Yasmine should be the bar for balance

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Now that Yasmine has been out for a bit, I’ve come to the conclusion that she may be the most balanced release to come out and yet she seems to be considered low tier. Regardless of if you think she’s fun or not, I think how she is balanced should be how the game moves going forward. Believe it or not, back in the day it was mostly big slow characters that got to do crazy damage. Fast tricky characters usually had better frames and oki but sacrificed a bit of damage to do so. Currently that is not the case. Characters like Ryu get to do f*** you damage even though he is not slow in the slightest. Hell, even Kimberly can hit upwards of 8k damage which is absolutely insane.

Now here comes Yasmine who is barely capable of doing 6k. But why shouldn’t that be the case? That makes sense for her arctype of a fast, death by 1000 cuts character. Now Yasmine isn’t the only character who follows their arctype’s typical strengths/ weaknesses but most of those characters are either towards the bottom half of the tier lists or have had there weaknesses offset through buffs like Kimberly.

While I know most of the community wants system changes, it’s clear that the devs don’t want to do that, but the last few characters have shown they do know how to balance characters around the strong core systems. So instead I propose a big character balance shakeup:
•Most importantly damage across the board need to be looked at. Im tired of winning/ losing rounds off of 2 or 3 interactions.
•Combos should end in oki or damage not both.
•Throw loops gotta go or at the very least have some skill involved (Elena has to manually time hers frame perfect)
•Characters should have exploitable weaknesses that the player should have to navigate

At the end of the day, I just want the game to be fun for everyone. Right now the balance of the game is “fine” but it definitely can be better and I think these type of changes would help move us to that better position. Sf6 is already fighting game of the decade and I would love to see it keep improving.

TLDR: Please rebalance the game capcom

Posted Aug 13, 2026, 4:16 PM UTC

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