SF6 BnB Combo Tutorial and Character Guide - Ryu 

the game launches and everyone is a warlord ryu

Your commentary fills in the blanks I had, thanks great job I subbed.

Pretty inconsistent, but if you get the 2nd hit of air tatsu as an air-to-air, you can juggle after it in the corner.

Bafael's content for SFV was something that always made me jealous of SF players. While I never got that into SFV, I am very excited for SF6. Realizing that means I am going to get videos like this for a game I might play long term makes me so happy. Appreciate you.

This is DEFINITELY the best Ryu sf6 beginner combo guide. Starts small and breaks everything down. Sick stuff.

yo bafael, wanted to thank you for making all these guides. it’s so funny hearing that iconic voice again that i used to listen to when trying out third strike combos all those years ago. keep up the good work!!

glad to see you following the model of the omega and 3s guide vids in combining the best aspects of the old BNB and character guide videos. the voiceover makes the combos more compelling and easier to understand

Glad you put it out more polished, and having the (better this time) commentary. Reminds me of some of my criticism on that KOF vid I poked you about on 15's release, thinking about it now. Good stuff, keep it up.

like this one way more than the old combo guides bc baf is talking to us in his lovely voice

I've been watching your street fighter guides forever man, still the best out there! Thanks again for all you do!

Thank you for including some practical mid screen combos that don’t eat all 6 bars. All the early combo vids out now are mostly about how to get to burnout as fast as possible. I like swag too, but most of the time you just need some good 2 bar damage!

It's good to have Ryu with a wide toolkit again. Launch SFV was almost cruelly austere, locking existing abilities behind V.

I love how there is so many combo routes in this game and creativity for the player. Can't wait to see what the other characters can do, thanks Baf 👍

An interesting extension you can do from Denjin Hashogeki is Raw dRush into cr.Fierce>Ex Donkey>Heavy DP>lvl3, you have to delay the cr.Fierce a tiny bit tho If you block a DP and start your combo with a Punish Counter Roundhouse, Fierce into Hashogeki and then do this combo, it does a fuckton of damage, but even with a more common starter, it's still pretty beefy while looking stylish as all hell Extensions like that can pretty useful since Denjin Hashogeki is plus on block and might catch people by surprise, so it's a good opening to optimize

Not specifically a combo option, but if you land Light Tatsu, whiff a jab, then do f+MP, you can link out the f+MP if it hits.

Thanks so much for your content Bafael!

Excellent video, very well explained, keep them coming, very helpful, thanks thanks

ryu feels SO interesting and dynamic in 6, though that extends to all of the characters it seems

Much improved. Thanks for the update!

Thank you so much for this video. I learned so much!!! 🥰

Yes, I wanted to start small with like 2 hit combos so thanks for this

super keen to watch your sf6 stuff. god bless

Thx Baf you’re a legend x

Ah, I forgot, new SF means new breakdown videos like this. Another thing to look forward to~

a thing to keep in mind about any drive rush combo, assuming this hasn't changed since the beta, is that any mid-combo drive rush--including a neutral drive rush from parry--incurs an additional 15% scaling modifier that applies on top of normal combo scaling. this modifier can only apply one time, so any additional drive rushes don't scale your combo worse than any other kind of follow-up. there's a LOT of implications from this that add interesting wrinkles to optimal routing. one consequence of this, combined with low medium kicks additionally having double scaling as starters, is any combo from low fwd drive rush will do really weak damage. this, plus a number of other balance decisions, feels very targeted at how the SFV meta played out fur a lot of its lifespan. several characters in SFV were top tier fur YEARS on the back of a single confurmable low poke outpurrforming basically every other normal lower-tier characters had. in SF6, you can't confurm your low visually without a situation to react to, if you autopilot cancelling it to a special you can get blown up by drive impact, and if you drive rush to confurm it your combo does very low damage. some cammy players i've talked to have disagreed with me very loudly about this, but i think it is an extremely welcome change. this makes me wonder if the reason ryu seems to have such high damage on a lot of his moves and routes compared to some other chars is partly making up fur the fact that he lacks any kind of long, quick, cancellable poking normal that ISN'T his 2MK--a lot of combos you do with him are going to end up with really harsh scaling out of the gate. OTOH, the fact that the scaling only applies the one time means that a combo structure where you start with two REALLY big hits--fur example, ryu punish counter 5HK into 5HP--then drive rush, and repeat drive rushes until you are burned out, can do really serious damage. your biggest hits at the start are unaffected by the drive rush scaling, and the scaling penalty only applies once, so the additional drive rushes aren't making things any worse. it also means normals that connect from drive rush as a STARTER have really potent damage potential. it seems like there's some concern over whether level 1s will really be worth using in combos but i think part of that comes from how often people at this stage of the game are doing combos that scale REALLY badly due to an overreliance on 2MK drive rush as a starter. if you go and try something with ryu like a raw drive rush 5MK, 2MK, level 1, the supurr at the end does really appurreciably more damage than ending with tatsu. i am very interested to see how things shake out with this system. there are a lot of intricacies that make the idea of choosing an "optimal" combo EXTREMELY difficult. i will say that in the beta, i was using level 1 as a combo ender and utility option more than maybe any other player i saw, and 2MK drive rush less than most players i saw, and i was doing purrty well. i didn't land that many big CA combos but i was often ahead on resources since i was using drive rush cancel fur combos less often and was rarely sitting on 3 supurr stocks and therefore not building more of that resource. my hope fur this game is that a lot of the decisions surrounding resource end up in an area where you often want to be spending a medium amount of what you have to minimize the amount of time you spend not gaining meter.

