Chun-Li Ultimate Starter Guide - Street Fighter 6

[@rooflemonger]

So here is the big Chun Li guide! Got everything you need from easy to advanced and full of timestamps cause it's mad long(and like for timestamps!). Chun is CHUN LI ONE OF GAMINGS MOST SIGNATURE CHARACTERS and that's reason enough to play her but she's also pretty fun so that's good too

[@antoniusminotaurus352]

I've wanted to learn chun for a while now but just never knew where to start because of all the patches since launch making older guides obsolete. Thank you for putting this out.

[@rooflemonger]

This video is definitively where you start lol

[@1000Tomatoes]

The only Chun changes that were significant enough to change the stuff covered in guides are 5hp being safe and more spamable in neutral and 5hk having higher scaling when used to start a combo making 2HP a better meterless dp punish starter.

[@rooflemonger]

These always take forever and a day to make so enjoy it or else!!! After the cotw announcement it made me realize Chun is weird and hard in sf6 and there's not many good resources so I decided to become the resource. Maybe one more sf6 char guide in the future? Maybe...

[@nicholsdeshan]

Yea lemme guess is it Mai Rooflemonger 😅😅😅😅😅

[@rayray3162]

bison please

[@zkosmith1662]

Would be cool to drop a Zangeif guide since you like grapplers.

[@jsegarra144]

Bison!

[@makarov-gk8ji]

Love the content rooflemonger but no sparking zero tips? Was hoping to see a beginner guide or something from you would be really helpful!

[@siideeye]

THE SACRED TEXTS HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED

[@connorsutton8745]

For people who struggle with the charge for bird kick in combos, you can option select lightning legs if you haven't held long enough. Start holding down and do the input for a half circle forward ending at up. You'll get bird kick if you have charge, and lighting legs if you don't

[@twospoonspls807]

I've been practicing with Chun for a little while, I had NO IDEA that you didn't need to do charge inputs once in stance mode. I've been making it difficult for myself for no damn reason 🤣. Thank you for this.

[@venivediicommented4046]

That's bout to level u up for sure, I remember when I first found that out 😂

[@Acusumano25]

All right bro. I needed something to watch while I'm on the treadmill for the next 30 minutes, but I think I might just stay here until the video's done. If you can put in the effort to give us these kinds of videos on a almost daily basis, I can at least get off my ass while I enjoy them

[@DennisJDoesVoice]

I respect the commitment to a character that isn't gonna get swept up in the algorithm. I know Chun is kind of over my head so I appreciate this one

[@rooflemonger]

I can only do something like this every now and then though. Not every vid has to be about the clicks, but I can't put days of effort into vids like this that I know wont get big returns often. That said though, happy to be a resource for a character without much out there.

[@homequotient]

As a Chun main thank you for spreading the gospel of Chun o7. With hard work and dedication we will force Capcom to make her top tier again

[@nightie1stan913]

Amazing video! I didnt just learn about chun li but I feel like I finally understand frame data! Also despite the 1.5h video lenght, you were concise, spoke in a very understandable way and I never felt bored watching. good job!

[@mfrace04]

a guide dropped!! always appreciate seeing these. excited to watch man!

[@testsubject0099]

Broo after the combo guide I never thought you'd drop a full guide. Fire content 🔥

[@Darknessssxz]

Incredible work and I learned a ton. Thank you for all your hard work on this info!

[@spartandevineagles]

Thank you so much. I got the game over the summer sale, picked Chun-Li as my first character, and I've hit a wall in Gold. This was a great opportunity to review and reconsider my psychology.

[@SomeRandomDude821]

I climbed into gold by spamming DR 2MK > heavy legs, and I broke into plat by swapping to DR 2MK > 214P~LK > 28MK. After the medium SBK, you get an autotimed DR 3HP overhead that's both meaty and drive rush enhanced (+8oH/+5oB). Doing 4HP after is both a combo on hit and a frametrap on block. No one in gold blocked the overhead, so that sequence was pretty much a free 40% for 2 drive bricks.

[@spartandevineagles]

@@SomeRandomDude821 Holy cow

[@patrickyounts297]

This is a nicely presented guide. I love how these kind of guides are out here now for both new and old players. Chun Li is the first character I ever played in a fighting game. I graduated HS in 1991, and our class went to a water park for our party. I was fat then, and self-conscious about it, so instead of water slides I went to the arcade. All the games were free, and I was the only one there. I played SF2 the entire night, using only Chun Li, and it took me almost until dawn to actually beat the damn game. Anyway, I'm glad guides like this are out there now: learning on your own is great, but having a foundation of knowledge to start from is better. I look forward to the next one.

