[PRESET] S6

Chain
A chain is where one uses a skill that can (Knock/Launch) and connect another skill out of those knock and launch before they recover.
(In most cases, these chains can be broken out of or countered)

Debuff
This term is self explanatory, any skills or attacks that can cause slow/reduce ATK and the sort. Is not allowed to be used in the same combo alltogether.

Diagonal Dash
This type of dash, is executed by some attacks and post-animation such as skills by holding the direction you want to go, then tapping up/down twice.
This is by no means disallowed on the server.

Faceroll
This term is an indication of whenever someone attacks you disrespectfully with a long combo simply by following wherever you roll and not letting you go.
This can easily be mistaken with "Roll prediction" this is where a player is moved to where they predict your roll before you have even performed half your roll.

Snake dash
This is a bug exploit that requires no skills and is stricly disrespectful to our players and myself.

If you wish to do this, then meet your consequences.

Combo
A combo is a set of skills used in an order which is normally un-escapable

Chain combo
Do not mistake this for chain combo feature on dragonica. We do not have this here.

A chain combo is a more difficult process of a combo that relies on how the enemy moves and how you chains your skills.
It is escape-able and counter-able if you know how to deal with specific chains.

A chain combo always starts out as a chain, then tricking you into a knockdown/stun. Leading into a different variation of a combo
(A rather respectful opponent may use this more often than a combo)

Clash
A clash is when one or another performs a catching skill, but gets knocked/launched/flinched in the process but still hits the target with the catch.
When this happen, a respectful way of handling this is by letting each other go without dealing much damage. A simple boomerang/shuriken/bear/launch/knock afterwards should not be disrespectful in any way.

Easy Catch
An easy catch is a term for catches where you spent very little effort into catching an opponent. Most cases is where an easy skill is used. Or an opponent is stuck in an animation/combo that has failed leading them to be an easy target.

A respectful way of handling this, is simply not shoving all you have into their face.

Horizontal Lines
When you PvP I'm sure you notice you stick to 1 line that you will mostly dash left and right and stick to it with your enemy.
If you stick to 1, you have the Horizontal Line Curse
For recommendation, you should stick to 3 or more. Dash up and down ya know.

Half Step
If you have 3 horizontal lines, each one of them has a gap of 1 dash up or down.

A half step is creating 5 horizontal lines out of those 3. Mainly when you can't walk, this is a powerful trick.

You start dashing up or down, then half way through use X attack to stop before you get to the outer lines.
If enemy is in the middle line or outer, they will most likely not hit you if their skill goes straight.

Half step can be done with diagonal dash aswell.

General Set of Rules:

Easy catches deserves less damage. But
Difficult catches deserves max combo damage.

• Do not snake dash
  
• Do not bug exploit
  
• Follow the damage per combo quota
  
• Adjust your damage depending on the difficulty of catch
  
• Do not use item/skill that heals you
  
• Do not use anything that will make your opponent miss intentionally
  
• Do not perform a max combo damage with an easy or medium catch
  
• Do not shove shit loads of damage into faceroll
  
• Have some time spacing between combos
  
• Do not use a debuff and a combo at the same time.
  
• Do not escape a difficult catch combo with escape skills such as moonwalk/burrow/barricade example in a netbind
  
• Do not walk more than half a dash before using a skill. Well it will intentionally happen alot, but refrain from it. It's disrespectful and a easy way of aiming skills.
  
• Do not use more than 1 X attack to cancel enemy motion or for motion cancel.
  
• Do not catch with multiple X attacks. I didn't change adrenaline for that.
  

