Overview

Pros

• Dhalsim has a large variety of attacks at all ranges.
• He has the longest-range attacks in the game and projectile attacks for all situations.
• Thanks to Yoga Teleport and Yoga Float, he has incomparable movement abilities.

Cons

• With no real reversal attacks, he’s reliant on Yoga Teleport and his V-Reversal for defense.
• His low stamina makes movement and poking mistakes costly.
• Notwithstanding his jumping movement abilities, his jump is floaty and predictable.
• Extended limbs are vulnerable, with large hurtboxes.
• It requires a special kind of player to excel at his reactive, space-oriented play.

Dhalsim returns in Street Fighter V with the stretching limbs that have been his hallmark since SFII. He’s refreshed in some interesting new ways, with Yoga Fire reimagined and a new air version of Yoga Flame added (Yoga Gale). With his Yoga Float V-Skill, air Yoga Teleport, Drill Kicks, and air pokes, he’s one of the masters of the skies in SFV, along with Rashid and Chun-Li. And thanks to his Yoga Burner V-Trigger, he’s the only character besides newcomer F.A.N.G. who has a damage-over-time mechanic.

Your objective is to harass the opponent from afar while looking for opportunities to teleport in for close-range offense. Achieve this by:

• Controlling airspace with Yoga Fire, jumping , and jumping
• Controlling the ground with far-reaching pokes like standing , , and
• Avoiding your adversary’s conventional projectiles with slides, standing , and predictive air Yoga Teleport
• Abusing Dhalsim’s maneuvering advantage, repositioning as desired and escaping the enemy’s offense with Yoga Teleports and Yoga Float
• Warping in quickly with low-altitude air Yoga Teleport into jumping , Dhalsim’s version of a jump-in, when your foe is passive or pinned