The FLAWS of Street Fighter 6 (FULL BREAKDOWN) 

Let me know what your thoughts are down below. Keep it civil please.

I definitely see some of your points on the ranking system, but I feel like 2% of the playerbase occupying the highest achievable rank is actually a pretty good spread. Despite you saying master rank is easy to achieve, the player distribution seems to say otherwise. The fact that it's further stratified by the MR system gives the most skilled players an even higher ladder to climb, while also giving more casual players a realistic goal to achieve in just getting to master rank. Definitely pros and cons depending on your philosphy in competitive game design, but from a player engagement perspective, SF6 seems to be incredibly successful in player retention. Correlation /= causation, but worth thinking about.

It’s funny that drive impact, the one that people were ultra skeptical about pre-launch, is the only drive mechanic that no one is complaining about being too weak or too strong

Most pro players dont want to badmouth sf because they are making money off it but deep down inside they secretly hate it

Thank you for saying this. This game has a lot of issues but the FGC is like a cult sometimes, no one csn really come out and complain because somehow we all just decided that SF6 was the greatest fighting game ever made. To deviate from this sentiment is to instantly get dismissed or labeled as a scrub. Hence no one says anything, we just suffer the BS in silence.

The input issues have been maddening since the game came out. I think it was an "Emperor has no clothes" situation where most people were too scared of being a called a scrub for not having good execution. It's funny that a lot of these issues seem to be created from trying to make specials easier, instead they made the game way harder than it needs to be. Is there anything more salt inducing than losing due to an eaten input or random special flying out?

My idea to fix raw drive rush is to lower the extra block stun to +2 or 0 and keep it +4 on hit to keep the combos. You should be rewarded for opening people up or punishing not for skipping neutral.

Finally someone talks about how abysmal the input reader is. There's nothing i hate more in this game than pressing a button and just STANDING THERE as my opponent gets another chance at life or i have to try to reopen then up and don't let me "magically drop" into a negative move. The other thing i hate is just getting the randomest thing from trying to play neutral including a random dp, a FHk, breakdance, a lvl 2 super, a lvl 3 super. Literally didn't even cross my mind to use the move but hey here's a few things we have to keep the game interesting.

I'm not certain we want to be nerfing parry with how the game is right now. Against much of the hyper offensive characters, perfect parry is one of the few things that allow weaker characters to get out of corner or dissuade certain offense options. It does somewhat create rich gets richer for characters like Cammy and Ken, but everyone being able to switch corner situations or have an answer to Marisa punches and Honda headbutts is important for balance between characters. The point about drive rush is completely valid though, Capcom must have been asleep at the wheel and the decision to wait a while year before patching is baffling. Inputs need to be able to be buffered during the freeze frame. Messing with input is unacceptable. Second, I would increase the inactionable time when drive rushing and remove the ability to special cancel normals used directly out of it. This would allow smart players to more reliably stop raw drive rush with a poke normal, or allow them to gamble at a fair risk and attempt to DI if they think the opponent is going to throw out a heavy preemptively.

Cammy's CA has zero recovery on block or whiff...the fighting aspect of this game is BAD really really BAD, how so many people (who know better) can defend it is beyond me.

I don't really have an opinion on Parry but 1 thing I wanna mention is: If you whiff parry, your drive gauge regeneration will be in cooldown for 4 seconds. This is a risk that most people don't realize.

They took one of the things most people complained about in SFV, + on block EX moves that get you in and are too fast to consistently deal with, and made it a universal mechanic with Drive Rush. Brought back throw loops as well. So now even at high levels of play everyone has to deal with characters forcing their way in constantly and taking the throw just resets into a true 50/50. All of that on top of you being punished way harder for blocking in this game compared to SFV. Losing Drive Gauge on block really allows stuff like Ken's jinrai to run amok for no good reason. All of the quality of life features of this game when it comes to training mode features and matchmaking are great. But playing SF6 feels like playing the version of SFV that haters had in their heads lol, it's so obscene.

Maximillion said this best, "Every game has bullshit." it does not matter how good a game is it will have something that you will hate but you will stay play despite the hate. I may not like how Max does things when playing games but I will respect this one fact he has said. Every game has something that is completely and utterly bullshit. I know someone is gonna say, "Oh MK 1 doesn't have that!" my response? "Cause nobody has played it for 6 months, watch it'll happen there's gonna be something that people will complain about one day." It's only a matter of time.

