I had no clue Hakan was this strong...

In the run-up to Street Fighter 6, We went back to some Ultra Street Fighter 4 and played some online lobbies. Little did I know, I would get bullied by one of the most underrated characters in the series - the turkish grappler Hakan. This character has a lot of crazy tech up his sleeve using his oil mechanic, as well as his array of devastating combos and command grabs, and his ultra 2, which allows him to anti-air any jump move in the game. Hope you enjoy the matches! (with my Fuerte and Chun Li)
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0:00 intro
5:07 El Fuerte vs Hakan
06:59 E. Honda vs Hakan
10:39 Chun Li vs Hakan
Twitch (I stream every weekday from 5-8 EST): / jmcrofts
Patreon: / jmcrofts
Twitter: / crofts

[@Asaba32]

Hakan is one of the coolest characters Capcom ever came out with from a battle design perspective. Shame he's never coming back.

[@TemeriaForever]

#Hakan4SF6 🇹🇷 🏺

[@txcforever]

Gameplay wise he is pretty unique. Design wise, he is probably the ugliest thing Capcom ever created.

[@ricardohumildebrabo]

Is there a reason he's not coming back?

[@ISACVSJB]

@@txcforever it's a hint to creation mode in SF6 hahaha

[@Asaba32]

@@ricardohumildebrabo I think he just was way too unpopular and considered visually ugly. I don't think Capcom would waste resources bringing him back as anything other than a cameo.

[@OG_DouG]

Hakan is legit an underrated character. he puts oil on and he becomes top tier

[@Yoloslides]

nah

[@augustgreig9420]

What tier is he after the buffs?

[@jancelpinales5228]

@@augustgreig9420 id say same as el fuerte high B tier/low A tier, imo at least

[@Strizz484]

He was mid-tier at best with oil, people just didn't know the match cuz barely anyone played him

[@rud5101]

He's the worst and best character in the game.

[@kevingriffith6011]

Imagine Hakan in Street Fighter 6 on the RE engine. So damn shiny.

[@Longlostpuss]

Hakan was one of the SFIV creator's sick lubrication fetish, you could just tell.

[@notamobilesprout4175]

@@Longlostpuss Hakan is a Turkish oil wrestler. As real as it is… the actual sport and how it’s played only makes it more sus

[@2FaceFGC45]

Also , gameplay wise, Hakan would be scary. Oiled up Drive Rush combo. Or maybe even a sliding Drive Impact.

[@kevingriffith6011]

@@2FaceFGC45 Admittedly he'd be losing Focus Attack, one of his best tools from SF4 unless they gave it back to him as a character-specific mechanic.

[@2FaceFGC45]

@@kevingriffith6011 Fair point. Admittedly, I forgot the main benefit to focus attack was the stun. I mainly thought Drive Impact would be good enough because it has armor.

[@GramdalfFGC]

hang on, Hakan can dash into normals? sounds like Drive rush to me. They said Luke was the future of SF but really it was Hakan

[@NewSeraphim]

Hakan was always the future. An install that dramatically changed the way a character plays (V-trigger), canceling an attack into movement (Laura), canceling dash into a normal making it reach further and perform differently (Drive rush), an ebb and flow when you're powered up and at advantage vs when you're not, execution heavy cancel mechanic to link normals (SF5 Dan)

[@gamerookie09]

Lariat Tubman is actually a very well-known Hakan player. I believe he and Smug just recently had a pretty intense set.

[@Yoloslides]

Smug is stressful lol.

[@devonhoenig9515]

Awesome name to boot

[@OG_DouG]

yeah, i knew i saw that name before. didn't SMUG wiggity wash him?

[@Yoloslides]

@@OG_DouG first time we played it went 2-2. Next time it went 5-5. Third time he beat me 10-6. Your turn to play him

[@cellP8]

@@OG_DouG he washed Smug lol

[@Itsmeagainsttheworld35]

Street fighter 4 will forever go hard!

[@anjoLas]

word

[@SoggyHotDoggy]

Always gonna have mad love for this game.

[@xOwlBear]

For me 3rd strike is the best SF but my favorite will always be 4 because of Gouken.

