I think it will be awhile before anyone wins a tournament with her. Still not convinced she is bad, but she is really hard to maximize at high level. Making sure you do the right combo, keeping track of poison, picking the right anti air, quick hitconfirms, etc. It will take awhile 😅 Will be live tonight with another tourney run: twitch.tv/Diaphone_ 7P EST
How is she not bad? Her normals aren't good. The ones with best range all are slow and aren't special or drive rush cancelable. And the fast ones are short and she can't really check drive rushes well because of that. The worst part is none of her low hitting normals can be cancelled into anything. She has a tough time trying to open up opponent's defense and convert a hit in neutral into a combo. She is also a two step character, needing to apply poison before she can do big damage, if you average out the damage, it isn't that great really. Not to mention there is the possibility of losing the poison stack before the next combo which makes her average damage even lower. Her fireball is good for drive rush pressure but sucks at zoning because of the long ass 52 total frames, you can literally jump on reaction to her fireball and get a big punish, throwing fireball at jump range is not safe. Her anti fireball tools are also slow af, which none of it can be used to punish fireballs on reaction, it has to be a hard read. Capcom kinda advertise her as a anti zoner but she really is not. Not only is AKI technically hard, she is also fundamentally a very hard to play character. Every aspect of her game sucks and is below par, even her biggest strength which is the big combos are lock behind a two step mechanic. Then there are also techs that will always beat her wakeup OD snake step and supers, her defense also sucks big time. You literally have to play her fundamentally better than your opponent for her to win. Like perfect neutral game, whiff punish and perfect reads.
@@skychaos87 She is not bad because she is a snake lady with mushroom cap hair and that's cool, so you always win on cool points which is the only thing that matters.
@@skychaos87at least her stuff works, unlike Gief where anti airs whiff air, vacuum pushes behind, 360 spin only hits in the front, target combo that doesn't combo.
How do you feel about the jab/throw os beating both the od snake step and her supers? Im ok with the snake step being Os’ed, forces you to use it before being totally cornered. I am a bit disappointed that both her level 1 and 3 are too slow and 2 not invul, thats a bit too much I think..thats a real handicap especially because the attacker beats the supers AND snake step AND buttons AND jump all with the same input 🙄 how do you feel? Can she win a real cpt tournament with that in place?
Diaphone be cooking with A.K.I for the content. BTW I heard you get a 25% damage increase, if you have the same hairstyle as her, so you better start working on that diaphone.
A trend a notice with Dia is that he releases pressure on burn-out, maybe it's an AKI thing (strange plus data and hit confirms) but the same thing happened when Marisa went into burn-out. (final matchup) There was time to do good mix but Dia didn't react on the opponents delayed inputs.. or maybe it's an AKI thing Otherwise good games
Congrats on winning that 8-2 matchup against that cheater who switched off of his honest character to a cheap & broken meta pick! switch back brother we need u
I'm maining Aki and dear Lord It hurts so much when you get a shimmy but HK whiff...or when you try to check a DR with MP and It whiff...or when you DR crMK and it land but your next crMP whiff 😢 Life is so difficult playing Aki 😂
Would it be possible to credit the music somewhere in future videos? I like the music would love to show support there as well. Love the content, appreciate the AKI love!
I've been showing the song names in the vids since like the start of this year, and like 80% of the viewers don't even see them and keep asking for song names lol so I just stopped making the graphics, I wanted to just include a pastebin in the description but I keep forgetting because I'm not used to it, will add it in a bit :)
@@CosmicRPG I think she is perfectly fine, but rides a fine line between being balanced and utterly degenerate. One reckless buff and she will easily become top tier.
@@soulwarrior5791 fix her fireball recovery and make her ex slide an actual reversal. I think that'd make her much better to play and wouldn't be busted in the slightest. I'd also say cleaning up her basic combo routes, like making her kicks from the slither stance be plus 5 on hit instead of plus 4 just so it goes into crouch jab more comfortably.
I think it will be awhile before anyone wins a tournament with her. Still not convinced she is bad, but she is really hard to maximize at high level. Making sure you do the right combo, keeping track of poison, picking the right anti air, quick hitconfirms, etc. It will take awhile 😅
Will be live tonight with another tourney run: twitch.tv/Diaphone_ 7P EST
Like the mighty snake she will leap out from under a rock and chomp the street fighter tournament world on the ankle.
How is she not bad? Her normals aren't good. The ones with best range all are slow and aren't special or drive rush cancelable. And the fast ones are short and she can't really check drive rushes well because of that. The worst part is none of her low hitting normals can be cancelled into anything. She has a tough time trying to open up opponent's defense and convert a hit in neutral into a combo. She is also a two step character, needing to apply poison before she can do big damage, if you average out the damage, it isn't that great really. Not to mention there is the possibility of losing the poison stack before the next combo which makes her average damage even lower. Her fireball is good for drive rush pressure but sucks at zoning because of the long ass 52 total frames, you can literally jump on reaction to her fireball and get a big punish, throwing fireball at jump range is not safe. Her anti fireball tools are also slow af, which none of it can be used to punish fireballs on reaction, it has to be a hard read. Capcom kinda advertise her as a anti zoner but she really is not. Not only is AKI technically hard, she is also fundamentally a very hard to play character. Every aspect of her game sucks and is below par, even her biggest strength which is the big combos are lock behind a two step mechanic. Then there are also techs that will always beat her wakeup OD snake step and supers, her defense also sucks big time. You literally have to play her fundamentally better than your opponent for her to win. Like perfect neutral game, whiff punish and perfect reads.
