INTERN · Neon Stick Fight fighter

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How often INTERN 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).

HEALTH96

out of 100-4 vs TEMP

WALK1.04x

walking speed+4% vs TEMP

BACK WALK1.04x

stepping back+4% vs TEMP

RUN1.05x

running speed+5% vs TEMP

JUMP1.02x

jump height+2% vs TEMP

DASH1.05x

every glide and lunge+5% vs TEMP

WEIGHT0.95x

heavier flies less far-5% vs TEMP

STAMINA BAR1.00x

size of the attack budgetsame as TEMP

STAMINA REGEN1.15x

how fast stamina refills+15% vs TEMP

DAMAGE0.97x

every hit he lands-3% vs TEMP

BODY

SIZE: 0.95xthe whole rig
HEIGHT: 0.96xhead to feet
ARMS: 0.95xshoulder to fist
LEGS: 0.95xhip to foot
LIMBS: 0.91xthickness (hitbox and hurtbox)
LEAN: 2°leans in

REACH, ROOT TO FIST OR FOOT

JAB: 84 pxTEMP 88 px
CROSS: 111 pxTEMP 116 px
SNAP KICK: 87 pxTEMP 92 px
ROUNDHOUSE: 86 pxTEMP 92 px

MECHANICS

Nothing special: the shared rules, played straight.

Drops the shared LOW RUSH string.

UNIQUE MOVES

Frames are at 60 fps, from the animation's own timing. Damage is before INTERN's 0.97x damage stat. On block is about right, before any string follow-up. Tap or hover a move to replay it.

COFFEE RUN

→→ 1

Dash-in elbow, unsafe if blocked

DAMAGE: 11
HEIGHT: MID
STARTUP: 5f
ACTIVE: 7f
RECOVERY: 13f
ON BLOCK: -14
STAMINA: 19
REACH: 77 px

glides 71 px

PAPER CUT OPENER

↘ 1or↙ 1or↓1

Low, ducks highs

DAMAGE: 4
HEIGHT: LOW
STARTUP: 2f
ACTIVE: 4f
RECOVERY: 10f
ON BLOCK: -9
STAMINA: 12
REACH: 79 px

ducks highs

PAPER CUT 2

↓1, ↓1second hit of PAPER CUTor↓1, ↓1second hit of PAPER CUTS

Low, ducks highs

DAMAGE: 4
HEIGHT: LOW
STARTUP: 2f
ACTIVE: 4f
RECOVERY: 10f
ON BLOCK: -9
STAMINA: 12
REACH: 84 px

ducks highs

PAPER CUT

↓1, ↓1, 2ends PAPER CUT

Quick lows, then a mid finisher

DAMAGE: 9
HEIGHT: MID
STARTUP: 5f
ACTIVE: 6f
RECOVERY: 11f
ON BLOCK: -6
STAMINA: 20
REACH: 57 px

knockdown

REPLY ALL

1, 2, 2ends REPLY ALL

String, a wild haymaker

DAMAGE: 15
HEIGHT: MID
STARTUP: 7f
ACTIVE: 7f
RECOVERY: 14f
ON BLOCK: -7
STAMINA: 30
REACH: 104 px

ender
knockdown

STRATEGY

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

RISE AND SHINE

↓1, release ↓ 3PAPER CUT › RISING KICK

Crouch-block the Paper Cut, then stand up to block the kick. He's still recovering after it, and the lunge cross (→2) punishes.
Blocked, only the lunge cross (→2) reaches him. A plain jab or cross is too short.
Beat him to it: a cross (2) thrown as he crouches lands before the Paper Cut does.
From a step out, stand-block and the Paper Cut misses: the kick never comes. Nearly anything punishes the miss; the cross (2) and lunge cross (→2) are the surest.

COFFEE RUN

→→ 1

Stand-block it. It's a mid, so crouching gets you elbowed, blocking or not.
Blocked, he's open. Jab (1) or snap kick (3) him right after.
Or meet the run: a jab (1) or a snap kick (3) thrown as he dashes in hits him first.
→ parries it.

PAPER CUT OPENER

↘ 1or↙ 1or↓1

Crouch-block it. It's a low, and it lands almost as soon as he presses, so every button you throw at it trades or loses.
One of these barely hurts. What matters is the string behind it, so keep crouch-blocking.
After a single blocked one, only →2 reaches him in time.

PAPER CUT

↓1, ↓1, 2PAPER CUT › PAPER CUT 2 › PAPER CUT

Crouch-block the two low jabs. They push you back far enough that the uppercut after them swings at air.
Then he's stuck, and anything lands. Take the cross (2) or the uppercut (↓2).
A standing block gets hit low, and crouching without blocking gets hit by all three.

PAPER CUTS

↓1, ↓1, ↓3PAPER CUT › PAPER CUT 2 › LOW KICK

It's all lows, so crouch-block the whole string. A standing block gets hit three times.
After you block the second low jab, press the cross (2) or the snap kick (3). It beats the low kick he follows with.
If you block all three he's barely open. The cross (2) or →2 still catches him, but only if you press as soon as you can move.

