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Her CB is someone else's move I can't remember whose (but with some red crap) and her PB is other characters' animations mixed together. So all she has is taunts /: They didn't even give her her own idle stance, they blindly threw a dart at a printout of the character select and it landed on Mila

But we aren't allowed to pick Honoka, so for me it's still gonna be Hitomi.

You just hate Hitomi though lol.

That's also true, but the reason I choose her over characters like Leon and Rachel is because those fighting styles have some personality and fit the characters in my opinion. Hitomi just uses one of the most mainstream fighting styles ever, next to Mila.

Taekwondo is equally as "mainstream" and Rig is certainly no more of an original or idiosyncratic personality than Hitomi.

The reason you're picking Hitomi over characters like Leon and Rachel is because they don't personally annoy you in the way(s) that Hitomi does. Whatever the reason(s) are, they are probably not directly tied to her usage of karate (or else Ein would be mentioned at some point).

Karate was always huge here and I never knew anyone who practiced taekwondo myself. But anyways I think that Leons and Rachels fighting styles couldn't work for a lot of characters, while Hitomi's could.

But yeah, I totally forgot about Ein.

Tina's moveset is pretty generic also. Though I wouldn't necessarily call it "bad".

Even if a lot of movesets are generic, I think we can all agree Honoka's is the least unique.

A second ago you were turning the convo away from Honoka

Who has the most unique moveset?

Tengu.

That was a trick to let you know that if I was allowed to pick Honoka I would.

But yeah, because Tengu is a bird the moveset is unique.

Tengu & Ayane.

This really depends from what you mean with unique: if the answer is not the uniqueness of the moveset intended as moves displayed but rather the "individuality" as you stated, then Honoka imo is far from being the answer because she has a precise individuality under that pov, the one to be a mimic character bringing a great mixture of moves from the fighters of the game for creating a summa moveset...

(and she is far from being a clone of of Raidou, on the opposite now the ninja doesn't seem more a true mimic fighter in comparison).

So, considering what you stated, sadly I've to admit that two of my favourite characters are IMO the less uniques under this matter, Ein and Phase. This because Ein - even if the original karateka - is a different fightter his moveset is in the end a simpler and plainer version of the one of the girl sharing a large part of the moveset.

Phase because she uses for a moveset got from Kasumi (and to use the moveset of a single character).

Even so they aren't empty of individuality because the fact that you mean to use them in a different way compared to Hitomi and Kasumi is the evidence of it (and in the case of Phase even the visual side appear very different).

Getting into account the characters with more individuality from a fighting point, I surely think that Bankotsubo/Nyotengu Ayane and Alpha are some of the best candidates for it.

PS: Sorry for the wall of text and the number of alerts that I caused in everyone involved in the discussion: it was an interesting question and I wanted give my answer about it.

Alpha? A lot of her moveset is stolen.

For me it'd be Tengu, Ayane, and Hayabusa.

With Alpha I meant the concept of creating a character with a very strong offense and a very weak defense, so purposefully 'unbalanced'.

How has quite a bit of unique traits, but it doesn't change the fact that her moveset is just a variation of Kasumi's.