I disagree. They went a bit too far with Fei. They should leave one or the other intact, the damage or the rekka’s. They even took away advantage frames on his jab so no more combo into sweep (lost combo into hard knockdown)!
Edit: Ok, shoryuken.com and eventhubs.com seem to have conflicting translations. Shoryuken says MK chicken wing damage was nerfed to 100 and eventhubs says HK chicken wing damage was nerfed to 100. I hope shoryuken has the correct translation for Fei’s sake…
I think we are going to see a lot of this until there is an official translation.
But the damage changes are fairly small and it made no sense for Fei to be able to do up 400 dmg meter less combos, the jab to sweep kinda sucks but fei can live without it as he has already before but may make him slightly worse of vs charge characters.
I personally would of liked them to give him a more worth while buff rather than a useless damage increase to his overhead.
I can’t believe we’re gonna be the last…
Cody is last that means he gets the BEST shit!
Watch his changes be something like nerfed damage and less recovery on something useless like his cl.MK.
they save the best for last : D gouken-like cody buffs, twins nerf²³²³²³ etc
btw fei doesn’t change in any way. no matchup will be effected by his small damage nerfs on his poking game and flame kick. the only tool that was affected is s.lp, c.hk, but that’s about it. he will remain top tier.
also, my bet is “s.mk is now 1 frame faster - this gives cody an awzum, for shizzle ma nizzle poke!!! be happy guys!!! -ono-san”
I was mistaken, I thought his HK chicken wing damage had gotten nerfed to 100. You guys are right, he doesn’t change much.
And I just hope whatever buff Cody gets is a defensive one so he’s not completely free on wake up anymore. (Hopefully it’s the EX Criminal Upper)
If its any knife change I’d like to have, I’d like them to make cr.lp cancel into criminal upper. that would make me go for the knife way more.
and yes, you could do this in alpha.
That’s cause too many people whining instead of learning how to play the game. I thought Fei was fine the way he was. I also expect the twins to get weakened too even though I like their output.
As for Cody, I believe will get minor tweaks and I’m hoping they make HK Ruffian kick hit crouching opponents. I expect characters like Evil Ryu to get the brunt of major buffs though…
Cody biggest change so far is the huge nerfs to Akuma.
Akuma really didn’t get nerfed. His demon flip is just no longer an overhead. This takes away nothing from him really.
Abel and Gouken got buffed and will be trouble!
Of course it does. Not only am I able to down back my way to safety, he lost a lot of setups from his forward throw. If he goes for the throw, not only he has to time it perfectly against a crouching opponent, he’s at risk if I choose to backdash or jump because I can punish it’s wiff, unlike palm and dive kick. Plus the followup after a demon throw is nowhere near as good and the KD of palm or another combo into sweep, I’ll take the 100 something damage anytime, thank you.
I have to disagree with both of you 
akuma neither got a “huge” nerf nor does he get off the hook that lightly. I’d say it’s a medium tweak.
you’ve to see what those 2 little changes do: +2frames after a forward throw make ALL current safejump mixup impossible. since a throw can happen quite often it’s a nerf, but still situational, so it doesn’t affect any other siutation.
demon palm blocking while crouching nerfs the demon palm itself obviously enough, but also lessens the threat of empty demon palm crossup => c.lk, since you allready duck. again, nothing too major, but will help in the end.
I think abel got buffed (like honda) in the wrong part. that 10 dmg increase makes his allready gdlike command throw again over the top. his c.hp nerf was the best thing they could do. it just leads to too much damage afterwards and now it’s back =/
I’m worried about gen now. his buffs affect the matchup direcly. cody has troubles with utk, which gen gets in every combo now.
I like the rose changes, even tho they didn’t buffed her crucial wakeup/reversal porblem, she is now a goddess in footsie with vanilla f.hk back <3
When can we expect the Cody update? I’m confused, is it friday?
How can anybody get confused about “we’re goin to post dev blogs about the changes 23-25”?^^ 13 were posted on the first day, so it was obvious that another 13 were to come today… which they did. I let you take a wild guess when we’ll see cody’s changes then :3
I say Akuma is the most nerfed character so far. Viper and Fei’s were mostly damage tweaks that don’t change their gameplan at all (Fei lost combo into sweep, which makes some matchups harder, but he’s still god in controlling space), Akuma lost a lot of options on his vortex and the forward throw was huge because you could safe jump shoryukens, go for unblockables and etc. A lot of his matchups changed since those setups are definetly taken into account.
Good point on Gen. Although nobody plays the old geezer, he can potentially be a pain now.
Last batch of changes is where it’s gonna be at…Yun/Yang/Cody/E. RYu/Oni/Hakan,…basically everyone I’m interested in.
Yea I’m also Very interested in tomorrow’s changes…Guy could use a nice boost too even though I dont play him. He has to be the slowest ninja I’ve seen.
Yes please. I was thinking about this while messing with the knife in training yesterday.
Please do not pull one of my previous posts out of context and quote it without reading the posts I made after that.