Hey all I have to do is backdash at Roundstart and Zone him back into 1998.
Also just IB it, his Normals are painfull slow. his fastest Button is 7f and most chars have a 5f 5A.
He essentialy has to stop attacking at a +1 advantage.
Not even Azrael has to do this, he also has nothing to frighten you with, unless you give him enough time to get things to do so.
Also his lows are absolutly ass, outside of Grand Viper and that one is punishable by everyone even with microdashs.
Irc the only good things he has is damage and actuall god hitboxes.
Just teach the player respect and that they can’t play willy nilly, there is a reason why he isn’t rated higher than Mid Tier, by anyone.
let’s be honest, most characters in the game would kill in order to have Akuma’s “clear weaknesses” if that means getting the huge amount of strong tools and bullshit he has with them.
As a reminder, here in Asia the internet infrastructure is not made of Legos so our matches tend to be smooth even with SFV bad netcode. Japan doesn’t notice because shit works fine here.
Akuma and ibuki get bullied by big buttons and big bodies. Gief, Birdie and Abigail do extremely well vs them. Ibuki also doesn’t like playing against characters with better buttons. Karin, boxer, even juri have buttons that mess up where she likes to play at. Akuma also gets shutdown by Sagat/Falke. And health/stun do matter. A dash punch, a sweep, a AA and akuma is in death territory if I got resources. Dying in 2 touches instead of 3 is a big damn difference.