Great video! I’m currently stuck in D3 but I am in my learning phase I get tilted like everyone else but I know I still have a ton of room to improve and I want to and seeing this game at a higher level puts things into perspective and helps me wanna improve and this video was a great stepping stone for me

Thing is, people who care about being good at a fg don’t care about the rank and people caring about the rank get what they want out here, with the real struggle beginning with MR. You can consider the system flawed but I don’t think pros even care about it, even in SFV it’s not like pros were Warlord as a requirement, far from it

I think a good way to fix some of the drive rush bs would be to give us same frame data on block as regular hits and leave the plus frames on hit.

A very casual take from a very casual player: I hate the ranking system, everything below master being “casual ranked” where you get a billion points for winning and lose none when losing, the fact you get to master as long as you don’t lose all your matches, and not being able to de-rank from master.

For me, the game gets less enjoyable the better I get at it, which is the opposite of what I would normally expect. DR and parry both circumvent neutral in a way that feels bad. Even acknowledging that I got outplayed, it still feels bad when you lose a round because you dared try to take your turn back after blocking something that was -2.

They need to fix the inputs and expand the wakeup buffer before anything else. If my opponent DIs me on my wakeup and I press DI when I see it, my DI should trigger as soon as I wake up. I shouldn't have to mash it out.

I think taking aim at casuals is misguided, simply because we too have many of the same complaints. Capcom isn't doing this broken stuff for us casuals, we're unhappy too. #1 thing they need to work on is the input reader.

The issue is that drive rush is core to the game. Some moves would have to be reworked. Drive rush for some characters is hard as hell to react to even if your looking out for it and know its coming. Miss and you just gave them a free combo based on strict reaction. Your going to lose turns with drive rushes. Ranks are fine. As long as the system is providing good match ups the ranks don't matter. Just a way to see how your progressing. For the most part with the win bonus in effect your going to jump fast into platinum. That is what causes the discrepancy. It wants to move you into platinum. The average player is so far removed from high level players. High level players are more consistent and also can handle more player styles and matchups. Some people can cook in matches and then play like a gold tier player in other matches.

Reminder: They are many people who couldn't leave silver rank in SFV, who are in master rank currently..

As a medium level player I completely dislike the drive system It's very hard for me to react to drive impact, especially online I also dislike that it doesn't allow neutral play and instead makes it feel ignorant Drive rush overcomplicates the combos for no reason and just adds more inputs I have to learn Like I said I'm not that good, but I didn't have any problem with SFV and enjoyed it a lot, this game just feels like a massive wall that you have to climb

Yeah, I wanted to go hard in this game, but man, I don't like any of the drive mechanics after playing for an extended time. Throw loops either. The game is just not for me in its current state, but SF6 will be around for a very long time, so I don't need to rush. Hopefully, the changes they eventually make will make it more enjoyable for me. If not, there's a lot of other fgs to play. Nice video analysis and breakdown 👌

I dont feel hopeful that any of these aspects of the game will change fully by next season honestly. it took sfv awhile to fix itself so i imagine it going be awhile for 6 as well.

Another problem I don't see a lot of people talking about: it's nigh impossible to do a reversal super, if they do a drive action on your wake up (DR or DI), the game will straight out eat your input, and not only that, you'll stop blocking for daring to try to reversal. To fix DR, I'd say it should cost 3 bars to raw DR, just like when you cancel from a move, and cost 1 bar only when the combo counter is running, so it won't affect the combos we already have. Characters like Marisa only have to knock you down once and then you have to guess for your life, even midscreen. Guessed wrong? Now you're in the same scenario again. Tried to Drive reversal? She can block in time and punish you. There are literally no defensive mechanic in this game other than the hail mary tap parry, which is useless if you're in the corner. There's no skill involved anymore, it's just a guessing game in it's current state.

I don’t know if I’m the only person who feels this way but the better I get at this game the more homogeneous and same-y it feels. Like in some games I’ve reached high ranks in, it feels like at high levels you get to really express some creativity in how you play the game. But at high(ish) level play in sf6 it feels like there’s really only one thing to do. Get a poke. Drive cancel that poke. Do your drive cancel combo. Hit super at the end if you have the meter. Rinse wash repeat. Like I keep having this moment as I rank up where I realize over and over that oh, okay, I was trying to be creative but there’s only one thing that consistently works so if I wanna rank up I guess I have to do that. It’s so weird.