Berserker/Overlord

• Wide variation of attacks and catch
  
• Long range counter to mind-games classes. Such as Joker/Chaosmage
  
• Can be played by both beginners and advanced players
  
• Has high DMG output if using chains, free damage and combo
  
• Primary skill (I'm gone Bro) has flinch
  

• Can be countered easily by shadow due to having to go close range with primary IGB skill. (Flinch skill)
  
• All of their chain catches can be cancelled or walked out of simply
  
• Has less free damage than Shadow/Savage due to old stats
  
• Can be hard to land a proper catch if you're not quick witted
  

1. Blow
   
2. Air combo launch
   
3. Cutdown
   
4. Dash Attack
   
5. Dashing Blow
   
6. ImGoneBro
   
7. IncomingBear
   

• Wyvern: In any situations. (you have stormblade)
  
• Stumblebum: as a catch without using flinch/chain. Proper way of using it is to use it after they recover from your launch, and are still mid air or just landed.
  
• Sword Dance: use this and you will probably be killed by Elga +20 weapon
  
• Grizzly/wildRage: do not use this if your ATK is going to exceed 3900
  
• Gust Slash: as a catch, use it as a "chain" catch instead.
  
  
• Do not use any gust/stumble chain catch/combo on someone in easy situations. Where they are stuck. Refer to general rules.
  
• Dashblow: Do not use this before enemy has their HP lowered to 85% of their max. As it reduces max hp by 15%
  
• Do not use IncomingBear and ImGoneBro right after each other. You, have atleast 1 dash between using both.
  
• Do not walk before using primary skills. Except blow/cutdown/aircombo launch
  

Paladin / Dragon Knight

• Alot of natural superarmor in skills.
  
• Has a decent amount of free damage
  
• Has alot of variation of skill usage
  
• Can reduce enemy damage by 60% for 10 seconds upon debuff
  

• Can be very difficult to land a hard catch which enables full combo damage. This requires a hard chain
  
• Can be countered by flinch while using shoulder tackle
  
• Has alot of cooldown issues in fast pace combat
  
• Does not have the opportunity to deal combo damage very often against skilled players
  

1. Blow
   
2. Air combo launch
   
3. Cutdown
   
4. Dash Attack
   
5. Shoulder Tackle
   
6. Pressure
   
7. Aerial Smackdown
   
   

• Sword Dance: use this and you will probably be killed by Elga +20 weapon
  
• Crosscut: Do not catch with it. You may use it as a chain catch, example. Cutdown crosscut mid air. Blow, crosscut. A hard catch with this would be: Dash attack crosscut while fallen
  
• Spin it bear: Do not catch with this, can be used for low damage without stormblade/megastorm
  
• Mega Storm: Do not use after aerial smackdown. Do not use it often after shoulder tackle. Do not use it with stormblade, choose either one of them.
  
• Stormblade: Do not use after aerial smackdown. Do not use it often after shoulder tackle. Do not use it with megastorm, choose either one of them.
  
• Spearjab: Do not use this skill for superarmor purposes, cancel it before the last hit. Do not use it as a catch, an example to use it: cutdown, spearjab enemy recovery.
  
• Shield Bash: A shield bash catch is referred as medium catch, that means you can only do a little more than half the damage you can do with a full combo. Can be used as a chain catch for maximized combo damage.
  
• Barricade: do not use in a hard difficulty catch from enemy, example in netbind
  
• Rolling Ground: Keep at Lv.1-2. Due to its massive damage, that skill alone can deal the combo quota damage. Do not abuse for superarmor.
  
• Awakening Skills: Do not use them too often or for a catch. Works well for a chain. Using both in 1 combo can easily do max of combo dmg quota.
  
• JointBreak & Weapon Suspension: Do not use these skills at all.
  
• Shield Mastery: KEEP IT LEVEL 0. A dragoon should have 0% block rate.
  
• Parry: Oviously when I say 0% this is not to be used or even have learned.
  
• Impervion and Revenge: Do not use these skills at all
  
• Pressure: Don't use stormblade/megastorm right after, try to chain crosscut or spearjab instead.
  
• Walking: do not walk, try to keep dashing, use shoulder tackle for movement, aerial smackdown, and dash attacks to keep yourself moving around at alot.
  

Ninja / ShadowWalker

• Can counter and punish when predicting
  
• Has alot of free counters such as Swift and burrow
  
• Has high damage with primary skills
  
• Excel against short-range classes by far.
  
