Super Street Fighter 4 2012 patch is out - Nerd Age

Super Street Fighter 4 has recently gotten a massive patch.

You can find the whole changelog here: Capcom Unity.The list is huge and we won’t be going over everything. We will however simplify the major changes that we think are important.

Super Street Fighter 4 Major Changes:

Ryu – A larger hitbox on his Metsu Shoryuken. You can now complete combos more easily with it. His Hadoken and Heavy Shoryuken were also changed.

Ken – Thunder kick gained some frame advantage. His target combo was also changed, while it hits more targets the startup on canceling from a standing medium punch has gone up to 20 Frames.

Chun-li – Increased stun on a few moves, and changed several hitboxes. She has a ton of minor changes.

E. Honda – His sumo headbutt and hundred hand slap were overall improved.

Blanka – gained some frames on his rolling attack.

Zangief- Got several minor buffs, including to his EX banishing flat.

Guile- Flash Kick was nerfed, and got a mix of minor buffs and nerfs.

Dhalsim- A ton of changes. Overall he comes out ahead in it though. His Yoga Inferno is much better.

Balrog- Some very useful buffs, including a damage buff to Buffalo Head.

Vega- Changes to several moves. Bloody High Claw can now be used as a link in a combo.

Sagat- Angry Charge does more damage. Improved crouching medium punch hitbox.

M Bison – Improved stun on knee press.

C Viper- Several serious nerfs and buffs. No more throw invincibility on EX seismic hammer. However Thunder Knuckle is throw invincible on the heavy version.

Rufus- Nerfed Big Bang Typhoon to a max 10 hits on airborne opponents.

El Fuerte- Serious buffs, including more invulnerability frames on moves like Propeller Tortilla.

Abel- Breathless is now overall improved, but is not throw invincible after the dash.

Tanden Stream- A mix of buffs and nerfs, Tanden Stream now has full invincibility to a certain point, but the damage was nerfed.

Akuma – Increased throw frames, but you can cancel into EX Zanku Hadoken from more moves.

Gouken- Tons of changes to his specials and normals. Most importantly you can vary his fireball speed on Denji Hadoken now.

Cammy- Changed the frame data for Heavy Spiral Arrow significantly.

Fei Long- Serious changes to many of his moves. Overall he got nerfed pretty hard.

Sakura- Improved EX Hadoken damage.

Rose – Some serious frame buffs on several moves from Soul Satellite to Soul Piede.

Gen- Serious changes to Jyasen, and lots of other changes to hitboxes and frames.

Dan- He had several changes, but the most significant is that he gets a serious super meter bonus when landing a taunt.

T. Hawk- Some much-needed buffs to his invulnerability and moves he can link. Heavy Body Press and Heavy Shoulder can now come off of a vertical jump.

Dee Jay- Nerfs and buffs. Sobat festival can be canceled into on the penultimate hit of the Sobat Super Carnival Combo.

Guy- Improved hitboxes on his jumps.

Cody- A ton of changes, he was overall buffed though. His knife is much better.

Ibuki- Significant changes to her moves. Some, like Tsijigoe, lost hurtboxes. Hashinsho is also much better as an anti-air.

Makoto- Health nerfed. However hayate got major changes that are effectively a buff.

Dudley- Major hitbox changes, many have now been extended and lengthened.

Adon- Improved some of his links, but also extended his hurtbox on Jaguar Kick.

Hakan- Huge improvements to frames, stun, etc. He even starts oiled up!

Juri- Some much needed buffs to links, and minor damage buffs.

Yun- Ouch. Nerfs to damage, hitboxes, shortened genei jin and more.

Yang- A tower of changes, both nerfs and buffs. We’re not sure how he’ll come out of this in the end.

Evil Ryu- More options for moves, better health and more stun.

Oni Akuma- Same as evil Ryu, better damage, etc. Overall better than he was.