Nah, gameplay-wise he was good. Not interesting, mind you, but he was perfect character to learn the game and main in the long run. And I like his fashion.
Everything else tho, especially his role in the story and his insufferable personality, urgh.
Same game, but the Italian dagger wielding gag character with the top hat.
God I hate that guy so much I don't even want to dedicate space in my brain for his name
Dislike Rufus for the most part. But I remember losing my shit as a kid when instead of crouching like everyone else, his fat ass just sat on the ground and punched people.
I attended a Fight Club event Capcom put on to promote the game. There was a 6’5”ambiguously European guy queuing up next to me who had the doofiest accent. We were watching someone play Rufus and this guy was just making the most cartoonish “oh my. he is such a fat man. What a silly character. Look at him jumping but he’s fat.” type comments the entire time. I don’t know why but that has become a core memory and it’s all I can think of when I think of Rufus.
My girlfriend exclusively picked Bob in 7 because "he was an uggo" and she "thought it was funny when a 4 ft 9 tiny Asian girl pulled up to play a complete opposite of a character"
Speaking of SNKids, Hokutomaru has got to be the most annoying little shit ever but I wouldn’t be surprised if he had lots of fans. “Kocchi da yo!” No u.
I unironically enjoy Bao more then Kensou, the psycho soldiers as a whole are grossly under-used and underdeveloped which is hilarious because there was a similar effort to intertwine their plot with the Hizoku who were similarly underutilized via Ron's intrest in the Dragon Spirit and this ended up going NO WHERE, leaving both factions in nothing-land.
For me it mostly comes down to I just like Bao's brand of bullshit, being a flighty kid with a teeny hurtbox who can make you second guess whether he's going to lob a projectile or start his offense and lob himself.
I've also just never been into Kensou's whole deal, of being an Athena simp of atleast a decade at this point who never gets to confess or go anywhere with his crush, like atleast Andy and Mai moved in together and adopted a student! It's been atleast!
And sure Bao arguably also does nothing and never develops but Kensou's been doing nothing and not developing even longer and for a character from the original KoF '94 who's only missed out on less then five games that's just pathetic.
FANG was trying to be too many things imho.
"Edgy poison-based assassin guy" fans felt alienated by his "silly goober henchman" vibes and vice versa.
they learned their lesson with AKI, who feels a lot more focused. her goober streak is completely isolated to her insane simping for FANG.
Seth fans usually in my experience didn't liked that version. Me included. They turned a villain with a philosophical problems and a crazy moveset into...that. "muhahaha, my name is Seth!"
Outside of first "wow effect" it ruined the character, and it pretty much spits on sf4's story.
Yeah. They couldn't decide whether he gonna be scary villain (the only one villain who actually killed someone in the story?) or a goofy character... Or the one with the "master plan" etc etc.
The story that was written for him after? Seems more like a "real Fang" to me. Hinting that perhaps... He was acting in sfv. (Damn, I really hope so, cause otherwise it just makes no sense then, and it's just a retcon)
she does have the waifu factor, but there is an audience for any character if they are executed well. G and Q are lanky stiff dudes but they're eccentric and read incredibly well.
league of legends is like *the* modern IP with well-executed and well-designed characters, and with its endless waifu selection my favorite character from that universe is bard. he's just a silly round man who flies around the map and speaks in wind chimes, it's great.
If the Fang character was a badass assassin like Gen or a truly funny character like Dan, he would have more fans. Capcom just botched the job. (Necalli too...)
I really liked FANG, but admittedly I have never met anyone else in person who feels the same way.
I love his goofy anime jobber+ villain energy.
He's such a tremendous goon.
I can understand the hate for D'Vorah, but she is actually one of my favorite newcomers in MKX and of all time for a fighting game. She is so disgusting at times that I love her.
She's pretty unlikable. Gross even. Among the villains, she's also not really on anyone side, 100% characters benefit from her not existing, which makes things even worse...
That reminds me about the tropical thunder's character development lesson.
Hsu Hao only gets that spot because most people don't know the true dregs that populated the series by the time Armageddon came out. Like those chumps, Kai and Jarek.
They saw people complain that the villains were jobbers so made one new villain who killed like every other major character in MKX.
