We’re about halfway through Street Fighter 6 Season 2 currently and the dust is starting to really settle revealing where things stand with the current meta. Pro players and content creators alike are sharing more of their thoughts through video breakdowns and tier lists, and Broski — who is both a prominent pro and content creator — has put together his latest on both of the aforementioned fronts.
The avid A.K.I. player has constructed a Season 2 A.K.I. match up chart that aims to reveal the truth about how her bouts tend to go in this current season. Spoiler alert: There is one character in particular that Broski labels as, and I quote, “ONLY THE DEAD CAN KNOW PEACE FROM THIS EVIL MAKE IT STOP PLEASE CAPCOM.”
In one of his latest videos, Broski begins by playing a match against an Akuma player online where things just don’t seem to work out for our hero. The frustration from some of the plays that just didn’t work as intended inspires him to jump out of ranked and start putting together his A.K.I. Season 2 match up chart.
It doesn’t take long for Broski to reveal the absolutely horrific match up for A.K.I. this season as its the first character he places on the chart and discusses. This match up chart does away with the number system and instead lists the following categories: A.K.I. Advantage, Slight A.K.I. Advantage, Even, Slight Disadvantage, Disadvantage, and ONLY THE DEAD CAN KNOW PEACE FROM THIS EVIL MAKE IT STOP PLEASE CAPCOM.
Starting with that last one, Broski immediately drops Akuma into the worst of the worst and explains that this match up alone is worse than any of the match ups she saw in Season 1. He goes on to list the myriad of things that make it awful, including her inability to contest his air approach, her being unable to lock him down in the corner or midscreen, his incredible damage, and much more.
Outside of that awful match up, we also learn something very interesting that a lot of players might not realize about A.K.I. Her Venomous Fang special move, the forward stabbing leap that goes through projectiles, was buffed in Season 2, but doesn’t work quite how most people think.
As Broski notes, Venomous Fang is upper body projectile invincible from early on and not fully projectile invincible like many believe, which makes it a viable move to use on reaction against traditional fireballs, but not necessarily low profile projectiles. This means that characters like JP and Terry can stop A.K.I. using this move on its start up if she attempts to use it against their low-hitting fireballs, and that makes these match ups tricky.
Though A.K.I. looked like she was going to be a direct counter character to JP back when she was first revealed in Season 1, here in Season 2 Broski feels that she actually loses to him and places him in the A.K.I. Disadvantage category.
You can take a glimpse at the Broski’s full A.K.I. Season 2 match up chart below, and be sure to check out his video for the reasonings behind all of the placements.
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