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ost_uid0="Roll"]I meant, Akuma does NOT have everything. He has a lot of good moves, I admit, and some great combos, but he isn't better than Ken or Ryu. Ken has focused his fighting style on close combat (Shoryuken) and therefore improved it to the maximum extent. His training in thoses areas gave him advanced speed, defence and comboability. Even though he doesn't get a dark/evil side to him, he doesn't need it, and never will. Ryu has all the moves, though, some are raw and less effective than others. He has nice strength, defence, and Vitality, but not the best speed. He also has an evil side. Sakura has completely raw, but VERY effective attacks. Nice comboability, and speed, and great defence, and she has a dark side. Although, I prefer her normal side. Akuma has almost everything put together, except that the attacks have a pure evil power in them. Thusly, his strength is high, and so is his speed. But his Vitality and defence are lower than some, and they lower his standards. Basically, my point is, is that everyone, including Akuma, has their weakpoints. Akuma's actually hurts a lot of "professional" Akuma players. Sakura having no aerial Hypers hurts the players that use her frequently (like me...). Ken having no projectile hypers hurts all Ryu lovers who want to try Ken. Ryu being slower than some, and having massive recovery lag after certain attacks hurts some people horribly. Akuma's lower defence, some of his attack lag (into and out of), and his range hurt him so...
But still, you be the judge of how you use those disadvantages. (.... some people are able to over come pain and anguish, vanquish their faults, and grasp the light of power. Can you do it? Or will you fail like the many others...?) :sleeping:[/quote]
My my my u know your stuff roll but when you said he is not better than ken or ryu :lol: come on now Akuma and his brother learned the Shoryken from thier master Goutetsu and he even taught akuma and his brother Gouken 3 deadly moves (not the raging demon) akuma thought it was foolish cause of the fact his ancestors banned it to be ever used again so he went behind ther backs and learned the move during the time akumas brother gouken took on 4 pupils Dan,Ryu,Ken and Retsu dan and retsu left early and since there was only two
(ken,ryu) it was much easier he taught them every thing(except the 3 deadly moves whicth he left out) but thier training came to a dreadfull end when thier master was killed by akuma by using the raging demon (akuma also killed his master Goutetsu with the same move) Ryu,and ken know that Akuma had Mastered (keyword MASTERED) the Shoryken and took in the dark hendou wicth turned him somewhat into a
demon which made him twice as stroung so akuma travels the world for great fighters like ryu he has no need for ken he knows ryu is stroung but is not sure if he should kill him our make him evil even in the move Sreet fighter Alpha he tells him that in order to fight him he must use the dark hendou
so Ryu and ken are no macth for akuma as for sakura who takes ryu as her rolemodle she is like a female version of ryu but still no threat to akuma only ryu is what akuma wants so he is the greatest and has everything :sneaky: