When Flandre goes "kyuu", you go boom. Flandre is a pure melee rushdown attacker with destructive power and speed, capable of pressuring the opponent into a corner and unleashing absolute destruction on them; however, Flandre's lack of experience outside the Scarlet Devil Mansion's basement has rendered her with no true fighting experience, so while her power may be unrestrained, her Defence is as frail as tissue paper.
Flandre Scarlet is technically a six-button character that plays like a standard three-button character, using the buttons for the vast majority of her moveset and the buttons as shortcuts; Ⓐ acts as a shortcut for the character's back and forward dashes when either or (respectively) is being held, Ⓑ is used as a shortcut for the Ⓨ+Ⓩ input that's assigned to the character's throw, while Ⓒ is used as a shortcut for the part of the command input that's used in the Level 3 Hypers. One of Flandre's mutually exclusive level 3 Hypers has to be chosen at the beginning of every match, with Taboo "Weapon of Mass Destruction" being a large but slow moving projectile that explodes with a fullscreen blast upon contact with an opponent, which is enhanced by the character being able to move around freely once it has been launched, and Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?" being Flandre's famous signature One hit knockout attack that can be comboed into, but leaves Flandre wide open for punishment should the opponent block it.
Flandre is a charge character with a rushdown style of gameplay and a moveset that is entirely melee-oriented, having no projectiles outside of the Taboo "Weapon of Mass Destruction" Hyper or any other direct means of spacing outside of her backdash; despite the lack of a reliable projectile, Flandre's ability to spontaneously leap across the stage allows her to approach opponents with relative ease, something which is further helped by a lot of her attacks having either very high or infinite priority. Not counting the three Catadioptric followups or Royal Flush, practically all of Flandre's Special and Hyper attacks are activated via charge motions, which further gives plenty of incentive to rush up to the opponent and start a combo against them in order to best utilise their effectiveness.
Flandre utilizes fast movement speed along with attacks that can easily provide invincibility or cross-up opportunities on the opponent. Many of Flandre's attacks deal more damage than other characters' equivalent attacks, and Flandre's wall attacks are likely to keep the opponent guessing. Flandre's most notable flaw, however, is the fact that she is a glass cannon, so while she is fast and hits hard, she only sports a mere 700 Life, which is significantly lower than most other fighters; as such, Flandre is capable of KOing opponents relatively quickly, at the cost of being KO'd just as fast.
Stats
Life
700
Power
3000
Attack
100
Defence
100
Movelist
Hovering the mouse cursor over the Command Input icons will display text that refers to the inputs set in M.U.G.E.N's Key Config.
Icons encased in square brackets [ ] require the respective button(s) to be held down. Hovering the mouse cursor over the icon displays the hold duration if applicable.
Specials
Starbow Break
Command Input
Properties
[ ]
Ⓧ / Ⓨ
Substituting final directional input with or changes wall Flandre leaps to Ⓧ version: * Ⓨ version: height varies with distance from wall
Substituting final directional input with or changes wall Flandre leaps to Uses 1000 Power
Taboo "Four of a Kind"
Command Input
Properties
[ ]
Uses 1000 Power
Taboo "Weapon of Mass Destruction"
Command Input
Properties
[ ]
/ Ⓒ
* Only usable if respective spellcard is selected prior to match Uses 3000 Power
Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?"
Command Input
Properties
[ ]
/ Ⓒ
Only usable if respective spellcard is selected prior to match Flandre must have won at least one round Cannot be cancelled into unless opponent's Life is less than 350 or less than 35% of maximum (uses highest value) Uses 3000 Power
Others
Catadioptric
Command Input
Properties
[ ]
Ⓩ
Substituting final directional input with or changes wall Flandre leaps to [ / ] to adjust trajectory Can be followed up with Owen's Chandelier, Starbow Break B, or Cranberry Trap
This character uses a Palette Selector that allows for more than 12 palettes to be chosen, and as such, only the first 12 are shown here. For a full list of palettes, see Alternative palettes.
Victory quotes
General
“
Don't believe that you've won. There's still more!”
“
I've always been curious about humans, so I came to look.”
“
Yes, I'm satisfied. But now I'm pretty much alone again.”
“
You want to go to the library? Books are boring, let's play some more danmaku!”
“
I expected you to be the last Indian.”
“
You know how there's an eye in everything? I shot yours like 'kyu' and you went 'kaboom!'”
Character-specific
“
Oh, and I was thinking of visiting you with cake and tea, as thanks.”
Unlike most of RicePigeon's Touhou characters, Flandre does not contain any winquotes referencing Touhou Rekkaden or Lie Meiling.
Both winquotes against Eirin reference the fact that Eirin, like Kaguya and Mokou, is an immortal, and thus could not die even if Flandre was to use her power against them.
This is further reinforced by the fact that Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?" will cause these three characters to drop to the ground from the top of the screen, rather than completely removing them from the screen in a bloody explosion as with everyone else.
Flandre's 5th generic winquote is a reference to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, which was originally titled Ten Little Indians before it was changed due to perceived racism.
Although Flandre's Royal Flush Special is neither an attack nor a spellcard Flandre has ever used in the Touhou Project series, its name ties in with the theme of Flandre's Taboo "Four of a Kind" Hyper in that it is also a type of poker hand.
Simiarly, Flandre's Taboo "Weapon of Mass Destruction" Hyper has also never appeared in the Touhou Project series, but it ties in with Flandre's ability to destroy anything.
The background music that plays during Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?" is a remix of "U.N. Owen Was Her?" from Touhou Soccer 2[1]; this follows a trend set in RicePigeon's other characters where cinematic Level 3 Hypers play a remixed version of one of the character's music themes.
Starbow Break B might possibly be read as Starbow Break β or Starbow Break Beta, in order to differentiate itself from the standard version of Starbow Break. The uppercase B was most likely chosen over the Greek letter β due to lack of proper language support.
Flandre's voice clips are taken from Dragon Ball Xenoverse, specifically the fourth female voice option for the Future Warrior.
buttons for the vast majority of her moveset and the 
buttons as shortcuts; 
acts as a shortcut for the character's back and forward dashes when either 
or 
(respectively) is being held, 
is used as a shortcut for the 
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input that's assigned to the character's throw, while 
is used as a shortcut for the 
part of the command input that's used in the Level 3 Hypers. One of Flandre's mutually exclusive level 3 Hypers has to be chosen at the beginning of every match, with Taboo "Weapon of Mass Destruction" being a large but slow moving projectile that explodes with a fullscreen blast upon contact with an opponent, which is enhanced by the character being able to move around freely once it has been launched, and Secret Barrage "And Then Will There Be None?" being Flandre's famous signature One hit knockout attack that can be comboed into, but leaves Flandre wide open for punishment should the opponent block it.
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