about Bison: that’s cause it is ledrit
Wolf from SSBB
J. Talbain
Ibuki
Heavy D
Gambit
Hsien-Ko
Donovan
Mukuro from Last Blade 2
Lee (same game)
Sol Badguy, yes… forgot about him.
tack Eddie onto the list too
and Jam
Ryo has a fucking retarded combat stance. It’s like SNK tried WAAAY too hard to not make it look like Ryu’s.
“LET’S PUT HIS HANDS AS FAR AWAY AS POSSIBLE FROM HIS CHEST. TA DAA ORIGINALITY.”
My faves are Adon’s and Sagat’s stances. One is realistic and practical, the other a creative exaggeration of what ends up being one of the most effective fighting postures irl, as well as intimidating in and of itself.
- SFIII shoto’s stance (fierce, like a boxer):
- Duck King KOFXI:
KIM KOF2k & up:
Elena:
Yashiro 2k & Up:
Alex
I love when people make dumb assertions.
Ryo’s is as real as it gets.
Tiger Killing Stance. Takuma does a variation of it as his HSDM.
And wrestlers/grapplers also take a similar stance.
And Adon’s stance would have him on his ass in no time in real life.
along with Wolf, Akira, Vanessa, Pai, Sarah, and Jacky from the Virtua Fighter series
nevermind that, if you have any sort of fighting experience you can tell it’s useful
I think he had that in 97/98 as well.
I always liked Clark’s stance too
King Lion
Omega Rugal 98
Mature
Vice
Vanessa
Spiral
Dhalsim in SVC:
-Marshall Law (Tekken 6)
-K’ (KOF XIII)
-Jedah (Darkstalkers)
-Guy (SSFIV)
Momoko
Bao
Hinako
Xiao Lon
Xiangfei
Vanessa
Violent Ken
May Lee
Shion
Mai (KOF XIII)
Kensou
He had a similar movement, but the 2k2 version was a big improvement.
This is the original 97/98 animation:
It’s not bad, but the 2k2 one looks so much more badass.
Definitely most of my favorites are from Darkstalkers. Hsien-ko especially. Her and Q-Bee look cool and psychotic. B.B. Hood’s stance is awesome and somewhat ironic. Jedah has an awesome one too.
Outside of them I’d say Gen, Lilith, Ralf (Ralf definitely has the best one in all of KoF next to Yamazaki in 2k3), Yamazaki, and Edge.
I stand corrected, I never noticed the difference.
Very cool that they had a new sprite between the games.
Also from KOF, gotta love Mr Big’s strut
These. annnd
GG
Jam, dunno why but it just looks cool
Baiken, Reminds me alot of kenshin.
Kliff, I’m Old Man. Nuff said.
SF
Ryu, classic stance, man.
Ibuki’s stance, It just looks cool
Sagat’s is pretty beast.
M. Bison is a personal fave as well.
KOF
Kyo, it just looks awesome
Mai, insert usual reason, plus I play as her so…yeah…
Noel from BlazBlue has a cute one.
speaking of stances…
the fighting style Ken and Ryu use. they said it was originally a style that kills, right? except that they’re using a lighter version of it. that stance is boxing’s hitman style.
ansatsuken/killing style… hitman… I think we have a connection
no wonder, ishiwatari designed baiken after kenshin after all, funy thing is that when he saw kenshin for the 1st time he thought that he was a she