Your 3 mains going into SF V

Rashid, Necalli, and Scorpion

How is nash a shoto char? Who the hell came up with that? Nash is definitely NOT a shoto character…

Gonna main Ken

Necalli, Nash, for sub/fun.

Ken Chun and FANG

1)Ryu
2)Necalli
3)Bison/Laura/Birdie

Gonna decide on #3 when I get to play hands on.

I’m a beta virgin.

Ken
Rashid
Laura until Juri comes out

Rashid’s number one for the base cast. Then it’s a tie between Cammy and Dictator for second. When Urien’s launched I plan on dual maining Rashid and Urien interchangeably and probably dropping Cammy and Dictator altogether. This all depends on how fun Urien is to play, but he was my first main in the FGC and it would take some sacrilegious type shit to dissuade me from using him.

  1. Vega
  2. Cammy / F.A.N.G
  3. Juri (when she is out)

Mika, Gief and Chun

  1. Chun li
  2. Ibuki
    3.if I have to choose 3rd character then Ryu I guess

Rufus
Seth
Blanka (just online)

Bison
Ken
Chun

Fang (if I can get his execution down easily enough)
Bison
Guile

Urien will probably replace one of them.

Main: Bison

Subs: Ken or Birdie at the moment.

Waiting on Guile

Urien.
Charlie.

Will dabble with F.A.N.G for when I want to be a dick.

Not going to lie, but R.Mika was the main reason I ended up buying this game. It really looks like the finally made a decent not to overpowered professional wrestler that isn’t big and heavy.
Bison, played him in iv and while he plays a bit differently Bison looks even more fun than before (,almost like he got smooshed together with Rose one of my other mains.)
And obviously Juri once she comes out. They’d have to do pretty terrible or make her a completely different character to make her unplayable for me as a main.

Ever since I saw Laura I was definitely hooked on getting this game. I like grapplers a lot, especially those on the lighter end like Hinako in KoF 2000/2001, and the thunder clap pressure and setups are awesome. Playing her in beta just made me more excited.
Ken is definitely second. Getting a lot of 3S vibes from him here, and I only played him a little bit. Lots of pressure, great V trigger, and run canceling that reminds me of El Fuerte. Looking forward to him.
And obviously Dudley if they get him in DLC. My main since 3S by far. No feeling like taking people to duff city, man.

zangief
Nash
Balrog when he comes out

Is female seriously a criteria for some people?

Necalli, Bison, Balrog