Street Fighter 6 Official Balance Patch Preview Breakdown! 

Ok I know we are talking a lot about the SF6 patch lol, but this is the news and Capcom loves drip feeding it so until we get the full patch notes I guess this is how its gonna be! Capcom put out an official preview of the patch, showcasing 1-2 changes for every character, so lets go into detail and break down every single change shown in this patch preview trailer! Give the vid a watch, like for those handy timestamps that let you skip to the character you wanna see, and let me know what you think!

You're the first person I thought of when they released this trailer, would prefer full notes rather than the drip feed but it's better than leaving us in the dark

God the patch is like the 22nd, yet at this rate i feel like im gonna make like 4 more vids before we get the actual patch notes lol. The teases are nice, i get the marketing behind it, but let us finally eat our supper and release the full patch notes!

when rooflemonger says “don’t worry”….i don’t worry.

Seeing that Guile wall bounce combo made me do a double take lol

Wake up reversals are a godsend for me. If they want to keep throw loops, its nice to have a good counter to them.

Happy to see the Kim and Ryu changes. The fact they couldn't do what was shown out the gate always baffled me

The rashid change is actually dope. It was annoying when level 1 wouldn’t connect even with a punish counter confirm. Now that it can cancel into level 3, run slide is worth doing

Big fan of Target Combos being useful for stuff now. It was starting to feel like target combos were just some ancient thing they kept in the game that has no real purpose.

I'm loving the slow reveal. I'm just so excited. I'm glad even Ken and Luke are getting buffs... I don't want anyone to be miserable on patch day, and I also am hopeful they haven't listened to a single word of discourse tbh. I think the game started great and I trust them to improve it on their own.

0:06 I'd like to see that upcoming Street Fighter 2 balance patch

My current favorite youtuber!

God that Kimberly combo was so sick

holy, I thought those target combos from juri and marisa were new moves. lol I've never seen them before

Rooflemonger must be pregnant because he never fails to deliver 😤

The Ed couch LP change is MASSIVE. It's far more impactful and practical than those expensive+situational combos shown earlier.

My takeaway from guile is not that he got another meter dump combo but that he gets another way to put you fullscreen away. Probably a boost to chip gaming the enemy drive gauge.

I know Ed's new but I'm praying there's actual changes in this patch, I don't wanna potentially wait a whole year for buffs

I play Juri and I forget the target combo exists as well... I have never used it so I don't really know how useful the super cancel its gonma be. Hope it gives the move some use.

Great video and looking forward to ur full patch breakdown video mate!!

As a Honda main (obligatory as a Honda main sentence intro) I am looking forward to his changes. Though I feel it will not make him a legitimate threat to the top 5, I don't think the nerfs are enough to reduce his status as "most winningest character in the game" while also adding a lot of depth in neutral where he is supposed to be strong. Remember, the perfect parry anti-Honda strat is still viable.

Thank you, as always, for your awesome breakdowns! As soon as the trailer hit, I knew that you'd have a video about it in no time. That's just what you've spoiled us into expecting, lol. 😄

I was really hoping they'd give Ed more than the CLP buff, but I guess he's too new for them to consider. I was hoping they'd have Kill Rush duck under fireballs like Dudley's did in 4, or give him an overhead, which he sorely needs if he's gonna fit the boxer mold. Just a bit disappointed.

Ngl I’m not optimistic, pretty sure the top tiers will still be top or perhaps pull ahead even more

Oy Roofle, a "returning player" guide for SF6 seasons 2 would be awesome, a quick recap for changes to each characters for folks that dropped the game few months after release. keep on grinding!

Can we take a moment to re-appreciate the gorgeous animations on display here?

Loved how the "He... llo... and... welcome" intro kinda synced with the Ryu combo in the beginning lmao. Love your videos man, thank you for always bringing 10/10 stuff

Feel like the Top tiers got better buffs than the low tiers.

For Dhalsim, it looks like his level 3 post patch freezes the screen for the combo ender; you can see very briefly that Honda doesn't move before he gets hit by the level 3, but Kimberly is moving away immediately after the super flash.

