Kakeru breaks Street Fighter 6\u2019s meta with jaw-dropping win over EVO champ AngryBird Twitch: Gamers8 \/ CapcomStreet Fighter 6 pro Kakeru dropped jaws across the fighting game community after defeating EVO champ AngryBird at Gamers8 in a stunning display of adaptability. EVO 2023 kicked off the very first tournament in this year\u2019s Capcom Pro Tour, with players from all around the world flocking to Vegas in the hopes of showing off their Street Fighter 6 skills. NASR Esports\u2019 \u2018AngryBird\u2019 took home the coveted title of EVO champion over MenaRD in a magnificent Winner\u2019s side run, earning himself a spot at Capcom Cup early next year. His performance with Ken was nothing short of dominant, cementing him as a player to keep an eye on throughout the rest of the season \u2014 but it looks like another competitor has his number. The Gamers8 Street Fighter 6 invitational tournament took place just a week after EVO as part of an eight-week-long esports festival. 32 players were invited to take part in a 1v1 tournament at the event, with a whopping $400,000 grand prize up for grabs. As expected, AngryBird came out of the gate swinging, making his way to the Grand Final in Winner\u2019s side against Japanese JP main \u2018Kakeru.\u2019 AngryBird had actually defeated Kakeru earlier in the tournament in a 3-0 set \u2014 but Kakeru wasn\u2019t about to lose again. Kakeru defeats AngryBird in viral victory at Gamers8 In a stunning comeback that left the entire Street Fighter scene completely slack-jawed, Kakeru managed to pull off 32 perfect parries against AngryBird\u2019s Ken, giving himself the advantage to pull off high-damage punishes or create the perfect setup with his character\u2019s long-range abilities. The window to execute a perfect parry is quite small: Two frames to be exact, a mere fraction of a second, making Kakeru\u2019s achievement all the more impressive. After trouncing Punk in the Loser\u2019s Final, Kakeru reset the bracket against AngryBird 3-1 in the Grand Final and took home the victory in a stunning 3-0 final set. It\u2019s clear that Kakeru had carefully studied the JP-Ken matchup after his losses to both AngryBird and Tokido at EVO just a week prior, marking himself as a serious threat to the rest of the competition. The fighting game community has praised Kakeru\u2019s \u201cuntouchable\u201d Grand Finals performance at Gamers8, with even the likes of legendary Street Fighter pro Daigo \u2018The Beast\u2019 Umehara saying he suspects his \u201cadaptability is beyond anything the dev team expected to see.\u201d Although Street Fighter 6 is still in its infancy, it\u2019s certainly fascinating to see how the competition shakes out in the early days of this brand-new fighting game. With pros like MenaRD, Punk, AngryBird, Kakeru and more on top of the pile, we have to wonder if these fighters will continue their reign \u2014 or if other players will come to take a piece of the pie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kakeru breaks Street Fighter 6\u2019s meta with jaw-dropping win over EVO champ AngryBird Twitch: Gamers8 \/ CapcomStreet Fighter 6 pro Kakeru dropped jaws across the fighting game community after defeating EVO champ AngryBird at Gamers8 in a stunning display of adaptability. EVO 2023 kicked off the very first tournament in this year\u2019s Capcom Pro Tour, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}