Street Fighter 6/Dee Jay

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Introduction

A globally popular dance music superstar, Dee Jay is always ready to have a good time. With a burning love for music and fighting, this Jamaican sensation drives audiences wild with hot new songs and stylish moves.

Dee Jay is a pressure-oriented rushdown character with many ways to set up frame traps or other mixups. His playstyle heavily revolves around feinting, wherein Dee Jay looks like he is approaching or performing a move before ducking away and returning to neutral. Efficient use of feints, his strong pressure buttons, and his excellent Drive Rush can let Dee Jay dance all over the screen like it's nothing.

Jus Cool is Dee Jay's primary tool setting up his pressure, and is a very unique special move. Most comparable to Slayer's "Dandy Step" from the Guilty Gear franchise, Jus Cool sways Dee Jay back and allows him to follow up with five unique follow-ups. Jus Cool can be followed up with a low kick that frame traps, an overhead kick that is safe and knocks down on hit, a launching knee swing for anti-airs, and a forwards dash that can be canceled out of with a second sway back. Utilizing all of these follow-ups can be somewhat tricky, but thankfully Dee Jay has numerous excellent pressure normals to help him along. His 5MP is plus, his 6MK is a plus normal that catches jump-outs, and his j.2K allows him to reset pressure with a jump-in attack must faster than other characters. Combining Jus Cool with his close range pressure options allows Dee Jay to mix opponents regardless of where he is on the screen, making him a devastating dance partner to be duking it out with.

Dee Jay's special move selection is rounded out by Air Slasher, a charge fireball that can be used to counter-zone, Jackknife Maximum for anti-airing, and Rolling Sobat to cover ground and either stagger or knock the opponent down. The most notable trait of these three moves, which winds up tying back into his trickiness, is that their light versions are all feints, which allows Dee Jay to bait people into responding for whiff punishes or reset pressure if he is close. To this end, Dee Jay has a lot of very fast movement options; his forward dash and particularly his Drive Rush are incredibly quick, which pairs well with his many lengthy pokes. If Dee Jay manages to get a good hit his damage potential becomes extremely high, as his OD moves all deal incredible damage and his Machine Gun Upper special is one of the highest damage combo enders in the game.

Dee Jay's up close pressure and screen control is very strong, but comes with somewhat of an awkward kit to work with. None of Dee Jay's longer reaching normals are special cancelable, making it difficult for him to meaningfully follow up with pokes. As well, all of his cancelable buttons are stubby, which can result in him dropping combos if the spacing isn't perfect. Armored moves, particularly Drive Impacts, will break right through his longer buttons if he doesn't use them carefully. Additionally, because his primary reversal is Overdrive Jackknife Maximum and he uses a lot of Drive for conversions, Dee Jay generally has a hard time in Burnout. Thus, Dee Jay can be a surprisingly demanding character at high levels of play. While all of the above can make Dee Jay somewhat awkward to play, putting time into using him effectively will carry you very far. If you enjoy cool beats and slick dance moves, do the dancehall ting with Dee Jay.

Pick if you like:	Avoid if you dislike:
Tricky movements, including a fast forward dash, Drive Rush and sway specials Using feint special moves to bait opponents to respond incorrectly Shutting down fireballs with your own fireballs Cashing out resources to convert hits or approaches into big damage Rhythm mini-games	Committal pokes without cancel windows Highly distance specific combos that are prone to dropping Losing very hard in burnout Charge inputs (though not as core to his moveset as Guile)

Classic & Modern Versions Comparison

List of differences with Modern Dee Jay

Missing Normals	Standing Medium Kick (5MK) Standing Heavy Punch (5HP) Jumping Light Punch (j.LP) Jumping Medium Punch (j.MP) Jumping Heavy Punch (j.HP)
Missing Command Normals	Party in the Air (j.MP~j.HP)
Shortcut-Only Specials	Jus Cool (5S)
Assist Combos	A[L~L]: 5LK ~ M Sobat A[M~M~M]: 2MP ~ OD Sobat ~ SA2 (L) Performs the full juggle sequence with no user input On Block: stops at OD Sobat Burnout: 2MP ~ H Sobat A[H~H~H~H~H]: 4HK ~ OD Jus Cool~Maximum Strike, H Sobat ~ SA3 Burnout: 4HK ~ H Sobat ~ SA3 On Block: stops at OD Jus Cool~Maximum Strike or H Sobat (Burnout) Note: 4HK will cancel on either hit; wait until 2nd hit for more damage Note: H Sobat cancels to SA3 on the 1st hit; better to manually input M Sobat and cancel to SA3 manually
Miscellaneous Changes	2L is 2LK but switches to 2LP if chained into 2LP is unavailable outside of chains SA2 is always Lowkey Sunrise Festival (LP version) even when input manually with No rhythmic timing, just mash S; Assist Combo version plays out automatically with no inputs

