Playing with my friends yesterday… for some reason I’ve been using ryu lately… don’t ask why…
I was playing spiral, ryu, hulk (another spiral/hulk team as I tend…) vs Sent, storm, capcom…
Normally against teams like that ryu is restricted to some quick combos xx super if he can help it… spiral or similar assist helps him extend… yada yada… normally its something like lp, call spiral, lp, wave dash 1/2 sec lp, lp, fp, shinku hadooo… ect ect… the normal bs… since you can pretty much cancel to shinku anytime… it is a great assist punisher… but nothing top notch… I mostly use him to build meter and nail assists as they fly up off of hulks dash assist… its mean… anyways… we are up to speed…
buddy calls in drones but im floating over him and land on the other side… i know storm is blocking but i lace into sent… dash fwd… jab, jab,… bout to finish the above combo but i miff it and get… shin shoryuken… no i cried as typical of seeing this move accidently come out… but wait… as the screen freezes i see both his storm and his sent assist caught in spirals wiggly arms…
about 2 seconds later his storm who was at 1/2 life and his sent assist who was at nearly 3/4 or so… both die… just die strait up… amazing…
Ok… so it got me thinking… this move… normally just isnt worth 3 bars… its does do great dmg(80 before you even start to combo it with anything), and has invulnerable startup but is tricky to combo properly and just doesnt = the dmg of what you could do with 3 separate hypers… yada… old news… but when you hit an assist with it… due to the way they take dmg… i’ve discovered they better have 75% health or more (thats for people who have average or above average health… people with low stamina better hope they are at full life…) i spent the rest of the night using spiral to build meter and ryu to instantly ice any assist near me who whiffed…
Ok… so as mean as that was… it got me thinking… and then i switched in a couple different character mixes… and found that hypers like chunners ground legs or ken/akuma df+pp… which have fast and/or invulnerable start up… travel across the screen and are good at catching both assist and point might be fun to try… and yes… yes it is…lol
Basicly what i do now is… my normal combos… attacks… ect… but when i find myself doing them to an assist… i throw in shin shoryuken to watch em die… or if i catch both point and assist with a hyper… i DHC to it instead of shinku and the results have been staggering…
good things to chain off of for catching both point and assist…
hulk - gamma crush
ken/akuma - df+pp
chun - ground legs (df+kk)
bbhood - both grab hypers, cruel hunting if close enough
rogue - df+pp
wolvie(s) - weaponX
sakura - df+pp
capcom - corridor (soon as it connects)
sent - df+pp, drones
tron - jump over while call her proj assit
a ton more… just examples… never thought i would like the attack… but now that i’ve got some practice and worked up some easy ways to land it on assists… it might be my fav attack in the game… after 10 years of playing… damn… gj ryu