This was actually a really helpful video for me to watch, unironically. I think I've gotten so wrapped up in assuming that you need fancy Twitter clip combos that I've forgotten to just focus on fundamentals. Break things down to a simple gameplan and a few simple combos and everything gets so much easier. Thanks, Dia!
8:50 This is a misconception. Only the charged version of Marisa's towards HK had its forward movement increased. This move has always been her best offensive tool due to its range, ability to create spacing traps with Gladius, and the 50/50 she gets when she cancels it into drive rush.
My main takeaway is that almost every character is easy to (ge to) master lol. I'd love some kinda series where you play against people that actually know how to play the game and evaluate big the difference is to "normal" players. I'd imagine some characters are a lot more stable while others fall off quickly against people that know how to deal with the gimmicks.
i’ve been burned out on this game for months and i’ve barely played it lately, but this video is actually kind of inspirational lol. there are a few characters i still haven’t gotten to master that i want to rank up. i have a real problem with picking mains in all of the games that i play, but i’m not good enough to be able to play them all at this high of a level. i feel like i’ve learned a decent amount from playing different characters, but it has come at the consequence of plateauing at a lower level of fundamental skill, which is something that i feel like i’ll only be able to correct with commitment to one or two characters, at least for now. i’m not interested in playing most of the characters in this game, but i aspire to be good enough to play at least four or five of them proficiently (ed, terry, aki, jamie), especially once some more interesting dlc characters come out.
i love going into this expecting actually cool advice with evidence to back up the fact the advice will be good, and it's just half an hour of "ok so for this character do this one thing over and over until you win enough to get to masters"
Haha very true. And never once mentioning the fact that a normal person can't just get away with that stuff. Pros like Dia can just "do this one thing" because of their heavily trained skills with regards to match ups, spacing, and core fundamentals.
Congrats, & thanks for all that info. I like having a main & at least two subs, however small the roster in a game. Haven't got to play ranked much since starting some months ago, & went from Iron to Silver using Honda. Watched all the guides, top players, the Wiki info, & do training. Hope to go higher w/him, depending how it goes. Then maybe try a sub in ranked placement. Good point on Strive (another game I play) vs SF6. Fun vid. 🙂
It would be fantastic if you made a follow up video where you explain how to deal with everything where you said: people dont know how to deal with this or you can just do this and...
It might just feel easier since the bar for making masters means being in the top 12% of the playerbase, where as for GG the bar for celestial is closer to the top 6% of the playerbase per RU back when it still showed % of players per floor. Master rank would probably be more akin to making it to floor 10.5 in GG, where you've practiced running your character's gimmick, and now have to learn everyone else's.
Taking those Jamie tips, thx, am gonna pocket Jamie. Still can’t get used to the simplified rekkas, I think it causes more mistakes for me than if they were qcf x -> qcf x
I think most people who go for multiple master characters are just too afraid/bad to play in mr. they know the game gets hard from there so they go back to beating up lower level players. there is a reason why most master players are unranked after hitting it once
20/24 complete. Just missing Dhalsim, Honda, Lily, and Zangief! Learn your anti air, one meterless combo, one corner carry combo, and one punish counter combo, and then you’re good. Absolutely no need to deep dive into a character to get them to master unless you really want to or you’re struggling to hit master even on comfortable characters.
20:10 I have a tendency to spam that move too much, almost everyone knows how to punish it on block even in gold and plat. And they don't even need to block it, it loses to DI and they will be expecting it after 2 or 3.
Not saying marisa's anti airs are good but. u didn't use/show Marisa's AA special? With the followup. It's not a great AA invul wise but it gets her a huge combo on hit. I think her anti air is decent in a game where 90% of the cast has good anti air.
Its got the same risks as her other AA options (slow and easy to mistime, vulnerable to cross-ups) unless you use the EX version for the aerial immunity
Yea the ranked is a joke compared to SFV and previous street fighters. It had more challenge and depth because everyone started from the ground up and no placements
@@mibbzx1493making it easier to smurf adds more depth and challenge? It sounds like you just don't know how to play in diamond and rely in playing only against silver players
Nah I gotta Just say the 1st character you ever used & got to Master from gold or plat is it . The rest you placed in Diamond 5 it's not a grind to Master from there bet you suck with all characters except your Main.
