Shiranui Ryuu: Enbu Ada Zakura

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"Feast your eyes! Floating like a butterfly, stinging like a bee! Beautiful, right?"

—Mai in Street Fighter 6

"This is your swan song! That's it for you!"

—Mai in Street Fighter 6

The Shiranui Ryuu: Enbu Ada Zakura (不知火流・炎舞仇桜, Shiranui-Ryū: En Bu Ada Zakura^?, Shiranui-Style: Flame-Dance Vengeful Cherry Blossom) is one of Mai Shiranui's special attacks, as well as her Level 3 Super Art, debuting in Street Fighter 6.

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Description

"Lift the opponent into the air and blitz them with a series of elegant but stinging attacks. Effective as a close-range reversal, or as a damaging move in combos."

—Street Fighter 6

Mai burning Cammy's chest using Shiranui Ryuu: Enbu Ada Zakura.

Executed by performing two quarter-circle backwards motions and pressing punch, Mai pirouettes and strikes a pose before igniting her fans and striking the opponent with a spinning slash. The screen creates borders on both the top and bottom of the screen, akin to Jamie's Getsuga Saiho. Mai creates and traps both herself and the opponent into a large flaming vortex that sends the opponent flying up. Mai then teleports to the top of the vortex with flames reflecting from her eyes. She follows up by striking the opponent with a series of flame-embedded slashes with her fans, hitting them four times. Upon landing in front of the opponent in a crouching position, a large streak of flames burst from the opponent's chest. Finally, the opponent collapses as Mai opens her eyes and closes her fan as white petals flourish past her.

When used as a Critical Art, the screen goes grayscale. The music goes silent and is replaced with the faint sound of a film projector. Each slash creates a bright red background as opposed to the flaming background featured in her normal Level 3. Mai performs three flash strikes on the opponent, ending with a downward vertical slash across their body and sparking a burst of flames across their chest. As Mai assumes her crouching position, she slowly stands up as the opponent slightly recovers. They attempt to attack her with a punch. However, Mai turns around and stabs the closed fan into the opponent's sternum. As the opponent collapses on their back, Mai strikes a pose with a reverse grip of her fan.

Tactics

Mai knocking out Cammy using Shiranui Ryuu: Enbu Ada Zakura.

Shiranui Ryuu: Enbu Ada Zakura is Mai's Level 3 Super Art, making it her strongest move in her arsenal. She can cancel this move from her normals, unique attacks, or special moves such as her projectile, Ryuuenbu, or Hissatsu Shinobi Bachi. When Mai is down to 25% or less of his health, this move gain an additional boost of damage. It also has a lengthy cinematic animation, allowing her to recover Drive Meter while draining at least two bars from her opponent. She is fully invincible during the startup frames of this move. It can be used as a reversal or a combo ender. Unlike her other special moves and Super Arts, this attack is the only one that is unaffected by Mai's Flame Stock buff.

Trivia

• While in Critical art, the flash strike sounds are similar to old sword strikes used in old arcade games.
• The final strike of her Critical Art is similar to Andy's Zan-ei Ken.

Gallery

Shiranui Ryuu: Enbu Ada Zakura (Super Art)

Shiranui Ryuu: Enbu Ada Zakura (Critical Art)