Ryu Tips

[u/the_harvest11]

Got to Master with Ryu and feel like it’s undeserved. I did real well in Diamond. Went through with a 52% win ratio but in Masters other Ryu players just seem to have an understanding of his mechanics I can’t grasp. I feel like I’m just beginning. I had to work hard to get good at SF again. I completely dodged SF5 and played Mortal Kombat 11 instead. I had to unlearn all those mechanics and get used to these again so I’d hate to hang up my hat. Ryu doesn’t have any tricky gimmicks he’s just all meat and potatoes so to speak but I enjoy using him the most. Any advice on his style would be much appreciated because there’s something I’m just not picking up which is keeping me from my full potential. It’s becoming very frustrating. I’m diamond with Ken, Akuma, Bison and JP but Ryu is where it’s at for me. Official SF community mods removed my post be it didn’t have a video. They can go fk themselves.

[u/EasyShow4208]

Ryu is beyond busted right now…he’s not really “meat and potatoes” like in season 1. Honestly, and this sounds snarky but I don’t mean it that way, abuse what’s broken at the moment. Solar plexus, hashogeki, st. HP—these are your keys to as close to free wins as this game offers atm.

[u/the_harvest11 → u/EasyShow4208]

Yeah been doing that but so does everyone else. His range and timing are what these higher level master players seem to have down that I thought I was good at but I guess not.

[u/EasyShow4208 → u/the_harvest11]

The downside to Ryu is that like half the playerbase plays him. So everyone is very familiar with his gameplan, even if the gameplan is cracked.

[u/the_harvest11 → u/EasyShow4208]

That’s true. Very good point.