Ms. Y

Ms. Y (Ms.Ｙミスワイ Misu Wai) is one of the main villains from Streets of Rage 4. She is the daughter of Mr. X and the twin sister of Mr. Y, and one of the leaders of the new Y Syndicate organization.

Appearance[]

Ms. Y is a young Caucasian woman with fair skin and white hair. She wears a short black dress, white gloves and heeled furry boots and white panties. She's armed with a rapier.

Personality[]

Unlike Mr. Y's collected personality, Ms. Y is loud, proud and arrogant, claiming her superiority over others. However, she is cold and lethal in combat, with unmatched fencing skills.

According to Shiva, since losing their father and unnamed mother, Ms. Y and her brother developed an obsession to control others, be it through money, power, fear or dominance.

Story[]

Along with her identical twin brother, the two took over the Syndicate Crime Organization after Mr. X's death, seeking to slowly rebuild their father's criminal empire over the long Ten Years Later. After doing secret experiments, the twins created a device to mind control people through music, and began organizing the new Y Syndicate to take over Wood Oak City.

She is first seen alongside her brother, Mr. Y, in Y Tower, where they use their mind control music to force Max Thunder to fight against his old friends. However, Max is defeated, and then Estel raids Y Tower, destroying the speakers playing the mind control music. Mr. Y stops his sister from fighting the heroes right there by reminding her they have a concert to get to. Both escape in a helicopter.

While the heroes are tailing her brother after the concert, she goes ahead to Y Island, where she awaits the heroes in the throne room of the castle there. She engages the heroes in combat, showing off her skillful swordplay, but flees when the tide turns against her. She's last seen on the roof of the Y Island Castle Fortress, where he fights alongside Mr. Y in a last stand against the heroes, employing their Y Mecha Throne. However, they are defeated and placed under arrest by Adam Hunter.

Boss Fights[]

Ms. Y is fought twice on Stage 12, once alone and the second time alongside her brother. As with all bosses, she'll always have invincibility frames when getting up from a knockdown. She's very mobile and will jump around trying to avoid the player and outrange them with her rapier.

First Fight[]

The fight takes place in the throne room of the Y Castle Fortress. There are two suits of armor at the sides of the throne, which when destroyed contain health recovery items, but also two Shadows with unusually high health. If playing on co-op, normal-health Shadows will periodically appear. On Mania+, her variants, Ms. What and Ms. Whatever, will also appear through the fight.

During the first phase, she fights more defensively and employs four moves:

Quick Stab: a single hit, fast attack with her rapier. Briefly staggers the player. Often used when the player approaches her directly.
Evasive Jump: she'll jump around trying to avoid the player. She is completely invincible while jump. She can perform either quick hops around the arena or a high jump.
Piercing Grab: Ms. Y flashes red for a second, and quickly moves towards the player in an attempt to grab; if she succeeds, she'll vault over the player and deliver a stab on their back that knocks them down. Can be interrupted with a timely jumping kick, Blitz Attacks or Special Attacks.
Stab Flurry: Ms. Y flashes white for a second while holding her rapier upwards, and proceed to walk towards the player to deliver a series of stabs, finishing off with a dash attack that sends the player in the air. She has super armor while charging and during the first hit when attacking.

Once Ms. Y loses 50% health, she'll enter phase two, where she fights more aggresively, and also upgrades some of her moves and grant her new ones:

Lightning Dash: she jumps to a corner and performs an electrified dash attack with her rapier, reaching the other side of the room. This attack is always signaled by Ms. Y pointing her rapier upward, with a shine effect and a telltale sound effect. She always performs a series of four dashes; she first performs two attacks, then jumps to one end of the room in preparation to perform two more dashes. She is briefly vulnerable after finishing all dashes. She'll always open phase two with this attack.
Triple Stab: unleashes three fast attacks with her rapier. This attack replaces her Quick Stab.

Once she loses 90% health, the fight ends and she flees.

Second Fight[]

Ms. Y is fought again at the end of last stage, in a dual boss fight alongside her brother. She uses all her moves from phase 1 and phase 2, and is also more aggressive.

Once either of them lose 70% of health, that twin will jump in the background and return in the Y Mecha Throne and regain full health for the final boss fight. If the twin in Y Mecha is defeated first, the other twin will jump into the mecha to continue the fight.

Strategy[]

During her first fight, Ms. Y initially stays on defensive and try to space her attacks to interrupt the player's approach. The best way to deal with Ms. Y is by jumping repeatedly with Down Air Attacks, to catch her and start combos. As she has no anti-air attacks, the player can safely jump around, which is also useful to avoid her many stab attacks and her grab.

Stab Flurry is one of her most dangerous attacks as it deals a lot of damage if all hits connect. However, there is a short delay when the attack animation starts and there is also a maximum distance that she can walk before she begins attacking, so it can be avoided either by moving away from her or moving to the side. The player can also use jumping attacks to interrupt her second stab onwards. If the player is caught by it, mashing the Defensive Special Attack button is useful to prevent being hit by all attacks.

When she starts using Lightning Dash on the second phase, the player can move to the sides of the room and then move through the Y Axis as she approaches to avoid the attack. Alternatively, by timing jumps, the player can avoid the attack, since they grant invincibility frames.

When fought alongside Mr. Y in the final battle, the player should ideally hit both at the same time, as the other twin will flank the player. Dispatching Mr. Y first is recommended since his projectiles can be difficult to deal when fighting Ms. Y. However, care should be taken as Ms. Y will quickly approach and attack the player from behind. In this fight her Lightning Dash is much easier to avoid given the larger size of the boss arena.

Variants[]

Ms. Y has two variants, which have less health than her (but both have the same health themselves). These appear exclusively in Mania+ and Survival Mode.

Ms. What, with a white dress and pink hair, fights using Quick Stab, Piercing Grab, Stab Flurry and Lightning Dash (though this one is only executed two times as opposed to four).
Ms. Whatever, with a orange dress and black hair, fights using Triple Stab (which will sometimes be executed twice in a row), Piercing Grab, Stab Flurry and Lightning Dash (which is executed three times without any pauses). She also performs Evasive Jumps far more often than Ms. Y and Ms. What.