Sky High Claw

The Sky High Claw is one of Vega's special moves. Executed by charging down and then pressing up and punch, Vega will leap towards the edge of the screen and kick-jump off of it, gliding horizontally towards his opponent with claw outstretched.

The attack has the disadvantage that it will never take the opponent completely by surprise, as Vega will always leap towards the edge of the screen (and so away from the opponent) first, giving plenty of warning that an attack is imminent. It compensates for this, however, by the fact that it resembles the Flying Barcelona Attack during its start-up, up until Vega kicks off the edge of the screen. This means that although the opponent will know that AN attack is coming, exactly WHICH attack it will be is unclear until split-seconds before it actually happens.