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Street Fighter 6 marks the primary time that Deadly Fury characters like Mai Shiranui have appeared in Capcom’s mainline sequence, however not the primary encounter between the 2 preventing sport franchises. Capcom vs. SNK: Millennium Combat 2000 introduced them collectively 25 years in the past, however their final crossover was in 2003’s SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos. So it is excessive time for a rematch between Deadly Fury’s icon and her counterpart, Chun Li, in Street Fighter 6’s first gameplay trailer for Mai.
A lot of Mai’s basic strikes stay in her arsenal, however she additionally appears to have higher management of her fire-infused strikes, as effectively. Mai is so highly effective right here that she trounces each Chun Li and Ryu when she unleashes her full energy. Mai additionally has a brand new outfit along with her well-known pink outfit.
As glimpsed in Mai’s teaser trailer final month, her Deadly Fury stage seems prefer it received an replace for her look on this sport. Though Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai felt that it was inappropriate so as to add Mai to Nintendo’s Tremendous Smash Bros. Final, she beforehand made a visitor look in Namco’s Lifeless or Alive 6.
Capcom hasn’t revealed when Mai might be added to Street Fighter 6 past a imprecise “Winter 2025” launch window. Her fellow Deadly Fury fighter, Terry Bogard, was added to Street Fighter 6 final yr. Each Terry and Mai may even be among the many returning fighters in Deadly Fury: Metropolis Of The Wolves when it hits Xbox Sequence X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC on April 25, 2025.