The numbers are numpad notation. Each number represents an input direction. 2=down, Hella late but I just came across this vid to Beat my dad lol

and some good combo videos too bro

Fans of the series uses numbers for motions and letters for Attack/Guard Buttons. It's a common way to allow people who use different controllers and systems to share combo and move info while being controller/system agnostic. If someone was emulating Soul Edge on an emulator while using an Xbox controller, then using PlayStation notation would have them be confused. Furthermore, the letters are used in-game, so it's not useless as the game does it too. Treat the numbers as if you're looking on a number pad. 1, 4, and 7 are away, 2, 5, and 8 are neutral, and 3, 6, and 9 are towards. From there, 7, 8, and 9 are up, 4, 5, and 6 are neutral, and 1, 2, and 3 are down. So, 1 would be down-back, 6 is forward, 8 is up, 3 is down-forward, and so on. 5 is rarely used if at all as it's implied that you're not doing anything with the stick anyways. In addition, games like Tekken use * to denote that the stick should be returned to neutral before going to the next motion, so 5 is almost never used anyways (though I think some places use 5 to denote neutral for Soulcalibur games while others stick to Tekken's * input). Horizontals are A, Verticals are B, Kicks are K, and Guard is G. The Soul series has remained a 4 button fighter throughout its entire existence, but the other buttons are usually used as macros for combined buttons (i.e., someone can bind R1 to do A+B and R2 to do A+K, for example). For example, 214B corresponds with pressing down, then down-back, then back, and then the vertical attack button (Street Fighter would have it be QCB+Vertical). B would correspond to Triangle on PlayStation, Y on Xbox, Dreamcast, and GameCube, X on Switch, or whatever button you bound vertical attacks to, so saying B eliminates the confusion as you know what kind of attack button triggers the attack. The order matters too as games like Soulcalibur II have 6B be different from B6 (one you press the direction before the vertical button while another has you press the vertical button before the direction). Square Braces are usually used to show that you're supposed to hold an input. So [B] means to hold the vertical button instead of tapping it. Plus characters mean to press two buttons simultaneously. So, 2A+B means to press down and then press the horizontal and vertical buttons at the same time. For directions and button combos, 6B is equivalent to 6+B in most scenarios. The simultaneous presses are pretty lenient when talking about frame data. If you see a period (.) or colon (:), then it needs to be a Just Frame. A Just Frame is where you have perfect timing. For example, 6:B means that you need to press forward and vertical simultaneously on the same frame. Other uses of it mean that you need to perfectly time button presses on the correct frame of animation. Usually these inputs get you nicer versions of existing moves. In the case of this game, Critical Edges require that you press the final button combo at the correct frame(s) of the animation to get a proper extension to the combo. Commas are sometimes used to denote separate attacks within a sequence, but they're not required (though commas make it easier to read). So, AAK = A,A,K. Using a tilde (~) is used to say that one attack sequence can link into another in a combo. So, you can say that 3B ~ 2A+B in a game like Soulcalibur II means that you used a down-forward vertical attack to launch the character and followed it Lowercase letters indicate a slide input, which means that you press the lowercase button one or two frames (it varies by game) before pressing the next button. so 236bK means to do a quarter circle forward, briefly press vertical, and then immediately press kick while letting go of vertical. The more rewarding moves are usually locked behind slide inputs. Tekken nomenclature is sort of similar, but the numbers and letters are swapped. Attacks are 1, 2, 3, and 4 (Square, Triangle, Cross, and Circle on a PlayStation controller) while directions are abbreviations (df = down-forward, u = up, * = return stick to neutral, etc.). If you want more info on this, look up the Numeric Annotation System. It's used everywhere.

Also, FC usually refers to From Crouch (so while Crouching), WL refers to While Landing (so around the moment you're about to touch the ground), BT is Back Turned, and WR is While Rising (so during the animation when transitioning from Crouch to Standing when you let go of a downward hold). CH also refers to Counter Hit (when you hit an opponent while they're attacking). Sometimes stances are abbreviated too (like Raphael's Preparation 1 is abbreviated as P1, Sophitia's Angel Step is AS, Siegfried's Side Hold is SH, and so on). It usually depends on context. Also, underscores act as OR. So, saying 22_88A means double tapping down or up and then pressing the Horizontal attack button. There are other symbols and notations. 8-Way Run has better explanations overall.

@@theonewhowrotethis5681 you just wrote a book, edited it, wrote another book, then edited that. The game has abkg and directions already done. Just extra work is what I meant. Thanks for taking the time, but I could never waste my time reading all of that when you are essentially making it unnecessarily complicated.

@@jimmyrodriguez5670 The general gist is that Numerical Notation is used everywhere for fighters. You can't expect someone to just use PlayStation buttons just because you don't want to learn Numeric Notation like everyone else in the Soulcalibur community (that and the game has used ABK for movelist notation ever since the series' inception). Literally every other moveset video on this channel and most other moveset lists on KZbin and various other websites use the 1-9 ABKG notation for the Soul series. You also have the option to change your controls in this game, so keeping it written as 214B prevents those who changed configurations from getting confused. Saying Triangle to someone who swapped Guard and Vertical would have them try to do the motion before pressing guard until they realized that they actually need to hit cross instead. Saying B makes the notation console and config agnostic as people will say "Oh, I need to do a Vertical here!". You'll benefit a lot if you take the time to learn the notation.

@@jimmyrodriguez5670 But yeah, 214B is very easy to understand. Literally anyone who takes 5 seconds to learn the notation will understand that it's the equivalent of a QCB+Vertical.

Sure, here it is : kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnSlnWN8lL2FnJY

He was supposed to be Hwang, but they were out of time so they created this generic guy with an updated Hwang movelist.

I like his design. Anonymous. Just some random fighter

Wait a minute? I so late on this. Has mick passed? What?

@@incrediblebrotha4779 yes sadly. Last year I .believe

Yes, done here : kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWLdZ6uVg82EoM0