The Akuma Thread

[shinkutan]

You have the game?

[DevilKnight]

Nope. Seen it on stream.

[MrTIM]

Not sure what you guys are foaming about. Akuma looks worryingly gimped.

His jump looks slower; his moves still do ass damage; cr.MK retracts early; EX air fireball looks nerfed: fierce DP appears to be nerfed to 130 damage; both his supers are 300 damage; Demon Flip definately looks slower; the Demon Flip Dive Kick damage was nerfed to 50 and doesn’t seem to give any combos anymore. (will have to use it for an SGS tick instead)

None of Akuma’s moves in SF4 do ass damage. Please provide an exact time stamp and stream link confirming these SFxT damage values.

His combos look antsy; espcially off tag launchers. It’s hard to see where some decent combo ability is going to come from his new moveset. He has neither a wall bounce move nor something that looks mean off a wallbounce. Landing a super from combos looks like it’ll be situational unless it’s the team super (the damage is generic regardless). There’s no FADCs for high damage, and burning an EX for respectable damage isn’t worth a 3rd of your meter; especially compared to what other characters can do with an EX.

Akuma can do the same combos Ryu can and very likely has more ability to do better combos that involve only normals. He can still Tatsu sweep. He can now chain into stand roundhouse - if he can still do roundhouse to jab, perhaps a loop is still possible.

Rumour has it there are no untechable knockdowns in this game, though I can’t be sure; but it badly hurts Akuma if that’s the case. In SF4 he could use the tip of his sweep for footsie control, but that’s not going to be particularly useful anymore unless you can special cancel off it and Demon Flip works well, or something.

If Akuma is like Ryu, who can sweep to hadouken now, he will be able to cancel into a special and then dash cancel out of it. S-Kill confirmed on WNF that you can only roll off of hard knockdowns, you can’t quickstand.

At least his dash looks good?

Doesn’t look any different.

Compare that to Ryu in this game. Who can cross air tatsu into sweep now. EX SRK is a sick tool alongside EX Donkey Kick. Where is all the juice that’s supposed to justify the glass jaw?

If you’re only juggling with a sweep in this game, you’re playing it wrong. EX SRK for Ryu is nothing special, it just looks fancy. EX Donkey kick is combo filler. Tatsu remains Akuma’s juggle set up.

[MrTIM]

Twitch

At 1:49:30, we see that Akuma’s Super 1 is actually KKZ, shown by the eruption caused when it’s whiffed.

[OZleon]

I wonder if we’ll have the overhead palm back, seeing as how tekken characters have their mixups.

[MrTIM]

I think I’ve seen someone do demon flip palm, but I don’t remember the time stamp.

[Doopliss]

http://www.twitch.tv/armshouse/b/308746300

At 1:49:30, we see that Akuma’s Super 1 is actually KKZ, shown by the eruption caused when it’s whiffed.

Isn’t Misogi and KKZ supposed to be the same move, where KKZ is the move’s effect on inanimate objects and Misogi is the effect on a living being, or something like that? That’s a wicked sick whiff animation btw, wonder if it has hitboxes.

[MrTIM]

EDIT: I stand corrected. At 1:13:20, we see the move is actually called Misogi. It looks like KKZ when it whiffs.

http://www.twitch.tv/armshouse/b/308644154

1:08:33, we see the input is D, D, D + KKK.
1:08:58, we see that it TRACKS.
1:09:10, we see SGS is the super version input, not ultra
1:09:25, Akuma’s super when tagged into with Cross Art, is Misogi
1:13:39~45, c.mp to c.mp, and c.mp to c.mk links are back

[Demerson]

Maximum Juri into Misogi as a team super would be the most godlike, dick-stiffening thing ever.

[MrTIM]

I plan to make a gif of it when the game drops.

[Doopliss]

At 1:13:20, we see the move is actually called Misogi.

1:08:33, we see the input is D, D, D + KKK.
1:09:10, we see SGS is the super version input, not ultra

Well, you could see those in that leaked movelist as well

[Wikum]

i have a feeling akuma is going to be the character that causes a lot of gem arguments.

[Snuggle_Walrus]

I hope ibuki akuma works well in this ><!

[MrTIM]

Well, you could see those in that leaked movelist as well

yeah, I was just taking notes based on what happened first.

[Norieaga]

I spruced up the first post! Hope you guys like it. I’m going to constantly update it with combos, videos, and tech as things are discovered.

[melflomil]

I spruced up the first post! Hope you guys like it. I’m going to constantly update it with combos, videos, and tech as things are discovered.

Put his two supers
Misogi :d::d::d::3k:
Raging Demon :lp::lp::f::lk::hp:
and change the photo this[details=Spoiler]

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[Norieaga]

Feel free to post stuff in the future, melflomil. You have the 2nd spot in the thread reserved.

[Swordz]

Judging by what i have seen, raging demon is very slow…

[OZleon]

It’ll probably be like his super version in sf4. A zero frame grab used up close.

[Final_Fight_x_Tekken]

I have to say, at first i HATED akuma, for no reason. then i decided to stop the hate and decide to learn him. and now i enjoy using him, cant wait for this game.