Players discover a neat Drive Rush shortcut in Street Fighter 6

Turnaround is fair play

The recent Street Fighter 6 demo might be fairly limited in terms of its characters and modes, but that hasn’t stopped the highly dedicated Fighting Game Community from already delving into its secrets and mechanics — Case in point: This Drive Parry shortcut, that could prove very useful in Versus play.

Street Fighter 6‘s Parry mechanic allows players to perform essentially Perfect Defense against any incoming attacks, by holding MP + MK together. However, once in Parry state, the player can then instigate a dash cancel (“Drive Rush”) by tapping forward twice while in the Parry state. This allows for a fast turnaround and advance after blocking long-distance moves such as projectiles and supers.

However, some players have discovered an alternate way to activate Drive Rush, that actually reduces inputs from three (Parry, Forward, Forward) to just two. While several players have discovered this new trick, it has been popularized and credited to fighting game content creator Maximillian Dood, who demonstrated the technique live on stream after discovering it seemingly by accident.

Here’s how it works: Instead of inputting Parry (MP + MK) and then dashing (Forward, Forward) whilst holding the buttons, players can instead input Forward, and then Forward and Parry together — This will result in an instant Drive Rush, coming out on frame one, while also reducing the inputs necessary from three (Parry, Forward, Forward) to two (Forward, Forward + Parry).

I have tried this trick myself and find it works consistently.

It should be noted that this technique is best used for gaining ground when not defending. If there are attacks headed your way, then you’ll want to Parry them first before instigating the dash. But if you’re simply looking to suddenly gain ground — Either at the start of a round or for a surprise attack — then this new method is definitely quicker off of the mark.

Street Fighter 6 launches June 2 on PlayStation, PC, and Xbox platform. While you wait, be sure to check out our previous articles, including the 50 things I loved about the beta, my impressions on the sequel so far, as well as suggestions on the 10 World Warriors who would fit right into the new title as post-launch DLC.

Chris Moyse

Senior Editor – Chris has been playing video games since the 1980s and writing about them since the 1880s. Graduated from Galaxy High with honors. Twitter: @ChrisxMoyse