Dee Jay
Vitals
Life Points	10000
Ground Movement
Forward Walk Speed	0.043
Backward Walk Speed	0.032
Forward Dash Speed	19
Backward Dash Speed	23
Forward Dash Distance	1.50
Backward Dash Distance	0.90
Drive Rush Min. Distance (Throw)	0.763
Drive Rush Min. Distance (Block)	2.535
Drive Rush Max Distance	2.713
Jumping
Jump Speed	4+38+3
Jump Apex	2.115
Forward Jump Distance	1.90
Backward Jump Distance	1.52
Throws
Throw Range	0.8
Throw Hurtbox	0.33

Normals

Standing Normals

5LP

Standing Light Punch

5LP

5LP

Standing Light Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
4	3	6	Chn Sp SA TC	300	LH	+4	-1

5MP

Standing Medium Punch

5MP

5MP

Standing Medium Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
7	3	13	TC	600	LH	+5	+2

5HP

Standing Heavy Punch

5HP

5HP

Standing Heavy Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
9	6	18	Sp SA (close)	800(700)	LH	+3(+8)	-4(+1)

5LK

Standing Light Kick

5LK

5LK

Standing Light Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
5	2	12	Sp SA	300	LH	+2	-2

5MK

Standing Medium Kick

5MK

5MK

Standing Medium Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
9	3	16	-	600	LH	+6	-1

5HK

Standing Heavy Kick

5HK

5HK

Standing Heavy Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
12	3	22(26)	-	800	LH	+1	-5

Crouching Normals

2LP

Crouching Light Punch

2LP

2LP

Crouching Light Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
5	3	8	Chn Sp SA	300	LH	+4	-1

2MP

Crouching Medium Punch

2MP

2MP

Crouching Medium Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
6	4	14	Sp SA	600	LH	+4	-1

2HP

Crouching Heavy Punch

2HP

2HP

Crouching Heavy Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
8	2	20	-	800	LH	+6	-2

2LK

Crouching Light Kick

2LK

2LK

Crouching Light Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
5	2	10	Chn	200	L	+2	-2

2MK

Crouching Medium Kick

2MK

2MK

Crouching Medium Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
8	4	19	-	700	L	KD +29	-6

2HK

Crouching Heavy Kick

2HK

2HK

Crouching Heavy Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
14	10	15	-	900	L	HKD +33(+42)	-11(-2)

Jumping Normals

j.LP

Jumping Light Punch

j.LP

j.LP

Jumping Light Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
4	7	3 land	-	300	H	+4(+9)	0(+5)

j.MP

Jumping Medium Punch

j.MP

j.MP

Jumping Medium Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
6	4	3 land	TC	700	H	+10(+11)	+6(+7)

j.HP

Jumping Heavy Punch

j.HP

j.HP

Jumping Heavy Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
9	6	3 land	-	800	H	+8(+15)	+4(+11)

j.LK

Jumping Light Kick

j.LK

j.LK

Jumping Light Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
4	6	3 land	-	300	H	+6(+9)	+2(+5)

j.MK

Jumping Medium Kick

j.MK

j.MK

Jumping Medium Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
8	6	3 land	-	500	H	+9(+13)	+5(+9)

j.HK

Jumping Heavy Kick

j.HK

j.HK

Jumping Heavy Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
10	5	3 land	-	800	H	+8(+15)	+4(+11)

Universal Mechanics

Throws

Forward Throw (LPLK)

Forward Throw

LPLK

LPLK

Diss Track

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
5	3	23	-	1200 (2040)	T	KD +34	-

Back Throw (4LPLK)

Back Throw

4LPLK

4LPLK

Flip Throw

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
5	3	23	-	1200 (2040)	T	KD +22	-

Drive Moves

Drive Impact (HPHK)

Drive Impact

HPHK

HPHK

Wild Beat

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
26	2	35	-	800	LH	KD +35 / Wall Splat KD +65	-3 / Wall Splat HKD +72

See Drive Impact.

Drive Reversal (6HPHK)

Drive Reversal

6HPHK

6HPHK

Leg Scratch (Block)

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
20	3	26(31)	-	500 recoverable	LH	KD +23	-6

Armor Break; See Drive Reversal.

Drive Parry (MPMK)

Drive Parry

MPMK

MPMK

Drive Parry

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
1	12 or until released	33(1)(11)	-	-	-	-	-

See Drive Parry. Perfect Parrying has only 1F of recovery and disables the opponent from canceling their attack. Perfect Parrying projectiles puts you into fixed 11 frames of recovery.

Drive Rush (66)

Drive Rush

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See Drive Rush. Framedata shown in parentheses refers to the Drive Rush version used from a Parry.

Taunts

Neutral Taunt (5PPPKKK)

Neutral Taunt

5PPPKKK

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5PPPKKK

Neutral Taunt

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
264 (total)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Forward Taunt (6PPPKKK)

Forward Taunt

6PPPKKK

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6PPPKKK

Forward Taunt

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
550 (total)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Back Taunt (4PPPKKK)

Back Taunt

4PPPKKK

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4PPPKKK

Back Taunt

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
429 (total)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Special Moves

Move Name (236P)

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236P

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Super Arts

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Level 1 Super Art

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Level 2 Super Art

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Level 3 Super Art

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CA version grants 500 extra damage

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