Hello everyone! Back again with another AI Patch, this time for Axel Stone by Buckus. I decided to tackle this fella since most of Buckus's works are fairly interesting. Gameplay is stated to play like a crossover type Capcom game. He has a lot of aspects from CVS notably with a few mechanics to differentiate him from that style. Axel has a good few tools like Rolls, Parries, Guard Counters and a Grab that has a lot of options to choose from. He also has a very solid combo game ontop of everything else. I designed his AI to be fairly up close to be similar to how he is in his home series and to be quite aggressive.
AI Patch (Reupload for some reason the original link was broken): www.mediafire.com/file/c5a73m...
Original Character: archive.org/details/Buckus-mu...
Changes this Patch adds:
- Fixed an oversight in his combo var that had crouching medium kick be classified as his sweep despite not tripping. Fixed so that crouching heavy kick is now classified as the sweep.
Pros:
- Good normals and has a lot of different combos to choose from. Axel has a lot of combo variety and many options for special and super combos.
- Decent Anti-Air game due to Axel being pretty tall.
- Has a really good aerial cross-up tool in the form of his aerial light kick.
- Good reversal game due to parries, counter-run and his metered reversals.
- Great Grab Game, Axel has a lot of options after a grab due to his grapple gimmick, which allows for many possible options to do solid damage.
- Good movement options, Axel has decent running speed, rolls and VERY good super jumps with controllable momentum.
Cons:
- Pretty tall and a decently wide hitbox, Axel is prone to a lot of Combos.
- Can sometimes struggle to get in as his moves can be fairly stubby at times.
- Standing Normals cannot be chained into Crouching Normals and vice versa. Can be a bit problematic especially for Standing normals.
- REALLY expensive guard cancels that cost 1500 power which is half of the max amount of bars Axel has.
Characters:
Axel Stone by Buckus, AI by me
Cody by H”, AI by NeoNeo