The more I see this game makes me wonder even more to even bother learning it at all.

I think you REALLY undersold the weakness of tap parry 1. Punish counter throw isn’t just 2k damage, it also depletes and entire drive bar AND is a heavy knockdown. So if they throw ur parry you took 2K, lost 1.5 drive, and have to eat whatever meaty they do after cuz you can’t backroll. 2. It can be cancelled into block but ONLY block for those 27 or so frames. This means no re-parry and more importantly NO DRIVE IMPACT. Tap parry is just begging for a wall splat or even stun if you were low on gauge. But even if you’re mid screen and out of throw range if the opponent picks up on you parry tapping after minus frames they can risk much greedier offense after blocking minus moves cuz you committed to 30+ frames of doing nothing.

My biggest problem with SF5 and SF6 has always been the forced strike/throw guesses and I was surprised you didn't bring it up. These forced guesses make it so that it doesn't matter if you're a beginner or Tokido, you are going to take a lot of damage against oki on wakeup. Furthermore, the fact that jumping out of a throw will get you dp'd because they recover way too quickly. I wonder how the game would change if they significantly increased the recovery on whiffed throw or increased the throw protection on wakeup or after blocking. How do you feel about strike/throw?

I feel bad for all the deejay and juri mains who genuinely like the character because everyone hates their characters 😂

As I've told friends I'd be perfectly fine if they removed DR. Capcom went into anime territory by adding it to SF. It feels like they wanted to turn SF into MvsC but changed course and left it in.

I've helped people who get to Masters with replay analysis, and you'd be surprised how many of them are just getting cratered while in that rank. 40% WR gets you to Master, and in Master you can't derank, only drop your MMR, which puts you in the unenviable position of losing over and over against a mixture of gimmicks and actual killers. There's more than a few I've worked with that got to Master by leaning heavily on drive rush and forcing scrambles that pans out in the aggregate to get you to Masters, but then falls off as soon as people can check your strategy effectively. I don't fault the system, Capcom wanted Master to be achievable by anyone who has a reasonable understanding of their character and the patience to get to that rank. It's not a pleasant experience once you're there, however.

It’s crazy because this man lost 3 matches and got diamond but when it’s me with Ken and I get 1 lost I get put into IRON!?!??!?!?!?!?

I was really excited when I saw the mr system introduced since I come from overwatch 1, but it’s as you say sonic. Looking past the rank system and playing tournaments is the only way I’m feeling any improvement right now. I’m around the 1750 range and it sucks to lose hours of progress even when I win the set. Worst part is losing a match and feeling like I didn’t learn anything. Wow the juri player was doing dr in neutral I tried my best to stop it , sometimes it worked but most times it didn’t. Granted this can happen in a tournament setting as well but at least then I’m not stressing over points and focused 100% on what my opponent is doing. Great video 👍

This is actually really good news. The general overall attempt is great. The game mechanics are good in what they are trying to create. So many layers for the players to strategize. This will definitely help to balance the gameplay in the future. This game is very new. They will probably wait a bit longer to make the best assessment in game patches. Thanks everyone for bringing the needed tweaks up. Capcom will listen if it’s clearly seen and understood.

The crazy part for me is that day 3 when the game came out and I did my placement matches with Manon after picking beginner because it asks you if I remember correctly what your rank was in SF5 and in SF5 I was high Bronze/low Silver so that's what I chose. I went through my placement matches and got placed in Gold 1. I was so thrown off by it I dropped the character. As I got better and got higher up through the ranks I noticed that most of the time even characters that I did poorly with in placements or I felt like I was doing poorly with I would get Plat 1, Plat 3, Plat 5, or D1. I haven't reached master yet and admittedly I don't want to get it just yet because there isn't anything necessarily to fight for other than saying I did it.

one positive about the command grab input storing for so long is that you can buffer a spd and get an easy walk forward command grab by doing a 874123[6] input and just delaying P

The ranking stuff is a bit misleading; plat 1 is highest because that's where win streak bonuses stop, so lots of people get into it that way and that is a bigger factor than placement. Diamond 5 is so low because at the border of any rank you oscillate up and down, but on the border of Diamond 5 and Master you can only oscillate up, not down, since master has permanent rank down protection..

As someone who would only consider myself an average skilled player the ranking system has left me mad confused. I'm currently in Diamond 3 and I don't think the level of play is consistent sometimes I get players who are knowledgeable in some way of the game and it leads to fun sets other times I just get people who have one strategy and freeze up once you show you can shut it down. This actually made me not want to play ranked and just ask for games in a discord I'm in so I get more consistent games.