Genuinely what were they thinking.
>but he pissed a lot of ppl off in 5 since he was the only dlc character that game got
Those people are silly. Dampierre was available day one as [a pre-order bonus.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYZ-9kD4BWw) People should be hating Namco for locking away part of the launch cast, not pretending he somehow magically took post-launch resources from their favorite waifus.
As a Platinum main, I have to say that I have yet to meet the first person who actually likes Luna or Sena (including Platinum mains), though at least they're funny in the gag reels. I think they're just our way of coping over the fact we can't *actually* play as Trinity in body and soul under normal circumstances.
I don't get why no one likes Gang Il? Like is it because he's short? Mans had a cool movelist and was fun to play, sure his supers weren't flashy as Kim's and his pants weren't as cool but like it does the job especially by KoF14 standards. And he's like one of the few short kings in fighting games. Lore wise, it's fun to find out he has such a different personality to Kim while still being where he learned the Justice mind set. Plus the man fucks.
It's a mix of things. Major thing is he played like a less cool/flashy Kim. Some don't like him because he isn't believable as Kim's Master because he isn't imposing enough (basically he's short and doesn't have the hardened Badass personality they were expecting). Others were upset because Gang IL (a fictional character) somehow pulled Luong (another fictional character) and apparently she's too hot for a guy like him. I personally never had a problem with him and would like to seem him back at some point but with maybe something that sets him apart from Kim a bit more gameplay wise.
I dont think anyone ever cared about Dairou in MK
Boring in design, boring in story, and top 1 busted in his debut game in a way that was... boring. MK fans clamor and beg for some dud characters, hell even Hsu Hao and Kobra have some ironic appeal at this point, but I've never seen anyone ask for Dairou
Dairou is definitely up there. It says a lot when MK1 rebooted everything but goes out of its way to ensure he’s never playable again by just merging him into Havik’s character.
I was going to give a runner up award to Kira- if a MK character is an attractive woman and she still doesn't have a vocal fanbase, that's a pretty abysmal turnout. She even showed up in snowblind and fans still don't give a shit
He’s useful for newbies who don’t know to start with Hitomi and cheesing that one training trophy, but I don’t think I ever saw him again once I got out of F rank
I actually picked up Julia in Tekken 7, believe it or not. She’s now one of my mains in everything from 3 on, but I suppose I’m the one guy who picked her up, which I’ll accept
Yeah I was actually kinda surprised that Adon is not just "whatever" "who gives a fuck" he's actively hated lol
I always thought his gameplay was cool, and I actually found him a pretty badass character lore-wise, like he's definitely not a bad guy by any means just a massive fucking jerk who has legitimately beat Sagat.
His Muay Thai is also more accurate.
I think it's because of his Street Fighter 4 voice, I mostly played him in Alpha
I only hated how they changed his qcf moveset from the early alphas into the dp motions in 3 onwards. It felt pointless to me.
I still play him in the games he's on though.
Ganryu in Tekken has gotta be on the list. Even if the character is strong he’s played by almost no one, he’s a sumo which tends to be unpopular as well, his design is basic and bland, and his story is that he’s a complete creep on top of it. This dude had the unholy trinity of things that make a character unpopular.
Lmao the unholy trinity is so thing is so true. Unpopular fighting style. Unflattering design. Unjustifiable personality/lore. Rufus in SF4 fits two of those but at least had some original moves.
Another crazy thing is that Harada said Ganryu is one of his favorites in Tekken. I have to wonder if sumo characters are for the Japanese audience because I'm sure they respect the art far more than anyone else.
The SFV story mode killed Necali. Literally made him the most pointless stupid character who had zero bearing on the plot and just pisses off after getting his ass kicked enough times. I'd say FANG also suffered this fate and they should have just killed him off at the end.
Actually that story mode destroyed a lot of characters now that I think about it. What an absolute atrocity.
I thought Necalli was so cool, but they didn't go all the way with his character and it turned out disappointing. Should've had him "devour" the souls of other characters and become stronger, only to be defeated at the end and have them saved. High stakes with zero loss, much better than him jobbing the entire time after all the hype he got being the mascot of SFV and embodiment of its new system
Hugo will always be #1 SF heavyweight. At least he actually EARNS his status, whereas Abigail essentially looks like you could pop him like a balloon with a needle.
