Fighting Game Gold: The Master/Boss Ryu (SFV) 

the thing i love about these is how they are worded as if the target audience is.. npc mains?

The weird thing i noticed, is that THE MASTER’s idle animation is significantly slower than Ryu’s idle animation.

17:53 “I don’t fear the man who’s practiced 10,000 kicks once, but the man who’s practiced one kick 10,000 times” -Bryuce Lee

The autocombo things are just done so that they don't have to make AI determine what inputs to make air combos or anything like that. They're not meant to be playable characters, so the programmers didn't bother making any customization possible. IIRC in SFIV, boss Seth's legs in the corner will always cancel into his stomps or DP without any further input.

damn didn't realize boss ryu had Sol Far Slash

He has busted damage, chip, canceling options, cross ups and throws from SF2 Parry, 2F Shin Shoryu and crazy meter build from SF3 Damaging V-reversal and a 2 bar super kinda like SFAlpha aaaand SFIV styled linking routes, all of that with Vs combo leniency

Just Wanna mention that the air tatsu’s are a reference to marvel 3 Ryu, where they function the exact same

21:00 but he already does that in sf3... where he's the closest on being a master- oooh, I get it now.

Hey Guilty Gear +R has EX versions of every character that's essentially Omega mode from USF4. Some of the changes are pretty minor, like making Sol and Ky play more like the other, but others are crazy different and essentially unused concepts for movesets, especially the characters who debuted in XX

so I guess Master Ryu has a spacie shine instead of a proper V trigger.

3:26 Melee Marth be like.

You should definitely take a look at the Unlimited characters in Blazblue Chronophantasma (they were sadly removed from the final game in the series, Central Fiction). They all have a bunch of crazy stuff

The one time Ryu's training has come through. This veraion should be canon with how much experience he has.

6:27 “PREDICTABO”

You get a star for Ryucopter, laughed for an hour with whole club

Having thought you were going to do Shadow Lady first, I am happy you did the Master instead. I thought he was interesting in his design because of the stuff 'under the hood'. Looked like Ryu with less moves and buffed up, yet the changes like his version of the V System made me pay closer attention. Other than frame data and exact hp and stun, you have confirmed some of the stuff people including myself have suspected. Hate blowing FM against him, though. A bunch of the stuff he has is no surprise considering Master Ryu comes off as all versions of Ryu in one. Mid air tatsus flying in a straight line is straight out of SF2 Hyper Fight. Throw inputs based off old skool SF games like SF2 and Alpha 1 and 2. Surprised it was actually untechable as opposed to CPU telepathy, though, making this specifically SF2 throws before Super Turbo. VS1 parry plus Shinshoryu plus default color obviously SF3. Sweep to Hadouken was a thing in SF2 and Alpha. Knockdown Hadou was an Alpha thing I think. Some stuff looks pointless like the air tatsus, but nice fan service otherwise. The real surprise is the st hk. I figured he got better frames and hit boxes on his normals, but that round house? My gosh it is ridiculous. Plus 8 on block AND hits crouching? Indeed, who needs CC's? Also, plus 10 after blocked Shinku explains why I've seen the CPU attack after the super. Admittedly, I figured there would be bosses with boring breakdowns, though sounds like you are saying it applies to most of them. At any rate, awesome breakdown.

One interesting quirk is that his Heavies don't have special animations when they hit block. Most notably on his Sweep, he won't follow through if he hits a blocking opponent, since he can't knock them over. Master Ryu is so Chad that he just keeps going

Wouldn't cr. LK being -1 on block basically guarantee a followup throw? It has the same 2 frame gap as the HK pressure, but there's no way in hell you're reacting to it off of a light normal

SF1 Ryu was the real boss.. 75 percent damage dp.. 50 percent fireball. Ruby slippers he could have stolen from Dorothy. It takes a true master to wear slippers to a street fight

I’d love to see a tournament of only boss characters

Oh, we doing boss-style characters now? Yes please, I’ve been waiting for this! I second everyone else saying you should look at Blazblue’s Unlimited characters, they seem pretty cool from what I’ve heard of them.

Heavy Tatsu turns you into the Ryu-copter -Big Yellow, 2022

Hey its me*, one of* the guys* who suggested the name "fighting game gold" (my school disabled commenting and turning notifs on :c) I recently got sfv:ce and I love it (except for having to get fight money to get the characters) and I fought the boss ryu. I got bodied so hard

*Ryu! Get your hand out of there!*

I know nothing about Street Fighter but ive been loving all these NPC videos.

