Here ’s one of my dirty fiddling secrets : I love a ripe troll character reference in a fighting game While I play batch of meta - favorable characters inSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate , my personal favorite is R.O.B. thanks to his truly irritating move solidifying . Rather than getting up in my foe ’ case , I ’m just as glad to spend a penny them off by repeatedly burgeon forth my top and eye lasers at them . Sometimes it ’s about whelm your opponent so much that they open themselves up to a sloughy mistake .
Street Fighter 6is about to get its own troll thanks to its next downloadable character , Mai . That might sound a little surprising at first when looking at her fairly straightforward moves . But after toying around with her for a effective 45 minutes during a preview event , I ’ve discovered some potential for aggravation that I ’m already excited to inflict on my protagonist .
Joining the roll onFebruary 5 , Mai is guest character who come from the world of SNK fighters likeFatal Fury . If you did n’t acknowledge that connection , though , you ’d likely slip her for a proper Street Fighter veteran . She fits right in with characters like Chun Li as a buff butt - kicker with legs of steel .
When I started toying around with her , Mai ’s move set find like occupation as usual . She ’s a close - range fighter for the most part , utilizing a chain of attack that can really punish foe who do n’t keep their guard up . That includes a string of fiery punches with airy combo potency and a multi - hit special ability that can knock an opponent across the filmdom while sticking nigh to them . She can even slay a few professional grapple moves , like a head scissors takedown . All of that is evenhandedly straight .
Mai has one special trick up her sleeve , though . Throughout a struggle , she accumulates fans that she can chuck out out . It ’s a canonic missile that gives her the bit of range she postulate . She ca n’t spam these , as she needs to build up and keep a parentage of them , but they can be crucial when player take to get a little aloofness during a het scrap .
Those fans have one mephistophelian crotchet that makes them perfect for trolls like me . They can be easily blocked , but that does n’t destruct them . Instead , it just place the fans up into the air and lobs it back down on the opponent ’s head . That stun them for a quick moment , just long enough to make an opening . In my early run , Mai ’s rooter felt difficult to in full avoid thanks to that bit of natural philosophy . It ’ll take some very quick thinking to obviate taking a hit , creating the kind of infuriating annoyance that I secretly have intercourse in fighting secret plan . In some roundabout way , she reminds me of R.O.B. with his dumb small top .
If that sounds frustrating , do n’t worry too much . Mai ’s limited farm animal of fans means that she ca n’t spam that onset over and over . It ’s more just handy as an episodic impulse swing that guarantee she has a fortune to get a hit or two in during a round . Like any fighting game character , it ’ll still take practice to get it on the exact moment to toss one out or the salutary length to throw it from . I imagine the Street Fighter community of interests will figure out how to foresee her quickly , but I look forward to causing some headaches online until then .
Mai joinsStreet Fighter 6‘s roster on February 5 .
