Why Akuma Is Top Tier In Every Street Fighter Game

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3 ай бұрын

Akuma is now on his way to Street Fighter 6 and the community can't help but wonder how he'll look when he gets there. We're taking a look through his past to see why he's been able to rise to the top of just about every fighting game he's been in.
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@TruGouki 3 ай бұрын

Gouki is fair & balanced no idea what you guys are talking about.

@user-kp5tf9qt5l 3 ай бұрын

Gouki always benefits from the mechanics or himself

@21Handguns 3 ай бұрын

Sure as hell wasn't in SFV lmao 💀

@GinkgoPete 3 ай бұрын

Lmao tell me the Akuma vortex wasnt the most stupidly busted thing ever

@21Handguns 3 ай бұрын

@@GinkgoPete nah. Especially in sf4 where Yun and Yang existed, it was amazingly strong but wasn't the best

@themosthighvaluemaninthega9048 3 ай бұрын

@@21Handguns Yun and Yang only appeared in AE. Akuma's vortex was pretty oppressive for the vast majority of SFIV

@marche800 3 ай бұрын

Akuma is so good that he will appear as a guest fighter in other games and be broken there too.

@imtiaze642 3 ай бұрын

Tekken 7 experience in a nutshell 🤣🤣

@Sh1ranu1 3 ай бұрын

With the Tekken 7 competitive scene, Akuma had the advantage of being the only guy with an air game, since tekken characters don’t do a lot of jumping. And he rose very fast because he had a very alien play style that Tekken players were unfamiliar with. But time has moved on and people have “learned the match up” so the gap between the other S-tiers have equalized.

@EatWave 3 ай бұрын

Akuma gained his Raging Demon when he was a guest fighter in X-Men: Children of the Atom, making him even better due to a guest stint in another franchise.

@AssassinKillswitch 3 ай бұрын

Yea like smash

@Vynne96-jg7er 3 ай бұрын

Akuma vs Asura is one of the most greatest battle ever.

@user-kp5tf9qt5l 3 ай бұрын

He doesn’t need to be balanced, this is lore accurate.

@brianwilliams4832 3 ай бұрын

Sure, until we have a 6-Akuma Top 8 for the third time in a row.

@samuelmachado8330 3 ай бұрын

Ah yes the vergil treatment

@RebornOdin 3 ай бұрын

I know it's a joke, but the logic falls flat as soon as you realize that Ryu would then have to be 2nd or 3rd best, if not tied with Akuma in terms of power. 😅 This is despite that Ryu historically has hovered between lower-mid to high-mid and barely ever scraped top-tier status throughout the 30+ years. Oro in lore is stronger than Akuma (Or at least tied if Akuma fully embraces the Satsui no Hado becomes Shin Akuma), and G is likely in a complete league of his own given his connection to the earth.

@harrylane4 3 ай бұрын

@@brianwilliams4832 still canon accurate

@Chronoic 3 ай бұрын

Lore accurate ... Ryu would like to talk to you on that.

@RebornOdin 3 ай бұрын

No matter what happens to him, I know his Raging Demon is going to look sick as hell in SF6 and I'm all here for it.

@DioDCynic 3 ай бұрын

Can't wait to get modern demon'd

@666blaziken 3 ай бұрын

I'm creaming just thinking about it.

@Ben-jz3mt 3 ай бұрын

⁠@@DioDCynicI refuse to believe that the SF5 Demon can be topped. Then again I’m sure it’ll happen

@KaitouKaiju 3 ай бұрын

@@DioDCynicIt will probably be like marvel 3 rather than one button

@Ramsey276one 3 ай бұрын

Critical Art Version Severe psychic damage to the player!

@flyingfrogofdeath9616 3 ай бұрын

He's so broken, he broke the balance of a game from another franchise 😂😂 (Tekken 7)

@MLBlue30 3 ай бұрын

I'm sure Akuma would find that very amusing.

@obiyofi9792 3 ай бұрын

A single jab into death combo if he has both full meter and rage. He's that broken. Also he has the same health as everyone unlike in SF.

@behindel 3 ай бұрын

Just bring Orochi Iori in Tekken and you'll understand the real meaning of the word broken 😂

@flyingfrogofdeath9616 3 ай бұрын

@@MLBlue30 the way he sees it is he isn't too strong, everyone else just isn't strong enough

@Kiable7 3 ай бұрын

Honestly, he’s good but not broken. Without the bar usage, Akuma sucks. Leroy at release was way worse. Literally 6 Leroys in final 8 for EVO Japan 2020.

