So Street Fighter 6 has had its first birthday! With year 1 wrapping up and starting into year 2 we got tons of little goodies. Besides whats shown in the video there's actually way more so check the official SF twitter where you will see tons of tweets about it lol. Popularity contest? You got it (VOTE FOR HAKAN SO HE CAN LIVE AGAIN), detailed stats? Love it. Also just some thoughts about year 1 as a whole, all the ups and downs of it. So give the vid a watch and lemme know what you think!

A Yor costume for Chun-li would have made Capcom an unthinkable amount of money

im thinking A.K.I being number 1 has to do with people mashing through the poll and it starts on A.K.I. I find it hard to believe she'd be more popular than Sakura

I want to point out why AKI is number one in the poll, it’s not because she’s the most popular character, she’s definitely popular but let me explain. if you’re adhd tiktok brain you were probably mashing through the text and if you’re mashing through the text AKI is the first option, so you accidentally select her unable to change it, the reason why I know this is because it’s what happened to me and what I assume a lot of other people lol.

So we got Homelander tomorrow, expect some first impressions on that, so far he's looking wacky going by the kombat kast lol. Im gonna try for not necessarily a sf6 beginner guide cause we already have that on the channel, but a "refresher" video if you will, essential tips for new & returning players or something like that, we will see how that goes. In the next few weeks expect some sf6 combo guides & full character guides as well. This weekend? Summer game fest! SF6 and Fatal Fury city of the wolves confirmed to be there, and ill do my best to cover whatever fun announcements there may be! BASICALLY LOTS OF STUFF IN THE NEAR FUTURE

Glad Makoto is up there at the moment, fingers crossed for her.

The best thing about Jellied Eels with Cammy is that she actually hates it, to the point where she implicitly throws it up whenever you give it to her. And yet she has to keep eating it for us to get those precious Master EXP levels.

I've spent time with MK1 I've spent time with Tekken 8 But SF6 was the one that caught my attention. I've never liked SF either. Always preferred mk and tekken. But for the first time i like SF more

rooflemonger, You're amazing! I hit the like button as soon as I saw it!

Yo 25 percent on modern is amazing! There are now people playing who would never have played before, huge win

Sf6 is still the king of fighting games rn

Game is currently on sale on Steam for 50% off! So if you haven't taken the plunge...

I don't think people realize how insanely smart world tour is. Casual non-fgc players who only know street fighter is a "Video game" got and played and even *enjoyed* world tour for *tens* of hours before they eventually ***got mad*** that they were tricked into playing a fighting game. Now these are the sillier vocal people. Dial back a bit and people who haven't played fighting games but see the appeal? Well they got a 20-30hr campaign to bite into, that surprisingly, teases you into learning how to play the basics of a fg. And thanks to the *equally* brilliant thing of modern? It being an option, but not a mandate? Brilliant. Modern players will comfortably be able to 'play'. Have basic combos but still have to learn how to do things like hit confirm and know when to just full send resources and when to pump the breaks. But if they push on they might see 'hey this guy is playing the same character as me but he has a button that I don't ' . and they can come and try classic control. they can hate it or they can stick with it for the granular control you get. Neither feels worse or better but rather you get trade-offs for most characters with it. For old-heads the tradeoff isn't worth. For someone who can't do a dp motion yet? and hey even some people who are looking at 1 button dps and going 'woah momma' ? modern is there waiting for you. And that's just that. Capcom hit all the right notes just right. Even if the first year was INFURIATING for some. (Hi, gief main here). It was still a fantastic fighting game at its core and that infuriation, I think you even said in the past, was specifically because it was just *so close* to being perfect and then it fell on its nose and didn't care to stop the bleeding until year 2 started. Absolutely infuriating but the balance patch has definitely smoothed over a lot of ruffled feathers. And bonus points pissed off ken players.

compared to sfv, sf6 year 1 was fantastic

They said its a honeymoon phase. No. This game is peek fighting games. SF6 is the king.

I think a big reason A.K.I. is in the lead is because she's the default option. People who don't care just mashing confirm will vote for her. You could put an irrelevant SF1 character like Mike or Joe or someone like Rufus as the starting option and they'll get a decent amount of votes. A.K.I. is a good character and deserves to come back but she's not entirely winning on her own. At least we know Capcom likes her and didn't put Adon first on the options list.

Dude can read mines, I cannot see at all anymore but the idea of playing zangif as a Godzilla skin or even a King Kong skin. My money would be out of my account so quick LOL. Just the idea alone is awesome

Whenever I watch a rooflemonger video any negative thoughts just disappear, thank you for being the FGC legend that you are and keep up the great work.

