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Hey, Memphis is paying Luke good money to take people there. The CPT pot bonus has to be funded some how 👀

After watching Broski in the CPT event last weekend I can see this more than ever tbh. I've never seen a character in this game look so utterly helpless in the corner and  he went against a couple Guiles in top 8 that honestly looked really rough.
 
When Aki gets the ball rolling and keeps scoring poison stacks she looks unstoppable, but it looks like from what I've seen it's not something she can reliably set up, especially with how consistent other characters are. 
 
When he got to the Luke cr.strong stuffing all her moves I felt that 

I mean, this move pretty much stuffs everything lol.

This video is so fucking good and Broski literally says all my thoughts. The only thing we differed on was that I say AKI loses to all shotos but he says she goes even with Ryu/Ken/Luke. He’s just like me fr fr 

After playing with AKI for over a month here’s my thoughts. I think AKI is a good character. I think her main issues are that she’s meter hungry and basically auto losses once she’s cornered. I think she losses to every projectile character with Ryu/Ken/Chun-Li probably being her worst match ups followed by Cammy. I think she’s goes even with characters like Lily (still annoying) and Marisa (relatively okay). I don’t think she has any 6-4 MU in her favor. She losses the fireball war and when you use her EX fireball she basically is throwing away meter for the chance of a potential mid screen shimmy or cross up and that cross up will only come after EX slide. She’s got a neat command grand that can open people up if they’re sleeping at the wheel but it’s effectiveness isn’t as fear inducing as say Marisa’s special that cancels into a command grad. 
 
Here’s what I think AKI needs to be slightly better. Forewarning I’m absolutely dog shit at fighting games and don’t understand theory crafting so everything I say will probably sound retarded. 
 
1. Expand the hitbox on her level 1 both upward and covering her back side. When dealing with people doing throw bait jumps in or cross ups I’d like to have an answer to it. Right now her level 1 is probably the worst one in the game. I’d also increase its damage. I was teetering on making it fireball invincible but if we need balance then I can take getting hit out of it. If all level 1’s don’t have projectile invincibility then disregard. 
 
2. Extend her hitbox on cr.mp. This is a fairly simple ask. We need a longer poke that can combo into something reliably. Her only longer non command normal poke is her stand fierce and it only links into itself. 
 
3. Make poison status affect force burn out if opponent has no health left. This is a devilish buff and I highly doubt Capcom would do it (pussies) but holy fuck would it be funny as shit lol
 
4. Increase recovery on her poison tendrils.
 
5. Increase recovery on her fireball either regular EX or both.
 
6. Fix medium poison tendril. I don’t know how but it’s a shitty anti air. 
>i-i-it’s not supposed to be a good anti air 
Fuck you!
 
Outside of that I really can’t think of anything substantial that she needs since she still has to have some weaknesses. 

Anyway, here’s the top ten list of most searched characters on Pornhub.
Chun-Li (Fortnite) Tifa (Final Fantasy) Dva (Overwatch) Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)  Lady Dimitrescu (Resident Evil) Sonic (Sonic the Hedgehog) Ada Wong (Resident Evil) Mario (Super Mario Bros.) Widomaker (Overwatch) Mercy (Overwatch)  

Nah you're right tbh. Something I still have to get used to myself tbh

Finally landed AKI’s corner loop coward crouch DR into sweep into level 3 in a match. Been grinding that stupid combo out for days to try and get the muscle memory down and now I can do it. 1 small step for me 🥰

Strive seems like a bit of a reboot for the series in some ways, so the more things change with already established characters, the more on brand that seems to me. But I'll confess, I haven't played the game myself.

I guess we haven't talked about this but I always find these really interesting and really weird. I wonder why AKI ranks higher than Rashid. I'm pretty sure on paper Rashid is a better character and he also has pull from being in the last game. AKI being as high as she is super interesting. I've noticed a pretty decent uptick in AKI mirror matches. You'd think after her release in September hype would have died down. Maybe Capcom landed on a good newcomer design? DJ jumping in rankings makes sense to me. My guess is that people who play DJ were probably already good at the game so their placement matches probably landed them in Diamond 3-5. So not much work to get to Master. Lily being so low is sad but it makes sense. Game plan is the most plain white bread of the cast and she's just okay. JP dropping in Master makes me wonder if people just labbed the MU or got used to the pace. I used to hate JP during the launch month and now it's like whatever to me. Guile being as low as he is when he usually ranked higher up in SFV is also interesting. For some reason people haven't gravitated over to him in this iteration as much. 

Don't worry SFVbros I'm sure we'll get a SFV Rollback edition announcement at the Game Awards 🙂

You know, this is one place where SF6 and Guilty Gear fumbled, the unique character intros:
 
 

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/12/13/ps-blog-game-of-the-year-awards-2023-voting-is-now-open/
 
SF6 + Capcom Nominated in 10 Categories
Best New Character (Jamie, Kimberly, Manon) Best Graphical Showcase Best Audio Design Soundtrack of the Year Best Accessibility Features Best Use of Dualsense Best Multiplayer Experience PS4 Game of the Year PS5 Game of the Year Studio of the Year

This shit crazy. Between T8/MK1/SF6 and GBFV:R fighting games are so jam packed with content it’s unreal. 

Damn, where is bro looking 😭😭😭
 

No because honestly I didn’t really care. It’s probably gonna take allot of salt for me to flame someone in 6. I feel like V beat allot of the gamer rage out of me. Probably for the better because when I get mad in fighting games I turn into a racist 4chan user. 

hahah SFV in my top games. Glad to see Lies of P made it on there. Fantastic game. Don’t make fun of me because I watch Max Dood. He’s my Chinder Dagger and I won’t hear no slander. 

The perfect scenario for me if all the B and below characters got the Kolin in season 3 treatment and are buffed to A tier. I really don't want the bottom bros being bottoms for the entirety of SFV. We don't want Vega's we want Kolin's imo

Kolins season 3 buffs was legendary. I’ll never not give Capcom props for giving her a gun. But I hate how they realized what they created and knee capped her every year after. Fucking sucks. If anyone wants to body me I’m online. Don’t think I’ve played anyone here except Hawk. I’m starting to think no one actually plays this shit…

>corner gief 
>he does level 2 
>I block it because it’s not fast enough to catch jabs 
>I’m about to punish the end of the level 2
>your opponent disconnected
 
LMAO!!!!!

Thanks mate.
🤘

@HecatomHappy Birthday man, I didn't realize our birthdays were so close together.
 
 

The perfect scenario for me if all the B and below characters got the Kolin in season 3 treatment and are buffed to A tier. I really don't want the bottom bros being bottoms for the entirety of SFV. We don't want Vega's we want Kolin's imo

Don't worry SFVbros I'm sure we'll get a SFV Rollback edition announcement at the Game Awards 🙂

Who's Lily? Is she a new DLC character 👀