Talk:One Minute Melee/@comment-26579390-20160919153906/@comment-26579390-20160921120415

Well, actually, he is not glass canon. His low stamina is his weakness gameplay-wise, not storywise. Screwattack used his gameplay weakness as his actual weakness in Akuma vs. Shang Tsung, and since then, people are constantly saying that he has low stamina, and that's not true. When some fan asked "Akuma's low stamina is actually him holding back. Why did you used that against him?" DB replied by saying that they didn't since Akuma won.

Anyway, there's also another thing that not many people know. Many years ago, probably around the time when original SF4 was released, there was some interview with SF staff. Among them were some of those guys who were creating and designing characters. Unfortunately, for the last few years, that interviw is nowhere to be found, and I can't be sure if that was on some article or in some video. But anyway, among the questions, they asked them what would happen if Akuma went into other universes and crossed paths with the likes of Superman, Goku and similar characters. They stated that if he was to come to other universes and encounter them, he will be able to fight them pretty much on equal terms. That's another core of his character. His feats in crossovers maybe aren't canon storywise, but they might actually show what Akuma is able to do if he wants to/isn't holding back.