@user-iu6dm8vo7d 3 ай бұрын

Akuma is still beloved as a character even after being OP for most of his existence. That says something. I don't think most people want him to be game breaking but he should be right at the edge. Give us Akuma, Capcom.

@NYCHeavyHitz212 3 ай бұрын

Yeah I think at edge is great so that gives the player an opportunity to sort of become as dominant as the Akuma character.

@phoenicia1313 3 ай бұрын

Agreed. He IS a playable BOSS character.

@Near_Pluto_ 3 ай бұрын

I forget where this first got brought up, I think in a dev interview about sf4 ae, but basically developers found that if a character was presented as super OP and supposed to be broken players actually accept them as such. But when random average dude characters (like yun) are OP people bitch and complain. Basically, should be coined The Akuma Effect.

@metsu-satsu4280 3 ай бұрын

@@Near_Pluto_ I mean, it's natural for people to like it when a character's strength in the game is somewhat proportionate to their lore strength. I don't think it's anything new or deep lol

@WindowedHandle 3 ай бұрын

@@metsu-satsu4280 adding to your comment, guilty gear already have their resident most powerful character (Sol) that the fans have accepted.

@aricvinyard 3 ай бұрын

I still miss jump back air fireball.

@makadoshez1564 3 ай бұрын

And neutral jump air fireball

@DanmakuMaster 3 ай бұрын

I didn't watch much SF5, but isn't he doing a neutral jump air fireball at 7:38? Or is that with V-Trigger active? Again, I'm not super familiar with SF5 mechanics.

@makadoshez1564 3 ай бұрын

@@DanmakuMaster In SFV you only have jump back & neutral jump air fireball when you do ex or V-Trigger so yeah it was a V-trigger jump fireball

@Longshot3181 2 ай бұрын

Tiger Knee Air Fireball

@Amesang 3 ай бұрын

Honestly I'm waiting to see Akuma for "World Tour" more than anything else, just to see _why_ he takes on the character's avatar as a student. Does he recognize the Satsui no Hado within them? _"If Ryu won't be a worthy rival, then I'll just train my own!"_ (Heck, Akuma won't live forever regardless; maybe he wants to pass on his knowledge of "True Ansatsuken" as Goutetsu had to him.)

@realchezboi 3 ай бұрын

That’s likely it

@nowanimportant8887 3 ай бұрын

I don't think he'd recognize the Hado in us, but he'll instead see the POTENTIAL in our character to be both a worthy opponent and successor to the Satsui no Hado.

@shoukaiser 3 ай бұрын

It'd be hilarious if he denies taking a student, and then some Dan equivalent of a dark hadou user takes you in instead.

@bigjc5546 3 ай бұрын

@@shoukaiserdan is still a fireball user that is extremely strong just not serious

@streptococo4735 18 күн бұрын

@@bigjc5546Dan is one of the FEW who can do Hadoukens whit a single hand. Lorewise characters who can do Hadoukens whit one hand are EXTREMELLY powerful and natural. So Dan could unironically become stronger than Ryu if he actually got trained properly.

@ThirdXavier 3 ай бұрын

I think it's really important to note that he's never been *the* problem character in any of the games you mentioned other than Super Turbo. Maybe Tekken, but in any version of Street Fighter past Super Turbo that was played competitively for a long period of time there was usually characters better than him. Third strike Chun, AE Yun, Ultra Elena and SF5 Luke especially come to mind.

@SPZ-gv2on 3 ай бұрын

Yeah the only really problematic versions of akuma were ST and 2nd impact, and debatebly tekken.

@EventHubs 3 ай бұрын

I'd push back and say Akuma in SF5 before the final season was pretty damn silly. Not ban-worthy, but he made the game not fun for a lot of other characters.

@Rylainecchi 3 ай бұрын

Also some noteworthy fact : whenever Gouki isn't top tier, that's just because every other character in that game (or the game itself) are stupidly broken

@tcchip 3 ай бұрын

@@EventHubs yeah. Akuma pre-season 5 was not fun to fight at all. You had to play very conservatively partly because of the Crush Counter mechanic. It's meant to be a comeback mechanism, but more often than not Crush Counters shut down any counterattack that wasn't a V-Reversal or V-Shift. With Akuma so dominant in the neutral game either with safe nornals or far ranging ones, he's basically designed around baiting you into pressing buttons and eating Crush Counters, or facing a 50/50 mixup.

