SF6 Ken Guide - How to play Ken in Street Fighter 6 (Tutorial) 

Ahh awesome to hear!!

Thx Raivazz! 💯

Yw!! I like Ken a lot, I’m gonna stick with him for a bit I think, maybe do a few more short videos on his tech😎

Your welcome, glad I can help. Amazing that you can play fighting games while being blind. There’s a player in my country, the Netherlands, who made waves playing blind at a super diamond level in street fighter V, Blind warrior Sven, played against him multiple times. Unreal to me that you can make it that far, wishing you all the best! Keep going 😎

Heyyy great to hear! Happy to help of you have any questions. Practising basic confirms daily is exactly what you need to improve. clk, clp, lk, uppercut or tatsu. clp, mp, hp, run, uppercut or dragonlash Those are the real “needs”. Thats enough to go to platinum if you can anti air a bit and dont take huge risks imo 😎

Glad you enjoyed it! Hope it has some replay value haha ! Thx for watching bro

Ah thx for the kind words and glad more people dive in a bit deeper with my videos🤩 i have this format for Ryu, Ken, Marisa, Kimberly and Rashid so far and they all play wildly different. Enjoy your games!

Heyyy thats great, happy to hear that! I have 8 character guides up rn and a ton of “sf6 tips” video’s! 😎

The pipe seems like a prime candidate to be his level 2 super, an install. That was so cool. The knife could be on him all the time to make his normals better, kinda like Lily. Maybe keep the ability to toss the knife in combos or as his main projectile and tone down on the tornados Yea Cody def seems to be a great fit. I’m still bummed the longer I play. Seeing Honda, Blanka, Manon..come on now, these characters are not cooler than Cody! 😅

@@iZonkGaming2021 Yeah I think very similar to you. 1 level SA could be the knife (during some time, like Cody´s side arm VT I from SFV), 2 level SA the pipe (similar to VT II dirty coach from SFV) and 3 level SA (criminal punisher). I love the Zonk and EXZonk procedure from SFV (holding buttons til 2 or 5 secs)but not sure If they can keep that on SF6 with the new DRIVE features. Really eager to see what they will do since, to my liking, they improve Cody every time they include him on a new Street Fitghter game

Wow thats big, congrats! Glad to help a little, well done 😎

Yup I haven’t mastered them either, but it’s good to remember that light jinrei into f-hk always works into m-shoryuken. No exceptions and its only like 90 dmg less, so using that is fine. Medium is also available but there is a timing element that just doesnt feel great Good to know we can still optimize

Happy to help! I did try to make the guides somewhat timeless, so that it can survive balance patches, glad to hear that its still relevant for you guys 😎

Thx man, great comment, makes me wanna make more 😎

You lost me at modern controls

​​@@thesoundofsikscontrollerbe5624 agree, its the equivalent to someone riding a bike with training wheels but arguing that it doesn't help them and that we should learn how to ride better, a part of fighting games before modern controls were implemented was that not everyone is perfect, modern controls will never know what a dropped combo or a misinput is because the computer does more than half the work for them, completely takes out the synchronization and trial and error that used to make up fighting games, I never knew equity would come to the fgc

​@@ereisfireboijesus it's not that deep this is elitist behaviour, let the new player play with their modern control it's not like they will suddenly be fundamentally sound. The beginning of learning fighting game is always the hardest part, no point in making it harder for them and if they turn out to love the game they will switch to classic anyway because of the limited moveset.

Im also on modern controls, because im having trouble rn on classic. Also gave up on sf5 too fast but now im having great time because of modern controls. In planning to buy sticks to play on classic. Any recommendations? TIA!

Heyyy welcome aboard my friend, glad to help!

Wow thx James, happy to help, welcome aboard 😎

Ahh great comment to start my day with, thank you!!