Wait2 only 30-40 win and you are already a master with guile, blanka, Luke, akuma, etc? That's not a lot of matches to reach master. But your win rate is crazy man, it's above 70%, above 80 even for some character
Because the game allows you to immediately get Diamond5 on a new character and all ranks up to Master do not matter, because the MR system starts only with Master.
I stopped playing this game October of 2023, a session of literally nothing but juri and dee jay drive rush fest wore me down. It's just boring to watch and play against but so goddamn effective. That was then and now you're describing them doing the same thing. Nothing has changed lol
GoD is not the same as reaching Master. The Tekken equivalent would be getting a character to around Bushin - Tekken King. Or reversely, getting everyone to GoD would be the same as reaching 2000+ mr in Street Fighter with every character.
Is this the knee equivalent of getting every character to tekken god prime? The rank in SF6 is a joke to how how it was in previous SF games since theyade everything so easy now imo. But regardless thats awesome that you achieved one of your goals man! I think you and nephew are the only ones who have done this i believe
GoD is not the same as reaching Master. The Tekken equivalent would be getting a character to around Bushin - Tekken King. Or reversely, getting everyone to GoD would be the same as reaching 2000+ mr in Street Fighter with every character.
@@vainamoinen504 and theres no placement matches in tekken either because if it was like SF i can get place at tekken god and just climb 3 ranks and hit GoD
I kinda disagree about Marisa being easy or scrubby, at least in practice. You're very likely to go against Ken and Cammy when playing higher MMR ranked, and those particular match ups require so much thought about spacing and not getting completely swept up in a storm of lights. When Marisa gets going, it can be fairly straight forward and simple, but actually getting your turn without getting stuffed or completely shut down requires a fair bit of patience and thought.
she’s easy because she’s good against bad players and harder to play against good players. i struggled with her when i was in silver/gold before i figured out i can just fish for parries and interrupt her target combo blockstring. she relies on a lot of gimmicks to be strong which is why she isn’t as consistent in higher levels of gameplay. i like her but i wish she had more depth tbh
@ I agree, and not to sound gatekeepy, but the game kinda doesn’t begin until a certain MMR level. That’s what I meant by “in practice.” At a real skill level where both players know enough to really experience the full game, Marisa isn’t easy or even viable, in my opinion. She has to put in way more effort to make an opening and think more carefully about what moves she does. That’s just my opinion though, I’m not an expert.
You know something I'm just gonna straight say this as a person that's been using Ryu for almost 20 years he is definitely not cheap and he is definitely not easy to win with online. All the things that you listed are just wrong. You can't just do his 10 frame fierce because it's slow and everyone will just out poke you. You can't just do his donkey kick because people perfect parry it like a robot, di it, or jump it too because it's so slow. You can't just cancel into heavy hashogeki either. You said nobody knows how to punish it? People mash through that all the time because EVERYONE knows there's a huge gap in it. I'm honestly tired of watching these videos and seeing people lie. And before anybody says anything I'm Master with Ryu too. You can't do any of this gimmicky bull crap on anybody.
@КарлКарыч There is no below Master in this game dude. Everyone is just a Smurf on a secondary account that has only 15hrs of play on it or they've already gotten Master with similar characters. Haven't you seen how the stats have fallen off since release? Almost nobody you play in this game is under Master skill level.
@@КарлКарыч The games playerbase has gone down by like 75% since release. Master rank used to be around 3-4% now it's about 14% of players but that's because it's been adjusted to active/concurrent players. So almost everyone that still plays this game is on master level. You cannot go into Battle Hub and find anybody in there that isn't Master. If you do, they are clearly a Smurf where their profile says they've only played for an hour but they just sat there and got you in an anti drive reversal OS or performed Rashids 1 frame or some crazy shit.