[@blackmanta2527]

Will always be a Xbox 360 classic

[@Spider-Complexion]

4 and 3rd strike had the best vibe and announcer voice to get me hyped 6 has the ambiance and vibe but not the announcer

[@ramijackson3978]

Hakan was so sick. He was such a fun character and so charismatic in both design and personality.

[@disonalvan]

this format where you explain the opponent's character before going to the match is really great, keep it up!!

[@Yoloslides]

Lol thanks for the games, I had fun Hakan is actually not great but he's fun to play. When you watch people who know how to fight him that's when you get a sense of how bad he really is. He was virtually unplayable before Ultra, at which point he ascended to C tier or low B tier if you really wanna push it. MLSwear and Samurai Drew are far better and they're both still active today. I have videos of both on my channel. He can cancel his fwd dash into normals but he can only cancel the immediate startup frames of his backdash, which gives you the ability to counter many pokes by utilizing the invincibility of backdash, without using focus but it requires very precise timing. The online delay was killing me during those games so i couldn't really do much with backdash cancels. I think his cr lk with oil is +1, and his jumping mk can cross up whereas without oil, it whiffs. Outside of that, everything is virtually the same. Also, you dont need to cr button with perfect timing, plenty of people just mash it. It's a lot harder to land that oil dive than it looks, because of quick rise and delay wake up. You actually have to watch the animation, it's not a free grab by any means. And theoretically he can "punish anything with dash normals" but you'd have to see into the future for most of those punishes. The truth is unless you have really, REALLY good reads, picking Hakan will likely end up very bad for you. anyway....ggs jmc, lol

[@Da_Mang0_]

You're the HAWAA main???

[@Yoloslides]

@@Da_Mang0_ lol. the oil sound gets in the way but if you turn down sound effects he says "SHOWAAHHH" super clear 😂

[@THiZZyMcGUiRE]

respect

[@TheDimsh]

I played a lot with Drew back in the day and the sets were always hilarious, I cant even imagine how much better hes become. We had this sort of "team" of people that played and mastered unique characters to show they arent bad and played quite a bit with each other. Remember a guy called overmostheads? Watch some vids of him he was NUTTY

[@Yoloslides]

@@TheDimsh Drew was the one who made me pick up the character. I explain on my channel in the video where we played. Yes i remember overmostheads. what's funny is i only recently found out that was his name, literally a few days ago. I only ever knew him as "OMH" lol

[@bageltime8983]

Lariat Tubman is one of the best Hakans in the world. A force to be reckoned with for sure.

[@sabbathjackal]

that name is hilarious too

[@axis_plays_games]

If he's oiled up, he can also move while charging his Focus Attack

[@brucegodines5989]

How so? I'm planning on picking him up as my SF4 main when I download it

[@gtwhirlwind7890]

If I didn't see this comment, I was going to post the same lol

[@Yoloslides]

Yes this is true

[@Yoloslides]

@@brucegodines5989 good luck with THAT

[@nobabrilg5581]

@@brucegodines5989 Usually focus attack on others character doesn't move while they are charging. As J said, if you dash during the focus you cancel it, but if you just press back or forward once (not double-dash), he will slide while he's doing focus. It's not super useful, but certainly can be a good chutzpah move here and there if the person is afraid of your actions. Forgot to add, being oil up also add damage to the command grabs. And there's another technicallity that I may forgot but take it with a grain of salt cuz it been too long. I think the oil dive grab it had different properties depending on the kick your press.

[@j4ff4c3ks1]

I know a lot of people find Hakan super weird and cooky design-wise but honestly I think he perfectly embodies Street Fighter design and I wouldn't have him any other way, just like Necro or Dhalsim

[@mikeg5039]

Hakan was my main! I was the 75th best hakan in the world for a week during sf4s hayday lol

[@mydemon]

Nice!

[@Junetilt]

I just got sfiv last week and I've been having so much fun, wish I could've played it during its prime

[@Longlostpuss]

In my opinion, it is the best one in the series so far and is going to take some beating. SF6 looks like it is going to be reaching for SFIV, which is ironic. The only thing I would have changed about SFIV was some of the character proportions, but I preferred pretty much everything else about it compared to all of the other Street Fighters before and after it. SFV was a joke, that game actually shouldn't have happened. If you saw the early concept leaks, SF6 was basically what SFV should have been in the first place.

