Sonic Thrust

Sonic Thrust, known in Japan as Blink Fast Sword, was originally 's side special move in Super Smash Flash 2. Lloyd would thrust one of his swords forward, shouting the name of the move as he does so. Sonic Thrust was usually used at the end of combos in Lloyd's Linked Artes Mechanic. For example, Demon Fang could be cancelled into Sonic Thrust, to become "Demonic Thrust", which does more damage than either Sonic Thrust or Demon Fang alone. However, Lloyd can no longer do the Linked Artes so he can not perform this combo anymore. The move's main downside was that it had a massive amount of ending lag, making it risky to use. The aerial version would have instantly sent Lloyd in any direction, but it was an ineffective recovery option due to its high endlag and short range.

As of Beta, the move has been replaced by Tempest, changing to his dash attack instead. It acts very similarly to how it did previously and deals 10% damage to opponents hit.

Trivia

 * Originally, the attack was changed to the third hit of Lloyd's in v0.5a of the SSF2 Demo and the side special move was changed to Beast.
 * However, in v0.6, it was brought back to the status of Lloyd's side special, while Beast was moved to Lloyd's forward smash instead. Lloyd now has only two hits of his jab combo, plus an infinite; Sword Rain.
 * The side special variant of this attack was originally chargeable, but as of v0.9a, it could no longer be charged.