A tip I got from watching that Aki player, Hikaru, was that you could do aki's safejump by just holding down back in the air and using j.2hk if they tech back and j.2hp if they don't recover backwards. I find it easier than switching between j.hp and j.2hp. It feels like you can hit it later than you could with regular j.hp as well. Thanks for the video.
One thing to note about this is that you still need to react by switching to holding down-forward if they recover in place for it to be a safe jump so you still need to react with your directional input. It is still superior because now you also have the extra hitstun time to switch to down-forward but it's worth keeping in mind, and I think makes the 2 options closer to where you can just choose whichever feels the most natural.
I think she is quite a "snowball" character which people don't really get at the moment because of how her neutral is perceived due to her buttons and lack of +2 light/medium on drive rush. The current read of the meta make her flaws feel worse than they possibly are and we see aki as this weird tricky character when she is, as you explained, an okizeme/pressure monster with very high damage potential. Her snowball off one opening is actually scary. But I think it also come to "How do you effectively drain the opponent drive gauge?" and "How can you play neutral to avoid being bullied?". Characters like Cammy feel very dangerous for Aki, it is why I feel she is maybe not the best "tournament" one despite her looking super good to roll on people through pool.
Yeah, I played a couple of matches against a master AKI, which is a matchup I don’t know at all (they’re pretty rare online for me), and the dude absolutely wrecked my shit in the corner, felt like watching a goddamn cinematic and he ripped 60% of my health without me finding any answer. Granted I’m not that good a player but damn, I felt schooled like never before.
See I like watching Broski because he's clearly enjoying the character as much as I am. Thanks for all the fantastic tips and tech, I keep having to rewind your videos to write down some new setup I've never seen before so you must be doing something right.
people are only putting AKI at the bottom of their tier lists because canonically she's FANG's apprentice, it's just the residual low-tier energy surrounding her
Basically she's an extreme character. Really good offense, really poor defense. I rly don't get why there is such debate. She looks op when she wins and looks trash when she looses lol. I like that kind of design, i feel like characters can have flaws and still be interesting and capable of winning.
The core complaints thst I see is that while her damage potential is really high, she has to get 2 wins in a row to get there and her mix just isn't as good as some other characters. A character can have advantages and still be bad. Imo aki is still a good character, I still believe in her, its why I main her. But I definitely see where people are coming from when they say she's bad.
@@thecoolkid440 Its not her mix. Not at all. Yes, I can win in 2-3 interactions, but I have god awful buttons, god awful neutral and Absolutely no plus frames. Literally all my drive rush buttons are +1. So I can blow you up, but its a struggle to put you in the situations in where I blow you up. The video displays Drive rush after bubble, yes... but once I have you on guard what can I do? MP, C.LP? That's it. HK, CC.K? That's it there too. Light target into heavy bubble? You get the point. It all ends with me in negative or neutral. She's not as uphill battle as Gief, but she's like Gief in this sense and we're not going to say Gief is good, right? I dont think she's the worst character in the game like Diago says, but I don't think she's very stellar either... and I main her. I love playing her, but man... lol She shines when she gets the knockdown, but getting there...
You forgot the follow-up whip to her fireball is also a projectile strike, and the projectile burst from it is also a projectile. Yes, every single one of her specials either is a projectile, has projectile invincibility, or goes over/under projectiles.
A.K.I is honestly one of the most fun fighting game characters I've played. I used to main Luke and i still like him but the process of getting better with A.K.I has been so fun that i can't really go back
Problem is, I came to A.K.I expecting a mid ranger semi-zoner that could play footsies very well and then pressure when she managed to stick her win condition. I suspected that she could have very strong okizeme from the limited time that I've tried her, but still isn't what I was looking for. So I understand very well why most people dismissed A.K.I very quickly as well, her greatest strength is something that the top tiers already do very well, while she struggles on most other areas, and something that should have been her strong point, which is the mid range game, is cursed by bad framedata and hurtboxes that are too big, as well as mostly everything being very vulnerable to universal system mechanics.
Did you even pay attention to the video. Just because a character is not set up the way you want them to be. Does not make them weak. Play the character you like but don't assume a character is weak just because they don't fit into your agenda. It was like the whole video went right over your head.