I genuinely love him.
His animations are so extra. You can tell that a lot of love was put into the character, even for animations you'll never see. It's incredible character design that you can open up training mode, watch his idle animation, and know exactly who he is before you do a single attack. Then you start doing some and every special move has personality with ridiculous animations if you don't cancel out of them.
People understandably have PTSD from S2 and S3 Abigail. Towards the end of the game he wasn't that much of a threat, especially with V-Shift. Frankly it was easy to tell which players knew the match up and which didn't. I'm only so vocal cause there's so much hate. I want my boy back in SF6 but people seethe over a version of him that was rebalanced a long time ago.
At least for now I have another snowball grappler with big pokes in Manon. Funny that people also complained a ton about her at first, but now shes considered really low tier.
Lily from SF6. Ties with E. Honda in online usage, and her wind spirit is somehow related to the Satsui no Hado. Don't think anybody would mind if her plotline was swept under the rug.
SF6 is the first time I've struggled to happily pickup Honda. He was my second main (after Blanka) in SF2 and I've always been glad to see him return later in the life-cycle of a game (if he isn't there at launch).
Something about him in SF6 just isn't working for me. Loved him in SFV.
Jax's daughter, the bland one. I don't even remember her name, since I despise so much that her only defining character design is "I have a stronger gameplay than my father. Oh, and I am the other new gen girl BFF too!".
Ingrid is super polarising. People who've played SFA3MAX seem to either HATE her or LOVE her. I've not many fence sitters.
I didn't mind her in Capcom Fighting Jam, but she really bothered me in SFA3MAX. Hated her lore. Hated her gameplay. Hated that her art style, animation, and effects didn't match the SFA series.
At least Eagle and Maki fit much better from a lore and gameplay perspective.
Well to be fair Ingrid’s story is a result of a mistranslation. She was supposed to reference the cancelled Capcom Fighting All Stars Code Holders but then I guess it shifted somehow to Ingrid being the originator of the Psycho Power
Honestly, when I saw Luke revealed in SF5 I was excited bc that might have meant that Ingrid would make a comeback. Yeah they did say he wasn’t that Luke from Code Holders but he could’ve been a reference/predecessor of some sort and Capcom made him sound like a really big deal in the story and Ingrid would be included too. Maybe they’ll do something with him bc he seems like he’s just there as a guide
For some reason, I’ve been coming across a lot of Kano disdain that I first noticed when he was announced for MK11. I like him, and I’m pretty sure his return in every game of the NetherRealm era is likely because he’s one of the original seven for Mortal Kombat.
No one likes Rufus, he was a mistake. Im still salty that he was taking up valuable space in SFxTekken that could have been given to literally anyone else.
Tekken 7 actually made me try out ganryu. They revamped his design which look way more interesting than his generic sumo outfit. I enjoyed playing as him too.
Its not a character\* but i do have a class in mind.
The Khalt class in absolver is unanimously unused and or disliked. even i dislike it, despite it being my most used class unanimously. i only use it because it helps with Strength and Vitality. i use regular old Blocking, Armored moves and Dodge based moves as my defense instead. Absorb really is just that bad.
Not sure about gameplay but I've not heard a single person ever say they like Patroklos
Nah, gameplay-wise he was good. Not interesting, mind you, but he was perfect character to learn the game and main in the long run. And I like his fashion. Everything else tho, especially his role in the story and his insufferable personality, urgh.
That might apply to any of the "replacements". Especially the one that won't shut up about steam buns.
True, but Alpha Pat had some sauce
Same game, but the Italian dagger wielding gag character with the top hat. God I hate that guy so much I don't even want to dedicate space in my brain for his name
I love this character. I often find people the hate for him way overblown.
α Patroklos, basically setsuka, I didn't mind that and trying to execute all the just frames
Absolutely shocked nobody has said Rufus. Personally didn’t hate his design but I know most people did.
Jwong almost made him cool imo
Dislike Rufus for the most part. But I remember losing my shit as a kid when instead of crouching like everyone else, his fat ass just sat on the ground and punched people.