Being able to demote is a basic feature that needs to be in ranking systems in my opinion. Any system that prevents demotion is just there to make people not feel bad, rather than proper representation of skill.

Nice video, first compilation had me weak lmao

Agree with you on all the problems you mentioned. This kind of play style isn't SF core on footsie. One low medium kick to drive rush that do 1/3 or 1/2 damage is crazy. They need to nerf the damage after drive rushing combo, make it just like perfect parry.

My biggest problem with the game is that the matchmaking region lock thing has NOT been fixed yet and people seem to gloss over it now. If you're in the middle east, and even if you're plat (most common rank) it takes sooo much time to find a match and when you do, it's the SAME 5-6 people (with a 100-140 ping). The game refuses to put me against europeans even though I get a much better connection there (70-80 ping, on the rare occasion where it chooses to let me play). And as much shit Strive gets for its lobbies, it NEVER had that problem. I bought SF6 mainly because it's the most popular FG, and so there's a (comparatively) endless amount of people to fight, right? Many times it felt like a complete scam.

As it is right now, I like the idea of having Punish Counter property on drive rush and reducing its potency on block. That way the risk and reward from using it makes more sense- you get in and get punished, you lose more drive gauge and health. Otherwise, you get in and can pressure

You made a great video with good research, thanks a lot :)

Remember in SFV when we complained about the lack of defensive options? And then we got vshift. Fast forward to this game and we're back to Offensive Fighter rather than Street Fighter. Same thing goes for throw loops. They went and nerfed all of them in SFV, fast forward again, they're all over SF6. We're basically playing vanilla SFV, except with a way more oppressive mechanic thrown in with drive rush. Inputs are the biggest issue with this game, followed by drive rush eating inputs, you should absolutely not be able to drive rush when a projectile is on screen. That shit is mad stupid. The ranking system is absolutely busted and is the main reason high level people are farming the same players over and over again. All these 40% win rate players are hitting master, which is gross, and then just stopping making it so the opponent pool is extremely small given there are a ton of inactive master ranked players. It hurts the high level players and the people they're beating up over and over again. The ranking system is an absolute joke imo. Why would they ever give an option to speed up the ranks? This makes placement matches absolutely useless. For reference, when I started, I won 7 of my placements and ended up in gold. The skill level thing seems pretty set in stone unless you wipe all 10 opponents you face. Again, placements are accomplishing nothing, so why are we doing them?

to be fair, he got dragon lash because there are two 1 (down+left) inputs between S. HP and LK

48:12 watched the whole thing, enjoyed it, and learned a lot. more of this! great work bro, thank you

As a casual. I love the game. Just got to Gold but I feel like learning about the fighters and their gimmicks is part of the enjoyment of the game. As a Ryu main, I love doing 60 per hit. The ONLY character I don't like is JP. But I love him because of his suffocating pressure. I play I feel like one I get an understanding of JP, I'll be able to beat him.

The input eating is one clear issue but all the other issues - which are also linked to drive rush - that the game ultimately falls flat on and hurts the competitive mindset all lies with two elements: 1. HITBOX. 2. COLLISION BOX. The majority of the hit and collision boxes in the game are not clear cut. The boxes either too big, too wide, extends far beyond the texture, positioned in a way that doesn't make sense, positioned in a way where it's unfair, and so on. The messy collision box are allowing certain character to benefit from the mess (e.g. Ken 20:19secs - Cammy ducked the rushing punch but she end up blocking it, which don't make sense because she is dunking a high attack, not a mid attack) and characters such as Ryu especially end up suffering a great deal from it (low jab zangief and med low jab Luke can hit Ryu's long low medium sweep, which is illogical and unfair). I have seen tons of cases where characters hitting others out of thin air, which is all to do to the very wide hitbox the extends beyond the character's texture. Capcom need to clean up and tighten the hitboxes so the Low, high and Medium game mechanic can be established. Cleaning that up would greatly resolve the Drive Rush situation as choice of counters or intialisations will be more carefully considered from a chess-play perspective as oppose from strictly reactive. Once Capcom solved this, other issues should be focused upon such as the rock paper scissors for move exchanges, establishing clear rules that EX wake up have a priority over a throw attack (that will defeat throw loops), fixing commands disappearing and wrong moves being executed, and so on. Heh. This is why Virtua Fighter 2 - 5 is one of the most balanced fighting games out there, because they got the hitbox mechanics more nailed on the neutral fight, and only go a little wild when it comes to combo rewards.