It's worth mentioning that all 3 of her slides are great Anti fireball tools too. I found that light kick slide is great for bating people into doing big punishes for anticipation of heavy slide.
ive always contended that pro-level players are often too quick to judge characters since they have vastly different priorities and need characters to fit into a box in order to justify their use at launch. they have pay cheques on the line, after all. they dont have time to fiddle with characters like other people do. new characters either fit the existing agree-upon meta framework or they dont i think you did a good job of illustrating that AKI takes a bit of work to appreciate and the payoff is potentially extremely high, even against the highest tier characters in the game i completely expect AKI to eventually be embraced by japanese pro players over time as they continue to experiment (or more likely beaten up when they encounter better and better AKI players online). it wouldnt be the first time a character landed with a thud only to turn around and be considered tournament-viable later on
As an AKI main myself, I agree with all that you said and find all these tools to be really really fun, but I still see a few issues that make her feel kinda weak or unfinished, in spite of that. -If you happen to randomly punish counter (for example a whiffed light that you couldn't see) with her 5HK, the heel strike followup whiffs and you get punished for it. It's very difficult to not do it, since you need to do it immediately on normal hit. Getting punished for landing a random whiff punish feels very bad. -Her 5MP range is deceptively short and will often whiff when landing drive rush 2MK or 6HK from certain ranges, which feels really bad as it's her main way of comboing from them. -Her fireball is super punishable on reaction, unless you're full screen away, which is a range at which she does not excel. That's about it, and I feel these weaknesses are pretty severe in many matchups. She's still my beloved main, but I wish these issues were not so prominent !
You can actually option select the punish counter due to the priority system. Do the snakestep timing as usual but after, before you hit kick, do qcb and then hit heavy kick. That will make it so if you get the punish counter due to AKI's priority system the cruel fate will over write the snake step when a punish counter happens.
@@grandsquanchrum Interesting! But I also forgot to mention that Cruel Fate does not combo from certain ranges on a punish HK, which makes you miss a huge opportunity + leaves you at -3 up close... Another inconsistency :(
Another part of Aki's burnout pressure that i think is overlooked is her chip damage. It's nothing to sneeze at. Her coward crouch jumping drill attack especially is surprisingly nasty, obviously it's not safe on block even in burnout but i think it might legitimate kill people at 5-8% health via chip damage.
4:07 The drive differential here isnt so simple. Raw drive rush has a longer recovery cooldown than ex moves, so if you get knocked down by the ex fireball and your opponent starts a block string (or hits you) you can be big down in drive while theirs recovers
I hear a bunch of stuff about how certain characters are good or bad and then I play online and I’m always surprised at how individual players uniquely utilize their characters skill sets. I think every character requires a different mindset and play-style (some more straightforward and simple than others) and I really think the game is pretty balanced, despite characters like Ken, Luke and JP. But yeah, I had a feeling AKI has strengths and techniques people just haven’t discovered yet. Great analysis!
I feel like people wrote AKI off way too fast. She's a fairly technical character that's taking more time to develop than someone like Ken who's positive attributes are immediately visible. I don't know about "secret top tier" but I definitely don't think she's a useless character like most of Japan seems to think. .... Plus she's just so much God damn fun to play, even if she was bad I'd still use her based on that alone.
I think the reason so many people don't believe in Aki is that her neutral is sub-par. However many strong situational strengths she might have, she's still fighting uphill for most of the match. Granted, she is probably better than what people credit her for, but SnakeEyez said the same about Gief. System mechanics are a great equalizer in this game that doesn't let the gap from top to bottom tier reach "unplayable" levels. That being said, this works as a nice tips guide and she's way too fun to care about viability as a casual anyway, so thanks for the pointers! lol
It's pretty well known that AKI has these strengths and it's kinda impressive how well balanced sf6 is (at least character wise) that even "bad" characters can still be made to work. The issue is that her buttons and defensive options in the corner are comparatively very bad. Checking drive rush with AKI feels like hell at times. I'd be interested to know what you think about the MUs that are perceived by the Japanese players to be terrible for AKI (Cammy, Lily, Luke, DJ, etc).
Aki sits right next to Marisa when it comes strength. they are very similar with both having very strong offence but lacking in defense both are also somewhat lacking in neutral, both also have inconsistent anti airs that lead to a eating full combo if they fail. which makes playing them very frustrating at times and leads to matches where you either roll your opponent with very strong offence or get rolled due to lacking defense
the problem is tournament consistency and effort that other characters (mainly top tiers) have to put in. Daigo is 100% coming at this with tournament consistency. in her current state and how volatile neutral is in this game; imo, the difficulty in establishing your neutral to even access all of the strengths that you list, is the main thing that i think will hold this character back in the current meta.