@solitudegaming 3 ай бұрын

@@EventHubs The issues akuma had in SFV were the free safe trigger activation from red fireball at full screen and the free side switch. Aside from that I think he was fine. People whined about him because they didnt take the time to learn the matchup, if he was broken, everyone wouldve had a pocket akuma for competitive play. Not a soul did. But everyone had a pocket Luke. But this was by design, capcom made him busted on purpose to advertise SF6.

@tcchip 3 ай бұрын

I think Akuma's identity is about him being broken. Conversely, Dan had been consistently bad by design. Because he's intended to be a joke character, and it's only in SFV where he isn't in the absolute bottom of the tier list.

@JanKenTribeWorldWide 3 ай бұрын

A lot of the issues, balances, or etc in these games im convinced now that Capcom did it all on purpose. Akuma has never sucked in any game ever.

@dark_nightwing_xl2797 3 ай бұрын

Dan is dope!!!!!

@tcchip 3 ай бұрын

@@dark_nightwing_xl2797 Dan is fun to use (especially since I use Ryo a lot in KOF). But he is intentionally worse than other characters. In the original Alpha, he at least made up for it with high damage but in subsequent games his damage output has been gradually nerfed. And he was a downright a handicap character in Puzzle and Pocket Fighter.

@dark_nightwing_xl2797 3 ай бұрын

@@tcchip oh isnt he strong in street fighter 5?

@tcchip 3 ай бұрын

@@JanKenTribeWorldWide Nope, never. SFIV Akuma was already an attempt at balancing him, but even so, he's still largely superior to Ryu, Ken or Gouken. The only things Ryu did better than him in Vanilla SFIV were having a really good punish in his Metsu Hadouken and a better Focus Attack. But otherwise Akuma was just more dominant in every aspect.

@ComunidadMetroidvania 3 ай бұрын

Zangief player: This is fine (all in fire around)

@Egzvorg 3 ай бұрын

During SF4 I played Akuma and my friend played Gief. Many a rages I have witnessed.

@retiredsnowbunnyhunterx5106 3 ай бұрын

@@EgzvorgAkuma and zangief are my two top players

@srseki 3 ай бұрын

sfv akuma is fine when Tokido uses him, only Tokido won tourneys with akuma while today luke is everywhere

@thebonuslvl7181 3 ай бұрын

yep, thats what was great, everyone was going on about how busted akuma was in sfv but with his low health only tokido was solid enough fundamentally to do elite level work with him consistently, then they somewhat inadvertently nerfed tokido near the end of sfv pretty much for nothing lol

@dark_nightwing_xl2797 3 ай бұрын

@@thebonuslvl7181akuma looked slow to me in street fighter 5

@SwoleTommyPickles 3 ай бұрын

@@thebonuslvl7181It’s like Xian’s Gen in IV. That character was only top tier in his hands and nowhere else.

@duxnihilo 3 ай бұрын

@@SwoleTommyPickles Also, who else did anything with Ryu apart from Daigo?

@thcbdude 3 ай бұрын

There's a lot of Lukes cheating. Search Luke sf6 cheaters. It's suspicious because the input on watching replays.

@happinesstolerant 3 ай бұрын

His appearance as Oni and in Asuras Wrath deserves honourable mentions...they were awesome.

@songopaul5863 3 ай бұрын

I always liked Akuma, but didn't play as him much until 2019 when I won an event with Akuma in a card game (of which he was equally as strong as he is in the video games). The success with Akuma brought a new found appreciation for him, resulting in Akuma becoming one of my mains in 3rd Strike. I look forward to what he has to offer with Street Fighter 6's mechanics.

@SourWeezle 3 ай бұрын

which card game?

@Onigumo. 3 ай бұрын

Imagine the card game is Yu Gi Oh and you defeat Exodia with Akuma "I summon Exodia! You lost, boy!" "Here takes Akuma and leave the card battle for adults"

@thirstysquidward3554 2 ай бұрын

Akuma casually Messatsu's exodia

@stolensentience 3 ай бұрын

Akuma hasn’t been “overly dominant” since like 2008 tbh. Just top tier and only in the right hands

@longlostcoder6322 3 ай бұрын

This. Sometimes his kit is too much for new players. As I've aged I've started tobsuck at fighting games. Me reaction time and memory are declining

@stolensentience 3 ай бұрын

@@longlostcoder6322 yeah there’s even a good argument that st and alpha are the only times he was actually dominant. And he’s always been hard to master and fun to play and watch as long as you aren’t the one getting worked. Although I’ll admit his air fb and sometimes his sweep or tatsu have been op/annoying depending on the game. Sf3 his tatsu and sf4 his sweep were very tough to deal with or frustrating

