THE CEO · Neon Stick Fight fighter

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How often THE CEO gets picked, how often it wins, and its best and worst matchups, against the CPU and against other players. The numbers load from the game's server; they aren't available right now.

STATS

Measured against TEMP, the baseline (the tick on each bar).

HEALTH102

out of 100+2 vs TEMP

WALK1.03x

walking speed+3% vs TEMP

BACK WALK1.03x

stepping back+3% vs TEMP

RUN1.03x

running speed+3% vs TEMP

JUMP1.02x

jump height+2% vs TEMP

DASH1.03x

every glide and lunge+3% vs TEMP

WEIGHT1.04x

heavier flies less far+4% vs TEMP

STAMINA BAR0.80x

size of the attack budget-20% vs TEMP

STAMINA REGEN1.00x

how fast stamina refillssame as TEMP

DAMAGE1.00x

every hit he landssame as TEMP

BODY

SIZE: 1.03xthe whole rig
HEIGHT: 1.03xhead to feet
ARMS: 1.00xshoulder to fist
LEGS: 1.03xhip to foot
LIMBS: 1.03xthickness (hitbox and hurtbox)
LEAN: 0°upright

REACH, ROOT TO FIST OR FOOT

JAB: 89 pxTEMP 88 px
CROSS: 119 pxTEMP 116 px
SNAP KICK: 95 pxTEMP 92 px
ROUNDHOUSE: 95 pxTEMP 92 px

MECHANICS

INVULNERABLEFor 200 ms of GOLDEN PARACHUTE, strikes and throws pass through.
JUGGLE ENDERHOSTILE TAKEOVER is a different move on a body in the air: 14 damage and a wall splat.

UNIQUE MOVES

Frames are at 60 fps, from the animation's own timing. Damage is before THE CEO's 1.00x damage stat. On block is about right, before any string follow-up. Tap or hover a move to replay it.

GOLDEN PARACHUTE

← 1

Invulnerable hop back

DAMAGE: —
HEIGHT: —
STARTUP: —
ACTIVE: —
RECOVERY: 11f
ON BLOCK: —
STAMINA: 14
REACH: —

invulnerable 200 ms
hops back 87 px

HOSTILE TAKEOVER

↘ 2

Launcher; in a juggle, the ender to the wall

DAMAGE: 12
HEIGHT: MID
STARTUP: 7f
ACTIVE: 8f
RECOVERY: 13f
ON BLOCK: -11
STAMINA: 26
REACH: 75 px

launch
juggle ender
glides 23 px

STOCK SPLIT

2, 1, 2ends STOCK SPLIT

String, gut punch splits into an uppercut

DAMAGE: 5+11
HEIGHT: MID
STARTUP: 3f
ACTIVE: 16f
RECOVERY: 12f
ON BLOCK: -3
STAMINA: 28
REACH: 92 px

ender
knockdown
2 hits
glides 19 px

STRATEGY

How to beat THE CEO's own moves. Here → is toward THE CEO and ← is away, 1 2 3 4 are your buttons, and ↘ is down and toward. Every tip was scripted against the move in the game, with a TEMP doing the answering, and kept only if it worked.

GOLDEN PARACHUTE

← 1

Don't swing at it. Strikes and throws pass through him as he hops, and he has recovered before anything reaches him. Nothing punishes it afterwards.
The one exception is a guess, not a reaction: right next to him, →2 pressed at the very moment he hops still catches him.

HOSTILE TAKEOVER

↘ 2

Stand-block it. It's a mid that launches, and crouching puts you in the air.
Blocked, he's wide open. Jab (1) or snap kick (3) is the sure thing, and the uppercut (↓2) launches him instead.
It's too fast to out-press up close, where a jab only trades. Block it, or parry it with →.

STOCK SPLIT

2, 1, 2CROSS › JAB › STOCK SPLIT

Stand-block the opening cross. It pushes you back far enough that the jab behind it falls short, and the string dies before the gut punch.
Press snap kick (3) as you come out of blocking the cross. It lands before his jab does.
Or crouch from the start. The cross goes over your head and the string stops there.

THE CEO still has the strings every fighter shares. How to beat those is on TEMP's page.

CELEBRATION

Win the match and THE CEO breaks into this under the WINS banner.

PERFECT

Win a round without taking a hit and THE CEO ends it with GOLDEN PARACHUTE: the beaten body goes into the camera, hits the glass and squeaks down it.

GOLDEN PARACHUTE

The golden-parachute shove: held out at arm's length, a bored backhand push at the camera (a gold parachute opens on the glass and floats it down); then he straightens the tie.

stamped on the glass: LET GO

STRINGS AND ENDERS

Press in rhythm: each press goes in during the last hit's recovery. Damage is for the whole string landing on TEMP, with combo decay. Stamina is the bar it spends, out of 100.

