In Killer Instinct on Xbox One, Shadow moves are enhanced special moves signified by a shadow that follows the character's movement during the move. Shadow moves can be performed with two buttons of a special move and uses half of the Shadow gauge. Being an enhanced special move, it also comes with different properties such as startup invincibility and projectile invincibility. Every shadow move are 5 hits of varying damage depending on the move. Depending on when and what a player activates the shadow move, it can either be an Opener, a Linker or an Ender. A shadow move linker can be combo broken by imputing a combo breaker at any strength level on 3 of the 5 hits of the shadow move, though the opponent can counter breaker out of a shadow move ending it prematurely regardless if the count