Street Fighter 6/Marisa/Introduction

Introduction

An up-and-coming jewelry designer from Italy who claims ancestry to ancient Greek warriors. As a child, she was inspired by a vision of the Colosseum in its prime. Today, she seeks glory with a smile—and an eye for beauty.

Marisa is a large, high damage juggernaut character with a simple to learn and execute gameplan: Close the gap with her assortment of good pokes and approaching tools and capitalize off of poor mashes with big counterhit damage. Once the opponent is too scared to press on defense, Marisa's charged heavy attacks and her command grab give her the extra pressure she'll need to crack them open and close out a match.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Armor Everywhere: With armor on most of her heavy attacks and specials, Marisa can power through most any attack and win neutral through brute force. Opponents may find themselves losing a giant chunk of health if they try and challenge at the wrong time. Armor Breaker: Gladius, Phalanx and Scutum/Enfold are all reliable counters to Drive Impact and other armored moves, punishing poor guesses on defense/approach heavily and giving her viable counter-play to those options even when she's in burnout. Range and Power: Marisa has great range and can charge certain moves for added damage and combo routes. If she does land a hit, the damage is devastating, even from simple buffers. OD specials and drive rush open up even more disastrously damaging combos and can easily drain the opponent of more than half their health bar. Frame Advantage: Phalanx and charged heavies can keep Marisa close and at the advantage, further supplementing her ability to punish reckless mashing when combined with good use of her armored moves.

All-Around Slow: Almost all of Marisa's moves are considerably slow to start up and recover. Marisa may find herself struggling in a fight of fast buttons. Opponents with careful spacing will have an easy time whiff punishing a charged heavy attack or a charged Gladius. Drive Gauge Dependent: Most of Marisa's big damage combos come from OD moves and drive rushes, resulting in her typically being left with very little meter in advantageous situations. Middling Low/Light Conversions: Marisa has no special cancellable lows and her routing from them and any of her light attacks even with drive rush are extremely limited w/o a counterhit. Weak to Parry: Her plus frame moves are fairly slow and she cannot special cancel into her stance for command grab pressure, making her one of the easier characters to parry.