[@Doople]

Watching this to learn the match up. Thanks for providing info on the enemy

[@lordronn472]

Chun Li is madly complicated to play as so there can never be enough combo videos and guides for her! Thank you so very much

[@mattpk1609]

Thank you for this! Started SF6 with Chun and Made it to Master but still have soooo many Questions

[@aganosxvii5079]

Oh my god, Rooflemonger thank you so much for this Guide! As a Chun main in sf6, such a detailed guide is a blessing!

[@mclemonn]

i literally decided to pick chun li up two days ago and these videos came like a blessing ty rooflemonger

[@miguelestebanromeroait3281]

I love how in depth this guide is. Really appreciate as a long time Chun main 🙏🏻🙌🏻

[@SOUTH_______]

Rooflemonger releases a guide and it's like a new character just unlocked for me

[@sailor-doom]

Hey, thank you for this! Usually FGC KZbin tries to follow the hype of the newer character and older characters get forgotten a bit. I'm sure these videos will bring you less views than Terry, but I appreciate it a lot that you decided to make them

[@chroma6847]

Wow this is an amazing guide. I've been playing Chun li since launch and I'm still bad with her but with your guide, I'll definitely improve, thank you so much.

[@MaximumCarnage-]

Wait what? Awesome thanks man. Didn't expect this after the combo vid so I'm super grateful.

[@MrPuch82]

I don't even play SF6 and your guides are still super entertaining to watch. (It does help that Chun-Li is S-Tier eye candy too ;) )

[@Angelo_August]

YOOO thanks for putting forth the effort to make updated guides, this is just what I needed at the exact right time! I dropped SF6 a year ago as my first fighting game after getting frustrated with Chun Li, but now that I'm a bit more experienced from playing other 2D fighters , I might return to try her again.

[@dabblesonguitar6752]

Didn’t expect this guide before Cyrax/Sektor/Noob but I’m all here for it!

[@burni988]

This guide came at the perfect time, I feel ready to try and learn this game properly now.

[@no04234s]

Been wanting to try chun again and these two guides were great for that!

[@yeetskeet3]

I appreciate guides like this very much. Thank you!

[@Bedasie]

YES!!! My man is back on it, one of the greatest beginner character guide creators ever. Helped me so much when I started out with DBFZ, can't wait for these to start rolling out, thank you rooflemonger

[@ghostblade1042]

AYOOOOOOOOO, my man did the god's work. I can't thank you enough. Thanks, Roof.

[@marzblaq7267]

I needed this!!! Chun-Li is my second in command with Kimberly as my main 🖤

[@Aes_pen]

I have almost achieved master rank with modern Lily, and I was thinking of trying to learn classic Chun, since she is the only true footsies character in the game right now, and i just wanna prepare myself for Elena. So yeah, your guide will be SUPER HELPFUL for me, I'll say thank you in advance❤

[@marcbraun5342]

One and a half hour of Chun-Li, awesome! I don't play as her and never will, not much of a kicker or a charger, but these starter guides are most appreciated and must be very difficult to plot out. I'm a lecturer and know the challenges of course planing,...buuuut I've never had to explain Chun-Li's gameplan. ^^ So, thanks to the immortal arcade monkey god in the sky for this. Maybe there's an additional post dream combo, so to speak, Ed guide in the future, now that the character has been figured out? ;)

[@rooflemonger]

maybe 1 more guide before mai drops. "out of season" character guides never do great so cant afford to make a lot of these cause the time and effort basically loses me money lol

[@marcbraun5342]

@@rooflemonger That would be amazing. And I understand that fruits of the effort can be somewhat hard to predict. I asked myself why does a base game character guide come out now. I still watched it but that was the first thought. Maybe I can sell you the idea. I play Ed since he came out but at first he was seen as lower tier than now, much lower. Now they figured out the character and put that on display, especially at Evo, where three or four Ed mains joined the finals and we could see that the character can be played in very diverse manners. Like the mirror match of Momochi and Endingwalker. I think we have a new understanding how to play the character to his strengths "and" a lot more people have him on their radar. So I think it's worth it, maybe even starting the video with an Evo drewam combo and the crowd counting the hits. How does that sound?

[@JulesNekro]

the strongest woman in the world 🗣️🦵

[@IRiiV4L]

BIG CHUNGUS? 🔥🗣️🫡

[@myrgaan]

Nah, I'd choose feet. 🦶👅

[@sekiisetsuloveless]

Going through the whole thing *and* leaving a like as well. Appreciate the work you put in rooflemonger!

[@Mene0]

Yoooo what? Chun Li guide? Thanks a lot roofle!

[@414pseudo8]

Great video! ill definitely give Chun-Li a try after this.

[@tmanhang]

Again time to sit down and watch!

[@JB_CY]

If i use the timestamps in the description I feel like I should leave a like. Just a hunch.