@@КарлКарыч All I'm saying is dude is lying his ass off for content like all these damn players do. Try going online and just doing CR Fierce, spire, and command grab with Lily. I'm a Lily main and you cannot do that. They perfect parry spire, jump the command grab, and abandon footsies when you do CR Fierce and just jump. It takes REAL fundamentals/abusing the mechanics to win at this game. Dude is just lying his ass off. I don't care how many people are on his side because he's a RUclipsr.
Bros logic for saying JP is an easy character is because he got him to master playing diamond nobodies on day 2 of sf6 when no one even knew what he did What a stupid comment
Bro that man zones you out like crazy you need to know frame data to even get in this leads to a TON of carried JPs who are a rank or two higher than they should be. JP, Honda, Dhalsim tear through noobs who don't know the matchup
This video was ok but I feel like for anyone who isn't already very good at the game it wasn't too useful, maybe that wasn't the point? Although it did help when you said you just need B&B, Anti Air, Drive rush cancel move and you'll be good.
This was actually a really helpful video for me to watch, unironically. I think I've gotten so wrapped up in assuming that you need fancy Twitter clip combos that I've forgotten to just focus on fundamentals. Break things down to a simple gameplan and a few simple combos and everything gets so much easier. Thanks, Dia!
Doing these Master runs is good prep to coach the next Sajam Slam...
I am 99% sure this is why he did this. The next slam has already been announced and Sajam is already scouting players and coaches.
YEEE BABY
8:50 This is a misconception. Only the charged version of Marisa's towards HK had its forward movement increased. This move has always been her best offensive tool due to its range, ability to create spacing traps with Gladius, and the 50/50 she gets when she cancels it into drive rush.
OO thanks I blame chat for this one lol
@ Of course. I’ve spent a bunch of time making content for the character, so I always like to make sure people get the facts right.
11:08 "Street Fighter Neutral be goin steady til DJ hits you with the Ed, Edd, n Eddy"
Ngl, im black but saying you look like a bearded adam sandler gives me “all white people look the same” vibes lmfao
ngl i’m black
Ngl, I'm porcelain.
Ngl, I’m
Yeah sajam looks nothing like adam sandler, smh...
Story of my life on stream lol
My main takeaway is that almost every character is easy to (ge to) master lol. I'd love some kinda series where you play against people that actually know how to play the game and evaluate big the difference is to "normal" players. I'd imagine some characters are a lot more stable while others fall off quickly against people that know how to deal with the gimmicks.
So: Get all characters to 1600mr + challenge?
@@fettibomba4504that’s more reasonable my brain said 2000mr but that’s like world tier
i’ve been burned out on this game for months and i’ve barely played it lately, but this video is actually kind of inspirational lol. there are a few characters i still haven’t gotten to master that i want to rank up. i have a real problem with picking mains in all of the games that i play, but i’m not good enough to be able to play them all at this high of a level.
i feel like i’ve learned a decent amount from playing different characters, but it has come at the consequence of plateauing at a lower level of fundamental skill, which is something that i feel like i’ll only be able to correct with commitment to one or two characters, at least for now. i’m not interested in playing most of the characters in this game, but i aspire to be good enough to play at least four or five of them proficiently (ed, terry, aki, jamie), especially once some more interesting dlc characters come out.
As a Sim main you literally got it in a nutshell. Hes pretty complex, but you dont have to do really anything other than 3 combos.
Anti air
DI
Win
8:28 The Marisa infinite is a thing of glory.
i love going into this expecting actually cool advice with evidence to back up the fact the advice will be good, and it's just half an hour of "ok so for this character do this one thing over and over until you win enough to get to masters"
Haha very true. And never once mentioning the fact that a normal person can't just get away with that stuff.
Pros like Dia can just "do this one thing" because of their heavily trained skills with regards to match ups, spacing, and core fundamentals.
I believe that the Dhalsim teleport set up is done with air light kick instead of jab. I think that one hits crouching
So every character is easy and cheap, and some are even more easy and cheap than others, lol XD
That sums up the game pretty well.
