Yeah, it’s hard, but should difficulty really be taken into account for balance specifically for this issue? I’m not sure I’d agree with that.
Retarded.
Yea it should be because high risk should go with high rewards or else there is no reason to do anything more than just a simple combo. The combo loop was the one of the hardest combos in the game to the point where it is even common to see pro players muff it every once in a while. The move is well balanced.
Most characters you can’t even use it on and some you can only do it two or three times. The only character who it becomes effective against Sagat.
Stupid. We don’t need a storm MvC type ultra here. Just make akuma do something badass. Not tazmanian devil’ish type shit. Sagat still has badass moves, but we don’t see him twirling around like Fuerte doing TK’s as an ultra do we…
please change his super, because its pointless having the super being the slower version of the ultra (and less powerful), i’d like him to be able to take a bit more damage, other than that i think he’s great!
oh shit, you guys are calling it the tazmanian devil already!
i was going to call it the road runner!
I agree that really effective things should be hard to do that is just good game design, but I don’t feel it’s right to justify something that is over powered by showing that it is hard to perform. As it stands that combo builds massive meter, does massive damage, pushes your opponent in the corner limiting their options, and ends in an untechable knock down where the victim is then subjected to some of the most disgusting mix ups in the game. Now it may be one of the hardest combos in the game to perform, but it’s very practical and doable, so iit’s just a little too good, imo.
Considering this combo does about 400 damage for 3 to 4 loops, I am no where close to calling it overpowered. Considering other characters have easily comboable Ultras for at least 600 damage.
However removing the combo loop also has implications on his other combos or moves. Because the means they either decreased the frame advantage off of standing LP or increased the start up of his standing HK. Both of which change a lot more than just the loop.
I think Akuma keeping his loop is completely fair. It only works on big characters aka. high health characters. I think it’s perfectly balanced for a low health character to have an extra tool that only works on high health characters or Seth.
It hoestly doesn’t even do much more damage than a regular BnB. It’s just really good for meter, stun and pushing to the corner.
My guess is that they added 1 frame to s.HK startup.
I’m so sorry for you guys, using the only shoto with an ultra like that. So so sorry. :shake:
the full appreciation of his new ultra will not come until the pc street fighters make sound mods of akuma saying “meep meep” or blathering like taz.
All kidding aside, the akumacopter has got to go. I have no real serious beef with the function of the move yet, as this is a WIP build and, thus, damage, comboability, etc taken from the vids is big-time grain-o-salt material. They however MUST change the way he transitions into the sky for this thing. That silly shit I would expect from Blanka or fucking Dan, not Akuma. What next, have Mel Blanc do his English voice? Have Chuck Jones take over his art direction? License the TV rights to fucking Warner Brothers? so-sh-sho-sh-shi-sh-so-soush-shathats-all-folks!
I thought Gief’s ultra would take the taco for most over-the-top retarded. Wrong was I.
Seriously. E.P.I.C.F.A.I.L.
I pray that its a WIP version of the animation with that silly shit as a placeholder.
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Already ahead of you.
Akumas face after the hit… Goddamn it makes me laugh my ass off every time!
You know it’s bad when you laugh at the most serious character in the game…
I’d like to request that we refer to his new ultra as “Divine Cowardice: Ultimate Cowardcopter Ascension”
omfg, it is as i imagined and more.
i feel complete.
lmfao. somebody’s gotta make one with the taz sound effect from that taz saturday morning cartoon 
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ROFLCOPTER mate just sent me the clip of Akuma’s ultra, what is Ono and his team on!?! Seriously WTF was that? It looks absolutely stupid! They’ve gone too overboard with this game, it looks like freaking saturday morning cartoon now. I hope this is a joke…
Ever since Alpha 3 I’ve been hoping for a demon sumersault super/ultra instead Akuma borrows Ken’s style and somehow manages to even be more over the top.
seriously, someone should make a petition for this shit to be changed. I mean, it’s probably gonna take capcom less than a week to redisign it from scratch or 1 or 2 days to at least make it less ridiculous. This is the worst ultra in the game and it doesn’t even look comboable. Why the fuck should anyone use it??