Why Luke's cr.MP is one of the best moves in Street Fighter 6

[@JustFollowingOrdersYT]

Luke's shoulders are so huge because he has to carry all of us.

[@whateveryouwantmetobe.1489]

True the forearms definitely help with carrying us too.

[@CheekysPueblo]

Let’s be honest. Majority of Luke’s normals are some of the best in the game. His crouch jab is insanely good. Jump roundhouse beats anti airs. Crouch fierce is better than some DPs for anti air. Stand fierce covers a lot distance and is a block string with fireball. Crouch medium punch as mentioned in the video

[@jeako777]

Very privileged character lmao. Although his stand fierce into fireball string will probably get worse in the long run because of perfect parry.

[@HydraGR]

The only thing with standing fierce is you have to cancel it since it's unsafe on block, which also means it pretty consistently can lose to invulnerable reversals if the opponent is ready. Still a great move, but I think it does have a weakness here.

[@Aznbomb3r]

Doesn't he also have the longest range standing jab because he moves forward like an entire inch on the monitor? :/

[@jeako777]

@@Aznbomb3r Yes but therefore it‘s also one of the slowest standing jabs. I‘d rather have a fast short range standing jab because it‘s very important in some matchups.

[@deuserwan5786]

​@@jeako7772lp is a thing bro

[@aruihe]

"You can look at their health bar to hit confirm." ...mind blown.

[@breadwhaler]

went from diamond 1 to Master with Luke in just a few days thanks to your videos. easily the most concise and informative Luke guides on youtube. you are criminally underrated. cant thank you enough, keep it up man. crMP gotta be the best move in the game it just feels so damn good at everything lmao

[@hyushuki]

Creating a list of Luke punishing each character in a series does sound interesting.

[@smoothieotter2084]

I appreciate the help as always. Nice reminder to abuse this normal more.

[@ZakMon1]

NEW JEAKO UPLOAD!!!!!!

[@co81385]

Great video! In addition to Luke's crouching MP, I think that his standing MK is great as well. It just feels so solid when you press the button!

[@jeako777]

Absolutely, it's amazing

[@cyni_mgs1959]

ngl Luke carries me as whole that character is so good and so much fun

[@spooky1058]

I remember playing him in the demo and just being astonished at how good his normals are lmao

[@MrDuckyWucky]

Man you luke huge

[@Ben_CY123]

Thanks for the explanation. I am newbie diamond player but participated the world warrior Asia series and (luckly) have a match with Chris wong. I punished by his crouch medium punch a lot, feel like every attack/ check I do(Ken) is wrong. 😂

[@MrJuzJoe]

Ryu & Ken's s.HP is the next best normal imho. Hit confirmable into a DRC for huge combo damage.

[@TestSubject173]

It's like the heavy punch equivalent of luke's 2mp. I'd definitely trade luke's 5hp with ken's if I can.

[@saado99]

JP"s 5HP would like a word lol. Or what about 5HK? +2 and eats that much drive gauge? Even his 2MK is abusrd lol it combos on CH and PC easily and has insane reach, 2nd in the game only to gief's, and it's better than gief's by a mile.

[@RJMazz47]

I hit confirm through sound. Our bodies react more quickly to what we hear than to what we see.

[@jeako777]

That's true but I'm not sure if the sound of the hit will play as fast as the health bar updates. But of course, if sound helps you more here, go for it!

[@Spabobin]

The difference between audio and visual reaction times is relatively small, maybe a 1-2 frame difference at most. And the studies on that topic usually involve reacting to one stimulus, rather than differentiating between 2 different stimuli which is what you need for a hitconfirm. The first few frames of a move connecting aren't going to produce a recognizable sound, but the health bar and hitspark are completely visible on the frame after a hit occurs. I do think the sound is useful, though, like a secondary confirmation to reinforce your visual reaction

[@byofg3514]

Fine and good til you end up at a tournament without sound or where it's just too loud in the venue.

[@gaetanoisgro6710]

I'm telling since day one this move is absolutely busted, also you can literally spam two in a row without too much worring cause most jabs will trade or get punish countered for active frames reasons even if your opponent is only -1. Also it will put Luke in range for crMK, another busted normal.

