User:Pixelguin

Modern Control Combos

Meterless Combos

Combo	Position	Damage	Difficulty	Notes
A[L ~ L]	Anywhere	1200	Assisted	Your only option for Donkey Kick off a light. Great for checking Drive Rush. Don't spam it otherwise - light Donkey Kick is -11 OB and you won't be anywhere near safe.
2L ~ 2L ~ 5L > 623H 2L ~ 2L ~ 5L > 6S	Anywhere	1690 1494	V. Easy	Your basic light confirm. Unlike Classic, Modern Ryu cannot confirm this string into Donkey Kick. Modern Ryu can focus entirely on confirming distance to the opponent and cancel into Shoryuken early without buffering.
2L ~ 2L ~ 2L > 4S	Anywhere	1214	V. Easy	Hooray! You get medium tatsu from your crouching light punch!
2M > 4S/2S	Anywhere	1076/1204	V. Easy	Though 2M combos to almost all versions of your specials on normal hit (including all your shortcut specials), focus mainly on these two. Donkey Kick is safer than Tatsu and leaves you open to pop a Denjin charge. Tatsu has great corner carry.
A[H ~ H] > 4S/623H A[H ~ H] > 4S/6S	Anywhere	1784/2260 1784/2064	V. Easy	Heavy Shoryuken is your highest damage meterless A[H] combo. Tatsu gives you corner carry and oki. You can start buffering the 623H motion immediately by holding forward for easy full damage.
5M, A[M] > 4S/2S/623H 5M, A[M] > 4S/2S/6S	Anywhere	1776/1904/2320 1776/1904/2096	Easy	A consistent combo that can be optimized for damage, corner carry, or a mostly safe Denjin charge. Since M.Ryu does not have Short Uppercut (4HP), this is Modern Ryu's highest damage meterless combo.
A[H ~ H, L ~ L]	Anywhere	2090	Easy	Thanks to Modern controls, you only have to do one link for this combo (and it still does full damage!). Light Donkey Kick gives you space to pop Denjin.
A[H ~ H, L] > 4S	Anywhere	1922	Easy	This Medium Tatsu ender does more damage compared to A[H ~ H] > 4S. However, the oki is worsened midscreen as a you can only dash forward or jab if they back rise.

Metered Combos

Combo	Position	Damage	Difficulty	Notes
PDR, A[M], 5M > 4S/2S/623H PDR, A[M], 5M > 4S/2S/6S	Anywhere	1776/1904/2320 1776/1904/2096	Medium	This is a core part of your Drive Rush strike mixup, 2M being the other. A[M] can be replaced with 5M to get +11 on hit (enough to link into 5H) at the cost of being -1 on block.
Any Medium/Heavy Starter > 214XX > 214214M A[M ~ M ~ M]	Anywhere	2900-3660 3460	Medium Assisted	Your basic route into level 2 - you can charge Shin Hasho to the first level. The Assist combo version starts with Classic's 2MP and does more damage than any shortcut combo.
Any Medium/Heavy Starter > A[2S], 623HP Any Medium/Heavy Starter > A[2S], 6S	Midscreen	1852-2420 1684-2224	Medium Easy	Midscreen combo extension. Replace Shoryuken with level 1 for more damage. Cancel Shoryuken to level 3 for even more.
5M, A[M] > A[2S], 623HP 5M, A[M] > A[2S], 6S	Midscreen	2552 2384	Medium Easy	Two-hit version of the above that does more damage than any single hit as a starter. Using the shortcut input easily lets Ryu walk forward a bit and land a good Shoryuken.
Starter > A[2S] > 214214M	Midscreen	2940-3540	Medium	Another route into level 2 that allows for full charge. Do not use with shortcut Lv2 as the damage is always less than the OD Hasho route (especially the Assist combo).
Starter > A[4S], PDR, 5M > 214M, 623HP Starter > A[4S], PDR, 5M > 214M, 6S	Corner	2490-3194 2378-3040	Medium	Your basic OD+DR extension for extra damage in the corner. Can also be ended in Lv1/Lv3 super after the OD Tatsu instead of doing the more complex DRC version.
5H > DRC > 5H > DRC > 5H > 623H > 236236H 5H > DRC > 5H > DRC > 5H > 6S > 2HS	Anywhere	4850 4682	Easy	Simple meter dump into Lv3 that works anywhere on the screen. 2HS will do the same damage as 236236H as it cannot go below 50% scaling.
5H > DRC > 5H, A[M] > DRC > 5H, A[M] > 623H > 236236H 5H > DRC > 5H, A[M] > DRC > 5H, A[M] > 6S > 2HS	Anywhere	5254 5142	Medium	Improved version of the above that requires timing a link twice. If you landed a Drive Rush 5H as your starter, you can link another A[M] for a hair more damage.
5H > 214XX, 5H > DRC > 5H, A[M] > DRC > 5H, A[M] > 623H > 236236H 5H > 214XX, 5H > DRC > 5H, A[M] > DRC > 5H, A[M] > 6S > 2HS	Denjin	5708 5638	Medium	Denjin-optimized version of the above.
5H > 214XX, 5H > DRC > 2H > 214H, PDR, 5H > 2S > 236236H 5H > 214XX, 5H > DRC > 2H > 214H, PDR, 5H > 2S > 2HS	Denjin	5553 5553	Hard	Modified version of the above that will not put Ryu in Burnout if he has all 6 Drive bars.
5H > 214XX, 5H > DRC > 2H > 214H, PDR, 5H > 214M, 623HP > 236236H 5H > 214XX, 5H > DRC > 2H > 214H, PDR, 5H > 214M, 6S > 2HS	Corner + Denjin	5878 5808	Hard	Corner-optimized version of the above that does the most damage.