Pretty sure he’s way more broken now

*touches Akuma once and he dies*

LOL. New character hype. Give it a week and people will have already found ways to deal with him.

@@OhNoTheFace pretty sure it's the other way around. Akuma's a glass cannon.

@@hcbabyssian8936both ways then, he’s always partnered with low health.

I’m p sure he could always do that? Ex blade into ex boom, but no one does it. I think they made it combo into level 1 now as shown

Capcom did

@@jimmyoutlaw9384 Yeah, he could. Just too much drive meter.

He can always do it. But its 2 EX moves so it cost 4 bars.

Heroes. Ignore that I'm a Guile Main.

😂😂😂😂

Guilty Gear did the same thing after Happy Chaos came out. Instead of nerfing him too much, they changed and added mechanics. I think it's funny how games seem to emulate each other whether it's intentional or not.

No. In SF3 3S he was a glass canon and at least mid, if not top 8. He's always, also, been one of the strongest character overall throughout the entire series, next to Sagat and a handful of SF2 characters.

@@mahogany1710 balances to make things fairer isnt emulating

​@@mahogany1710it's kinda of a rule in the fgc,Buff weaker characters instead of nerfing strong one's,that way people don't have to completely abandon their main bc it was nerfed,and fights will get more fun to watch and play

Finally a CORE part of our kit is not locked out when we have a ressource. HOORAY!!

From the playtests in Japan I believe that Denjin specifically replaces the heavy versions of the moves now, so you can still use the light and medium regular versions and maintain Denjin.

Ryu's damage is gonna be kinda degenerate this patch lol

Hitconfirms be blessed we can bait jumps with Denjin

But why not multiple denjin stock? Why do other players have up to 3 stocks for buffs but we have to manage just one?

But what if you're in burn out?

@@kh2sora13 super or checkmate

​@@realchezboithat's still my main gripe 💀

@@kh2sora13 pay attention to your drive meter. Don’t spend it if you have less or barely more than 2 unless it kills.

​@@kh2sora13 Don't get burnt out

Dribe Rebersal

Huh? edit: Oh damn, that quick flash, hahah. You got good eyes. Well, b is next to v on the keyboard, could happen to anyone 😆

D O R A I B U

HOW DID YOU SEE THAT?

@@bryceplayer1012 I don't know, but I know this person CAN BLOCK

one hundred percent

Into OVERDRIVE, you say?

You just said Fighting Game Community Community.. (FGC Community)

Corny

@@genradiata1723 fixed . Lol

For now maybe but new moves I wish at least 2 or 3 will be nice

depends on your character. If it's Marisa still no. There is no route in the game where fHK HK xx S2 will be the optimal route

@@murillomesmo8189 For sure. Still a high chance that what’s optimal remains optimal. Definitely will be interesting to see cause a lot of this trailer showed me that Capcom is at least making the attempt to bring about more combo variety.

Juri's target combo is actually usable now that it cancels into lvl 1 lmao

@@murillomesmo8189 What about after EX superman punch wallsplat to save drive gauge? I think all you can do right now is charged cr.hp to go into S2 without spending more drive.

True, but their monetisation still sucks though.

You said so much yet so little

​@@notimportant3033That's sadly a capcom problem. It's been that way since forever and I don't think it will change. They really are lucky that they make somewhat fun games because I don't think any other company would be able to get away with it.

Yeah I can’t wait for the next balance patch in 2027

I hope season 2 will be full of DLC’s. Costumes, specially 🤞🏽

As a juri main, we never used it because it was trash

Nobody uses it. Not even by mistake. Let's see if that changes now.

That's because most Juri players just fireball into drive rush.

Hopefully the cancel window is on both the first or second kick so that she has more options. I wish they gave her a reliable fireball answer but I'm happy with juri.

As a Juri main, I completely forgot it was a thing.

wahoo!! ryu bros unite

my jaw hit the floor when i saw that

ITS HAPPENING LADS.

We can finally save the stupid charge lol

Beautiful!

