00:00I've had enough of this!
00:09You've got all of us now!
00:11I don't think we have true unblockables, but it will feel like it.
00:16She's doing, like, punch after punch after punch with all this martial arts acting.
00:21And, like, duplicates are coming out, and I'm like, this is crazy. Like, this is awesome.
00:24I can't believe this exists in a game.
00:26She basically duplicates herself, and she uses those clones to attack the enemy and also die a lot.
00:34This is sort of part of the character. They get obliterated pretty often, which is pretty gruesome.
00:39But I actually think that there's much more tragedy in Kate than there is comedy.
00:43And she brings that up in the series a bit, and we got to explore it in the game a
00:46little, too.
00:47We wanted her to feel like a real martial artist.
00:50She was trained for many years in her childhood to become this lethal weapon that she is.
00:58The North Star for duplicate was trying to figure out how the heck we were going to get all of
01:03the duplicates into her gameplay and not break the game.
01:06But at the same time, like, that's what makes her unique.
01:09And you also want to sell the fantasy of, like, summoning a ton of clones to beat someone's ass.
01:14And that's why I really like her ultimate.
01:16Where it's just like an army of caves, little platoon that's just beating the shit out of you.
01:22You've got all of us now!
01:24When she activates her duplicate, it sacrifices a little bit of red health.
01:28And if Kate doesn't actually reabsorb that duplicate, she can actually lose that red health.
01:33You're just kind of spamming it. You will lose a lot more health than you remember.
01:37One of the things I really like to do is throw out a lot of high-low mixes with her
01:41clone.
01:42Straightforward, it's like a shoulder check. If you throw out the clone with neutral special, then hold up.
01:47You get, like, an overhead. I get away with that too many times, I think.
01:50And then the last one is neutral special. For the down, you get the low.
01:53Your goal is to just confuse the hell out of your opponent.
01:56And so having overheads and high-low mix-up with the clones, like, you're going to be able to open
02:02people up.
02:02She doesn't necessarily have, like, the greatest anti-air, but with this one, you have so much time to convert
02:06off of it.
02:07And it's pretty solid in terms of, like, catching somebody airborne, which is going to happen a lot in this
02:11game.
02:11If you want a power 2 thing, she's got her boosted forward special, which is armored.
02:14So if you feel like people are locking down, you want some way in, this is your answer, right?
02:19And she does have good range on her crouching medium kick.
02:21She also has a crouching light, which is a low. Most characters do not have this in the game.
02:27One of my favorite things about this character is the fact that she has an install super,
02:32which allows her to kind of, like, speed up and essentially have access to her clone's special movement.
02:38Like, she gets incredible movement speed to where she can really apply pressure.
02:42But the big difference is her specials, right? So now her neutral special becomes a shoulder check,
02:46and her down special becomes a slide, which is incredibly far-reaching as well.
02:50And then the forward special becomes an overhead, which is a ground bounce as well.
02:53So you can also chain these into each other, so you can be, like, boom, boom, boom, right?
02:59And that's all canceling into one another.
03:03She needs some kind of assist that's going to lock down the opponent that's allowing her to get in there,
03:07right?
03:07So something like robot assist I think is fantastic.
03:10I ended up playing with Team Love Triangle, which is duplicate, Rexplode, and Adam Eve.
03:14Having Rex throw out explosives to kind of assist your approach,
03:17or Adam Eve to throw out a boosted fireball is also pretty important,
03:21just to kind of have her up close where she needs to be.
03:23But I think ultimately she feels like a really fluid, organic character,
03:28despite all the challenges we went through.
03:30And she's super agile, and she's a ton of fun to play.
03:32I think if you like pressing a lot of buttons, she's easily the character for you.
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