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Every time someone pronounces Ryu's name as "Raiyoo", a Dragonpunch gets another startup frame.

I do love when goofy, otherwise uninteresting mid-tier characters have that one, ONE quirk about them that makes you have to rethink a core system and allows for an unexpected strength. Evil Ryu being able to basically stagger from anywhere on screen while entering "Kick people's ass real good" mode definitely fits that bill.

Ryu's got a nice looking tan

Damn the alpha SF's had such a great visual style

The true evil is not knowing how to pronounce "Ryu" in current year. XP

There was nothing cooler than when I walked into the arcade and when I go my turn at Street Fighter Alpha, I went to random select and got Akuma. The crowd of about 15 people were all like, "OHHHHHH!!!!", with more oohs and aahs to follow at all his different supers and his juggle combos, dive kick and demon flip.

One of the notable differences E.ryu has is his red fireball, unlike ryu or akuma where its on a different input, for E.ryu his normal fireball starts as a red fireball for the first few frames which knocks down and does a lot of stun (i think it stuns ryu in 3 fireballs). You see the fireball change from red to purple if you shoot it from range. The red fireball should in theory connect on most characters where the dp doesnt work as you showed.

Ryeyou and evil Ryeyou sounds like a great shoto, hope they bring him back in SF6

For those curious about the cameos on Ken's stage From left to right the characters are: Lord Raptor, Hsien-Ko and Mei-Ling from Darkstalkers, the two Unknown Soldiers from Forgotten Worlds, Morrigan Aensland (Darkstalkers), Jumbo Flapjack and Biff Slamkovich (Saturday Night Slam Masters), Eliza (Ken's wife), Ginzu and Captain Commando from Captain Commando, Michelle Heart (Legendary Wings), Strider Hiryu (Strider), Linn Kurosawa (Aliens Vs. Predator), Felicia (Darkstalkers) and Pure the Mage from Capcom World 2. The butler on the far right is the capcom founder Kenzo Tsujimoto.

Ah yes...."Raiyuu" my favorite character from streets

I love that older games like this still have developing metas. That's a kind of magic you can't get when the entire community shuffles over to the newest release very couple of years

A banned Mid-Tier? That's a new one. What's next, a banned Low-Tier? Anyway, great video! Commenting for Le Algorythm

ITS NOT RYE-EW ITS RYU

This was genuinely interesting to hear about.

Stumbled across this video after watching a deluge of Street Fighter V competitive videos. Want to express how much I appreciate the clarity, precision, and cadence of your voice - both audibly and mentally. And it's actually possible to breathe during your videos! As an armchair fan currently without a console, who appreciates but has never excelled at the SF games, this is the kind of video that keeps me connected to my childhood obsessions. Had no idea about Evil Ryu's flaws despite playing as him during innumerable bouts against old friends. Explains a few losses! :D What KZfaq is all about for me.

For the extremely impatient: the actual reason is at 7:28.

WHAT- DARKSTALKERS CAMEOS!!! Stating at 2:48 (so you can see them all in order)- from the left to the right, you can see Hsienko and her sister in dresses (the girls standing side by side in the pink/blue and yellow dresses), Morrigan (obvious, but it's the mint green haired woman with the navel showing blackish purple dress in front of the table slightly right of the girls), then at 2:53 you can see Felicia straight ahead in the pool. What a lovely Easter egg, I hope Darkstalkers will get revived some day... ^^

Everytime you say "Raiyu" a part of me dies

Damn, I began to think "Ryeyou" is a must-ban to every British English youtuber. You and Top Hat Gaming are grinding my ears off every time you pronounce "Ryeyou"...

i remember when sf anniversary collection came out on ps4 and u could play ranked match as akuma in ST...im so sorry to everyone i hurt. xoxo im a changed man now.

"Evil Ryeoh" The pain...

Take a shot everytime time he mispronounces "Ryu"

So, after 25 years I realized Ken's stage is a cosplay party.

Amazing Evil "Raiuh" combos.

For a fighting game KZfaq channel, how you gonna mispronounce the most famous fighting game character? Back in the day, sure. But 2021 with internet and proper voice acting in gaming? Blows my mind!

5:08 "Normi Ryu" 😂 thanks for the laugh. Had to go skip back to make sure my ears weren't playing up lol

Awesome vid! Never knew the history of A2 E.Ryu. good stuff.

