Skkra's thoughts...
1. Akuma can no longer cancel sweep into Raging Demon ultra. That’s the EXACTLY whiff bait that Infiltration used to dominate everyone on his way to his Evo championship. I remember him doing it to Daigo so many times it was nuts.
2. Blanka’s close standing MK is now airborne in 3 frames instead of 4… this is HUGE imo because throws have 3 frames of startup as well… so this means he can now use close s.MK to bait throw breaks, right? I honestly think this is hugely powerful. One of the main Chris G tactics with Sakura is to get in someone’s face and either throw or do her LK tatsu. If they try to throw break, she’s airborne in tatsu, they get hit, and now you can link into a huge combo.
3. Chun Li! Yessss. Health +50. Both ultras improved. Ultra 1 now combos better (people ALWAYS fall out when I hit it in the corner) and ultra 2 kikosho now has inv frames up until the active frames… so sick of getting hit out of it haha.
4. Cody… huge knife buffs! Hahaha yes. That is such a unique and cool aspect of the char and its NEVER used.
5. Looks like DJ lost his low inv on lk sobat because its safer now?... but he’s still stupidly bad after these unnecessary nerfs. =( Why the fuck would they do anything but buff him? What a weird joke.
6. Evil Ryu got buffed several times but I have NO idea why, that char is already beastly. People are finally showing lately that he’s insanely dangerous and this is going to make him even scarier. Daigo is playing Evil Ryu instead of Ryu in Japan now, in fact.
7. They reverted a few Guile buffs, but he still has ultra flash kick autocorrect 100% now. YESSSSSS. They nerfed his health and his flash kick focus cancel though.
8. Guy and Hakan are both going to be REALLY good now. Also wtf tons of ibuki buffs??? Ken is hugely buffed too.
9. Rose got NOTHING but buffs, she’s probably going to be super good now, wouldn’t be surprised to see a new more high level Rose players, or FilipinoMan and Luffy wrecking.
10. Looks at Hawk’s notes for light condor spire. Holy god. That is an INSANE buff. Hawk is my secondary after Guile, so I'm pumped.
SUPER HYPE FOR THIS NOW! Lots of good changes overall.