You know i bougjt both dlc characters just to have them when i was maining manon and i recently decided to switch and when i looked at rashid and aki...i became the turbulent wind! Hes picture perfect! Akis cool tho
Honestly the only change I really want is a buff to her normals. When I’m outside of standing mp range I feel like any button or special move I use is SUPER susceptible to jumps, impacts and whiff punishes. It feels like you’re getting mixed messages when you have to play defensively but her offense is where she shines. Idk tho
I feel like 6 is kinda breaking the mind of its fanbase because you see people having to label decent characters as "low/bottom tiers" despite them... being decent It's like the idea of a game with no true low tiers is this incomprehensible concept
I love AKI, and your videos are a big inspiration for me! I still find myself getting pretty down on her when I whiff her crLP or any of her anti-airs in situations where I'm pretty confident, but I guess that's still my lack of familiarity. Also when I fight Cammy, I tend to get pretty down on AKI lol. But idk, I just love the character, and I'll keep playing her regardless of what the consensus opinion is. I don't know if AKI is the worst, but it seems like if you don't think she is bottom 1, maybe you have an opinion that some character is worse than her? I'd be interested to hear, but I also get that it's just tough to say.
I 100 percent agree with all of this, and this is the best I've heard any AKI player explain it her kit as a whole. I also feel like she is meant to be played more aggressively but not ex I completely understand why her defense is sub par and her buttons are slow and negative. Unfortunately I think AKI as a whole is basically a gamble, but I feel like with time she will be A tier at least. She just gets absolutely smothered on defense. Worse than anyone in the game or at least tied with gief. On that note I think Gief and her actually play a similar kind of game with her capitalizing on oki damage and burnout pressure and gief with Command grab threats and great normals. They also basically have the same problem on defense. I think it's as simple as if a character doesn't have a decent get off me reversal option they are going to live and die by surviving the corner.
I think she's got enough sauce to be viable at a high level. I've got both Marisa and AKI to master, and I have to say it's pretty funny how despite the differences they both boil down to mid tier neutral with pretty strong oki with punishing damage. (Marisa so easy to get that damage though!) Completely agree with point 5: being poisoned in the corner is going to cause people to eat throw loops and make mistakes.
He had no problems facing Top Luke players back in SFV with Guile and even at the early access of SF6 only using Ryu. I guess his statement was just from a personal perspective.
Everyone thought Blanka was just gimmicky and bottom of midtier/top of lowtier early in the game. Until people started learning how to use all his abilities. AKI is more complex by a lot so that makes her REALLY hard to use giving the illusion she's bad.
Honestly I don't think anyone doubted Blanka. He was given a fair chance to shine. People only saw him as a gimmick because of his appearances in past Street Fighters
Players I respect so far - Ryu, Zangief and AKI players. Players that are really good with those characters are damn good fundamentals knowledge and a great understanding of their character. For sure. I only thing I dislike about certain Zangief players though is low jab spamming due to taking advantage of the game's very messy Hitboxes per character.
Justin Wong steamrolled Brian F.'s JP with his AKI, 3 perfects in a row at some point. She is a very hard character to use, for sure, but I agree, she is not that week.
I feel like this depends on you being way too good of a player. These options are so risky and unsafe. These are technically tools, but having two good tools like Guile trumps having bajillion technically doable but risky tools like AKI.
I agree she has a lot of strong opinions for her offense and oki. The problem isn’t her offense or oki. It’s the defense which is the major problem and keeps her towards the bottom of the cast.
She's all about c.jab-c.jab combo. No neutral game, nothing else. All the AKI's follow the flowchart, no mather the rank, fireball>DR>combo/grab... She is so unidimensional, there are so many characters that can do the same but better, because they have way better normals and options.
