Thanks for playing! The game started out life as just a bunch of 8x8 Quake 3 sprites so that's why there's so much stuff crammed in :)
Yeah there was no way I was going to fully explain the combat system in a handful of 8-word sentences XD.. I've posted a more detailed list of combat rules in a blog post: https://extar.itch.io/low-rez-arena/devlog/416661/v101