My advice for people new to the fighting games genre: just pick whoever you think looks cool. Ignore tier lists (they dont matter for 99.9% of players anyway). Ignore 'beginner-friendly characters'. Just play whoever you like.
I'm new to Street Fighter but not fighting games as a whole (I've played the Mortal Kombat and Injustice games) and I plan to play Juri, she seems like a cool character Anyway I absolutely agree with this
@@TempDevil that's good cause eventually you'll pick the person you liked from the start it always happens to me. I wanted to play Steve but was told he was too hard spent months on asuka and went back to Steve and now I love playing him ame with kage in sfv I play ken better but I enjoy kage more and he naturally fits me more than any other characters
💯 agree. As someone who has played fighting games since the damn near beginning (I'm talking about Arcade days😉) it usually comes down to who you like. The skill comes after the "connection " and the countless losses/lessons from playing with the character against the computer & other players. Like damn near everything else in life to be good you have to put in the work and remain relentless & persistent.
Totally agree. At the end of the day, it's about having fun. As a kid, I wasn't thinking about ranks and tiers. I just picked who I liked and learned how to play them. That was it. It was that simple. And fun.
As A vision impaired fighter I have always had to play an offence first style. Given the new accessibility options in Street fighter 6 I will have the opportunity to try other approaches which is something I am really looking forwards to. Now because of the audio indicators I will know exactly where the opponent is so will be able to play a more defensive game perhaps. Or I could go and do what I normally do, throw out SPDs randomly, hoping they land. Thank you for the very informative video John.
I never ever play zoners, but his design in this game looks SO FIRE. Do you already play charge characters? cus i feel like it's gunna be massive learning curve for me
I have to say, seeing Manon do their thing forced a constant giddy smile on my face. I've never been one for grapplers but I cant resist styling on people like that.
Manon alongside her theme song, is interesting. I see her once in the right hands online being a menace against so many. You can just tell based on her style.
No joke, the footage kinda landed that way initially and I though I was planning on moving things around, I saw that it lined up and so edited some of the stuff around it to keep it that way :D
Ryu has always been part of my character selections in the series. Always ends up as my 1st/2nd character. He seems the most fun to me when I played the beta. Probably gonna be sticking with him until Sakura comes out. I'm extremely interested with playing the grapplers with Modern controls though
I didnt expect to love playing Lily. She's the grappler I've always wanted. She got the gap closer, the good anti-air, the good pokes, and the command grab. Her hit confirms are good, and her mixups are alright.
It's a sign of a terrific roster that I want to use everyone on the roster in some capacity. This is probably the strongest launch lineup any fighting game has had in quite a while (comparable to a Vs series IMO).
Really excited to try Jamie out based on what you said here! Playing from behind always fires me up and I love comeback mechanics because of the mind game pressure it puts on your opponent!
This game's gonna be so good, I've got like 7 characters on my list. Absolutely in love with footsie based characters like Jamie, Ryu, and Dee Jay. Grapplers are a day one too, with Manon, Zangief, Lily and Marisa. How do you even choose aaaaaa
Only 7? Weaksauce. I wanna play like half the starting roster. Blanka and Lily for unga bunga, Kimberly and Jamie for style, Gief and Manon for scoops, Cammy and Ken for rushdown, and JP for setups.
@@SharkWithFreakinLaserBeam 7 is a lot when you need to ideally narrow it down to 2 you stick with for competition lol but yeah even Cammy and Ken look sweet and I've never been interested in them before.
@@TheBigEmstos that's your opinion. Just like my opinion of Tekken is that it's a trash game that bows down to street fighter. It's so trash they they had to ask Capcom to add Akuma to that trash ass Tekken roster.
I like that he’s not straight rush down and that you have to put some work in to get his best attacks it’s a great way to balance him because if he was straight rush down he’s be broken as shit
@@leoalcaraz6153Yeah, he’s kind of a dynamic rush down, playing defensive until he gets his juices up. Honestly sounds like a lot of fun, especially as a side pick character if you just want to mess around. I wonder how that translates to your customizable character as well.
I noticed that everyone talks about cammy's button hold mechanic in sf6 but no one ever mentions that Luke has the same mechanic. I think that's important to bring up for new players Also day one Kimberly main.
@@ArkticDark honestly at this point of day they have Luke's his combos were very timing heavy in SF5. I think of the "shoto" characters he's probably the most advanced at a high level EH might want to consider that
@@ArkticDark Sort of. Guile actually gives you different projectile timing, but it's simply to learn cause it's mostly helpful for zoning. Wherea's looks timing changes the frame advantage the longer it's held and landing certain combos requires a specific window to succesfully juggle. So I assume Cammy will be more like Luke in that sense, which makes them both slightly harder to learn conversions with.
@@rmcf3972 A little bit. She's more like Guy from SF4 than Zeku though. Zeku had a bunch of unique stuff to him, with a few parts of Guy's movelist seperated into different stances. Whereas Kimberly has all of Guy's moves + more things to make he trickier and harder to get away from.
