Buffs:
General:
- Sora has a mild increase in range on his keyblade attacks.
- Sora gets a small increase to his grab range.

Ground Attacks:
- Sora's FTilt does more knockback.
- Sora's UTilt has decreased KB, but increased KBG, making it a better comboing move, but not outright spammable.
- Sora's DTilt does more damage. 4% -> 8%
- Sora's Dash Attack can be acted out of sooner, and jump cancelled, improving his approach.
- The sourspot at the base of FSmash is slightly stronger.
- FSmash's sweetspot does more horizontal knockback.

Aerial Attacks:
- Nair's damage is increased to 10%
- Fair's KB scaling increases but it's base KB decreases, making it viable for combos, but better at killing.

Throws:
- DThrow does less KB, but sends foes at a slightly more upward angle, allowing for Aerial Followups after a grab.
- UThrow's base KB and KBG decreased, making it better at chain throwing.


Special Moves:
- Strike Raid can be smash thrown in a similar manner to Project Crusade Ryu's method of performing EX Hadoken. If the direction Sora is facing is tapped in a similar manner to executing Smash Missiles, then Strike Raid will function similarly to 0.9a Strike Raid.
- Flowmotion can be cancelled by pressing Special, similar to Fox Illusion. Doing so will remove the hitbox, but it will not put you in to helpless. You will not be able to cancel the move if you angle it, and the move will deplete your double jump.
- DFlow and UFlow do slightly more shield damage.
- DFlow will always meteor smash.
- Flowmotion can be angled more steeply and doesn't stop momentum after use.
- (OLD) Thundaga meteor smashes.
- (OLD) Finishing Leap can be angled in a similar way to Super Jump Punch.

Nerfs:
General:
- Sora gets a decrease in falling speed.

Ground Attacks:
- Up Tilt does less damage (8% total)

Aerial Attacks:
- Fair does less damage (9%)
- Bair does less damage (10%)
- Bair has higher KBG, making it less efficient for comboing at high percents.
- Uair does more KB, making it less spammable.

Special Moves:
- Strike Raid can no longer be cancelled.
- Flowmotion has a priority decrease, so it won't travel through many projectiles.
- Flowmotion has more endlag, preventing it from being spammed.
- NFlow has a higher decrease in KB when staling, preventing infinites.
- Thundaga no longer eats through certain projectiles (old)

Apologies this took so long. I've had a lot on...

Finishing Leap:

This is easily Sora's best special move. For a few reasons:

• You can use it twice from the ground.
• It doesn't leave you helpless, so you can extend combos without the need to land.
• You can cancel it at any point in the move into an aerial.
• You can use it as a combo starter and a combo breaker, because it's surprisingly fast.

It also has a reverse hitbox, which is useful if you want to guarantee back airs off of this move. With this property, you can get some rather high damage true combos off a jab reset. For instance:

Jab - Reverse Up-B -> Bair -> Uair -> Up-B -> Fair.

This is a guaranteed 57%. Because of UAir's properties when falling, you could in theory string another UAir when falling to extend the combo. Additionally, were you to land the reverse hitbox again, you would be able to potentially extend this to 77% if you land the moves perfectly. This is slightly more effective on larger characters, which is useful for you, because many of your worst matchups are these larger heavier characters.

Finishing Leap's property of cancelling into an aerial, much like Lloyd's Tiger Blade, make it a good combo starter. Often you can get a surprisingly good amount of damage just from an Up-B aerial. The percentages are as follows:

Up-B -> Nair = 15%
Up-B -> Fair = 23%
Up-B -> Bair = 25%
Up-B -> UAir = 15%
Up-B -> Dair = 15%

Bear in mind, that because many of Sora's aerials also link, you can further this damage output, adding a Fair to a Dair/UAir/Nair will up the damage to 29%. Fair after Bair can do 39%. Double Bair can do 41%. The list goes on.

Because of it's relatively fast startup, Sora can use this to get out of combos, and start his own. However there's one major disadvantage:

If you're by the edge, misinputting the direction can be fatal.

However, it's easily Sora's most reliable method of breaking combos, which he desperately needs of he wants to change the momentum of the match to himself once again. The fact that it leads into any aerial is icing on the cake.

The Neutral Game
Sora's neutral is less than stellar, however he has at least some options to use when taking on the neutral game. In this section, I'll be outlining uses of Sora's options he has for playing the neutral, as well as how useful they are. Below are the list of options he can have when playing grounded.

I will also list the tools in the neutral that they play, in other words when to use them:

• Jab - Get-off-me option
• Forward Tilt - Combo tool/Get-off-me option
• Up Tilt - Combo starter/tool
• Down Tilt - Combo starter/tool
• Dash Attack - Combo tool/Get-off-me option
• Forward Smash - Finisher
• Up Smash - Anti-air/Finisher
• Down Smash - Damage tool/Projectile defence
• Grab and Throws - Chain grab
• Strike Raid - Damage tool (aided by cancelling)
• Flowmotion - Pseudo wavedash, combo starter (latter is very situational)
• Finishing Leap - Combo starter, shifts the focus to air game.
• Thundaga - Projectile defence (situational)

Seems a bit of a mess, right? Well, I'll explain each of the roles and the rank I give them in doing their job.

Combo starters:
From most useful to least useful: Finishing Leap, Down Tilt, Up Tilt, Flowmotion
In terms of starting the combo, Finishing Leap is easily your best option, simply because it can take you into a zone where you can generally be more comfortable with Sora. It's ability to cancel into an aerial gives it double the utility.

Down Tilt is a fast poke that can lead to itself, up tilt, forward tilt, forward smash and many others at the lower percentages. I will add a list of things this will work for. It has less range and damage than many of Sora's other tilts, but it is nonetheless a very useful combo starter because of these properties.

Up Tilt is a bit more on the sluggish side, but it makes up for it by having a good amount of horizontal coverage and disjointed range. It hits twice and deals 14%, whilst being able to combo into itself on fastfallers ( , and ). It's less useful as it can be a bit slow, but it is generally useful.

Flowmotion is generally to risky to throw out in Neutral. It's startup is long, you die if you go off the edge with it, even by a little. It's easy to punish, and generally it isn't viable for combo starting. If you do use it, make sure to flowcancel it and for comboing, NFlow is generally the best option.

More coming soon...