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Knuckles focuses his best punch into an attack that ignores armor.


— Description, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood[1]

Uppercut[2] (アッパーカット[3] Appākatto?) is a move that appears in the Sonic the Hedgehog series. It is a move used by primarly Knuckles the Echidna where he directly uppercuts an opponent.

Description[]

When performing the Uppercut, the user goes to an opponent and focuses a strong punch into an impactful uppercut that he hits his foe with.

Game appearances[]

Sonic the Fighters[]

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Knuckles using Uppercut at Bark, from Sonic the Fighters.

In Sonic the Fighters, it is one of Knuckles' attacks. When performing Uppercut, Knuckles swings his arm towards the opponent and uppercuts them. Upon the impact, the foe will get sent to the air and come back down. In order to perform the attack, the player must perform the following commands (STF-Arrow-Down-Right STF-P-Button) in order to use it. In the 2012 remaster of Sonic the Fighters, the Uppercut also became one of attacks used by Honey, Metal Sonic and Dr. Eggman via his E-Mech.

If the player plays as Metal Sonic, the following commands for it are slightly identical, but different. To use it as said-character, the player must instead perform these following commands (STF-Arrow-Down STF-P-Button) in order to use it.

Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood[]

In Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, it is one of Knuckles' POW moves. When performing Uppercut, Knuckles walks up to an opponent and focuses his best punch into a powerful uppercut that he hits his opponent with. After that, Knuckles returns to his team position. In gameplay, Uppercut deals attack damage to a single target. When dealing damage, Uppercut pierces armor. The higher the level of Uppercut is, the more attack damage it will deal.

Real-Time Interaction

When performing Uppercut in gameplay, the player has to complete a series of real-time events by performing certain actions on the Touch Screen, in order to execute Uppercut optimally. For these actions, the player has to touch and stay inside the outer circle that appears when it overlaps the inner circle and follow it in a small curve on the right side of the screen from the bottom of the screen to the top. Missing or not touching these circles correctly will either result in Knuckles missing the strike or the damage from the attack being reduced.

Statistics
Level PP Cost Damage Effect
I 4 135% of Attack damage Armor piercing
II 4 150% of Attack damage Armor piercing
III 4 175% of Attack damage Armor piercing

Variants[]

Main article: Hyper Uppercut

Hyper Uppercut is a variant of the Uppercut. It replaces Uppercut when Knuckles is in Hyper Mode.

Trivia[]

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Knuckles using Uppercut in Sonic Adventure.

References[]

  1. Official in-game description.
  2. Sonic Team (August 16, 2005). Sonic Gems Collection. Nintendo GameCube. Sega. Content: Sonic the Fighters. Area/level: Pause menu, "Commands for KNUCKLES."
  3. Sonic the Fighters (Arcade system) Japan instruction booklet, pg. Knuckles's moveset card.

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