“2-touches” in Street Fighter 6 refers to scenarios where a player could wipe out the opponent’s health bar with essentially two openings and a whole lot of resources. Marisa was/is most notorious for doing this thanks to her incredible damage output, but other fighters definitely could hit a combo, punish the opponent for making a mistake on wake up, then close out the round with a second devastating combo taking them from 100% health to 0 just like that.
While Marisa was the queen of 2-touches in Street Fighter 6 Season 1, it looks like she can actually pull off a “1-touch” sequence on Akuma here in Season 2.
Now, there are a couple of stipulations and factors we have to make mention of up front. Firstly, Akuma has lower health than anyone in the game clocking in at 9,000 when the average is 10,000.
Secondly, this 1-touch set up requires just a bit of grey health built up to pull off.
Twitter user realBujogi shared the new Marisa tech on Twitter this week that shows the 1-touch in action. This sequence begins with Akuma whiffing a Drive Impact as Marisa jumps in and has her jumping heavy punch and a crouching medium punch absorbed.
The way in which she jumps in and the way the cornered Akuma’s Drive Impact interact makes it so she actually ends up staying in front of him, which allows her to pull off her massively damaging combo.
From there, a charged standing heavy punch cracks the recovery of Akuma’s Drive Impact and Marisa launches into her big damage combo. Thanks to some of her Season 2 buffs, she can tack on more damage by juggling after her target combo, and when all is said and done we have one real dead Akuma.
Because of Marisa’s amazing damage output, which only got better after the balance update, there might also be ways to 1-touch Akuma without the use of grey health. But for now, bear witness to the might of what has to be the first 1-touch we’ve ever seen in Street Fighter 6.
Yes, #sf6_Marisa can one touch Akuma 🙂
I’m certain there are ways without gray health too but for now just enjoy the sight of that beautiful 100% health bar pic.twitter.com/E9Tls0ZOE8— Armin (@realBujogi) May 23, 2024
