Street Fighter 6/Dhalsim

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Introduction

A monk and yoga master from India who has served as a guide for countless suffering souls. Prefers to avoid conflict when possible, but his innate hatred of evil compels him to dispense stern justice.

It isn't a stretch to say that Dhalsim is an expert of proactively frustrating his opponent with a plethora of projectiles, unique movement, and multifarious normals that threaten almost every space of the stage. Dhalsim's win condition is achieved using these tools to force blunders that open opponents up to his strong mixup and okizeme options.

As a master of the art of yoga, Dhalsim is all about patient play and dedicated but rewarding moves. The key element of Dhalsim's kit is that many of his tools are very slow, but cash out for large reward if they land. For example, Dhalsim's 5HP, 5HK, and j.HP are slow to start up but deal great damage if they land and have exceptional reach. Dhalsim's jump might be slow, but it allows him a large amount of control over the screen thanks to his stellar air normals, and synergizes well with his divekick, Yoga Float and Yoga Teleport abilities. All of Dhalsim's crouching kicks slide him forward for dealing with opposing projectiles and other high attacks, and he has a good number of cancelable pokes that lead into respectable damage and okizeme. Overall, Dhalsim is very dominant at controlling the screen whether he's in the air or on the floor.

Dhalsim is also well known for his stellar setplay. If Dhalsim has gotten you blocking for long enough, he can set up for powerful mixup scenarios using Yoga Arch. The fireball launched from Yoga Arch controls a large portion of the screen and is difficult to deal with unless you spend resources, giving Dhalsim a way to funnel you into specific responses. Similarly, Dhalsim's reward once he's gotten a hit is fairly good. He does great damage and can often spend resources to set up for additional mixup scenarios to snowball his damage. His various Teleports also allow him to go on the offensive once he has an opponent afraid of his reach, opening them up for simple, yet devastating returns.

Dhalsim's largest weakness should be obvious - his speed. While a fair tradeoff for his reach, Dhalsim is undeniably one of the slowest characters in the game, both on the ground and in the air. He often requires additional setup to make situations like strike/throw possible where other characters can threaten it in basic pressure. His speed also makes him a prime target for aggressive characters, and he often has to fight hard to control neutral against them. Without a fully invulnerable reversal to bank on, Dhalsim often has to be very careful when he's in a pressure situation.

Overall, Dhalsim is a great character for those who have the patience and confidence to play him. If you like belligerent screen control combined with lots of reward for zen-like patience, begin your inner cultivation with Dhalsim.

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Being an undisputed master of space control, with normals that can hit every part of the screen and specials that allow you to position wherever you like Transitioning from zoning into strong offense and mix-ups once you land a hit Strange but tricky movement options including a float, a teleport, divekicks, and low profile slides Lots of setups that can knowledge check unaware opponents and still lead to good outcomes against aware ones Challenging and unorthodox characters

Being incredibly slow and floaty, relying heavily on your unique movement options Needing setup to get things that other characters get for free, like strike/throw mixups Extremely flawed defense with no meterless reversals and even risky metered ones Lacking traditional mid-range pokes and needing to cycle between many different moves that all hit independent parts of the screen Having lackluster light confirm combos, requiring the opponent to be close and standing or spending meter just to get a knockdown Challenging and unorthodox characters

Classic & Modern Versions Comparison

List of differences with Modern Dhalsim

Missing Normals	Standing Light Kick (5LK) Standing Medium Kick (5MK) Jumping Light Punch (j.LP) Jumping Medium Kick (j.MK) Jumping Heavy Kick (j.HK)
Missing Command Normals	Yoga Mountain (4HK) Karma Kick (1HK) Yoga Mummy (j.2LP)
Shortcut-Only Specials	Yoga Arch (6S) Medium / OD(M) Only Yoga Blast (2S) Heavy/OD Only
Assist Combos	A[L~L]: 2MP ~ L Yoga Fire A[M~M~M]: 4MK ~ OD Yoga Flame ~ SA2 No SA2: 4MK ~ OD Yoga Flame ~ 2HK (can also just manually delay A[M] even with 2+ bars) Burnout: 4MK ~ M Yoga Flame On Block: stops at OD/M Yoga Flame A[H~H~H]: 5HK ~ OD(H) Yoga Fire ~ SA3 Only combos from closer ranges (slightly beyond 4MK range) Burnout: 5HK ~ H Yoga Fire ~ SA3 (must be MUCH closer for SA3 cancel to come out) On Block: stops at OD(H) / H Yoga Fire
Miscellaneous Changes	1L is 1LK but switches to 2LP if chained into 2LP is unavailable outside of chains Divine Kick (4MK) is now the Starter for M Auto Combo L Auto Combo starter is a Medium normal, Crouching Medium Punch (2MP) Yoga Inferno (236236P) input determines angle 5HS = LP version, aimed downward, long range 6HS = MP version, aimed straight forward, short range 236236L = HP version, aimed upward

