Half Circle Forward / HCF / back, down-back, down, down-forward, forward / b, d/b, d, d/f, f / 41236 4521 is also a valid way to input a reverse dragon punch. And it’s input a lot faster than the others, showing you can do the motions quickly and they will still come out. This gif also shows off a sloppy way of inputting the DP, 4121, instead of a clean 421. This motion is really uncommon, but it shows up occasionally, and it’s always bizarrely harder to do than a regular DP, even though you’ll be used to doing DPs on both sides from normal play. Reverse Dragon Punch / RDP / back, down, down-back / b, d, d/b / 421 6523 is also a valid way of inputting dragon punch.

You’re allowed to input it a bit sloppy, like 63236, just be sure not to accidentally do a double QCF in the process, and to complete the motion before you press attack. This is the second most common motion in fighting games, and a stumbling block for a lot of beginners. Dragon Punch / DP / Z-Motion / forward, down, down-forward / f, d, d/f / 623 You can use a lot of moves just by knowing these two motions. Quarter Circle Back / QCB / down, down-back, back / d, d/b, b / 214 It’s called a quarter circle, because if you look at the 8 directions you can point in as a circle, it’s 1/4th of the circle. This is the basis of all the other motions. Quarter Circle Forward / QCF / down, down-forward, forward / d, d/f, f / 236 The red ball indicates where your stick/dpad is currently pointing, with the center being neutral, and the 8 dots around the sides being the 8 directions you can point. I’ll even list them in numeric notation, which is a way of unambiguously specifying which directions you’re pressing. It’s also worth mentioning, all of these assume you’re facing right.

I’ll also list how it’s usually written in notation, so you can be familiar when you run into it. The buttons are random, whatever I had available from the guilty gear movelist, so please pay more attention to when the button is pressed, rather than which button is pressed. To remedy this, I made gifs of each of the combo trials, with the corresponding motion listed above, so you can have a visual reference for how to do different motions. Unfortunately, not everyone has access to Guilty Gear Revelator, so not everyone can learn this way. This helps side-step a lot of the issues beginners have with learning how to do motions and learning notation.

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