Ok, I thought about this, I'm a scrub but I think I actually have a simple approach to fix the drive rush problem. The main problem is not being able to punish it on reaction. That mainly stems from the fact that you can cancel it like 9 frames into a drive rush which is lower than the actual human ability to react. My proposed change is as follow : 1) make it impossible to cancel out of drive rush. 2) Make drive rush a minimum of 18 frames independent of distance travelled (like a dash) 3) trigger the attack pressed on proximity to opponent so that jabs counter-hit drive rushes. so the risk is : you open yourself up to a jab counter and you pay drive gauge. The reward is : On block you're +4 on top of your button and quick movement towards opponent. For the parry, just give 25 frames of recovery on tap parry and call it a day. Simple changes to make the game playable.

NB: Dropped inputs = roll-back net code. RB drops frames to resync lag, and the offshoot of that is, with lower millisecond connections, you don't _see_ or _feel_ the lag, while the resyncing is still taking place and the input drops occurring.

The rank system for SF6 is actually a big joke. In SF5 I had to grind and get good to get to Plat and Diamond...I know, not the highest of ranks, but it felt like a journey of progression. In SF6, I was PLACED in Plat 5 from the start, which takes away a good chunk of the fun to begin with. As for drive rush, I forget which pro said it, but he nailed it: "SF6 is a game of who's better at using drive rush to confirm a combo"

Okay so... about the ranking system: I dont think capcom designed it with only casuals in mind. The first few leagues are an exception because they have no demotion, rank down protection and in rookie you cant even lose points. But when I initially saw what they were doing with plat and above I was really excited and the placement matches seemed like a nice way to combat smurfing and getting rid of the grind. Where they fucked up was the way they gave points and the placement system. I have like 5-6 characters ranked and not one of them is bellow diamond. I remember when the game launched I tried doing placement matches with cammy, having only played like 15mins of her in training mode. I won 4 out of 10 matches and got diamond 1... **WHAT**. However, the new MR system is great, and it sparked my excitement for ranked once again. The only thing its missing in my opinion is different titles depending on your MR. Because saying the actual number sounds hella lame.

Mr. Vesper Arcade is only saying that about master rank because he didn't know how to play street fighter 5 and couldn't achieve master rank in 5. Remember he used to ask AM kidd for help. That's why Mr. Vesper said that!

Ayyy Sonic Sol with the Long Content? Lets Fucking go!!!

I'm not gonna defend this game, cause I'm a Low Diamond/High Plat perma scrub....but a lot of shit in these clips are people complaining about stuff THEY did to themselves. >Mashing and getting punished >spamming DR or DR being spammed without playing the space game >Whining about ranked, when 90% of people I know IRL that play this game are stuck below Gold I'm not saying there isn't valid criticism, but too much of the FGC is just crying due to burnout or about stuff they could adapt to. The perfect fighting game doesn't exist.

Am I the only one that feels like Neutral Jump is too strong too?

bro i only lost 3 placement matches n got put in bronze idk how this shit works

I treat this game almost like an anime fighter where you need to have an offensive mindset instead of waiting for the opponent to make a mistake. The problem is some characters don't "get to party" as well as others with these system mechanics, but idk how you'd balance say, Lily, because her biggest problem is she has the best special move in the game 👀

I have suggested a fix for drive rush that I think could be a good start to fixing what is a very poorly thought out mechanic. I suggested changing raw drive rush to 3 bars of drive gauge, changing drive rush on hit and on block to 1.5 or possibly 2 bars. What this does is really limit how often people can raw drive rush in the neutral, especially if using 2 bars on EX fireball prior to drive rushing. If it cost 5 bars to ex fireball into drive rush that would prevent people from spamming drive rush in the neutral. The problem is not the mechanic in my opinion, but rather how often it can be used. Right now, spamming drive rush in the neutral is basically free and that's the biggest problem.

you have to hold the button to check drive rush, because of the screen freeze. someone explained its the same thing with marvel vs capcom.

