it's not even about playing Ryu, it's just so arbitrary. nobody uses his fierce dp as an aa anyway because they nerfed it so bad in super, and the damage you're dropping by forcing people to use the medium is pretty minimal. removing the second hit is pretty silly too seeing as how they changed it to that in the first place. it's just a needless change.
there are bigger changes here though. df + mk into u1 for Vega strikes me as a very big deal.
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xyzzy