Street Fighter 6 is a better balanced game than any of its predecessors, but that doesn’t mean it’s not without its blemishes. Perhaps the single most egregious such blemish is Rashid’s Super 2: Ysaar, which effectively shuts down the action for a few moments while Rashid is given enough advantage (unparalleled by any other situation in the game, by the way) to try to open you up multiple times for big damage.
Most everyone who has played SF6 has experienced the pain of Ysaar, sometimes more than once a round, and so it’s with gusto we share a recent clip from one of Beckmon’s streams wherein she absolutely shuts down this silly Super in ways the majority of the rest of us have only dreamed about.
Though she plays a handful of characters competently, Beckmon has been grinding with Zangief in recent times and it was with the Russian wrestler that she ran into a Diamond ranked Rashid.
Having had her health whittled down to next to nothing (thanks in no small part to a Rashid Super 2 earlier in the round) Beckmon finds herself in an extremely dire situation with a very low probability for comeback. This probability falls to next to zero when the Rashid conjures up a Ysaar from full screen away.
The streamer takes a half step back, but that’s enough to place her firmly in the corner. Her opponent proceeds to take his first offensive pass and elects for an enhanced overhead (Ysaar also gives Rashid access to buffed versions of many of his moves) from fairly far out.
Beck times a parry perfectly and goes into a command grab with Zangief, which only lops off about half of Rashid’s remaining health thanks to immediate 50% scaling following a Perfect Parry. You’d think a hit like this would mean the Super would be thwarted, but the tornado remains long enough to force Beckmon to block as soon as recovers from landing the grab.
This, of course, allows the Rashid to take yet another offensive swipe despite having just been pristinely countered. He Drive Rushes over to go for yet another overhead, which is also met with a Perfect Parry. This time Beck uses Gief’s OD command grab to ensure total victory.
She laughs it off in stride, but as we said earlier, this kind of sequence is what most of the rest of us dream about doing as we otherwise are trounced by Ysaar offense. As such, we felt this was a particularly cathartic clip and want to share it with the rest of you:
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— Beckmon (@mtggirl_) October 21, 2024
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