I feel like it’s also worth noting that any combo into heavy or Denjin Hashogeki can lead into EX Donkey Kick.

You can land heavy Hashogeki after EX charged Hashogeki for some nice juggles after, for example light hashogeki to medium dp.

Cool that you added the things I suggested.

Your content is what I waited for! Your Sakura guide helped me winning some tournament matches!

Me at first: "9 minutes for bnbs??????" A moment later: "....oh wait, it's Bafael?" * Clicks immediately * 😄

Really wish the demo had the training mode to actually learn combos. Gotta find a work around until then

Thank you for this

you can go into character guides and just click the super one, then during the explanation press select and you can just practice nonstop with no timer or anything

In the EX donkey kick combos, you can do Drive Rush St. HP, MP Hashogeki, and juggle that into level 1.

Drive rush in to crouch LK also links into crouch MP. Crouch MP has better conversations then CR MK link ST LK. The range is worse but it is something to consider against a hesitant opponent because it means overhead or low can lead to an easier level 3 for very little meter use.

This is the kind of guides that i like to the point but more then just showing combos . Im subscribing

1:11 I wonder if the drive rush recovers quickly enough to also throw blocks into the mix to call out reversal DPs?

worth noting, stlk surprisingly has longer range than both stmp and crmp. obviously not strictly damage optimal but lets you confirm off a distant stmp, crmp, f.hp, CH jab

Not sure if it is optional but after ex hashogeki, with denjin charge, you can do dash crouch heavy punch xx light hashogeki link into light Super 1. Works everywhere. In the corner you can link into HP shoryuken. You might have covered it already in the video, but Combos are much more complicated in sf6 and it's hard to remember everything you covered. :)

If you launch the opponent (heavy/denjin charge hashogeki) and are in or near the corner, do drive rush heavy punch, then heavy donkey kick. You lose a slight bit of damage compared to heavy DP, but it gives you a safe jump which can be massive

Man thank you I needed to know the bread and butter for ryu I mean I know to do combos but I wanted know to the links and confirms that u can use and different situations

For the life of me, after all these years of playing sf, I still can’t combo from a crouching MP into a shoryuken for the life of me.

anybody got advice on canceling into tatsu from air MP. I havent been able to do it.

I wonder if hashougeki would be good for oki since it is plus on block

2:12 Idk if it’s optimal, but you can also drive rush a normal into shoryu into lvl 3, but you gotta use medium shoryu, i’m pretty sure hard shoryu always whiffs in that scenario

You can do Forward > Forward `+ Parry to skip the parry startup animation for drive rush.

So glad my longtime main is now OP af ;3

i keep connecting my hit but the combo counter keeps resetting i dont know what im doing wrong.

feels like the game dropped early this is nice to see

u are more goated than 100 watermelons because of this guide and more

I can’t believe Ryu finally has sauce

Purrr, my Sf6 Ryu combos❤👇🏾

Does anyone know how much throw protection this game has?

I know this is probably simple, vut any tips for fHP->cMP->DP? Most of the time keep getting fireball

Consistently great as ever, thanks a heap. Having trouble with the SA2 combos which are extended in the corner (5:05) while playing with the Guides section as a training mode - the dummy doesn't seem to roll in the same way. Not sure if it's just my timing.

Any reason to not simply link standing medium punch with standing medium punch instead of the crouching version? No damage difference as far as I can tell, but are there combos that require the crouching medium punch for extensions?

