Street Fighter 6 beta guide: All available characters and their best special attack inputs

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The limited-time Street Fighter 6 closed beta has begun and will run throughout the weekend. Players will not have access to all 18 characters, nor will they have access to all modes. However, potential fighters can play casual and ranked modes, as well as Extreme Battles with eight upcoming fighters.

With a mix of new and returning characters in Street Fighter 6, these are the essential special attacks and notes about all eight World Warriors that will be playable in Street Fighter 6 as the beta rolls on.

Here's what players need to know going into their heated online battles this weekend.

Note: All special attacks use Numpad Notation

The face of the Street Fighter franchise, Ryu is a shoto character. Shoto or Shotokan is the fighting style for characters with access to fireballs, dragon punches, and hurricane kicks in Capcom’s fighting game franchise. It also extends to other games, but this is where it all started.

Ryu’s the premiere shoto character in Street Fighter 6. He has excellent footsies thanks to his fireball and his poking attacks. When players get too aggressive, Ryu pounds them with Shoryuken (Dragon Punch). He has access to Denjin Charge again, which powers up his special attacks, such as Hadoken and Hashogeki.

Like Ryu, Ken offers a rushdown, mixup-style game instead. Ryu wants to keep people at bay and rely on the fundamentals; Ken pushes people around and kicks them repeatedly at a variety of angles.

His Crazy Kicks (Jinrai Kick) are back, allowing this character an even more frustrating mixup range. He’s going to feel familiar to classic players, bringing many of his previous tools to Street Fighter 6. The mixup kicks are back, and so is his SF5 dash setup. He’s far more aggressive than Ryu and has an