I'm a casual SF player and i'll probably get crucified for this but I enjoyed learning SF5 more than SF6 I put like 100 hours in 6 and I have 0 desire to play the game ever again

6:45 Haha I didn't notice that Juri had shoes! I came back to this video because everything is so well explained

Problem with SF6 is they won’t admit they have made mistake adding DR and they can’t remove it

W video i honestly thought i was a salty player with all this stuff but truly you got everything down to a tee

The biggest goof of this video, not to take away from SF6’s flaws. Juri’s feet is a positive. I don’t like the Nikes.

I feel that the drive rush mechanic is intended to keep the game fast paced, and on paper it is a good mechanic, but the only problem that I have with it is that the reward from successfuly checking it should be much greater. The drive rush itself should put the user in punish counter state, regardless of wheter they press a button or do any move during it at all, that way, not only the combo damage from punishing a drive rush attempt would be greater, but the drive gauge use on that offensive attempt would increase. For the health of the game I think that the DR should remain a rewarding option, but they need to increase its risk to match.

Great video. Agree with everything you said, especially about the players in platinum/diamond. Here's the thing, I'm currently platinum 5 and legit want to get better at the game. But at my rank, I can win with a simple strategy. In fact, when I try to do more complex setups, they don't work b/c the player still won't block after the 5th time I've meatied him into a full combo. I don't have much free time, so should I play rank whenever I can to get better and work my way to the better players, or go find some custom rooms with 'master' players and try to do it that way?

This is my problem with ranked. I chose beginner when I started the game because I hadn't played SF in a long time and the best I can qualify at is Silver or Gold at best and I'm stuck grinding forever even though I'm getting 10+ win streaks all the time. By the time I grinded up to Platinum I was tired of grinding points and they took away my ability to level fast by getting win streaks. I'm Platinum 3 and the idea of grinding five levels through Diamond bores me. The level of challenge is basically unchanged and I actually was losing more earlier on.

DJ should have never gotten a double projectile.

You got my subscription. Great video!

bro I'm so mad that I set my shit to intermediate now it takes like 10 years to get any character to master

If only KOF XV had this presentation. It has a better balanced system for real.

Honestly, just make everyone like Manon. Give them her DR. Also NO one gets any plus moves so the clowns have to learn to play the game. People may hate that character but I guarantee you any Manon you play against in higher ranks has GOOD fundamentals and reactions. Cause you literally have to to play her. Before I thought I was just bad missing my input timing then I started going back to watch replays and come to find out. I wasn’t missing inputs in most cases. Some of the shit I’ve experienced is insane and needs to be fixed. The quality of life of this game ain’t okay and I’m not even talking about buffs or nerfs. Just simple system issues.

I thought I was going crazy. My spiral arrows either came out or didn’t. My supers either come out or didn’t. Cammy stand heavy into heavy spiral arrow left a gap when it shouldn’t.

I’m someone who heavily advocates not patching too quickly, let the game sit. THAT SAID, 5 months on a launch version is way too long. The game has stopped simmering and begun to fester. It needs a shakeup because people are tired of what’s currently good

The rank you pick at the beginning doesn't determine your starting rank. It just determines who your first placement matches are against. If you pick Novice, it's going to put you against a bronze, then a silver, then a gold, then plats, then diamonds. If you beat all of them, it's going to put you in Diamond. Likewise, if you pick Advanced and get bodied by everybody you're going to end up in bronze or silver depending on the lowest ranked person who beat you. The reason you got placed in diamond is because you beat diamonds.

First!! Hehe I wil store this video in my watch later list because I´ve been recently playing SF and I think there are some flaws that really need to be adressed. And I also got to study them if I want to do good in a tournament.

I like drive rush cuz neutral is fkin stupid. Imagine not interacting with your opp for 30 seconds

People complaining about characters only use like two buttons when every character only had like 10 buttons anyway

Every time i do a Cross UP and hit down mp, If a press another punch registrar a shory with Ryu, and i'm contantly pressing down back

and the Fomo community doesn't say anything because they don't want to make waves, but the game needs a few nerfs and a few buffs. Seems to me that some gimkicky characters have much much better drive rush. This benefits capcom, they don't have to update or do anything really.

The input leniency system is so fucked in this game. Its supposed to make inputs easier and more consistent but it does the exact opposite. I cant even count how many times I've done a DP from crouch and it comes out as lvl 1 super. (which doesn't anti air for my character). The input reader stores the fucking crouch input and so when I do DP it reads Down, forward, QCF which becomes lvl 1 super but I never fucking pressed down, I just let go of downback and I did forward, QCF.

