Red Sonja Moveset

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Red Sonja

Red Sonja is a warrior woman hailing from Hyrkania. Her backstory is mired in contradictions and changes over time, but the core of it is a woman who has experienced deep loss and has put herself through a mission to gain strength over others to protect those she loves and herself. Her strength comes from both inside herself and the mystical blessings of goddesses. Coming through the Collider, Red Sonja begins her quest to get back home.

Red Sonja is a jack of all trades in some respects, although her main mechanic focuses around gaining strength through Bleeding her opponents. Her specials play on this, powering her up with pacts for the amount of blood coated on her, changing her attacks to inflict Doom to stack more damage for a short time, or creating a condition to quickly end the match through a deathmatch. Red Sonja's moveset is mostly centered around her Bloodlust mechanic as a result, giving her options to get a bleeding edge over her opponent.

Gimmick: Bloodlust

Red Sonja's gimmick is Bloodlust. This allows her to deal more damage when she takes damage, esclating by 0.1x every 10 damage she takes. As a result though, her knockback resistance becomes substantially weaker.

Additionally when she inflicts Bleed, the blood will coat Red Sonja's body. Every hit she does that inflicts Bleed will add 5% to her "Blood Levels", which is shown next to her health on the hud. Blood Levels can be used for Price of Blood pacts, which can power Red Sonja without her needing to take damage, increasing her power substantially, although her knockback resistance is lowered, making her easier to kill.

Blood Levels
5%	10%	15%	20%	25%	30%	40%
Red Sonja's weapons are coated lightly in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.05x, reduces knockback defense by 0.05x.	Red Sonja's weapons are coated moderately in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.1x, reduces knockback defense by 0.1x.	Red Sonja's weapons are coated heavily in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.15x, reduces knockback defense by 0.15x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 15%.	Red Sonja's hands and legs are covered lightly in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.2x, reduces knockback defense by 0.2x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 15%.	Red Sonja's hands are covered moderately in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.25x, reduces knockback defense by 0.25x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 25%.	Red Sonja's hands are covered heavily in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.3x, reduces knockback defense by 0.3x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 25%.	Red Sonja's arms are covered moderately in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.4x, reduces knockback defense by 0.4x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 25%.
50%	60%	70%	75%	80%	90%	100%
Red Sonja's arms are covered heavily in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.5x, reduces knockback defense by 0.5x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 50%.	Red Sonja's legs are covered moderately in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.6x, reduces knockback defense by 0.6x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 50%.	Red Sonja's legs are covered heavily in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.7x, reduces knockback defense by 0.7x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 50%.	Red Sonja's chest is covered moderately in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.75x, reduces knockback defense by 0.75x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 75%.	Red Sonja's chest is covered heavily in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.8x, reduces knockback defense by 0.8x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 75%.	Red Sonja's face is covered moderately in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.9x, reduces knockback defense by 0.9x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 75%.	Red Sonja's face is covered heavily in blood. When used for a pact for Price of Blood, it boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 2x, reduces knockback defense by 2x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 99%.

Moveset

Savage Sword	Red Sonja strikes forward with a blade, forming a red aftertrail, dealing 7 damage across the blade and 12 damage if sweetspotted on the tip. Attack again to stab downwards, spiking opponents and dealing 6 damage across the blade and 11 damage if sweetspotted. In the air, Red Sonja stabs downwards with the blade, 8 damage across the blade and dealing 13 damage if sweetspotted on the tip. All attacks with the sword inflict Bleed.	Hell-Tipped Arrow	Red Sonja aims a bow with a brimstone tipped arrow. The player is able to aim it using the control stick and can use the special attack button to shoot it- alternatively, tap to shoot a quick arrow in Red Sonja's immediate horizontal direction. The arrow flies very far, losing minimal height during it's arc. The arrow deals 8 damage- the tip of the arrow deals 15 damage. This move inflicts Burn and up to three arrows can be active at a time.
Battle Axe	Red Sonja lifts up a giant battle axe, dealing 7 damage as she strikes it up, before slamming it down for 14 damage with a large hitbox, inflicting Bleed, Buried if sweetspotted. In the air, this spikes with a spin effect to the opponent, dealing doubled knockback.	She-Devil	Red Sonja grips onto a opponent and carries them onto their shoulders. Red Sonja can then input the upwards command to punt them upwards, dealing 5 damage with a headbutt, or any other input to throw them for 7 damage. Press the command again after the opponent hits the ground in a downed state to then stab them multiple times, dealing 5 damage with each strike of the knife, dealing Bleed.

