[C] Walker - 2.08

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Hello everyone!

It has been almost 9 months since I made any posts here, and what can I say.
Caught up in everyday life trying to get a job, which I finally did a couple of weeks ago!
Now I'm brimming with energy for LF2 again, so I hope you still are interested in Walker.

I looked back at some comments and PMs, and decided to go nuts.
As I was considering earlier I have now switched back Walker to normal running, so no more bunny hopping.
Also I have now allowed Walker to cancel his dash into his air specials as he could do that from his hop.

I also skipped the anti-projectile move, I think it would fit some other kind of character better.

Other major changes include:

• Phantom Dash: has change from being a command dash with a punch follow-up to be a dashing throw instead. Just to test I'm using Louis throw animation (with wall bounce). I think this works much better than the old move where you had to time the follow-up attack with little visual clues.
  
• Phantom Punch: as PD (or Phantom Catch now?) has changed to not have this as follow-up this is now a standalone move (as suggested by comments). As it is now much easier to use and still cause quite much damage due to JD+A it costs 25mp (I think it was 10+10 before).
  
• Phantom Guard2: I added a second experimental counterattack, and right now it counters the same things for the same time. On successful counter it deals massive damage though in a flashy(?) way.
  
• Phantom Kick: after making the divekick for Phantom Guard2 I asked myself "how would it be if it was a standalone move?" and this is the result. The animation is poor and I believe the move is way too strong as it disrupts your opponents play very much, though it is quite satisfying when you get those five hits in.
  
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My concerns right now:

• Phantom Punch and the loss of air combos: Before you could do Super A >　Phantom Dash > Phantom Punch to air combo, but with the changes to Phantom Dash/Catch, now I think there will be less opportunity for those old air combos. Because of this, I pondering whether the Jump Punch (JD+A) should go, as it severly limited in use now, and makes Phantom Punch give much more damage then maybe it should (which is why I upped the cost).
  
  
• Phantom Guard2: is just a stronger version of Phantom Guard. Can one make it more interesting? Just changing the start-up and active time for the move I feel isn't really it. A move more fitted for crowd control maybe (like the original move Stampede)? Or something to counter projectiles like making Walker teleport behind the opponent on successful counter (to combat his lack of range)? I am all ears for suggestions!
  
  
• Phantom Kick: I think the move aside from looking awful right now, probably is broken. (I was sad to find out that the teleporting state doesn't track your opponent's height) Your opponent cannot really pick up a heavy item with out being punished. While it is only 10 damage for that, if you time it with your opponents jump you can get some more hits and damage in. Is this move interesting at all? One could make it a follow-up move for each of the other moves (so that you cannot use it alone and adjust the trajectory for each move)? Or should it just die?
  
  
• Lack of variation: Super A and Run A uses same animation, Jump A and Dash A uses same animation. While this is mostly because the sprites are only half-done due to me going icognito for a year or two, does anyone have any suggestion for changing this (for future sprites)? I guess more moves that launches opponent for air combos would be interesting?
  

Download Link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iejivlvbzqsv4z....04%5D.rar

Thank you guys for all your comments, help and most of all patience.
I'll try to stay more active from now on!