SFV: Ken Tips - Beginner Combos

Want to learn how to play Ken but don’t know where to start? Confused by all the combo videos and waffle? Don’t know how to SHORYUKEN good? Well this is the tutorial for you! In this tutorial I cover what I believe to be the core beginner combos to learn before going on to learn the more complex hit-confirms and link combos. I also cover an Intermediate Combos primer, punishing, jump-ins, anti-airs and dealing with fireballs! *SHORTCUTS* The standard input for Shoryuken or Dragon Punch (DP) is f d df. There are two shortcuts; f df f and df d df. You will see I use both a little in this tutorial, former for comboing from and latter from or :) *INPUT PRIORITY* Speaking of shortcuts the other thing to know is input priority. The standard DP input (f d df) takes priority over the Hadouken input (QCF), so f d df f or f QCF P will result in a Shoryuken and not a Hadouken. However the Hadouken input takes priority over the df d df DP input so df d df f or df
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