Street Fighter 6 World Tour Best Stats and Fighting Styles

Street Fighter 6’s World Tour mode takes a headlong dive into the RPG neck of the woods, complete with stat leveling, fighting style rank-ups via your favorite fighters, and inventory and equipment to boot. Players will need to get to grips with the systems at play in order to keep fighting fit and unlock their avatar’s full potential with the best stats. Between mixing and matching styles, enhancing your gear, and increasing those stats, there’s a lot to keep track of.

In this guide, we’ll go over the ins and outs of prioritizing the best stats and how best to focus on unlocking new moves via fighting style rank ups, we’ll even explain how best to permanently increase your stats too. 

SF6 World Tour: How Do Stats and Fighting Styles Work?

Best Stats

There are six stats to manage in World Tour: 

• Vitality: Your Health Points

• Punch Strength

• Kick Strength

• Throw Strength

• Unique Attack Strength

• Defense

We’d argue that the most important stat to keep an eye on is your Defense, which can be easily increased by ensuring you're wearing gear that you’ve taken the time to enhance or using consumables during battle like the Ironbar Caramel item for a simple, timed buff. Your Vitality will come second, but you can worry less about how much HP you have if you play somewhat defensively, thankfully World Tour enemy AI isn’t at the CPU level 9 tier, there are plenty of opportunities to cheese or tank slow standard enemy attacks.

As for the remainder of your punches, kicks, throws, and unique attacks, you’ll naturally find gear at either clothing stores or by fighting enemies with specific increases to those stats that you can opt for. Also, by simply engaging with the Skill tree upon leveling up (Status Menu > Skills), you’ll be able to spend level-up points to choose +10 or more toward your Punches, Kicks, etc. This will help you customize the perfect fighter that suits your style of play, depending on which of the many fighting styles you’ve unlocked. There are some pretty OP Skills available, but we’d easily recommend just picking any flat stat increases in the beginning over consumables or item drop rate increases.

Fighting Styles 

Choosing your fighting style in World Tour mode won’t just relegate you to your master’s moveset, you can mix and match your move set, taking one master’s special move and adapting it to another’s overall style. To unlock special moves from legendary fighters, you’ll need to rank up by equipping and fighting battles in their style. You can acquire their style by simply visiting and asking them to be your mentor, acquiring some basic specials from them too.

If you want more specials or to unlock their super moves, you’ll need to work for it by continuously using their style. You’ll also pick up some style rank EXP by fighting other enemies that use that master’s style, we wouldn’t rely on this method though, it’s best to just swap and use a style you’re interested in grabbing the moves from for a while for the quickest results.

How to Permanently Increase Your Stats in World Tour

One of the most important things you can spend your zenny on around Metro City and the various destinations you’ll visit across the globe are permanent stat increases through the purchase of supplements. No, not that kind. Various (seemingly healthy) supplements are often available from Merchant Hawkers for around 10-15k zenny, which offer immediate boosts to your stats. Keep an eye out for the merchant’s big red backpack, they often hang around shops or are very clearly visible in the smaller world map stages. 

We’d recommend prioritizing any Vitality or Defense increases, but you’re pretty much getting the full bang for your buck on any stat boost since you keep it forever. If you’re stuck for the cash to pay for them, you can sell off some unwanted gear or explore Metro City or other areas for chests containing Nuggets, which have no other use than to be sold at a high price.

That just about does it for World Tour’s stats and fighting styles, be sure to take a look at our full character tier list if you’re still wondering who to main in Street Fighter 6.