REPLY ALL

1, 2, 2JAB › CROSS › REPLY ALL

Stand-block all three, then jab (1) as soon as you can move. The haymaker leaves him open for a jab and nothing slower.
Or cut it off: after you block the first jab, a low kick (↓3) goes under his cross and hits first.
Crouch from the start and the first jab goes over your head. The string stops there, and a low kick (↓3) punishes.

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

CELEBRATION

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

PERFECT

Win a round without taking a hit and INTERN ends it with ACCIDENTAL LOB: the beaten body goes into the camera, hits the glass and squeaks down it.

ACCIDENTAL LOB

He gets it up, it slips, he juggles it, and a panicked underhand lob sends it at the camera by accident; then both hands on his head.

stamped on the glass: OOPS

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, 2	PAPER CUTUNIQUE	PAPER CUT › PAPER CUT 2 › PAPER CUT	knockdown	16	44
↓1, ↓1, ↓3	PAPER CUTSUNIQUE	PAPER CUT › PAPER CUT 2 › LOW KICK	low	14	42
1, 2, 2	REPLY ALLUNIQUE	JAB › CROSS › REPLY ALL	knockdown	30	68
↓1, release ↓ 3	RISE AND SHINEUNIQUE	PAPER CUT › RISING KICK	—	15	34
1, 1, 2	ONE-TWO	JAB › JAB › CROSS	—	21	55
1, 1, 2, 4	FLASH ROUNDHOUSE	JAB › JAB › CROSS › FLASH ROUNDHOUSE	knockdown	35	85
1, 1, 1	TRIPLE JAB	JAB › JAB › JAB	—	17	51
1, 2, 4	ONE-TWO KICK	JAB › CROSS › ROUNDHOUSE	knockdown	31	60
1, 2, 3	UPTOWN	JAB › CROSS › UPTOWN	—	25	60
1, 2, 3, 4	NEON TORNADO	JAB › CROSS › UPTOWN › NEON TORNADO	launch	36	90
2, 3	CROSS SNAP	CROSS › SNAP KICK	—	16	43
2, 1, 4	SPIN HEEL	CROSS › JAB › SPIN HEEL	knockdown, wall splat	30	68
3, 3, 4	CRESCENT	SNAP KICK › SNAP KICK › CRESCENT	knockdown	29	74
↓3, ↓3, 4	GROUND RUSH	LOW KICK › LOW KICK › RUSH KNEE	knockdown	25	66
↓2, 1, 2, 4	SKY SPIKE	UPPERCUT › JAB › CROSS › SKY SPIKE	knockdown, ground bounce	34	92

SHARED BASICS

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

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

INPUT	MOVE	DMG	HEIGHT	STARTUP	ON BLOCK	STAMINA	REACH	PROPERTIES
1	JAB	6	high	7	-16	17	84
2	CROSS	10	high	14	-18	21	111
3	SNAP KICK	7	mid	7	-9	22	87
4	ROUNDHOUSE	16	high	14	-18	22	86	knockdown
→ 1	BODY BLOW	9	mid	4	-7	19	84
→ 2	LUNGE CROSS	11	mid	11	-18	22	128
→→ 1	BULLET JABout of a dash or a run; the fast way in, bounced out and punished if blockedreplaced by COFFEE RUN	7	high	7	-21	19	96	glides 60 px
→→ 2	COMET CROSSout of a dash or a run	16	mid	11	-14	30	156	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	88	glides 72 px
→→ 4	RUNNING BOOTout of a dash or a run; slow out and very slow back	13	mid	10	-22	24	94	knockdown, glides 86 px
→ 4	OVERHEAD KICK	13	mid	14	-7	22	85
← 4	SPIN KICKnear a wall: Wall Spin	15	high	11	-9	22	87	knockdown
↓1	LOW JABreplaced by PAPER CUT	5	low	4	-10	15	80	ducks highs
↓2	UPPERCUT	9	mid	9	-6	24	61	launch
↓3	LOW KICK	6	low	5	-15	18	83	ducks highs
↓4	SWEEP	9	low	11	-21	22	89	knockdown, ducks highs
release ↓, 1	RISING JABthe quick one out of a crouch, and a mid	7	mid	6	-10	17	84
release ↓, 2	RISING UPPERCUT	11	mid	9	-4	24	61	launch
release ↓, 3	RISING KICKthe second hit of ↓1, release ↓, 3	11	mid	7	-12	22	87
release ↓, 4	RISING KNEE	12	mid	4	-3	24	57	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	80
2 in air	JUMP CROSS	9	overhead	5	-1	15	93
3 in air	FLYING KICK	10	overhead	3	-2	16	83
4 in air	AIR ROUNDHOUSE	13	overhead	5	-1	18	81	knockdown
↓4 in air	DIVE KICK	11	overhead	4	-5	16	64
↓4 over them	STOMPthe other fighter on the floor in front of you; ↓3 there is the low kick	9	low	10	—	18	85	glides 30 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).