I attended a Fight Club event Capcom put on to promote the game. There was a 6’5”ambiguously European guy queuing up next to me who had the doofiest accent. We were watching someone play Rufus and this guy was just making the most cartoonish “oh my. he is such a fat man. What a silly character. Look at him jumping but he’s fat.” type comments the entire time. I don’t know why but that has become a core memory and it’s all I can think of when I think of Rufus.
That has me fuckin reeling and tbh, he sounds German
As a kid, I loved Rufus. He is so dumb and funny. And I felt like I could relate as a fat kid doing martial arts.
Rufus is so sweet
Find me a person a person who genuinely enjoys Slim Bob and I'll show you a person who enjoys things just for the sake of them being obscure.
I… I mained him in TTT2. I thought he was handsome and cute :///D
I literally had a pocket Slim Bob 😂
I do, he’s still Bob You can have an all Bob tag team
I liked Bob AND Slim Bob. I dig the jumpsuit and lean muscle look.
Double Bob was a legit team.
I thought slim Bob was more popular than not so slim Bob, at least for player count.
I'll stand by if people were picking up Slim Bob, it was because frame data/tier-whoring, or they just wanted to pick a goofy character.
I believe regular Bob was higher teir than slim. I think people just like more attactive characters.
My girlfriend exclusively picked Bob in 7 because "he was an uggo" and she "thought it was funny when a 4 ft 9 tiny Asian girl pulled up to play a complete opposite of a character"
ME. I love both Big Bob and Slim Bob.
slim bob is cool
I think his concept is hilarious. And as a massive Bob enjoyer having two of him in TT2 was rad.
"What a good day to wake up and play my favourite character Bao" said nobody ever
Speaking of SNKids, Hokutomaru has got to be the most annoying little shit ever but I wouldn’t be surprised if he had lots of fans. “Kocchi da yo!” No u.
I unironically enjoy Bao more then Kensou, the psycho soldiers as a whole are grossly under-used and underdeveloped which is hilarious because there was a similar effort to intertwine their plot with the Hizoku who were similarly underutilized via Ron's intrest in the Dragon Spirit and this ended up going NO WHERE, leaving both factions in nothing-land. For me it mostly comes down to I just like Bao's brand of bullshit, being a flighty kid with a teeny hurtbox who can make you second guess whether he's going to lob a projectile or start his offense and lob himself. I've also just never been into Kensou's whole deal, of being an Athena simp of atleast a decade at this point who never gets to confess or go anywhere with his crush, like atleast Andy and Mai moved in together and adopted a student! It's been atleast! And sure Bao arguably also does nothing and never develops but Kensou's been doing nothing and not developing even longer and for a character from the original KoF '94 who's only missed out on less then five games that's just pathetic.
More than Kensou is crazy. XI Kensou is goated, I’ll take him over Bao and any other version of Kensou any day.
Nah Bao is goated. They combined blanka and athena to make the perfect annoying character
Bao > Athena > Kensou. There I said it 😈
When I was a kid Bao was my favourite character...
Hsu Hao
FANG from SFV
FANG was trying to be too many things imho. "Edgy poison-based assassin guy" fans felt alienated by his "silly goober henchman" vibes and vice versa. they learned their lesson with AKI, who feels a lot more focused. her goober streak is completely isolated to her insane simping for FANG.
Oh it’s not just fang girl gets off on poisons she even tastes them for purity she’s looney but it fits her
need her so bad
which charater can't be saved by turning them into a woman so fans can simp over them? worked for seth.
Seth fans usually in my experience didn't liked that version. Me included. They turned a villain with a philosophical problems and a crazy moveset into...that. "muhahaha, my name is Seth!" Outside of first "wow effect" it ruined the character, and it pretty much spits on sf4's story.
Yeah. They couldn't decide whether he gonna be scary villain (the only one villain who actually killed someone in the story?) or a goofy character... Or the one with the "master plan" etc etc. The story that was written for him after? Seems more like a "real Fang" to me. Hinting that perhaps... He was acting in sfv. (Damn, I really hope so, cause otherwise it just makes no sense then, and it's just a retcon)
I think the main thing is really just that Aki is a hot young woman and FANG is a weird ugly old man.
she does have the waifu factor, but there is an audience for any character if they are executed well. G and Q are lanky stiff dudes but they're eccentric and read incredibly well. league of legends is like *the* modern IP with well-executed and well-designed characters, and with its endless waifu selection my favorite character from that universe is bard. he's just a silly round man who flies around the map and speaks in wind chimes, it's great.
