pros remember that the hitbox (if u get hit there, u lose hp, for those who r confused) is only one pixel and focus on dodging rather than trying to deal max damage
it's probably going to look better as a left to right or right to left because then you can see the detials of characters, but that idea is already used by wings of ge.ne.sis
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