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NeoGAF's Street Fighter character ranking!

Hoppa

Member
I thought it would be fun to get a ranking of NeoGAF's favourite Street Fighter characters. To make it a bit more interesting, ranking will be done by getting an average score per character - because who doesn't like data and statistics!

RULES!

Copy the list of characters below and give each a score between 1-10: 1 = worst, 10 = best. Send your list to me in a PM and I will round up the scores at the end of the week. You may give ONE character a score of -1 and ONE character a score of 11. The rest must be between 1-10.

  1. Alex
  2. Akuma
  3. Balrog
  4. Birdie
  5. Blanka
  6. Cammy
  7. Chun-Li
  8. Cody
  9. Dan
  10. Dhalsim
  11. E.Honda
  12. Gill
  13. Guile
  14. Ibuki
  15. Juri
  16. Karin
  17. Ken
  18. M.Bison
  19. Nash/Charlie
  20. Oro
  21. Poison
  22. R.Mika
  23. Rose
  24. Ryu
  25. Sagat
  26. Sakura
  27. Seth
  28. Urien
  29. Vega
  30. Zangief
https://game.capcom.com/cfn/sfv/character?lang=en

Ranking can be based on whatever. If you were born in 2010 and have never played a Street Fighter game before you can rank them based on their character design idk. You can leave the score blank if you don't know or are apathetic toward a character.

Note: This series has far too many characters and a lot have had too few appearances to be memorable. For this rank, I have used the Street Fighter V roster as it, for the most part, includes series regulars and favorites but I have removed all of the new characters including old NPCs that were made playable. If there is a character not listed that you would have given an 11 score, you can add them as #31. If there are enough mentions, they might make it to the ranking!

Excited Street Fighter GIF by CAPCOM


UPDATE: Rate is finished! - results begin on post #8
 
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jufonuk

not tag worthy
Best Akuma/Ken/Ryu
Guile
Sagat
Chun li
Dudley
Everyone else


Worst Dan
 
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Hoppa

Member
The results are in!

The 5 worst characters in Street Fighter:

#30 BIRDIE
OVERALL SCORE: 1.5


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HIGHEST SCORE: 4
LOWEST SCORE: -1


#29 DAN
OVERALL SCORE: 2

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HIGHEST SCORE: 6
LOWEST SCORE: -1 (x2)


#28 E.HONDA
OVERALL SCORE: 2.2

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HIGHEST SCORE: 5 (x2)
LOWEST SCORE: -1


#27 ORO
OVERALL SCORE: 2.3

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HIGHEST SCORE: 5
LOWEST SCORE: 1


#26 SETH
OVERALL SCORE: 2.7

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HIGHEST SCORE: 7
LOWEST SCORE: 1

 
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Hoppa

Member

#25 BLANKA
OVERALL SCORE: 4.2

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HIGHEST SCORE: 6
LOWEST SCORE: 4

#24 ALEX
OVERALL SCORE: 4.5

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HIGHEST SCORE: 7 (x2)
LOWEST SCORE: 2


#23 DHALSIM

OVERALL SCORE: 4.7

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HIGHEST SCORE: 7 (x2)
LOWEST SCORE: 4



#22 GILL
OVERALL SCORE: 4.8

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HIGHEST SCORE: 8
LOWEST SCORE: 5 (x3)



#21 POISON
OVERALL SCORE: 5

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HIGHEST SCORE: 8
LOWEST SCORE: 4
 
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Hoppa

Member
#20 VEGA
OVERALL SCORE: 5.2

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HIGHEST SCORE: 8
LOWEST SCORE: 4


#19 - #14: ALL TIED WITH AN EQUAL OVERALL SCORE OF 5.3

#19 IBUKI
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HIGHEST SCORE: 9 | LOWEST SCORE: 4

#18 BALROG

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HIGHEST SCORE: 9 | LOWEST SCORE: 3

#17 ROSE

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HIGHEST SCORE: 7 (x3) | LOWEST SCORE: 5

#16 KARIN

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HIGHEST SCORE: 9 | LOWEST SCORE: 4 (x2)