Awesome video dood, I do miss the days of secret arcade characters. I remember being told stories about Akuma, even seeing it for myself the first time was really cool.

It's pronounced "Ryu"... not "Ryu"...

Every time he says "Rayu", Capcom makes parrying one frame more lenient.

So for over 20 years I never knew he wasn't in the original Japanese version.

Hey just wanted to say that I love the content! Thank you for introducing me to more fighting games that I now want to explore and play for myself.

I've been learning Alpha 2 recently; you have uncanny timing mate.

Wait, alpha 2 had air blocking? Does any other street fighter have this?

Why is he considered worse than ryu though? Everything you listed seemed like they would at least make him the same tier as ryu, if not better. Are the multi-hit shoyuken and lower health really enough to make him tiers worse?

Subbed, I'm glad I found another great fighting game content creator.

I genuinely feel bad for kids that didn't get to grow up in a pre-internet era, when the playground was this bottomless well of rumors and lies that could never be confirmed or denied. "Did you know if you beat Mortal Kombat II ten times in a row without getting hit you can play as naked Lara Croft??"

That's not an entirely accurate explanation of the Valle CC. Valle CC is activating while the opponent is still standing and is unable to block low and gets swept. it doesn't have to do with blowback. Generally, when the Valle CC happens is when the opponent is just within sweep range and is caught standing. They are not close enough for blowback to matter.

Fantastic video, I had no idea Evil Ryu was USA only. I'm gonna be using christmas break to try to learn some SFA2, I've been watching the WNF SFA2 tournaments and it looks super fun.

Bruh, your channel is wild Keep it up

I liked how E. Ryu's specials actually functioned differently in SFA2 compared to regular Ryu. In SFA3, the moves were literally identical and he just had additional moves added. In order to balance him out in SFA3 they made his moves deal less much less stun damage, and I think his stun meter was also lower (a la Akuma) but don't quote me on that!

That hit me, SFA2 is 25 years old....Jesus, I am old af. I remember playing this in the arcade, on Super Nintendo and again on Mame about a decade later.

This is a really cool topic -- if you don't already have one I'd love to see a follow up video on how explored Evil Ryu is 3 years later.

Great video mate, subscribed just off the strength of this one vid. Do you play marvel vs capcom? I'd love to see some content about that from you. Right, im off to binge watch your channel 👊👊👊

I've had almost zero experience with the Alpha series, and every time I see how gorgeous and cool it looks, I vow to rectify that.

Could you make a video talking about Corner pressure in fighting games?

I really like the filter on this video (if there is one) hard to tell if it’s not direct arcade capture given it’s also the correct aspect ratio. Footage looks really nice

I love the fighting game theory! Can you go into KOF? It's a bit niche, but I'd love your take on them!

What do you call the genre of video you make? Fighting game analysis I suppose, but there’s a lot of these types of channels and I love them

This type of content is inspirational. I hope you reach 100k this year.

I've never used custom combos in Alpha 2 before. I knew about them in SFA3, but only realized them since seeing your Rose video.

Great video. Alpha 2 revival, indeed! The first FPGA implementation of the original hardware releases tomorrow.

Just as I was bored, new vid

ooooooh you featured Grant in this video’s intro, my man

Very informative! Thanks!

super video man! the only thing i ddin't like is how you pronnounce RYU. The rest is PERFECT! 🙌🙌🙌

I was just playing this dude in Arcade mode yesterday lol Also, I like the concept of EX characters shown with Dhalsim and Zangief in Alpha 2, but I've barely seen anyone cover this.

I remember being in a group at the Arcade and we all watched for the first time a accidental Fatality performed on Mortal Kombat the Cheers were so loud it echoed through out the Mall, I know these are Hidden Characters but if someone were to see Evil Ryu for the first time I think it went something like that.

Do you know anything about mortal kombat or killer instinct classics? i mean arcade and snes era tittles? how are those games played or what is the tier list or the match ups and such meta? I know that youtube has at least the best latin american killer instinct snes player and he is actively doing tournaments online even before 2020. keep up the good work.

does valle cc still work if you activate in mid air, considering you can land a low fast enough

Who the hell is Rye-you?

I was in the scene when Alex unveiled the Valle CC against John Choi. I can't believe people are talking about it still.

