Looking big Nick 💪😎

Looking strong!

I've noticed you doing weighted cossack squats a lot. I have trouble with them unweighted, so imagining with heavy weight is... a stretch (lol). The mobility mostly is the issue.

Why do you program them, and did you have a lot of work to do to achieve them with heavy weight? What was the progression like?

That's some heavy club work

Excellent work

Dude you are getting jacked

Foreshadowing SF6 Ryu's damage

IIRC this manga started out with Ken winning SF3 (like actually beating Gill easy) to show how far he'd come and how Ryu needed to get his shit together. This is him getting his shit together before fighting Akuma.

Ryu Final is so good Capcom is still cribbing from it over 20 years later. God I wish the game writing was anywhere near as good as Masahiko Nakahira‘s works.

Some Street Fighter media are quite bloody and dark. For instance, Street Fighter Alpha the animation has some of them.

Rosanov felt more like the villain of a slasher movie.

He used his Focus Attack from SF4. It causes crumple on hit, makes sense.

This manga shows how NASTY is Shun Goku Satsu. To the point that, to defend, >!Ryu let's himself GETTING HIS CHEST PIERCED from part to part ('cause it was the less of two evils)!<

He wrote Sakura Ganbaru too, which literally created Karin Kanzuki (they liked her so much they put her into the games).

Team karin

Karin kanzuki

Effie

Yurika kirishima

Karin, who wants to beat Sakura in this tournament, enlist the help of Yurika kirishima, who wants to fight with her friend akira kazama and effie who want to keep necro safe.

https://preview.redd.it/y0xq2isglmqf1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=85fc11954766e3c022a09d152f2827a92fac82d3

Team Third Strike (Its the name of the game plus they are three people and they strike)

• Makoto
• Elena
• Dudley

Team Boxer

Balrog

Ed

Dudley

Team henchmen

Urien

Necro

Twelve

Team New Challengers:

Fei Long

Deejay

T. Hawk

Obligatory sharing of Core-A-Gaming's "Why Button Mashing Doesn't Work".

Despite the title, this video quickly morphs into one of the most concise primers on fighting game fundamentals,

Also, I just want to say that the Story mode in SF6 is well worth playing if you're extremely new. A lot of the mini-games and challenges are designed around getting you to interact with the mechanics of the game, and also, it's just one of the most enjoyable single player modes available in a fighting game.

While learning to fight the CPU is generally speaking not great practice for learning how to beat human opponents, right now your issues are likely more about just feeling comfortable moving around and pressing buttons, and this is a much less stress-inducing mode to learn that, and certainly much more fun than spending 100 hours in Practice mode.

I recommend that if you know Spanish (or at least you are willing to read the subtitles) you watch the Sh4rin series with Alexelcapo in which they teach Alex how to play fighting games. It can help you because they teach in a very comfortable way about the fundamentals, Alex learns using Ryu and it is a pretty fun series. So if you want to learn how to play without feeling so “pressured” by all the information you have to learn, then that series is a good starting point (you reach at least platinum but almost certainly with what you can learn there)

Make sure you go through Ryu's character trials.

Lots of videos on Ryu for BNB. Another resource is SuperCombo. The Fighting Game Glossary will help you with terminology.

For fighting game basics:
If you distill them down, rock is attack, paper is block, scissors is throw. Treat them like RPS. A common mistake is everyone tries to throw rock constantly because they are just mashing buttons. Throw paper and try to experiment when you can throw rock. If they are blocking, throw scissors.

For the light, medium, and heavy attacks, remember spacing is a part of that. Light is fast and close, heavy usually is slow and has range, and medium is the in-between.

And most importantly have fun. It's still a game and don't get discouraged. It's better to focus on improving rather than winning.

I hope this helps, good luck, and welcome to the FGC.

Work on 4 things:

1. Don't mash buttons;
2. Block and punish. Be reactive at first, you'll learn faster this way, and it will reinforce the rule above;
3. If he jumps, anti-air. And they will jump. Always.
4. If he DI's, DI back. And they will DI. Always.

If you master this 4 things, you'll get to gold. I know it, because I did it, without knowing a single combo.

Good luck and have fun!

This is less about Street Fighter 6 specifically as I haven't played 6 in years, and more philosophy on getting started in fighting games generally: No shade to Ryu, but if another character calls to you more (for any reason, like their design is more appealing or you saw a clip from another character you thought was sick or whatever) and the ONLY reason you went with Ryu is because you think he's best for fundamentals, I'd encourage you to pursue whichever other character on the roster you find more interesting. You're more likely to stick with it and have fun if you're learning a character who speaks to you instead of a character you're only playing because you think of him as a kind of "tutorial". You can learn essential, universal skills and concepts on any character.

That said, if there isn't one who grabs you like that and you're just interested in getting started with SF6, or Ryu really is that character for you, great! I'm a big fan of his myself so I'm certainly not trying to discourage you from playing him specifically.

Congrats on your achievement for getting to Master Rank. Im on the same journey with Bison. Im stuck at Diamond Lvl#1.

Keep on grinding.

Welcome to fighting games bro and congrats!

Poison and Cody are ones I'd love to see, and feel have a fairly good chance of getting in. Broadly though, I'd be down with adding any Final Fight character except Abigail.

Hugo and Poison.

Hugo and Poison

Haggar

Poison, Cody, maybe Haggar as well just to finally see it happen. SF6 really needs some Final Fight representation, it's weird that a game set in Metro City has nobody yet.

How to beat Ryu: don't get hit and don't try to punish

I fully believe Ryu is going to have multiple weapons and they are keeping them secret because He is the second half of the game. I hope the claws end up skipping this game for the tonfa if my cope comes true.

Ryu is basically the girl chapters. Don’t get your hopes up

I think people are just skeptical because the circumstances of how this game even exists is vastly different from everything that came before.

Team Ninja apparently doesn't have it in them to work on an NG4 (Souls-pilled) and Platinum while they made good games haven't in a while and their style is very different. It being a collaborative thing backed by Microsoft makes the chances of a newer Sigma or Black type edition not as clear cut and guaranteed. All 3 companies would have to agree on it versus TN doing it on their own terms.

They noted that Ryu will use dragon-statues to buy items and do optional challenges, so this is either used for weapon upgrades, or is just a novelty. Don't forget we also had dragon-statues 'return' in NG3 and it was just a scenery piece; could be that too.

At this point I'm fully accepting of the fact he'll just have the katana, which still weirds me out since his entire moveset and animations seem pulled from Razor...so why not pull the other animation data? Is it not made compatible with the Platinum engine? Or are they really waiting to pull the old money scheme....

Honestly, I'd be down for capcom to have another go at 2d Jin or Kazuya, though the idea of a modern input electric would probably infuriate a lot of people lmao

SFXT was over 10 years ago

Now I want Jin as a playable character next season.

The people yearn for more Street Fighter x Tekken

Season 5 leak.