Noembelu and Azam are cheating a bit 
What did poor Haggar do to deserve Fuerte…
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I guess he wanted mirror rival team for Gief+Mika
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You could eliminate Haggar (never appeared in a Final Fight game) and put Joe as El Fuerte’s partner.
Also, El Fuerte and T. Hawk could be a team. They’re both Mexican.
It’s more than that, they know and fought each other… theyr dialogue imply T.Hawk beated up Elf at least once in the past
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Mai-Ling was another character heavily influenced by The emblem of Roto’s Yao. Starting with her name, that’s Tao in the Japanese version, and the moves she uses; Tao/Mai-Ling also has her version of Hadōken, the 空刃拳 Kūjinken (“Air blade fist”):
Her pose is even identical to Yao’s 捷星魔光弾 Shōsei Makōdan “Sharp star demon light shot”:
Tao also has her version of the Spinning Bird Kick, the 炎龍脚 Enryūkyaku “Flaming dragon kick”.
Moreover, the same battle after which Yao apologises with Kira sees her and Kira against a bird-like monster very much like Red Earth’s resident harpy Luan/Lavia, that is the designed first opponent of Tao/Mai Ling, and who like him attacks with her weaponised feathers:
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My OCD is flaring up. Akuma and Necalli wouldn’t be in a team tournament. Akuma would rather get in a death match with a potential partner than fight with them. Necalli will needed to be controlled for any kind of partnership to work.
What connects Fei Long with Yun & Yang Uncle?
I can agree with the sentiment of putting T.Hawk with Fuerte. They have a history at least.
Yooo that animation is GODLIKE
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Akuma’s definitely the kind of character I don’t see teaming up with anyone. Maybe with Evil Ryu.
But Akuma’s definitely the type of guy that in a tag team game simply activates some kind of ‘Super Saiyan’ and goes solo against two opponents at the same time.
Ryu with Bison and another Shadaloo Rep
Ken with Bison and another Shadaloo Rep
Is brainwash form of their versions, a nod to their Alpha 3 history.
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Better question, what did poor Alex do to deserve Remy…
Now there’s only one team missing.
- Non-Canon Low-Budget Garbage Design Team - Oni/Kage
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I dream of a day we can have a Street Fighter chapter that features no ‘evil satsui’ clone characters or any other clone character (other than Ryu and Ken or Yun and Yang).
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Random thought. They could introduce Kevin Stryker as a hollywood actor with his own TV show “Street Fighter 2050”. Hed be like the johnny cage of SF. Lol
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Not even Evil Ryu. Evil Ryu is Akuma’s endgoal. He would challenge him to a death duel right then and there.
Remy did pick a fight with him in his rival battle. Remy as character is a blank slate with nonsensical motivation. you can do whatever you want with him.
I don’t know why they are trying to give everyone a team. KoF games always had those loners that wouldn’t team with anyyone available for custom teams. Akuma, Evil Ryu, Oni, and Necalli are characters that wouldn’t be in a team.
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I completely agree. Not even SFxT gave Akuma a partner and that game had a few dumb team ups on both sides. Some characters are better off solo.
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That’s what I was thinking. You’ve got occasional loners, so if copying KoF, have options that affect team size.
Also, the reason I left Kage out of the list is because he’d team with Ryu.
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Look on the brighter side guys - Street Fighter is giving us almost 80 total characters which is more than enough material for thematic team-ups be it a 2v2 or a 3v3 style
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