Adnan sent over a bunch of impressions of Evil Ryu in Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition, offering an excellent breakdown of his normals, specials, Ultras and general notes about the character.Decent players such as Mike Ross have already suggested Evil Ryu is not OP and I know I'd rather take his word over someone watching streams and simply posting.
That being said as usual there will probably be a ton online but with Akuma style health it wont last because scrubs and low health characters do NOT mix and they'll soon give him up so I'm not bothered at all.
Light Shoryuken to Ultra 1... not good.
@#6
This is why I have my 360. It's meant for fighting games only.
how this guy cant be OP? ryu is high in tiers, one of the 10 best characters, and evil ryu seems more powerfull, this guy confirmed that, lets see... better fireballs, better shoryus, better tatumaki, better medium punch, better ultra 2, better damage, but less stamina, I dont know but if ryu is powerfull right now and you add those better moves then you have a even more powerfull character. so I say OP yes, I can see the lot of ryu with higher bp change to him, ohh and one more thing, seems the same easy character to use like ryu
@12 Ever heard of Gears, Halo, L4D, Mass Effect and much more if not u must hate life lol. The question is will Daigo have evil ryu as a secondary or will Tokido have oni as his second.
Anyway awesome analysis on Evil Ryu. He seems very offensive oriented. "YESH"
Wow, his health and stun isn't so good...
But I'm amazed on his normals and specials!
@#15
lol not trusting someone based on a character he uses is messed up, wasnt he playing honda for the longest even before sf4. Thats like trusting Mago or Tokido because they too use one of the most powerful in the game.
Also when the last time any hondas won anything big, he was only relatively powerful due to low/bottom tier were already lacking in tools.
Also Evil Ryu wont be OP cause he it doesnt look like he has anything overwhelming that is abusable. So many ways to deal with fireballers in AE. shorter range on teleports and no escape tatsu either. Even akuma was kept in check due to his crap health and he has better tools than Evil ryu.
Nice to see CAPCOM is still concerned with BALANCING THIS GAME...
Honestly, I don't really care what Ross (I love the guy, btw) said, you've got to be blind not to see this guy's potential.
It's the damn Ryu, with better fireball game, better SRKs, more damage and combo possibilities, two comboable Ultra (the second one has *massive* damage, and the Metsu Hadoken has damn good damage too) a teleport and a better Okizeme (kara throw, axe kick, a divekick which connects better than Akumas).
He even has a very decent 950 stun, so he won't get stunned very easily.
If this guy is not a top tier, then Umehara won Evo 2k10 with a middle/low tier - and we all know SSF4 Ryu isn't that weak. His only downside is his 850 health, but no one stopped considering vanilla Akuma a beast, just for his health.
I understand comments like #17: it's early to say whether he's that OP to get banned from tourneys, but we can all agree he's damn strong.
@20 agreed. to add to it, evil ryu's hard DP is like vanilla ryu dp, crystal clean anti-air, anti-safe jump, you name it. remember how ryu in ssf4 has to rely on his median DP and it still trades a lot of the time.
and more, he has a back dash speed that of da chun li ho's back dash. so he can get away from a lot of mix up on wake up and off failed focus attempt.
also evil ryu's U2 off FADC combo is a 3 sequence DP like ken's super. ryu's U2 off FADC is a fuking retarded straight up the air bullshiittt..
evil ryu is at least damn near the top tier i would say.
enough said, peace.
It's not even that this guy would be too strong, it's why make the other characters so weak and then introduce these two plus yun and yang...especially when nothing in super was so bad that it really needed nerfing.
@25 i agree. some of the nerfs in AE probably aint necessary given that how strong these 4 new guys are already.....
but few things, at least they didn't give evil ryu ryu's super fireball cause da shiit links to all kinds of shiit.
also at least they didn't give evil ryu kuma's air fireball....
otherwise game motfuking over 4 jwong...lol
No idea how people are giving him tier list rankings after day one? lol on paper he's godlike but we all know what's on paper isn't always what happens in game. Either way though people will complain about him being too good or too ass if he gets nerfed, this is why ssf4 is so ass right now lol.
