Desk puts Shin Akuma through his paces with experiments
Akuma started his life as a secret boss character 30 years ago in Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, and the main is still kinda keeping that tradition alive in his latest incarnation.
We recently covered how anyone can quickly unlock what is essentially Shin Akuma in Street Fighter 6, but can any character or move in the game beat out one of the extra secret Super Arts the transformation gives him?
That’s what the combo maestro himself, Desk, set out to experiment with in his latest video for SF6.
SiRN Akuma’s gets back what is essentially his Kongou Kokuretsuzan Super from the Street Fighter 3 games in this mode, which essentially makes him slam the ground and erupt a ton of Satsui no Hado energy into a big pillar to deal damage.
First up to bat is Guile’s Sonic Hurricane, which gets completely absorbed and KO’s him for trying while Kimberly’s multiple spray bombs and Kimberly’s level 3 simply do nothing against the demon.
Even Rashid with the impossible combo of his Yssar tornado and level 3 Super aren’t enough to break through.
It seems this hidden Super offers Akuma some ridiculous properties to negate out Dhalsim’s giant, fully charged fireball as well as Zangief’s ultimate command grab — but it does have some cracks in the armor.
As far as this goes, it seems Desk was able to find like 6 different moves in the game that can defeat or outlast Kongou Kokuretsuzan.
About half of those are Supers you’d probably expect, however, the other half may catch you by surprise.
It’s difficult, but doable.
So check out Desk’s latest video below to see who can best the powered-up demon as well as his previous combo video for SiRN Akuma to see how much more this boss version of the fighter can do.