Costs 4 bars to do a wall bounce tho.

FACTS

😭

Fr that’s a crazy change

we already can do that now

What?

@@shishinonaito The joke is that no one really uses Rashid's lvl 3

@@dragonic22 oh... So, following your "joke" logic, I guess they finally gave Kimberly a Lvl2 super... About time, huh?

@@dragonic22 Cause it looks stupid as hell, just like everything rashid does.

@@shishinonaito Can you really compare how often you see Kimberly lvl 2 to Rashid level 3? I feel like I see 1 every blue moon, and the other every planetary convergence.

Adjust

grappler with a dp lol no

​@@LEWfromdaHOU sounds like a Ken/Luke player

@@LEWfromdaHOU lol no u

@@nicorobin7762t hawk existed

Agreed

Yes please. I feel bad for the Capcom artists who worked on the alternate textures for battle damage just for them to never be seen by the majority of players

There's battle damage?

Players wouldn't even use it anyways all things considered

@@chargeheby882 Yes, but sadly you can only see it in local matches

I'm curious. Do you even know what the Ed change they showed is? Because it's actually very significant. No, I'm not joking

@@dragonic22 not really what is it

@@floki859 Crouch jab wasn't punished by Cammy's 5 frame normal, like it would've been in the current version. It might even be safe in the new version

Tha major thing they want to show in this part is that the punish counter back throw in the corner now leave the characters much more far away, preventing a throw loop situation after a back throw in the corner

Juri: Target combo into lvl 1 😂

wtf

announce??

I'm so glad they're fixing this. Fuck loop throws

Throw loops need to exist when parry is so strong but instead of making parry underwhelming to get rid of throw loops they made Drive Reversal more useful so we'll see how that works out

@@Lazerbeam502 All people have to do is bate the drive reversal and still get the loops.

@@aledantih6524 You have like 30 frames at minimum to throw somebody out of parry for a punish counter. You don't need to be able to hit meaty throws for throws to still counter parry.

Most of my throw loops come from neutral jumps and jump-over baits anyway, that’s not really changing.

Yea lol. And then on release it will be needlessly padded out for over an hour

@@TheFightingGentleman You keep saying words you do not know the meaning of

@@OhNoTheFace which part? Needless padding out?

@@TheFightingGentlemanbased, will always approve Rooflemonger hate

​@@xGhostNappa That's just sad

when are they gonna put bro in the game. bosch too

Bosch dead. He trash anyways.

Not sure on when you'd want to DRC after the target combo, but more options don't hurt. I guess this means you can fish with HP without confirming a punish counter. It will also inevitably lead to different wakeup setups too so let's just hope whatever nerfs they did to Cammy aren't too bad. For now it's Akuma time anyway.

I wonder why someone would use that though? stHP xx DRC b.HK > 236HK > 623HK did the same job with possibly more damage and corner carry. I'm curious about the applications. More varied combo routes overall in the game would be nice, especially for Cammy. A lot of her optimal routes are the same as week one when the game released.

@@Nyagro I've been thinking about it, her target combo's launch can save meter if you're looking to launch, there might be some more optimal combos at very specific meter usages lol s

​@@Nyagro Well the new route might give better damage if you compare it to the typical punish counter HP > HP.Backfist etc since you would only get a DRC after a light (if you're using DRC). Maybe it will allow different wakeup setups too. And worst case scenario, the last hit of the target combo being cancellable just lets you extend or be safe regardless of whether you intentionally or accidentally went into the target combo.

Drive rush cancel after target combo costs 2 drive bars. Trust.

it's not funny, they were showing that those characters now have a way to escape pressure without wakeup super

that's the point, those characters have always sucked because they had no wake up options, now they do

Yeah I'm not sure what that combo was showing I think she can already do that. So we'll see

​@@venivediicommented4046She's going to get far less special meter gain off her juggle combos so that she can't hit you with lvl2 then build a big chunk of bar back to do it again before you hit the ground. I think that's what that clip was supposed to represent.