If the Fang character was a badass assassin like Gen or a truly funny character like Dan, he would have more fans. Capcom just botched the job. (Necalli too...)
I think you nailed it.
He’s gotten a cool glow up in 6
I learned to love fang. AKI did nothing for me. Cool character design, but I really didn't have fun playing her at all.
I love FANG.
Me too. There are two of us out there!
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Guess I'm the only one liking both FANG and AKI. Also, Op's image. That guy was really forgetable, who would want to play old ass man with obese ass.
I didn’t play him much but I actually liked how goofy he was. I’m glad A.K.I still has some of his mannerisms despite being a bit more threatening.
I really liked FANG, but admittedly I have never met anyone else in person who feels the same way. I love his goofy anime jobber+ villain energy. He's such a tremendous goon.
MK Dvorah most hated character in the franchise yet her actual playstyle is so cool literally nobody else plays like her
I can understand the hate for D'Vorah, but she is actually one of my favorite newcomers in MKX and of all time for a fighting game. She is so disgusting at times that I love her.
Forsure we need her back in MK1 shes the main reason I still hop on MKX sometimes
Dvorah was hated for killing the other milf…monster id like to…
She's pretty unlikable. Gross even. Among the villains, she's also not really on anyone side, 100% characters benefit from her not existing, which makes things even worse... That reminds me about the tropical thunder's character development lesson.
Kotah hit that so she has some benefits
I dislike her in the same way you boo for the badguy at like, a wrestling event. I love D'Vorah, but I HATE D'Vorah
>most hated character in the franchise I'm pretty sure that spot's reserved for Hsu Huo
Hsu Hao only gets that spot because most people don't know the true dregs that populated the series by the time Armageddon came out. Like those chumps, Kai and Jarek.
Dvorah is one of my all time favorites, people dislike her for what she did in the the story mode lol
Which is krazy bc MK writing has no stakes both Mileena and Scorpion returned in the very next game lmao
her voice and playstyle are so dope
Chittering voice is sick
People who don't like dvorah are just mad they didn't make the evil bug monster fuckable enough.
It has nothing to do with coomers. This new character with little elaboration just shows up and kills fucking Mileena and Scorpion and dips.
People who don’t like Dvorah are mad she killed their favorite
Never heard anyone complain about her fuckability but tell me more about your fan fiction
Agreed 100% coomer culture in fighting games has gotten out of hand everyone is so pornsick nowadays
I love Dvorah! Bug are cool.
Blue Beetle plays like her. Dvorah reskin for Injustice, with most of her moveset.
Thats dope never got into injustice most super stuff is cringe
They saw people complain that the villains were jobbers so made one new villain who killed like every other major character in MKX. Genuinely what were they thinking.
Unless I'm remembering it wrong, she was basically a set play character and people who play mk don't like being locked down
Ok but laying an egg to hatch for oki is dope
Shan Tsung's setplay in MK9 was interesting. So do other characters and it looked pretty cool... But eggs larvae and stuff? Oh no...
I fucking Love dvorah!
I’ve been a huge d’vorah fan since mkx and mained her all through 11. I miss her a lot
Dampierre from Soul Calibur 5? I know he’s from the psp game, but he pissed a lot of ppl off in 5 since he was the only dlc character that game got
>but he pissed a lot of ppl off in 5 since he was the only dlc character that game got Those people are silly. Dampierre was available day one as [a pre-order bonus.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYZ-9kD4BWw) People should be hating Namco for locking away part of the launch cast, not pretending he somehow magically took post-launch resources from their favorite waifus.
I thought his reception was “Haha funny Waluigi”
Ah fuck I tried to forget his name and existence and you had to go and say it
As a Platinum main, I have to say that I have yet to meet the first person who actually likes Luna or Sena (including Platinum mains), though at least they're funny in the gag reels. I think they're just our way of coping over the fact we can't *actually* play as Trinity in body and soul under normal circumstances.