Preach it man, always thought giving safe moves on block to characters was a dumb idea. Having no penalty for getting blocked should not still give that player an advantage. Specials that are safe on block allows spamming with no downside. If you get burnout some characters can safe block string you into the corner with no option besides a super, if the game doesn't eat your input... The offense in this game is ridiculous...

10:37 there aren't many follow ups if DJ lands DR > jab from that far away. He'd have to use DR > jab > MP > DR to extend the combo, using 4 bars of meter for a combo that starts with a light attack. What DJ wants is to land DR > jab close enough so he can follow up with 4HK for real damage, and at that point it becomes checkable (sometimes). but that's where his DR > sway comes into play. 13:12 and DJ's fireball > DR is only real on block if he OD's the fireball and it requires a specific range. there's not a ton he can do off of this if he wants to be plus (he can't be in grab range and plus by doing this, like a DJ trying to DR grab after OD fireball is ALWAYS vulnerable to normal buttons). any real damage off of something like this, he'd have to spend a LOT of meter or use a super. like OD fireball (block) > DR > MP (hit) > crMP > DR is 6 bars, anything else doesn't do much damage or requires super meter or another mixup. DJ is very meter hungry

valid points i do think the drive system needs a little tweaking

If you are have buffered qcfs, and your opponent jumps at you, it is physically impossible to DP (if you have meter). Even if you end on down forward, you will get a super. I have lost because of this.

Overall I’m having fun in the game while waiting for my true main to finally drop. Using Jamie, DJ & Rashid in the meantime. Rashid as main. The bulk of what you said here is true especially the dropped inputs and DI/DR.

I love how I saw this coming from a mile away.

Idom: "this game is garbage, bruh" It's over.

im not a good player im stuck in plat 2,3 im maining juri and struggling if they nerf her drive rush the heck am i supposed to do. i barely winning🥲

Hi , i play offline only and i can check drive rush every time idk about online because i never tried it

For someone just choosing to get back into street fighter 6. This is an excellent video. Great shit and super informative

1. No move priorities (other than for normal throws) 2. Cannot punish properly 3. Jab, jab, jab... 4. Splatoon slide = 90% of the "meta" 5. Death Corners 6. Too few defensive options (cannot even tech roll forwards!) 7. Drive Impact counters (people just "plink" HP+HK after ever button press) 8. Throws 9. 50% damage scaling on perfect shields 10. Cannot crouch under standing attacks 11. No punish bonus for supers (yet, there for throws!) 12. Too few specials for many characters 13. Drive Gauge depletion from blocking 14. Modern controls in Ranked 15. Cannot filter Modern controls, nor leave a Modern match-up without penalty 16. Nonsensical air throws (JP with a wand in his hand has on; Manon, a JUDOKA, does not!) 17. Hit-confirms too easy 18. Game is too scrubby overall 19. Game presentation is ugly 20. One year is too long a delay for gameplay updates

Them big ass Krusty The Klown shoes killin me😂😂😂

The game just needs a combo breaker mechanic to break out of attacks at anytime.

So to summarize: Juri/Deejay - Unreactable/Possibly Safe Drive Rush Drive Rush-Jab Drive Rush Eating Inputs Drive Parry Fire Ball -> Drive Rush (DeeJay/Aki/Juri) Dee Jay's Tools and Safe Sweep Ranked System Broken Ken's Pressure (easy burnout) Seems like the earl meta is just super hyper offense. Unless you're Snakeyez. I finally have a computer for gaming. Should I buy SF6? Last one I actually played SF4.

Second comment; Fuck it. This is really eye opening on how rough SF6 is to this day. But I think another issue that me and my friend sees in Ranked, is the overuse of Drive Impact., and how in a lot of situations, it can replace actual defense. I don't know about you Sol, but I see a lot of people in ladder spaming DI all the time because they don't want to block whatsoever. It may not seem important on the surface, since it's usually their problem, but the fact that DI is weirdly more used than learning how to block, shows me that the game is rewarding this kind of ignorant meter spending to get out of tough situations, instead of planning out ways to tactfully counter strategies. It sends the wrong message to new players who want to use SF6 as their first stepping stone into FGs. Oh, also, I wouldn't be surprised if Capcom made button inputs fucked so that Casuals can do moves stupid easier. Which doesn't make sense to me because that's what Modern was allegedly for... That's my take on it. Have yourself a nice one Sol!