This makes me wanna go back to SF6 and play Kimberly. Tekken has had me in a chokehold
Can't wait for roblox tekken to get ranked so we can get all the characters mastered in that game
"This character is easy"
Manon weakness to heavy kick is DI timed
“This character is pretty easy” - Diaphone about more than half the roster 😂
In this video: Diaphone says your main is easy
(Great video though, super useful tips! thank you!)
Awesome news, would love to see a 'tips to playing SF6 in 2025' video next :)
Congrats, & thanks for all that info. I like having a main & at least two subs, however small the roster in a game.
Haven't got to play ranked much since starting some months ago, & went from Iron to Silver using Honda. Watched all the guides, top players, the Wiki info, & do training.
Hope to go higher w/him, depending how it goes. Then maybe try a sub in ranked placement.
Good point on Strive (another game I play) vs SF6. Fun vid. 🙂
I’d pay money to see Adam Sandler play diaphone in a bio pic😂😂😂😂
It would be fantastic if you made a follow up video where you explain how to deal with everything where you said: people dont know how to deal with this or you can just do this and...
It might just feel easier since the bar for making masters means being in the top 12% of the playerbase, where as for GG the bar for celestial is closer to the top 6% of the playerbase per RU back when it still showed % of players per floor. Master rank would probably be more akin to making it to floor 10.5 in GG, where you've practiced running your character's gimmick, and now have to learn everyone else's.
Just wanted to let you know that at 2:35 you blurred your dms, but there is 1 frame where they are clearly readable. I was watching at 1080p60HD.
I’m upset you made me look at it
Liar or he fixed it
Taking those Jamie tips, thx, am gonna pocket Jamie. Still can’t get used to the simplified rekkas, I think it causes more mistakes for me than if they were qcf x -> qcf x
I think most people who go for multiple master characters are just too afraid/bad to play in mr. they know the game gets hard from there so they go back to beating up lower level players.
there is a reason why most master players are unranked after hitting it once
20/24 complete. Just missing Dhalsim, Honda, Lily, and Zangief! Learn your anti air, one meterless combo, one corner carry combo, and one punish counter combo, and then you’re good. Absolutely no need to deep dive into a character to get them to master unless you really want to or you’re struggling to hit master even on comfortable characters.
28:50 you can make it real with a j.LK tho then you lose the yogablast so it does end the loop ultimately unless you use driverush
Just an FYI for anyone learning Ed, 5HP > L Flicker is a true string that can’t be DI’d
Diamond was easier recently because you got better. Diamond is full of players like you getting their 10th character to masters.
9:23 Chat is the best :)
I wonder how similar or different Sajam's video of everyone to masters vs Diaphone's. A year apart and different types of players
Deejays drive rush is so criminally good im always one or two bad losses from Dee Jay away from starting to play him lol
Drive Rush frequently with Kimberly? Good to know! 😎
"Stop them from jumping" on Zangief? But I want to airgrab them lol, it's fun
I tried to do this and gave up after 6 characters lol well done
20:10 I have a tendency to spam that move too much, almost everyone knows how to punish it on block even in gold and plat. And they don't even need to block it, it loses to DI and they will be expecting it after 2 or 3.
8:13 i think marisas LP QCB is an anti air. It says so in her character guide at least
Will you be able to master Ryougi Shiki when she comes to sf6?
Only got Chun to Master so far. Currently practicing hitbox and planning to get Akuma and Mai to Master with it... Maybe Juri on the way.
Manon's s.HK is easy to DI
You have a lot of free time I guess is what you learned.
What's the name of the song on minute 28:12 ?
Not you saying Ken’s fireball is really cheap when it’s the most punishable fireballs next to DJ Heavy booms 😂
Adam Sandler wishes he was that handsome
Skills
17 seconds ago! what a goat lol
@2:55 400 hrs and gold is crazy-chat
Dude looks nothing like Adam Sandler lmao
Not saying marisa's anti airs are good but. u didn't use/show Marisa's AA special? With the followup. It's not a great AA invul wise but it gets her a huge combo on hit. I think her anti air is decent in a game where 90% of the cast has good anti air.
