)
– On death (all stacks)
Louis is no stranger to practice. He can "rehearse" a move by inputting parry on the move’s start up, which will then cancel that move and store it. This increases his adoration stacks and can be used as part of Fspecial. The aerial and ground versions have different memories, so he can have two sets of moves rehearsed, up to 3. Certain moves, like Jab, Ftilt, Dtilt, continue on to the second part of their move, meaning you can rehearse while still keeping the pressure or advantage on. The show does not slow down for anybody. You will see a white flash and a text logo to indicate that you successfully rehearsed it.
These moves can be rehearsed
– Jab 1
– Jab 3
– Ftilt 1
– Ftilt 2
– Dtilt 1
– Dtilt 2
– Dattack
– Fstrong
– Nair
– Fair
– Bair (will go forward during Fspec)
– Nspecial (Must input parry while shooting)
– Dspecial 2 (Combust)
– Taunt
– Louis will draw his hand gun and load it with rounds.
– Functions very similarly to Ranno Nspecial
– Holding Special will load more rounds into it.
– Letting go of special will fire it.
– Hitting parry will allow you to cancel it or roll.
– This move can be rehearsed if parry is inputted just before firing.
– If rehearsed, it will use the stored ammo, so make sure you have ammo stored before using it.
– This move is normally a two swing slash that carries momentum forward.
– This will play back the last 3 rehearsed moves in reverse order.
– It has a different memory for aerial versus ground attacks, so you can store for both.
– You can get really creative with this.
– See Above for the moves you can rehearse
– When not at max adoration stacks, this move will spawn a spot light.
– Staying in the light will passively increase your adoration stacks.
– The spotlight can be hit by the opponent to get rid of it.
– The cooldown on it is long, so having it removed could stop you from accessing your adoration.
– When at max stacks of adoration, Dspec will become a powerful Forsburn Combust like move.
– It has similar frame data to Forsburn’s enhanced combust but is a bit weaker and has a more forgiving angle flipper.
– Using it will remove all of your adoration stacks.
– Functions similarly to Mii sword fighter Uspecial Sword Scabbard.
– Input once for the rising motion
– Input special again before going into pratfall to do a dropping attack.
– Has a medium powered shockwave on landing that can kill on bad DI.
– Amberlearner – Did the sprite work and moveset design
– Opengunner – Programmed the character and did the effects
