hitstun
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "My problem is that Vega has no real combo's that keep an enemy in hit-stun so they can't defend beyond the first hit."
- "Once Kasumi connects with the standing D, her opponent is unable to avoid the rest of the hits. Obviously this isn't true if you're in Armor Mode, since you never go into hitstun, but you get the idea."
- "Hitstun—state a character enters when they are hit with an attack and did not block or guard."
- "[…] if the reflector connected with my opponent, I try to knock them offstage with an aerial attack while they’re still vulnerable to attack (“in hitstun”) from the reflector."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *kh₂eyd-der. Proto-Indo-European *kh₂id-néh₂-ti Proto-Germanic *hittijaną Old Norse hittader. Old English hyttan Middle English hitten English hit English stun English hitstun From hit + stun.