@mrsurprise2294 3 ай бұрын

@@stolensentience Yeah mvsf, cvs2, svc, xvsf he wasn't top tier and alpha 3 you had to be real good to do the unblockable set ups, sf4 you either destroy your opponent or get destroyed from poor health shin akuma in cvs2 was way worse

@stolensentience 3 ай бұрын

@@mrsurprise2294 yes in a3 he was top tier but didn’t hold the game hostage by any means. a1 and a2 is what I really meant but he was a bit op in a3, but then again a ton of characters were.

@v.i.loudboy 3 ай бұрын

Akuma is a glass canon

@Ramsey276one 3 ай бұрын

And what a CANNON!

@ddespair 3 ай бұрын

Glass canon is such a funny term. It’s supposed to mean super high offense with super low defense but you couldn’t even really fire a glass cannon because it would just shatter if you tried.

@luismakeup08 2 ай бұрын

@@ddespairthats the idea

@Algolxxxxxx 3 ай бұрын

Akuma is such badass not even Capcom can stop him.

@PotofGlue 3 ай бұрын

Unimaginably hyped to see the atrocities people commit with sf6 akuma

@ChaoticSonic400 3 ай бұрын

to me what makes akuma so strong no matter how many times they nerf him is the tools he has access to. Especially if no other character has access to the same stuff. The air fireball, for example, is so good at screen control and mix ups in general that even with good counter play its still hard to predict and therefore still useful.

@666blaziken 3 ай бұрын

Akuma is a great example of how fighting games don't need to be completely balanced. If using the strongest character is either extremely technical or fragile, than it makes the character seem less of an auto win button due to the skill required to play them at their best, and reduces the amount of players who shame those who use top tiers.

@z1u512 3 ай бұрын

Ok to continue your point can we just completely remove luke sullivan from every street fighter game from now on,

@whiskizyo2067 3 ай бұрын

"Akuma is a great example of how fighting games don't need to be completely balanced. If using the strongest character is either extremely technical or fragile, than it makes the character seem less of an auto win button due to the skill required to play them at their best" that's, what balancing is? lmao

@666blaziken 3 ай бұрын

@@whiskizyo2067 sort of, a truly balanced akuma game would've had 50-50 mu's across the board, but akuma has a lot more favorable ones. The risk to reward is balanced but the characters themselves aren't... But I consider that a good thing.

@CrystalMang0 3 ай бұрын

Actually they do otherwise the game is less enjoyable

@papamilfz1565 3 ай бұрын

Can’t agree more, Akuma is also a lot of players first knowledge check for newer players- checking DP’s, watching out for his stance throw or mix up, etc. I feel like Akuma is the easiest opponent to do this with as opposed to someone who has a more focused kit and doesn’t dominate every facet of the game like Akuma

@Yin_Strider 3 ай бұрын

Akuma is going to be what next year's rebalancing will be centered around. They will use Akuma as the measuring stick. Unless they somehow bring him out with certain things within his kit that limit his power until a certain condition is met.

@BlueLightningSky 3 ай бұрын

You mean turn him into a chore character? No thank you. You can save that trash mechanic for Jamie.

@Yin_Strider 3 ай бұрын

@@BlueLightningSky well...the way SF6 mechanics are heading...the majority of the cast will be working with some type of mechanic that is along that path. Wouldn't be surprised if Akuma gets something where he is stronger than everyone else while being exhausted. He will have some type limitation or he will be too insane with the drive system. 🤷🏼‍♂️

@BronzeAgePepper 3 ай бұрын

@@Yin_Strider something like how in 3rd Strike he didn't have EX moves but had two additional Super Arts beyond his selected one?

@KaitouKaiju 3 ай бұрын

Maybe you cam unlock the satsui no hado mid match

@Yin_Strider 3 ай бұрын

@@KaitouKaiju who knows. But, I know he won't come out without some type of passive mechanic or unlocking full power mechanic. The Raging Demon will be CA only, that's for sure.

@CQCGRID 3 ай бұрын

Air Fireball with drive rush about to go crazy 😂😂😂

@user-lc7md4zt7j 3 ай бұрын

I think SF 6 has enough defensive tools that he won't be as oppressive as he normally is.... but he just inherently comes with too many offensive tools for me to ever envision a timeline where he isn't at least A tier. I can't wait to see how he's translated, with Ed coming in February I'm hoping for a late March/early April launch for Akuma.

