Akuma General Discussion Thread: "I am the Master of the Fist!"

Street Fighter V Akuma
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yup works on any costume that isn’t premium or story.
Works for halloween/swimsuit/cpt/and soon to be holiday costumes

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Akuma introduction series

https://youtu.be/5oRFw2fyZ84

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such combo variety
such style
sgs grabs quick as shit

excuse me while I go freeze myself for 12 days

also vskill wasn’t taking grey dmg

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I noticed that too. Maybe they’re still touching things up? Seems a bit late for that, but here’s hoping.

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So his fireballs don’t go full screen?

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His combos are sick.

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From what I’ve seen no, but the other thing I noticed is some of the normal fireballs knockdown. So that might be the reason.

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So takeaways

He’s got a heavy -> medium link
You can follow up LK Tatsu with HK Tatsu
Loads of extra juggles in VT
EX Demon Flip cancels into EX Tatsu for 2 bar combos (may be optimal 2 bar damage?).

Optimal 1 bar damage may be either a Launcher/VSkill into EX Flip into Palm, or it might be MK Tatsu into EX DP.

Doesn’t look like he gets any oki off his HK Tatsu though, so unless he has something off a DP he might have the worst oki of the shotos. Ironic ain’t it.

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They say he has crazy resets in the video tho, so we’ll see. Maybe he’ll be more about reset and less about oki.

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He’s similar to Oni in that regard. The Red Fireball does go full-screen. His standard fireballs do go full-screen in V-Trigger.

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Pretty sure EX demon flip > EX tatsu is only 1 bar.

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They said his fireballs will only go full screen in VT. About the knockdown, Maxishillian said that they knock you down if they hit on the last active frames before they vanish.

Also, am I right that his H tatsu goes diagonal airborne a little like Ken’s H tatsu?

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Supposedly both tokido and eita are thinking about switching to akuma for season 2, they mentioned this on daigo’s stream

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I refuse to believe Tokido will switch to Akuma.

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I would be actually sad if Tokido doesn’t play Akuma.

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24:00

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I’d be worried if Tokido does not switch to Akuma from Ryu.

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I believe HP knocks down at close range, ala his HP fireball (regular) in ST. Doesn’t have the blow back effect however.

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You’re right. That’s odd; I guess it’s the damage option then, with Chop being for oki?

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Didn’t know this thread was a thing. I’ve posted some of my observations and those of others on a reddit post. Check it out and if you have other things to add i’ll edit the post :slight_smile: Thanks.