"You're going down!" —Spoken during Spiral Swords Spiral Swords is one of Vergil's most unique hyper and plays a important role in his mix-up and defensive gameplay. Using this move, Vergil summons several Summoned Swords that encircle his body. These are basically long hitboxes that extend from Vergil and automatically combo on hit. While it may be used to extend your combos it will heavily scale in both damage and hitstun. Its two main uses are shielding and mix up. As this hyper extends projectiles around him it will ultimately shut down characters that have a lot of close-up pressure like Wolverine or X-23. When used in conjunction with his Air Tricks, his mix-up game becomes almost nearly impossible to counter, giving him a way through their defenses. Grabs and fast normals that would