[@illmf]

FACTS! - great video. Im surprised i havent seen more Lukes win tournaments. Do you think its because hes a 'jack of all trades' but not super exceptional at 1? (For the record, im a Luke main. I love using this character)

[@jeako777]

I don't think that's the reason because Ken is a jack of all trades character too, and A LOT of players use him and he's winning too. I'd say Luke has done fairly well in tournaments so far though. We're seeing him more and more in top 8's and I think that there's not many other characters (besides Ken and JP) that have won much more than Luke (I might be wrong, I'm not that up to date will all the CPT tournaments recently).

[@Flashlegz]

From what I've seen, I don't know any top pro Luke players aside from MenaRD, I've been using Luke recently and thanks to your videos I'm steadily improving, he is a mad privileged character, I've been taking chars to Plat minimum as I go through the cast and I disliked Luke at the beginning but he's actually really fun to use, been beating Diamond players using their mains with my unranked, unoptimized Luke@@jeako777

[@saado99]

Luke is the most well rounded character, he's very good all around, not many cheap things about the character though and you need that. JP, Chun Li, Guile, Ken are very oppressive. DJ is kind of nonsense honestly with the normals and the driverush and swaying from literally everything. Luke also honestly a bit more difficult to play than other characters optimally because of his combos and reliance on hitconfirms.The cheapest thing about Luke is the damage and 2MP, as good as 2MP is go look at moves like JP's 5HP, 5HK, literally any of his moves lol. There's a lot of cheap stuff in SF6 right now.

[@eb_bjj]

Cr. MP the world 🤘

[@meauple2214]

Basically Sol's f.S in Street Fighter

[@dynogems]

Looks like Luke is the newest member of the Church of Low Strong

[@lild6167]

Bro I’m trying to downplay my main, my friends will keeping me your fire videos

[@jeako777]

We have to be honest (like Luke) sometimes, you know 😅

[@CharacterCrisisTV]

This character has everything 😔

[@berberiano7562]

Hey! Can i translat your video in french and posted in my canal youtube ?

[@ccoldramenn]

heres to hoping capcom doesnt nuke this move specifically when the season 2 balance changes come around 🙏

[@markliang8728]

Great Luke content as usual. I'm trying to lab some spacing traps esp off spaced hp knuckle but nothing solid. Any chance you can do a video on spacing traps?

[@jeako777]

I've never been good at creating spacing traps, so probably not, sorry

[@studentoflife8532]

You get traps after any poke, block string and fireball. No need to complicate things. It's just that the type of attacks to whiff punish changes on every range. I play Cammy and I do a lot of jab, jab, hp to catch jabs. I'd get instantly called out by mediums but people don't press mediums at that range.

[@eebbaa5560]

are your other guides still up to date? been wanting to pick up luke lately but i haven't found many recent guides for him

[@jeako777]

Yeah like 90% of them are. If I made a mistake or had something to add, you'll usually find a pinned comment by me addressing that.

[@eebbaa5560]

@@jeako777 thanks i'll check them out

[@KiMLoKO1]

jp's punches the cane moves have no hurt box

[@manutdfan231]

Of course he carries me, that's why i play him!

[@普空卡]

This is Luke from street of course he should have this button.

[@i_am_axy]

Great videos man! really an oasis in a sea of useless information. ill try my best to get hopelessly carried by Luke

[@zyrelia11]

Huge button for huge arms

[@jeako777]

Luke 'Humongous' Sullivan

[@Atreus1355]

So THAT'S why im not legend rank with him yet

[@eggimage]

a hitbox extending beyond the hurtbox, that’s also kinda rare in this game right?

[@jeako777]

I‘m not really sure

[@baadshahmiya]

No A lot of mediums in sf6 has this, especially crouching mp's

[@saado99]

Go look at JP's moveset, more than half his normals have disjointed hitboxes lol

[@hyushuki]

Welcome again! Lol

[@kiwimangosurprise]

i'm a plat 4 and only ever use this from a neutral drive rush. Just can't hit confirm it to make it worth while

[@monadoboy8009]

Ever since this doofus Luke showed up, he can't help but be one of the best characters in every game he's in and I love him.

[@TestSubject173]

Cammy's and JP's 2mp are better than Luke's in term of hitbox. I can whiff punish anyone else's 2mp with Luke's 2mp on reaction pretty consistently, buy not Cammy and JP. Cammy's 2mp has greater range and her hurtbox draws back very early, it's unreachable from 19f which leaves only 12f of reaction window, unlike Luke's 2mp that is reachable even at the last frame. Her animation is also less obvious, I find it much harder to react to within 12f compare to Luke. JP's 2mp has shorter range but only so slightly it's almost impossible to take advantage of it. His hurtbox disappears so early you simply can't catch it on reaction.

