SF6 ▰ HIKARU (#1 Ranked A.K.I.) vs KAKERU (Akuma) ▰ High Level Gameplay

Street Fighter 6 high level matches between Hikaru (Legend rank A.K.I.) and Kakeru (Legend rank Akuma).
Currently Hikaru is Rank #1 A.K.I. and Kakeru is Rank #4 Akuma (June 8, 2024).
▶ A.K.I. high level play: • A.K.I. ▰ high level ga...
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[@Impalingthorn]

Some people are saying Aki is suddenly very powerful because of the recent patch... No... If you've been watching Hikaru play Aki, he made it very clear that Aki is actually pretty wild if you know what you are doing. The only real difference between now and then is that Aki has even MORE approaches instead of largely boiling down to a flow chart. It took TIME to figure out she was a menace in the right hands and jesus can she be. Hikaru has BEEN stuffing people with this character.

[@yagami999913]

She's relevant now because of the patch buffs though. No need to make it sound complicated.

[@TheUpstreamer]

@@yagami999913for real bro. No one wants to sound smarter than these fighting game KZbin commenters

[@Wakunafgc]

she is definitely a shit ton stronger then before,. good players are good players and will win regardless but she is def stronger ur being a little dramatic

[@purplepudding9384]

1:19 would be a solid Will It Kill? entry.

[@Boyzby]

When I was watching that I was even going "This isn't going to kill, right?" And then I remembered AKI can do crazy damage and Akuma has lower health

[@kongchho8547]

Dude, can you imagine having 65% health, a life lead, and just sitting there watching it disappear. Akuma has a lot of potential but with the heavy combos in SF6 his health bar is gonna be a adjustment.

[@GyumiAki]

3:11 OMG THAT WAS SATISFYING AF

[@dyouch]

MY MAGNUM OPUS!

[@jellypigg]

my magnums

[@victorgbs]

MY BAG WON'T OPEN

[@AONN3260]

Hikaru is absolutely cracked at AKI omg.

[@xTrollCombat]

Holy... 1:19 was beautiful

[@oshenone6947]

1:12 my god this combo looks fun

[@yvericsandjonngonga8205]

A.K.I is so powerfull this season

[@oOYourdadOo]

Personally for me, elements of her neutral are kinda difficult to execute. Mostly because of the opponents options, and most of all because of drive parry, specifically perfect parry. Her light normal buttons aligned with her stance and how much of pushback there is when blocking, makes it harder to interrupt their turn or take your turn back without mashing through their strings. I feel like I whiff buttons more then i should. Maybe its her walk speed or im aggressive at the wrong times. I also dont like that she doesnt have a cancelable medium kick. It feels like she should, compared to all the characters who do like Jamie, Kimberly, Chun Li, Cammy, Luke, Ryu, Ken, Akuma, and whoever else is a small character model and a cancelable standing and/or crouch medium kick. I know both of her kicks have a certain advantage to them; but same could be said about all the others, especially Kimberly’s. Her fireball is also easily jumpable, and other then dashing or OD slither and PP or anti-crossup up game is rough and her wake up game overall is pretty bad. For a character though, she is hell fun to play as, and her poison mechanic is definitely fun to apply to the opponent, and enhance combos with.

[@level9drow856]

To be honest, Hikaru was a beast with her even before the update. I don't see any difference watching him play.

[@anthonyhernandez4067]

It is difficult to perform a good Aki, also there are many scenarios where you can use different combos

[@oOYourdadOo]

Its more like… in a match as AKI: the range you want to zone at, they dont allow and the range is much further then that of a normal zoner; at close range you dont have anything real to maintain pressure, and the range you want to play at, with pushback on block from either player, you are like to be out of range to apply any real pressure so the neutral is basically reset, HOWEVER, a lot of the character who you’d probably rank above her on the tier list actually can play from that range you just got pushed too. So if you throw a button first, you can likely whiff due to their high walk speed and get whiff punished, or if you land a move its not cancelable and stand MP is likely to whiff and crMP is like to not combo, but the move you landed is safe on block, so you end up fishing for counter hits to walk forward and get closer in the neutral or punish counter into something. I feel her best 3 buttons in neutral are standing and crouch roundhouse, and low forward with stand forward being a strong runner up. But with the first two being 9 & 10frame startup and the low being 7 frames and not cancelable, you really want to get those counter hit/punish counters to get the offense started in neutral. Outside of that, you really want to play around with trying to interrupt your opponents offense, being whether its a anti-air roundhouse cancel into 214MP, or simply jab checking and confirming into either 214HP, or 236L/HP to apply poison. Once the poison is on, thats when you can really get your opponent to make mistakes. Outside of that if you try and become to aggressive or overly predictable, her fireball is easily jumpable and DIable, and and her specials leave her quite negative though virtually safe. She’s definitely a hard character master without good matchup knowledge. Her combos are fun and can very much be played around with to not feel like you are doing the same combo over and over. Very unique and strong character. Just need patient of a Zangief player, who I just so happen to main. His buttons just feel so much better tho.

[@Calhasnopals]

I think it’s best described as Aki just being a harder character to get the most out of. She places great importance on combo routing, screen positioning, choosing the right anti-air etc. In comparison, other strong characters in her archetype like Ken or Chun just have a gameplan and try to run with it.

[@Mx_Sneezy]

It’s insane how much the AKI buffs have elevated her combo expression.

[@Phantoms_savoir2.0]

6:00 crazy damage

[@caraprism9074]

Damn Hikaru is so good, no wonder Akuma started the round like “this sucks”

[@dinhthien2398]

5:58 what a crazy damage with simple combo

[@vlooved5135]

its akuma, he has lowest hp + the fact it was a counter hit heavy so it has no damage scaling on the lvl 3

[@canadagoof]

Is that it? They finished on a draw??

[@SF6HighLevelReplays]

It was three ranked sets, 2-0 1-2 1-2, so Kakeru won I guess.

[@Sunny-tu5ox]

Hikaru makes me realize every day my AKI sauce needs to grow stronger

[@dinnerlord65]

Hikaru the top dk player in ssbu?

[@milkywayflea404]

Nope, different Hikaru

[@dinnerlord65]

@@milkywayflea404 dang

[@SoSoDeng]

3:07 10:02

[@Machiji]

Aki is difficult. Her neutral game kinda strange

[@R3DiVAN]

Shrinkhead Akuma

[@brunoryan492]

Hikaru hates drive rush; it could have ended in round 4 with 3 losses, but he gave Kakeru hope and ended up losing. It seems like he loves to challenge himself until the last moment. And unlike his other matches where he usually starts losing rounds, this one was easy and then became difficult, quite contradictory

[@lenneth1188]

Drive rush is very scrubby, some players have honors and don't wanna use cheap tools

[@tsukasaru2]

@@lenneth1188 cheap tools lol... its part of the game