Love how in the later half of the video, the Ryu in the b-roll footage was just lowkey poppin' off.

I only learned about Hakan recently and man I love the guy. To quote Thorgi, he’s so goofy it wraps around to being genuinely fun

The main reason AKI is winning is cause she's the first name on the list cause it's in alphabetical order. People just mash through the selection cause they have it mandatorily shoved in their face. Not saying AKI doesn't have shooters, it's just the only reason she's on top of every single SF character ever made

I’m proud to have contributed to Honda’s trips around the world

I'd played Street Fighter 6 like last year was the BESTEST fighting game has ever done! And now for Year 1, that was the greatest anniversary game EVER!🎉🎊✨🌟🔥 So! During I'd played Battle Hub, I'd got my voted ready for Season 2 characters like old and NEW DLC coming up this Friday to be announced!😁😁

The game is definitely my favourite fighting game ever and this is from someone who loves the classics too. This has the style and substance other 3D efforts were lacking (yeah even SF4) I think despite the valid and the pretty invalid criticisms people have of this game there's no denying it's on top of its competition and I think they deserve to be on top much more than the other two of the big three. Also AKI is cool and easily one of my favourite characters in fighting games now so if she's coming back in the future I'm down for it.

It has been a year and SF6 for me is still amazing, I still have not got into the story modes, the world tour or even the avatar battles, not because it is boring but just because I love the fighting ground setup, particularly for training and learning new characters. The game has been great, to be honest I am happy they took the slower route with the patches as it gives the game time to breathe and have a good look at what changes are needed. Good Job CAPCOM

I have zero evidence of this, but I have a feeling the team for SF6 was smaller than before. I remember them saying it takes 3 months for each costume to develop. Hopefully, they have added more to the team to help with all the future content and we will see a more this season and upcoming seasons. Also I voted for Rose, cuz it's Rose.

I voted for Akira, I am still waiting for a Rival Schools remake.

Saw Lucia in the poll, that makes me happy. I neeed a cup of Kawwwwfee.

just putting a yakuza-lite game in as the fighting game single player is such a genius fit, I hope in the future they expand on this and make something that's actually as good as a yakuza game and then there's a full street fighter game attached to it

I wonder what is the realistic chance of the gorilla being part of season 2

Adding more color palettes seems like it would be such a simple but needed addition. I wish more characters had a selection like Ken's classic outfit or any of Rashid's outfits with bright, solid colors and minor accenting at most. Even though my color (and username) is cyan, I'm fine with settling for a nice blue, but then sometimes the only good blue is also like 1/3 orange or yellow.

I'm hopeful that now that everyone has an outfit 3, we can get some collaboration & seasonal costumes for some of the characters. Like, it doesn't have to be everyone all the time, but a few outfits for a few characters at a better pace would be nice. The game's already sold more than 4 million copies (you can tell from the number of players in ranked), so any DLC outfit at this point probably pays for itself and then some.

Changes i want for season 2 New attacks, new supers and critical arts, new health and Drive Rush UI, Power, Speed and Tricky skill types. Alex and Fei Long please!

Rooflemonger COOKING with the ways capcom is throwing potential money down the drain

Aki number 1 is incredible What a turn around from FANG

My boy Vega, we will get you one day

I would love to see Akira again, her fighting style is so sick!

I think the spinning bird kick is the most popular because that’s about the time people stop playing world tour mode lol

AKI's fav. item (the super 250 or so points one notwithstanding) is actually a Chinese fan, a unique drop from a character you need to fight against in her WT stage. the prepaid card is a generic gift everyone will accept for so-so points

Let me just say this as far with having dlc characters in the game they pretty much announced this with having each of the characters line up for different seasons - Rashid(summer 2023), AKI(autumn 2023), Ed(winter 2024) & Akuma(spring 2024). Add with the addition of new stages for the 2 (Ed & Akuma) and all the other stuff for them music themes, arcade mode illustrations & World tour, etc. Now I'm sure when season 2 begins hopefully there'll be more dlc characters at that time assuming 5 or 6 but get your hopes up if that even with more characters the spread of them releasing won't be just the same. And as for the outfits for the characters themselves I feel they heading towards giving each individual character outfits that mostly represent them as to just given random outfits for them that initially give them like they're the avatar characters. What I mean is for example giving Ken a DMC Dante skin like they did in SFV.

I hope we get more character creation save slots in the future.

It brings me SO MUCH JOY to see how many people are using modern controls. For all the strays it catches on Twitter, it’s an incredible accessibility option and myself (and many other players) wouldn’t have found the game without it!

