Is Ed good in SF6? 

Even making either his crouch jab cancellable or making his crouch jab to stand jab much more consistent would be a very large usability buff.

Couldn't agree more, it's just so hard to deter "dumb" play and decisions with Ed, like you can but you have to work 10x as harder vs picking any other character, because all of those reasons mentioned like the jabs, the DR, the antiairs. Another issue I have with him is that he doesn't really have a good special he can cancel into that's technically "safe" besides OD Blitz which is costly. Everything else is either unsafe or DIable, and people just love pressing DI against Ed for some reason. In general, people just don't seem to respect Ed's neutral at all, the mid range is there, it's really good but otherwise it falls apart in real matches a lot of times, his defense is really bad too because of the jabs and the slow DP which makes interrupting things you know are coming very hard. The stand MK target combo doesn't even work right a lot the 2nd hit will whiff very often because of its range, and technically that leaves him punishable... for a confirm! It doesn't feel right working this hard for a character that lacks critical tools, when other players are getting by literally just doing drive rush jabs, low forward drive rush and throw loop over and over.

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Ed’s best tool for sure is psycho spark. It’s easy to catch jump in attempts because they think a projectile is gonna come out, it stops random forward dash and drive rush attempts because it has a hurtbox and you can use the projectile on reaction, you can’t drive impact it, and if you successfully anti air the jump ins you can start throwing in psycho flickers because they’re conditioned to stop jumping.

He has the most interesting neutral out of everyone in SF6

Charge heavy punch can be canceled into forward command dash to bait and counter DI

He needs a few buffs to correct the issues that make it hard for him to play fair, but he's the kind of character that in the hands of a specialist will do some wild stuff

“Three buffs away from being really good” 😂😂😂

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you can kill rush forward out of charge heavy punch so you can do stuff like charge hp to bait di then empty kill rush di or throw. this character does a lot of things, they don’t all immediately make sense but there’s some cool stuff you can do with them.

After putting some time with him, I think Ed is stronger than what people think. I agree that his defense is kinda weak but his offense and his neutral are very good. It makes a balanced character that is really interesting, tricky, with lot of potential.

Flickers good to charge if you get mk, 2mk, or hp blocked at or near max range, bc you can sway back on reaction to DI and punish. If they turn green, theyre eating it and if they jump theyre betting on yoj charging, and you can jusy kr cancel under them. Its super important to his neutral. And if only you knew about how balogne his level 2 ended up being. 5.6 - 6.2k damage, full carry, builds 70% of a super bar, and its OD positive one bar haha. You spend 2 but gain 3 during.

I hard disagree on Charge HP being useless in Neitral. You can cancel it into Kill Rush forward and counter DI. That’s where the mind games come into play. As the opponent, you have to ask yourself should I DI or should I wait to punish the Kill Rush

Am I crazy to think he feels like a funky Sagat ? With how he controls space . Instead of with projectiles, it’s with flicker normals

This is a classic example of "looks bad on paper" but in reality against a human opponent, Ed doesn't do THAT badly. Yes, there's an answer for everything he throws at you - but that doesn't mean you'll be ready. Strider is taking out the human element of what it means to play Street Fighter and calling some tools trash. A patient Ed will frustrate you and force you to do dumb shit for a free KO.

I was hoping they go ham on ed capcom did went safe way route on him but guess they saving it for akuma and season 2 still ed jabs that bad and slow dp got potential need some buffs to help him.

His scaling damage is crazy terrible compared to Luke dj and ken

I think playing ed, taking him to master then doing ranked, there is nothing stopping people from playing random. Even if u look out for random, it doesnt hurt that much

Have you tried using CrHK to challenge DR? I feel like it’s a nice meaty close-mid range button

give him overhead and better jabs

Ed has amazing potential if only he can get people to stop jumping in. Ofcourse his mid range is amazing with his st.mk acting as bait giving a false sense of range, then clipping anyone with his cr.hk. His throw range is terrible as they're nearly impossible to do after any normal unless you driverush in.

Its fine that Ed has obvious flaws and holes in his gameplan but where was this energy when Luke was being made? Right now Ed does not feel rewarding to play because i can just select Luke and win more while using way less brain power. Luke is just better both ways, if you want to play scrubby or if you want to play patient and use fundamentals. Yeah Ed has better range and can whiff punish from further away, but why would a character whiff from those ranges when they can just drive rush/ zone/ jump in from that range and my answer to all 3 is pretty bad. And if they get up close then Ed has no button to take his turn back. Also, for some reason his cross up sucks and doesn't work most of the time? Just bizarre.

i got a friend that tells me ed have to be at least top 3 cause he have all hes tools and im the only one that plays ed i tell him every god damn weakness i found about him and he stil dont believe im glad to know im not crazy

He seems like mini sim with extra options

No, hes trash, go play Ken or Luke while you wait for Akuma to drop... That way i can main him in peace, without all these mirror matches

W video. Sad that they overbalanced him instead of making him fun.

bro im not hating but that hello fresh ad is fucking massive its distracting from the actual gameplay.