Jacky Bryant

Here we have Jacky Bryant, a fighter who have been in the Virtua Fighter series since the original in the arcades!

The Mii
Jacky uses the Jacky Wig and Jacky Outfit, and I chose Type 1 Normal to best match his voice. His color doesn’t matter, but I chose Red to match his costume and his fiery personality. I made his Mii to match Nintendo’s as closely as possible. Here is the tutorial for Jacky: https://youtu.be/7cauB8xIOcA

The Moves
This makes choosing special moves that are accurate to his home series a bit difficult, but I did my best to choose moves that best reflected his gameplay style. Jacky considers himself something of a “speed demon”, and puts pressure on his opponents with a large array of quick attacks and approach options. So for him, I focused on quick, multi-hit moves like Flashing Mach Punch, Onslaught, and Helicopter Kick. He also has a counter, to reflect his parrying and deflecting techniques from his home series.

The Style
For his spirit, he uses Tank Style. I debated on this a lot, especially since Jacky is meant to be a “speed demon” type of character, but most fighting game characters in Smash like Ryu, Terry, and Min-Min are on the slower side, and Virtua Fighter is, in certain ways, an even slower game than many of those franchises! Virtua Fighter, like Smash, is also a game where you are encouraged to pressure your opponent off the side of the stage, causing a round loss by “Ringing Out” your opponent. Because of this, both fighters have experience with trying to stay on-stage, contributing to their improved defense and reduced knockback.

The Spirits
His spirits are largely evasive in nature. Jacky uses Braking Power Up and Landing Lag Down to encourage out-maneuvering your opponent. He has the Improved Escape spirit, owing to Virtua Fighter’s own grabbing and throwing mechanics allowing for you to “Throw Escape” with well timed inputs.

Analysis
Virtua Fighter is a bit of an outlier in the traditional Fighting Game genre. Being one of the first 3D fighters, it based itself around pseudo-3D movement and “lane shifting” to avoid attacks. Due to the hardware limitations of the time, instead of focusing on flashy moves or superpowers like those seen in Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat, Virtua Fighter takes a more realistic approach to combat, with an emphasis on dodging, blocking, deflecting, and countering attacks back and forth rather than hitting your opponent with big, complicated combos.

Summary:
The Ray MK II with Tank Style: 1 Support Spirit with Landing Lag ↓ 1 Support Spirit with Braking Ability ↑ 1 Support Spirit with Improved Escape



Credits: Uielicious Mii