Axe Kick

Axe Kick (アックスキック) is a POW move used by Sonic the Hedgehog in the game Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. When performing this move, Sonic Spin Dashes into an enemy and follows up with a powerful air-kick

Description
When performing the Axe Kick, Sonic runs up to the front of a single opponent and enters a Spin Dash. After charging his Spin Dash briefly, Sonic shoots himself straight into his opponent, striking his target hard, while enveloped in a light blue aura. As he rebounds from his target, Sonic sends himself back at his opponent and delivers an additional spinning double-kick to his target before jumping away.

Quick-Time Event
When performing the Axe Kick in gameplay, the player has to complete a series of real-time events, by performing certain actions on the touchscreen, in order to execute the Axe Kick optimally:


 * 1) The player has to stay inside the outer circle that appears when it overlaps the inner circle and follow it vertically across the screen.
 * 2) The player has to touch two circles in succession, before the outer circles overlap the inner circles.

Missing or not touching these circles correctly will either result in Sonic missing a strike or the damage from the attack being reduced.

PP Cost

 * 4 PP

Damage

 * Axe Kick I: 150% of Attack damage
 * Axe Kick II: 175% of Attack damage
 * Axe Kick III: 200% of Attack damage

Effect

 * No effect

Trivia

 * The Axe Kick appears to based on Sonic Eagle, Sonic's Aim Attack in Sonic Battle. Both attacks are identical, and Sonic Eagle is even referred to as an "Axe Kick".
 * The axe kick is an actual kick in martial arts.  It is a tae kwon do technique, it is done  by swinging the leg straight up and back down aiming at the jaw of your oppenet.