Lets be honest, Ken is number one most bonded on the male side is because we care about him and wanted to make sure he's okay

Aside from being an okay open world RPG type thing, I think the World Tour was also a fantastic long-term tutorial for people like me who were new to fighting games. Not only does it do a good job of teaching you the basics and how to keep your combat style varied, the interactions with various Masters also teach various important lessons like "Don't get too upset over defeats" and "Sometimes it's fun to just enjoy the match regardless of the outcome".

SF VI is the most I've even gotten into a fighting game seriously and I still REALLY like it, but I desperately need the content output to improve. I'm hoping that the content drought over year 1 was so that they could get their content pipeline figured out for the following years

I just missed the communication from the developers present near the end of SFV. You got all these detailed character breakdowns and stuff like that the way Mortal Kombat does it. Now all you get is a gameplay trailer. Also, though I know this one has the slimmest chance of happening, but I wish they would take into consideration how little we actually care about the avatars. Again I’m sure they have their audience and I’m not mad about them being there, but I will say that the time and money they spent making a $20 astronaut costume for what is basically just a method of getting from point A to point B could be spent on extra costumes for the characters that people actually know street fighter for.

I just want drive rush to have a punish counter state.

I voted Hakan as well! Never played SFIV, but I love the concept of the character, and I think he would fit perfectly into Street Fighter 6.

Oh god, spd with Godzilla shriek would just be chefs kiss

I did the math for the costumes sale: Before, all of them cost 108$ and now it is 79$. So yeah, still very expensive.

I hope Sakura, C. Viper, Sean and Dudley will be next. Although that's not going to happen, these would be two additional shotos to the four we already have and one of them was the last. And of course we can't have one additional completely different boxer when we already have one single member of this very obscure martial art most people never heard about,...I hope that was sarcastic enough to reach everyone. That said, vote for Ed or Dudley, everyone!

I tell ya, if they bring SF4's Wolf Ryu costume back, I will straight up go back from Ken to Ryu and main that costume SOOOO hard. MORE of those wacky, wild, awesome costumes please!

Sf6 is confirmed goated

The playerbase has gotten cracked. I installed in october, finished wt and then learned modern lily. After 50 hours i made it to diamond around december. Took a break untill ed released. 220 hours in i have no other characters in diamond.. and when i play i notice how much better i am. My neutral and combos are.much better. I can tell i learn faster too, as i can pick up combo trials faster. Yet im hovering high plat on ed and aki lol. Its fun to see actually

I didn't have any DLC chars that fit my playstyle in year 1. Hoping to find a new main this season!

I'm so hyped that Akira is so high!

Commenting for the algorithm! Roofle I’m curious, what was your first fighting game?

I actually loved Street Fighter 6, like, THE Street Fighter Universe! It's like, like a Year 1 like last year!! WOW! Happy anniversary to SF6! And for this Friday, I cannot wait to watch in for Street Fighter 6 season 2! I think I want Karin Kanzuki, like, she's with Cammy and Chun-Li (my favorites), and she'd got beauty, got dazzling and oh yeah, she can laugh too. Can't wait for this Friday at Summer Games Fest!🔥🔥😍😍

I voted for Remy ... he just fits right into this game

I thought they would flood the game with cosmetic items, maybe not entirely new costumes, but at least small items (e.g. a different headband for Ryu; another pair of glasses for Dee Jay) which gives the characters different win poses, or perfect parry poses, or entrances, maybe shared entrances between some characters, etc. More interesting titles to somewhat recall the past games. I mean they coult get profit out of good cosmetic or non essential content.

One thing about these polls, a lot of the time the top answer wins by default because a fair amount of players mash Confirm to just get to playing in the Battle Hub. I'm sure Aki is still fairly popular because she's a great character (I love her myself) but not many of the Hub polls have been won by an option that wasn't on top.

I feel like the deceased character & costume rollout is due to the higher fidelity of both. The fact that they do different states of folding expressions for everyone’s clothes speaks volumes to the work that goes into even one costume, let alone a character.

Akira in the top 10 lets go I'm going to have to keep grinding in battle hub to keep her there. Lily's colour 10 is fire and I'm so happy we're getting Cap jams songs added in.

My favorite is the hello and welcome my friends

I would be very excited for guest costumes, even if I hate the concept. It's good for business and attracting players, and in SF6 I don't have to look at them with the ability to disable opponent costumes.

SF6 is such a good game ! I can't stop playing it.

jellied eels was a fairly popular fast food in england back in the day, less so now. definitely pretty wack though

I voted Hugo for the survey. His posters are all over Metrocity. Just let the Giant in! I got to the part were you talk about costumes and I still can't understand how Gutsman was Boxer's costume and not Zangief's. Hopefully they can give my boy a big badass robot master costume this time 😊

I'm grinding BH to up the E Honda votes 😁.