And to top it all off i bet Seth still has the lowest stamina(800) and lower damage output than these 2.
@#27
People seem to have the desire to list things so they can complain about who is on top for whatever reason.
How Evil ryu came to be in SSFIV AE - Akuma possess Ryu.
*Note* when he talk he sounds like Akuma, his lust for blood and fights to the death. Red Eyes...
How Oni came to be in SSFIV AE - Akuma possess Gouken.
*Note* His stance is just like Gouken only a bit higher. His dragon punch is like Goukens ultra 1. Red Eyes...
:) I wonder what their alt custome look like? hah
God I hate it when people cry broken so fast. I thought most of you would have learned your lesson from Dudley. He can light punch shoryuken into ultra 2 as-well, hell he can ultra 2 off of almost everything. But guess what? He still isn't even close to top tier.
I think Evil Ryu will be reeaalllly good though, just because normal ryu has a lot of troubles with characters I can see him doing better against. That EX. Axe kick overhead is almost the same as Makatos ex overhead, cool stuff.
Why would ssf4 be ass? It's probably the best version of the game...if only they could include buffs from AE
Their low healths (normal and stun) are going to compensate for their good moves, just like Yun and Yang. To be honest, if you play against evil ryu like regular akuma, it's not much different. In fact, it might be easier b/c evil ryu doesn't have demon flip with palm / grab so there's no vortex. Oni may be a little different b/c of his air dash and air demon. You can't automatically assume a dp to anti-air his jump-in b/c of his air dash and ultra air hadoken.
"step away from da nigaaa"
-pulp fiction
enough said,
peace out
Tokido mastered akuma vortex, why would he switch to someone with out it >_<
I dont see where it says he can combo into sweep after hurricane kick(i see counter hit MP into sweep), so far it looks to knock them too far away for his slower sweep to connect. He doesnt have the demon flip palm, throw, or air fireball. And Akuma has 2 different kinds of dive kicks.
Looks to be slimming down on options instead of gaining them for that heavy wake up game.
This is really cool but I was more expecting Evil Yun and Shin Yang...
@powderedtoastman
Yes Evil Ryu doesn't seem to have as much wake up mix-ups but I think he has enough to the point of it being very effective. And by the looks of Evil Ryu's vortex is much more dangerous because he does more damage and if you don't block correctly he can hit-confirm fadc into both ultra's.
Under Hard Kick-
"Crouching Hard Kick after Light Hurricane Kick works but timing is different than Akuma's and might be character specific."
@#48
Ahh ok i thought you was refering to the cross over tatsu to sweep(was taking about wake up options), cause them crossover tatsu sends them flying. Could be i suck LOL im a gief user.
Most of the video shown here just show Oni vs Evil ryu, against people with average health+ evil ryu damage looks normal with current combos.
Granted comboable ultras is the only main selling point. Get to the arcade you will see what im talking about, i have no kind of recording devices so i cant show anything yet.
Dont get me wrong man lol i didnt say his damage was low or anything. I did say current combos and having comboable ultras is always a plus.
Just that he cant combo into sweep regularly(to be determined) like ryu, ken, akuma can in AE off of links. He has no normal like Akuma far FK or regular Ryus F+fp so that drops of some damage from link combos and forward moving pressure with normals that are safe(No one ive watch have linked anything after his hop kick f+mk unlike the other moves are capable of). Which currently here no one bothers to care about lol. I find this type of normal missing to be a big thing until someone finds something out.
But he can link into srk off his F+MP overhead... which im sure then can be fadc into ultra. But havent seen anyone do it yet.
yo wtf did he loose his job?
Yoshi_OnoChin
Wow... I was called away on urgent business from my boss..... It was over.
maybe i don't get the message right but if it's true i feel kinda sorry for him...wasn't his fault that they unlocked them xD
@57
+1 that.
If they had an NDA with the arcade operators, then they could sue the arcades who released the characters before the specified release date, but only those people. It's not like randomjoe1234@youtube.com signed their NDA.
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