Snake Edge

"You gotta block the Snake Edge!"

Snake Edge is the name of Bryan's df+3. It's notorious for being a homing, high crushing, low launcher—properties that would make for a great move, were it not for its one weakness: being so slow you should be able to react to it. Because of this, if an opponent can react to it it's almost useless, but if they can't it's one of the strongest moves in the game.

Snake Edge is also used to refer to similar moves, but there's no wide agreement on exactly what it takes for a move to be a Snake Edge. Under the strictest definition, a Snake Edge must be easily reactable, low, launch on hit, stagger on block, homing, and high crush. Under the loosest definition, a Snake Edge is merely any reactable low.

Table of Snake Edges

In this table:

• Each move gets a point for everything it shares with Snake Edge
• To be included, a move must be a reactable low and have at least 3 points
• Startup of i26 and slower is considered easily reactable and worth a point
• Startup of i23 to i25 is considered reactable and worth half a point
• High crush starting at frame 9 or earlier (beats jab) is worth a point
• High crush starting at frame 14 or earlier is worth half a point

Character	Move	Startup	KND	Launch	CH KND	CH launch	Stagger	High crush	Homing	Total	Can cancel
Bryan	df+3	i29	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-26	cs6~	Yes	8	No
Feng	db+4	i30	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-26	cs4~	Yes	8	No
Katarina	db+4	i29	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-26	cs6~	Yes	8	No
Lili	db+4	i30	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-24	cs5~	Yes	8	No
Xiaoyu	df+3	i27	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-23	cs6~	Yes	8	Yes
Zafina	SCR.df+3,3	i28	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-23	cs6~	Yes	8	No
Miguel	SAV.db+4	i26	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-29	cs10~	Yes	7.5	No
Alisa	d+3+4	i27	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-37	cs20~	Yes	7	Yes
Eddy	3~4	i29	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-24	cs7~	No	7	No
Eddy	HSP.3~4	i27	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-24	cs4~	No	7	No
Eliza	3+4	i33	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-27	cs23~	Yes	7	No
Hwoarang	LFS.d+4 RFS.d+3	i28	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-23	cs8~	No	7	No
Anna	CJM.4	i27	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-29	cs14~	No	6.5	No
Kuma	db+4	i28	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-23	cs12~	No	6.5	No
Alisa	CLK.d+3	i30	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-12	cs9~	No	6	No
Anna	db+3	i27	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-17	cs6~	No	6	No
Claudio	STB.d+2,2	i31	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-12	cs6~	No	6	No
Dragunov	db+3	i27	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	-27	cs6~	No	6	Yes
Gigas	FC.df+2	i28	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-19	cs1~	No	6	No
King	FC.df+1	i33	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-12	cs1~	No	6	No
Law	db+4	i26	Yes	No	Yes	No	-37	cs6~	Yes	6	No
Miguel	db+1*	i31	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-18	cs9~	No	6	No
Paul	FC.df+1+2	i32	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-12	cs1~	No	6	Yes
Zafina	db+1+2	i28	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-16	cs9~	No	6	No
Lee	HMS.4	i24	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	-26	cs6~	No	5.5	No
Lei	sSNA.4	i24	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-29	No	No	5.5	No
Master Raven	qcf+2	i27	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-17	cs10~	No	5.5	Yes
Yoshimitsu	NSS.FC.b+1	i25	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	-16	cs1~	No	5.5	No
Julia	b+3	i27	No	No	Yes	Yes	-13	cs6~	No	4	No
Claudio	db+3	i24	No	No	Yes	Yes	-15	cs6~	No	3.5	No
Geese	d+1+2	i24	Yes	No	Yes	No	-18	cs6~	No	3.5	No
Kazuya	d+1+2	i25	No	No	Yes	Yes	-14	cs6~	No	3.5	Yes

External links

• Tekkengineer's guide to dealing with 21 different Snake Edges