I've been thinking about a fighting game Rogue-like and the idea of making a build around meter. Master Ryu kinda gives me that vibe - he gains meter super fast and has low cost supers.

So The Master's heavy kick is a cracked out Sol f.S? Oh. Oh no.

There are boss versions of the characters in Xrd Rev 2. They have bigger supers and get more meter, but I don't know if there is anything else different about them. I think they're pretty cool, but I don't know if you can force them to make them playable somehow.

Love this video! These NPC design quirks are so interesting Still waiting for that RBY big 3 breakdown

Amazing video as always! Didn't realize how diverse this character really was, that heavy kick is DISGUSTING lmao. I know you're probably swamped with people asking you about characters, but any chance for a glance at Mysterious Mod Peter in the far future? I heard you mention it and I think it'd be interesting to see how that character got turned into an actual threat (even if MM plays very different to vanilla.) Regardless, great video and I can't wait to see what you put out next!

I kinda wish normal ryu had some of this stuff, like shinsho, the two bar super, better meter build, knockdown hadokens up close (something Marco has in Garou who’s like the greatest shoto ever) that one block string you showed early on and extended throw range. Obviously not as busted though. I think it’d make him a lot more interesting considering every shoto has left him looking very boring. Especially considering even sf3 made him interesting in comparison to akuma Sean and ken.

3:37 Off the top of my head, I wonder if this is something put in place to force the AI to use the insane buffed Throw with pre-existing inputs from Normal Ryu's AI? Not much experience with this boss, could be totally wrong, but hey, neat idea anyway uwu Good stuff as usual!

Maybe try your hand at boss Nagorouki. He seems absolutely broken and I would love to see him in the hands of a person rather than the AI

Not big yellow dropping a video when im trying to fix my sleep schedule😭

Have you ever considered making a vid on Killer Instinct? The character design is some of the best in the biz and the mechanics are really cool

holy shit his throw is the street fighter 2 throw

I like how the input sounds are there with the footage. Nice detail 👌

Shadow Nash has a basically infinite Flash Kick combo.

That HK is hilarious. Made me chuckle out loud

Speaking of the boss characters can you cover the absurdity of the Shadow Lady?

6:05 Legit Lol'd. You have a knack for these comedic moments.

Master Ryu's air Tatsu reminds me a bit of Hyper Fighting Ryu's air Tatsus, which traveled horizontally like their grounded versions instead of in an arc, like in later games. It doesn't work exactly the same here, but it does kinda look like a mid-point between the HF air tatsus and the modern ones.

That beginning music is giving me so much newgrounds nostalgia! There was a game in the FFsonic series that used this music!

can't believe they just gave him GGST Sol 5s

Shadow Lady is actually pretty cool tho. She has all her specials from MvC (though Final Mission is her only super instead of having all three), and unlike Shadow she actually has a proper launcher (two if you count V-Skill) that can lead into a double jump combo. It's a shame the mod was broken by an update and now the skin and custom move graphics won't load.

Hey Big Yellow, can you do more videos on boss characters? Master Hand from SSBM is playable via a glitch, you could make a video about it. (him?)

This reminds me of how OG World Warrior characters were in HSF2

I think my dream fighting game videos is a nice, big video going through fighting game rosters and breaking characters down like this. I'd honestly love to know why characters in games like MvC2 are either good, bad or somewhere in the middle. It's a fascinating style of content, so big ups to Big Yellow for his top shelf content!

"Fat as fuck frame 1 throw" lmfao

Who on gods green earth gave SF2 Ryu two parries

17:42 Sol Badguy called, he asked his far slash back

The Master and Shin Akuma are the two bosses I really loved fighting.

I was waiting for this video since seeing a comment and finding this channel from the other npc videos

1. Do more SF5 n other FG bosses, theyre so crazy 2. They gave boss ryu a frame 1 light SPD and now the world is ending

Oh hey, I understand that Newborn Baby title now.

Honestly I love the none playable character vid you do and I think it would be cool to talk about the none playable characters of mvci I think there as intriguing as the sfv none playable characters

s.HK not being a crush counter is actually a positive because it scales your combo less and you can still do it twice lmao

I'd love to see you cover Shadow Lady like this

Mastering the Art of the warrior gives me many new abilities... Though unfortunately it hasn't given me that strange pale skin tone yet.

Lore accurate Ryu

They should of released all the boss characters as apart of the final update. Not for online play ofc but it would be fun as hell.

