SFV Character Request/Anticipation Thread

I want a Wing Chum character, but do NOT make it an old woman.

There still aren’t enough women fighters in this game. With 16 characters coming out, I think half of them should be girls.

Also, would want at least half the roster to have fireballs.

Isn’t Fei Long a Wing Chum practitioner?

Pretty sure Brazil Game Show is reserved for one of these characters - Blanka, Sean or Oro to be revealed.

TGS Sept 17-20
BGS Oct 9-12
PSE (Dates? last year was Dec)
Canada Cup - 10-30-2015 - 11-01-2015
CPT Asia - 11-13-2015 - 11-15-2015

So maybe a month before anything comes out?
There are more events such as SoCal Regionals but that actually takes place during BGS. Somewhere in here we are supposed to get 3 betas…hmmm

Don’t forget: we also have Gamestop Expo in Las Vegas on September 2nd. SFV will be featured heavily there, and will be streamed.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

Fei uses Jeet Kun Do. In Wing Chun you’re essentially squared up with your opponent, Fei’s clearly standing ā€œsidewaysā€.

And I give zero shits about the girl to guy ratio.

We do still need a real zoning character, so I sort of agree with your fireball point.

Yeah JKD has a fair bit of Wing Chun in it but it’s a totally dif beast ultimately. I did a breakdown of some of that in the char request thread not long ago. Wing Chun would be cool to have, really any sort of new Kung Fu types. I loved Lei in Tekken and SFxT with all his stances, though none of them were Wing Chun IIRC.

Street Fighter always had a low Female/Male ratio

Playable characters in the first and last edition of the roster:

SF1: 0/2 (Mathematical Dilemma, Absolute Sausage Fest)
SF2(F): 1/7 (Chun must be brazilian hueheuheuhe, wait, i just made fun of myself, fuck) (0.14 Ratio)
SF2T (L): 2/15 (0.13 Ratio)
SFA (F): 2/11 (0.18)
SFA3 (L): 8/26 (0.30)
SFA3 PSP(L): 10/28 (0.35)
SF3 NG (F): 2/10 (0.20)
SF3 3S (Counting 12 as male)(L): 4/16 (0.25)
Arcade SF4 (F): 2/15 (0.13)
Console SF4 (F): 5/20 (0.25)
USF4 (L): 11/33 (0.33)
SF5 (Current): 2/7 (0.28)

Current SF5 has the highest Female/Male ratio in a vanilla release ever, and i think the final ratio will be around 4/12 (0.33) or 5/11 (0.45).

I think female ratio in SF5 will be (0.32) in vanilla Chun li, Cammy, Juri, Karin and new female 5/16.

I swear I just did that breakdown :stuck_out_tongue:

Your math seems weird to me. Example in Console SF4 there is 25 characters so if 5 of them are female then it should be 5/25 so 20% of the cast is female, right?

Eh… I dunno. I’ve mained Ibuki in 3S for several years now. Her playstyle has drastically shifted for every game she has been in, even just amongst the SF3 games. I prefer her 3S variation the most, she’s poetry in motion, and while overwhelming to new players, shows her flaws evidently to skilled players. I cringed when I saw what they did to her in SFIV. She is objectively ā€œbetterā€ in that variation, but she is also very different, yet again. I’m not one of those character loyalists, who wants to play the same damn character in every game, unchanged. However, I really disliked how… polarizing she was from her 3S, second impact and even new generation counterparts. Every thing that was really good for her in 3S, was really bad in SFIV, and all of the stuff that was okay or bad, was god-tier annoying instead.

Hesitant to give Capcom another shot at doing her right, but she is surprisingly popular despite not a lot of people maining her in 3S. Perhaps people who played Second Impact still have their scars? The top tier life, it was short lived. Sean vs. Ibuki, those were the… weird times. Dan’s never been top tier, so where is my Sean? He proved he’s got the balls for it. Get it? GET IT!? Ah… Walks off

Ninja + boobs, reasons enough to be popular.

Isn’t there a whole series of fighting games dedicated to that?

Games, shows, movies, books, comics, and probably more.

I’ve been thinking, if Blue = Alpha, then I doubt Karin will make it into the initial roster, because she is strongly tied to Sakura. I think Rose, Mika, and Sakura are the likeliest Alpha characters to make it into the initial roster.

I’m sorry but boobs is definitely the last thing I’d think of when talking about Ibuki. If you said hips - I’d maybe agree. Boobs is more Poison’s or, God forgive me, Rose’s thing

i really hope sakura is grown up in this game. could make for an awesome character change.

Be cool to see sakura go get good and show up as an adult being a legitimate threat to people because she fleshed out her own style. Would like to see her with her cvs2 fireball over her SF4 or alpha series one. Maybe redesign it to give a more satisfying crunch and blast away animation.

But japan is in to diddling little girls for some reason so doubt we will get that.

Capcom USA has much more influence this time iirc, so that should be less of a factor.