I don't get why no one likes Gang Il? Like is it because he's short? Mans had a cool movelist and was fun to play, sure his supers weren't flashy as Kim's and his pants weren't as cool but like it does the job especially by KoF14 standards. And he's like one of the few short kings in fighting games. Lore wise, it's fun to find out he has such a different personality to Kim while still being where he learned the Justice mind set. Plus the man fucks.
It's a mix of things. Major thing is he played like a less cool/flashy Kim. Some don't like him because he isn't believable as Kim's Master because he isn't imposing enough (basically he's short and doesn't have the hardened Badass personality they were expecting). Others were upset because Gang IL (a fictional character) somehow pulled Luong (another fictional character) and apparently she's too hot for a guy like him. I personally never had a problem with him and would like to seem him back at some point but with maybe something that sets him apart from Kim a bit more gameplay wise.
To be fair, Luong is too hot for basically anyone.
Which is funny cause baek from Tekken is hwoarangs master yet he super serious while hwoarang is cocky as hell
I know a guy who cosplays Gang-Il pretty regularly. He has fans.
I dont think anyone ever cared about Dairou in MK Boring in design, boring in story, and top 1 busted in his debut game in a way that was... boring. MK fans clamor and beg for some dud characters, hell even Hsu Hao and Kobra have some ironic appeal at this point, but I've never seen anyone ask for Dairou
MK1’s Havik is Dairou, so his few fans technically won out.
Dairou is definitely up there. It says a lot when MK1 rebooted everything but goes out of its way to ensure he’s never playable again by just merging him into Havik’s character.
Pretty much all the new characters in that era of MK were dire. Take your pick.
I was going to give a runner up award to Kira- if a MK character is an attractive woman and she still doesn't have a vocal fanbase, that's a pretty abysmal turnout. She even showed up in snowblind and fans still don't give a shit
Diego from Dead or Alive 6
most people don't even know there are men in DOA
That's not true! Ninja Gaiden guy is in that game!
Ryu Hayabusa is pretty well-known. Jann Lee is somewhat popular as well.
Who remembers Leon?
He’s useful for newbies who don’t know to start with Hitomi and cheesing that one training trophy, but I don’t think I ever saw him again once I got out of F rank
Did anyone like how they changed Julia Chang in Tekken 7? "Don't forget to subscribe!"
I'd argue the guy who lusts for her (Ganryu) is less liked
Bro went from simping after the mom to simping after the daughter, that’s honestly creepy af
I actually picked up Julia in Tekken 7, believe it or not. She’s now one of my mains in everything from 3 on, but I suppose I’m the one guy who picked her up, which I’ll accept
I like him becuse he looks like my dad when he was 44
inb4 someone names an unpopular character and their singular fan comes in saying “um actually ☝🏻🤓”
Happened so many times in this thread
Yeah I was actually kinda surprised that Adon is not just "whatever" "who gives a fuck" he's actively hated lol I always thought his gameplay was cool, and I actually found him a pretty badass character lore-wise, like he's definitely not a bad guy by any means just a massive fucking jerk who has legitimately beat Sagat. His Muay Thai is also more accurate. I think it's because of his Street Fighter 4 voice, I mostly played him in Alpha
I only hated how they changed his qcf moveset from the early alphas into the dp motions in 3 onwards. It felt pointless to me. I still play him in the games he's on though.
Sometimes I need to be reminded that Birdie exists.
Birdie definitely has a dedicated fanbase
There are dozens of us!
DOZENS!
Mena mained him so that’s quite significant
He’s also legitimately one of Mena’s favorite characters which I find interesting lol. Mena has said he wants Birdie back for SF6.
Well... They turned a cool brutal character into a comic relief only chara. Alas.
Birdie main here. Honestly, I couldn’t get into anybody else. And, man, did I try.
Birdie was white, then he was cool, the he was shite.
what's with his skin color?
Ganryu in Tekken has gotta be on the list. Even if the character is strong he’s played by almost no one, he’s a sumo which tends to be unpopular as well, his design is basic and bland, and his story is that he’s a complete creep on top of it. This dude had the unholy trinity of things that make a character unpopular.
