Terminology:
SRK-an abbreviation for Shoryuken
Tatsu-Short for Tatsumaki Senpukyaku,commonly known as Hurricane Kick
LK-Light Kick
MK-Medium Kick
HK-Heavy Kick
LP-Light Punch
MP-Medium Punch
HP-Heavy Punch
SPS-stands for Solar Plexus Strike or Ryu’s forward+HP
FA-Focus Attack,executed by hitting MP+MK
FADC-stands for Focus Attack Dash Cancel,this is canceling a move with Focus Attack then dashing out of the FA.
st.-will be followed by LP,MP,HP,LK,MK,or HK,indicates moves done while standing
cr.-will be followed by LP,MP,HP,LK,MK,or HK,indicates crouching moves
cl.-will be followed by LP,MP,HP,LK,MK,or HK,indicates moves done close to the opponent
U1-Stands for Ultra 1
DP-Stands for dragon punch,another word for Shoryuken
nj.-stands for neutral jump
fj.stands for forward jump
CBB-short for Collarbone Breaker,Ryu’s overhead
Anti-air: An Anti Air is something that keeps you opponent out of the air. Ryu has several of them that are useful for different situations.
-Ryu’s MP SRK should be used as you main anti air. If you don’t time it late, then it will most likely trade.
-Far Standing HK can be used for jumps that are outside Ryu’s Dragon Punch range,but I recommend far standing HP instead.
-Far Standing HP is a very strong anti-air for jump-ins outside of DP range
-Crouching Fierce Punch should be used if your opponent is directly above you
Hit Confirm: Hit confirm is when you throw a move and it gives you enough time to see if the move hit or it was block so you can cancel in to super/specials.
Spacing:Is where you place yourself on the screen depend on the character you are playing, or your opponents habits and tendencies.
Zoning: Zoning is a way of controlling the space. Ryu has a good set of normals and specials that allow him to do this effectively.
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Hadoken should be thought of as a poke. It can keep your opponents out, and put good pressure at the same time.
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Cr.MK has a nice range and lowers your hitbox. It is a very solid poke and can be cancelled into a fireball on hit
**Combos: **The numbers on the right of the combo are Damage/stun
- cr.LPx3, cr.MK xx Hadoken 152/270
- cr.LK, cr.LP, cr.HP xx HK Tatsu 206/400
- cr.LK, cr.LP, cr.HP xx LK tatsu, MP SRK (corner only) 222/430
- SPS, cr.LP, cr.HP xx LK tatsu, MP SRK (corner only) 292/480
- SPS, cr.HP xx LP SRK, land, Shinku hadoken (super) 470/460
- cr.MP, cr.MP, cr.HK 192/280
- cr.LK, cr.LP, cr.HP xx EX Tatsu, U1 (corner only) 419/400
-cr.MK xx Fireball, FADC cr.HK 192/280
-cr.MK xx Fireball, FADC, cr.MK xx HK Tatsu 252/420
-cr.MK xx Fireball, FADC, cr.HP xx LK tatsu, MP SRK (corner only) 292/530
-cr.MK xx Fireball, FADC, cr.HP xx EX Tatsu, U1 (corner only) 489/500
-SRK, FADC, U1 398/150
-cr.MK xx EX Fireball, U1 (corner only) 393/200
-cr.MK xx EX Fireball, FADC U1 393/200
-SPS, cr.HP xx HP SRK 300/460
-SPS, cr.HP xx HP SRK, FADC, U1 487/420
-SPS, cr.HP xx EX Tatsu, U1 (corner only) 535/460
-cr.LK, cr.LP, cr.LP, cr.HK 137/210
**Combo Notes: **Any combos that have SPS, cr.HP can be altered to SPS, cr.LP,MP or cl.MK.Also you can do SPS, SRK as a combo.Also any combos containing tatsu can be done with different versions of tatsu to affect spacing afterwards.
Side Notes: Hurricane kick will stop you’re opponents FA’s. A well-timed Hurricane kick also goes through fireballs. When you end a combo in the corner with a ex hurricane kick if the opponent gets set spinning in the air, you can do an Ultra or SRK and it will connect but ONLY if the opponent gets sent spinning in the corner.
**Frame **Data:
Okay this frame data is going to be for AE with the Super data in parantheses and will have the numbers in the following order: move name/damage/stun/startup/active/recovery/on guard/on hit.
