Dr. Light

Brief overview of the character. Try to "sell" the character.

Dr. Light has slightly below average health and very slightly above average speed, giving him a balanced set of statistics. On top of these stats, he dips into two types of damage, Damage Over Time thanks to his Shakunetsu Hadoken, and extreme burst damage thanks to his Shin Shoryuken. Yet beyond even that, he has some great movement tools thanks to the Tatsumaki Senpukyaku and the Shoryuken. Overall, Dr.Light is a jack of all trades capable of doing almost anything at least decently. However his most damaging options rely on getting in close, which could be a death sentence to an unskilled player, leaving plenty of room for mastery.

Overview
General breakdowns of passive abilities, gimmicks, and their movement + health.

Main
Hadoken/Shakunetsu Hadoken

Mainfire shoots out the basic projectile of every shoto, the Hadoken. If you altfire with precise timing, he shoots a Shakunetsu Hadoken, which does lingering fire damage.

Alt
Tatsumaki Senpukyaku/EX Tatsumaki Senpukyaku

Alt-Fire causes Dr. Light to rocket forward, spinning his feet in the attack known as the Tatsumaki Senpukyaku. If you M1 at any point while he's still spinning, Dr. Light will shoot up in the Shoryuken, dealing ripping damage to anyone caught in his way. Using M1 right after using M2 will cause Dr. Light to perform the Ex Tatsumaki Senpukyaku which sucks opponents in and deals massive ripping damage.

Item
Super Install (Shinku Hadoken/Shin Shoryuken)

If you item with full meter, you'll here a distinctive shing, meaning Dr. Light is now in super stance. Pressing M1 and M2 will do two different things:
 * Shinku Hadoken is a big fireball, that wraps players (ally or foe) into it's hitbox and pushes them, before exploding against a wall (or above a pit.) This move has no pitprotect meaning you can push people into pits with it.
 * Shin Shoryuken is the most damaging move in this entire mod, dealing a whopping 108 damage to anyone unfortunate enough to get caught in it's radius.

Basic Tips & Strategy
General strategy

X.X Hotfix

 * Merely list down patch notes here.
 * As noted in the Main Page, this wiki is based on the latest official release! No beta/WIP branches, no ecl1p5e.

Trivia

 * He's based on Ryu because when you obtain the hadouken in the first MegaMan X, Dr. Light has Ryu's costume