I also think with Condor Dive to close space, he has potential to be one of the most interesting and threatening grapplers around. Hawk main, and I sincerely miss our Cammy vs Hawk showdowns. Hawk was a character I was always holding out for in SF5, and I remain disappointed he didn’t reappear in that game. But in truth it wasn’t difficult at all, because I instantly knew it had to be this guy. Pretty much the entire cast of Street Fighter 2 is massively iconic - which theoretically makes a choice for this list, meant to be about lesser-known characters, difficult. Plus, imagine a showdown between Eagle and Dudley, the British gentlemen…
Eagle is said to have been partially inspired by Freddie Mercury, and all his signature moves are named after English cities.Įagle has returned before - appearing in later versions of Street Fighter Alpha 3 - but he’s a character with few enough appearances that designers could have fun changing things up while retaining what makes him unique. He fights with a stick, making him one of the few Street Fighter characters to be a master of a martial art that involves a weapon beyond the body.
Birdie got a revival in Street Fighter 5, revealed to have let himself go with a newfound beer belly but no less of a passion for fighting - and in SF6, I reckon it’s time to give Eagle a turn in the spotlight.Įagle is cool for a few reasons. The original Street Fighter featured two Brits, both named after golfing terms. For the SF5 characters, I have to choose from the newcomers. They must have been MIA for at least a full generation. I only have one rule - they can’t have been playable in Street Fighter 5. Though, Capcom, listen: if Cammy (my main since SSF2) isn’t in SF6, we’re going to have a problem. I thought I’d generally pick less famed and lauded characters. I also decided to not include the obvious picks - so while classics like Guile, Chun-Li, Cammy and the like should be in Street Fighter 6, I’m not going to include them in this list. That’s six for six - one from each of the six existing main Street Fighter series - that’s SF, SF2, SF3, SF4, SF5, and Street Fighter Alpha. To give this article a little bit of structure, I decided to limit my picks to six characters. It’s likely to have a long tail - SF5 started life with 16 characters, and ended its cycle with over 40. SF6 is likely to be continually updated with DLC and seasonal patches that will inevitably add new characters to the game. If Street Fighter 5 set any precedent, it’s that in the modern age the starting character roster won’t be the end, of course. But the character roster does loom rather large. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.I'm thinking about SF6 a lot, really - from where it'll go with esports to what it needs to get right and beyond. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.