Street Fighter 6 Akuma Raging Demon Setups Guide!

Akuma's Raging Demon is certainly one of his most satisfying moves to land on your unsuspecting opponent. However, due to its unique input, it's not just something you can throw out in neutral if you want to have any hopes of actually grabbing the other character; as such, as a follow up to our recent video on Raging Demon execution, today we have one about practical setups you can use to successfully command throw your way to a win! In today's guide, we go over a variety of strategies that Akuma players can employ to land their favorite super, some requiring your opponents to respect your offense, while others even able to stop your adversaries from pressing on defense, forcing them to commit to a risky jump or invulnerable attack to get out of a potentially deadly situation.
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:16 Why a setup?
01:43 HK on block
03:30 DR lp or c.lp
04:20 QCB HP
05:03 Why does it work?
07:44 QCF K-P
08:22 Light DR Cancel
08:52 Standing MP
09:38 Jump In Demon
10:34 Raw DR Demon
13:02 QCB LK, C.HK
13:58 QCB MK
14:38 C.HK PC
15:09 QCB HP-F+P
15:54 F+HP target combo
16:36 QCB LK, DP HP
17:35 Outro
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[@SecondCitySavior6969]

My Raging Demon set-up: a bottle of vodka

[@larrywestra9305]

That’s why they call it spirits.

[@Darkflyer71]

It's important to note that the clip for drive rush LP demon used in the video at 4:13 is a post-flash jumpable demon, you can tell because there is a visible frame of Akuma doing the teleport animation before the "hit" animation starts. This is happening because the jab is being cancelled into demon instead of demon being linked, but despite this it *is* possible to get a true unjumpable and unmashable demon off of drive rush jab, the cancel timing is just extremely tight. If you do it too slow, you will get two jabs because jab cancels into itself. If you do it too fast, the opponent is still throw invincible from blocking the drive rush jab and is able to jump out post flash.

[@mir2266]

Nice catch! I must've not done it properly in the clip I ended up using, as you mentioned. Just like you said however, it is a real setup, just requires specific timing; it's interesting to see how cancelling into the demon still catches people pressing buttons, I guess it makes sense in hindsight, but I did not notice during recording

[@jc_alpha]

13:46 “The major hurdle for this setup [is knowing how to do a dash demon]” I find this easy to do by combining the second forward (F) input with the light punch. So the entire sequence would be: F, F+LP, LP, F, LK + HP. Also, I swear at time I’m able to omit the second forward input and only do: F, F+LP, LP, LK + HP. So you don’t really have to be fast for this input, but just train your fingers so that you input the light punch together with the second F input for the dash.

[@johnodaz1273]

Brilliant Vid Mir 👍. Alot of really cool Info and Setup Possibilities with the Raging Demon aswell.

[@XeroDgX]

I think the easiest way to do DR into Raging Demon is doing the DR along with the lp, that is: forward, forward + lp + parry (DR), lp (done right away while Akuma still can't throw any move) then finish it with forward and then lk+hp at the same time, if you get a bit confused on doing the forward + lp+ parry and switching to just the second lp you can just tap parry+lp twice and you'll still get it, and that way you are not announcing your DR, and don't need to be lighting fast

[@Akumaa2000]

Cool vid, you gave me some setup ideas to try along with the ones showed……thanks. 😎👊🏾🥋

[@w_smith_1990]

Some nice setup

[@SlaineReigns]

Thanks as always Mir. Will practice these and add it to my Gouki's arsenal, a lot of setups to learn here.

[@Creepo_J]

Had a nightmare where raging demon was a counter super and had to risk every match doing it

[@riahisama]

I use the good ol' reliable dash demon in-between strings

[@Pyr0tube]

This is great, but it would be helpful if you had inputs turned on.

[@spx2327]

Mir for president!

[@ficroulaud]

I still don't understand why it doesn't have some level of invincibility on startup. Beyond projectile. It would make sense if you could demon at anytime with meter like older games but since its critical art only, it feels a bit gimped when comparing it side by side to other critical arts

[@pretzels7437]

3s operates on the same principle iirc.

[@spx2327]

Exactly, a RD should start up instantly and should be fully invincible on start up!

[@tba77]

Does a Drive Reversal on wake-up efficient in this situation or not ?

[@WutTheDeuceGaming]

Pretty sure any invincible reversal will counter these.

[@SSShiesty]

are there any kara demon setups?

[@stevenoconnor5693]

I appreciate the video, but I also have a different way of looking at the raging demon, especially in this game. If you are able to do the raging Demon that just means to me at least that I would have fucked up and myself to get hit that to bring my life to critical, the way I look at it the less that I would do the raging Demon or be able to do it the better if I am specially in regard of having low

[@kayanims]

Unfortunately, i foresaw this. For a person like me that uses modern. Combing into level 3 has been more consistent and more damaging in my opinion. They should have kept it as a CA because now raging deamon is reduced to a gimmicky setup.

[@raphaelm810]

A lot of people often forget or don't think about this, but sometimes the *threat* of simply having the raging demon is enough. You don't actually have to use it to get an opportunity to win.

[@ektrfirefox2571]

Yes but it looks cooler when you end with it

[@calvinblack2167]

Your life needs to be at 25% to do raging demon