Talk:One Minute Melee/@comment-26579390-20160919153906/@comment-26579390-20160922222121

From that perspective, he should be mascot instead of Ryu, since he as you said, gets more love and surpasses Ryu in everythin, and plus he is better in crossover fights. He won every time, while Ryu lost every time. He only won aganst Lucario. But overall, we will probably have to wait for Akuma to become the main SF dude, and then maybe he takes that title. Although if there is more mascots than one, than he is, along with Ryu and Ken. But I think that he might become Screwattack's mascot for having appeared and won 4 times.

And when it comes with his battle against Shang Tsung, I agree with what you said. They could have said that his weakness is that "holding-back-his-power-thing", but you know, back then, there wasn't full research on several characters. They didn't even include his Shin Akuma form. Oni was created 5 days before that fight aired, so they didn't knew about him. Plus, no feats were shown for him, except gameplay trailer. Even if there was and if they knew about him,I understand when they didn't include Shin and why they wouldn't include Oni. Because it would be more than overkill. When they mention some power/transformation, that must be shown during the battle, and Akuma doesn't even to transfrom at all. He pretty much curbstomps Shang Tsung in base form. They just named the aforementioned thing above to make the fight more fair/equal, even though it would last much sooner.