Why do charge moves exist?

[Butters]

Why do charge moves exist?

Because you touch yourself at night.

[spudlyff8fan]

It’s to artificially create a difference between the characters.

Otherwise, Guile would be a spin kick short of being a shoto.

[Debaser]

This site has always been way too touchy.

You just joined today, so how would you know? Let me guess, you’ve lurked since 1998?

[ahkeentayway]

I’m not bringing this up because I’m new to fighting games, I’m bringing it up because of Chun-Li’s completely inexplicable change to charge supers making me realize how absurd and pointless the command is. And I don’t see it as a matter of skill either, when something takes more skill to pull off the same effect, we call that an imbalance in any other game.

Chun Li’s Ultra/Super in SFIV is completely fine … I mean sure you only get one chance to execute it as hesitating will make you break your charge but still, it’s fine.

If you’re going to complain about any motions in the game, I think Guile’s and Vega’s Ultra/Super should take the cake. That this is unnecessarily complicated, the moves can’t even be combo’d into I don’t understand why they made it that way … Maybe so super cancels are possible? Who knows?