• Has consistent knockdown for defensive purpose with daggers.
  
• Can be hard to catch. (Does not apply against Joker/chaosmage)
  

• Can easily be overgeared with dagger damage. Can be fixed with lowering throwing mastery level.
  
• Can easily be predicted if you do not excel at mind-games
  
• Low variation of skills
  

1. Cutdown
   
2. Dash attack
   
3. Dagger Throwing
   
4. Violent Blow
   
5. Mist Vanish
   

• Rocket Punch: Do not use for catch, or for chain catch. Can be used in a combo. Anyone is allowed to MatchStick freeze effect.
  
  
• Dagger Throwing: Refrain from following up the knockdown if you only hit 1 dagger on enemy. Do not throw 7 daggers into someone who is an easy target due to animation/skill.
  
  
• Violent Blow: do not catch with this, unless you hit all the hits right in their face and not from long range. And if you take damage while using violent blow, do not do anything after. Leave them. Do not abuse this for superarmor all the time.
  
  
• Swift: Now swift is used for catch alot, and that is not allowed. You may example use it after dagger, once they're fallen, or from other chains. Refrain from spamming this to escape enemy.
  
  
• Perfect strike and shadow leap: Refrain from catching with this, it auto targets for you. You know it would be pretty rude to do too high damage afterwards.
  
  
• Sky penetration: Now suck it up, you cannot catch with this skill. You may use it in a chain combo. Be wary of your damage. Check Obligated rules combo damage.
  
  
• Mist Vanish: Do not follow up with dagger or any high damage if you "Clash" refer to general rules and keywords.
  
  
• Walking: Don't walk, seriously dash. I don't mind walking mid air for cutdown.
  
  
• Walking Log: That spiking log skill, seriously do not use it at all.
  
  
• April Pool: Just nope, don't even go there. Unless you want to get black listed.
  
  
• Ambush: Refrain from using this as free damage or a catch. You may not use sky penetration after this. Does not count as a catch or a combo. Not even as a chain. Respectful skilled players do not even use ambush freely more than once or twice every round.
  
  
• Shuriken with Upgrade: The bleed effect reduces max hp by 15%. That means, do not use this before their HP is lowered to 85%.
  
  
• Katar Mastery and Block: These passives, keep them Lv.0. If it's a pre-requisite, then keep it Lv.1
  
  
• Throwing Mastery: Make your choice, if you want to catch and combo, stick to 3 daggers. If you want to have free damage, stick to 5. Situationally if your damage is low, then 7 would be fine.
  
  

Joker / Masquerade

• Has extremely high DMG output on a Full Combo by quota
  
• Can be extremely hard to play against if you're smart.
  
• Has alot of area control with mind games.
  

• Can be very hard to get a clean catch which is the only way to do max dmg in combo
  
• Has no free damage
  
• Lacks in range
  
• Usually very low amount of variation
  

1. Cutdown
   
2. Dash attack
   
3. Air combo launch
   
4. Final Decision
   
5. Cossack
   
6. Upperscrewdriver
   

Difficulty Catches with FD (Final decision)
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Hard:
Also known as a Clean catch, this is where you predict the enemy movement, and land atleast 80% of your FD on the enemy without taking any damage/launch/knock.

Combo DMG: 22%
Medium:
A medium can be done several ways such as, predicting a roll or recovery. Perhaps even after they get out of their own combo, they will dash 1 time, backwards, and you FD them there. That can be seen as both medium or easy-medium
Combo DMG: 15%

Easy Medium:
This is where you follow their roll instead of predicting it and moving before they even roll.
Or, you only land half of your FD on enemy.
Cossack catch is regarded same difficulty here
Combo DMG: 10%

Easy:
The enemy is stuck in an animation and is in a situation they cannot escape, and you simply FD them.
Or, walk then FD.
Combo DMG: 6%

Really Easy:
This is like, when you hit only 1-2 hits of your FD. You're not suppose to follow anything up, but using a boomerang or small time skill won't really be disrespectful.