Having a harrier in the background is so badass

I remember when mvc1 came out in arcades the liquor store by my school had it and i was the only one who knew the roll code lol everyone didnt have any codes until the owner got them from japan lol yeah roll lmao

I think this might be a good moment for me to start exploring the Street Fighter Alpha games. It seems like a full branch of the franchise I'm missing out here that could be extremely fun to me.

Sorry the noob question... but how do you enable this debug data on screen at 2:44?

"Next question: In Street Fighter Alpha 2, Evil Ryu was banned in tournament play for 25 years because..." "He was overpowered?" "..." "He needed to... be accessed with a secret code?" "..." "He was... too... similar to Akuma?" "..." "...his blowback was too large?" "He was only in the American release" "Are you fu-"

"Evil Rye-ooh" Bro. Why. I mean... I really liked the vid, but... Just why.

watching videos like this is the sort of shit that inspires me to write fgc movesets for my own characters. having to think about options, ranges, counterplay, all makes it so fun to design these kits

I can understand vanilla Alpha 2, but was he banned in Zero 2 Alpha (Alpha 2 Gold)? He was playable in all markets in that version, along with a few other alternative characters easily picked with the start button.

Are you gonna do strive match breakdowns? I loved watching your SF4 vids.

Evil Raiyu

I appreciate you working hard to support the gaming community.. great work.

Wasn't Cammy a secret character in the Saturn version of Alpha 2? Kinda wished she could get some shine in Alpha 2 if that were the case.

This video brought me back to my High School days, when I used to bunk lessons to play SFA2 in London. I was one of the few who knew how to select Evil Ryu and who also knew which machines ran the American version to find him on. That made me feel cool at the time, good memories 😎

Heh, I had no idea that Evil Ryu used to be an US arcade only character

i see... evil raiu... great video but the mispronunciation was really funny to me :v

Man I miss the arcade and even couch play sometimes. It was a time where you were forced to learn how to actually play by trial and error, and if you got stomped (which happened a lot as you were learning) you deal with it. But what you didn't do is scream about "the balancing" and hold up the machine if you lost. That outright cheating, and worst of all relentless trolling/s*** talking could get you hurt in an arcade. Lol. Awesome video! I didn't know Evil Ryu was mid tier either. Lol. A banned mid tier character? Who knew.

GNARRRLLYYY ~ another fckin awesome video

Even fighting game KZfaqrs can’t pronounce Ryu.

Great video. But one correction. Blowback is not related to valle CC. Blowback simply kills any active attack. Thats it. Valle cc, if you are not already holding db, you cannot enter any inputs for 9 frames, regardless if blowback happens or not. Otherwise, great video!

One of the console versions of this game had a "special Sakura" but back then I couldn't figure out what the differences were. Were there any?

Are there any modern clips of him being used in modern tournaments?

Evil Ryu's forward+medium kick sobat juggles, Ryu's doesn't

"Evil RYE-YOU" Guess that's as far as I'm going with this video.

id love an explenation in the changes from alpha 2 to 3. or 1 to 2. theyre wild and drastic

Thanks for this video, I've recently picked up A2 evil ryu and it was pretty funny as all the unique features of the character you brought up were things I had discovered whilst playing him, fun character

He also has an infinite - I always thought that's why he was banned tbh.

As decisive as custom combos are in SFA2, I say that tier list will soon change if more skilled players play Evil Ryu. Everything you do in this game goes to shit when you get hit by a cc. It's a huge comeback factor.

The prerequisites for fighting Akuma in ST is just to get to the end without continuing. You can even cheese it by having the other player "come in" if you're about to lose

What system and game version were you using? Was this MAME arcade with an interlaced filter? Was this a console version? Did you literally record from a CRT?

Lol, imagine being a person, in 2021, pronouncing Ryu as "Rye-ooh"

Every time I see SF2 Cammy I'm reminded when she made me feel funny as a kid ^^

I never knew any of this. Interesting coverage,

Neat video! Thanks for uploading!

I wonder why some people still insist on calling the main character Rah-Yu.

Oh plz dude say "Ryu", not Riyu

Love Raging Demon. Used to use it for Akuma, Shin Akuma and Evil Ryu in Alpha 3's World Tour mode.

Any videos about Alpha 2 Gold and Cammy?