No problem. Don’t know why but I find that it is better to give a comprehensive answer, just to open up people’s options than to give them kind of simple answer because that can sometimes leave the user with a ‘tunnel vision’ view of the situation. I prefer to open things out in my responses to questions.
Although I will admit that OZ is more straight to point than I when answering questions so for straight forward answers which won’t require you to read a mini thesis, he is the man! :D.
That said, about your point in bold.
Juri isn’t really a bad point character in my eyes. She’s pretty well rounded in this game in my opinion just like Akuma making them pretty good tag partners.
In all honesty, you can run that team both ways in my opinion because both of those characters will do quite a bit of damage off of their respective set-ups.
Of course you also have the great pleasure as well to hear Akuma call out people’s names as well albeit for Juri, it isn’t the nicest: ‘KUSO!’
Gee Capcom, can’t you guys do the same for my own team :rolleyes:!?
Granted, there some obstacles to overcome such as both of them having low health limits and the fact that Juri is more of a ‘counter-poker’ in footsies more than anything which can suck pretty bad if you don’t have life lead and you’re being lamed out HARD by your opponent as they can just turtle up and anti-air accordingly if you try to approach with dive kick, jumps and what not.
In my opinion, I think Akuma’s best partners are the following:
Juri
Lili
The Mishimas (but really anyone really works with them)
Xiaoyu isn’t a bad option
He also kind of works well with the Shadaloo guys: M.Bison, Balrog & Vega.
Reasons why would be kind of beyond the scope of the thread and they would need to be put in the ‘Partner Thread’ but meh I have no problem explaining why here. 