[@rooflemonger]

Yes always like, subscribe, then like again

[@akocleol3856]

Thanks... wish this was released earlier, but better late than never. practically confirmed what i know and some that i didnt

[@rooflemonger]

Well not much out there for Chun period let alone most of it out of date, I got here eventually

[@akocleol3856]

@@rooflemonger much appreciated

[@user-nikita-kuzhel]

Love Chun Li, thank you for the guide❤❤❤

[@douglasmijangos3327]

How’d you comment 11 minutes ago when the video was released less than 1 minute ago 😂

[@user-nikita-kuzhel]

@@douglasmijangos3327It’s really funny, I just open SF6 guide playlist and saw this video, opened it and after that saw that this video can be seen only by direct link. I put a like but KZbin didn’t show 1 number, it stayed 0. So that’s it, just coincidence))

[@ItzSadSanchez]

As a Pad Chun player I will say you will get scammed sometimes when doing Tensho. If you are crouching I belive you will need to let go of crouching in order to get the AA. Also for Ex bird you can combo into your safe jump setup but it is fairly difficult to do.

[@ShizuSan69]

I’ve lost my fair share of games to this lol

[@rooflemonger]

You do have to let go for pad too but it's easy and or trivial to do so vs it being more of a process on stick where it's more annoying in quick situations

[@fissilewhistle]

The input’s gotta be down, neutral, down, neutral. The game won’t accept anything different.

[@JohnyAndrew]

crazy on the timing cause i just picked up chun a few days ago. Only cause there is not that many chuns online. I tried looking for a guide and there wasn’t many with current buffs/nerfs.

[@cipper12]

Ok I messed around with chun li a bit, got her to gold I didn't know the stance can cancel her I uncancellable normals Now everything make so much more sense

[@Big_Deb]

Excellent

[@laffy7204]

Ex and Light lightning kicks are good whiff punish tools: Light lightning kicks: Has the same range as sweep but 1f faster (8 frames), combos in C.mk, doesn't scale like C.mk as a starter and needs no meter Ex lightning kick: Has the same range as 13f S.hp but 5 frames faster (8f), combos into c.mk on punish counter, does less damage than S.hp, cost meter, but scales way better and more meter efficient than c.mk with more range losing only 1f It's also very safe and combos on counter hit when close, so it's a decent way to take your turn against some spacing traps, and check the further drive rushes. If your lazy, you can just buffer qcf as much as you want, since ex moves have higher priority than supers. If you wish to level 2 super, press 1 kick button. If you want to ex lightning kick, press 2 kick buttons. If you need to anti-air or do an invincible reversal, end with a down button to do ex tensho kicks. It be like having a one buttons dp. You can do a normal one Tensho kick if the previous qcf was completed, it would take practice to master Just letting you guys know, cause Chun Li players can have trouble controlling their opponents aggression. Hope that helps 🙏

[@nad613]

Damn, I'd love this for the mid to low tiers

[@rooflemonger]

well chun is pretty mid tier right now so there ya go 🙏

[@tc7582]

Love the guide! Would you be able to make one for Jamie? 🙏

[@Ness315]

Really great video, are there any Oki options midscreen after H Tensho kicks?

[@rooflemonger]

nothing "mathematical" like traditional oki. Either you just toss a LP kikoken to start owning space or just dash up with nothing really guaranteed. HK tensho is you taking damage and sacrificing oki basically compared to MK sbk

[@Ness315]

@@rooflemonger ah ok thanks, im labbing dash > delay cr heavy punch right now and it seems to have a lot of promise as a meaty, just trying to figure out what it loses to Update: this is beating jab, try it out!

[@sc4rypotter]

dash > dr > 4HP

[@YonCyclops3965]

Gen aint never coming back! Honestly, looking at how they handle mash inputs, and the stances, can we really expect him any tim3 soon?

[@Kwisatz-Chaderach]

Chunners needs more costumes!! 😤

[@JulesNekro]

they all do 😢

[@rooflemonger]

Capcom fears free and easy money

[@Kwisatz-Chaderach]

@@rooflemonger it's so sad 😞

[@lordronn472]

You what is the hardest thing about her combos? The instant stomps after the SBK or H.Lk like at 22:00 like I still can't do those stopms it always whiffs

[@mustang12345]

The down > down input for Tensho kicks sucks for all devices. It might be just a little faster on Leverless. The biggest problem is that she has to stand up once, in other words she cannot do it from a crouching position. It makes AA some characters with air attacks like Luke j.HP or Manon j.HK, which hitbox is very low, hard to AA. You need to react much quicker than with a classic DP motion (which can be done from a crouching position). Dealing with cross-up as well is hard, they can either make the Tensho Kicks whiff, or again, as she has to stand up to complete the motion, she would get hit by a potential cross-up attack. Against cross-up Chun players usually prefer to st.MK, air-throw or go under and punish with a st.LP counter if possible. In general the AA game with Chun-li is pretty hard and inconsistent to be honest. Having a classic Dragon Punch and a down HP is so much reliable than all the AA she has. So yeah, kind of disagree with the video presenting Chun-li as a character who has an easy time with Anti-air.