Marisa and JP are the two that seem to fit my play style the best Marisa for finding openings and dealing short big damage JP looks like Bison from SF5 with BlazeBlue-like projectile shenanigans
Akuma : If you enjoy bringing Compete pain and havoc to all who dare challenge you as they bow to your great might and skill, this is the character for you.
I think I'll try Manon in sf6 I like her moves. Also this is basically my first fighting game, as in I really wanna get into fighting games with this one
Remember to focus on improving, and not on winning. If you dont have fun while you lose youll never last long in fighting games. The secret is to enjoy your wins as the fruit of your work, and to use your losses as a way to analyze what you did wrong, so you can not fall for the same tricks from now on. The reason we love fighting games is because theres no other genre in the world that can compare to the feeling of winning an extremely close match that you were only able to pull off because you had to fight that playstyle over and over again. One of my best memories was losing again and again to this akuma i met online, everytime he popped in my ranked queue. On our first duel i really thought he was so above me i would never beat him. But every match i got a little closer, until after a bunch of matches against other players, i finally played him again, and won through the skin of my teeth. Youre the one leveling up, so make sure to always remember the whole point isnt to win, it is to experience the journey and effort it takes, so that victory is a thousand times sweeter.
Manon seems like she's gonna be the character everyone whines about for the first few weeks. People are so used to grapplers needing to be right in your face, they're gonna get super confused by Manom grabbing them from med. kick distance and go online to vent
@@rjg27an awesome comment to read for myself, as I haven't been back since the 4 series. Much appreciated for sure. Takes me back to those days when battle was frustrating but with practice and remaining was it only able to grow better. But again. Thank you.
This is gonna be my first Street Fighter that I’ve played outside the ones in the arcade as a kid, and I’m pretty excited but nervous at the same time! As a serious Tekken player, Street Fighter’s mechanics are pretty foreign to me, but I’m hoping I can become a great Kimberly and Cammy player in due time!
Yeah I haven't really played a Street Fighter games since SF2 on the SNES as a kid haha. I've mostly played Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur, so it'll be interesting to get used to Street Fighter 6.
I want to point out that ”getting in and staying in” is not classic Zangief, nor classic grappler. The vortex grappler is a relatively modern design (at least with regards to Gief). Classic SF2 Zangief (and really, all the way up until SFIV) was all about struggling to get in, dealing one massive chunk of damage from landing a command grab once you finally do get in, which bounced him almost full screen away from his enemy and has him start the work of getting in all over again. So if anything, SF6 Gief is a return to form, rather than something new. And his SPDs now do more damage than ever to reinforce this, meaning that his command grabs are more core to his kit than they’ve been in over a decade 💪
As someone who played a lot of Vega on SFIV, I'm thinking maybe I should pick Lily. She reminds me of his playstyle a lot with her pokes and hit confirms.
Thanks so much! I'm using this to decide which characters to check out first. Currently I'm mainly thinking between JP and Jamie, both characters who seem capable of creating passive pressure in neutral - Jamie through using the threat of potions to force approaches and JP through using his rifts to cover options. I'll have to see which one feels better once I actually sit down and play for a while. I really wanted to play Kimberly based on her visual design but I don't think she would gel with me at all, I'll still give her a shot though.
Just got through the video. Amazing effort and results! This will be the first Street Fighter were I find my rhythm, so I'll probably start out with Ryu and go from there.
I wanna play Chun Li because her kicks and generally massive legs are really cool, but I heard she only works well in the Classic control scheme which I absolutely can't get down xD
As a street fighter newbie, the open beta showed me how bad i was, im gonna pick whoever who i like and enjoy. Gonna avoid metas as im a noob and no point.
I was a character specialist in sf iv ( el fuerte with a couple more secondaries in the end) . The one regret I have is not picking up more characters initially to learn the game with. And that includes overused/too tier characters because that immediately gets you familiar with the current meta, and gives you stable counter pick options too. By the end of the game I was a top Fuerte player, but not a top sf iv player if that makes sense. So my advice for new players - pick a character that you love or are just drawn to (eg playstyle, look, but also learn one or two characters to best learn the game engine with (Ryu, Luke in 6 def come to mind)
As a long time Juri main Cammy is my only flex this game unless Kimberly is like Ibuki, and Lily is actually a good grappler. Actually now that I’m thinking about it maybe I’ll switch it up this game and play Juri and Manon since she looks so graceful and stylish. Almost forgot about her.
@@gravekeepersven82 I'm a very defensive player, and I always thought big body grapplers fit me best. The main reason why is because they have a very simple and straightforward offense. Condition your opponents to either block or jump, and then exploit it. The main struggle of a grappler is getting in, hence why I play them. I feel like someone with a strong defense game but not very good offense gets rewarded heavily by playing grapplers
I'll go in with Kimberly. Sf6 seems to have a fairly steep learning curve, so not burdening yourself with a whole bunch of characters at the start will definitely speed up the learning process. I'll probably add a secondary after s1 DLCs have dropped.