Dhalsim
Vitals
Life Points	10000
Ground Movement
Forward Walk Speed	0.028
Backward Walk Speed	0.025
Forward Dash Speed	25
Backward Dash Speed	23
Forward Dash Distance	1.467
Backward Dash Distance	1.00
Drive Rush Min. Distance (Throw)	0.471
Drive Rush Min. Distance (Block)	1.787
Drive Rush Max Distance	2.700
Jumping
Jump Speed	4+68+3
Jump Apex	2.178
Forward Jump Distance	2.04
Backward Jump Distance	1.768
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	8	Chn Sp SA	300	LH	+4	-1

5MP

Standing Medium Punch

5MP

5MP

Standing Medium Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
14	3	19	-	700	LH	0	-5

5HP

Standing Heavy Punch

5HP

5HP

Standing Heavy Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
16	4	27	-	1000	LH	-6	-11

5LK

Standing Light Kick

5LK

5LK

Standing Light Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
9	4	11	Sp SA	300	LH	+2	-6

5MK

Standing Medium Kick

5MK

5MK

Standing Medium Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
12	3	18	-	600	LH	-2	-6

5HK

Standing Heavy Kick

5HK

5HK

Standing Heavy Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
17	3	20	Sp SA	800	LH	+3	-6

Crouching Normals

2LP

Crouching Light Punch

2LP

2LP

Crouching Light Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
5	3	9	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
12	3	16	Sp SA	600	LH	0	-4

2HP

Crouching Heavy Punch

2HP

2HP

Crouching Heavy Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
19	4	24	-	800	L	-1	-12

2LK

Crouching Light Kick

2LK

2LK

Crouching Light Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
4	7	16	-	200	L	-5(+1)	-10(-4)

2MK

Crouching Medium Kick

2MK

2MK

Crouching Medium Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
10	13	14	-	500	L	-3(+9)	-10(+2)

2HK

Crouching Heavy Kick

2HK

2HK

Crouching Heavy Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
12	16	20	-	900	L	HKD +22(+37)	-16(-1)

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	4	3 land	-	300	H	+8(+13)	0(+5)

j.MP

Jumping Medium Punch

j.MP

j.MP

Jumping Medium Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
9	6	3 land	Sp	700	LH	+5(+13)	-1(+7)

j.HP

Jumping Heavy Punch

j.HP

j.HP

Jumping Heavy Punch

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
13	4	3 land	-	800	H	-5(+19)	-9(+15)

j.LK

Jumping Light Kick

j.LK

j.LK

Jumping Light Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
6	4	3 land	-	300	H	-12(+8)	-15(+5)

j.MK

Jumping Medium Kick

j.MK

j.MK

Jumping Medium Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
11	6	3 land	-	500	H	-7(+13)	-11(+9)

j.HK

Jumping Heavy Kick

j.HK

j.HK

Jumping Heavy Kick

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
10	10	3 land	-	800	H	+5(+15)	+1(+11)

Universal Mechanics

Throws

Forward Throw (LPLK)

Forward Throw

LPLK

LPLK

Yoga Smash

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
5	3	23	-	1200 (2040)	T	KD +31	-

Back Throw (4LPLK)

Back Throw

4LPLK

4LPLK

Yoga Throw

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
5	3	23	-	1200 (2040)	T	KD +19	-

Drive Moves

Drive Impact

Drive Impact

HPHK

HPHK

Yoga Rise

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

Drive Reversal

6HPHK

6HPHK

Yoga Illusion (Block)

Startup	Active	Recovery	Cancel	Damage	Guard	On Hit	On Block
20	3(6)3	26(32)	-	250x2 recoverable	LH	KD +24	-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

66

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See Drive Rush. Frame data 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
190 (total)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Forward Taunt (6PPPKKK)

Forward Taunt

6PPPKKK

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6PPPKKK

Forward Taunt

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

Back Taunt (4PPPKKK)

Back Taunt

4PPPKKK

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4PPPKKK

Back Taunt

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

Special Moves

Move Name (236P)

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236P

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Super Arts

Level 1 Super (236236P)

Level 1 Super Art

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Level 2 Super (214214P)

Level 2 Super Art

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Level 3 Super ()

Level 3 Super Art

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CA version grants 500 extra damage

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