Street Fighter 6/Juri/Introduction

Introduction

This sadistic thrillseeker enjoys the strife and suffering of others, taking immense joy in obliterating her foes. Without revenge against M. Bison as a motivator, she whiles away her time in a gloomy haze.

Juri is well suited to explosive, aggressive rushdown and strike/throw mix that's empowered by space control with her ground normals and storing up stocks to improve her special moves, making her a menace at close and mid range. She can also some very massive and flashy combos off of her hits, making her a great pick for someone who loves pulling off long combo strings.

The core of Juri's playstyle is centered around Fuhajin, which grants Juri a special stock (up to a maximum of 3). These stocks will separately enhance three of her other special moves; Saihasho is a ground-based projectile that travels much farther when enhanced, Ankensatsu is an advancing kick that has more hitstun for combo extensions when enhanced, and Go Ohsatsu is a lunging roundhouse that gains another kick when enhanced, increasing its corner carry potential. Juri can also cancel between these three moves if she has a stock available, using their enhanced versions when she does so, and her Level 1 Super Art, Sakkai Fuhazan, can be enhanced for extra damage on the last hit by holding down the button with a stock available.

Aside from those moves, Juri's ground and anti-air game are quite powerful. Her dash covers a lot of space at a time, making her strike/throw game especially dangerous, and many of her buttons either cover a lot of space in front of her (5MK, 5HK), convert into a Fuhajin knockdown either directly or through combos (6MP, 2MK), or do both (5HP). She can also shut down a ton of air approaches with 2HP as well as her dedicated anti-air special Tensenrin, particularly its HP version. Juri's powerful ground presence is also enhanced by the speed and length of Juri's Drive Rush; getting caught by Drive Rush normals from her usually results in her cashing out for a fair bit of damage and at minimum getting a Fuhajin stock.

Juri's most powerful and unique tool, however, is her Level 2 Super Art, the Feng Shui Engine. While it's active, Juri can chain her normals together in ascending order so long as she doesn't use the same button twice, similar to the magic series of the Darkstalkers games, and many of her normals gain new properties and cancel points that they lack otherwise, opening up FSE-exclusive combo routes and letting her crank out even stronger pressure. She can also choose to start it off with a dash that does damage and breaks through armor, allowing her to bully through enemies that try to Drive Impact or otherwise push through when she initially engages it.

While Juri has no explicit weaknesses per se, there are a few things to keep in mind when playing her. Managing her Fuhajin stocks is critical to maximizing her effectiveness -- she's not so dependent on them that lacking them will completely ruin her offense, but not having any does shut out some options for her and can make her a little less threatening. Similarly, while she doesn't strictly need Feng Shui Engine to be effective, it offers a wide range of benefits for both combos and pressure, so mastering its use means learning and labbing out its chains in order to seize any opportunity the opponent gives her. If you enjoy the rush of kicking your opponents when they're down and crushing their defenses, Juri is the riotous rider for you.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Oppressive Normals: Juri has an excellent set of pokes and counterpokes at her disposal, many of which tend to lead to exceptionally good cancels and frame advantage. 6MP, 2MK, 5MK, and 5HK are all excellent space control tools, with most converting surprisingly safely into a knockdown. 5HP is a massive stop sign of a normal that also works overtime as a high-reward whiff punish. Once the opponent is tired of playing grounded against your pokes, 623HP is easily one of the best anti-airs in the game. Enhanced Special Moves: Having Fuhajin (214K) stocks greatly enhances all offensive aspects of Juri's gameplan. Enhanced Saihasho (236LK) is an incredible fireball that Juri can walk behind and sniff out anti-airs against people trying to avoid it, and Enhanced Ankensatsu (236MK) greatly increases her whiff punish damage output. Feng Shui Engine: Easily one of the most versatile and powerful supers in the game, Feng Shui Engine enhances her pressure and combo game drastically whenever she has it available.

Fuhajin Stocks: In order to get stocks for her Fuha special moves, Juri may need to end combos and pressure strings early. While not having any Fuhajin stocks won't ruin her offense, it does limit her options.