Capcom has announced that the newest addition to the Street Fighter 6 roster—Alex—will be coming to the game on March 17. To further showcase the character, a new trailer has also been released that gives us a close look at some of his attacks and special moves. Along with this, AEW pro-wrestler Kenny Omega has been confirmed as having done motion capture work for Alex’s special moves.
As the trailer shows, Alex’s moveset includes a mix of strikes and grapples, with the latter being based on modern pro-wrestling moves and other martial arts, like judo throws. Among the moves in his repertoire are suplexes and DDTs, hard-hitting lariats, diving kicks, and a quick dash that can then transition into other, more complex moves.
Alex has four Super Arts available to him depending on how much of his Super Art gauge has been filled up. His level 1 Super Art, dubbed the Raging Spear, has Alex rush forward into a tackle. The start-up is immune to opponents’ strikes and grapples, and it can also be used in longer combos.
One of his level 2 Super Arts is the Sledgecross Hammer, which involves him blasting his opponent with a hard-hitting lariat that can cause a wall bounce on enemies that happened to be airborne at the time. As an added bonus, it also offers some invincibility from projectile attacks.
His second level 2 Super Art is the Omega Wing Buster, and is essentially an homage to his motion capture artist Kenny Omega. The move itself is a knee strike followed up by a piledriver from an Electric Chair position. Pro-wrestling fans will recognise this as Omega’s iconic V-Trigger knee strike into his finisher, the One-Winged Angel. As added visual flair, Alex also gets a small wisp of smoke behind him in the shape of a single wing. It is worth noting that this can only be pulled off following a successful OD Power Drop.
The final Super Art Alex has is at level 3, and is dubbed The Final Prison. The Super Art involves four different animations, and has Alex choking out his opponents with a series of grappling moves. Animations differ depending on the state of the match after using the move, with matches ended with it offering an entirely different animation.
Alex is part of the Year 3 Character Pass for Street Fighter 6. Along with the character itself, the trailer also showcased his Outfit 2, which is a throwback to how he looked when he first made his debut in Street Fighter 3. His Outfit 1, on the other hand, is meant to reflect “his role as the Dark Devil of the ring,” according to Capcom.
The character is the fourth one part of the Year 3 pass, following up on Sagat and C. Viper who were previously released. The final character of the pass—Ingrid—is slated for release in Late Spring.
For more details about Alex, check out the previous trailer that he got. For more on Street Fighter 6, check out our review of the game from back when it first came out.