Ryu looks like he's gonna benefit from the system changes and the nerfed characters more than anything else.

He does have Donkey kick, which means I don't have to spend meter to hit confirm on a crouching opponent.

VT2 will put the fear in people, which will allow me to throw fireballs and control space. Or parry and crumple for 250 damage if you feeling froggy.

EX Fireball V-Trigger cancel is nice. Fireballs in VT1 are even better.

He's still too honest for this game but he should be more viable this time around.

Back in season 1 grapplers were complaining about SRKs because they couldn't run their mixups, and Capcom nerfed SRKs system wide. Chickens came home to roost, cause now they got added recovery frames on a whiffed command throw.