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Chun Li: Street Fighter 4 Character Guide

Last updated on Aug. 24, 2008

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Character Overview

Chun Li is mostly like her Capcom vs. Street Fighter and SF3: Third Strike versions, although she has some Super Turbo elements. Her ground game is great, and she has a lot of poke attacks.

• Strengths •
+ Very good mix up game that will keep your opponent guessing
+ Foot and move speed are fast, and her normal attacks have good priority
+ Her move set is very diverse which helps her adapt to most situations
+ Her poke attacks have good range and priority

• Weaknesses •
- Chun Li does not have consistent anti air options
- Super and Ultra attacks are mediocre compared to the other fighters
- Many of her attacks can leave her open to counter attacks if not executed correctly

Special Moves

A (2) next to an arrow means to hold the joystick in that direction for 2 seconds to 'charge' the move.

With moves that charge by holding back or down, you can use the diagonal positions to charge up as well. For example, if you're holding back, you can jump backwards or block low and still maintain your charge.

(Press Kick Button Rapidly)
• Hyakuretsu Kyaku (Lightning Leg Kicks) •
A great chip damage move still, although the recovery after coming out it can leave you open to certain attacks. This also comes out quick enough that you can use it in some combos.

Chun's Lightning Legs are also good for knocking people out of Focus Attacks. Focus Attacks can only absorb one hit, but Lightning Legs hit multiple times in a short duration, so if you can anticipate a Focus Attack for your opponent — they'll eat some kicks to the face.

• Kikouken (Fireball) •
This most closely resembles her Super Turbo fireball, and it's a good projectile because of its tricky speed and fast recovery time.

The Punch button pressed determines the speed, range and power of the projectile. The Light version goes almost a full-screen's distance and flies slow enough that you can follow the projectile and throw your opponent after they block it, like Guile.

Hard punch flies the shortest distance, but goes fastest and does the most damage. Medium is a mix of the two.

This move doesn't combo that well, and you're usually best off using her EX-Fireball for consecutive hits.

• Hazan Shuu (Overhead Flip Kick) •
Chun Li does a quick flip and the does the splits in midair, this must be blocked high. This has a very quick recovery usually being safe from counter attacks, and it goes through projectiles, but it has a weak priority and most other moves will counter this. Be careful when and where you use it.

• Spinning Bird Kick •
Chun Li flips upside down and spins with her legs split to attack the other fighter, and it's not very useful as it leaves you open to counter attacks more often than not. Bleh. The EX version on the other hand...

               
• Command Combo Kicks •
This series of three moves starts out with Chun kicking midrange and leaning back a bit, the next attack (Medium Kick) with launch your opponent up into the air where you can finish them with multiple juggling kicks.

Note that the last part of the move does NOT require a charge motion and that these moves are only available one after another. So you can't start the first move and immediate going into the Juggling Jumping Kicks.

If your opponent is in the corner you can juggle them after finishing this off with her Super or Ultra.

(In the air)
• Air Throw •
When you're close to the other fighter in the air, do a normal throw command. This can be a very useful move because it can't be reversed and the range is pretty good. Some think this is one of Chun's best anti air moves.

EX Moves

(Press Two Kick Buttons Rapidly)
• EX-Hyakuretsu Kyaku (Lightning Leg Kicks) •
More damage and hits than the normal version and you can juggle after landing this.

• EX-Kikouken (Fireball) •
This version hits twice, comes out faster and goes full screen distance. It's usually best off to use this in combos instead of her normal fireball.

• EX-Hazan Shuu (Overhead Flip Kick) •
Like the normal version, but it does more damage, comes out quicker and knocks down when it hits.

• EX-Spinning Bird Kick •
Generally regarded as one of Chun's best moves because of its priority and invincible animation frames. This move does NOT have vacuum-like properties like in SF3, but it's still a great move and can be used to counter some air attacks.

Super and Ultra Moves

• Senretsu Kyaku (Super Lightning Leg Kicks) •
Not a very good super, and most players feel like you're better off using Chun Li's EX attacks instead. It does not travel full screen, and if the opponent blocks it in the corner you're wide open to counter attacks. Also if this hits the other fighter in the air, most of the hits won't land, so it's really only effective against grounded opponents.

This does have some use in guaranteed hit situations and combos, but use it very sparingly. It does decent chip damage.

• Housenka (Ultra Lightning Leg Kicks) •
This almost flies a full-screen's distance and goes through fireballs, making it a very deadly to projectile throwers. But like her Super, if blocked it leaves you open to counter attacks so you must be careful.

You can use the threat of Chun's Ultra to keep projectile characters from throwing them out continuously. After one or two hits from this, they'll learn to use different tactics when you have Revenge meter.

Like her Super, don't use this against jumping characters because most of the hits will not land.

Her Ultra has a few frames of "start up" animation before it hits, so work on your timing to counter projectiles. You almost need to predict when they're coming out.

The chip damage on this move is also pretty weak.

Combos

• Jumping Hard Kick, Crouching Hard Punch cancel into EX-Kikouken, cancel into Level 2 Focus Attack, Dash Cancel, Command Combo Kicks •
Powerful combo. You can also do just the early parts of this sequence for some good damage if you have trouble pulling the whole thing off.

• Crouching Light Kick, link into Crouching Light Punch, link into Crouching Medium Kick, cancel into EX-Kikouken •
Solid combo. Easy to confirm you've hit with this and nail the other fighter with an EX-Fireball.

Normal Moves

Note this is not a complete list of all of Chun Li's normal moves, just the ones we think are noteworthy.

• Crouching Medium Kick of Death •
Chun's Crouching Medium Kick is back, and still very good. You can use this move to cancel into her Fireball, Super and Lightning Legs.

(In the air)
• Head Stomp •
The old school Chun Li move is back, and it's not terribly useful, but sometimes a situation arises where it makes sense to use this.

• Backflip Kick •
Chun Li flips backwards and sticks her knee out.

• Flip Cross Up Kick •
Chun Li flips forwards and kicks with both legs in the opposite direction. If done around sweep range, she will jump over the other fighter's head and cross them up with this attack.

• Hop Kick •
This makes you hop forward quickly and kick your foot out. The recovery time for this move is very short and you can usually follow it up with another attack before your opponent can counter.

(In the air)
• Wall Jump •
When you're close to a wall, press in the opposite direction of it, and you'll jump off.

Submissions and edits by Azrael, Jinrai and CFAY.