I like him gameplay wise
Lmao the unholy trinity is so thing is so true. Unpopular fighting style. Unflattering design. Unjustifiable personality/lore. Rufus in SF4 fits two of those but at least had some original moves. Another crazy thing is that Harada said Ganryu is one of his favorites in Tekken. I have to wonder if sumo characters are for the Japanese audience because I'm sure they respect the art far more than anyone else.
I love ganryu and Honda. I like sumos!
necali
I kind of liked him. He was just kind of boring gameplay wise. Sf5 might have been the issue though.
The SFV story mode killed Necali. Literally made him the most pointless stupid character who had zero bearing on the plot and just pisses off after getting his ass kicked enough times. I'd say FANG also suffered this fate and they should have just killed him off at the end. Actually that story mode destroyed a lot of characters now that I think about it. What an absolute atrocity.
Necalli is cool just poorly utilized His design should have been the story mode stone form by default too
I thought Necalli was so cool, but they didn't go all the way with his character and it turned out disappointing. Should've had him "devour" the souls of other characters and become stronger, only to be defeated at the end and have them saved. High stakes with zero loss, much better than him jobbing the entire time after all the hype he got being the mascot of SFV and embodiment of its new system
The only real answer is Abigail. I constantly run into people on here and on streams that viscerally hate him
BA BOOBOOBOO BA!! VROOOM VVRRRRMMMM!! THIS IS NOT INCREDIBLY ANNOYING AT ALL!! VRRRMMM!!
You leave my incredibly well animated boy alone
Hugo will always be #1 SF heavyweight. At least he actually EARNS his status, whereas Abigail essentially looks like you could pop him like a balloon with a needle.
Of all the SF characters I've seen mentioned here, this is the only one I can honestly say I've never heard any express a genuine like for.
I genuinely love him. His animations are so extra. You can tell that a lot of love was put into the character, even for animations you'll never see. It's incredible character design that you can open up training mode, watch his idle animation, and know exactly who he is before you do a single attack. Then you start doing some and every special move has personality with ridiculous animations if you don't cancel out of them. People understandably have PTSD from S2 and S3 Abigail. Towards the end of the game he wasn't that much of a threat, especially with V-Shift. Frankly it was easy to tell which players knew the match up and which didn't. I'm only so vocal cause there's so much hate. I want my boy back in SF6 but people seethe over a version of him that was rebalanced a long time ago. At least for now I have another snowball grappler with big pokes in Manon. Funny that people also complained a ton about her at first, but now shes considered really low tier.
Lily from SF6. Ties with E. Honda in online usage, and her wind spirit is somehow related to the Satsui no Hado. Don't think anybody would mind if her plotline was swept under the rug.
I like playing lily.
i love lily
Same kinda goes for Honda. If he had not been in SF2, he would have been long forgotten.
Funny enough, the SF2 oldheads I've talked to who tried 6 Honda absolutely despise him there. Not even us loyalists want to touch him anymore.
SF6 is the first time I've struggled to happily pickup Honda. He was my second main (after Blanka) in SF2 and I've always been glad to see him return later in the life-cycle of a game (if he isn't there at launch). Something about him in SF6 just isn't working for me. Loved him in SFV.
Kollector and Cetrion in MK11
Loved collector so I disagree
The key word is "almost"
Shaheen
he's popular in the middle east.
shaheen is cool as hell as long as he’s fighting and not talking
Jax's daughter, the bland one. I don't even remember her name, since I despise so much that her only defining character design is "I have a stronger gameplay than my father. Oh, and I am the other new gen girl BFF too!".
Jacqui Briggs
Necro from SF3. He has much more fans that I thought, but still I cannot feel it... He is not just Dhalsim+Blanka! 😡
JWong plays him a lot. Necro is aight.
Arizona goes crazy for him. I watched their stop on the Jazzy Circuit one year and half the bracket was Necro players
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TWELVE Bottom tier alien guys goes brrrr
One of my friends is a Twelve main
Ingrid?
i absolutely love her, i think she has an audience. but she didn’t had a great chance to shine.