Happy to hear that! Knowing your main options and distances is more important than doing a cool jump in combo in training 😎

Your welcome and welcome aboard 👊

Yw!! Big praise 😎

Welcome Andrew and thx! Glad its found helpful 😎

Yw and thx!

Well done!!

Yw!!

Wow a ringing endorsement!! Thx so much, glad I could help. Theres some Ken ideas in the latest video too (flowchart video) 🙏

@@iZonkGaming2021 bro... I've rewatched this video maybe 20 times. I'm telling you... this guide is so good I have even taken notes on it. You have cracked the code when it comes to SF6 guides. I hope you continue making character guides (I'm personally hoping for Dee Jay)

@march19th64 thx man!! Well Deejay is unlikely because I have never played a charge character so thats gonna take forever (making this already takes about 10 hours, excluding the learn process) . I think Juri is next orrr a new character.

@march19th64 btw, did you watch the last video? It has some more advanced set play ideas for Ken (and rashid). Good to expand on this guide

@@iZonkGaming2021 yessir! that was a great addition to this guide. Not going for the heavy dp after dragon lash and instead jumping in always catches people off guard (the mixup options are insane from there)! Your guide style is so good that when I decide to pick up a secondary character, im just gonna come straight to your channel to see which guides you have uploaded lol

Thx, welcome! ✌️

Big praise, thank you!

Thx!!

Yw and thx for watching!

I was wondering why I was losing alot in the neutral. at least I know what to work on !

Thanks and welcome aboard!

Ahh thx man!!! 💯 Juri? Mm maybe! Maybe, I will. Honestly I’ve barely played the game, I made 4 full guides haha I’m gonna play some Ken this week and see how it goes, I’m not opposed to Juri, could be fun and I think shes VERY strong rn that cmk is broke

Thx and welcome!

Welcome aboard sir! 🙏

Thx!

Thank you! Glad you enjoy my guides 😎

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Wow thats great feedback thx! Getting more people excited about learning fighting games is what I hope to achieve so thats great 🙌

Thx!! I think he will be, in the story mode he was already referenced that hes still the mayor of metro city, the game plays mostly IN metro city and he’s a very popular character. I will 100% play him asap when he comes to sf6 🥹

Yw!

Nice man. I have good news for you then; the next video is gonna feature this exact combo with some surprising follow ups for you to try in your games 😎

Yw!!

Great, thats gonna help you a lot and hit a lot of people since its a low 😎 also it carries over to other characters, stringing 3 lights together is the main way of preventing your opponent to press buttons for 90% of the cast

@@iZonkGaming2021 Very useful tip again,many thanks!

Salute! 🫡

Ups and downs are part of it, get tired and you will start losing haha same on all levels. Good luck! If you need any help for specific stuff, let me know.

I think I will do Luke yes, but Juri is first most likely. Thx for the sub!

Thx! You mean the special moves with the inputs? If you have any questions you can comment with a time stamp and i’ll let you know what move I was doing, no problem 👋

@@iZonkGaming2021 was referring to all the combo strings. Many vids I watch have all these written on screen but they have nowhere near the great commentary as you. Adding the moves would make yours that much better though it's miles above already!

Sick!!!! Congrats, well done 🤩

Yup agree on the run combos. Atleast, the chp into run, you dont need it, you can do cmp and give up only like 50 dmg and be way more consistent. You do need the run into his fire uppercut, his fire dragon lash (best route to all supers) and less so his fire tatsu IMO. Maybe not absolute beginner but silver gold, you should try to use those because his dmg is already quite low

The clp is +5 on hit, the lk is 5f start up so its a link. It only works after clp, not after a lp (that is only +4 on hit). Sometimes my confirm into lk+dp gets blocked as welll, which makes me furious lol the input buffer in this game is bad, cant wait for that to be fixed You could also go for clk, clp, lp, dp. That has 1 more frame to connect (but a bit less range) or you focus on confirming into a special after clp. So clk, clp, light tatsu and then a medium dp, i also use that here and there

Its a small window in the timing. You have to delay the f-hk by just a little. I’d advise you to use QCF LK, f-hk. That has a huge window 😎

Thx! Chun is a charge character. Ive never invested time into learning that control system so I’m a bit hesitant to start, because it will take much more time and making these already is quite hard work. More likely I will go for Juri, Lily..some one like that after Ken 😎

Awesome!! Good luck 😎 you got this!

