Rashid, Cammy, bison

!Rashid

Mika is the best rn, Kage, Rashid, G, Kolin and Cammy are pretty good, Ken, Ed and Juri are decent

Y’know idk if he’s considered “rushdown” but bison is good for fans of “one player games”

There are a lot of good suggestions in this thread but I also recommend reading this lesson on Selecting a Main.

Bison, Akuma, Ken

Mika.

I main Laura and love it, not enough Lauras out there. Yeah she's not top tier but she's viable. It's hard to get in, and you can't really do much until you do, but man oh man when you get in you get in. Perfect KO's up the wazoo and comeback potential is through the roof when you only need to drive home one good opening to win the round.

I may be wrong, but I don't think any of those characters are actual rushdown. Necalli is rushdown, Rashid and Laura are a aggressive hybrids... But that's about it. Street Fighter usually doesn't have anyone like Kyo Kusanagi or Wolverine, that are pure unbridled rushdown archetypes, Necalli really is the first one that comes to mind.

its not as simple as "rushdown or not rushdown". there are characters, like cammy, that are obviously rushdown and dont really fit in the other categories at all(or zangief for grappler, dhalsim for zoner etc.), but for example, sol from guilty gear, is a rushdown/grappler hybrid, and its really hard to put him in one category.

Rushdown usually means they pressure you, keep you blocking and guessing, while usually having good tools to get in(not always true, like for example leo from guilty gear, is an aggressive rushdown character with no command grabs that struggles to get in, but has insane pressure)

I would definitely say there are different versions of rushdown. Like Bison will rush you down but lock you in pressure whereas Akuma will rush you down and mix you up to combo you. Honda can rush you down and chip you while also utilizing a command grab to deal damage.

There isn't a definitive hard counter to rush down playstyles in street fighter. It can be very matchup dependant.

I would define Rushdown characters as “a character who has to get in many times to win, but has the tools to get in easily”, they have tools to capitalize on opponents when they’re up close of course, but that’s the main idea behind them. The direct counter to a Rushdown character would be a Grappler, which is “a character who struggles to get in, but only needs to get in once or twice to win”, because Rushdown characters are constantly running into them, Grapplers don’t have to worry about their lack of tools to approach, and can focus on their more defence oriented playstyle.

You may like Vega

Blanka and Rashid easily, otherwise Cammy, Jamie, and Marisa if they're played correctly. They can just stick to the opponent once they get in.

Kimberly if you know what you’re doing. A lot of moves, takes time to learn but worth it. Range is shit tho. No good trowables. So a good offence pressure character.

Zangief. Just standing next to someone is enough pressure to make people crack.

I don’t know why but I always feel completely lost when fighting Rashid. I seem to fuck up just about every attack I make on him.

wow nice anti air and congrats!

Well done, excellent work

Congrats!

Congrats!

Yeah boiii as a fellow ryu main I congratulate you !

I mean, nice, but I feel any character is the best when the enemy team forgets they can turn and look at you

Any character is good when you're ignored for 90% of this video

He’s definitely really effective in certain comps but has enough issues that you cant reliably count on him to always work in ranked

Hell yeah. The best feeling is when you finally understand that his arms hit things when extended and you can hit everyone at once if you swing correctly. I've gotten a triple KO with one punch before.

Man i miss this map in Competitive 🥹

Ken is my recommendation for a rush down character.

If you like I-No play Laura. You get the slow projectile and looping mixups with her, along with fast movement and a command dash

laura and mika play like strive ino where they force their way in and then loop their mixup over and over

Laura can charge her thunderclap like ino charges note

Go for cammy

Ken, Cammy, Dhalsim (yeah i know), Lucia, Luke, Balrog, Akuma, Ibuki, Ed are all great for rushdown.

From that list the least combo heavy ones are Ed and Luke. Ken is also simple enough but he has a few cancel shenanigans that you will need to learn.

The rest have quite a bit going for them either from an execution standpoint or combo heavy.

Faust has more strong anti-airs than any character would ever need.

nago, you'll love 2H, and he's easily the most grounded character in the game

Learn to use 6P, it's a universal anti air, kind of how you'd use DP in SF to anti air

Most grounded character I feel like it’s Leo lol

If 6p is so good why didnt they make 6P 2?

the humble 6k

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