[Char] Cord (Levi Version)

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Introduction
Cord is a character originating from Gad's creations, a boss that uses id: 52(Julian) and moves extremely fast, has a bunch of incredibly melee moves and a signature Grab attack that deals significant damage.

My rework on Cord retains his nature as a demon character, removing retaliation and teleportation and redesigns him as a trickster melee fighter that powers up one of his moves via Blood System, derived from Counter system implemented in Counter Template.

Description
Cord is a tricky melee fighter who specializes on evading blows and dealing damage at the same time.

His Blood system is a counter that rewards player with risky play, and therefore discourages spamming dash attack and Blood Blast (D>A) too much.

Blood system alters his Blasphemy move (DvA). With no Blood stacks, Blasphemy is a simple retaliating wing swipe that stuns. With Blood stacks they are automatically consumed, costing double mp but also creating blood slashes which increases reach of the move and drastically increasing damage.

While Cord can deal high damage with melee combos, his engage skill is relatively poor and specializes on evasion. Blood Blast is a high, fast-moving strong projectile that damages enemy off guard, and his unique ability to fly allows him to stay away from volley of projectiles for extended time.

Update
9 Dec 2020:
Blasphemy MP cost changed from 15%(+15%) to 20%(+0%)
Ferocious Claw damage increased from 45 to 50
Flip attack damage changed from 25+15 to 30+30

20 July 2018:
AI is now more susceptible to his dash attack
Decreased ending time of Blasphemy by 3/30s

18 July 2018:
Limited Blood Blast to only last 32/30 second
Removed MP cost of Ferocious Claw, increased its height and propel
Fly has been reworked to become a new state

Fixed a bug that caused Ferocious claw to not grant blood when hitting enemy at the middle of duration
Blood Slashes of Blasphemy now stuns if single, or knocks enemies back if multiple
Pressing Jump will no longer automatically trigger fly
Pressing Attack with rolling will now properly pick light weapon on the way

Move list (Click to View)

Fly
Jump + J
0%MP
Enters a flying state, Cord falls slower and can control his moving direction by direction keys (^ v < >).
Press J to cancel flying.
Press A to cancel flying and perform an attack.

Ferocious Claw
Run + A
0%MP
45 damage

Blood Blast
D>A
50% MP
50 damage

Flip attack
D^A (A)
15% +15% MP
30 +30 (+35) damage

Blasphemy
DvA:
20% MP
40 + 20x(0~5) damage

Cord can hold maximum of 6 Blood
Blasphemy consumes up to 5 Blood to trade for equal number of Blood Slashes

Blood can be gained by:

Flip attack (1 Blood per hit, first 2 hits only)
Ferocious Claw (Maximum 2 Blood)
Super punch (1 Blood)
Grab attack (1 Blood, first punch only)

Screenshot
Basic punches

Fly + Jump attack

Blood Blast (D>A)

Ferocious Claw (Run + A)

Blasphemy (0 Blood) + Flip Attack (D^A + A)

Punch x2 + Blasphemy (1 Blood)

Punch x2 + Blasphemy (5 Blood) + Run attack


Video demonstration

Demo for newest version is in preparation
Demo, version 16 July 2018

Download

Version: 9 Dec 2020
Mediafire


Credits

Gad for original Cord
STM and Nyamaiku for move and DC advice

Blood slashes are created by modifying sprites from aweryn, posted on
https://vxresource.wordpress.com/2010/02...nimations/

[rewlf2]

Updated in 18 July 2018:

Limited Blood Blast to only last 32/30 second
Removed MP cost of Ferocious Claw, increased its height and propel
Fly has been reworked to become a new state

Fixed a bug that caused Ferocious claw to not grant blood when hitting enemy at the middle of duration
Blood Slashes of Blasphemy now stuns if single, or knocks enemies back if multiple
Pressing Jump will no longer automatically trigger fly
Pressing Attack with rolling will now properly pick light weapon on the way

[rewlf2]

Updated in 20 July 2018:

AI is now more susceptible to his dash attack
Decreased ending time of Blasphemy by 3/30s

[rewlf2]

Updated in 9 Dec 2020:

Blasphemy MP cost changed from 15%(+15%) to 20%(+0%)
Ferocious Claw damage increased from 45 to 50
Flip attack damage changed from 25+15 to 30+30