Azucena

Azucena
Heat	Libertador Revolución can be used. (f+3+4), (3,2,F) Nuevo Libertador can be used. (b+2,F), (b+1,1,2,F), (LIB.1,2,F) During libertador in heat: Powered up auto-parries, new move (LIB.d+3+4), parries and walking forwards or sideways regains heat
Heat Smash	Mid, i15~16, +6
Heat Engagers	3,3 f+4,4 b+3 LIB.2 d+1+3/d+2+4
Stances	LIB (Libertador) – f+3+4 BT (Backturn) – b+3+4
Fastest
Launch	i15 – df+2 (standing) i15 – ws2 (crouching)
CH launch	i15 – 1+2 (high) i17 – df+3 (mid, standing) i13 – ws1 (mid, crouching) i14 – BT.1+2 (mid) i15 – LIB.4,1 (mid, high)
Wall splat	i10 – 1,2 (standing) i10 – BT.1,2 i13 – LIB.1,2
Archetypal moves
Sabaki	uf+1 (high & mid punches)
Mid check	df+1 - i13 (Standing) ws1 - i13 (Crouching) ws4 - i11 (Crouching)
Orbital	uf+4 - i24 BT.3+4 - i27
Stature kick	db+3 - i16 BT.3 - i19
Power low	LIB.d+4,4 - i19
Slash kick	f,f,F3,2 -i15(~20)
Generic moves
Remapped	d+1 → db+1 d+2 → db+2
Missing	(none)
External links
Lore	Azucena Ortiz
Twitter	#T8_Azucena
Discord	Azucena's Coffee House

Azucena, the Peruvian coffee queen, is a simple, stance-oriented mixup character who thrives off of entering her Libertador (LIB) and Backturn (BT) stances to attack her opponents. Both stances have a diverse set of mixup options, frame traps and pressure tools that allow Azucena to maximize her damage from stance entries in a variety of ways. She can also trick her opponent using the stances' parries and built-in movement options to dance around them.

Heat makes it much easier for Azucena to enter Libertador and enforce her mixups, thus making her stance mixups more powerful.

While in her stances, her pressure and mixup potential is great, her neutral is the opposite. She must rely on conditioning her opponent with string extension threats or outplaying the opponent. She must also layer her mixups to avoid becoming predictable.

Strengths

• Simple inputs and easy to use stance moves.
• Amazing 10 frame wallsplating punisher to setup stance mixups or keep pressure going.
• Vast amount of wallsplating moves giving easy access to her devastating oki setups at the wall.
• Various CH launchers (e.g., ws1, 1+2)
• Great heat engagers that can be used in multiple ways; punishment, mixups, pressure, counter hits and to shut down sidestepping.
• Good set of panic and evasive moves to escape pressure and stance mixups (e.g., f+1+2, db+3+4)

Weaknesses

• Weak punishment from crouch.
• Strings have very limited follow-ups, with most exclusively only having duckable highs.
• Slow and telling recovery makes her keepout risky and an easy target for whiff punishment.