Akairo Mia Quits Ranked Ahead After Five Straight Wins in Street Fighter 6

BRAVE GROUP — Akairo Mia, a VTuber with Brave Group, finished a ranked session of Street Fighter 6 on Monday with a net gain, including a run of five straight wins. “I’m glad I didn’t end up on a minus,” she said as she wrapped up. “The old me could easily have ended on one.”

The stream, titled as a “fragile woman’s fragile ranked,” opened with her promising to play in a soft voice. Chat doubted it would last, and it did not: she was soon raising her voice at close calls, missed inputs and opponents she found irritating. She said she had been in Master rank only a short while, and she was working on practicing characters she had not yet learned to face.

“Another quit-while-ahead day. A winning session.” — Akairo Mia, closing out her ranked session

The matchups she struggled with the most were the ones she called the most annoying. She named Zangief, JP and Dhalsim as the opponents who made her angriest, and said she had run into exactly the irritating characters she expected. She played Viper, and admitted she kept reaching for Drive Impact at the wrong moments, vowing to use it only to start combos.

Late in the session she strung together five wins, and she ended the night ahead of where she began. She also joked about a viewer’s reply to her stream announcement predicting she would win. “It’s frustrating that it came true,” she said.

She said she plans to stream at midday on Tuesday, a national holiday, because office work will keep her from streaming in the evening. She expected to talk for about an hour. The stream drew six Super Chats.