Didn’t Hikaru recently burry Diago with AKI??? No wonder why he’s mad…. As for Nemo he was exaggerating/joking. I dont think he thinks shes bottom though I dont think he thinks shes top either
7:21 so let me get this right... You're saying that the problem is ; if they don't back roll, you get a *cross up meaty safe jump* wich... I guess is bad ? 😮 Maybe you'll answer my question in the next second of the video, but you flabergasp me right now and I needed to telling this ! Good content btw 🔥💯🔥
The problem is that you have to guess whether they are going to backroll or not. Which isn't that bad, but is harder than having one option that covers both
I'm honestly not sure why people still religiously class Daigo up there among the best when the ""best"" run he's had in SF6 was an online qualifier and there he went 4th. For a man who has been grinding insane hours of this game and participating in as many events and things as he possibly can, he's honestly had hilariously bad results. Yes, he's "an icon" of the FGC, but lets be honest with ourselves, he's not had a singular actual victory in any event in 2 years down to the very day this is posted. We have people in the FGC who are better now than Daigo was at his peak comparatively with how much better the general landscape of the genre is now than it was in the past.
bro shut up lmao. he was in top 8 of EVO literally last year. you're clueless saying shit like "no singular victory in any event in 2 years" bro...how many events do you think there are??? by this classification there are only like...ten good players, max, if they have to win a major event within the last two years or be considered bad. hilariously bad? this isn't sports, dude, you can't just call the football players trash from the comfort of your own couch safe in the knowledge you exist in separate realms. you can Daigo are playing the exact same game with the exact same rules, and the exact same path to victory. the only difference is skill. you wanna know what would look hilariously bad? if you tried to challenge Daigo in a first to ten.
It's not that he's the best, it's that he's been consistently in the top class of competitors for many years. It's much harder to stay at the top than to be the best at one time. Indeed his current performance has been lacking in SF6, but to deny all his life achievements on an opinion of his assessment on character strength, which he has repeatedly said he was terrible in, is a very underhanded dis.
4th is bad Lmao. I love how random people can muster that much confidence. He's being consistent, now you can disagree with him. But to question his whole history while not achieving the same his questioning.
Give A.K.I. tengu stones already
perhaps the real tengu stones were the friends we made along the way
Floating poison tethered blades would be a beast super
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@@21Handguns so true
Ryu should be the one to get stones, IMO
A tip I got from watching that Aki player, Hikaru, was that you could do aki's safejump by just holding down back in the air and using j.2hk if they tech back and j.2hp if they don't recover backwards. I find it easier than switching between j.hp and j.2hp. It feels like you can hit it later than you could with regular j.hp as well. Thanks for the video.
One thing to note about this is that you still need to react by switching to holding down-forward if they recover in place for it to be a safe jump so you still need to react with your directional input. It is still superior because now you also have the extra hitstun time to switch to down-forward but it's worth keeping in mind, and I think makes the 2 options closer to where you can just choose whichever feels the most natural.
I think she is quite a "snowball" character which people don't really get at the moment because of how her neutral is perceived due to her buttons and lack of +2 light/medium on drive rush. The current read of the meta make her flaws feel worse than they possibly are and we see aki as this weird tricky character when she is, as you explained, an okizeme/pressure monster with very high damage potential. Her snowball off one opening is actually scary.
But I think it also come to "How do you effectively drain the opponent drive gauge?" and "How can you play neutral to avoid being bullied?".
Characters like Cammy feel very dangerous for Aki, it is why I feel she is maybe not the best "tournament" one despite her looking super good to roll on people through pool.
Yeah, I played a couple of matches against a master AKI, which is a matchup I don’t know at all (they’re pretty rare online for me), and the dude absolutely wrecked my shit in the corner, felt like watching a goddamn cinematic and he ripped 60% of my health without me finding any answer.
Granted I’m not that good a player but damn, I felt schooled like never before.
This is actually just a really clean intermediate guide to aki. Love it.
Holy shit, +84 in the corner, that's insane. I'm gonna train up a bit more, I'm a believer.
After seeing what you did in redbull kumite, changed my perspective on aki
See I like watching Broski because he's clearly enjoying the character as much as I am. Thanks for all the fantastic tips and tech, I keep having to rewind your videos to write down some new setup I've never seen before so you must be doing something right.
people are only putting AKI at the bottom of their tier lists because canonically she's FANG's apprentice, it's just the residual low-tier energy surrounding her
Basically she's an extreme character. Really good offense, really poor defense. I rly don't get why there is such debate. She looks op when she wins and looks trash when she looses lol. I like that kind of design, i feel like characters can have flaws and still be interesting and capable of winning.
Un aubin sauvage repéré en pleine nature! (J'adore tes vidéos tu fais un excellent taff) (à quand un review massive de sf6 clin d'œil clin d'œil?)