[@rooflemonger]

its godlike on leverless, straight superior to dp motion.

[@kwibus6382]

HELLO AND WELCOME

[@mangowett9967]

Let’s go!!

[@SergioGarcia-kj4mg]

Finally!

[@Sharky_0456]

nice! can you PLEASE make at least a combo guide on ken?

[@rooflemonger]

ughhhh i hate kennnnnn

[@Sharky_0456]

@@rooflemonger bro has been my main from the begging :( sure you hate him but you gotta admit that that's cause of all of his fantastic tools just like chun li

[@seandavid741]

I don't feel I understand a character until I get a rooflemonger "starter" guide.

[@SlimeKingK]

Chun has lots of options for Anti-air, but the down-down input doesn't make it easy.

[@TheUbernuck]

it makes it so easy, crosscuts are the bane of my existence

[@rooflemonger]

Well in fact it makes it very easy, just really depends on the kind of controller you got

[@SlimeKingK]

@@rooflemongerMy issue with the down-down is that I will sometimes be down-back blocking when they jump, and returning to neutral before inputting down-down. I play on stick, and my reaction tends to be on the slower side by the time it comes out. Or the rare accidental down-downback that results in hazanshu, which really doesnt help.

[@chopper8209]

Freaking missed the Morrigan color for her by 50 votes aka 1 match!!!😭

[@rooflemonger]

Hopefully they put em on the shop later but who knows

[@chopper8209]

@@rooflemonger the event page in-game and website say “Note: The special color may become available again afterwards.”

[@imarock.7662]

Anyways, arena fighters are fighting games. They're a subgenre. Storm, Sparking Zero, Power Stone, Smash, Urban Reign, Kill La Kill IF, and especially Gundam EXVS prove this.

[@yefimk]

4k ultra hd!

[@rooflemonger]

I aim for quality

[@marcbraun5342]

I think I can explain why I don't care for charge characters, it has some layers like an onion. The most important advantage for motion inputs is the immersion, you're doing the move with your hand and there's a connection between you and the character. The second point is related to that, it doesn't "feel" like waiting it out till a bar is filled, what literally happens under the hood there. And the third one is something people get used to but still a drawback of charge moves, there's no audio or visual indicator when the move is ready and you're not only doing a normal kick or punch and there is with motion inputs, you know you have done the motion, no need for counting and you also see the character going down and forward or back, with charge inputs, you have to feel it out, basically count. That would be my explaination for my preference, I'm sure charge players have their own reasons, how far fetched and ridiculous they may be... ^^

[@marcbraun5342]

To boost my first argument, just look at Chun-Li's Kikoken animation, she's moving down forward as well, I think it would feel better with the animation that's already in the game.

[@mus0u]

i don't think guile has a throw loop either, am i wrong?

[@rooflemonger]

Iirc his needs a drive rush? Some people do t have great ones

[@mus0u]

@@rooflemonger oh i didn't know about that one. i guess it's better than nothing.

[@IjikaBamui2]

Juri next pls

[@neon-lake]

legs go brrrrr🦵

[@Century_Chandra]

Where's the section on Modern chun though? feels like a pretty big omission for an ultimate beginner guide, Chun being one of the most relevant modern characters and all. She change quite a lot, 2MP being tied to an auto combo button makes her mp 2mp routes exceedingly annoying to use in modern which encourage you to find different combo routes, losing access to MK and HK makes your anti air game completely different with air to air and air throw becoming relevant (as your easy input upkicks is heavy which is hella committal) also not getting either of her normal overheads leaving only hazanshu, which is shortcut only so you only have OD and M hazanshu. Her auto combos are pretty middling so you cant lean on them either. Its time we stopped treating Modern as Character minus whatever and treat them as full variations of the base character. Great work otherwise, these resources are invaluable to new players

[@ThePlasticBowl]

So we can give an hour and 25 minutes to Chun but not Kitana, this is blasphemous roof?!?!?

[@rooflemonger]

Yes that's exactly it

[@ThePlasticBowl]

@@rooflemonger 😦

[@sunn-nie]

Can you do a lily one 🥹 long time fan, thank you for your videos!

[@rooflemonger]

I might got 1 more in me before mai but if so gotta figure out the math on it or maybe different support. Like this vid took combined days to make, and I know since Chun ain't new it ain't gonna get much clicks

[@sunn-nie]

@@rooflemonger gotcha!! I appreciate your reply nonetheless!!