Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike/Elena/2021/Introduction

Introduction

Elena is a nature lover from Kenya. She employs Capoeira, a martial art that combines elements of dance, acrobatics and music which matches her light-hearted personality. She first appears in Street Fighter III: New Generation.

Elena is a rushdown and middle range poking character specialized in EX Move Combos, her main gameplan is a keepaway footsie and anti aerial counter defensive to gain stock for an offensive EX Moves and meaty rush plan. She has some very tricky animations that can be hard to keep up with, allowing her to make opponents trip themselves up with incorrect reads that she can then exploit.

Super Arts

SA3: Healing

Infamous for it's USF4 iteration, Elena's Healing super is much less notable here but still occasionally favored by some players in 3s. It's large bar size has it's benefits for allowing more usage of EX moves, which is something that empowers Elena quite a bit.

Strengths	Weaknesses
Single Damaging ground and air normals Varied specials for any kind of situation A lot of juggle options after EX Spin Scythe Decent Recovery and damage command moves and air Target Combos	EX Moves dependent Easy Parriable Supers Linear gameplan and specific corner combo follow ups