@goodybear3970 3 ай бұрын

Bruh, akuma is the true definition of unstoppable, despite being nerf so much by the dev, he's still rise to the top😂

@nrozmx400 3 ай бұрын

He's top tier in Tekken too :D

@gutter339 3 ай бұрын

Aye just subbed. Keep up the good SF content!

@EventHubs 3 ай бұрын

Many thanks!

@edwardwongliupepelutivrusk1262 3 ай бұрын

I am so looking forward to play Akuma in SF6 man, and also watching Tokido plays him in tournaments.

@saranghaketheeswaran9215 3 ай бұрын

Great and thoughtful video on Akuma.

@ze_kangz932 3 ай бұрын

Even in tekken, a 3D based fighting game this demon is a menace

@snowbullet 3 ай бұрын

He's like Lu Bu in the dynasty warrior games people just expect it.

@toomanylies7716 3 ай бұрын

Loved watching Tokido, and I believe Infiltration before he moved on to a different character play as him in SF4. Akuma is badass.

@victoroliveira3577 3 ай бұрын

That Akuma in your thumbnail looks awesome! Reminds me of mad god for some reason

@mystr0696 2 ай бұрын

You seen the new trailer? Dude has become Oni

@victoroliveira3577 2 ай бұрын

@@mystr0696 i did see it, it looks awesome

@dumbaccount8267 2 ай бұрын

Was not a fan of that movie lol

@victoroliveira3577 2 ай бұрын

@@dumbaccount8267 that's okay, the movie was disgusting

@joecoolmccall 3 ай бұрын

A short note saying that I appreciate your writing. Your scripts are well thought out, and you aren't afraid to use an expansive vocabulary.

@EventHubs 3 ай бұрын

Haha, thank you. A personal friend of mine chastised me a little for this same thing after watching the Necalli video. I'll have to show him this.

@joecoolmccall 3 ай бұрын

@@EventHubs anytime!

@kunduntroll 3 ай бұрын

Think of him every day. See you soon my boy

@RushianRichard 19 күн бұрын

I feel the same about Sagat.

@GinkgoPete 3 ай бұрын

Yoooo Velociraptor narrated this? Your Gouken was sick to watch back in the day!

@NEWGREATNESS 3 ай бұрын

He is going to be top 3 and I'm ready.

@copperdragon2009 3 ай бұрын

He's not unbalanced, he's lore accurate :D

@Unaliq 3 ай бұрын

SF6 Akuma with Modern Controls is going to insane

@xravia79 3 ай бұрын

I would love to see Akuma's SFXT super come back. That super looked so sick

@sharkaholic2171 3 ай бұрын

Akuma is my top 5 fav fighting game characters I didn't get sf5 until he came out and in doing the same w 6 and every other sf

@TheBlackSeraph 3 ай бұрын

Kinda surprised how you glossed over SF3's super move system, where Akuma would always have three super moves when other characters only had one. Oh, and in SVC Chaos where the 2x2 arcade button layout made it MUCH easier and quicker pull off a Raging Demon following a jump-in attack.

@freebando 3 ай бұрын

Even with all of that he was still mid tier in sf3

@LuigiG145 3 ай бұрын

This is why I hope Cammy's level 3 doesn't get touched or nerfed because i can see it being very handy to punish a fullscreen Akuma fireball or raging demon.

@akilcharles3473 3 ай бұрын

I happened to really like Akuma a lot and he's once a main that I use back in SF2 Turbo. My only main issue is that when he does comes out and is seemingly top tier broken, players are gonna be way too co-dependent using him,not because Akuma's gameplay will be amazing but as soon as players drop their mains they're gonna be switching towards Akuma and we have ourselves another Luke & Ken situation all over again where will feature 30 or moreso Akuma players in the next CPT tournament. And as much how cool Akuma is that's gonna the same repetitive problem all over again.

@sawyersimpkins9428 3 ай бұрын

At least in SF4, Demon Flip oki is still strike/throw at the end of the day. Same as a grounded strike/throw 50/50

@dark_nightwing_xl2797 3 ай бұрын

He was dope there

@Un1234l 3 ай бұрын

But he also had left right up down mixups and unblockables. It was too much

@dark_nightwing_xl2797 3 ай бұрын

@@Un1234l he was broken in street fighter 4?

@Un1234l 3 ай бұрын

@@dark_nightwing_xl2797 Yes, he was pretty much broken. Also had the heavy kick loops until they patched those out.

