Talk:Akuma vs. Kazuya Mishima/@comment-27313135-20151201025847/@comment-5035900-20151201083950

For myself, as well as a few others here who have used Akuma, we prefer to go with his canon ultimate form Shin Akuma. Oni is a What-If? form akin to Evil Ryu, begging the question of if Akuma lost his honor and possibly mind to the Satsui no Hado. As such, it doesn't have anything close to canon capabilities while Shin Akuma does, as it is specifically Akuma no longer holding back against his worthy foe and using his full power.

As such, some of us don't see Oni as being a good source for Akuma's potential and see Shin Akuma as being the better to determine the victor with. That's just us, though.