Ohh boss videos I'd like to see one on Shadow Lady.

that Shinkou Hadouken kinda reminds me of H-Ryougi's EX Hidden Knife in Melty Blood, costs 1/3 of your meter for a long ranged, quick projectile that deals a lot of blockstun, so a most of time, you use it just for the + frames

That ryu super combo went hard ngl

You said that the boss characters only really have 1 or 2 interesting tools in their kit, so maybe you could do a video that's just a quick rundown of those interesting things across the boss characters

Imagine that throw but with the grab range of Melee Marth.

Does Ryu heavy kick do the extra +2 hitstun to as-r-ex? If so, I smell another infinite...

In lore, that’s probably sf3 ryu. Because in sf3 ryu is at a point where he is no longer a hero as he has become a master. He is probably not gonna improve as much anymore, he is also no longer the protagonist (that’s Alex now). But yeah that’s cool (though sorry for not clarifying earlier but that’s more a theory than anything)

theres gotta be a challenge where daigo plays master ryu and some top players try to beat him in a single match.

I love the fact that Dmc's moves litteral are moves from street fighter

would be cool if you could unlock by beating him and holding start while selecting Ryu.. oh wait PS4 doesn't have start anymore :P

"A stronger version of Ryu wouldn't do fancy 99 hits combos, he'd just hit you 5 times and you'd die" Ah yes, Smash 4 Ryu Come to think of it, Sm4sh Ryu *does* have shin shoryuken as his final smash 🧐 it's master Ryu confirmed

Love your videos dude! It’s so much fun seeing little things about the games I love I wouldn’t know. A weird question tho? Why do you turn off input history with them? Like in 7:50 you say only the weak(light?) input works so wouldn’t it be cooler to see it? Again not saying it’s bad I loved watching this when in training mode!

Shin Shoryu makes me cry

16:18 “blast off!”

If you're willing to dive into boss versions of characters give the Gold versions of characters in GGXXac a look, or the more well known Unlimited characters in blazblue

You should really make a video about Boss Gill, he’s not the most unique thing in the world, 90% of the character is just having both V triggers activated, but because of his retribution mechanic he gets so incredibly interesting combos and Infinites I bet

imagine a boss only tournament, it would be chaos

Yeah, that throw is just super meaty.

I would have liked to have seen a chip sequence from full meter. blockstring > super hado > blockstring super hado > maybe third rep? > blockstring

3:45 the power of OS throws my guy. thats what its for

These npc videos are so interesting I didn’t even know master ryu was in the game

I played some CPU matches as The Master and unless it's something special about the CPU his throw IS breakable.

I've been waiting for these characters.

I think this was the testing ground for SF6 Ryu.

I would love to see EX characters from GGACPR and Unlimited Characters from Blazblue Chronophantasma. Those games have so much potential for broken shit.

Yeah i am interested in cases like this of boss version of playable characthers that aren't usually the boss

I wish they included just some of Boss Ryu's good kit in playable Ryu. Not so he's this busted but at least so he's viable, make him a THREAT. Sheesh. It's like Capcom was teasing us with an actually dangerous Ryu build.

If we’re going to talk about EX/Unlimited characters what about EX Vice from the original Capcom VS SNK? That’s an upgrade of a character.

EX characters in GGXXAC+R are really cool BUT ALSO P4AU IS COMING AND YOU COULD TALK ABOUT THE BOSS CHARACTERS!!

This channel is dope

Something you missed; the master can jump cancel crouching light kick just like SF2

Since you mentioned Misterious Mod, do you think it would be possible for you to make a video about it? The only things I see about it are combo videos.

Ive always hated that modern fighting games prevent you from playing as boss characters. But now there is a mod that will let me abuse...I mean play them! Great video. I knew the Master was degenerate but not this degenerate. Makes Shin Gouken and his endless fireball pressure look tame by comparison. Out of all of the boss characters, are they are equally cheap or is there one clean winner who dunks on the rest of them?

12:14 one of The reasons i couldnt get into V seriously. No Shoto Cancels. I love seeing it now!

When i see characters like this, it always makes me think of Alpha 152 from Dead or Alive 4. Fighting games have a lot of stupidly good boys characters, but holyyyyy shit Alpha was busted beyond belief

Its so Ryu, he's still a lovable homeless guy, he just kills you harder

for characters like this, video should be "Fighting Game Golden Garbage" baybeeeee

hi, could you do an analysis on 3rd strike akuma? just because he's my favorite character and you have fun commentary

When I say who's the master, you say RYU