@dark_nightwing_xl2797 3 ай бұрын

@@Un1234l damn was he more broken than evil ryu?

@justinrodriguez5957 3 ай бұрын

Capcom: Soooo more buffs?

@00NothingLabs 3 ай бұрын

I saw that title and immediately went, "but... 3rd Strike?"

@00NothingLabs 3 ай бұрын

And then I finished the video and went "Oh, they just glossed over 3rd Strike"

@freebando 3 ай бұрын

Yea they definitely glossed over 3s,but this is events hubs lmao

@johnhearn7329 3 ай бұрын

Street Fighter Alpha Akuma's air fireball was the best! Akuma could throw his air fireball and follow behind it like an assist character from a versus game. This attack could lead to all kinds of combos!😎

@kinoleogeo7998 3 ай бұрын

My concept for balancing is amplifying the risk vs reward. So, lore wise, we know that Satsui no Hado is destroying his body for power, hence the low health. However, what if instead of low health, what if the Satsui no Hado is a mechanic exclusive to him like, Manon’s medals or Jamie’s drinks. What if he was given full access to the V trigger ability that lets Akuma cancel specials into other specials or enhance his OD moves with additional meter, BUT at the cost of taking recoverable health damage. Or, maybe consider Nagoriyuki’s blood mechanic from GGstrive. Basically, Akuma can enter his demon state at the cost of draining health.

@seilaoquemvc2 3 ай бұрын

Everyone: akuma has too many tools and can’t be bad Mvc2 devs: hold my beer

@kash2310 3 ай бұрын

We need VIOLENT KEN .. after Akuma 💪🏽

@DioDCynic 3 ай бұрын

Japanese Capcom chan hinted about violent/satsu inohadou Sean/Dan

@DioDCynic 3 ай бұрын

Meaning: Violent Sean, satsu inohadou Dan

@trollshamanpwnage 3 ай бұрын

honestly, despite folks clearly wanting as much for Ryu for obvious reasons, i want to see Akuma's moveset move even closer towards Gouken's. we've already seen this happen in both sf4, considering Oni and the shit there, and sf5 and to see Gouki come full circle to end up more like his brother than he'd clearly ever want would be poetic to say the least.

@HectorDomino. 2 ай бұрын

Akuma was never supposed to be balanced at the first place. It is just him and goes with him flawlessly. Capcom tried to balance him in SFV but gained world wide criticism.

@Sizdothyx 3 ай бұрын

The thing about Akuma is ... that he is a check on if players deserve to play as him at all. He's quickly punished if players make a mistake, his recovery is slow if he gets shotted in open play and his most powerful move, Raging Demon, historically required very specific mechanics to enact. So basically, as Akuma, you as the player have to play as Akuma would: practically perfectly to deploy his arsenal and unload the punishment on your opponents. It's a great choice in game design: he is the absolute pinnacle of mastery in the hands of the best players but in another average joe's, he is just another Shoto.

@cymandeh 3 ай бұрын

akuma does reality breaking stuff

@Retribution8 3 ай бұрын

I'm terrified of an Akuma with Demon Flip, DI, DR, and raging demon all at the same time

@quancro 3 ай бұрын

muy buen video... buen trabajo

@cartoonjunky9913 3 ай бұрын

It's hard to make a character who lorewise is supposed to be OP as fuck into a balanced fighter. I mean that makes sense

@lytj4136 3 ай бұрын

He doesn't need to be balanced. He is the balance.

@dragonpaulz4284 3 ай бұрын

I really love your videos, but how come you never use clips from the live action series "Assassins Fist"?

@BronzeAgePepper 3 ай бұрын

I can't find it online anywhere. It used to be on Netflix a really long time ago, if there's a physical release it must cost a fortune.

@masterresonax6642 3 ай бұрын

Akuma, my favorite fighting game character of all time even though I mainly play Tekken now, and to think I didn’t use Akuma that much in 7

@ethanr3480 3 ай бұрын

Akuma comes out in two months if you use the first two characters as a pattern

@z3us_81 3 ай бұрын

So around end of march/beginning of april ?

@yugimumoto1 3 ай бұрын

@@z3us_81yeah that's the expected projection. That gives 2 months before they will get the next one out for a similar time to rashid

@z3us_81 3 ай бұрын

@@yugimumoto1 Thanx for the info, hyped for my main's return

@Saxandfifths 3 ай бұрын

It's April. Idk how literally everyone seemed to miss the original Character trailer for Season 1 showing EVERY characters's release month but it said April for Akuma.