The core complaints thst I see is that while her damage potential is really high, she has to get 2 wins in a row to get there and her mix just isn't as good as some other characters. A character can have advantages and still be bad.
Imo aki is still a good character, I still believe in her, its why I main her. But I definitely see where people are coming from when they say she's bad.
You'd like guilty gear then. Strive is loaded with characters like that.
@@thecoolkid440 Its not her mix. Not at all. Yes, I can win in 2-3 interactions, but I have god awful buttons, god awful neutral and Absolutely no plus frames. Literally all my drive rush buttons are +1.
So I can blow you up, but its a struggle to put you in the situations in where I blow you up. The video displays Drive rush after bubble, yes... but once I have you on guard what can I do? MP, C.LP? That's it. HK, CC.K? That's it there too. Light target into heavy bubble? You get the point. It all ends with me in negative or neutral. She's not as uphill battle as Gief, but she's like Gief in this sense and we're not going to say Gief is good, right?
I dont think she's the worst character in the game like Diago says, but I don't think she's very stellar either... and I main her. I love playing her, but man... lol
She shines when she gets the knockdown, but getting there...
Her offense is only good when she gets a knockdown, her neutral is terrible
You forgot the follow-up whip to her fireball is also a projectile strike, and the projectile burst from it is also a projectile.
Yes, every single one of her specials either is a projectile, has projectile invincibility, or goes over/under projectiles.
A.K.I is honestly one of the most fun fighting game characters I've played. I used to main Luke and i still like him but the process of getting better with A.K.I has been so fun that i can't really go back
This is the content I'm talking about, we have to farm those Daigo's opinions man xD
Problem is, I came to A.K.I expecting a mid ranger semi-zoner that could play footsies very well and then pressure when she managed to stick her win condition.
I suspected that she could have very strong okizeme from the limited time that I've tried her, but still isn't what I was looking for. So I understand very well why most people dismissed A.K.I very quickly as well, her greatest strength is something that the top tiers already do very well, while she struggles on most other areas, and something that should have been her strong point, which is the mid range game, is cursed by bad framedata and hurtboxes that are too big, as well as mostly everything being very vulnerable to universal system mechanics.
Did you even pay attention to the video. Just because a character is not set up the way you want them to be. Does not make them weak. Play the character you like but don't assume a character is weak just because they don't fit into your agenda. It was like the whole video went right over your head.
@@thereviewartistrrp5493hilarious since the comment you replied to is at least partially validated through his next video.
It's worth mentioning that all 3 of her slides are great Anti fireball tools too. I found that light kick slide is great for bating people into doing big punishes for anticipation of heavy slide.
O k, he doesn't mention this lied LOL.😅
ive always contended that pro-level players are often too quick to judge characters since they have vastly different priorities and need characters to fit into a box in order to justify their use at launch. they have pay cheques on the line, after all. they dont have time to fiddle with characters like other people do. new characters either fit the existing agree-upon meta framework or they dont
i think you did a good job of illustrating that AKI takes a bit of work to appreciate and the payoff is potentially extremely high, even against the highest tier characters in the game
i completely expect AKI to eventually be embraced by japanese pro players over time as they continue to experiment (or more likely beaten up when they encounter better and better AKI players online). it wouldnt be the first time a character landed with a thud only to turn around and be considered tournament-viable later on
As an AKI main myself, I agree with all that you said and find all these tools to be really really fun, but I still see a few issues that make her feel kinda weak or unfinished, in spite of that.
-If you happen to randomly punish counter (for example a whiffed light that you couldn't see) with her 5HK, the heel strike followup whiffs and you get punished for it. It's very difficult to not do it, since you need to do it immediately on normal hit. Getting punished for landing a random whiff punish feels very bad.
-Her 5MP range is deceptively short and will often whiff when landing drive rush 2MK or 6HK from certain ranges, which feels really bad as it's her main way of comboing from them.
-Her fireball is super punishable on reaction, unless you're full screen away, which is a range at which she does not excel.
That's about it, and I feel these weaknesses are pretty severe in many matchups. She's still my beloved main, but I wish these issues were not so prominent !
You can actually option select the punish counter due to the priority system. Do the snakestep timing as usual but after, before you hit kick, do qcb and then hit heavy kick. That will make it so if you get the punish counter due to AKI's priority system the cruel fate will over write the snake step when a punish counter happens.