Its got the same risks as her other AA options (slow and easy to mistime, vulnerable to cross-ups) unless you use the EX version for the aerial immunity
Im gonna play offline against my dad my sparring partner
Hey man, don't tell everyone that Dhalsim teleport pressure is fake, I need that!!
just started playing random again today haha
it's easier to have every single characters in master when you start in diamond, meanwhile, I start on silver every single time.
Yea the ranked is a joke compared to SFV and previous street fighters. It had more challenge and depth because everyone started from the ground up and no placements
U start at silver because you are a silver player lol
@@mibbzx1493making it easier to smurf adds more depth and challenge? It sounds like you just don't know how to play in diamond and rely in playing only against silver players
If you start at silver everytime it’s cuz u don’t have any characters higher than silver
@ ?? Tf im never been in silver its him you talking to not me 😂
"Play Ruy he's cheap". Here I was thinking I was playing an honest character 😆
Everytime I see you @diaphone I swear you look like Tony hawk
15:25 me and all my homies hate blanka
ok
Nah I gotta Just say the 1st character you ever used & got to Master from gold or plat is it . The rest you placed in Diamond 5 it's not a grind to Master from there bet you suck with all characters except your Main.
Wait2 only 30-40 win and you are already a master with guile, blanka, Luke, akuma, etc? That's not a lot of matches to reach master. But your win rate is crazy man, it's above 70%, above 80 even for some character
It's a common thing when 2000MR+ player gets to diamond
@lavrentii-kolotushkin wow only 2k and you are already in diamond? That's low isn't it? I thought sf 6 is doing great?
@@dav1dgear 2000MR is a Legend rank (mid ranked season)
Because the game allows you to immediately get Diamond5 on a new character and all ranks up to Master do not matter, because the MR system starts only with Master.
@@dav1dgearI think you got a little bit confused
15:00 me and all my homies hate honda
But can you win a tournament?
I stopped playing this game October of 2023, a session of literally nothing but juri and dee jay drive rush fest wore me down. It's just boring to watch and play against but so goddamn effective. That was then and now you're describing them doing the same thing. Nothing has changed lol
That's the latest shit I've ever heard...
"u look like an Adam Sandler w/ a beard..." 🤣
That you have too much free time on your hands 😂.
Master me next 😔
Every character to G.O.D in tekken 8 next ?
Only Knee pulled that off bro
@@mibbzx1493 BlackHeart did as well.
GoD is not the same as reaching Master. The Tekken equivalent would be getting a character to around Bushin - Tekken King. Or reversely, getting everyone to GoD would be the same as reaching 2000+ mr in Street Fighter with every character.
@@vainamoinen504 oh yea blackheart too you right 🔥
Mane said juri the easy meanwhile im stuck in plat . Cant stand people that’s good lol
To some it up scrubby ass game lol
Street fighter 6 is not that hard to play
Hearing “Honda is brain dead” hurts so much. I’m still struggling to get medium punch into hundred hand slap out, I’ve been working on it all week 😅
More heavy headbutt it drains opponents drive meter for no reason and its such a silly move
Yeah Chun overhead flip is cheap at lower ranks. I’ve stopped using it in master cause you can get absolutely blown up for using it.
It loses to everything including lows lol yeah it's a bit risky.
Is this the knee equivalent of getting every character to tekken god prime? The rank in SF6 is a joke to how how it was in previous SF games since theyade everything so easy now imo. But regardless thats awesome that you achieved one of your goals man! I think you and nephew are the only ones who have done this i believe
GoD is not the same as reaching Master. The Tekken equivalent would be getting a character to around Bushin - Tekken King. Or reversely, getting everyone to GoD would be the same as reaching 2000+ mr in Street Fighter with every character.
@ i know but it would take years to do
@@vainamoinen504 and theres no placement matches in tekken either because if it was like SF i can get place at tekken god and just climb 3 ranks and hit GoD
I kinda disagree about Marisa being easy or scrubby, at least in practice. You're very likely to go against Ken and Cammy when playing higher MMR ranked, and those particular match ups require so much thought about spacing and not getting completely swept up in a storm of lights. When Marisa gets going, it can be fairly straight forward and simple, but actually getting your turn without getting stuffed or completely shut down requires a fair bit of patience and thought.