[@CudaFGC]

There are still extremely good players on PC and PSN willing to help level you up. You just have to be in the lobbies with them.

[@Junetilt]

@@CudaFGC how would I find them?

[@CudaFGC]

@@Junetilt Most of them are on twitch streams these days. Tuesdays are very active and Thursdays-Sunday mostly. Follow the usf4 category on twitch for activity, then add people with green bars for games later on when no one is playing.

[@CloaknDagger]

I really appreciate that you spend the proper time to explain and set up the situation before jumping into the gameplay, so that us lowly laymans understand what the hell is going on during the match. Thanks man!!!!!!!!!!

[@peterma362]

Cool video. I had heard before how oiled Hakan was one of the best characters but I was never actually told why, so I appreciate the explanation.

[@samurai_xington]

Best thing I came home to after school, thx for uploading and being a cool dude👌🏾🔥

[@joaovictor471]

i realy like this type of video, you explain the character and them show a match with him or against him

[@SwedishWargoat]

This is such a great video showing your awesome way of thinking, and an extremely sharp contrast to DSPGaming's 13 - 0 losses to Chris in the SF6 Beta. Your content is so chill and you seem like an awesome dude, and this vid was a joy to watch. :) Peace out.

[@Yoloslides]

19:24 here's what was going on: So the oil dive cancel is SPD with kick, then while still holding kick you have to press down + PPP the tricky part is if you let go of kick too soon, you execute the oil dive and he flies forward (which actually happened at one point, as you saw) but the other tricky part is if you let go of PPP too fast it counts as a negative edge SPD and you get an accidental SPD or ex SPD as you see in the video. So you do perfect inputs to build meter, only to miss one input and lose the meter you just built lol. Very frustrating but comes with the territory. One of the things that does make Hakan "hard" to use is he has very fast, precise (and thus easy to screw up) command sequences.

[@alegriasrose]

my man’s washing ppl in endless

[@kennymccormick8295]

Cool story bro.

[@christophertaylor4340]

What up Yolo. LoveMachine in the house!!

[@Yoloslides]

@@christophertaylor4340 lol what's good man

[@Yoloslides]

@@kennymccormick8295 i know.

[@antonsimmons8519]

My best homie used to absolutely terrorize me with Hakan. He's VERY slept-on, due to launching in a poor state, but getting totally fixed.

[@michaelkahn-way9701]

Lmao 🤣 🤣 bro that last combo into ultra was the cherry 🍒 on top !nice video

[@tiagosolano9728]

Remember that Evo when Infiltration pulled out his pocket Hakan against PRBalrog? Epic

[@hughboyzilla]

This is cool way to highlight a character. Quick run down then matches

[@Kenpachi_White707]

Lol Lariat Tubman is such a good name!!!

[@Yoloslides]

lol thanks

[@ethanshelley815]

HAKAN AND HUGO FOR SF6

[@jihadjoe]

So nice to watch some SF4!

[@worsel555]

Oh man, I used to have a pocket Hakan and it was so much fun to use him against people online who had no idea what was coming or what he could do. I do hope they can work him into SF6 as DLC down the road.

[@MOONWOLF7395]

Hakan is so entertaining man. I'm not a grappler but I would love to see him back in sf6.

[@Da_Mang0_]

This guy legitimately have made at least one person get bodied to hearing: "HAWAA" and is hilarious to think about it

[@DIRK_H.]

sooo underrated!!!! love it!!!!

[@modernmarvel]

😆 I love these type of videos!

[@Gilbot9000]

When we played SF4 for the first time, my younger brother picked Hakan and since he was a new character, he just called Hakan the Lube Noob.

[@shikarixox1195]

Him oiling up is fuxking hilarious lmao Imagine if you got in a real fight and your opponent started doing that every time there was some distance between you

[@U2befantom]

*jmcrofts:* "He can cancel his dash into normals....This is forbidden in Street Fighter!" *Street Fighter 6:* "Hold my Drive Rush"

[@biddergick2890]

Seeing this makes me want to play SF4 I have it but I barely touched online I recently got it 2 years ago, but was more focused on 5 championship edition cause it was the newer thing. I did some trials but never sat and play I should. I need to motivate myself to play games again. It's been hard to play games lately.