@@grandsquanchrum Interesting! But I also forgot to mention that Cruel Fate does not combo from certain ranges on a punish HK, which makes you miss a huge opportunity + leaves you at -3 up close... Another inconsistency :(
Haven't seen the video but the way Mono used her against Luke’s fireball was very OP in my opinion and being slept on
Another part of Aki's burnout pressure that i think is overlooked is her chip damage. It's nothing to sneeze at. Her coward crouch jumping drill attack especially is surprisingly nasty, obviously it's not safe on block even in burnout but i think it might legitimate kill people at 5-8% health via chip damage.
4:07 The drive differential here isnt so simple. Raw drive rush has a longer recovery cooldown than ex moves, so if you get knocked down by the ex fireball and your opponent starts a block string (or hits you) you can be big down in drive while theirs recovers
Daigo is just having flashbacks of his last time in AKIhabara
She’s the worst character in the game because you need good awareness and, sadly, I’m absolutely brain dead
Tried playing A.K.I after months of maining Manon, but my brain was not ready for combos longer than command grab
@@lolozo214 gief did that to me
I hear a bunch of stuff about how certain characters are good or bad and then I play online and I’m always surprised at how individual players uniquely utilize their characters skill sets. I think every character requires a different mindset and play-style (some more straightforward and simple than others) and I really think the game is pretty balanced, despite characters like Ken, Luke and JP. But yeah, I had a feeling AKI has strengths and techniques people just haven’t discovered yet. Great analysis!
I feel like people wrote AKI off way too fast. She's a fairly technical character that's taking more time to develop than someone like Ken who's positive attributes are immediately visible.
I don't know about "secret top tier" but I definitely don't think she's a useless character like most of Japan seems to think.
.... Plus she's just so much God damn fun to play, even if she was bad I'd still use her based on that alone.
It's my oppinion that the true strength for AKi is not yet known, people still have to figure her out. Thanks for doing exactly that!
My impression is that she's still on the lower end of things, but not rock bottom.
8:44 don't know if it's worth it, but in that OH setup you can add 5LK to the frame kill and meaty 2MK
it's +7 on CH, so should be +5 on hit but I'm inconsistent with it
the range to pick up after is iffy though
I think the reason so many people don't believe in Aki is that her neutral is sub-par. However many strong situational strengths she might have, she's still fighting uphill for most of the match. Granted, she is probably better than what people credit her for, but SnakeEyez said the same about Gief. System mechanics are a great equalizer in this game that doesn't let the gap from top to bottom tier reach "unplayable" levels. That being said, this works as a nice tips guide and she's way too fun to care about viability as a casual anyway, so thanks for the pointers! lol
It's pretty well known that AKI has these strengths and it's kinda impressive how well balanced sf6 is (at least character wise) that even "bad" characters can still be made to work. The issue is that her buttons and defensive options in the corner are comparatively very bad. Checking drive rush with AKI feels like hell at times. I'd be interested to know what you think about the MUs that are perceived by the Japanese players to be terrible for AKI (Cammy, Lily, Luke, DJ, etc).
Aki sits right next to Marisa when it comes strength. they are very similar with both having very strong offence but lacking in defense both are also somewhat lacking in neutral, both also have inconsistent anti airs that lead to a eating full combo if they fail. which makes playing them very frustrating at times and leads to matches where you either roll your opponent with very strong offence or get rolled due to lacking defense
@SpiteHook she most certainly can as she has a 70% damage combo Marisa is just much better at it
Clicked for Aki content, stayed for the kickass Pokémon music.
Fantastic strategic analysis and demonstration, Broski! She's so dangerous!
😂Daigo just got better at streaming:
Have bad take, generate _eNgAgEmEnT_
the problem is tournament consistency and effort that other characters (mainly top tiers) have to put in. Daigo is 100% coming at this with tournament consistency. in her current state and how volatile neutral is in this game; imo, the difficulty in establishing your neutral to even access all of the strengths that you list, is the main thing that i think will hold this character back in the current meta.
the rare reverse-downplay
As well as being a nice take to listen to, it was also quite good for just learning an out Aki! Making me want to play her
defending his waifu like a true simp
I like your anti-fireball tips. I still wish MK/HK snake step and MP lash and the bubble followup were better.
You know i bougjt both dlc characters just to have them when i was maining manon and i recently decided to switch and when i looked at rashid and aki...i became the turbulent wind! Hes picture perfect! Akis cool tho
Been playing MK1 since i finished her challenges. Time to restart the journey with my true love.
