The 10 best guest characters in fighting games — Best crossover characters

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Fighting game rosters have gotten pretty beefy over the years, and one of the most exciting ways to expand the list of characters is to bring in fighters from other games. Crossover characters are almost expected from most franchises at this point, but some are more memorable than others. We’ve made a list of some of our favorites here.

Note that we limited ourselves to a single character even if multiples from the same franchise made the jump. You won’t find the likes of Super Smash Bros., Capcom’s Versus games, or even indie title Blade Strangers here either, because those games mash up all manner of characters by design.

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Not only did Akuma appear in Tekken 7, but the Street Fighter staple is one of the best characters you can pick in that game. The goal was to make him play similarly to how he does in Street Fighter, despite totally different button inputs in Tekken. That experiment turned out to be quite a success.

Of all the games on this list, Ehrgeiz is perhaps the least known. The 3D arcade fighter took a lot of cues from wrestling games, so adding in a character who’s known for swinging a big honkin’ sword was a bit of an odd choice. Still, it’s memorable, and thanks to Cloud and Tifa’s appearances in the game, it was eventually ported to PlayStation 1, where Sephiroth, Yuffie, Vincent, and Zack were also added to the roster.

Final Fight and Street Fighter might both be Capcom franchises in the same universe, but bringing a character from one to the other still very much qualifies as a crossover — especially when it’s the furthest Street Fighter has ever gone