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Introduction

Traveling the world to become a true warrior, Ryu continues his search for strong opponents and fierce battles everywhere.

Still your classic all around Shoto, he brings the classic trio of Hadoken, Tatsumaki, and Shoruken to the table with Joudan Sokutou Geri (Donkey Kick) as a new special move. Ryu plays neutral well and, with a bit of meter, punishes mistakes with huge damage. Though all his supers are viable at the highest level of play, his SAIII turns Ryu into a set play bully that churns out stuns like nobody's business.

Super Arts

SAI (Shinkuu Hadouken)

An upgraded version of the Hadouken that can hit up to 5 times. It easily slots into many combos for added damage and a Hard Knock Down. Two long bars mean you'll have lots of meter for EX Donkey Kick and EX Hadoken, both of which hugely benefit Ryu. This super lets you play the stereotypical versatile and well rounded Ryu.

SAII (Shin Shoryuken)

An upgraded version of the Shoryuken. If the first hit connects, the move does a huge amount of damage and sends your opponent flying into the air. If it does not, the move turns into a low-damage, multi-hit Shoryuken. The one long bar makes spending EX a harder decision, but holy cow does it feel good to send your opponent to the moon (with a followup juggle). It's hard to comeback in a round where Ryu hits you with this. This Ryu looks to strike fear into opponents and turn openings small and large into game winning blows.

SAIII (Denjin Hadouken)

One of the strongest supers in the game, Denjin Hadoken is an unblockable attack and must be parried (though you still get a mixup on the opponent if they do). Ryu will charge up an electric fireball for max 3 seconds if the punch button was held. The fastest Denjin Hadouken fireball may come out in 75 frames assuming perfect motion inputs. The most unorthodox but generally agreed to be strongest super out of the three. Ryu turns into a setplay character with the ability to steal games like candy. An extremely deep super with complex mind games attached. However, Denjin Hadoken is held back by its extremely short bar that limits available EX Moves to ONE.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Versatile Shoto Kit: Great normals all around for poking, anti airing, pressure and general use; Specials have consistent damage, corner carry, and/or oki; movement is solid with a great dash to boot
Great Metered Options: A great selection of EX moves and supers that offer damage or utility
Well Balanced Supers: Three excellent and fun supers that offer a different way to play Ryu; Denjin Hadoken sticking out with the oppressive sequences it can set up
Post-Parry Damage: Ryu hits like a freight train in punish scenarios with moves like EX Donkey Kick or his supers

Well Designed Supers: No super to satisfy all of Ryu's needs
Meterless Confirms: Without Meter, a Parry, a clear punish, or jump-in, Ryu sometimes struggles to confirm into his most rewarding enders in neutral

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 == Introduction ==
-Ryu, the long time rival and friend of Ken Masters and the icon of the whole franchise.
+Traveling the world to become a true warrior, Ryu continues his search for strong opponents and fierce battles everywhere.
-He's still your all around, versatile character, with very effective pokes, anti airs, and pressure normals. The things that makes him worse than ken are rather few, but significant - ryu doesn't have any super with the same amalgamation of utility, range and source abundancy as ken's sa3, with his best super for confirms not being as fast and having character-dependent inconsistency in combos. Ryu also doesn't have as good of a meterless damage as ken, due to his absence of double dp links. Ryu also has worse mobility, with slower walk speeds, a shorter backdash and lack of a good air ex tatsu. Ryu, however, has his own ways to compensate for his weaknesses, with very high damage utilizing EX move, somewhat higher stun damage, additionally useful and powerful super in sa3 (which sacrifices access for ex moves) and a much better tatsu for confirms.
+Still your classic all around Shoto, he brings the classic trio of Hadoken, Tatsumaki, and Shoruken to the table with Joudan Sokutou Geri (Donkey Kick) as a new special move. Ryu plays neutral well and, with a bit of meter, punishes mistakes with huge damage. Though all his supers are viable at the highest level of play, his SAIII turns Ryu into a set play bully that churns out stuns like nobody's business.
 === Super Arts ===
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 ==== SAII (Shin Shoryuken) ====
-An upgraded version of the Shoryuken. If the first hit connects, the move does a huge amount of damage and sends your opponent flying into the air. If it does not, the move turns into a low-damage, multi-hit Shoryuken. The one long bar limiting EX move use, but holy cow does it feel good to send your opponent to the moon (with a followup juggle). It's hard to comeback in a round where Ryu hits you with this. This Ryu looks to strike fear into opponents and turn openings small and large into gamewinning blows.
+An upgraded version of the Shoryuken. If the first hit connects, the move does a huge amount of damage and sends your opponent flying into the air. If it does not, the move turns into a low-damage, multi-hit Shoryuken. The one long bar makes spending EX a harder decision, but holy cow does it feel good to send your opponent to the moon (with a followup juggle). It's hard to comeback in a round where Ryu hits you with this. This Ryu looks to strike fear into opponents and turn openings small and large into game winning blows.
 ==== SAIII (Denjin Hadouken) ====
-An unblockable attack (must be parried), Ryu will charge up an electric fireball for max 3 seconds if the punch button was held. The fastest Denjin Hadouken fireball may come out in 75 frames assuming perfect motion inputs. The most unorthodox but generally agreed to be strongest super out of the three. Ryu turns into a setplay character with the ability to steal games like candy. An extremely deep super with complex mind games attached. Do note that it holds ONE EX Move giving his great EX moves more opportunity cost.
+One of the strongest supers in the game, Denjin Hadoken is an unblockable attack and must be parried (though you still get a mixup on the opponent if they do). Ryu will charge up an electric fireball for max 3 seconds if the punch button was held. The fastest Denjin Hadouken fireball may come out in 75 frames assuming perfect motion inputs. The most unorthodox but generally agreed to be strongest super out of the three. Ryu turns into a setplay character with the ability to steal games like candy. An extremely deep super with complex mind games attached. However, Denjin Hadoken is held back by its extremely short bar that limits available EX Moves to ONE.
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