He‘s talking about bringing her to Masters, not fighting 1800 MR players.
she’s easy because she’s good against bad players and harder to play against good players. i struggled with her when i was in silver/gold before i figured out i can just fish for parries and interrupt her target combo blockstring. she relies on a lot of gimmicks to be strong which is why she isn’t as consistent in higher levels of gameplay. i like her but i wish she had more depth tbh
@ I agree, and not to sound gatekeepy, but the game kinda doesn’t begin until a certain MMR level. That’s what I meant by “in practice.” At a real skill level where both players know enough to really experience the full game, Marisa isn’t easy or even viable, in my opinion. She has to put in way more effort to make an opening and think more carefully about what moves she does. That’s just my opinion though, I’m not an expert.
It CatCammy's last matchup chart statistics, Marisa was one of Cammy's worst matchups in 1800+ LOL
@ Unless I’m reading it wrong, Marisa seems to be about halfway on that chart. Not particularly bad for cammy but not fantastic either.
You know something I'm just gonna straight say this as a person that's been using Ryu for almost 20 years he is definitely not cheap and he is definitely not easy to win with online. All the things that you listed are just wrong. You can't just do his 10 frame fierce because it's slow and everyone will just out poke you. You can't just do his donkey kick because people perfect parry it like a robot, di it, or jump it too because it's so slow. You can't just cancel into heavy hashogeki either. You said nobody knows how to punish it? People mash through that all the time because EVERYONE knows there's a huge gap in it. I'm honestly tired of watching these videos and seeing people lie. And before anybody says anything I'm Master with Ryu too. You can't do any of this gimmicky bull crap on anybody.
Bro, the video is only about playing BELOW the master league... Seems like 20 years of playing Ryu just melted your brains...
@КарлКарыч There is no below Master in this game dude. Everyone is just a Smurf on a secondary account that has only 15hrs of play on it or they've already gotten Master with similar characters. Haven't you seen how the stats have fallen off since release? Almost nobody you play in this game is under Master skill level.
@@thatboytoni238 What exactly do you mean by "everyone"? How many percents?
@@КарлКарыч The games playerbase has gone down by like 75% since release. Master rank used to be around 3-4% now it's about 14% of players but that's because it's been adjusted to active/concurrent players. So almost everyone that still plays this game is on master level. You cannot go into Battle Hub and find anybody in there that isn't Master. If you do, they are clearly a Smurf where their profile says they've only played for an hour but they just sat there and got you in an anti drive reversal OS or performed Rashids 1 frame or some crazy shit.
@@КарлКарыч All I'm saying is dude is lying his ass off for content like all these damn players do. Try going online and just doing CR Fierce, spire, and command grab with Lily. I'm a Lily main and you cannot do that. They perfect parry spire, jump the command grab, and abandon footsies when you do CR Fierce and just jump. It takes REAL fundamentals/abusing the mechanics to win at this game. Dude is just lying his ass off. I don't care how many people are on his side because he's a RUclipsr.
That the game fucking sucks?
Sf6 is dead now get to warlord on sfv
Factsss mf
Getting a character to A rank on usf4 is harder than master on sf4
Let alone grandmaster in usf4
Ok
Very true and even SFV had way more tanks and didnt start you at diamond you had to grind from the bottom and work your way up
Bros logic for saying JP is an easy character is because he got him to master playing diamond nobodies on day 2 of sf6 when no one even knew what he did
What a stupid comment
Bros logic for why Diaphone is wrong is.... not even laid out at all. You didnt even give one reason. What a stupid comment.
Bro that man zones you out like crazy you need to know frame data to even get in this leads to a TON of carried JPs who are a rank or two higher than they should be. JP, Honda, Dhalsim tear through noobs who don't know the matchup
This video was ok but I feel like for anyone who isn't already very good at the game it wasn't too useful, maybe that wasn't the point? Although it did help when you said you just need B&B, Anti Air, Drive rush cancel move and you'll be good.