COURIER · Neon Stick Fight fighter

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How often COURIER 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).

HEALTH97

out of 100-3 vs TEMP

WALK1.20x

walking speed+20% vs TEMP

BACK WALK1.14x

stepping back+14% vs TEMP

RUN1.20x

running speed+20% vs TEMP

JUMP1.06x

jump height+6% vs TEMP

DASH1.20x

every glide and lunge+20% vs TEMP

WEIGHT0.90x

heavier flies less far-10% vs TEMP

STAMINA BAR1.00x

size of the attack budgetsame as TEMP

STAMINA REGEN1.25x

how fast stamina refills+25% vs TEMP

DAMAGE1.03x

every hit he lands+3% vs TEMP

BODY

SIZE: 0.96xthe whole rig
HEIGHT: 0.97xhead to feet
ARMS: 0.96xshoulder to fist
LEGS: 1.00xhip to foot
LIMBS: 0.88xthickness (hitbox and hurtbox)
LEAN: 5°leans in

REACH, ROOT TO FIST OR FOOT

JAB: 86 pxTEMP 88 px
CROSS: 112 pxTEMP 116 px
SNAP KICK: 90 pxTEMP 92 px
ROUNDHOUSE: 89 pxTEMP 92 px

MECHANICS

CPU STYLERushdown: runs in, swings more, never backs off.

UNIQUE MOVES

Frames are at 60 fps, from the animation's own timing. Damage is before COURIER's 1.03x damage stat. On block is about right, before any string follow-up. Tap or hover a move to replay it.

EXPRESS SLIDE

→→ 3

Low slide under highs, knocks down

DAMAGE: 10
HEIGHT: LOW
STARTUP: 6f
ACTIVE: 14f
RECOVERY: 17f
ON BLOCK: -23
STAMINA: 22
REACH: 91 px

knockdown
ducks highs
glides 144 px

DROP-OFF KNEE

→→ 4

Flying knee over lows, launches

DAMAGE: 13
HEIGHT: MID
STARTUP: 5f
ACTIVE: 7f
RECOVERY: 16f
ON BLOCK: -11
STAMINA: 24
REACH: 60 px

launch
hops lows
glides 96 px

SAME DAY

1, 1, 3ends SAME DAY

String, ends in the slide

DAMAGE: 12
HEIGHT: LOW
STARTUP: 6f
ACTIVE: 14f
RECOVERY: 17f
ON BLOCK: -23
STAMINA: 30
REACH: 91 px

ender
knockdown
ducks highs
glides 110 px

STRATEGY

How to beat COURIER's own moves. Here → is toward COURIER 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.

EXPRESS SLIDE

→→ 3

Crouch-block it. It's a low, so a standing block gets swept, and jumping over it gets you hit every time.
Once it's blocked he's sitting on the floor just past jab range. Punish with →2, the lunge cross. A jab, a throw and every low come up short.
Better, stop it before it starts: a snap kick (3) thrown while he's still running in beats the slide. It's easy up close and from far away, and tight from the middle distance. A jab only wins up close and early. From farther out it trades.
↘ parries it. Tap just before his foot gets to you, not when he starts the dash.

DROP-OFF KNEE

→→ 4

It's a mid, so stand-block it. Crouching loses, with or without a block.
Blocked, he's open: jab (1) or snap kick (3) as soon as you can move. The cross and the roundhouse are too slow, unless the knee missed you completely.
Hit him out of the run. A jab (1), a snap kick (3) or an uppercut (↓2) thrown as he dashes in all land first. Lows are a bad bet: from mid-range the knee hops over them.
It comes off the same dash as the slide, so the dash is the tell. A snap kick (3) into the run beats both.

SAME DAY

1, 1, 3JAB › JAB › SAME DAY

Don't stand-block all three. Block the two jabs standing and the slide hits you low before you can change your guard.
Crouch-block from the start instead. The first jab goes over your head, the string stops there, and a low kick (↓3) punishes him.
Already blocked the first jab standing? Press low kick (↓3) at once. It goes under his second jab and hits first.

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

CELEBRATION

Win the match and COURIER breaks into this under the WINS banner.

PERFECT

Win a round without taking a hit and COURIER ends it with SAME-DAY DROP KICK: the beaten body goes into the camera, hits the glass and squeaks down it.