Incases of "clash" refer to keywords. This is where you have to follow. After FD clashes, you leave them alone. Well boomerang won't hurt.
 
Combo DMG: Minimum!

• Rocket Punch: Do not use for catch, or for chain catch. Can be used in a combo. Anyone is allowed to MatchStick freeze effect.
  
• Final Decision: Do not use this without following the Difficulty rules explained for FD. Many people can't tell the difficulty of their own catches. Hence why it is explained.
  
• Headspin: Do you really need to use it? If you want seven to give a debuff I don't mind you hitting 1 hit from headspin in mid combo.
  
• Cossack: If you use this mid combo and the catch is not clean, then you have to regulate your DMG. If it meets quota from difficulties, then you have to launch them out of it.
  
• Moonwalk: You may not use this in middle of enemy combo.
  
• Burrow: You may not use this in middle of enemy combo.
  
• Mind Reading: this is mostly regarded as ESP on some servers. It adds evade rate, and what does Obligatory rules say? No missing. Exactly so don't use it.
  
• Provoke: This shout skill stuns, with it maxed it will most of the time. You may use it, only under few circumstances. They recover from your attack and are mid air. This will be regarded as a medium catch.
  
• Crazy Soul: This skill, you keep it at Lv0
  
• Claw Fishing: Do not use this for catch, predict a roll and you can do a medium catch combo. Use it after they roll from boomerang, that means you initially caught with boomerang, you may do a full combo then.
  
• Walking: Don't walk, seriously dash. I don't mind walking mid air for cutdown.
  

Sentinel

• Large amount of flinching skills making them hard to approach for close combat classes
  
• Can deal alot of damage if you play it using 'counter style'
  
• Has a very good catching ability using 'Arrow Shower' Flinch and 'Netbind'
  
• Is the hardest class to catch for the enemies
  

• Is very hard to play unless you have atleast an average level of prediction skill making it possible to land most of your skills and arrows
  
• Doesn't have any ways to get down after 'Air Recovery' quickly
  
• All the skills are horizontal, can be outwitted if you don't have an extra plan to counter it
  

For doing COMBO:

Combo isn't always necessarily the thing to go for with a Sentinel.

You can launch enemies and Maximum go for (5 x AntiAirShot )
Time them right and you can kill their 'Air Recovery' and then go on with your semi combo.
Then just land some skills that can hit them mid air or fallen on ground.

The most common way of a Comboist as sentinel:
The Netbind
The netbind binds them to the ground where they cannot jump or move and can only face 1 direction. While the target is netbound, you can only use each skill once. But don't go overkill, you should only be doing 17% of their MAX HP.

After finishing your combo, you should let them go by simply making a distance between you two.
Allowing the enemy to atleast use skill twice and dash twice before going for another Combo-catch.

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The face counter style
The multishot at Lv 5 or higher has a super armor while casting it. This means you cannot be launched or knocked. And can be used as a very good counter. It doesn't have a very long cooldown either.

Note: this skill scales on attack speed, meaning more attack speed means less super armor time.

After using it in their face by a simply quick prediction, they will be 'Flinched' and that can disrupt their skills and attacks, and even dashes.
You should be quickly following this up by using which is the primary catching combo, that can be followed up with numerous ways as for example: or the quick Free damage combo. Such as then creating distance allowing them to breathe. And allowing you to prepare a new set of counter strategy.

A secondary free damage combo in sticky situation:
In close combat, you can quickly get in sticky situation when multishot is on cooldown, the following action recommended by Mink is as following:

Start of with a shootdown, this launches them. And since they are so close, all close combatiers will probably 'Air Recover'.
Land on the ground and use 'Acid Arrow' and follow it quickly up with Doubleshot
Then a Rising arrow . However by this time, you should have your multishot up again, you could use this, and you will already maximise your counter-semi-combo in their face.

Bombardier/Destroyer

Chaosmage / Archmage

Cleric / Oracle

TwinFighter / Fusion Fighter

Summoner