Ragna the Bloodedge/Move List

Ragna the Bloodedge is a character with easy to use and basic, but effective, bread-and-butter combos. Unlike most main characters, Ragna does not use projectiles for range, and has an aggressive, melee-rushdown oriented playstyle. He is all about forcing his way through the opponent's guard by any means necessary, and bringing the pain with high-damage, long combos. Because of this, he can often experience difficulty with characters that excel at zoning due to lacking projectiles, such as Nu -No. 13- and Jin Kisaragi, even with movement options at his disposal.

Like a number of rushdown characters, he works very well with physical range, as his 5B and 5C are very good mid-range punishers that provide solid spacing and tend to be excellent hit-confirms into his combos. Overall, Ragna is more so, your average run-of-the-mill footsies character, as opposed to a pure rushdown type.

Ragna however, has his weaknesses. Firstly, at 10,000 health he is amongst one of the lower HP characters, making him more of a 'glass cannon'. And despite his powerful offense, he is much better at neutral game. Thus, his mixup is easy to telegraph due to his simplistic blockstrings (due to gaps in that area due to a few slow moves on either startup or recovery, especially on block), so he can have trouble enforcing his offense at best. So learning to apply pressure with Ragna is an important aspect, despite it being one of his more weaker areas as one of the weaker-rushdown characters.

Ragna is also a rather basic character, meaning there's not too much to him compared to others, and he offers more risk than reward. His combos are mainly average at best, and require deep understanding of how the damage scaling on both damage and hitstun tend to work. Due to being basic like so, Ragna players often need to work harder than other characters with better specialization, and rely on both fundamentals and unorthodox tactics to open up other characters in the hands of more well-aware players.

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