

A regular 3-hit BnB combo from any character that would usually do about 25% damage on average against other characters, will do about 50% damage on average against Akuma. It is widely considered that Akuma is still the strongest character in the game, and that he may be barely broken.Īkuma now has the lowest stamina in the game and can be dizzied, where in ST he could not be dizzied. Though he has a severe health handicap (he can be almost KO'd from perfect with one Super combo), he can dish out a lot of damage with his juggles, meaty Air Hadoken setups that can lead to mixups and an almost inescapable Raging Demon setup. He is a fun character to play with though, and does not win easily if the opponent knows what he is doing. Akuma is banned in almost all HDR tournaments due to his overpowering Air Hadoken, Normal Attacks and Super Attack. He has the weakest stamina in the game, and is much weaker in HDR than he was in ST, but has been given a Super Attack (Raging Demon). Simply move the stick up from Honda's character select image, and Akuma will be available. He is somewhat of a secret character in HDR as well, however there is no code to choose him in Remix mode. Akuma (also known as Gouki) is a more powerful version of Ryu and Ken, and was a secret character in ST.