I find I am an offensive heavy fighter. I like Shoto-fighters like Ken and Ryu, but also love Chun-Li and Juri. Lucky for me, all four of them are here. I also like Makoto, Ibuki, Guile, and Sakura.
From the descriptions and design, I like Manon, Kimberly, Cammy, and Lily. They seem to fit my playstyle. I generally know the types of characters I like, but it can change depending on the fighting game
This video was written, narrated and edited all by one man... Wow. John, you really did your thing... This video was Godly. It was very informative, gave me lots to think about and strategise upon and it was excellently put together. Regarding the current roster: JP, Manon, Marisa & Lily are the characters that interest me the most. It's great to have more than one fighters energy pulling me towards them. I'm also looking forward to seeing what Ed and A.K.I can do and are all about in the world of SF6 later this year.
Fun overview & solid info on each. Always interesting to choose mains & subs in games. And whether to settle on familiar or new ones. I'll try everyone in arcade, etc., then decide. Most interested in Honda, Guile, & Jaime, I think. 🙂
They went so hard on grapplers with this initial roster, feels like sf6 will focus a lot more on them. I've managed to get my list down to 4 characters, either jamie, cammy, juri or luke, but a lot of other are also interesting.
@@SharkWithFreakinLaserBeam might be a good thing for grappler players, but the majority of the playerbase doesn't like when grapplers are too good and I don't see them going against the wishes of most of the community for very long.
@@xaviervega468 hey we'll see, they usually end up in mid to low tier as time goes on until now. I think they should have a fair shot like every other archetypes, but a large portion of the community hates grapplers, we'll have to wait and see if the pattern repeat itself or not.
@@MrOrzeker I'm especially expecting Manon to be the designated "go vent online every time she beats you" character for a few weeks. I think it'll take people a while to understand how to deal with her.
My top 5 characters to play off the bat are Cammy, Jamie, Deejay, Ken and Manon but the whole roster looks viable and fun. Can't wait to see what they do with Rashid, Akuma and A.K.I!!! Cammy and Ken being rush down orientated i'm likening a lot i always tend to be good with these two, the same with DeeJay he looks to have some great mix up potential and he's back with a fake out too lets gooooooooo as i mained him in 4 very excited he's returning. The newcomers tho, Manon is an interesting take on a grappler but the Savate/Ballet angle seems fun and she's Se Magnifique. Jamie with his drunken monkey/b-boy moveset need i say more he carries such style and fluidity and looks fun as hell defo playing him.
Cammy looks interesting gameplay-wise and damn did they make her hot as all hell. Ken's demo gameplay in the video was so fluent and interesting too and I always favored Ryu over Ken but he looks amazing in this game. DeeJay looks great in this game as well, the fakeouts look like it'll be fun to play him but might be a bit too hard for me. I usually steer far away from grapplers in SF because of their inputs but I consider playing Zangief simply because he looks too cool to skip, and with the modern control scheme maybe he becomes easy enough for me, we'll see. Jamie definitely looks amazing but I think he will have a steeper learning curve as you need to know which parts of kit you have access to with each drink level and also use the current level according to your current matchup, but he surely looks like a great fighter to watch. Even Blanka looks dope and that says something in my opinion.
@@TheMaDNiaC Yes I completely agree even the likes of Zangeif and Blanka characters I never play are looking very appealing SF6 has made everyone viable. Ken I've also kinda like a tad more than Ryu maybe due to the Fire aspect of his moveset but I'm really loving the look of him he takes the best of 5 and some of 4 the rushdown aspect shines through easily one of my most anticipated characters to get my hands on.
I'm bad at fighting games. I loved USF4 and played it against AI for a bit. Played MK11 with my brother quite a bit and a little bit online. Played SF5 a little against my brother and online. Out of all these, I didn't like SF5 much, it didn't have the same feel or spirit as USF4 to me. I sucked at both of them nonetheless. SF6 on the other hand seems to have a lot of spirit and a great art style. Even the fighters which I probably won't play much due to their playstyle or difficulty of their inputs seem like great picks because they all look so cool. I think I will only skip Marisa, Lily & JP probably, but the rest of them look dope. I will probably still play Ryu for a while because he is the cornerstone of the game and I think understanding him is a good starting point. But even Zangief looks to be very very fun and I usually steer far far away from grapplers normally. Chun-Li looking dope but I think she might be too hard. From the new characters, Jamie looks great but I think he might have a steep learning curve as well. I haven't had any of the SF5 DLCs so even though he was in SF5, I never played Luke or have seen anyone playing him online, but he looks like a very interesting pick. Not a massive MMA follower but I appreciate its inclusion as an enjoyer of the sport.
I was big into sf4 on Xbox (still pissed I had to miss sf5). Top 100 with Hugo, so, while not quite the same, I'm probably gonna main Marisa. She seems the closest and I quite like the impacts she has. Kinda bummed no sagat though.
