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My take on the A.K.I. gameplay.
 
My guess is that poison itself is still going to do pretty minimal damage by itself because I think Capcom is still wary of damage over time being good, and I can imagine why because that added with some zoning can turn some matchups into literal hell. F.A.N.G struggled for damage, but with A.K.I. it seems they reworked poison so that, once applied, the next time you'll hit someone with a poison attack it will trigger an explosion that puts your opponent in a juggle state, and then there will be drive rush combos for those. So, putting poison on people will actually build toward something instead of being almost irrelevant added damage that's ultimately worth around a single stray jab.
 
In comparison to F.A.N.G she got a regular horizontal fireball with a hitbox (so neither the V-Skill 1 projectile with no hitbox nor the arced fireballs) and that puddle she makes on the ground (which is bigger and farther away compared to F.A.N.G's traps). It seems the puddle might serve the function of V-Skill 1 because at a certain point in the trailer JP seems to step close to the puddle and gets poisoned without any hit, so the puddle is likely an area that poisons you if you walk into it but doesn't have an hitbox, it exists to make people hesitate to walk forward or try to jump over into an anti-air.
 
How her stance works exactly is the biggest mystery. She got that slide move that's straight from F.A.N.G, and it's probably going to be closest thing to a reversal she's gonna have without spending super meter (does it lose to throws but is invincible to fireballs and strikes like F.A.N.G's or is it different?), but it's not clear if the multi-hitting/hit-grab jumping attack is a different special she does after recovering from the slide or something you can cancel from the slide. She has coward crouch, and coward crouch might go into the slithering stance that's been shown and memed about, but they never show exactly coward crouch going into slither so it's not 100% clear. If it works the way I'm assuming that stance can go into either the two-hitting kicks that lead to a combo, the jump attack or the command grab/throw.
Having a command grab in your toolkit but not depending on it for your general gameplan is usually pretty good, that's why you see Marisa getting so many people with her command grab but proper grapplers suck.
 
Her range seems decent. The first they showed I think is her stMP which seems to have decent range and speed, maybe not Manon's stMP but around there. Much like F.A.N.G she might play like a semi-zoner who can suddenly get in your face and pressure you.
F.A.N.G's problems were that he was defensively weak in a very offensively-oriented game, his damage was on the lower end without good punishes, his Triggers and V-Skills were weak and his pressure was nice but not ironclad, especially once you know what's not real, so just play Bison instead. A.K.I. already looks better as far as usage of universal mechanics go because she has a slow, scary fireball she can Drive Rush behind, and then either low, overhead or stance into command grab, so that alone might make her at least mid-tier even if everything else isn't super good.

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I'm in Reno celebrating that one year anniversary with my wife. Y'all play some great matches while I don't have access to the game and today's Manon's birthday, so I know the commentators will have something for the Manon mains! 

Ed was cool as shit in SFV especially when he got his snatch V-Trigger. I know people are frauds that didn't play V if they start memeing about how Slimenim now interesting just because he's in a game they like.

Yall gonna stop this Mom's spaghetti slander. 🙃

Everything about his design feels like it’s sponsored by your local school shooter. 

I love the fact that EndingWalker is cooking people with Ryu in SF6. It annoyed me how some people side eyed him for his success with Ed in SFV. The kid is an exceptional player. His rise reminded me of Idom's. Some young kid, giving people work with a character no one else is really having success with.

I have a feeling Ed is going to be a lot different in SF6. With Modern Controls being a default option, I think that's going to effect the input method of his moves. Honestly I hope they give him more boxing techniques.

He's just biding his time until Ed comes out and when he does.....all hell is about to break loose!!

I didn’t really care for him in 5 but as time has gone on I’m curious to see what he’s like in 6.  And I’m hoping he is more boxing focused, we ain’t got balrog or Dudley so it feels like we’re missing that

Jeah that a good top 8.  After Snake got sent to losers I thought we were for sure we'd be getting another JP supremacy moment. But Snake really dismantled  Reynald in grand finals, damn. 
 
And that's JP. The babbayaga of SF6. Pretty impressive

I struggled a little around Diamond5 I still haven’t learned any of the fancier sa2 combos but I can’t lie I’m proud of myself lol. 
 

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
 
 
I'm sorry Fangbros but Aki blows that character out of the water imo. As far as evil poison assassins are concerned. Everything about this character is deliciously deranged. 
 
She literally slithers on the ground like a snake and coils around your body... I feel like she's gonna be a tricky character to pilot because if it weren't for Marisa I'd honestly want to main a character like her

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
 
 
I'm sorry Fangbros but Aki blows that character out of the water imo. As far as evil poison assassins are concerned. Everything about this character is deliciously deranged. 
 
She literally slithers on the ground like a snake and coils around your body... I feel like she's gonna be a tricky character to pilot because if it weren't for Marisa I'd honestly want to main a character like her

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
 
 
I'm sorry Fangbros but Aki blows that character out of the water imo. As far as evil poison assassins are concerned. Everything about this character is deliciously deranged. 
 
She literally slithers on the ground like a snake and coils around your body... I feel like she's gonna be a tricky character to pilot because if it weren't for Marisa I'd honestly want to main a character like her

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
 
 
I'm sorry Fangbros but Aki blows that character out of the water imo. As far as evil poison assassins are concerned. Everything about this character is deliciously deranged. 
 
She literally slithers on the ground like a snake and coils around your body... I feel like she's gonna be a tricky character to pilot because if it weren't for Marisa I'd honestly want to main a character like her

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
 
 
I'm sorry Fangbros but Aki blows that character out of the water imo. As far as evil poison assassins are concerned. Everything about this character is deliciously deranged. 
 
She literally slithers on the ground like a snake and coils around your body... I feel like she's gonna be a tricky character to pilot because if it weren't for Marisa I'd honestly want to main a character like her

AKI looks like she can fuck off with all that bullshit.
 
I don't wanna hold any of that. 😭
 
Also, I accidentally went kinda viral on somebody else's tweet:
 
 
 

Random asf, but I'm friends with A.K.I.'s VA on Facebook.

I can fix her.
 
I noticed she doesn't have the "2" thing F.A.N.G. did. Her moves are cool.

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
 
 
I'm sorry Fangbros but Aki blows that character out of the water imo. As far as evil poison assassins are concerned. Everything about this character is deliciously deranged. 
 
She literally slithers on the ground like a snake and coils around your body... I feel like she's gonna be a tricky character to pilot because if it weren't for Marisa I'd honestly want to main a character like her

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaamn
 
 
I'm sorry Fangbros but Aki blows that character out of the water imo. As far as evil poison assassins are concerned. Everything about this character is deliciously deranged. 
 
She literally slithers on the ground like a snake and coils around your body... I feel like she's gonna be a tricky character to pilot because if it weren't for Marisa I'd honestly want to main a character like her