In order not to describe each action three times (for "letters", "numbers" and a gamepad), I will describe the moves not with specific keys, but simply with actions.

Any technique that knocks and throws enemies up and back is useful in that it knocks down other enemies too.

Pressing the movement button twice - run. You can run straight and diagonally, as well as run into a wall, staying in place, but without losing speed.

• PUNCH - as long as you press this button multiple times, you have an endless combo.
  
• Hold PUNCH - charges a normal punch so that it deals a lot of damage and knocks the enemy far away. While charging the punch, you can move, don't stand still.
  
• KICK - a single hit that knocks back enemies.
  
• Combo PUNCH (at least two hits) + KICK - stun enemy;
  
• Combo PUNCH (at least two hits) + FORWARD KICK - knock the enemy forward;
  
• Combo PUNCH (at least two hits) + UP KICK - toss the enemy up. A falling enemy is capable of hurting other enemies, and just as while he falls down, you can injure him with a charged punch, kick or you can catch him in the air with a jump grab.

• DASH - gives you invulnerability for a short time, and also allows you to leave a dangerous position.
  
• Run + PUNCH or DASH + PUNCH - knock down enemies in front of you so that they fall forward;
  
• Run + KICK or DASH + KICK- knock down enemies in front of you so that they fall behind your back - useful to collect enemies in one place or to smoke enemies from the edge of the screen.

• GRAB standing still + PUNCH combo - works as a normal punch combo;
  
• GRAB standing still + hold PUNCH - works as a charged punch, deals a lot of damage and knocks the enemy far away;
  
• GRAB standing still + GRAB to the left, right or up - throw the enemy to the left, right or up, respectively. A falling enemy can be injured with a charged punch, kick, or jump grab;
  
• GRAB standing still + GRAB down - dexterous characters (Sergei and Natasha) will start doing ground finisher, strong characters (Ivan and Boris) will simply hurt the enemy badly.

• Run + GRAB or DASH + GRAB - grapple the enemy and turn the fight into a ground finisher. It is not necessary to make a grapple, you can finish off any fallen enemies with a simple attack button;
  
• Lying enemies can be damaged either with simple PUNCHes or with charged PUNCHes. If the enemy is low on health, then the charged blow, while he is lying, will crush his head. If it is important for you to leave their heads intact, you can first weaken the enemy with one or two charged punches and then finish him off with simple punches.
  
• To get off a lying enemy, do a DASH (or a jump, but a dash is better). Sometimes it is better to give up the finishing move halfway to avoid the damage from other enemies.

• If you get caught (either standing or lying) - quickly press any working buttons (spam punch, kick, grab and dash buttons).
  
• In a jump, you can do either a PUNCH (the KICK will do the same), or a GRAB, nothing else. Grapple is needed against the enemies you threw with COMBO + KICK UP, or whom you threw upward with the previous GRAB, or who just jumped of their own. If you press GRAB once while jumping against an airborne enemy, you will simply throw him on the ground, if you hold down the button, then you will land with the enemy in a ground finisher.

Techniques with weapons:

• GRAB - pick up the weapon.
  
• Combos and grapples with weapons do not work, everything else (for example, charged strikes and kick) work as without weapons. Weapon strikes on lying enemies do a lot of damage, charged punches can even kill them with one strike.
  
• GRAB to the left or to the right with a weapon - throw it.
  
• GRAB upward with a weapon - toss it up, you can pick it up with a second GRAB, and juggle that way.
  
• GRAB down with a weapon - gently put it on the ground, it does not get damaged by impact of throw and will be where you put it.

As a bonus, there is a special button for an "insult" (with "letters" control it is the ALT key) and if you make a GRAB while you are in necro-berserker mode, you will finish the enemy off with a unique fatality.

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