Stickman specializes in the Neutral type, which means he has a lot of Non-Typed moves and a few Neutral ones.
Despite having as basic gimmick for his Ascend, it is still efficient and he also has the strange property of being considered grounded at the beginning of an air-jump, meaning he can do grounded moves in the air at the cost of an air-jump.
With their characteristics, they would be considered as a decently versatile rushdown , played by people who likes character not too hard to pick, but hard to master, and wishing to dominate their opponents in pressure but trading their own durability.
Ascend Mechanic
Stickman's ascend is simple, it is used by pressing 2A and cost 20% meter.
The effect is that of a type switch and, just like other type switches, it will change the type of the following moves for a third of a second but, unlike the others, will change those moves to true neutral.
Extra Gimmick
Stickman also has another trick up his sleeves: he can use his grounded moves in the air during the startup of his jump.
In this wiki, these moves are prepended with [a.]. For example, a.3M is a grounded 3M used in the air (by inputting 8->3M under 5 frames) while j.3M is simply an aerial move which would happen when pressing 3M any other time in the air.
This allows him to access lows in the air and his other strong grounded moves for more mixup opportunities.
3Ma.3Mj.3M
Playing As
To play stickman you must be mindful of your few good options in neutral like your projectile on j.forward/6S and other moves like forward/6N as you will desperately need everything you can have in neutral.
The reason is that neutral is difficult for stickman as most character will have either more range, or better rewards on neutral win than him.
As such, your main tool that you should master is your mobility, which gives you the ability to mix-up your options with you 8 way air-dash and your great run and walk that you can cancel by shielding at any point (Stickman's run as a small start up where he can't shield though).
You must use every tool that your mobility gives you and remain patient to find, or create, an oppening and then try to run your advantage state as long as you can.
To remain in advantage don't forget what options your opponent has in defense and use your Ascend when you know when they will try to escape but you don't know what Typed defensive options they will choose.
Your low guard bar means that you don't have many chances to get out of pressure against most characters, which means you mustn't panic, as you need to make one good decision to get out and you need to be especially efficient, throwing options in defense without thinking will get you killed quickly, remember more than any other player other characters that, each time you do something to try to get out of pressure, you give your opponent a chance to pierce through your defenses.
Playing Against
To play against stickman, you must remain patient whether in neutral or in defense.
They will likely try to skip the neutral phase as fast as they can, so that they can run their advantage, however due to their poor range they will have to take some risks to come to you and that is where you can punish them, they also deals poorly with projectiles due to their low ground jump.
After all, stickman is extremely fragile and any repeated loss in neutral will have a great toll on him and will give you the necessary time to do any set up you may want to do.
Also, try to remain in the air, simply because, if you block in the air you will be thrown far away (though you will lose a lot of ground so be careful, you don't want to put yourself in the corner) and if you're hit, stickman will have a hard time comboing you, especially without ressources.
Use your parries and invincible/armored... moves in defense, as not only you might not be able to get out of their corner pressure otherwise, but also as they are sensitive to any Typed defensive options because of their Neutral speciality which makes them mostly rely on Non-Typed moves, However it also means that you must be careful of their Neutral moves and Ascend.
Combos
If you don't understand the notation, you can find it here.
The full combo playlist with all the following combos can be found here