I'll probably stick to my favorite 3: Chun-li Ken, and Juri(from SF4 as I never played SFV). I don't think Chun-li will be that hard to master, her stance is just some extra sprinkles on top. Dee-Jay and Lilly do look interesting though. I think my three faves will be both offensive and defensive. Actually, thanks to the drive system, I think we'll have an SF4 style where no one will play one character the same except for Jamie and Kimberly.
I'll be trying em all out this time, but I already know I will most likely be sticking with Gief. When there's no Akuma and no Poison, I default to grapplers like Gief or Alex. Been that way since SF2.
My advice for people new to the fighting games genre: just pick whoever you think looks cool. Ignore tier lists (they dont matter for 99.9% of players anyway). Ignore 'beginner-friendly characters'. Just play whoever you like.
I'm new to Street Fighter but not fighting games as a whole (I've played the Mortal Kombat and Injustice games) and I plan to play Juri, she seems like a cool character
Anyway I absolutely agree with this
@@TempDevil that's good cause eventually you'll pick the person you liked from the start it always happens to me. I wanted to play Steve but was told he was too hard spent months on asuka and went back to Steve and now I love playing him ame with kage in sfv I play ken better but I enjoy kage more and he naturally fits me more than any other characters
As a casual gamer I like to play as all the characters. Playing as only one character gets boring for me.
💯 agree. As someone who has played fighting games since the damn near beginning (I'm talking about Arcade days😉) it usually comes down to who you like. The skill comes after the "connection " and the countless losses/lessons from playing with the character against the computer & other players. Like damn near everything else in life to be good you have to put in the work and remain relentless & persistent.
Totally agree. At the end of the day, it's about having fun. As a kid, I wasn't thinking about ranks and tiers. I just picked who I liked and learned how to play them. That was it. It was that simple. And fun.
As A vision impaired fighter I have always had to play an offence first style. Given the new accessibility options in Street fighter 6 I will have the opportunity to try other approaches which is something I am really looking forwards to. Now because of the audio indicators I will know exactly where the opponent is so will be able to play a more defensive game perhaps. Or I could go and do what I normally do, throw out SPDs randomly, hoping they land.
Thank you for the very informative video John.
That’s really dope!
Hopefully you'll have more of an enjoyable experience than previous games.
That is both intresting and reassuring. I am Visually Impaired, as well.
@@Moumoku-Kage I hope then we both have a very good experience with the game. I wish you the best and good luck.
@@Riz_ Likewise!!
Seeing a dedicated judoka fighter like manon just makes me happy. Definitely gonna be my main
Dee Jay just looks like a blast to play. If I get this game, I'm definitely picking him up and taking everyone to mixup city
I never ever play zoners, but his design in this game looks SO FIRE.
Do you already play charge characters? cus i feel like it's gunna be massive learning curve for me
Is he still charge?
@@gyytgy3330 nothing is 100 percent confirmed, but I would say 98 percent expect all moves except for his new ones to be charge. so basically yes
@@gyytgy3330 update after the new footage released, he's a mix of charge and motion inputs.
Zangief and deejay 👨🏾🏭🤙🏿
Some of the best informative SF6 videos on RUclips, great job on the breakdowns!
I have to say, seeing Manon do their thing forced a constant giddy smile on my face. I've never been one for grapplers but I cant resist styling on people like that.
Manon alongside her theme song, is interesting. I see her once in the right hands online being a menace against so many. You can just tell based on her style.
Manon's animations just look SO clean. I've always been a ken player but i want to branch out and try something totally new
Thank god we lost another Ken player, only 10000000 more to go
Manon's playstyle just speaks to me. Plus her moves all look super clean
Very excited to get back into streetfighter
Honestly, I'm really repulsed by her horse-like leg muscles ngl, it's so disgusting
She CHUNKS
I'm really interested in Zangeif, Kimberly, Honda, and especially Marisa. I'm gonna look at Ryu and Luke as well
14:58 the editing with the music is perfect here
No joke, the footage kinda landed that way initially and I though I was planning on moving things around, I saw that it lined up and so edited some of the stuff around it to keep it that way :D
@@EventHubs Gotta love happy accidents in the creative process :)
As a USF4 Makoto main the only word I had to hear to get interested in Manon was "momentum". Can't wait for this game.
Ryu has always been part of my character selections in the series. Always ends up as my 1st/2nd character. He seems the most fun to me when I played the beta. Probably gonna be sticking with him until Sakura comes out. I'm extremely interested with playing the grapplers with Modern controls though
I didnt expect to love playing Lily. She's the grappler I've always wanted.
She got the gap closer, the good anti-air, the good pokes, and the command grab. Her hit confirms are good, and her mixups are alright.
It's a sign of a terrific roster that I want to use everyone on the roster in some capacity. This is probably the strongest launch lineup any fighting game has had in quite a while (comparable to a Vs series IMO).
Really excited to try Jamie out based on what you said here! Playing from behind always fires me up and I love comeback mechanics because of the mind game pressure it puts on your opponent!
