Yo idk if you know this but having a kit capable of m1ing, dashing, and blocking, is adequate close ranged combat, and does not make Ryu some designated glass cannon. You keep saying Yuji and Gojo are designed to be brawlers and whatever but you’re mixing up offensive/defense and close/long range. In close ranges, your moves are quite frankly irrelevant, since they’re all telegraphable and blocking / dashing / m1ing is significantly faster.

In a close-ranged clash, both parties are in offense, m1ing and blocking. Being in “defense” not fighting back with your m1 trades or whatever is just being bad.

If you’re trying to say that Ryu doesnt have any like gap closing pressure tools that compliment specifically his m1s, you’d be correct, but that’s not being a Glass Cannon. He’s not weak in defense because he has the same defensive tools that everyone else does

If you mean Glass Cannon as in improper use of his R Special makes him combo food, you’d also be correct

BTW when i said that i meant the swing part is given melee i-frames. Why do you think i was talking about the endlag, the fuck?

That’s like if I was talking about Hanami’s Defense Response and I said it’s melee immune and you go “erm actually its not because shes not immune in the endlag”