The Official RYU thread (because being generic never hurt anyone)

Sweet they have the CE color for his customization! Always picked that one in ST if I played N. Ryu.

Would have thought Daigo would go for the brown/black, but maybe its not available?

well Diago is still crushing people i guess

Shoryuken xx Shinkuu-Hadouken sounds pretty damn beastly to me. Just a curious not to people who have played with Ryu thus far, because I want know, but how does he fair at this point in time against the entire SF:IV cast?

that was some beautiful use of dash canceling/focus attack.

Are you saying that you won’t be able to cancel light attacks if they’re chained like in ST?

edited: nvm

i already stated that a good ryu game can beat anyone in SF4 so far. i got a pretty decent ryu and i just got off a 20+ win streak an hour ago.

where the hell the yokosuka players at???

Ryu is always good as long as system gimmicks don’t outweigh the importance of solid fundamentals. Even in games where he isn’t top tier, people still win tournaments with him.

tell me about it…

i cant think of one situation it came in handy…besides looking cute after the KO:lovin:

i make it priority to get it off at least once every match against hugo

well if for some wacky reason you use s.fierce as an anti air, you can follow it up.

and yeah from the daigo vid it I see it is cr.strong, cr.fierce.

I’m enjoying Ryu alot.

Good finds in this thread.

I recently saw ryus tatsumaki go through fireballs. It makes RH version at least useful on spammers in the arcade.

Apparently that is the case, yes.

beat me to it. I used that chain against hugo ALOT as an an anti-air every now and then.

Watching ryu land his ultra after a DP has me worried about this game though.

Explain?

Maybe he thinks ultras land a bit too easily?

From what I heard, it takes some timing, and/or a dash cancel, so it takes practice and a bit of meter. Not a bad tradeoff for a punish though, especially if it doesn’t take too much effort to link that Cr.mk > Srk > Shinkuu > Metsu.

Now that’s something to be scared of when Ryu’s got full meter

Looks to me like Ultras do less damage if you have more life then your opponent, as well as if your revenge meter isnt completly full.

Also not all of the ultras are going to be wasy to land. :confused:

Well true, and Ryu needs something to set him apart. I mean Ken’s gotten all the attention, and a wife, so I think Ryu deserves to be able to link up an ultra after SRK :rofl:

For the truth!!

Daigo Ryu was straight up beautiful.