Rhythm Shift

Rhythm Shifts are a universal mechanic that allow you to cancel whatever action you are doing, allowing you to quickly perform a different action.

Mechanics
By pressing the Z button at any time, at the cost of 1 Spirit Diamond on the user's Spirit Grid, the user will flash a certain color depending on their last action and emit a small shockwave that leaves enemies in hitstun for a long time unless they are currently blocking. Different Rhythm Shifts have different trajectories of where they send their enemies if they are hit by the shockwave. Players close that hit the shockwave can receive certain benefits such as gaining a bit of meter.

The Rhythm Shift comes in a multitude of colors, based on the user's last action:

White: Idling, running, jumping

Blue: dashing

Yellow: blocking

Red: attacking using normal attacks/strong/EX attacks (active frames)

Purple: during the recovery frames of certain attacks.

Rainbow: attacking using Amp/Hyper attacks during the active frames of the attack.