@@VermillionMonk so a nerf😞 that sucks

@@venivediicommented4046 There's probably more to it than that, I'm just not a Chun player so I don't understand entirely. Someone said something about the B.HP in that clip being a new combo route that wasn't previously available, so either it starts up faster or the HP before it is more advantaged on hit.

"Congrats, your character has a real crouch jab now"

It looks underwhelming for a yearly balance patch especially without any system changes except for drive reversal, The meta will stay the same because it relies on system mechanics. I whish we didn't have to wait one whole year for simple character buffs and nerfs.

@@chebil_y4967 Agree. That is why for the first time i dont buy a SF game. Waiting 1 year for a big balance patch? No way! A patch each 6 months is ideal. And no Bison, Vega, Balrog, Urien, Poison, Rolento, Abigail, C.Viper. Sad, it is a no no for me.

​@@LuttiApce they kept throw loops in the game because they were too lazy to change spacing and frame data for every character. The drive reversal on wake up is a bandaid fix for throw loops. Also a lot of the changes are completely out of touch. Characters got unnecessary nerfs and others that needed nerfs got none.

@@MyRedQueen0 The patch isn't even out yet. We don't even have patch notes, chill out.

they needed to shake up the meta more or just cut the waiting time to 6 months instead of yearly.

He could be coming to Season 2

It would be hilarious but no way.

I do not think.

Who knows. Still like the song choice tho. His theme is smooth 🔥

His theme is so damn good

Snake has already said the HP buff is crap...since we already get a strong lvl 2 combo off of 5HK or wheelkick. Standing HP still has zero utility to us Gief mains.

​@@anderszidane973 Broski did mention one possible use for buffed c.HP: It gives Gief a way to combo into L1 super after perfect parry (PP -> c.HP, Hellstab, L1 Super). S.hk won't connect after PP, allegedly, and Wheel Kick is too slow. It's not the best but it's something, I guess. I want Wheel Kick to have projectile invulnerability, personally.

this buff really sucks

​@@anderszidane973I beg to disagree. We're seeing it combo into lvl2 from a grounded punish counter. Imagine the possibilities if it's landed as an anti-air. C.HP always had a weird situation where 90% of the time it's easier and more reliable to simply use lariat as an anti-air. There's only specific scenarios where that extra vertical coverage is necessary, and the move is so slow to recover it never felt that good to land. Now we can potentially use it as an enormous punish tool for things like dive-kicks or teleports. It's also faster than F-HK to start up, so it may open possibilities for big punish counters in the corner that we didn't have before. Even if it's ultimately relatively niche, I really like that capcom has made changes that give people at least some sort of legitimate reason to use moves that you would otherwise almost never see.

@@ShinUltima how does broski know you can combo hellstab after c.HP?

v-skill? Must've missed it. I only saw sonic blade

Vskills arent in this game. Go back to trash 5.

@@dragonic22 I know it’s sonic blade - it’s just I haven’t completely shaken off the SF5 terminology just yet 😎

Jeez why is everyone such an asshole just beacause he said v-skill 😭

I been doing this

How

Do geifs even use his uppercut and if used when do we ever get the punish counter version

how so? this changes nothing for him

The wake up drive reversal option should help him a lot, but could also hurt him a lot in certain matchups when he finally gets in. We'll see.

@@theholyekch5274 You get it off of perfect parry, now we got another option other than spd

He could always do that, but it looks to be faster now. Normally you could not Run Shoryuken an opponent out of OD Dragon Lash unless they were an elevated height from the start but it looks to be viable off target combo now closer to the ground

they arent listening because this gief buff is ass

yup

have fun getting your drive reversal baited

Right! I need Gouken and Gen! That's all I care about 🤣🤣

literally one of the dumbest things they could've added

​@@BlackWeeebMore defensive options is not dumb

@@BlackWeeeb Throw loop baby detected

​@@BlackWeeebIt's very easy to trap people in the corner in this game so it's just another layer of multiple choice. Better for both players

It's a really, REALLY bad defensive option. Drive Rev is 18 frame startup on wakeup, it's only going to beat the slowest of meaties.

