Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Akuma and Ryu breakdown and tutorial

very fair comparison. i agree with akuma being better overall but both viable.

Akuma being better than Ryu in this isnt exactly a secret.

Yeah, we know Akuma is better, but it's nice for someone to go into great detail to show why and how much better he actually is.

I don't think it's that simple. They just have different playstyles. You're not going to play Ryu like you would play Akuma and vice versa.

Akuma's Tatsu also has projectile points, something very important that wasn't covered. Also his Tatsu has frame advantage and is difficult to punish, unless you practice the timing a lot. Ryu's Tatsu has....none of that

I dont really play this game but Marvellous Adventures, Mike Ross, ditch Ryu for Akuma haha

I'd have them do the level 3s

Level 3 Akuma is the most damaing character in the game.

When he was talking about looping the l. Tatsu's, (dmg/length), you can do a max loop of 9. But it's enough to kill off any character with a max damage of 1.4mil dmg.

*with 1 hyper bar only, from mid screen + wall bounce, ryu does more damage (up to 690k for a non technical newbie like me)

Ryu +1

*ryu is better at keeping away with jumping straight fireball (and the right assist, say doom's beam. it covers the whole screen.
Akuma doesn't control the air as much

ryu +1

*akuma's tatsu is better and absorbs projectile.
akuma +1

*against flying turtle (phoenix...) launching fireball, all that akuma can do is jump tatsu, but he has a lot more trouble to punish this. Ryu just has to hyper straight ahead.
ryu +1

overall, not sure akuma is better, knowing that he will die a lot more easily.

Very nice break down.