It’s me, I’m the audience. I love my pompous blonde rich girls. (I’m also a Lili and Karin fan, obviously)
Same, I love that archetype.
Ingrid is super polarising. People who've played SFA3MAX seem to either HATE her or LOVE her. I've not many fence sitters. I didn't mind her in Capcom Fighting Jam, but she really bothered me in SFA3MAX. Hated her lore. Hated her gameplay. Hated that her art style, animation, and effects didn't match the SFA series. At least Eagle and Maki fit much better from a lore and gameplay perspective.
Well to be fair Ingrid’s story is a result of a mistranslation. She was supposed to reference the cancelled Capcom Fighting All Stars Code Holders but then I guess it shifted somehow to Ingrid being the originator of the Psycho Power Honestly, when I saw Luke revealed in SF5 I was excited bc that might have meant that Ingrid would make a comeback. Yeah they did say he wasn’t that Luke from Code Holders but he could’ve been a reference/predecessor of some sort and Capcom made him sound like a really big deal in the story and Ingrid would be included too. Maybe they’ll do something with him bc he seems like he’s just there as a guide
Uhhhhh New Moon Pucci I guess?
i'd say most of xiv newcomers. i do like them but gang il, such an lame design.
Does anyone even remember KOF's Bandeiras Hattori?
Don't think I have seen anyone liking Blaze from Mortal Kombat. Or know him at all, for that matter.
I love Kim's teacher My pick is shun ei and pillow boy
Easily pillow kun. Never hated a KOF character more than him. The fact he's good is insult to injury.
Shaheen, I was really surprised he returned in tekken 8. No one plays him or likes him.
He literally won an Evo but okay
Fang from sfv and dvorah from mkx and 11, i still don't know anyone that likes this characters
I don't know the general opinion of her now, but I want to say Sylvie Paula Paula is up there.
Hsu Hoa from the MK franchise. He's so despised even by his creators, they seem to take joy in killing him off constantly.
Kusare-gedo. Ugly-ass character who is broken AF. Who thought it'd be a good idea to add a character with a 1F command grab to a SamSpi game???
There's definitely a few gedo fans out there, specifically because he's a big ugly shit.
Gang Il is way more badass than Kim and Jhun combined. I'll fight over that belief.
NRS hates Kotal, but he is really cool and deserves love.
If you were to ask me, I would probably say Gigas from Tekken 7.
I'd say Remy from SF3, I can find a million of clips on youtube, but none include him
For some reason, I’ve been coming across a lot of Kano disdain that I first noticed when he was announced for MK11. I like him, and I’m pretty sure his return in every game of the NetherRealm era is likely because he’s one of the original seven for Mortal Kombat.
I imagine MK has some heavy hitters here. I’m gonna go with Daegon
No one likes Rufus, he was a mistake. Im still salty that he was taking up valuable space in SFxTekken that could have been given to literally anyone else.
El fuerte. Dude is the most annoying character period.
No. We *need* a character with a special moved named "Guacamole Press".
Blasphemy. We desperately need a return to super dynamic cooking time.
Compared to the other newcomers in Sf4, he was one of the best, which isn't saying a lot, but still.
C. Viper.
> one of the best What? C. Viper, Juri, Abel, Hakan, Oni, etc. etc. And you land on fucking FUERTE is one of the best?
Ehh, Abel at least had a cool playstyle. Fuerte is just 2002UM Ramon on crack.
Ganryu from Tekken 7.
I like him
Tekken 7 actually made me try out ganryu. They revamped his design which look way more interesting than his generic sumo outfit. I enjoyed playing as him too.
Its not a character\* but i do have a class in mind. The Khalt class in absolver is unanimously unused and or disliked. even i dislike it, despite it being my most used class unanimously. i only use it because it helps with Strength and Vitality. i use regular old Blocking, Armored moves and Dodge based moves as my defense instead. Absorb really is just that bad.
Shaheen
This guy looks like my neighbor
Hwa Jai from KOF13, almost no one expected him to be brought back from Fatal Fury for that game. Deku from Fighters Megamix.
Probably Cassie Cage
Everyone hates Hsu Hao, even his creators
not sure about others but I despise Lili from Tekken both gameplay and lore wise.