This type of video would be amazing for the Tekken 8 roster!
This game's gonna be so good, I've got like 7 characters on my list. Absolutely in love with footsie based characters like Jamie, Ryu, and Dee Jay. Grapplers are a day one too, with Manon, Zangief, Lily and Marisa.
How do you even choose aaaaaa
Only 7? Weaksauce. I wanna play like half the starting roster. Blanka and Lily for unga bunga, Kimberly and Jamie for style, Gief and Manon for scoops, Cammy and Ken for rushdown, and JP for setups.
@@SharkWithFreakinLaserBeam so.
@@SharkWithFreakinLaserBeam 7 is a lot when you need to ideally narrow it down to 2 you stick with for competition lol but yeah even Cammy and Ken look sweet and I've never been interested in them before.
It won’t be as good as tekken 8
@@TheBigEmstos that's your opinion. Just like my opinion of Tekken is that it's a trash game that bows down to street fighter. It's so trash they they had to ask Capcom to add Akuma to that trash ass Tekken roster.
Jamie the coolest character in the game in my opinion. He’s the definition of style bruh.
Agreed 💯
He looks fruity af
I like that he’s not straight rush down and that you have to put some work in to get his best attacks it’s a great way to balance him because if he was straight rush down he’s be broken as shit
@@DropoutJerome ?
@@leoalcaraz6153Yeah, he’s kind of a dynamic rush down, playing defensive until he gets his juices up. Honestly sounds like a lot of fun, especially as a side pick character if you just want to mess around. I wonder how that translates to your customizable character as well.
I noticed that everyone talks about cammy's button hold mechanic in sf6 but no one ever mentions that Luke has the same mechanic. I think that's important to bring up for new players
Also day one Kimberly main.
Luke has Cammy's and Guile's gimmick doesn't he? Held options and perfect options too
@@ArkticDark honestly at this point of day they have Luke's his combos were very timing heavy in SF5. I think of the "shoto" characters he's probably the most advanced at a high level EH might want to consider that
@@ArkticDark Sort of. Guile actually gives you different projectile timing, but it's simply to learn cause it's mostly helpful for zoning. Wherea's looks timing changes the frame advantage the longer it's held and landing certain combos requires a specific window to succesfully juggle. So I assume Cammy will be more like Luke in that sense, which makes them both slightly harder to learn conversions with.
Is kimberly like zeku?
@@rmcf3972 A little bit. She's more like Guy from SF4 than Zeku though.
Zeku had a bunch of unique stuff to him, with a few parts of Guy's movelist seperated into different stances.
Whereas Kimberly has all of Guy's moves + more things to make he trickier and harder to get away from.
Keep up the good work!
Marisa and JP are the two that seem to fit my play style the best
Marisa for finding openings and dealing short big damage
JP looks like Bison from SF5 with BlazeBlue-like projectile shenanigans
I immediately thought of my play style in blazblue too. I was so annoying lmao but it was so effective
Akuma : If you enjoy bringing Compete pain and havoc to all who dare challenge you as they bow to your great might and skill, this is the character for you.
Not holding back is mercy, humanity supressed satsui controlled demon...RAGING
If you're a raging demon, he's the pick for you. I HYPED too see what he can do
I always heard Guile's iconic theme and never knew where it came from, until yesterday. Now i'm the worst Guile in history.
There is no way this game doesn't slap 10/10. And not a single whiff on the roster.
The timing of zangief flexing with the music was very well done!
I think I'll try Manon in sf6 I like her moves. Also this is basically my first fighting game, as in I really wanna get into fighting games with this one
Remember to focus on improving, and not on winning. If you dont have fun while you lose youll never last long in fighting games.
The secret is to enjoy your wins as the fruit of your work, and to use your losses as a way to analyze what you did wrong, so you can not fall for the same tricks from now on.
The reason we love fighting games is because theres no other genre in the world that can compare to the feeling of winning an extremely close match that you were only able to pull off because you had to fight that playstyle over and over again.
One of my best memories was losing again and again to this akuma i met online, everytime he popped in my ranked queue. On our first duel i really thought he was so above me i would never beat him. But every match i got a little closer, until after a bunch of matches against other players, i finally played him again, and won through the skin of my teeth.
Youre the one leveling up, so make sure to always remember the whole point isnt to win, it is to experience the journey and effort it takes, so that victory is a thousand times sweeter.
Manon seems like she's gonna be the character everyone whines about for the first few weeks. People are so used to grapplers needing to be right in your face, they're gonna get super confused by Manom grabbing them from med. kick distance and go online to vent
@@rjg27an awesome comment to read for myself, as I haven't been back since the 4 series. Much appreciated for sure. Takes me back to those days when battle was frustrating but with practice and remaining was it only able to grow better. But again. Thank you.
@@rjg27 Wonderful to hear a potential new FGC member is joining up!