[@heavymetarismyway9741]

Some of the best Hakantent I've ever seen.

[@solidussnake1906]

Old meme where it's just James Chen saying "Hakan when oiled, one of the scariest characters..." and other variations of this.

[@CorruptedFlame]

that last combo was uncalled for. lol

[@OzymandiasWasRight]

More USF4 please! Still love this game. It got me through a time when i couldnt afford anything else lol. I know there are 'better' fighting games but this one will always be my personal favorite.

[@RealKorean]

speaking of oil, hakan should be taking bonus damage from like Ken's moves and sagat's tiger roar cuz fire lol

[@BertSquirty]

Hakan in sf6 would be very interesting and fun in my opinion. Just imagine a modernized hakan? He’s such a fun and interesting character and yes I could see why people don’t like him but I think he fits right in the sf cast nicely.

[@katf9513]

Hakan is actually really cool. They fix the inherent problems of the grappler archetype by giving them unique engage options, corner carry options, an anti-air grapple super to make jumping to avoid grapple less safe, and the oil allows them to benefit off of being fullscreen.

[@michaeltaylor1657]

When he screamed HOW I felt that 💀

[@micshaz]

That level 3 focus was godlike ngl

[@jumpsteady1777]

When I was getting high up with my Blanka at B+ I started fighting some insane players (era 2013 to 2016). Hakan was a nightmare to fight. Definitely one of my most feared. Also seem to remember Sakura and Ibuki being insane in this game. And of course as blanka it seems every game E Honda and Guile are arch nemesis tough fights I miss my sfiv blanka shenanigans. Electricity was a better anti air to randomly pop on peoppe flying around. Cross up blanka ball chaining after a throw. Golden backstep roll being impossible to tell which side its landing.

[@savagetruth8009]

I still get down on my ps3 from time to time. Great game!

[@rayciannello2268]

I love this game…

[@subterraneanretrogames556]

Yes, I want to see more SF4 please! Goddamn this game is so much fun!

[@adamant6470]

*Jmcroft makes a list of character that people were wrong about* Hakan: My guy. I make history in Evo, right Balrog!!! Balrog:...

[@IndyNDYT]

Before I even clicked the video, I knew it was gonna be Lariat Tubman, lmao

[@Toomnyusernae]

Hakan is able to gain meter from full screen very quickly. Maybe one of the best with his oil dive cancel to cower crouch.

[@Xbladeleonhart]

Hakan will always be my favorite sf grappler.

[@karisasani7006]

What makes hakan more frightening is that for a grappler, he isn't as afraid of projectiles

[@JMPrudomTube]

Big up Tubman he was a very high rank og hakan back during the console days. I used to spar a bit with him. Top class player he was holding back like a good gentlemen ya know.

[@JMPrudomTube]

Also Hakan is a very different fighter then most. He's hard to read and hard to pressure.

[@Grimbakor]

Those block strings were real satisfying to watch, love watching SF4

[@scaleitback1055]

There’s no block strings in SF4.

[@Yoloslides]

@@scaleitback1055 you sure about that?

[@scaleitback1055]

@@Yoloslides the game has 4 frame windows for invincible 1 frame reversals that pretty much everyone has. The worst thing you can do is attempt to play it like a fighting game and establish block string pressure because you’ll just eat a mashed reversal every time. Because of that the game revolves into mashed lights into hit confirms because everyone is afraid of using other buttons and eating a mashed DP. The meta for a game shouldn’t be to bait out invincible reversals for the whole cast because your risk/reward dynamic is completely skewed towards benefiting defense. SF4 sucks.

[@Grimbakor]

You must be fun at parties

[@Yoloslides]

@@scaleitback1055 So then you're unhappy because you can't hit confirm and that you don't know how to do true block strings and avoid mashed DPs. Got it lol.