Well, I'm glad that wake up drive reversal's gonna be a thing, especially for those who lack a frame 1 reversal of their own. It's nice that Zangief can finally get something off his 2HP punish counter, but I do hope there's more to it than that.

You were burning the candle at both ends to get this one out so fast! Ty for the effort, we see it

I've played enough Dhalsim to know that his current range on Super 3 is absolute dog doo. That is def a range improvement

Let’s go roofmonger upload

Thanks for the useful info as always!

If I can special cancel the Ryu target combo, it will now become my favorite combo

Great video, thanks for this!

I appreciate this video my friend. Oh by the way, Blanka is listed twice in the description.

I believe you can also get a drive rush hellstab from Zangief's new ground bounce and that leads to ex borst dynamite

Was hoping Ed would get an overhead

Thank the lord. Manon can combo even a little bit.

Lily buff is useless in 90% of situations. They showed it on a character that lunges half screen on the blocked normal. How is this going to help me on character safe poking from midrange or basically every other character in the game with an unsafe lunge normal? Lily's st.short is one of the shortest reaching normals in the game, and even still with that combo, OD spire is probably going to be better in almost every situation aside from maybe if this works with counter hit and not punish, and you can confirm after they block an OD empowered spire into OD charge > juggle into OD empowered Spire > Level 1 or 2 Super? They just really want to push the charge mechanic with her, when that's the reason she's so hit or miss (more often miss) in winning out games/situations. Thawk always had a wakeup reversal option, it didn't make him OP, he was still average in the best situation. Sure, in ST Thawk had no whiff animation on command grab if you used negative edge, but he still struggled. I'll take not having a true reversal option, but extend the hitbox of light DP like they did for Thawk in SF4 that let him get more combo options that didn't require meter. Lily has to burn more meter than most characters just to get a confirm into an ender. That's not a confirm into a drive rush cancel, just to end the combo. If they nerfed her cr.fierce to add this, she's in a worse spot overall.

Love your videos!

WHAAAAT?! This was the Ryu change I’ve been wanting! 2:31

Ryu target combo barely gets used. Me: 🥲

You're the man roofle ❤🎉

Thanks @rooflemonger always appreciate these videos

I really hope gief got more than what we've seen so far

Excellent video as always!!!! I hope you are right about Gief bacause what we see in the trailer can be actually done in the current patch by any classic player. Just use heavy kick instead it lunch on punish counter and level 2 etc.... This is just for modern player because they don't have acces to geavy kick or wheel kick.

Honda Army appreciates your hard work 🫡

Thaaaankk yoouuu for thiis breakdooooowwwwn, aaand weeelcome!

Wow they finally gave Rashid lvl 3.

that marisa change feels weirdly inconsequential. her lvl2 is not really a combo super, and if you really wanted to go into lvl from F.hk, you could just cancel the first hit into heavy quadriga and combo into level 2 after that, but that would only be relevant when burned out in midscreen, because there's better combos you could do when you're in burnout in corner, or when you have meter in midscreen

Hey roofle, in the ED part, the other major thing they want to show in this part is that the punish counter back throw in the corner now leave the characters much more far away, preventing a throw loop situation after a back throw in the corner

Play dhalsim. That level 3 range does look unusually far. Would be great to get a buff to it!

I really hope they fix the hurtbox to Guiles Sonic Blade. Excellent video.

Thank you sir

You missed how dj’s reversal moves forward much less than before :)

Thank you.

Oh being able to DR after cammys target combo without the OD spike finish is amazing!

Still the best Channel for fg info, 💪

Notable Gief thing that wasn't mentioned about crouch heavy punch change. It allows you a "meterless" way into Level1 from drive impact and similar situations which prior you'd just have to SPD and/or burn a lot more meter.

I don’t remember using Cammy’s target combo once I learned better punishes off of Standing Fierce so that DR after the dive is most welcome. Regarding Ed… I see it this way: since Manon will make most people regret their -4 moves, Ed can use his jab to get out even if using his crouch version with maybe just enough pushback and making the timing far more strict.