@@colbyboucher6391now people are whining because of how bad she is
This is gonna be my first Street Fighter that I’ve played outside the ones in the arcade as a kid, and I’m pretty excited but nervous at the same time! As a serious Tekken player, Street Fighter’s mechanics are pretty foreign to me, but I’m hoping I can become a great Kimberly and Cammy player in due time!
so many of the skills are transferrable, you'll do just fine.
@@Windraesa Thanks! I’m hoping that’s the case!
Yeah I haven't really played a Street Fighter games since SF2 on the SNES as a kid haha. I've mostly played Mortal Kombat and Soul Calibur, so it'll be interesting to get used to Street Fighter 6.
Same here. Played Tekken since the 90s but want to try street fighter this time around
I enjoyed playing Guile in the closed beta and I'm really looking forward to trying Marisa and Zangief on release.
I want to point out that ”getting in and staying in” is not classic Zangief, nor classic grappler. The vortex grappler is a relatively modern design (at least with regards to Gief).
Classic SF2 Zangief (and really, all the way up until SFIV) was all about struggling to get in, dealing one massive chunk of damage from landing a command grab once you finally do get in, which bounced him almost full screen away from his enemy and has him start the work of getting in all over again.
So if anything, SF6 Gief is a return to form, rather than something new. And his SPDs now do more damage than ever to reinforce this, meaning that his command grabs are more core to his kit than they’ve been in over a decade 💪
Cammy been my main since her debut. In 5, rashid was my other main. Im sticking with them. I do wanna try kim & manon.
EventHubs on the come up with the fgc stuff! Love to see it. Excellent and informative video.
More to come!
As someone who played a lot of Vega on SFIV, I'm thinking maybe I should pick Lily. She reminds me of his playstyle a lot with her pokes and hit confirms.
Imagine Vega in this game, he would be fabulous!! Can't wait to see Balrog too
@@powerk21 they're saving all the cool villains for later. I'm guessing they'll give us one per season.
@@TrophyJourney I bet Akuma will be the first one they release
Nice roster! Marisa is probably the character I would get the most out of but I'm eager to try all the new characters!
Thanks so much! I'm using this to decide which characters to check out first. Currently I'm mainly thinking between JP and Jamie, both characters who seem capable of creating passive pressure in neutral - Jamie through using the threat of potions to force approaches and JP through using his rifts to cover options. I'll have to see which one feels better once I actually sit down and play for a while. I really wanted to play Kimberly based on her visual design but I don't think she would gel with me at all, I'll still give her a shot though.
The way it looks like Luke is hiding behind Ryu in the thumbnail 😂😂
Just got through the video.
Amazing effort and results!
This will be the first Street Fighter were I find my rhythm, so I'll probably start out with Ryu and go from there.
@@UltimateBallaPOM same!
I thought street fighter gameplay was boring until this video
I wanna play Chun Li because her kicks and generally massive legs are really cool, but I heard she only works well in the Classic control scheme which I absolutely can't get down xD
Excellent work, John!
As a street fighter newbie, the open beta showed me how bad i was, im gonna pick whoever who i like and enjoy. Gonna avoid metas as im a noob and no point.
Boy, that perfect sync with the music at 14:59
I was a character specialist in sf iv ( el fuerte with a couple more secondaries in the end) .
The one regret I have is not picking up more characters initially to learn the game with. And that includes overused/too tier characters because that immediately gets you familiar with the current meta, and gives you stable counter pick options too. By the end of the game I was a top Fuerte player, but not a top sf iv player if that makes sense.
So my advice for new players - pick a character that you love or are just drawn to (eg playstyle, look, but also learn one or two characters to best learn the game engine with (Ryu, Luke in 6 def come to mind)
Definitely planning on maining Manon, Jamie, and Kimberly! Cammy, Juri, and Dhalsim might be my subs
I played Sim in 5. Ima start with Sim in 6. My boy looking real yoga fire right now 🤣
Marrisa, Ryu, Juri.
Those 3 alone will keep me busy all summer.
As a long time Juri main Cammy is my only flex this game unless Kimberly is like Ibuki, and Lily is actually a good grappler.
Actually now that I’m thinking about it maybe I’ll switch it up this game and play Juri and Manon since she looks so graceful and stylish. Almost forgot about her.
Patient defensive grapplers are my bag. I am definitely mostly looking at Zangief
They gave Zangief alot of aggressive tools to catch people slipping.
@@gravekeepersven82 I'm a very defensive player, and I always thought big body grapplers fit me best.
The main reason why is because they have a very simple and straightforward offense. Condition your opponents to either block or jump, and then exploit it.
The main struggle of a grappler is getting in, hence why I play them. I feel like someone with a strong defense game but not very good offense gets rewarded heavily by playing grapplers
I'll go in with Kimberly. Sf6 seems to have a fairly steep learning curve, so not burdening yourself with a whole bunch of characters at the start will definitely speed up the learning process. I'll probably add a secondary after s1 DLCs have dropped.
I find I am an offensive heavy fighter. I like Shoto-fighters like Ken and Ryu, but also love Chun-Li and Juri. Lucky for me, all four of them are here.