@@skychaos87 She is not bad because she is a snake lady with mushroom cap hair and that's cool, so you always win on cool points which is the only thing that matters.
@@skychaos87at least her stuff works, unlike Gief where anti airs whiff air, vacuum pushes behind, 360 spin only hits in the front, target combo that doesn't combo.
How do you feel about the jab/throw os beating both the od snake step and her supers? Im ok with the snake step being Os’ed, forces you to use it before being totally cornered. I am a bit disappointed that both her level 1 and 3 are too slow and 2 not invul, thats a bit too much I think..thats a real handicap especially because the attacker beats the supers AND snake step AND buttons AND jump all with the same input 🙄 how do you feel? Can she win a real cpt tournament with that in place?
Diaphone be cooking with A.K.I for the content. BTW I heard you get a 25% damage increase, if you have the same hairstyle as her, so you better start working on that diaphone.
Make that 50% if he gets the mushroom mustache too
GG Diaphone! I had very little experience against aki but I also kinda trolled that first match. I'll get you next time
When Aki does win a tourney people will call her toxic, and her response will be "Well, duh."
Yeah Aki figured out the toxicity that Fang WANTED to do but Fang was a relative failure compared to this character.
league singed moment
Thanks for being apart of Rock Paper Punch man hope you enjoyed yourself
That zykles dude switched to kim and went off for that perfect ko can't wait till i get a hitbox to play kim classic
A trend a notice with Dia is that he releases pressure on burn-out, maybe it's an AKI thing (strange plus data and hit confirms)
but the same thing happened when Marisa went into burn-out. (final matchup)
There was time to do good mix but Dia didn't react on the opponents delayed inputs.. or maybe it's an AKI thing
Otherwise good games
16:19 Glad I'm not the only one that gets caught by the jinrai loop.
Props to the editor for the awesome selection of Jake Kaufmann songs!
Thanks for this. I love AKi
28:01
My favorite part of the video. I'm quoting you on that! XD
Damn I hate that Marissa mu. As a previous ken main i didnt think he was a problem until I mained aki. Then I was like ....ok I get it now lol
26:21 that was a lot of damage for a perfect parry 😲
Congrats on winning that 8-2 matchup against that cheater who switched off of his honest character to a cheap & broken meta pick!
switch back brother we need u
expecting my check in the mail soon btw
kim top tier confirmed LUL
You didn't hear it from me but Blanka and Juri have a tape together called Jungle Dfeet
it makes sense that a Marisa would break your content plot armor.
I'm not sure if the Mighty Switch Force music selection was you or the editor, but nice picks!
We love you Diaphone!!! even if you like I-no and Kimberly and other mix up characters
Im gonna be honest.. that ken and marisa made me clench my teeth.. that gameplay was so rage inducind it even got to me
Just jinrai over and over again
Seems like a good character for me, a Bedmain, to choose when I start SF6
She’ll never be I-no but she’ll do
"Diaphone invokes Kim" I'm like well if you DO its time to learn the matchup lol the Kim army is on the rise!
Fax, thanks to him Kim became my main even over Cammy, although I’ve been living Aki, I don’t understand how people see her as weak
I'm maining Aki and dear Lord It hurts so much when you get a shimmy but HK whiff...or when you try to check a DR with MP and It whiff...or when you DR crMK and it land but your next crMP whiff 😢 Life is so difficult playing Aki 😂
Would it be possible to credit the music somewhere in future videos? I like the music would love to show support there as well. Love the content, appreciate the AKI love!
I've been showing the song names in the vids since like the start of this year, and like 80% of the viewers don't even see them and keep asking for song names lol so I just stopped making the graphics, I wanted to just include a pastebin in the description but I keep forgetting because I'm not used to it, will add it in a bit :)
@@CasteHappy You're the man!
All matchups are bad matchups for AKI anyway😄
Legit, even Gief can deal with her comfortably lmao
19:03 Got something to tell us Diaphone? 😭
Yo those matches were hype af GGs
Win with AKI gonna be a nightmare for the amount of problems she have, we pray for recieve a big balance patch where AKI recieve the fixes she need.
What problems does she have and what fixes does she need?
@@soulwarrior5791 for be competive almost 1 page, for be top tier is rework her from zero
@@CosmicRPG I think she is perfectly fine, but rides a fine line between being balanced and utterly degenerate. One reckless buff and she will easily become top tier.
I wouldn't change much, but her fireball recovery is painful
@@soulwarrior5791 fix her fireball recovery and make her ex slide an actual reversal. I think that'd make her much better to play and wouldn't be busted in the slightest. I'd also say cleaning up her basic combo routes, like making her kicks from the slither stance be plus 5 on hit instead of plus 4 just so it goes into crouch jab more comfortably.
does AKI level 1 super do more damage if the opponent is already poisoned?
We stay geifen 🗣‼️
All of the top tier characters are bad matchups for Aki.
Woah diaphone nice pp😎
Anyone know the first song played?
Pastebin in the description!
God imagine the foot job
Omg I’ve never been this early
I don’t care what anyone says…marissa is scrrrubbbyyy. Carry my bad decisions muscle mommy 🙄
Wow yup he woke up and chose violence starting at 5:19
So I guess there won’t be a lot of AKI mains in Top 8’s then…
Forgot this game existed been playing mk1
Mk1 Is trash
@@mati96cabj I love it
@@mati96cabjstreet fighter bad too tho tbf
You forgot to add "Dear diary" there at the beginning
@@sirjeanpepper2492 Why would I add that?