Alisa

Alisa
Heat	Increased chip damage on chainsaw attacks. Can use f+2+3 to directly enter DBT
Heat Smash	Mid, i20~21, +8
Heat Engagers	1+2 3,2 f+2,1 uf+2 DES.f+2,1,2
Stances	SBT (Boot) – f+3+4 DBT (Dual Boot) – DES.f+3 DES (Destructive Form) – d+1+2 BKP (Backup) – db+1
Fastest
Launch	i15 – uf+4,4
CH launch	i15 – b+4
Wall splat	i12 – 2,2 (standing) i17 – ws2 (crouching)
Archetypal moves
Parry	b+1+3 (high attacks)
Mid check	df+1 (standing) ws4 (crouching) ws1,2 (crouching) df+4 (standing)
Hopkick	uf+4,4
Generic moves
Remapped	(none)
Missing	d+2 d+4 uf,n,4
External links
Lore	Alisa Bosconovitch
Twitter	#T8_Alisa
Discord	Alisa Bosconovitch

This page is for Tekken 8. For Tekken 7, see Alisa (Tekken 7).

Alisa seems like a pretty run of the mill female Tekken character at first glance - good at medium range, good backdash and side step - but the robot has some tricks up her sleeve. Chainsaws, in fact. Her Destructive Form (DES) stance gives her two chainsaw arms that do insane chip damage, which only get more powerful in Heat.

She thrives when lingering just outside range 1. To maximize her capability, strong defensive movement is required in the form of backdash canceling and sidestepping. Her array of frustrating pokes, coupled with this great movement, gives her the ability to confidently whiff punish with moves like f+2,1, uf+2, or wr2, which can also be used to transition into DES. While running inputs are even easier in Tekken 8, allowing Alisa to more easily hit her crucial while running input on wr2.

Her Dual Boot (DBT) stances is nothing to sneeze at either, giving her even more access to very damaging, if not a bit slow, moves to further pack on the pain. While she can have a hard time making comebacks happen against more patient players due to her somewhat poor damage and risky big damage moves, leveraging her great movement and oppressive DES form can let her hang with the best of them.

Strengths

• Pokes are quick, have good range, and are safe or difficult to punish
• Safe launchers
• Excellent basic movement with sidesteps, sidewalks, and backdashes all being among the best
• Suffocating offense in Destructive Form

Weaknesses

• Pokes have low damage; she struggles on a life deficit
• Bigger comeback tools like DES.d+2 are slow
• Short range on several key block punishes

Key techniques

Mashing

importance

★★★★★

value

★★★★★

dexterity

★☆☆☆☆

rhythm

★★☆☆☆

Blocking

importance

☆☆☆☆☆

value

☆☆☆☆☆

dexterity

★★★★★

rhythm

★★★★★