Not surprised by spinning bird kick being most popular move. It is charge one so it doesn't need to fight for its spot with other moves too much. And you get it super early and for long time in a game it doesn't have any competition really, since first masters all have qc and dp motions only. And it lets you go through gaps, so nice to have it on you even if you dont use it in battle.

Something nobody noticed about the poll; the poll's inclusion of characters already IN SF6 indicates they ain't just testing the waters for future seasons of SF6; they're also testing the waters for SF picks in the base roster for a new Vs. Capcom game. Regardless, looks like AKI's a lock for the next Vs. Capcom.

Loved Giant Attack. It was like a world boss mode of other games. I want that as a permanent feature to get more drive tickets.

These stats are interesting and some of them are just really fun. I love it. Communities really contribute to the success of this game too. Event like CR cup is really effective in Japan.

Along with them getting rid of the fight coins, I really hope is that all of this WT+BH avatar customization is paving the road to be able to customize in Fighting Ground.

I would gladly spend $10 to use Zangief as a Godzilla costume

Casey Jones costume for Ken and a April O'Neil costume for Cammy would've been dope!

Everyone better vote for Adon or else……..

Glad you brought up Capcom completely ignoring their core audience, all they want are characters and costumes… sf6 made a big boo boo ignoring this, that would have been tons of money in their pocket, especially with the holiday costumes you mentioned. Also glad you called out their slow drip with character launches too. We need more content!!!!

If they wanted to do the TMNT collab and not make character costumes then they 100% could have gotten away with making a stage based on it and I would have bought it

I'm happy that they are not changing the balance constantly. That sucks for otber fighting games that change the balance like less than monthly. Let it set and give us a big one like in season pass. I really don't care about the content creation I just care about a fun game

Yes on the interest thing. It fell off a cliff and was peaked only slightly with dlc characters (and mainly just Ed since he ended being cool). This patch has given me a lot more interest

If SF6 will have the first guest character ever in SF franchise, I hope will be Morrigan from Darkstalkers 🔥😎 More perfect than this is impossible and still another character from Capcom IPs and easy to add 😁

I have to say as much as I think they should do more costumes, I do like the higher quality standard of the costumes in SF6 and think many of the more "out there" costumes in SF5 were pretty bad.

Voting for Hakan, you're a man of class Rooflemonger

Was very proud to cast my vote for the incomparable, magnificent, wonder of gaming creation known as God-King Captain Sawada.

Vote makoto for the love of everything we dont need yet another shoto

As a data engineer I love these stats. I wish we had more dumb ones like amount of face smashes by Chun's CA and etc

I hope for the costumes they focus on really good well done costumes for every character, I don't mind not having as many if it means theyre all good and every character gets an even amount

Video so on point that it stoped being opinions and started being facts. Capcom realy went all-in on the avatar stuff when planning year 1 and it 100% backfired: TMNT was a meme, people are still FUMING that Yor and Yuujirou aren't even (official) skins and let us not forget the whole Costume 3 Price Tag controversy. As you put it; being a good game on launch isn't enough nowadays. They made it better than SFV (as if it could have been worse than that game) but that will NOT fly on Year 2.

Makoto being top 5 is so amazing to see. 🥋❤️.

We don't need another shoto...We need Makoto.

Damn, my boys Dudley at #16 and Alex all the way down at #23. They don't stand a chance.

I'd like a bit of layoff on the avatar costumes, and a focus on more characters and costumes/colors for those.

Ok I wouldn't be surprised if we got a cross company (non Capcom) crossover character... Yes, it's because of Garou. I would not be surprised if Rock or Terry get in, although I assume Rock as CVS2 was what made him popular and Ken looks a lot like Garou era Terry. I defiantly see Sakura being added tho.

I don't think the English language has the words for me to describe how much I love this game. EDIT - AKI prefers prepaid visa credit cards fucking lolol

Abel at 63. Can y'all pray for me and 801 strider.

Thanks foe breakdown rooflemonger keep up the great work !!!godzilla costume for gief 🤞🤞

To be real, I'm happy there weren't any crossover costumes available for the main roster. I know immersion is a subjective thing, but one of the things I like about fighting games over other genres, is that their aesthetics remain(relatively) in-universe. Crossovers are a good way to lose the visual identity of a game.

Interesting how low Ken is in the battle hub poll, when the recent anniversary data shows that he's far and away the most used character in SF6.

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