It's Carlos Miyamoto's theme from World Tour mode.

@@darknightspider7495 ohhh good ear lol. Still hope we get new theme music

Carlos Miyamotos's Theme, the best song in the game that most people haven't heard because it's World Tour exclusive 😭

for JP,i guess his level 2 doesn't last as long so JP can't have as much hits in if he catchs you with it? i'm not sure tho

Chun Li couldn’t do 6MP drive rush and combo into 4HP before.

Chunli can do b.hp after f/b.mp drive cancel

​@@RobinLegacy6 magic points and 4 health points? What?

​@@shishinonaito yeah 6 magic points and 4 health points

He now only spends the Denjin on heavy button specials, and he can cancel into it from at least that target combo. Huge buff for him, especially if the target combo corners the opponent.

@@robertcorinhoward4417 This is so huge, even if he didn't have this cancel because now even if you waste oki to charge the denjin you can finally keep it for whenever you need it, and still zone. So happy for Ryu mains

Damn I think you're right. This used to always annoy me.

What annoys me most is his LVL2 super. I hope now it hits crouching opponents. It's a horrible wakeup option.

@@leemooreStudio idk it might be for the best that it stays that way...giving a character like vega or dhalsim consistent wakeup options means they have more chances to be consistent in other ways that may make them too strong.

@@TheFightingGentleman That won't make it consistent. It cost 2 bars, that's expensive for it to have such a weakness. So then it's only use is that it's an anti-air and a combo tool. It won't make him too strong since he's one of the weakest characters in the game.

LMAO!

Found the Luke main

Quite the opposite

The Trailer is 10% "you can't do that anymore" while the rest shows otherwise, idk what you are on about.

Says you

Yes

low jab was -5 so punishable by Cammy stlk, i assume now it's -3 or better

@@DiosOscuro well it’s a good buff but if that’s what they’re showing for the trailer then I doubt he’s getting much else

His crouching jab is -5 on block. They made it safe.

That was to show that Ed's crouching LP will be made safer. Right now Cammy's stand LK will punish it.

@@bwnnn thanks!

They're coming, dude, don't worry

They will also be in this update

Tundra storm should re-stand.

​@@prismshockI would settle for tundra storm just giving you a shit-tonne of special meter

1:18 oh wow run dp from crouch mk without counterhit. Jeez that’s gonna be a good buffer 1:22 oh nah that’s cancellable now? 1:31 yeaaa 1:36 wait a minute Is that a drive rush nerf???? Jab couldn’t reach with the jab. At first i thought this was a thing where they delayed the timing on purpose cuz otherwise free punish but,could this be a nerf?? The one so many people were waiting for??👀 2:12 oooh the crouch jab it’s not -5 anymore nice 2:35 👀👀👀👀. Nice!

No one will ever use that combo unless it’s off of a confirm

It can be done without the drive rush cancel, only costing 2 bars for OD

Tier placement means nothing. The point is to make the character work. If the character works, there will be player out there that will win with them.

I could careless about the combo route. That doesn’t even matter. I wanna know if renversé properly works as an anti-projectile tool as designed vs all fireball speeds.

You can already practice this combo in training mode or in matches since you can get B.HP into EX twirl kick off a punish counter. It does big damage and gives you a medal for only 2 bars. The extension they show here into this new BandB was just to make it look a bit more flashy.

patch notes are far more useful, this isn't replacing them

thats a good change. faster startup on cr.mk is useful as a low. level 1 is faster (allegedly) and st.lk is finally safe on block (allegedly). the alleged ones were reported by Hibiki tho so that sounds pretty definitive to me. also D rev is -6 on block so ye, its on average 5x less recovery than the average ex dp. so u are pretty safe for a reversal.

They should focus on the actual gameplay

More dialogue and quotes and more intro and outro animations