cl.LP/30/50/3/3/6/+2/+5 (same)
cl.MP/70/100/3/3/21/-3/+3 (same)
cl.HP/100[80]/200[150]/5/7/26/-15/-10 (same)
cl.LK/30/50/5/5/7/-1/+2 (same)
cl.MK/80/100/3/5/16/-7/-2 (70/100/3/5/16/-7/-2)
cl.HK/4070/12575/8/8{2}4/15/-1/+4 (4070/12575/8/8{2}4/17/-3/+2)
st.LP/30/50/4/3/6/+2/+5 (same)
st.MP/80/100/5/4/14/-4/-1 (same)
st.HP/120/200/8/3/15/0/+4 (same)
st.LK/40/50/5/6/6/-1/+2 (same)
st.MK/80/100/8/2/17/-5/-2 (same)
st.HK/110/200/9/4/20/-6/-2 (same)
cr.LP/30/50/3/2/7/+2/+5 (same)
cr.MP/60/100/4/4/8/+2/+5 (same)
cr.HP/90/200/4/8/28/-18/-13 (same)
cr.LK/20/50/4/3/9/-1/+2 (same)
cr.MK/60/100/5/3/14/-3/0 (60/100/5/5/12/-3/-0)
cr.HK/90/100/5/4/28/-14/- (same)
nj.LP/50/50/10/7/-/-/- (same)
nj.MP/80/100/5/5/-/-/- (same)
nj.HP/100/200/6/5/-/-/- (same)
nj.LK/40/50/5/9/-/-/- (same)
nj.MK/80/100/6/10/-/-/- (same)
nj.HK/100/200/4/4/-/-/- (same)
fj.LP/50/50/4/7/-/-/- (same)
fj.MP/5030/5050/7/34/-/-/- (same)
fj.HP/100/200/6/5/-/-/- (same)
fj.LK/40/50/4/8/-/-/- (same)
fj.MK/70/100/6/6/-/-/- (same)
fj.HK/100/200/7/7/-/-/- (same)
CBB/3050/5050/17/1{1}2/14/-2/+3 [+1 on crouching opponents] (same)
SPS/4050/5050/17/22/18/0/+4 (4080/5050/17/2*2/18/0/+4)
Forward throw/130/140/3/2/20 (same)
Back throw/130/120/3/2/20 (same)
FA lvl 1/60/100/21/2/35/-21/-21 (same)
FA lvl 2/80/150/17+12/2/35/-15/- (same)
FA lvl 3/140/200/65/2/35/-/- (same)
Hadoken/60/100/13/-/45/-6/-2 (same)
16~17f focus cancellable
EX Hadoken/5050/5050/12/-/40/+1/- (same)
15~16f focus cancellable,knocks down,can juggle
LP SRK/100[70]/200[100]/3/14/14+10/-17/- (same)
1~2f invincible,3~16f low invincible4f~ airborne,knocks down,[] refers to 3~14f
MP SRK/8050/15050/3/2*12/25+18/-34/- FONT=Helvetica[/FONT]
1~5f invincible(1~4f invincible in super),knocks down,second hit can juggle
HP SRK/160/200/3/2*12/28+18/-37/- FONT=Helvetica [/FONT]
1~4f invincible,knocks down,not FADCable
EX SRK/8060/100100/3/2*12/30+18/-39 (same)
1~16f invincible,knocks down,second hit can juggle
LK Tatsu/100/200/11/2(6)2/12+5/-6/- (same)
7~20f lower body projectile invincible,knock down,armor break
MK Tatsu/110/200/12/2(6)2(6)2(6)2(6)2/18+3/-2/- (same)
7~45f lower body projectile invincible,knock down,armor break
HK Tatsu/120/200/12/2(6)2(6)2(6)2(6)2/18+3/-2/- (same)
7~45f lower body projectile invincible,knock down,armor break
EX Tatsu/30x4*40/40x5/11/1(3)1(3)1(3)1(3)1/18+3/-1/- (same)
[FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica]6[FONT=Helvetica]~27f lower body projectile invincible,knock down,armor break,can juggle,forces stand[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica]Air LK Tatsu/70/100/9/2(6)2(6)2(6)2(6)2/10/-/- (same)[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica]knock down[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica]Air MK Tatsu/80/100/9/2(6)2(6)2(6)2(6)2/10/-/- (same)[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica]knock down[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica]Air HK Tatsu/90/100/9/2(6)2(6)2(6)2(6)2/10/-/- (same)[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
[FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica][FONT=Helvetica]knock down[/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
Air EX Tatsu/40x5/50x5/7/1(3)1(3)1(3)1(3)1/4/- (same)
knock down,can juggle
Super/50x4*100/0/1+2/-/52/+11/- (same)
1f invincible,untechable knock down,can juggle
U1/42x7*75/0/0+11/-/120/-25/- (same)
1~9f invincible,untechable knock down,can juggle
U2/27038x450x3[270233]/0/-/0+8/33+7/43+41/-84/- (same)
1~10f invincible,untechable knock down,can juggle,first hit goes in to animation,[] refers to animation
Option Selects: My explanation of an option select will be the way Air explains it in his blog.An option select is like rock paper scissors but you can have rock and paper out at the same time.It is you doing something and then having another option to back that up under certain circumstances.As an example, say you sweep Abel down and safe jump with j.HK and OS a throw. If he just blocks or gets hit by the j.HK you follow it up as usual with a combo or blockstring,your throw will not come out.If he does a roll your j.HK will whiff and your throw will come out and grab Abel out of the roll.You can option select ANYTHING including Ultras,jumps, and dashes. Now that you should know what an option select is,here are some useful ones for Ryu.If you have any questions about how to perform them you can PM me or ask in the Q&A thread.
On the Ground:
-c.MK OS Fireball. Probably Ryu’s most used OS,if the c.MK whiffs nothing happens but if it hits the fireball will come out.You can do this on other normals such as c.MP as well though that is mostly used against Dhalsim.
-c.LP,c.LP OS Sweep. This is an OS used to catch people who backdash out of blockstrings.
-OS teching with c.MP. This allows you to tech throws and have c.MP come out if you are given time. This allows for a decent chance of counter hits and you can,with practice,use a hit to go into a c.MP,c.MP,c.HK combo for a hard knockdown.
Safe Jumps:
-OS HK Tatsu. Catches backdashes and backwards teleports.It also beats Bisons psycho crusher.
-OS MP SRK. Beats some wakeup reversal options,backdashes, and jumps.
-OS Block and Sweep. This is an extremely useful OS vs guile and other characters with 4+ frame reversals and no teleport.This OS will allow you to block their reversal if they do one,sweep them if they backdash,and gives free pressure if they block your jump in attack.