I was waiting for this video after the universal mechanic, it looks great and I am glad that some characters has new target combos. Is super crazy but the outfit 3 is even more crazier lol

Drive Reversal being -6 on block also means it's safe vs an opponent in burnout

A trailer for a balance patch is crazy

more manon please

I still think Manon Lv3 should grant a medal, but glad to see she gets some buffs.

If you drive rush and do crouching medium kick you can infact do ex condor wind. So that does combo only if you do drive rush crouching medium kick

I can see some nice potential with Giefs DHP. It Looks like you can also DR into some Juggling stuff. But just the Fact we got another way to go into LVL 2 actually makes the move useful now.

Those Ken changes make me very happy. They just made my combo into level 3 even better

Really dropped the ball if they thought that was the "coolest" Gief change. Worried Japan continues to hate grapplers. Tons of people have had better ideas for Gief

As for lily, this is nice because Normally, her lights convert into spire or dp and both burn windstocks. Now you have a light combo you can do that generates windstocks. She had a problem when fighting back she would burn her stocks, which are often best used to go in for the coinflip, or to combo in the corner. Also... Down mk special cancels now ig? Not that its as useful as other mk into dr character since its stubby, but the option is there.

so is cammys hooligan divekick still gonna connect on heavy side switch?

This was a geeat eay to start the day 🎉 im so ready for akuma

My biggest question is regarding the Avatar in world tour, did they fixed the issue where most of your moves for said avatar's moveset is limited due to the modern controls?

I had no idea if those drive reversal animations are new or not because I've literally never done one or had an opponent do one to me lol

Cant wait for the official release of sf6 on May 22!

Outfit 3 from the 1st 4 dlc characters showcase trailer is here now!!

I like the changes and im optimistic about the patch, but if ken and luke dont get toned down and still get more buffs, it will genuinely disappoint me, cause im tired of seeing those 2 online and offline

We know you got us and we got you too Rooflemonger.

Great review 🎉

As a master rank chun, seeing her able to do fw/b.mp to DR into b.hp is nice. still sucks that she's lost the ability to super cancel from fw/b.mp, but hopefully she has more buffs that's waiting to be shown.

Could you be any more of a legend ❤

That OD Dragonlash side switching might be them saying he doesn’t get the switch meterless any more

So Akuma is so scary that news of his coming set the rest of the cast to practice their ass off to be able to do some new stuff.

“Talks about daddy capcom milking the marketing” “Proceeds to promote his own channel” 😎 Lets Go!! (Ill be watching)

Awwwww! I was hoping to see Chun's Serenity stance get some love.

0:06 “ _Street fighter 2_ “ 🗿

As a Ken player: the run DP from EX dragon lash was definitely a thing before

no changes for Akuma, curious

As appreciative as I am for the breakdown of this crumb we really don’t know jack until the patch notes drop. It boggles my mind even further when I see people already claiming this patch to be good/bad at all. Often It could be the slightest change to the right move to change a tier list on its head or make a character a lot more fun. Also the RDR will be big. There are no top tiers with limited wake up options, Actually I believe all have some some sort of invincible reversal also. I liken this to the add of v-shift in sfv which coincided with Sim becoming a terror. As a sim main I ain’t complaining. Im glad that capcom isn’t swaying so easily on the whims of many fickle fans. This game will be around for a long time so making massive sweeping changes too early especially to a solid product is foolhardy. Although they could pump up the pace on costume development and 2 decent patches a year isn’t asking for too much.

Wowwwwwww zangiefs crouching heavy punch makes a bounce. Can you combo into the crouching heavy at all?

I very much hope they fixed Marisa’s level 2 hitbox so it actually hits opponents that’s atraight either just jump at her or jump in her face like with geif’s level 1, because it whiffs so much and legitimately can lose you a match because it doesn’t hit

There's a Street Fighter 2 balance patch coming? Wow. Isn't it like several decades too late? :D

I hope Ed gets something really useful because, if every character get buffs and he doesn't, he is gonna sink to low tier status real quick.

You gonna do a small video on the outfit 3 trailer for dlc?

Aki❤

I need to see more of Manon new potential because I love her and I will use her until Sf 7 releases

You think the drive reversal addition will stop Mena?

13:49 xQc reaction to Ed's buff