Lady Death Demonicron Moves Ranked from Public Footage

This list ranks the Lady Death tools that public footage actually shows, not a sixty-row fantasy frame data sheet. Billy Deakin cited around sixty moves including movement. Facebook promo counted over 25 Overkill routes with scythe, sword, and boots. Most of those inputs are still on a combat card, not on a wiki spreadsheet. The Tiers Hub explains S/A/B. Sword pickups are a different page: swords. Inputs live here.

Grades assume a controller, a D-pad for motions, and a blue meter that can be empty. Infinite power from the cheat sheet makes every special look S. Turn it off if you want these letters to mean anything. Keyboard was missing from early demos; if you insist on keys, your throw grade will fall off the chart. See controls.

S — Jump kick

Demo first impressions repeat the same complaint: enemies on the ground are hard to hit unless you jump and land a kick. That is not a bug you ignore. That is the anti-floor button. Standing punches whiff on belly-down Crawlers. Hopping Razorbacks that flop still need the kick. Draptors that kiss lava still need the kick.

Jump kick is essential, not flashy. It does not splash OVERKILL. It does not make a trailer. It is the reason mash players posted horrible end-of-level grades. Map jump and kick so both are reachable without a grip change. If kick sits on a shoulder and jump on a face button, you will drop the S tool in a crowd.

Fail case. Jump kick is not anti-air by itself against a Draptor at the top of a hop. Pair it with levitate. Jump kick is not a boss ender. Pair it with a special.

S — Reveal detonation

She turns from the camera, opens the top, stuns, and enemies explode. Deakin called it out on the Level 1 tape. Crowd delete. Save it for overlapping Razorbacks or a packed festival lane, not a single Crawler you could have kicked.

Fail case. Empty meter. One target. A boss that wanted a committed string in the demo will not die to a panicked reveal if you already spent the bar on nothing.

A — Scythe throw

Three public scythe attacks: vertical slice, horizontal slice, throw. The throw is the ranged ender. Use it when a Riot Guard sits on the far side of a night-city platform or when split-screen hides the other player’s lane.

Fail case. A wall. A hopping Draptor. Throwing into a shield you should have sidekicked. Analog-stick quarter-circles that never come out. Practice on the D-pad with the combat page open.

Vertical and horizontal slices are A-minus utility: they feed Overkill animations (split corpses) and they are not the same as the throw. Do not mash slice when the job is a far lane.

A — Levitate / spin-flip

Area clear while she leaves the floor. Demo playthroughs show a horizontal spin. This is the anti-Draptor and festival-crowd tool when jump kick is busy on the floor. It is A instead of S because we have fewer public confirms than reveal, and because meter cost plus recovery are not documented. If retail recovery is long, this letter drops.

Fail case. Empty meter. Using it as a travel move across empty catwalks. Using it on a single Riot Guard helmet.

A — Block

Hands-on footage stuffed a hit with block. Hop-in elites are the job. Demo bosses that ignored pokes still have a hop you can wait on. Block is A because it is always available, costs no meter, and still loses if you hold it through a grab that may arrive in the full build, or if you never punish.

Fail case. Blocking a grounded Crawler you should kick. Blocking through a throw if grapples land in the 31 August 2026 build — grapples were still missing in early captures, so this fail case is a warning, not a current screenshot.

A — Overkill routes (special kill confirm)

Killing with a special counts as an Overkill. Corpses split vertically, split horizontally, burn, explode, or throw guts. Screenshots splash OVERKILL in blood red. That is confirmation you spent the right tool. Ranking “Overkill” as a single move would be cheating; it is a result. The route is: meter in the tank, the right special for the body count, no mash.

S-route: reveal into a stacked pair, then jump kick stragglers. A-route: scythe throw to clip a far Riot Guard, walk up, special the remainder. A-route: levitate on Draptors, jump kick whatever lands. B-route: extra blood cheat for screenshots. Presentation, not damage. See modes only if you already unlocked toys.

In co-op, Overkills credit whoever lands the special. Do not both dump meter into one Razorback. Lady Death should keep reveal and throw. Ravenheart should hold the heavy string until his card is public.

B — Mash punch, taunt, and unproven extras

Light punch is a starter, not a plan. A taunt on some builds looked like a pickup until it snapped. Tackle and sidekick showed up in reviewer footage as lane tools; treat sidekick as A versus shields if your copy matches that tape, B if you cannot reproduce it. Heal exists in hands-on footage and stays unranked as S until we know the cost.

Grapples and some air combat were missing from Comic-Con and early demo builds. They are unknown, not B. The demo versus full page is the reminder. Do not mail a “no grabs” review of the 15-level game based on June 2026.

Practice order that respects the letters

1. Jump kick every corpse on the cemetery stretch from getting started.
2. Bank meter for one reveal on two overlapping bodies.
3. Land one scythe throw on a far target.
4. Only then chase a flaming sword from the swords page.

If animations feel stiff, Steam threads already argue about feedback. The counterplay Art of Play gave you is this motion layer, not a hidden auto-combo. Learn two S/A tools and the dinosaur biome from the walkthrough stops playing like a walking simulator with blood.

Switch digital on 11 September 2026 will make analog motions worse in handheld. Dock, use the D-pad, and keep jump kick S even when your throws feel like B.