Move Lists

Introduction

The Move Lists section is the data backbone of this wiki: per-character command listings, frame data, and the notation knowledge required to read them. Standard fighting game practice applies — numpad notation for directions, letters for buttons, and frame counts for startup, active, and recovery phases — and this section maintains the notation cheat sheet that every other section assumes. During the pre-launch window, the hub focuses on what can be responsibly documented: the notation system itself, how frame data concepts work, and what the officially revealed moves tell us so far, including Shiki Tohno's reported space-cutting projectile. When the game ships, each confirmed fighter gains a full move list with startup and recovery counts, block advantage, and damage notes, verified in training mode. Data quality rules apply throughout: measured numbers are labeled as measured, estimates as estimates, and nothing is invented.

Notation Cheat Sheet

Data Explained

Core Mechanics

A move list is only as useful as the framework you read it with, so this section teaches the framework before the data. Numpad notation comes first because it compresses every command into a few characters and is shared across the entire fighting game community. Frame concepts come second: every move exists in phases — startup before the hitbox appears, active while it can strike, recovery while you are exposed — and every practical judgment about a move derives from those counts. Advantage on block converts frame counts into turn-taking decisions, telling you whether an attack lets you keep pressing or hands the initiative over. Damage and scaling complete the picture by pricing each hit. When the game launches, this section presents per-character pages in exactly that structure, so the reading skills you build now transfer directly to the real tables.

Advantages

Structured data beats scattered impressions, and this hub is built to be the single place where Twi-Lumina's move information accumulates. The notation cheat sheet alone solves the most common beginner blocker — being unable to read the answers they find — and it stays useful forever because notation does not change between patches. The per-move framework (startup, active, recovery, advantage) means that when full data lands, every character page is immediately comparable: you can answer questions like whose fastest normal wins or which reversal is actually safe by reading one row instead of watching hours of footage. For lab-oriented players, the section's labeling discipline — measured versus estimated versus pending — tells you exactly which numbers can be trusted for tight execution planning and which need training-mode verification first.

Challenges

The hard limit of this section today is that a move list without a game contains no real data: every specific count, cost, and property for Twi-Lumina moves is pending until the game ships and training mode measurement becomes possible. The officially revealed information is thin by design — a few moves shown in trailers and broadcasts, with Shiki's space-cutting projectile reported by a single press source and flagged accordingly. Frame data itself is a living document even after launch, because balance patches adjust counts and the community needs weeks to measure and verify everything. Readers should also expect button letter assignments for this entry to be finalized at release. Until then, this hub deliberately trades completeness for accuracy, and its placeholder structure exists precisely to be filled fast once real numbers exist.

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