Stunning Akuma with just one combo is possible with both Menat and Ryu in Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition
Akuma is the glass cannon of Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition. In other words, Akuma has the lowest life and stun values in the game.
For the most part, Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition is designed in such a way that it should take at least two hits before being able to stun an opponent. Since Akuma only has 900 stun, Ryu and Menat are capable of forcing him into a stunned state with just a single combo.
Ryu's one-touch stun combo is possible thanks to his V-Trigger 1 Critical Art. Like in previous games, the Denjin Hadoken is a super not only inflicts damage, but increases a player's stun gauge.
Notably, this is the only Critical Art in the game that's capable of influencing an opponent's stun like this. Tagging it in at the end of a big sequence will cause it to scale, but it's still flashy.
Menat is also capable of pulling off this sequence against Akuma with her V-Trigger 1. Like many of Menat's other combos that involve V-Trigger 1, this requires some expert execution to pull off.
In total, Ryu is able to string together 646 damage while Menat gets 741 damage.
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Sources: Forsch333 and Javits.