@ethanr3480 3 ай бұрын

@@Saxandfifths never had months only seasons, akuma is spring 2024 which starts in march

@ouranos0101 3 ай бұрын

He's top tier because he is nothing more than a marketing gimmick, a tool to manipulate the lowest common denominator of shoto fans. He's popular because he's badass/strong and he's strong/badass because he's popular. Balance be damned.

@ouranos0101 3 ай бұрын

SF5 was the only game to get him right at the end.

@wikipediafollower 3 ай бұрын

I agree with the circular reasoning, but I also don't think it's necessarily fair to describe him as appealing to the lowest common denominator. Yes, a purposefully broken character will attract scrubs, but all that means is that in a competitive setting the character can be banned. It is far worse to go down the Blizzard route of fearing that any character be a standout so you are constantly--and purposefully--buffing and nerfing the entire roster so every player can have their time to shine regardless of how much effort or attention they put into the game. An Akuma type is fun for people who don't want to practice, awesome for lore enjoyers, and even better for the skilled players who want either a particularly challenging opponent, or a tool to see exactly how broken the game can get

@JackgarPrime 2 ай бұрын

Now that we've seen how he looks in-engine for 6, let's hope all this still applies when the gameplay footage comes along!

@tonytran9462 3 ай бұрын

Does anyone else remember that way old Gamepro gag, where someone managed to put an Akuma sprite into Resident Evil 2, and then the rumor spread that he was an unlockable character? Man, the 2000s were a great time.

@tiradegrandmarshal 3 ай бұрын

Uh, Akuma was mid-tier *at best* in the final patch of SF5.

@arqueiroXD 3 ай бұрын

The fact that Akuma was ALSO top tier in Tekken is funny.

@obiyofi9792 3 ай бұрын

He's more broken than he's in SF. Has the same health as everyone. Fkin 2D jumps that harder to deal with since Anti-air isn't a Tekken thing. And if he has both full meters and rage? Just a single jab and you're dead.

@Ma1n033 2 ай бұрын

Hahahaha HE WAS

@sway404 3 ай бұрын

it’s also akuma, he’s the most badass fighting game character.

@thomasgunn6198 2 ай бұрын

This got me hyped for sf6. Id been ignoring it. Capcom give this man a sponsorship

@nemasis3134 3 ай бұрын

Bring Paul over from tekken. 1 phoniex smasher will take down Akuma.

@2Dee4ever 3 ай бұрын

Balance is just a buzz word & often subjective per individual. Make him fun as hell, make an amazing game & it won't matter.

@sediqsmith7233 3 ай бұрын

You say this, and I know you don’t leave your house to play 😅! Nothing wrong with that but tourney players will suffer!

@supern0is349 3 ай бұрын

balancing is a concept. Its true that no game will ever be 100% balanced, but the basic idea is a trade off. ANY character needs to have tools to do damage, but they cannot be so good as to OFFBALANCE other characters tools to defend against said damage. IT ISNT a subjetctive thing, quite the opposite, its very obvious and measurable for anyone who plays the game and understand it from differnt points of view (aka plays more than one character). A character that isnt balanced will not be fun in the long run, simply because everyone will recognize that is much harder to play against that characeter as well as much easier to play with it. So everyone will do it, making the game a race to the bottom. The game will become stale , predictable and boring, the very opposite of fun, and its no wonder that people have banned akuma at tournaments .

@Artec619 3 ай бұрын

@@sediqsmith7233 and?

@Artec619 3 ай бұрын

I don't think you know of a game called SF3 Third Strike...@@supern0is349

@jamgUNoh 3 ай бұрын

Fun for akuma players, awful for pretty much anyone else.

@kweukuafirim 2 ай бұрын

Akuma is the man all day everyday ready with the hands

@yfsincere 2 ай бұрын

He was definitely top tier early SFIV until Gouken came along. There was a very small percentage of players that could fw me running Gouken vs Akuma, but the good Akuma’s were crazy. Especially back when Capcom and Madcatz made good fightpads. And we speak about Oni lol. Hopefully this will breathe some life back into SF6. It’s arguably the least liked Vanilla SF next to 5 which I thought wasn’t bad. Dope vid

