 So Asha is a demon who has found an artifact to the Chris. It's a mystical sword and When she slays demons with it it purifies her soul So she fights with the Chris all the time and you could imagine that gives her exceptionally good Great, how many how many bad things do you think she's done that she's constantly having to purify her soul? She is literally a demon from the Netherrealm so I think she's been a bad girl All right, she's been through it. All right. She's done a few bad things You can see almost all of her normal attacks use her weapon like she's got a super good uppercut Which is gonna give her good range instantly sweet Little bop there Yeah, we all know that's the bop I've played against Dan in cinematics plays a lot of Asha and it's the range She keeps you at is one of the sort of frustrating ranges, right? Let's go over her throat Slashy slash we got a bop we got a flashy slash Oh, little frost throw And now let's go over special moves so they are very neat. She has a really unique play style So the first thing she has is projectile, which is not a typical fast tiny projectile It takes up a ton of real estate on screen Not go full screen And it's not the fastest in the world, but it reaches almost to the top of the screen So you're not jumping it Exactly right and you're not ducking it Exactly Also has crisscross It's a sword slash. This is excellent combo andra and Control kind of the ground in the air And what's one of the ways you beat like long range footsy tools You beat Yeah, by jumping so you could say crisscross makes you jump jump You really set these up. Oh, yeah Ha ha ha Look, I don't understand why people say this is cringe. I don't know. No, no, no It's my least favorite term on the internet, by the way Did any of the attacks you were just showing have ex versions? Um, yes. In fact, I'll show one right now. The sword uppercut, which when you ex it allows her to combo Awesome But the projectile and the criss-ity-corrosity they just do more damage. Oh, okay. Cool. And I think crisscross has A pop-up. Okay. Cool. So thanks for reminding me. Yeah. Yeah team. No problem. And then lastly we have A ghost dash. So this is a cool move where she sends a ghost Travels as far as she wants And she can cancel it And she can also do This quicker version that goes behind it But you're following it. Exactly So for the most part she's got a bunch of range attacks And she can get distance with her sword attacks So she really kind of plays that mid to far game and if you try jumping in at her She has that special move that just is a rising sword attack That's just then going to allow her to extend air combos. Exactly nailed it But there's one really cool Mechanic involved in all this that makes her Just an added layer to make her a little bit more in-depth and tell us about that layer Let's peel that onion half into her dark side and this changes the properties on most of her specialty. Okay. Her fireball becomes a ground spark It can reach full screen. Oh geez short medium and far version. Okay And so that you have to you have to choose which which version, right? Exactly. Got you. Pretty quick Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So I gotta turn it back on. All right. Gotta turn on the darkness Her shadow charge completely changes and now it actually Teleports further the location And she can again cancel it Okay, okay, or actually go directly to where the ghost is and she can use that to go behind you Cancel it and she can still do the quick attack. Okay. Now one thing you might notice is when she's doing these moves The opponent is getting Dark side attached to them. You got those little swirly things around there, right exactly which can stack up to three times Once she turns back to life All of her light attacks will then do an external or extra hit of damage Depending on how many stacks she has very cool That's awesome. Now some of the ghost flashes. Uh, can you do any of those in the air or anything like that? Yeah She can do all the ghost flashes in the air and drop down. Oh geez. She can do an attack She can combos with it. What can't she do? I don't think she has a command grab. She does not Okay, so or a pure soul So playing as her your your goal is really you're you're switching back and forth and back and forth to give Yes, you're going to be wanting to switch you back and forth depending on the ranger at what the other tools are You can really mend your day and you're locking them down at distance anyway, too So let's talk about cameos. I chose frost. You might be saying now How am I supposed to be switching in and out in the middle of fight? You think he's going to be advancing on me. He might do his flying kick it's fireballs and all that Well, let's cover a couple of frost smooths one is the ground ice straight from w alliance Super fast low combo starter and it seems to cover like a majority of the screen exactly This is going to be a big time movement check when you're fighting frost You could let it rip at any time. It's going to be super dangerous. That's going to keep the opponent on our toes And then boom you've hit it swap exactly She also has or be orb or be orb where she sends a frozen orb out A slow-moving orb that'll freeze the opponent that hits them and you got to respect that. It's basically it Exactly a perfect time to switch your stance to get your things going cool and then lastly She has Delactite move that's a super quick combo ender or if she holds it She gets a secret special fourth move what where she does these stabby stabs and if you block you can see this has Can you uh Block up the controller and lock This will actually push you a full screen and do chip and that's going to each Back in range to be going for your and that's a low two that you're doing there. Yes. Yeah, so You know, um now the meter burner hold down stabby stab Does that cost any additional meter or anything like that? The same as regular. Okay. I do not have the cool down time Okay, and also something to mention, you know, still giving progress things are still being tweaked and balanced and what not totally Things you see here damage wise and that sort of thing may change. Yeah, obviously So there's there's a very good chance. There's a very good chance. Well, I'll remember the combo idea back Oh, here he goes that that just didn't work later. No, I still the Dundee. Yeah, I still hear about this day Let's check out our fatal blow I think the wings are So bad Yeah, huge fan of the wings. It's an audible gas during the fatality. Yeah And that is astra. It is super exciting to have her back I love how we've again taken these almost 20 year old characters and reimagined them. Welcome back astra Still a demon awesome