Honestly the only change I really want is a buff to her normals. When I’m outside of standing mp range I feel like any button or special move I use is SUPER susceptible to jumps, impacts and whiff punishes. It feels like you’re getting mixed messages when you have to play defensively but her offense is where she shines. Idk tho
Same maybe make her mediums have more range, and buff her lvl 2
Fuck no.
Make cMk cancelable and at least she can check bad neutral
I feel like 6 is kinda breaking the mind of its fanbase because you see people having to label decent characters as "low/bottom tiers" despite them... being decent
It's like the idea of a game with no true low tiers is this incomprehensible concept
I love AKI, and your videos are a big inspiration for me! I still find myself getting pretty down on her when I whiff her crLP or any of her anti-airs in situations where I'm pretty confident, but I guess that's still my lack of familiarity. Also when I fight Cammy, I tend to get pretty down on AKI lol. But idk, I just love the character, and I'll keep playing her regardless of what the consensus opinion is.
I don't know if AKI is the worst, but it seems like if you don't think she is bottom 1, maybe you have an opinion that some character is worse than her? I'd be interested to hear, but I also get that it's just tough to say.
Is that Pokémon scarlet and violet music in the background
1:12 "You aint Daigo"
I 100 percent agree with all of this, and this is the best I've heard any AKI player explain it her kit as a whole. I also feel like she is meant to be played more aggressively but not ex I completely understand why her defense is sub par and her buttons are slow and negative. Unfortunately I think AKI as a whole is basically a gamble, but I feel like with time she will be A tier at least. She just gets absolutely smothered on defense. Worse than anyone in the game or at least tied with gief.
On that note I think Gief and her actually play a similar kind of game with her capitalizing on oki damage and burnout pressure and gief with Command grab threats and great normals. They also basically have the same problem on defense.
I think it's as simple as if a character doesn't have a decent get off me reversal option they are going to live and die by surviving the corner.
Pudle into fire ball is a free reversal for every players who have good reaction, but its work well VS character like JP
I think she's got enough sauce to be viable at a high level. I've got both Marisa and AKI to master, and I have to say it's pretty funny how despite the differences they both boil down to mid tier neutral with pretty strong oki with punishing damage. (Marisa so easy to get that damage though!)
Completely agree with point 5: being poisoned in the corner is going to cause people to eat throw loops and make mistakes.
I feel like A.K.I isn't a turn your brain off and win character, so she isn't the desired pick in sf6. She'll be as good as the player playing her.
Didn't Daigo say SFV Luke wasn't that good? Didn't all of Japan think that Poison and Laura were bottom tier? (iDom thanks y'all for that, btw).
He had no problems facing Top Luke players back in SFV with Guile and even at the early access of SF6 only using Ryu. I guess his statement was just from a personal perspective.
My man's won against the strongest players from the UK with the "weakest character" in the game tier list means nothing. All characters are viable.
Everyone thought Blanka was just gimmicky and bottom of midtier/top of lowtier early in the game. Until people started learning how to use all his abilities. AKI is more complex by a lot so that makes her REALLY hard to use giving the illusion she's bad.
Honestly I don't think anyone doubted Blanka. He was given a fair chance to shine. People only saw him as a gimmick because of his appearances in past Street Fighters
@@Switcheroo4542 true, a lot of people brushed him off.
Players I respect so far - Ryu, Zangief and AKI players. Players that are really good with those characters are damn good fundamentals knowledge and a great understanding of their character. For sure. I only thing I dislike about certain Zangief players though is low jab spamming due to taking advantage of the game's very messy Hitboxes per character.
My honest to god fundamentals such as jump in level 3 with gief
Justin Wong steamrolled Brian F.'s JP with his AKI, 3 perfects in a row at some point. She is a very hard character to use, for sure, but I agree, she is not that week.
To be fair that is Justin Wong
That was such a good set
Justing is thinking about leaving AKI so not the best example lol
Daigos judgement has been quite off about many things lately. Not just SF6
When I run into aki she gives me a little trouble.
FGC:T seems like they really like to pick the most controversial things to translate.
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Its what the people want
That's just the best way to succeed on CZcams, tbh.
I feel like this depends on you being way too good of a player. These options are so risky and unsafe.
These are technically tools, but having two good tools like Guile trumps having bajillion technically doable but risky tools like AKI.
Why is your dummy set to no block?
