Fixed

Edit: Although I do prefer the 3-hit jab, it was better in basically every way since you can just press jab once then use a different attack, badabing badaboom, one-hit jab or you can use all 3 jabs for ta variety of reasons... but no, we are limited to something we can do before anyway... which is to spam jab 1

Play 0.9b Sora; you'll find out real soon that Finishing Leap allows you to combo into all of his aerials and Beta Sora takes around the same amount of time to act out from Aerial Recovery as with Finishing Leap.

Again, they could have just given Finishing Leap that extra height (which I forgot to mention before) and the ability to use Flowmotion afterward.

Again, you can use an aerial instead. One of five

New "Tech" I found (I dont know if it is useful)
You can cancel Flowmotion forward into flowmotion up while stilll hitting the last hit of flowmotion up
I think that you can maybe add Up-B to Fair to kill your opponent

Flow cancel has been in ssf2 since 9b, except it's now kinda easier to perform but weaker

Rip 20% damage Flowcancel

loving this guy in beta

After thinking about it, I think that Sora might need some more major buffs/reworks and QoL changes to make him a more viable character overall. Here's what I believe could happen to make him a better character overall:



Any thoughts?

Neutral Special turned into one-hit is meh for me, on one hand it loses the lasting hitbox but now you can't SDI it anymore

Up Special getting a hitbox while getting rid of the ability to do an aerial anytime in the duration (whether it's frame one of activation or the very last frame)... yeah, not a fan

Although I do really like the other changes because Sora's Mid-Tier at BEST... also maybe less endlag when Flowdashing so Sora can at least have another movement option, idk

Aerial Recovery won't allow Sora to attack for only half its duration; the second half of it can allow Sora to perform an aerial if the inputs are fast enough. So really, there's nothing wrong with giving it the hitbox back; you're adding more damage and better combo ability on top of it at the expense of not using aerials for half the move.

From what I've seen happen in the latest Beta Patch, I have a firm belief that Sora needs a rework as a character. Every patch the developers make is another patch where Sora is more and more of a buggy, broken [not in a good way] mess. So I think that if the developers were serious about Sora, I do believe that they just need to redo him.

Now below is just my own opinion, but I think these rework changes will benefit Sora's competitive future and make him a better and more fun character at the same time:



I believe that these changes here would make Sora into something that's not only more akin to his games, but also more appealing to those who enjoy combos or even the Kingdom Hearts series as a whole. I put a lot of thought into this, and I hope you guys in the Sora community like what I thought of. I'd actually like to hear opinions on this.

Aside from Cure and Magnet sounding incredibly broken, Im mainly concerned as to why Sora needs a glorified roll/airdodge on a Special Move Im not really convinced tbh.

And tbh, Command Deck is fine rn... maybe a KB buff, but not a rework where there's 7 specials all merged into one

Don't you think you're overdoing this a little?
I mean, Cure restores 30% of Damage jfc, and a 20 second cooldown is nothing, when it comes to a move like that.
Magnet also sounds really broken as hell.

Well, Dodge Roll is actually different from his other rolls, as the endlag is significantly shorter and the distance is just a little further. This is basically to allow Sora to continue comboing from slightly harder hitting moves. However, I never said Aerial Dodge was a purely defensive move; in fact, I never wanted it to grant invincibility either, so Sora is actually still quite vulnerable and can get hit out of it.

The reason I did give him these, however, is to replace the currently bad Side B, Flowmotion, since on many characters, the various inputs of it just don't work as intended.



The reason I gave the Command Deck 7 attacks is not only because of variety, but to also somewhat stay true to the games themselves. However, if you don't want 7 attacks, there's two options; one is that we could reduce it to 4 or 5, or, the optional scenario in that, before a match, the Sora player can sort what Magic they'll use [up to 3].



Not on his normals, no.
As for Cure, I realized that 20 seconds is quite low for something so good, so, I was thinking 50 seconds should be enough for a move that heals 30% damage.
And then there's Magnet, which I gave 12 seconds cooldown now [instead of 8], and explained its range a little bit.

Anyway, you three, are there any parts of my rework you agree with? Or any other part that might concern you?

A move shouldnt heal 30% in general period. That is quite a large chunk of health that can easily change the entire momentum of a match. Magnet still locks opponents in place for more than two seconds, which is plenty of time to either deal tons of damage and/or guarantee a kill. The cooldown isnt the problem, the moves just do way too much.

Why do you want Flowmotion to be replaced entirely anyways? The move worked fine before 1.0.3, and Im pretty certain that it can work again properly in the future.


Oh yeah, because noone has mentioned it yet: Flowmotion is arguably the worst move in the game now. Flowmo Back and Forward do not work at all anymore and Sora just does nothing/zooms past the opponent respectively. Flowmo Down is... weird. Sometimes you need to do a Flowmo Up Cancel into Flowmo Down to get it to work, sometimes Flowmo Down just works on its own. Flowmo Up is still working. Same for Neutral Flowmo, but that one got increased ending lag which makes Neutral Flowmo -> Fire, one of Soras key kill confirms, incredibly hard to pull off and basically removes it entirely if the opponent is wary. Fix plz

Oh, and FSmash is still dumb. Neato.