Which of the Street Fighter 6 launch roster are you looking to learn?
It should be out by now. I’ll bet it was supposed to be out by now. The Royal Rumble deal? the SNL sketch? the Korean rating? C’mon. Still, I’m not complaining about the fact that Capcom’s Street Fighter 6 is still four months away, no sir. And that’s because it’s shaping up to be an incredibly promising release. This is what happens when you allow something to bake to completion, something that Street Fighter V was most definitely not allowed to do by its fateful launch.
It’s all good, as the drip feed of information has given eager fight fans the opportunity to check out the game’s 18-strong launch roster, performing vital reconnaissance on their personal World Warriors of choice.
Returning from previous Street Fighter iterations, we have some of the most iconic fighters in gaming, with veterans Ryu, Chun Li, Dhalsim, Zangief, Honda, Blanka, and Guile all present and correct. In fact, the entirety of the original World Warrior line-up is on deck, even if Ken is now rocking his all-new The Fugitive gimmick. There is, currently, no sign of any of the Shadaloo warlords, given SF6‘s place in the timeline. But we do know that a popular boss character is en route, courtesy of that notorious roster leak.
Surprisingly, of the post-Street Fighter II crew, only Super Street Fighter II stars Cammy and Dee Jay are in the mix. The Street Figher Alpha and Street Fighter III rosters have zero representation whatsoever (At least for the time being). From Street Fighter IV, only my squeeze Juri has made the cut, while the only SFV debutants are Luke (who was never supposed to be in SFV in the first place), and two leaked DLC characters. This lineup embodies the core theme that Street Fighter 6 is “Veterans vs. Newcomers”
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