http://th07.deviantart.net/fs46/PRE/f/2009/204/c/c/SFLady__Akuma_by_Takilmar.jpg i like this more :3
can someone make me an avatar of akuma’s victory animation?
His hypers are probably not aimable which sets him apart from ryu.
I don’t think that’ll matter much, if Ryu could aim his Hypers like Cyclops then that would be a large enough difference to set them apart imo.
Except nine times out of ten when Ryu is doing a non-combo air Shinkuu, he’s gonna aim it down-forward, which is Akuma’s air beam.
The only advantage that Ryu has Akuma is when the opp is super-jumping upback. Ryu can do air Shinkuu forward or ground Shinkuu upforward. That’s kinda meh.
I don’t know if he’ll be stronger than ryu, it reallys depends a lot on whether air tatsu = overhead for each of them. Though akuma is obviously faster, demonflip palm bouncing for a relaunch is pretty awesome, and his demon countering grounded projectile spam is pretty strong. Since arthur can’t do anything after he uses a special in the air wonder if you can just demon and catch him on landing XD
Ryu’s shinku has a bigger radius than Akumas which makes the difference. Akuma’s is just in his chest area where Ryu’s goes above his head a little. Akuma’s overall hypers more useful but Ryu’s shinku will most likely be the best beam hyper in the game with the overall utility.
otg divekick, double ground series before launch due to tatsu juggle, demon palm thats quick dirty and cases floor bounce it looks like, 4 fireball supers one of which hits otg. bleeds but not too hard. runaway tatsu looks cancelable into demon flip moves, looks like you can activate demon flip moves while already air borne. raging demon looks like it has insane priority and way faster movement speed. and trying to do anything other than avoid it while its active is a death wish. It is a good day for the dark hado.
Most important thing to me is whether or not his Shoryu assist is as good as Ryu’s. If Akuma’s has very little/no invincibility he’s not much use to me.
INTERNEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!! x_x
^Thats another thing I was thinking, what if his assists are worse than Ryu’s? And then I remembered his tatsu…
POWER SURGE!!!
Seems pretty awesome.
His tatsu assist will be better.
But there are an abundance of teams that will be better served with a good AAA assist. I may just switch them out depending on the matchup if Akuma’s Shoryu is worse.
Well I’ve been looking for a good lockdown assist because Doom/Chun/Ammy don’t appeal to me at all, and me thinks I’ve found it.
Ironically the n is the only consonant japanese can actually do without sticking a vowel behind it. “Puroton Kanon!” would probably still be a giggle 
I look forward to getting Shun Goku Satsud left and right by you guys, this looks like an Akuma that’ll be fun to fight
Im pretty sure it’s the same guy too. They probably told him to stop sounding like a saturday morning cartoon villian. Also pretty sure the VA read many comments on the english voice acting and went to work.
Yeah it’s definitely the same guy, he’s just shored up his delivery. I really like how he says “It’s always fun to kill a god…”
Watch it again, that’s a barrage, not a beam.
Gameplay Video 2 shows it can also be a beam.
Ryu does more damage for less hits, from what I see, Ryu’s Shinkuu does more damage than MGH, too.
Ryu has similar combos and basically AHVB. No reason to use Akuma, as much as I want to think the opposite.