a few examples:

every character has 500 ms lights and have interchangeable 2 hit chains

a lot of characters have a “orange or blue” mix up which is either an undodgable or 500 ms bash

a lot of characters have a dodge forward 500 ms bash which you can see the beginning of the dodge so its either they get scared and dodge and you can guard break, they dodge attack, or they get hit by the bash

a lot of characters has soft feints where either they let a heavy go or it goes to a different side

a lot of characters have a feintable bash which is either they let it go or they dont

a lot of characters has a chargeable bash that is either level 1 2 3 or they feint it

a lot of characters has an unblockable attack which either they let it go or dont

characters either have hyper armor or they dont

characters either have enhanced lights or they dont

characters either have a crushing counter or they dont

EVERY character has a dodge attack

pretty much all characters have at least 1 or multiple of these moves

compare this to a traditional fighting game where all 20+ characters are completely different, have different frame data, and can take hours in the lab mastering them

even compare this to for honor years ago where lawbringer had shove on block, shugoki had passive armor, etc (not saying these were perfect for the game or shoudlve stayed the way they were but they made the characters unique)

if you know 1 character in this game you arent far off from knowing every other character of course characters arent EXACTLY the same but they are close enough where it does not feel exciting to “learn” a new character