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Karas: Tatsunoko vs. Capcom Strategy Guide and Moves

Last updated on June 1, 2009

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Special Moves

A (2) next to an arrow means to hold the joystick in that direction for 2 seconds to 'charge' the move.

With moves that charge by holding back or down, you can use the diagonal positions to charge up as well. For example, if you're holding back, you can jump backwards or block low and still maintain your charge.

• Shield Blade (Kumo Soto Kagami) •
Makes Karas quickly spin his sword, which will also reflect projectiles back at his enemy. It can also be Canceled into his Hyper Shield Blade move if it connects.

— Kasha Dash
— Low Sword Slash
   or   — Sword Slash or Overhead Attack
• Kasha Dash and Sword Slashes •
This can be thought of some what like Fei Long's Rekka Ken. The first move makes Karas dash forward, if that hits you can follow up with a fireball motion and pressing an attack button to make him slash with his sword, this needs to be blocked low.

After the second hit, you have two options, you can either quickly press Back then Forward + an Attack button for another slash with your weapon, or pressing Towards and Hard attack will cause Karas to do a jumping overhead slash. The overhead won't combo, but it's a nice high/low mix up.

After Karas lands his initial Kasha Dash attack, your opponent will be stunned for awhile so you can combo without using the pre-determined follow up moves listed above.

The button strength determines the power of your Kasha Dash.

• Sword Uppercut (Narukami) •
Fairly similar to Ryu's Dragon Punch. Karas uses his swords to do an upwards slash that starts up (gets to a hittable state) very quickly.

Great anti air move, also handy in combos. Light version hits 1 time, Medium 3 times and Hard 5 times. The heavier versions do more damage, but have more recovery time.

— Whip Grab
   or   — Auto Combo or Whip Pull
• Whip Grab (Hikou) •
Karas attempts to whip his opponent. If it hits, the whip will hold them so you can follow up with another move.

Auto Combo: Doing a fireball motion and pressing an attack button will make you follow up with a kick and sword slash.

Whip Pull: A reverse fireball and an attack button will make Karas pull his enemy towards him. If you use the Light button to do this, you'll have a very short amount of time to combo your opponent. Medium pulls them into the air so you can juggle them. Hard will bounce them off the wall so you can attempt an air combo.

Unless your timing is stellar, you're best off avoiding the Light Whip Pull, because the window you can combo with is small.

Hyper Moves

• Hyper Shield Blade (Level 1, Zan'eijin) •
This can only be done as a follow up after a regular Shield Blade, it's very damaging though. Karas will go invisible until the move finishes, but you can watch the damage he causes with his sword as your opponent is hit multiple times.

• Counter Sword (Level 1, Shiranui) •
Karas will pose and if he's struck during this time he'll counter attack twice with his sword. Works good when know your opponent is going to attack, like if they do a Hurricane Kick with Ryu or are tagging in after you kill their partner.

This doesn't work against other Hyper moves though.

• Moonlight Execution (Level 3, Hieizan Tsuki) •
An attack straight from the Karas anime series. Makes him pose and throw his shadow at his opponent. If it hits they get tied up in a huge web and pulled up in front of the moon.

Karas then jumps and launches a vicious sword attack that does a lot of damage.

This move can hit grounded characters, and it's got a very fast start up time. You can combo into this from a variety of ways as well. Just an awesome Hyper move.

Normal Moves

• Launcher •
This will launch your opponent up into the air.

Origins and Story

A Karas is a suit of armor animated by human souls which has parts that somewhat resemble a raven or crow. The human souls act as a guide to the Karas to help carry out the will of the land, which often leads them to fight malevolent (evil) spirits and sometimes other Karas.

The original Karas anime tells the story of Otoha, who's a former yakuza member, that's trying to stop his corrupt predecessor from taking over Tokyo.

Otoha has a very dark past and a strong aversion to other people's pain, which lead him to be an enforcer for the yakuza. Otoha would later become a Karas and help fight the organization he was once a part of.

Contributions to this guide by Gnik.