@ektran4205 3 ай бұрын

give AKUMA half the health of the character with THE LOWEST HEALTH

@realchezboi 3 ай бұрын

he’s gonna die in one cash out combo 😭

@MS-ql8ek 3 ай бұрын

@@realchezboiI'm down with that just make him OP

@realchezboi 3 ай бұрын

@@MS-ql8ekthat would be so chaotically fun, if you suck at akuma you die instantly but a master akuma is one of the most terrifying things in the game

@MS-ql8ek 3 ай бұрын

@realchezboi tokido said in SFV make akumas fireball recovery as fast as guiles and give him 600 health and he will be happy

@ektran4205 3 ай бұрын

@@MS-ql8ek 400 health

@TheRockemsockm 3 ай бұрын

Its impossible for him to be more OP than Luke and Ken right now. Capcoms planned nerfs for them will be Akuma's benchmark. I think they will release him weak like the grapplers and A.K.I. out of fear.

@Hawaiiitalian 3 ай бұрын

I hope they make him good but not so good that it obsucres the rest of the roster

@BronzeAgePepper 3 ай бұрын

you forgot JP being hugely overpowered and Jamie being made weak on purpose out of fear of him steamrolling every match, like the grapplers

@peteroneill1859 3 ай бұрын

I hope Akuma will be able to do air fireballs jumping back in sf6. Dhalsim can and with mechanics like parry and drive impact every character will be able to deal with it.

@josepartida1711 3 ай бұрын

bornfree! i miss that guy's content

@waterdog737 3 ай бұрын

What if Akuma become charge character? What if 90% of his special moves become charge inputs?

@KaitouKaiju 3 ай бұрын

It would be pretty stupid to do that

@realchezboi 3 ай бұрын

raging demon but the forward input is a back charge input

@SengokuNoMaou 3 ай бұрын

I like him broken.

@Hadouken403 Ай бұрын

Akuma is simply the best hands down point blank period 😅

@Vetal83 3 ай бұрын

thats why i love them old fighting games minimum balance and just pure fun!

@user-sx4qu4dz9z 2 ай бұрын

I can’t wait til he gets put into sf6. Dude has such a unique swag that just can’t be replicated, besides with Evil Ryu

@hybridevil 3 ай бұрын

SF4 Akuma SO SICK to watch man

@bmoney3837 3 ай бұрын

as a casual third strike Akuma is my favorite

@javiton11 3 ай бұрын

He was made that way

@QenaitheCustodianGuard 3 ай бұрын

That yellow-haired Akuma at 5:35 looks so sick.

@retroblue9558 3 ай бұрын

Maybe we can applying a recoil damage on some attacks (like Pichu in Smash). But I think Akuma was created to be broken, so...

@zelgie3013 2 ай бұрын

Working as intended

@bkboy119 3 ай бұрын

i cant wait to see akuma reveal

@nikolicpavle5055 3 ай бұрын

Homie went into Tekken u universe and is top 3 in every tier list

@johnfajardo9484 3 ай бұрын

SF6 will start for me when Akuma launches.

@topdamagewizard 3 ай бұрын

Since 6 is the first SF after 2. Just cannonicly de power him. Hes just always been nutty

@RavenwingAcademy7511 5 күн бұрын

OP IS his balance. Complete domination in battle is his true style!

@marcorodriguez8792 3 ай бұрын

i think the simple answer. its because of the history of his first appearance and the lore

@fabianv4794 2 ай бұрын

AKUMA/Gouki can't be balanced, HE IS the one THAT does balancing. And he's lore accurate!

@pleasedonttemptme5963 Күн бұрын

Akuma is freakin’ strong af in all SF games, there’s a reason he’s usually DLC or in older games an unlockable - Because of his tools.. Everyone knows really his only drawback is health, which I can I live with lol

@ametozukumazu6073 25 күн бұрын

3 Fun facts about T7 Akuma: 1. His broken quatilies are not from his character specifics but from the game(SF) mechanics, so any SF character would've been broken. 2. One of his worst matchups is against Noctis from Final Fantasy XV 3. One of his best matchups is against Negan from Walking Dead because he had single reliable option against neutral demon flip that dealt 4-5% dmg and was punishable on block.

@Aurongroove 3 ай бұрын

He’s such a force of power that the gods that made him (game devs) can’t weaken him.

@tood7614 3 ай бұрын

Something I’ve always liked with street fighter is their weird fireball power scaling. Usually being able to throw a fireball with one hand means that fighter has immense skill. Akuma throws one handed fireballs, as does Gouken, Nash, and Oro to name a few. I think Dan does as well lmao.

@FilipeMiaoumiam 3 ай бұрын

Nash sends a concussion wave, it's not a fireball