Aayla Secura: Non-Force

As much as the current population of heroes players love playing Aayla (Aeh-Luh), she is not all that difficult to play. She has an extremely powerful dash with two additional bonuses. Her saber combo is deadly and she's nearly invulnerable while using it. She has a decent aerial attack, and her backswings continue into eachother without breaks, though on the screen it looks like it is over. She is the easiest character in the game to play.

If you insist on playing Aayla, first get use to ignoring chat. Since she isn't hard to play you'll get a lot of kills, and many people will complain about their deaths. So be fair warned about that.

When using Aayla in non force, you won't have to go looking for fights, they will come to you. You could stand in one place and get more fights than if you moved around. In fact some people use that as a tactic, just standing there and clicking. Many times that's all you have to do with Aayla to succeed.

If you do feel like you want to make an effort, one of the easiest things you can do is surprise someone with her dash. It can be used very quickly because it doesn't have a long time to complete, like Obi-Wan's for example. You could be circling someone making them think you aren't doing anything and then quickly dash them. I plead for you to not fall into the dash-roll trap. Everyone and their mother dash-rolls these days and it is getting so predictable that nobody is improving in skill. Perhaps after you dash (if you do not hit) change it up with a backhand, or a sprint away and back at them for another attack. Repeating your moves over and over will only make you weaker.

Since her dash is so short you can use it fairly easily on the smaller rooftops too. Use the domed roofs as cover and come dashing around to surprise your enemy. One bonus (on top of the high damage) of her dash is a built in block, so not very often can you be stopped while dashing. The other bonus is that the end of her dash, in which it looks like she is recovering, it has a stun feature. If you dash and miss someone, and they dash you back just at the end of yours, they will be knocked over. It's a usefull tool and makes it so she doesn't have many holes in her attack to be exploited.

Her combo however is a different story. Though it can pretty much overpower anyone else attacking you at the same time, there is a recovery period at the end of it when you are vulnerable. To shorten this period, get into a habit of using a single backhand just after you perform a combo (if you do lots of backhands it leaves too much time for the enemy to set up a proper attack). If you roll you have the possibility of getting hit. Again, most people these days just roll after they miss and end up dying.
Her combo has three separate attacks, and it will move you slightly forward, so you can aim it. Each of these little attacks can knock your opponent down.

Her aerial attack is decent, it can be used mid-air for a good amount of damage. I've noticed with her aerial she has a push factor that Luke doesn't have with his. You'll find that the people you hit with her aerial will move a bit in the direction you were hitting them in. If you are just landing on someone with an aerial, it may not kill them so be ready to be backhanded. Get block up or roll away. You can roll fairly safely in this instant due to the enemy you landed on most likely will backswing and not dash.

To be honest there isn't much more to say about Aayla in non-force, she is not difficult and does not take much practice to learn. If you find that you cannot use her well in non-force, xfire me at mawk7 and we'll get together and see what you could improve on.

Sorry this one was so short, just not much to say about her.