Good luck! Theres a mini mind game to be played with Dhalsim. If you throw fireballs, he can go under with his hp and punish you. It also punishes drive rush. But if he does his hp and you jump, he wont recover in time and you get a jump in. If he does the arching fireball, your jump will get AA’ed but you can drive rush under. His limbs go almost full screen but he can be whiff punished. Try mp buffered into his run from full screen or a drive rush. Good luck!

Yea after the run dragon lash, you can do shoryuken or any of his 3 supers (level 1 will switch sides, back to where you were but not a good knock down unfortunately)

Yup not a bad idea. Myself, I dont use the parry and drive impact button. I use mp+mk for parry and hp+hp for drive impact. I dont like using my macros for reaction based actions because i play on hitbox, its to far to tap super fast with a pinky. I might as well find a purpose for those buttons as well, maybe map PPP so i can uppercut better in a block string hmmm good point!

​@@iZonkGaming2021really wanna try a hitbox but struggling to find them in the UK!!

There is a shortcut in street fighter for canceling into dp. So; lp, lk, dp…you do lp, forward+lk, then qcf punch The ➡️ when you press lk counts as the ➡️ of the ➡️⬇️➡️ motion that gives shoryuken. That way, you complete the lotion much faster and you will get the combo down. Slight downside in sf6; if you have level 3 super, you might get that because the super inputs are a bit fucked 2. If you need to go from a crouching normal into dp, lets say crouching medium punch, you do ⬇️↘️ as you press mp…then down ⬇️↘️ again with the punch for shoryuken. Small tips the game doesnt teach you, try it out! Another one; if you dash forward and do a fireball motion (⬇️↘️➡️) you will get shoryuken. That often sucks, so after a dash you should do half circle to get the fireball ⬅️↙️⬇️↘️➡️ . Thats something Ed has to work with because he likes to meaty with fireball after a dash Maybe i should do a video on this

I def understand coming from FighterZ to this being a completely different universe 😂 everything feels so different it took me a while to adjust too

There is no ‘real’ follow up outside of OD fireball after mp+hp on block. Thats why its better to learn to confirm into it, from clp (clp, mp IS safe) and from a drive rush button on hit or a punish. If all fails, OD fireball is a good way to be safe if they mash buttons a lot. Good luck!

@@iZonkGaming2021 gotcha, time to practice confirms then. Something I've been dreading as a newer player in my 30's 😅 Thank you very much for the response!

You get the flames on his uppercut, tatsu and dragon lash when you do them from a run. You get the run from mp, hp target combo. So when you do: mp, hp, run (lk+mk) and then during the run, you input uppercut or tatsu or dragon lash, it gets flames and the move is powered up 😎

@@iZonkGaming2021 now im ready. Thanks 👊😁

Nice job Rasengan!! Big steps 😎

It is, cr lp is the way to go, 4f start up. You can combo into his mp, hp target combo, or frame trap with clp, clk, lp. I dont remember where i said st lk for meaties, its been almost a year since i made this guide but def cr lp is your best pressure tool, also sets up a tick throw situation if you convince the opponent to respect the frame trap 🙌

Thats his Level 3 super, its animated. Thats quarter circle forward, quarter circle forward + punch . You need 3 stocks of super bar (bottom of the screen). If you yourself are close to death (little life left, it turns yellow) he will even dunk them down and say the “sit down and shut up”. That last part is only when he’s close to death, its called his Critical Art (your super bar will say “CA” when you have it) Hope that helps

Its being requested a lot, I am leaning to a “yes” 😅

@@iZonkGaming2021 Let's gooo we neeed i realy advenced guide like frame traps meety etc ! i can't wait to see it ahah ^^

Umm.. not really..mm try holding down 🔽 then tapping lk, lp..and as you press the lp, you do 🔽↙️⬅️ lp.

