We NEED to Talk About Arjun

0:00 My brother in Christ, it's day one. Mind you, this is the same community of forwardthinking individuals that made a whole outro about Ingred being an insult to fighting game design only for her to be, sorry, high damage, but the kit lacked the fidelity to hold a pile of straws. She didn't end up being this high damage zoner that erased you off the face of the earth. That's where I stand kind of with Arjun. Now, pump the brakes. I am not defending everything

0:31 this character does. This character might might end up getting your favorite streamer banned with how anger induced he is. As of this recording, October 13th, it is still technically day one and people are out here looking like that Rasheed in the showcase, letting this behemoth of a man ram his shoulder into your health bar till it wipes the saturation with gray light. Listen, let's look deeper within the kit. Our Jun has slow buttons, slow walk speed,

1:02 no low forward drive rush, no six frame medium, no fireball drive rush, and a slowish drive rush. On paper, it makes it seem that Arjun shares the quality of the characters who check the same boxes like Versa and Honda, aka kind of bad. So, in retrospect, that would make him weak like them, right? Wrong. Arjun may have those qualities, but they are amplified by the strength of his pressure. Ever since Arjun is out, grey health nonsense has been put into practice and people are getting wiped

1:33 only for blocking two to three block strings. Secondly, shoulder proves to be problematic as you can't simply just jump in cuz if that pillar is present, he will swash you out the sky like a fly. Also, absolute defense, the flex beats lows, eats hits, projectiles, and absorbs all supers that aren't ropes. Also, he has unblockables. With these factors, Capcom created a poorly designed character that is an insult to all Street Fighter games and wasted a

2:04 slot and took away the [music] spot of my favorite character, Remy. Significantly better pick in my opinion. [music] # picks the game, Capcom. Now I'm lying like [ __ ] bro. Who the hell would ask for Remy? This is highly unrealistic. Remy fans don't exist. Mind you, it hasn't been a week. Is Arjun scrubby? Yes. Will Arjun be a knowledge check scrub killer? Yeah. Is he broken? I don't know. I'm more inclined to say no.

2:34 But who knows? We might find more dirt behind the wind this man blows. And that's why you should go to train. Okay, clearly a lot of you hate the word, but this has happened time and time again where the FGC jumped the gun on a character and was completely wrong. called Ed bad. Found he had some of the most uninteractive gameplay tied to the most powerful level two in the game. My

3:04 called her bad before discovering OD fan and level one. It's like cavemen discovering fire for the first time. Sagot, y'all called him bad so much Capcom ended up buffing him just cuz y'all was were playing him wrong. And y'all said Alex was dumb and didn't need buffs. Now, who would ask for that? In short, no one knows how good Archer is cuz none of the counterplay has fully flourished. Greyhealth doesn't appear if you block his specials using parry. Shoulder can be perfect paired and

3:35 interrupted or even throw. Flex beats all attacks, but suffers to throw and has immense recovery. These aren't the clear answers, but the building blocks to making sure you don't get robbed are right there in front of you. Don't get clipped by these Arjun players. make them work for that great health. I'll be back here in a month and we gonna touch base and see if this character is still quote unquote broken. Y'all acting like he's a second coming of Abigail to boom boom boom.

4:07 How do y'all feel about Arjun? Are you having fun playing him? Do you wish he never existed? Or are you just happy you're one step closer to Tifa? Don't lie. Let me know in the comments. I love interacting with y'all in the comments, especially in the previous v videos. And be sure to sub. I'm aiming for 5K before 2027. The clock is ticking. Y'all have a good one. Take care. Rest easy.