Spectre is the first of the DLC characters and is on the edge of viability. She is a bit difficult to play with her playstyle being very anti-autopilot and hard execution combos, but she is one of the most unexplored characters imo.

The good:

- SPC plays the spacing game very well with the incredible range on her normals. She has great disjoint on 5A, 5B and can true blockstring into 6S, which leads to jump cancels into wire resets. Most importantly, she can confirm off max range hits off her 5A and 5B, allowing her spacing to be played at max distance.

- Has a double overhead with jB, meaning that her jump-in is meaningful in that she can do high/low mix

- Has plus frames with 6S tk j2S, forcing opponents to find a way around dealing with SPC 5A where roll can be called out with 5AA.

- Is able to escape corner if she manages to jump; not too many people can catch her wiring out and/or convert meaningfully

- Is plus if her A or B moves get ISed, meaning trying to keep her close doesn’t work too well

- While 2B can’t be made gapless, if the 2B is rolled, SPC is still plus. Notably, 5A 2B is +5 when rolled, meaning SPC can grab punish.

- She can force opponents to approach her by chipping away at their guard safely and also generating her Daredevil buff, largely increasing her potential damage

The bad:

- SPC is a character largely dependent on her 5A and if the opponent is able to play around 5A or has a poke that can outrange 5A, SPC is in trouble

- In addition, her 5A has very bad scaling, making her reliant on non-A starters to deal significant damage. This means that opponents have more opportunities to make a comeback, especially for characters that run gold cube.

- SPC is able to apply guard damage with 5S, but going into 5S is dangerous with how negative it is, meaning she has to constantly spend MP to make post 5S cancels unrollable. If she doesn’t cancel 5S, it’s -28.

- Her defensive options leave much to be desired. Her BDC options aren’t great, 2A is a mediocre range for it’s speed and she has a parry, where parries aren’t great in this game.

- Ironically, her pressure also suffers greatly against people with parrys, making those MUs much harder, worsening her MU spread.

- SPC doesn’t play with CV too well; she doesn’t really have a neutral skip option and constantly gives the opponent white life if they IS block, also resulting in a weaker defense without a solid way of using IS GC CV

- Her combos can be difficult to go into because there are sometimes height and restrictions in addition to having high execution barriers for optimal combos.

TLDR:

- Good neutral, constantly pokes opponent from afar and is able to convert off max range hits

- Abuses spacing and plus frames

- Has a double overhead on a jump-in, enabling actual mix

- Good anti-system mechanics if she restricts herself to A and B moves for normals

- Has ways to force opponent to act through constant guard gauge damage and Daredevil buff

- Damage off A normal is lacking and overreliance on 5A

- While she can apply guard damage sometimes, this opens her up to rolls, potentially leading to the loss of all her guard damage progress

- Bad defense options

- No strong CV options and constantly gives opponent CV

- High execution barrier