I agree she has a lot of strong opinions for her offense and oki. The problem isn’t her offense or oki. It’s the defense which is the major problem and keeps her towards the bottom of the cast.
She is a steamroller. Once she gets a KD your guessing for the game.
I don't mean to disrespect The Beast but he also said Guile was not very good.
Well he aint winning
Which is a goober ass opinion. He's a legend but even he can be wrong.
Im watching this again cos the adds on twitch block me something 😂
She's all about c.jab-c.jab combo. No neutral game, nothing else. All the AKI's follow the flowchart, no mather the rank, fireball>DR>combo/grab... She is so unidimensional, there are so many characters that can do the same but better, because they have way better normals and options.
kinda sounds like you're being close minded about it, the video demonstrated how many decisions you have to make while playing neutral with her
Excellent video
You should check out lord venom tweet about the character, he says she's trash tier
Didn’t Hikaru recently burry Diago with AKI??? No wonder why he’s mad…. As for Nemo he was exaggerating/joking. I dont think he thinks shes bottom though I dont think he thinks shes top either
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Great video.
Man i dont think shes great but shes not the worst. How can she be worse than jamie or manon?
I get manon but jamie? He's aight
@@TheDsLeet lol Jamie is trash
I think shes good! Shes better than manon
5 reasons Broski is WRONG about 5 reasons Daigo is WRONG about A.K.I
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3.) !
4.) daigod
5.) UMEHARA GA
7:21 so let me get this right...
You're saying that the problem is ;
if they don't back roll, you get a *cross up meaty safe jump* wich... I guess is bad ? 😮
Maybe you'll answer my question in the next second of the video, but you flabergasp me right now and I needed to telling this !
Good content btw 🔥💯🔥
The problem is that you have to guess whether they are going to backroll or not. Which isn't that bad, but is harder than having one option that covers both
j.2HP only hits crossup and j.HP/j.HK don't hit crossup.
Meaning it's very easy to press the incorrect button. So it's good, just a little difficult.
ft10 daigo and prove him wrong
Jamie, Kimberly, Lily, and Zangief are all objectively worse than A.K.I. Ryu and Honda are debatably worse than A.K.I.
I agree only with Jamie, and gief being worst but imo she is bottom 3. Her tools just mid compared to others
4:30 O.K.I
A.K.I is BROKEN!!??
She's just not a meta character, I disagree with Daigo on this.
stun combos of rashid are way better
coward crouch roll? why not coward crouch kicks? better yet, how about slither into kicks because it sounds like Slytherin, lol.
typical difference
japanese: what they can do
other: what we can do
I'm honestly not sure why people still religiously class Daigo up there among the best when the ""best"" run he's had in SF6 was an online qualifier and there he went 4th. For a man who has been grinding insane hours of this game and participating in as many events and things as he possibly can, he's honestly had hilariously bad results.
Yes, he's "an icon" of the FGC, but lets be honest with ourselves, he's not had a singular actual victory in any event in 2 years down to the very day this is posted. We have people in the FGC who are better now than Daigo was at his peak comparatively with how much better the general landscape of the genre is now than it was in the past.
bro shut up lmao. he was in top 8 of EVO literally last year. you're clueless saying shit like "no singular victory in any event in 2 years" bro...how many events do you think there are??? by this classification there are only like...ten good players, max, if they have to win a major event within the last two years or be considered bad.
hilariously bad? this isn't sports, dude, you can't just call the football players trash from the comfort of your own couch safe in the knowledge you exist in separate realms. you can Daigo are playing the exact same game with the exact same rules, and the exact same path to victory. the only difference is skill. you wanna know what would look hilariously bad? if you tried to challenge Daigo in a first to ten.
It's not that he's the best, it's that he's been consistently in the top class of competitors for many years. It's much harder to stay at the top than to be the best at one time. Indeed his current performance has been lacking in SF6, but to deny all his life achievements on an opinion of his assessment on character strength, which he has repeatedly said he was terrible in, is a very underhanded dis.
Daigo is the GOAT, but he's getting old now, can't expect him to stay at the top.
4th is bad Lmao. I love how random people can muster that much confidence. He's being consistent, now you can disagree with him. But to question his whole history while not achieving the same his questioning.
This take from some internet nobody is worse than anything Daigo has ever said.
bro make your videos shorter
Stop watching tiktok and get an attention span longer than 3 seconds
give aki rage demon XD