[@jeako777]

Yeah I think Cammy‘s 2mp is extremely underrated. Although what makes Luke‘s 2mp also so scary is his damage

[@jelaninoel]

Hate footsys against Luke. His normals are so good

[@saado99]

Luke's 2MP is already extremely good, buffer into DR 4HK, that is straight up cheap. You don't really know how cheap it is until you fight a Luke player using it while playing another character, it's way too safe and does too much damage. I definitely want to see that move nerfed as a Luke player. Luke has great defensive normals in general, his aggressive normals are decent, not amazing but good, defensive though... 2MP one of the best normals in the game, 5MK great defensive move with good reach and fast, difficult to whiff punish with many characters.

[@DeathDasein]

I so hate that normal and it's even worse when then they do QCB Punch while you are blocking, it's so expensive to punnish that. As a main Ryu I feel Luke is so spoiled, Capcom gave to much tools to him.-

[@jeako777]

Ryu really needs to be buffed. He's strong I think, but Luke is just better in so many ways. So I definitely understand your frustration. Although Ryu can keep up with Luke in the matchup imo

[@DeathDasein]

@@jeako777 sorry for the misspells. Yeah I agree that Ryu is not as weak as people keep saying. He has great damage and an answer for almost every situation but you have to play really calm and optimal to beat chars like Luke, Ken or Guile. I mean, you can win but it's harder for Ryu.

[@computervision557]

@@DeathDasein If you want best shoto character, pick Ken(Ken and JP are the best characters, many high level tournaments proof this already). If you want decently strong shoto character, pick Luke. You will have the same feeling when using Luke against Ken. Luke is strong if not compare with Ken and JP.

[@snowys4168]

man I wish modern luke had access to 4hk

[@baadshahmiya]

NOO!!! You're trying to get this normal nerfed, he needs it 🥺

[@spooky1058]

I hate cammy & Kens crouching medium kick man it checks me from so far awau

[@ForbiddenLinks]

Yea lots of players who use luke and beat you, aren't actually that good at the game. Its really just luke being so strong and easy to use.

[@kora2691]

Why'd you like to keep playing the game if this move basically plays for you?

[@superbnns]

Real talk what are Luke's actual weaknesses?

[@jeako777]

Very small and detailed things, no fast high jab (but this is irrelevant with modern Luke). Higher than average recovery on crouch jab, so he can't bait as many supers as other chars. Hard but important hit confirms. Very whiff punishable. Overall almost no weaknesses. It's fine for an all-rounder char to have no weaknesses, but some of Luke's strengths are too strong imo

[@saado99]

@@jeako777 normals are a bit stubby in terms of max range, gets outranged by some characters. He makes up for it with sandblast and better normals closeup. Weak damage off of lights relative to other characters, needs to spend drive to get damage. Needs to spend drive a lot for oki. Weak sweep, slow and below average range. Throw loop while good can be prone to backdashing into backthrow. Not very oppressive like Ken, kind of has to play a bit honest.

[@jeako777]

@@saado99 I feel like a lot of chars need to spend drive for oki, no? st MP is a pretty good alternative for sweep, at least for punishes. How many chars have auto-timed throw loops that are safe vs backdash? Yeah his light confirm damage is kinda pathetic lmao.

[@saado99]

@@jeako777 Yea you're right a lot do, I mean it's not a huge negative it's mostly coupled with low damage on lights it can suck. light damage in general sucks, but look at Ken one heavy DP does a ton of damage, cammy meterless oki, JP starts his departure for free. Don't know the list of chars, but I just know Lukes has to be manually timed since you walk into it (it's not Like Kens or Ryus where they're literally right there), nobody has perfect timing which can make it very prone to punishing. Like, you can even do backdash into a backthrow which really sucks.

[@saado99]

It's not AKI levels of awful because hers is extremely hard to time, but yea.

[@XoDahuaoX]

I am a Luke main and I am abusing that move.

[@FulgoreMKII]

That button is so stupid. I want Akuma to have it and be an anti Luke. I hate this character with a passion it ruined SF5 and he's only flying under the radar cause of JP.