INPUT	STRING	HITS	PAYOFF	DMG	STAMINA
2, 1, 2	STOCK SPLITUNIQUE	CROSS › JAB › STOCK SPLIT	knockdown, 2 hits	30	66
1, 1, 2	ONE-TWO	JAB › JAB › CROSS	—	22	55
1, 1, 2, 4	FLASH ROUNDHOUSE	JAB › JAB › CROSS › FLASH ROUNDHOUSE	knockdown	36	85
1, 1, 1	TRIPLE JAB	JAB › JAB › JAB	—	18	51
1, 2, 4	ONE-TWO KICK	JAB › CROSS › ROUNDHOUSE	knockdown	32	60
1, 2, 3	UPTOWN	JAB › CROSS › UPTOWN	—	26	60
1, 2, 3, 4	NEON TORNADO	JAB › CROSS › UPTOWN › NEON TORNADO	launch	37	90
2, 3	CROSS SNAP	CROSS › SNAP KICK	—	17	43
2, 1, 4	SPIN HEEL	CROSS › JAB › SPIN HEEL	knockdown, wall splat	31	68
3, 3, 4	CRESCENT	SNAP KICK › SNAP KICK › CRESCENT	knockdown	30	74
↓1, ↓1, ↓3	LOW RUSH	LOW JAB › LOW JAB › LOW KICK	low	16	48
↓3, ↓3, 4	GROUND RUSH	LOW KICK › LOW KICK › RUSH KNEE	knockdown	26	66
↓2, 1, 2, 4	SKY SPIKE	UPPERCUT › JAB › CROSS › SKY SPIKE	knockdown, ground bounce	35	92
↓1, release ↓ 3	RISE AND SHINE	LOW JAB › RISING KICK	—	16	37

SHARED BASICS

Every fighter has these.

→ is toward the other fighter. Reach is on THE CEO's body.

INPUT	MOVE	DMG	HEIGHT	STARTUP	ON BLOCK	STAMINA	REACH	PROPERTIES
1	JAB	6	high	7	-16	17	89
2	CROSS	10	high	14	-18	21	119
3	SNAP KICK	7	mid	7	-9	22	95
4	ROUNDHOUSE	16	high	14	-18	22	95	knockdown
→ 1	BODY BLOW	9	mid	4	-7	19	90
→ 2	LUNGE CROSS	11	mid	11	-18	22	137
→→ 1	BULLET JABout of a dash or a run; the fast way in, bounced out and punished if blocked	7	high	7	-21	19	103	glides 59 px
→→ 2	COMET CROSSout of a dash or a run	16	mid	11	-14	30	168	ender, knockdown, wall splat
→→ 3	SKID KICKout of a dash or a run; blocked low it has no blockstun at all	8	low	9	-26	20	96	glides 71 px
→→ 4	RUNNING BOOTout of a dash or a run; slow out and very slow back	13	mid	10	-22	24	103	knockdown, glides 84 px
→ 4	OVERHEAD KICK	13	mid	14	-7	22	93
← 4	SPIN KICKnear a wall: Wall Spin	15	high	11	-9	22	95	knockdown
↓1	LOW JAB	5	low	4	-10	15	86	ducks highs
↓2	UPPERCUT	9	mid	9	-6	24	65	launch
↓3	LOW KICK	6	low	5	-15	18	91	ducks highs
↓4	SWEEP	9	low	11	-21	22	98	knockdown, ducks highs
release ↓, 1	RISING JABthe quick one out of a crouch, and a mid	7	mid	6	-10	17	90
release ↓, 2	RISING UPPERCUT	11	mid	9	-4	24	65	launch
release ↓, 3	RISING KICKthe second hit of ↓1, release ↓, 3	11	mid	7	-12	22	95
release ↓, 4	RISING KNEE	12	mid	4	-3	24	63	launch
1+3	THROWor 2+4; near a wall: Wall Slam	8	throw	2	—	22	100	throw, knockdown
1 in air	JUMP JAB	6	overhead	2	-1	12	85
2 in air	JUMP CROSS	9	overhead	5	-1	15	99
3 in air	FLYING KICK	10	overhead	3	-2	16	90
4 in air	AIR ROUNDHOUSE	13	overhead	5	-1	18	89	knockdown
↓4 in air	DIVE KICK	11	overhead	4	-5	16	70
↓4 over them	STOMPthe other fighter on the floor in front of you; ↓3 there is the low kick	9	low	10	—	18	92	glides 29 px
1 on the floor	WAKE KICKor 3, while knocked down; can't be hit until it swings; 17 to 24 frames minus on block	8	mid	9	—	12	—	knockdown
2 on the floor	WAKE SWEEPor 4, or ↓ and any button, while knocked down; can't be hit until it swings; 17 to 24 frames minus on block	7	low	11	—	12	—	knockdown

Also shared, with no button of their own: parry, a tap toward the other fighter just before a hit lands (↘ for a low), which costs nothing and leaves the striker reeling; getting up, where ↑ stands, ← or → rolls, and a button is a wake-up strike; and air recovery, a button at the right moment while juggled that lands you on your feet (right at the start of the window, with a jab).