Don't know about s-tier, but I will say standing hp to high blade kick takes off so much drive gauge on opponents and has been a game changer for me, gone up to diamond 5 finally.
The buffs are just bonuses to make him a bit more viable. His mixes are still very predictable. I think Ryu in the this game is like Akira in Virtua Fighter that he relies on making good reads and punishing said reads with sledgehammer damage. The cr MK buff is honestly is something he really needed tho. He can hold his own with the higher ups in the tiers. “Except Rashid and Juris” they’re MvC characters 🤷🏾♂️
Something I realized about Ryu is that he has kind of bad Oki. I've kind of stopped trying to play him like he's supposed to have good Oki and I think it's better tbh. He can have good Oki, but it usually seems to require drive rush as a follow up. His mix ups on Oki Are also not very strong. He's kind of predictable. I think he has more mix up in mid range
0:32secs - _"I don't understand why would someone use forward hk instead of st.hp in neutral"._ Considering how piss poor in High, Medium and Low striking definitions are in this game, I completely agree with this statement. If the striking definition are definitive and Ryu's forward HK had the same properties as Zangief and Luke's forward knee (i.e. safe from low kicking attacks with hit priorities) then it would had made all the sense in the world to use forward HK. Unfortunately, since the core mechanics in the game are illogical and Ryu is still clearly shafted in this game, on top of what MachoorTV explained, it indeed makes more sense to abuse standing HP then to make use of forward HK in neutral situations considering Standing HP has the properties of a brick wall that covers high, mid and low in one strike (so stupid).
Don't know about s-tier, but I will say standing hp to high blade kick takes off so much drive gauge on opponents and has been a game changer for me, gone up to diamond 5 finally.
Definitely S tier without a doubt with new heavy donkey kick
Once you reach master you will see how it will cause you to lose matches
The buffs are just bonuses to make him a bit more viable. His mixes are still very predictable. I think Ryu in the this game is like Akira in Virtua Fighter that he relies on making good reads and punishing said reads with sledgehammer damage. The cr MK buff is honestly is something he really needed tho. He can hold his own with the higher ups in the tiers. “Except Rashid and Juris” they’re MvC characters 🤷🏾♂️
I agree
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Something I realized about Ryu is that he has kind of bad Oki. I've kind of stopped trying to play him like he's supposed to have good Oki and I think it's better tbh.
He can have good Oki, but it usually seems to require drive rush as a follow up.
His mix ups on Oki Are also not very strong. He's kind of predictable. I think he has more mix up in mid range
Yeah his oki isn’t great compared to the top tiers
0:32secs - _"I don't understand why would someone use forward hk instead of st.hp in neutral"._
Considering how piss poor in High, Medium and Low striking definitions are in this game, I completely agree with this statement. If the striking definition are definitive and Ryu's forward HK had the same properties as Zangief and Luke's forward knee (i.e. safe from low kicking attacks with hit priorities) then it would had made all the sense in the world to use forward HK. Unfortunately, since the core mechanics in the game are illogical and Ryu is still clearly shafted in this game, on top of what MachoorTV explained, it indeed makes more sense to abuse standing HP then to make use of forward HK in neutral situations considering Standing HP has the properties of a brick wall that covers high, mid and low in one strike (so stupid).
It’s good to use it sometimes but it isn’t something great, it’s tough to space it correctly