[@yoojmemba5769]

this stream was fun

[@drvincemd]

Hakan was an instant main when I got USF4, before him I mained El Fuerte because I love Luchadors and Capcom made him really fun to play

[@hericiumcoralloides5025]

Kick command grab is insane. Can be delayed, cancelled, grabs airborne opponents. Can be poppoed off a neutral standing light kick easily, won't combo as far as I remember, but I've caught innumerable opponents trying to jump, strike or block and guessing wrong. Just the most fun I've had with any character in SFIV.

[@FlareGunDebate]

everyone forgets E. Honda's command grab. It pushes back against grapplers who think they can crowd.

[@MauriceCharles]

13:01 😂 All oiled up and ready for Chun-Li on his backside 😢

[@ericbright1881]

I loved playing Hakan. Shimmering shining slippery splendor.

[@dazzawesome]

Hakan is awesome!!! This is amazing news!

[@pukebra1n]

holy fuck that combo at the end, and yes for more usf4!

[@Medivh73]

OMG, please make more SFIV stuff. Miss it really bad.

[@markedmariner9291]

I actually really want to know all of the special gimmicks each of the SF games had, especially since sf6 has this drive system.

[@SStyle5]

The EVO match with Hakan is the hypest isht ever

[@RatedShadowXrd]

I remember at EVO 2013, Infiltration used Hakann to beat PR Balrog in top 8

[@xerexssdenial5504]

Yesss i loved Hakkan, i want him to come back in 6

[@chrisdavid2408]

Yes! This game never fell off

[@MauriceCharles]

18:20 “How” is for T. Hawk. “Wow” is for Hakan. 😂

[@thatguypowers6595]

I want nothing more that a ultra realistic oiled up hakan in sf6

[@randomjunk555]

One thing I've noticed is that with the high tiers that are actually low and vice versa is its based off the characters Design rather then they're gameplay.

[@172louis]

Once i notice there is such thing as oil wrestling in real life, he grew a lot more interesting for me

[@welloveraverage]

I love the videos on obscure characters whooping you

[@diegogatjens1728]

10:20 the troll laugh....

[@phorchybug3286]

Hakan looks like a crystal with all that oil on him.

[@pscwplb]

I guarantee you that PR Balrog already knew this.

[@KennyFrierson]

This guys a Oil God

[@Treador55]

Hakan cant get enough of that Chun Li... ehm... grab... Yes, that was the word I was looking for...

[@PrivateJoker0119]

Dash cancel into normal? Sounds familiar.... oh wait, its the earl version of drive rush into a normal! Lmao

[@kazy8029]

Hakan got me to wrestle with my friends and from that we did 'other's things together. All good bros to.

[@Brian-tk5vt]

U gotta make a video of infiltration and pr Balrog and the epic moment infiltration pulls out Hakan!

[@josephwimerYoYoYo]

It's amazing what a little lubrication can do.

[@jaredsshield]

hes my main! i love playing as him.

[@fRikimaru1974]

Man, he's destroying you🤯

[@mynames7688]

I always played him even when people told me he sucks. I always have a competitive and a low tier main. Winning with low tier characters is fun when hanging with the crew

[@raggaeldestro8609]

I remember Lariat Tubman from Excellent Adventures. Good Times

[@Yoloslides]

Different guy

[@KarmasAB123]

That Hakan player's name is AMAZING XD

[@anonymousAJ]

ST Boxer vibes

[@gabrielg4627]

I always thought Hakan was so cool when I first played him on 3ds

[@glawrk2861]

Oil Hakan was maybe the scariest thing in the game, but when he doesn't, he's crap.

[@phoenixlich]

i think he takes less damage while oiled too

[@StreetfighterTips]

Hakan was my go to in super

[@a_bar_of_soap]

USF4 is the game that turned me on to Dan. Give us more!

[@yanclla]

More SF4 content plz hehe

[@derekf1283]

I still play ultra street fighter 4. It's definitely one of my favorites. Hakan is a good character.

[@jeroflores1726]

Hey Derek what's up i just wantes to tell you that account that answer You is a scamer

[@MJRLHobbyStuff]

Can someone explain to me something, he was regularly doing some kind of FADC and some EX and burn 2 meter bars in a split second. What’s going on there?

[@MrPaul-kj5bm]

FUERTE!

[@Barjile]

Keep doing USFIV videos bro!