I also like Makoto, Ibuki, Guile, and Sakura.
I only play shotos and dont like dash characters. Im definitely waiting for sakura, akuma, kage and gouken to be release on even oni from sfIV
I really wish Sakura made it into SF6 alas I guess not.
@@limmel3588 don’t worry. She’ll be there. Maybe as dlc, but she’ll be there.
@@brichan1851 I really hope you're right.
@@limmel3588 I’d bet green money on it. 😉
I saw at least 6 that I wanna try. Gonna try em all but one of those six will end up being my main. Great video
From the descriptions and design, I like Manon, Kimberly, Cammy, and Lily. They seem to fit my playstyle. I generally know the types of characters I like, but it can change depending on the fighting game
This video was written, narrated and edited all by one man... Wow. John, you really did your thing... This video was Godly.
It was very informative, gave me lots to think about and strategise upon and it was excellently put together. Regarding the current roster: JP, Manon, Marisa & Lily are the characters that interest me the most. It's great to have more than one fighters energy pulling me towards them. I'm also looking forward to seeing what Ed and A.K.I can do and are all about in the world of SF6 later this year.
Thanks for the great info, now I wanna test everyone!
Hey this video is pretty neat.
Great video!
Can’t wait to jump back into the competition! I’ve been out since SF5 came out. So many cool features and characters! Let’s go!!!! 🤜🤛
I will probably Try Dee Jay Blanka Zangief and Marissa. This is going to be THE BEST SF since OG SF 4.
Thanks for the video! I’m interested in Manon because she seems really unique
This was actually a great video! Saw another one like this which was way too technical for a nub like me. Thanks for dumbing it down!
I don't even play street fighter (yet) and I love these videos, awesome job guys A+
I mained El Fuerte in SF4. I loved how quirky and fast he was. I mean how can you say no to an anti-air grab?!
LOLOLOL check out the 'most replayed' part of the video!
Fun overview & solid info on each. Always interesting to choose mains & subs in games. And whether to settle on familiar or new ones.
I'll try everyone in arcade, etc., then decide. Most interested in Honda, Guile, & Jaime, I think. 🙂
I generally just pick the guy with the biggest muscles as long as there not too goofy and they generally play somewhat similar
They went so hard on grapplers with this initial roster, feels like sf6 will focus a lot more on them.
I've managed to get my list down to 4 characters, either jamie, cammy, juri or luke, but a lot of other are also interesting.
Also, command grabs do INSANE damage. Too early to tell, maybe it's a good change since typically grapplers fight an uphill battle and this helps.
@@SharkWithFreakinLaserBeam might be a good thing for grappler players, but the majority of the playerbase doesn't like when grapplers are too good and I don't see them going against the wishes of most of the community for very long.
@@MrOrzeker They need to suck it up. Command grabs from larger grapplers doing pissy damage is bullshit.
@@xaviervega468 hey we'll see, they usually end up in mid to low tier as time goes on until now.
I think they should have a fair shot like every other archetypes, but a large portion of the community hates grapplers, we'll have to wait and see if the pattern repeat itself or not.
@@MrOrzeker I'm especially expecting Manon to be the designated "go vent online every time she beats you" character for a few weeks. I think it'll take people a while to understand how to deal with her.
My top 5 characters to play off the bat are Cammy, Jamie, Deejay, Ken and Manon but the whole roster looks viable and fun. Can't wait to see what they do with Rashid, Akuma and A.K.I!!!
Cammy and Ken being rush down orientated i'm likening a lot i always tend to be good with these two, the same with DeeJay he looks to have some great mix up potential and he's back with a fake out too lets gooooooooo as i mained him in 4 very excited he's returning. The newcomers tho, Manon is an interesting take on a grappler but the Savate/Ballet angle seems fun and she's Se Magnifique. Jamie with his drunken monkey/b-boy moveset need i say more he carries such style and fluidity and looks fun as hell defo playing him.
Cammy looks interesting gameplay-wise and damn did they make her hot as all hell. Ken's demo gameplay in the video was so fluent and interesting too and I always favored Ryu over Ken but he looks amazing in this game.
DeeJay looks great in this game as well, the fakeouts look like it'll be fun to play him but might be a bit too hard for me.
I usually steer far away from grapplers in SF because of their inputs but I consider playing Zangief simply because he looks too cool to skip, and with the modern control scheme maybe he becomes easy enough for me, we'll see.
Jamie definitely looks amazing but I think he will have a steeper learning curve as you need to know which parts of kit you have access to with each drink level and also use the current level according to your current matchup, but he surely looks like a great fighter to watch.
Even Blanka looks dope and that says something in my opinion.
@@TheMaDNiaC Yes I completely agree even the likes of Zangeif and Blanka characters I never play are looking very appealing SF6 has made everyone viable.
Ken I've also kinda like a tad more than Ryu maybe due to the Fire aspect of his moveset but I'm really loving the look of him he takes the best of 5 and some of 4 the rushdown aspect shines through easily one of my most anticipated characters to get my hands on.