Finishers

Price of Blood
Level 1

Red Sonja is powered by how much blood she has on her from the Bleed effect, powering her by the level of blood coated on her body. Each 10% of blood increases Red Sonja's power for free without getting hit. Additionally, she is healed for 15 hit points.

Blood Levels
5%	10%	15%	20%	25%	30%	40%
Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.05x, reduces knockback defense by 0.05x.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.1x, reduces knockback defense by 0.1x.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.15x, reduces knockback defense by 0.15x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 15%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.2x, reduces knockback defense by 0.2x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 15%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.25x, reduces knockback defense by 0.25x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 25%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.3x, reduces knockback defense by 0.3x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 25%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.4x, reduces knockback defense by 0.4x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 25%.
50%	60%	70%	75%	80%	90%	100%
Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.5x, reduces knockback defense by 0.5x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 50%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.6x, reduces knockback defense by 0.6x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 50%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.7x, reduces knockback defense by 0.7x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 50%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.75x, reduces knockback defense by 0.75x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 75%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.8x, reduces knockback defense by 0.8x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 75%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 0.9x, reduces knockback defense by 0.9x. Grab power for opponents is still reduced by 75%.	Boosts Red Sonja's attack power by 2x, reduces knockback defense by 2x. Grab power for opponents is reduced by 99%.

Ballad of the Red Goddess
Level 2

Red Sonja activates a state where she glows red. The next attack to inflict Bleed will instead deal 30 damage as a spike appears under the ground and skewers the opponent. Morrigan, the goddess of death and doom in the Red Sonja universe, will then appear and bestow her power on Red Sonja's weapons, honored by her blood sacrifice. Red Sonja's weapons will now instead inflict the Doom effect on hit as opposed to Bleed or Burn for 30 seconds, dealing 15 damage when Doom drops. Doom can be stacked three times to deal 50 damage.

Ignores Red Sonja's Bloodlust effects.

Blessing of Scathath
Level 3

Red Sonja summons the goddess Scathath, who casts a counter over both Red Sonja and her opponents. Each time one of the players takes a hit, the counter goes down by a point. Knockback is negated significantly across the board, although Red Sonja's Bloodlust will remain active, allowing her additional strength and reduced grab power from her opponents as she takes damage or if she has a Price of Blood pact active.

Red Sonja and her opponents' counters start at 25, requiring 25 hits to fully deplete. When a meter is depleted, death will occur, instantly killing the opponent. Red Sonja needs to be the last person standing in order to recieve Scathath's additional blessing, will heal her 1 hit point every second for the rest of the match.

Alternate Outfits

Default

Immortal

Fur Pelt

Mother

Effects

Characters can undergo transformations when special effects are placed under them.
Makai Spell	Red Sonja becomes the monster taken from the cover of Red Sonja #2 from the first Marvel run.
Heaven Spell	Red Sonja becomes a red hawk inspired by iconography used by Red Sonja's comic series, particularly this cover of Red Sonja Superpowers.
Midnight Bliss	Red Sonja takes on a gold plate armor, taken from Dienamite Lives #2.
Incubus Delight	Red Sonja transforms into Conan with the outfit from the Conan Red Sonja crossover written by Gail Simone.
Jokerified	Red Sonja laughs manically and induces more blood from her attacks, effecting only her body. This last six seconds.
Power Drain	When Red Sonja is caught by Rogue, she is kissed on the lips. Rogue gains Savage Sword as a replacement for her neutral special Photon Blast, allowing her to hack opponents with a sword blessed by Morrigan and Scathath. She also gains a strength bonus, boosting her strength by 1.3x for six seconds.
Insight	Red Sonja's secret is revealed. She is looking for her adopted daughter Sitha, although she refuses to divulge this information out of fear that others might seek her daughter's amazing power.
Testimony	Saul Goodman gives a testimony for his client. Your honor, my client is from another time. She doesn't wear any particularly modest outfit because her strength comes from goddesses and within- she doesn't need protection more than the divine. I say throw this public indecency case out.

Unlock Method

Inflict Bleed as a effect a total of 160 times.