AshBot v1.0

Difficulty Moderate

Focus Air to Airs and Anti-Airs

AshBot is part of a group of three bots that use the same inputs, under the Codename "Crimson Sky". Any other bot with their own version of the preceding sentence, can be used/switched to, after entering this one set of Action Inputs. Technically, Crimson Sky and Snow Angel only differ in Actions #1 and #2, so it is easy to switch between them. The three bots have unique point systems, purposes, and settings, so be sure to check other pages for that information. This bot works for Leona, Heidern, and Ash.

Being able to read your opponent's aerial approach can be fairly difficult if your eyes are constantly focused on the ground or other elements of your opponent's gameplan. Ash Crimson is notorious for his frustrating neutral and myriad options for harassing an opponent both on the ground and in the air and makes for a good candidate for training your eyes and mind to keep focused on your opponent's spacing. Learning to deal with his ability to set out green flames, decent anti-airs, and good jump buttons can help you from getting overwhelmed with frustration from the character in the long run, but more importantly it can help you learn when Ash's distractions are a fake out or a real set up for something more.

AshBot has a lot of good spacings to perform his jump attack. The fact that he also has good anti-airs and ways to punish you for jumping at him incorrectly make him excellent for punishing players who try to jump by anticipation rather than pure reaction. At higher levels it can be important to be able to anti-air on reaction since the anticipated jump makes you vulnerable to the opponent manipulating the fact that you need to anticipate it. The less thinking you do while still getting all the points against the bot, the more you success you will probably find both against the bot and in actual combat against other players.

Staying alive can feel fairly difficult on this bot if you try maintaining your offensive spacing. Practicing with Iori before this bot is recommended as it can help with your understanding of your anti-air tools. It is also recommended that you look up your character's specific Shatterstrike combos as they differ between all characters. Grinding out the timing for them before facing this bot is also recommended, as the juggle state on Shatterstrike can be unintuitive for some players.

Bots in KoF are able to be saved by activating the game's "Autosave" function. However, you can only save 1 bot at a time. Therefore, we have checked all characters using the inputs used to determine which of them can be useful, resulting in the codename "Crimson Sky" due to the two most explicitly effective characters. These have been given separate, specific pages, when we consider the result to be good enough to act as a functional bot for that character, but there are a few more where we didn't think that the bot reached that level, but a player could still get some use out of going a few rounds with that character with just these 'Crimson Sky' inputs. A full list of characters and related things can be found in the 'In Depth' section at the bottom of this page.

Gauge Settings

As with all bots, 1P Health should be set to "Normal", set 1P Power Gauge to "3"

These settings may change based on your goals, explained in the Difficulty section below.

Settings for 2P are Health - "Auto-Recover" and Power Gauge - "5".

Goals

Completing each action gives 1 point. Try to get to 10 points without dying.

Points System

A - Air to Air Ash's jump attack.
B - Anti-Air Ash's jump, hyper jump, or hyper hop from Ash's maximum range for the jump/hop attack.
C - Anti-Air Ash's cross up jump.
D - When Ash is just randomly attacking from the ground in neutral, hit him with a Shatterstrike attack and confirm into a full combo.

Difficulty Levels

Easy - Points given for ABCD
Medium - Points given for ABCD, but try to hop or use some other offensive tactic after the air-to-air.
Hard - Points given for ACD only
Extreme - Points given for A and C only (if you normally play defensively) or B and C only (if you normally play offensively.)

Recording Notes

Players should note that if you hold buttons or directions before starting input they will instantly occur once you start recording. This makes it easier to get frame 1 (FirstFrame) inputs compared to most other games. Additionally you can use the Options button to end recording just like other games, as well as the 'record' button. Use whichever is easiest for you, but note that we are still investigating if there is some input loss when using the Options button, and if you encounter problems, try using just the 'Record' button to end the recordings.

Action #1

FirstFrame 4 (briefly, this is the start of a charge move), 4HP+HK, immediately 1, end recording before the blowback attack fully animates