They gave Ryu useless buffs… they should’ve just nerfed his st.lp, j.lk and damage. He was pretty honest otherwise.
Ryu has some of the stubbiest pokes in the game and it got worse… his fireballs weren’t even that great… my mates used to react and jump over his firebalks and now it got worse.
If you guys drop Ryu for Akuma I don’t blame ya’ll. They nerfed Ryu way too much and made Ryus bad MU even worse by buffing them.
Fuck me dead Capcom… nothing but a bunch of monkeys behind typewriters.
It’s worse in a way that they improved everyone anti fireballs tools even more, lots of projectile invincible stuff on frame 1.
Can’t even throw fireballs at Juri, or Laura anymore from mid range, and yesterday i got hit by a lariat during the recovery of my fireball in dash distance, lmao.
Ryu is still good
I’m sure he has hidden talents. Maybe knitting?
I’m Ryu user for life but I need help. Balrog seems harder to beat now on this Season. Any tips or new punishes?
LOLing at the one who disagreed on my post. Have you read these new feedbacks? Still disagree?
ryu mains crying they have to play a mid tier character now, bout to quit and become a Tekken 7 main
Im dying right now lmao
We will make it work. 
I played for about an hour last night and reshaped my strategies, slowed down and stuff. Worked way better.
I will stick with Ryu + secondary mains (Gief and Urien)as i ever do in every SF since SF2 lol
I’ve no problem with middle tier, personally i just don’t like SFV Ryu’s never wanted “role” in balancement process make them ever shy and unwilling to experiment… i will like see some flashy tricky stuff, like stHP special canc or charge hados outside VT.
Maybe even a 4th special, but that seem in dreams realm lol
The only new VTless “tool” for me is bHK after SPS, and tbh is nothing so crazy, SPS already had some options
Get at least special cancellable stHP will have spiced up his gameplay
And don’t like dmg nerfs (in this case hpSRK)
Said that i’ve absolutely no problem with him go down in the tiers ladder, i will just like have the most fun/creative and hardest hitting Ryu
Bring back THE kick!
I wanted that
for years, but seriously, now that i’ve seen it give me the punch
Ryu must be legit bottom 5 right now, only better than Nash, Fang, and Birdie probably, even Mika gets to keep a strong offense going if she puts your in the corner, switch to Akuma, if you mained Ryu you got most of his gameplan figured out, and you will get more free jump ins with much better AA, yay.
And then switch back after the inevitable Akuma nerf, and they buff Ryu again, he will not have a strong representation in CPT next year.
I would argue that that particular punch is Akuma’s v-skill p version.
Was range of mp nerfed? I missed several dps and i was sure that i was close enough.
I can live with a lot of the changes BUT WHY did capcom feel the need to nerf his stand lk. It was his most valuable button and they’ve made a bunch of his punishes, one of his shimmies, and some of his long reaching confirms non existent. Like, did somebody at capcom actually think ryus normals were good? I’m completely baffled by this change.
Safe jump set up of CC sweep no longer works
LOL coming here saying that people maining ryu are crying coz your main ain’t got any stupid nerfs at all. How bout you go play tekken 7 and juggle like a clown.
Only thing that strikes me as being better are -
The extra active frame on cr.mk is noticable, although it could be because I’m playing a lot of Akuma players and he has worse buttons than Ryu.
The Axe kick cancel is only half decent. It’s nice for a block string but a bit slow to be used and abused.
The st.lk nerf is just plain stupid.
Over all I think Ryu is fine, not top tier anymore but should be ok for Ryu players that want to stick with a simple character.
The game changes however are really making me think twice about continuing with the game. It feels sluggish,it feels … Not like street fighter. It’s hard to put my finger on it , but this might be the least enjoyable SF for me. It’s not nuanced enough, everything is designed around the lowest level player.
Risk reward is all in favour of dumb.
I will admit I think I overreacted at first. The more I played him the more I adjusted to his changes. The habit of using st. Jab as a anti air was getting me killed at first but I’m getting better at not relying on it so often though I still haven’t completely kicked the habit.
Anyways I thought he was bottom tier after feeling all the nerfs that first day. After more time I still think he got hit a little harder than he should have but he’s OK. I think he’ll settle somewhere in the middle in most tier list. Some match ups are going to be pretty tough from now on though.
And I still want special cancel st. HP as a full timer. None of this seasonal part time BS that we have right now. Probably not going to happen during S2 but hopefully Capcom comes around during S3. Having access to that at all times would have made me perfectly happy with S2 Ryu.