SAME-DAY DROP KICK

He picks it up like a parcel across both arms, tosses it up and drop-kicks it at the camera, then tips his cap.

stamped on the glass: DELIVERED

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
1, 1, 3	SAME DAYUNIQUE	JAB › JAB › SAME DAY	knockdown, low	25	64
1, 1, 2	ONE-TWO	JAB › JAB › CROSS	—	23	55
1, 1, 2, 4	FLASH ROUNDHOUSE	JAB › JAB › CROSS › FLASH ROUNDHOUSE	knockdown	37	85
1, 1, 1	TRIPLE JAB	JAB › JAB › JAB	—	19	51
1, 2, 4	ONE-TWO KICK	JAB › CROSS › ROUNDHOUSE	knockdown	33	60
1, 2, 3	UPTOWN	JAB › CROSS › UPTOWN	—	27	60
1, 2, 3, 4	NEON TORNADO	JAB › CROSS › UPTOWN › NEON TORNADO	launch	38	90
2, 3	CROSS SNAP	CROSS › SNAP KICK	—	18	43
2, 1, 4	SPIN HEEL	CROSS › JAB › SPIN HEEL	knockdown, wall splat	32	68
3, 3, 4	CRESCENT	SNAP KICK › SNAP KICK › CRESCENT	knockdown	31	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	27	66
↓2, 1, 2, 4	SKY SPIKE	UPPERCUT › JAB › CROSS › SKY SPIKE	knockdown, ground bounce	36	92
↓1, release ↓ 3	RISE AND SHINE	LOW JAB › RISING KICK	—	16	37

SHARED BASICS

Every fighter has these. Struck through: replaced by a unique move.

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

INPUT	MOVE	DMG	HEIGHT	STARTUP	ON BLOCK	STAMINA	REACH	PROPERTIES
1	JAB	6	high	7	-16	17	86
2	CROSS	10	high	14	-18	21	112
3	SNAP KICK	7	mid	7	-9	22	90
4	ROUNDHOUSE	16	high	14	-18	22	89	knockdown
→ 1	BODY BLOW	9	mid	4	-7	19	86
→ 2	LUNGE CROSS	11	mid	11	-18	22	130
→→ 1	BULLET JABout of a dash or a run; the fast way in, bounced out and punished if blocked	7	high	7	-21	19	98	glides 69 px
→→ 2	COMET CROSSout of a dash or a run	16	mid	11	-14	30	159	ender, knockdown, wall splat
→→ 3	SKID KICKout of a dash or a run; blocked low it has no blockstun at allreplaced by EXPRESS SLIDE	8	low	9	-26	20	90	glides 83 px
→→ 4	RUNNING BOOTout of a dash or a run; slow out and very slow backreplaced by DROP-OFF KNEE	13	mid	10	-22	24	97	knockdown, glides 98 px
→ 4	OVERHEAD KICK	13	mid	14	-7	22	87
← 4	SPIN KICKnear a wall: Wall Spin	15	high	11	-9	22	90	knockdown
↓1	LOW JAB	5	low	4	-10	15	82	ducks highs
↓2	UPPERCUT	9	mid	9	-6	24	63	launch
↓3	LOW KICK	6	low	5	-15	18	85	ducks highs
↓4	SWEEP	9	low	11	-21	22	92	knockdown, ducks highs
release ↓, 1	RISING JABthe quick one out of a crouch, and a mid	7	mid	6	-10	17	86
release ↓, 2	RISING UPPERCUT	11	mid	9	-4	24	63	launch
release ↓, 3	RISING KICKthe second hit of ↓1, release ↓, 3	11	mid	7	-12	22	89
release ↓, 4	RISING KNEE	12	mid	4	-3	24	58	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	82
2 in air	JUMP CROSS	9	overhead	5	-1	15	94
3 in air	FLYING KICK	10	overhead	3	-2	16	85
4 in air	AIR ROUNDHOUSE	13	overhead	5	-1	18	84	knockdown
↓4 in air	DIVE KICK	11	overhead	4	-5	16	66
↓4 over them	STOMPthe other fighter on the floor in front of you; ↓3 there is the low kick	9	low	10	—	18	86	glides 34 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).