#15 SAKURA

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HIGHEST SCORE: 8 (x2) | LOWEST SCORE: 5 (x2)

#14 URIEN

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HIGHEST SCORE: 10 | LOWEST SCORE: 2
 
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Hoppa

Member
#13 R. MIKA
OVERALL SCORE: 5.7

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HIGHEST SCORE: 10
LOWEST SCORE: 4


#12 ZANGIEF
OVERALL SCORE: 5.8

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HIGHEST SCORE: 10
LOWEST SCORE: 4
#11 CODY
OVERALL SCORE: 6​

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HIGHEST SCORE: 8 (x2)
LOWEST SCORE: 6 (x2)​
#10 NASH/CHARLIE
OVERALL SCORE: 6.2​

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HIGHEST SCORE: 9
LOWEST SCORE: 6 (x3)
#9 JURI
OVERALL SCORE: 6.3

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HIGHEST SCORE: 10
LOWEST SCORE: 5​
#8 CAMMY
OVERALL SCORE: 8

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HIGHEST SCORE: 11
LOWEST SCORE: 8 (x2)​
 

Hoppa

Member
#7 M.BISON
OVERALL SCORE: 8.2

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HIGHEST SCORE: 11
LOWEST SCORE: 9 (x2)

#6 GUILE
OVERALL SCORE: 8.5

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HIGHEST SCORE: 10
LOWEST SCORE: 7

#5 RYU
OVERALL SCORE: 8.7

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HIGHEST SCORE: 10 (x2)
LOWEST SCORE: 7

#4 SAGAT
OVERALL SCORE: 9.2

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HIGHEST SCORE: 10 (x2)
LOWEST SCORE: 7

#3 CHUN-LI
OVERALL SCORE: 9.2

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HIGHEST SCORE: 11
LOWEST SCORE: 7

#2 KEN
OVERALL SCORE: 9.3

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HIGHEST SCORE: 11
LOWEST SCORE: 8 (x2)

#1 AKUMA
OVERALL SCORE: 9.7

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HIGHEST SCORE: 11 (x2)
LOWEST SCORE: 7
 
Too many characters, just a top 10 or something would be good.

M.Bison
Vega
Juri
Ryu
Akuma
Poison
Ibuki
Guile
Cammy
C.Viper
 
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Hoppa

Member
disgusted jennifer lawrence GIF

Too many characters, just a too 10 or something would be good.

M.Bison
Vega
Juri
Ryu
Akuma
Poison
Ibuki
Guile
Cammy
C.Viper
Yeah gets a bit tricky cause Top 10s would differ for everyone so thought it would get messy but good feedback! Will do a Mortal Kombat rank next with a different scoring system. Be interesting to see who NeoGAF’s top 3 fighting game characters are, thought Cammy would for sure be a lock for top 3 Street Fighter characters
 

jufonuk

not tag worthy
Akuma and Ken are Top. I agree.
huzzah GIF


top ten sure why not. personally for me maybe blanka and Zangief higher but over all yeah pretty much how I would rate it,
 
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Hoppa

Member
Very surprised to see Akuma as 1! I always preferred Ken but I figured Ryu would be number 1 or 2 w Chun Li.
Ryu is just vanilla karate man of the fighting game, Ken is french vanilla karate man and Akuma is angry karate man which is much cooler
 

EruditeHobo

Member
Do people not like Dhalsim and Blanka? I have no sense of this, I'm not competitive and not a gigantic SF player... but I always kind of thought the legacy characters were generally well-liked... they feel pretty low.

Almost no surprises in the top 5-6, generally.
 

Hoppa

Member
Do people not like Dhalsim and Blanka? I have no sense of this, I'm not competitive and not a gigantic SF player... but I always kind of thought the legacy characters were generally well-liked... they feel pretty low.

Almost no surprises in the top 5-6, generally.
It was a very small sample size bear, if more people were aware and voted I’d expect them to both be at least 5 spots higher. To me they’re essential SF characters, they have to be in the lineup or it wouldn’t feel complete. But in saying that I would never pick them lol
 
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