My fav rn is denjin charge. So fwd hp,mp,ex hashogeki,super geki,drive low mk, ex tatsu into shoryu

anyone made a list of these?

Not sure if people realize but 4HP -> drive rush -> 6MP is a combo... ;)

is there any reason to cancel OD donkey kick with charged Lvl 2 and link Lvl 1 aside from it looking really cool? Is the damage better than just doing SRK ➡️ Lvl 3, or is the higher damage option dependent on scaling and/or having Denjin Charge? (I think I read that Denjin Charge increases Lvl 2's damage)

Okay but how do you do the lighting release thing that ryu does ?

can we get an updated updated one

Just curious, any changes from this vid to release? About to put in the work to get really consistent and want to make sure its at least semi optimal lol

Is it better to do standing roundhouse crouching fierce or standing fierce short uppercut from a drive rush?

7:55 I don't understand how he's getting the cancel off after crouching mk there. I try it and hit cancel (mp + mk) dash and nothing happens. Is that not the right input?

Hey Baf, any plans to continue the Omega overviews? By the way they gave Dee Jay the knee shot juggles and QCF fireballs from Omega, lol

Suprised i didn't see you mention you can hit confirm CA from denjin charge hadoken.

How good of an anti-air would b+HP be ? The angle seems pretty nice for right on top of you, unless the activate frame and hitbox are bad ?

Tnx for video..will u do one for Luke?

Do you plan on making one of these for luke? I love your breakdowns

Is the follow up after his charged lv2 a distance thing? Because I absolutely can't get it to work unless they hit the corner before they finish rolling & I noticed they hit the corner here too.

4:28 which is mor optimal: light hashogeki to medium shoryu or medium hashogeki to light shoryu?

Taking us to school since SF4. Can we get a BNB combo guide for Marisa as well?

Did light tatsu to dp go away? I've been fiddling very briefly with the demo and I can't get it to hit. As a massive Street Fighter scrub, that little combo always made me feel like a cool kid :(

I’ve seen that you can drive rush from LK leading to a combo. Is that true?

as a new player, a luke guide would be preety kewl

Very good shit

I miss that guitar strumming intro from all the SFV bnb vids

What am I doing wrong? The first corner combo isn't working for me - I can't link 5MP into 2HP and then the LDP isn't coming out after the DK

Can I say that Drive Rush lets u do counter hit links?

Will you also do a luke video like this?

At 0:22, I can’t get my second Back HP to link with the first. Is this no longer doable?

How are u executing 3:13 i cant drive rush after hashogeki on the single player demo

how are you guys playing in like training mode? only person I can use during tutorials is Luke

That abrupt ending though

this is my first street fighter game do you have any tips in regard to timing? i feel like i’m messing up on easy stuff and the games eating my inputs?

Will you make this vind of video for other Characters too later on? Because I don't like to play Ryu, but the video is great. Fast explanation and then the clip. Nice Man:)

thanks m8

Do you have any plans to do a BnB guide for Luke?

I haven't played the series since sf4 and some of these combos look tight! Are the normals all cancelled or do they still have those 1-frame links?

Sorry, I'm new to SF and I'm wondering what's the benefit of doing sMP, crMP instead of just sMP, sMP for the basic combo?

In the beta rush c.hp hashogeki does more dmg. Dunno in the demo

How to you get this training mode where the health generates?

For Drive rush, After any MP or HP he can combo st hk to CRHP Its his most optimal from drive rush if he does not extend further and ends with HP shoryu CRHP-stmp-crmp is also a wonderful punish too if you do not have time to punish counter w jump in or sthk. Theres still a lot of things people dont know about Ryu us "beta" people know. He can also in corner combo HP shoryu off of punish counter HK Donkey and stlk on punish counter combos into ex donkey. Great in situations where you need to punish -5 moves as his stlk is 5 frames. Best example is Kens stmk

When you mentioned raw drive rush crouch medium kick as a pairing to DR overhead that was interesting. But did you know you can do raw drive rush crouch lk into stand mp crouch mp. I'm not sure what does more dmg, but the latter is certainly faster.

Off topic but do you plan on making those long baf style "how to play x" vids for sf6? Kinda miss em, iirc you never did all chars for 4 and 5. Also hope bad balance returns too someday

Nice guide. Are you planning to do one for Luke, too?

In the light normals section you said that there is no available cancel to donkey kick. But I am 100% sure you can cancel a "light donkey kick" from a "standing light kick" .

Unrelated but am I dumb or did they get rid of quick rise and make it automatic?