It’s now been a bit over a week since Street Fighter 6 received a new balance update that shook up the entire roster, and pro players have certainly been digging into what that means for their favorite characters and the competition.
BST|Daigo Umehara recently released a new video where he goes through some of the new balance changes in SF6 to see what they look like in practice and offer some early impressions — especially for Cammy.
The Killer Bee was arguably one of the fighters hit hardest in the patch, and Daigo doesn’t seem to disagree — though he also looks pretty happy about it as an Akuma player.
“At long last… She’s finally obeying the law,” said Umehara after reading through just a few of her adjustments. “She read through the entire Japanese constitution.”
The biggest things he seems to focus on is crouching medium punch being made much easier to whiff punish, and Cammy no longer switches sides after Overdrive Cannon Spike.
This means she can’t get out of the corner simply by guessing right on a reversal, but that doesn’t mean she’s weak now.
And Daigo has some funny analogies to help explain how he felt about Cammy before.
“I guess this makes her a normal strong character now?” Umehara continued. “She’s certainly not ‘weak.’ They just fixed things that were broken before. She was totally out of whack. Big time out of whack. She wasn’t paying taxes or obeying traffic lights. She was dining and dashing. That’s what it was like.”
So it sounds like he doesn’t expect her to really drop off much or anything but that Capcom hopefully did a decent job balancing her now.
Moving on to other characters, Daigo doesn’t seem overly impressed with E. Honda and Marisa’s buffs in the new update though does note they should have some better options now.
For Manon, however, he was surprised by her buffs to increase her meter gain at higher medal levels, which he describes as “amazing” and maybe a bit scary.
Daigo previously released videos focusing on his thoughts on Ryu’s buffs and M. Bison’s nerfs in the update as well. He does have others on Akuma and Ed as well, but those don’t have English subtitles just yet.
You can check out Daigo’s latest translated video below to get his thoughts and some chuckles about where SF6 is heading now.