Bro..they even buffed this stupid move since the last patch haha it’s Unreal, abuse it by all means hehe

​@@iZonkGaming2021heeeeeeell yeah bro! 😂

He is on the list, gonna play some Ken first (probably do 1 more advanced video on him, tech) and then Juri is the next guide most likely. Jamie is in the list!

As someone that's also learning the game, I've found this to be the best way. I've started with some simpler combos as I tend to freeze up in actual matches, but as I get more comfortable and experience throwing in more difficult.

Yes, that with experience of other street fighter games and fighting games in general. When you start, just pick a light and medium combo and try to confirm into those, skip the corner combos and flashy ones For ken, you need clk, clp, lk, uppercut (or light tatstu). You could also end sith fireball if youre a beginner, if it goes wrong it carries way less risk (less reward as well) For mediums, you need to be able to confirm into his mp+hp target combo. So clp, mp…confirm into hp, run, dragon lash (fdf kick), and then the uppercut as it bounces them off of the ground. You can also use this after a jump in. So jump mk, clp, mp, hp, run, fdf kick, fdf punch Practising those a lot is important, those are good habits, you can use other more expensive and extended combos later, they are all in some way linked to mp+hp

Practice really is the secret. You can up the intensity by setting the cpu to random guard, random punish and whatnot. Ive once read you learn a combo 3 times: once in practice, once against a moving cpu and once against a human. Apart from execution it helps to compartmentalise moves into their purpose. After a heavy punch Im mentally already alarmed looking for the red flashing counter. Practice adapting hits into safe block strings and vice versa if they mash between the strings. Practice buffering drive rush after key moves. There are other tips like set a gameplan wherein you only have to think about less than 3 combos. This point is a bit abstract but if you know where the middle of the stage is: your goal is to reach the corner. How do you reach the corner? Right, theres that corner carry combo you practiced. Now you need to know how to get into that combo off each hit. Maybe that combo requires you to hit a MP combo. You have to know how to get to that MP with any hit. Can you react after one mashed cLP? Can you drive rush after 2 mashed cLP? Opponent isnt in jab range? Well can you screen control with fireballs and cMK to box your opponent into a corner? etc. But most importantly dont get burnt out and overwhelmed. Set small goals and work on them one step at a time

Hahaha yea takes some time for me too each time i do this for a new character.

Yea it takes practise. Did you try clk, clp, qcb lk (light tatsu)? Maybe that feels easier. That can even combo to medium shoryuken for almost 2k damage.

@@iZonkGaming2021 Thank you bro, it's work better like that, i still dont handle the combo that i told you, if i do a LP instead of the lk it's a bit more easier but i do not know if it's worth it

Thx, you’re right!

Sure, my cfn is iZonkGaming , we can play a few

@@iZonkGaming2021 it says no such players found, do you have a user code I could try?

Mm maybe without the space? IzonkGaming ? I play on steam, my steam account is izonkpc, my steam code is 76561199195442463

@iZonkGaming2021 no that can't be it, the user code is only 10 digits. Could you try mine? It's 2372480494

OH nvm the first time you gave me your cfn you didn't include the space 😅

Yea you have to hold forward and input the motion to get it to go into uppercut. You could not do that and go for light tatsu, that circumvents that situation For me, i dislike how his lk into do becomes super for no apparent reason. If i do clk, clp, lk, shoryuken, i get super after the third hit a LOT but my inputs never show anything else but a dragon punch motion, easy inputs makes life harder sometimes haha

