Demon Armageddon

User: Akuma

Debut: Super Street Fighter IV

Demon Armageddon is Akuma's second Ultra Combo in Super Street Fighter IV and is his most powerful variation of the Tatsumaki. Executed by pressing up three times and pressing all three kicks, he kicks the opponent in the air and follows them with an extremely powerful hurricane kick which envelops him in a whirlwind. As he hits his opponent, his 'Kanji' appears in the background. He then forcefully rushes past them, just as the Kanji shatters into pieces. The ultra by itself takes 500 damage when the ultra meter is full which is equivalent to half of Ryu's health.

Because of the over-the-top appearance of the attack, it is sometimes derisively referred to as the "Shin ROFLcopter".

Advanced Tactics
It is considerably ill favoured by other players because how easy it is dodge. By itself, the opposing player can either block or crouch the attack leaving the user wide open to a counter attack.

It does make up for this though in the fact that it is comboable via standing close heavy punch, crouching heavy punch, crouching medium punch (only on large characters), crouching medium kick or a cross-up Tatsumaki (only on certain characters.) It can also be comboed into via a Focus Attack but it is character specific. However for the normal moves, a teleport must be used in order to combo into the ultra in order to cancel it. However it must be done quickly or the opponent will block the ultra.

On a side note, a connected crouch heavy punch cancelled into the ultra via a teleport will still hit the opponent even if he/she is or was crouching before the ultra, making it inescapable.

The ultra also can be used during a teleport which can punish some special moves on other characters.Here are some examples of comboing into Demon Armageddon


 * Crouching medium kick, cancel into Gohadoken (fireball), FADC, heavy punch, cancel into teleport, cancel into Demon Armageddon.


 * Demon flip Dive kick, close heavy punch, cancel into Gohadoken, FADC, close heavy punch, cancel into teleport,cancel into Demon Armageddon


 * Jump in heavy kick, far standing heavy kick (two hit roundhouse), link into close heavy punch, cancel into teleport, cancel into Demon Armageddon


 * Jump in EX-Zanku Hadoken (air fireball), jump in heavy kick, close heavy punch/crouch heavy punch if enemy is crouching, cancel into teleport cancel into Demon Armageddon.