I don’t think if they can harness ki or not means much. Dan can and he’s still hopeless and Sakura could throw a Hadoken after seeing it once. Not to mention Guy is a ninja and Cody has supernatural strength. (breaking through a brick wall with relative ease)
Moving on from hyping up Claw, I do feel Juri is the strongest female in the cast besides Ingrid. Feng Shu gives here enough to hop over Chun and Rose. Zangeif might be stronger than all the World Warriors including Super besides Ryu Ken and maybe Guile. He wrestles Grizzlies in harsh conditions. He could tank most physical moves in SF. Ibuki may beat some young SF3 characters but she’s not touching anybody else. She’s the best they have too. I still don’t think Vega is competing with anybody on Ken’s level or above. Hasn’t beat anybody noteworthy in the cast and I don’t care if he let them win or not. Only thing I know on Vega is Bison chose Sagat as his right hand and Vega was pissed.
In terms of strength display, i wish they would stop leaving Juri vs Bison on a cliffhanger. At the end of her arcade mode where she kills Seth, she encounters Bison afterwards and it just ends there with a pending fight being implied. SFxTK(Despite being non canon in every way) her and Bison both get to the pandora bullshit and get god mode or something, go at each other, black screen. Capcom why you no finish fights? Really want to see how that shit plays out. Karin will probably be playable before they have an answer for that rivalry though.
Also, remember, they aren’t just fighting “dudes” they are fighting basically what amounts to a militia. This gang has taken control of an entire major city, has guns, knife, swords, grenades, molotovs, and for some reason… semi auto crossbows lol.
I know I mentioned it before, but it amuses me to no end that Cody and Guy have the only truly good ending in SFxT. Even Ryu and Ken don’t get a good ending (Ryu appears to be sucked into the pandora box and Ken is left behind.)
Guy wants to destroy it and Cody doesn’t give a damn, so the box (which apparently grants wishes) just dissapears. Chun and Cammy have a relatively good ending, too: the box spreads their love through the world, though some people got affected and needed help (I assume they became lesbians? :-P).
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Sounds more like many people are turned into brainwashed power seekers under control of Pandora, possibly even violently so. Again, a mixed good + bad ending due to the power also helping some people.
Cody and Guy’s ending:
Basically, in the end Pandora destroys itself and everything returns to normal, in addition it helps Cody remember who he is. A good + good ending with no downside.
Chun Li and Cammy got the best ending. Because of Cammy being suspicious, the box caused good and bad things, but our girls are already fixing the latter, so it’s a good ending.
Cody and Guy got the box to do nothing, except Cody feels like being a hero again, which he should be in the first place, like Guy, Chun and Cammy.