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I have no feelings: A Sai Guide!; By: Ness_Success
Topic Started: Tue Feb 2, 2010 6:42 pm (1,055 Views)
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.:A Sai Guide:.
by Ness_Success

This is a guide to help you play everyones favorite socially awkward ninja, Sai!

Table of Contents


  • Introduction
  • Why play Sai?
  • Combos
    A. Basic Combos
    B. Combos Into Specials
    C. Helpful Tips
  • Latent Ninja Power
  • A moves


Introduction
Sai grew up as an orphan and was recruited into ROOT, a seperate, secret part of ANBU. There he was raised and deprived of having any sort of emotion, personality, or even a name. Sai is a name given to him by Danzo when he ordered him to join Team Kakashi. During his time with team Kakashi, he didd'nt get along with Naruto or Sakura. Sai is confused as to why Naruto tries so hard to bring Sasuke back to the hidden leaf, even though he wasnt ordered to. After spending time with Naruto, Sai gains lost memories of a friend he became very close with in ROOT, Shin. Shin was like an older brother to Sai, but died of a disease. Sai wants to understand more about bonds, and wants to make some for himself.


Why play Sai?

Sai is different from other characters. He can play offensively or defensively. His back b is one of his best moves and goes through most attacks and leads into long combos. Every single one of Sais combos only ends when you want it to, or when the opponent kawarimi no jutsus. The reason for this is even if an attack of his sends you flying, you can follow it up if you dash toward the opponent and right before they hit the ground hit up b b a. You can continue this countless times, until your oponent gets annoyed and teleports. You get extra damage in, the opponent loses 75% of there chakra, and they get pissed off! win-win-win! Ill go more into his combos in the combo section. Sais LNP is also very good. It makes his birds come flying back a couple seconds after they leave the screen. Most of the time your opponent forgets about it and it can win you the match even if your at a decent loss. Sometimes when I get my LNP I run away and spam up a. If you do this, just make sure whoever your playing doesnt have a fast attack that can hit you from far away, because you are volnerable during the attack. Most of Sais combos also lead into his supers aswell.

Combos
I will try to explain most of Sai's combos.


A. Basic Combos
I will go more in deph with these combos, and when and when not to use them later.

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C. Helpful Tips
Here I will give you random helpful tips be it to extend combos, or whatever.

  • Combos into specials #s 4-6 you should try to do when the opponent has low chakra. If the opponent has less then 75% chakra by the time you use his down special, they wont be able to KnJ it.

  • Basic combo #9 can be used any tim the opponent is falling down from high up. It an even be repeated multiple times. A few of the combos it could be used after are basic combos #1, 4, 11.

  • If you dont have enough time to perform the above follow up, you can press Posted ImagePosted Image. It will hit even if the opponent is already on the ground, unless they quick roll to recover.

  • A good custom combo is Posted ImagePosted Image, Y Cancel, Posted Image, Posted Image, then run up and follow it up with a combo.

  • Sai's basic combo #7 is very good because it can follow up with a variety of things. Because of that when I Posted ImagePosted Image people, i try to follow it up with said combo, but be aware that that combo is blockable. If your opponet doesnt block it, its worth it, but because its blockable you would be better off with a basic B combo.

  • You can use Sai's A attack (Choujuu Giga/lion beast scroll) to get in an extra hit

    on multiple combos.

  • If people run up to you and attempt a normal b combo, just use a back B combo. Seriously! It goes through most attacks Be careful of other back b's though.

  • I put this in the combo section, but here im teling you that its unavoidable. If you get someone with Sais down Y grab, and press x immediatly after, its a guarenteed hit. (even if they have enough chakra to KnJ)



    Latent Ninja Power
    Sai's Latent Ninja Powers activate when he has 30% remaining health. It provides the following:

    • Up A (Bird) comes flying back from offstage. This is a really great LNP, you should really take advantage of it when its activated.
    • Down A (Snake) holds the opponent longer.
    • Ink attacks have extra defense. (A & Up A)


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    Posted Image- Choujuu Giga (Lion). Decent attack. Its really slow and easily punished. However you can make it go upwards if you hold up right after you press a, or you could make it flip backwards if you hold back right after pressing A. This automatically makes this attack something you can play around with. You can confuse people with this, possibly juggle them to. In LNP mode you get better defense when performing this move.

    Posted ImagePosted Image-A short sword slash. Its kind of slow. Works better if used after 'back A'. Depending on what button you press will change up the combo. Refer to the basic combos section for ways to make this useful.

    Posted ImagePosted Image-Sai teleports in a cloud of ink. He reapears behind the opponent. It takes away 1 bar of chakra. You can follow it up with combos. Refer to the basic combos section.

    Posted ImagePosted Image- Choujuu Giga (Bird). Sai draws an ink bird that flies diagnally upward. One of my favorite attacks. It does a good ammount of damage and works great in combos. (refer to combos section). Also in LNP mode the birds fly back hitting the opponent from behind. See Latent Ninja Power section for more.

    Posted ImagePosted Image-Sai bends down and draws an ink snake that slithers across the ground and if the opponent is vulnerable, the snake strangles them, allowing you to do pretty much whatever you want. If their chakra is low i would suggest combo # 6 in the basic combos section. I still havent found a great use for this attack. Its easily blocked. In LNP mode the snake strangles the opponent for a longer ammount of time.


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    Edited by Ness_Success, Wed Feb 3, 2010 2:13 am.
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This is incomplete. I still have alot of stuff to add. Ill try to finish it by this weekend.
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But it's already looking awesome. Good work.

Oh, and, in case you wanted it,


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Thanks Stealth, Ill put it at the bottom since I kinda like the pic I have at the top. Also I updated it! Its still not complete, but I got alot more done.
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u forgot to add you can aim his animals up or long
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Oh yea the one thing I forgot. Ok I added it. What do you guys think :D? Also I made the button sprites XD
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Dude. We need to add those as emoticons to the forums. I'll get to that later tonight.
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Add what as emoticons?
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The button sprites. It'll allow everyone to use them, in some way or another.

:bask: Can we use them?
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Can I get credits or something :o
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