​@@iZonkGaming2021when should I be using the run stop during a combo? I only really use it at the end for a dp or tatsu, but i see people using it after medium punch and i don't understand how/why

I might, shes been requested a lot . Never tried her in sfv so i will have to start from scratch

Thats his run uppercut. You press 2 kicks (i use lk+mk). That’ll make Ken go into run. From this run you can do ➡️⬇️↘️➡️ punch for this running dragon punch. You can also go into ➡️⬇️↘️➡️ kick for his running dragonlash, which will side switch and gives a juggle. You can also do the run into ⬇️↙️⬅️ kick, that gives his running tatsu, which carries the opponent full screen. Dash twice and you have great pressure Just remember; do the run after his mp, hp target combo. It launches the opponent, setting up the run into your favorite follow up. Use the run tatsu for corner carry and oki, run dragonpunch for more damage and run dragonlash for side switching Try them all! Mp, hp…then press 2 kicks and then the motion you want

@@iZonkGaming2021 Wow that helps so much. I was wondering how people did this. Thanks!

@@Silentpartner2176 yw, time to practise 😎

I am! 🇳🇱 Ken came out well in sf6, much cooler than in SFV imo 😎 just start simple, sf6 is a very chaotic fast paced game. Just use hp, cmk and mk in neutral and see if you can learn to uppercut jump ins. If you cant at first, just use crouch heavy punch. Good start!

@@iZonkGaming2021 ah nice! I recognised your accent. Dutchy here as well xD. I am trying to start openings that way. Mostly people defend it though and I am still off on switching to grabs at the right timing. But nothing practice will not solve. I am currently on Modern since the controls remind me more of tekken and DOA which I used to play. But you need to manually input most stuff that is good anyway in some way. Might switch to Classic to have more control. Also finding some players that are willing to teach (well just 2 xD), that helps A LOT!

You hold down and press your medium punch button. ⬇️+medium punch

@@iZonkGaming2021 thank you. I was trying to figure it out last night I guess modern control don't have it

Haha well, one day Im beating CPT winners, next day i lose 100 mr in half an hour because I just cant stop drive rush a single time all flipping game 😂

Yes, thats why my advise is to go for mp+hp into light jinrei: qcf lk into f-hk. Into medium shoryuken. You can string those together and it will work without too much timing. The qcf mk into f-hk is much hardere to hit, same for the OD version, not easy to do at all. Heavy is easy as well (only goes into light shoryuken!) but thats only available on a wall splat basically

Thats the most important string in the game so time well spent ;) you can end with light tatsu as well and get a good knock down 👌 canceling a crouch button into dp can be hard so thats normal,go for tatsu first.

That only works on punish counter, what you CAN do is a hp into run, into fire uppercut, that works, dragon lash is too slow, i tried it. You can do it in a punish, that gives you 4 more frames Maybe you mean chp? it has a slightly better cancel window (2 frames better).

@@iZonkGaming2021i will have to boot up my game to see it again. I didn't have punish counter on and set my dummy to block after first hit. I did st. HP, KK, Shoryuken. I also did st. HP, KK, Tatsu. I can't remember if I cluld st.HP, KK, Dragonlash

Classic!

@@iZonkGaming2021 me too lol I’m old man lol

Haha 41 and going strong here 🥳

@@iZonkGaming2021 Im 42 still same Peter Pan lol

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Well, if you drive rush from cmk, you can get chp..into the run into chinbuster. If you go for cmp into chinbuster, you do lose some damage..not much, thats true. However, This situation (cmk into dr) happens every round for Ken. So you leave a little on the table a LOT of times Also its a chance to show you mastered his stuff. Just like the jinrei links in the corner; they are also adding a bit more dmg but aren’t necessary . Its something to optimize after you are already nice with Ken

Get it, thanks!

Its only over for Joe, You can still be helped my friend ;) what cant you do? Lets see if I can help you out with some pointers

Juri is next 🤓