Jamie looks so fun with his drunken fist style that i think is also based on capoeira looks so fun
Jamie is the one I'm going for.
I like his design, and like drink system.
After 4 drinks he's so threatning
Usually a Cammy main, but I may switch to either Jamie or Manon this time.
I've mained Ken in every sf game, so it has to be Ken for me.
I just watched the entire video knowing that I've been a Jamie main since announcement. Loved learning about the characters though!
I'm bad at fighting games. I loved USF4 and played it against AI for a bit. Played MK11 with my brother quite a bit and a little bit online. Played SF5 a little against my brother and online. Out of all these, I didn't like SF5 much, it didn't have the same feel or spirit as USF4 to me. I sucked at both of them nonetheless.
SF6 on the other hand seems to have a lot of spirit and a great art style. Even the fighters which I probably won't play much due to their playstyle or difficulty of their inputs seem like great picks because they all look so cool. I think I will only skip Marisa, Lily & JP probably, but the rest of them look dope. I will probably still play Ryu for a while because he is the cornerstone of the game and I think understanding him is a good starting point. But even Zangief looks to be very very fun and I usually steer far far away from grapplers normally.
Chun-Li looking dope but I think she might be too hard. From the new characters, Jamie looks great but I think he might have a steep learning curve as well. I haven't had any of the SF5 DLCs so even though he was in SF5, I never played Luke or have seen anyone playing him online, but he looks like a very interesting pick. Not a massive MMA follower but I appreciate its inclusion as an enjoyer of the sport.
JP looks so cool. Easily the most interesting of the brand new characters IMO
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100% gonna main Jamie, his playstyle looks so fun and his drunken taunts are so funny
I laughed so hard at the Ken part lol
I can’t believe Street Fighter has gone away from 6 button layout 😢 this will take some time getting used to.
You can 100% play with the Classic 6 button layout. You just have the option not to if you want to go with Modern Controls.
Thank goodness thanks for the information bud.
1:10 Ryu "balanced", because each other character has its own feature, Ryu (and Ken) can easily resist everyone ;)
The good thing IS... we get a rank for every single hero, so you can try a few without loosing rank:)
hey john its me DSC PAPERTRAIL I WAS SURPRISED TO HEAR YOUR VOICE AHHAHAH GOOD STUFF
Amazing video thank you for going through this! Would be great to do one on mechanics now!
Ah yes, Cammy Simulator 6: featuring some other people
I usualy pick who is the most fun for me. Its lead to a varying number of mains i never thought id play
This was a very in-depth review 🤔 I want to main everyone now! 😈
Marisa is most likely to be my main, I like armoured beat down. I'll probably try Zangief and Lily too.
First Street Fighter game I’ll really be delving in you, but I can already say with the utmost confidence; Ken main for life!
I was big into sf4 on Xbox (still pissed I had to miss sf5). Top 100 with Hugo, so, while not quite the same, I'm probably gonna main Marisa. She seems the closest and I quite like the impacts she has. Kinda bummed no sagat though.
Yeah, no Sagat is a big disappointment. No Urien, Birdie either...my secondary mains. Duh...
I might pick up aki. But i just want to one trick ibuki hopefully some time in 2024
Juri, "foot"- sies
Me: That's, why I'm here...
I main muscle and shoto chars like Zangief, Ryu, Luke, Guile, Ken 💪.
Can't wait for this game. Kimberly, Manon, Jamie and Cammy are who I'm planning to dabble with on my first few days. We'll see who ends up sticking :)
JP looks like he's gonna be pretty OP at launch.
Jamie reminds me of mkx boriacho, I’ll definitely try
Got to make those FGC tears flow with those first month grappler beat downs.
Manon is 100% the designated "vent every time she beats you" character for the first few weeks.
I'll probably stick to my favorite 3: Chun-li Ken, and Juri(from SF4 as I never played SFV). I don't think Chun-li will be that hard to master, her stance is just some extra sprinkles on top. Dee-Jay and Lilly do look interesting though. I think my three faves will be both offensive and defensive. Actually, thanks to the drive system, I think we'll have an SF4 style where no one will play one character the same except for Jamie and Kimberly.
Didn't like SFV Juri either, eh? I gave her a few days to about a week and from there passed on that version.
If the PS4 version drops another next month, I can't wait to get Street Fighter 6 to buy for it!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
LILY NATION RISE UP! “The voice of the spirit, only I can hear it!”
I'm going straight to main Jamie, Juri, Ken and Kimberly
E. Honda looks mad cool, gonna smash thick tights with those palms
Manon looks so fun. I can't wait to play her
I'll be trying em all out this time, but I already know I will most likely be sticking with Gief. When there's no Akuma and no Poison, I default to grapplers like Gief or Alex. Been that way since SF2.
Blanka is a lot of fun in 6, I’ve played him almost exclusively since 4 and, IMO he’s never felt better