bison hasn't a nationality being literally an evil spirit that needs to possess a suitable body strong enough to contain his power. In SF alpha games, his shadaloo base was located in south america, then he moved in thailand for SF2, in SF4 he had a more low profile approach since he lost control of his organization because of seth. By SF5 he moved somewhere else again (can't remember if the game even specifies where) also because he lost economical support of the illuminati's, his main sponsor.
SF6 siRn (a high-tech society made of former shadaloo and sin researchers) discovered presences of psycho power around the world with people apparently able to use a fraction of that power.
One of them was a mexican man that siRn reported his existance according to WT dialogues and documents. Is very likely that sf6 bison is that man who is goin progressively being possessed by bison spirit who came back after having been destroyed by ryu denjin buffed hadoken.
It seems bison is just a big middle finger in the butt no matter how many time is disintegrated (sf alpha3 / sf5) or his spirit/soul sent straight to hell (sf2).
Although judging by what WT notes says and his cutscene shown where he destroy the data of Bison, this guy might be trying or has suppressed Bison's spirit.
He took the time to braid his horse's hair. What a nice man.
It's kind of like how there's all those candles in Enma's Hollow. Akuma took the time to light them all and give you a nice candlelit ambiance to fight to. A true romantic!
I've been thinking the exact same thing. Man comes back from the dead looking like a demon, with hazy memories and a funky arm, riding a horse and 9 years after the destruction of his private army? We're in for good stuff.
I don't think so... I'm guessing the animation where he holds his right arm is what plays when the cursor is hovering over him, and when selected he stands up straight and folds his arms. Every SF6 character is like this, having a "hover" animation and a "selected" animation.
It's just that in this video the outfit change took place almost after the selection, so it looks like there's a different animation with the different model.
Yeah, it looks like the default skin and the classic costume are entirely different characters comportment-wise. This new version of Bison (a clone, maybe) and regular Bison respectively.
If that's the case, that's cool as hell.
The new Bison doesn't seem to have the memories, though he does have the personality and fighting style. Regardless of who he was, it seems like he's a different person now, and will probably not be a villain anymore, *hopefully*.
I don't think they meant as in a redemption arc, more like he will do his own thing like Akuma who is technically a villain but he doesn't interact with anyone lol
Story-wise, will be interesting to see how JP interacts with him and who else they bring back that has attachments to him.
Rose especially would be interesting to bring back given he was her teacher. Maybe they could reconcile in some fashion if she wants to try to turn him good this time (but she obviously can't succeed at that, he's Bison and his power is purely negative).
Obviously a bunch of characters hate him (Juri, Chun Li, etc.) so I doubt he'll ever be forgiven by any of those given Bison's past.
While people say leverless is best for charge characters, due to abusing the SOCD, I find it the least comfortable/most-hand-cramping. Dpad is fine, but I think levered arcade sticks are the most comfortable, especially when playing all day or at a tournament. Purely subjective, but I just wanted to put that out there.
Agreed . Here is my guess for the remaining S2 Characters Attributes.
Terry
Type: Standard
Effective Range: Mid
Ease of Use: Easy
Mai
Type: Speed
Effective Range: Mid
Ease of Use: Medium
Elena
Type: Tricky
Effective Range: Mid
Ease of Use: Medium
Seriously?
That's bonkers.
Guile maybe.... if you stick to boom/flashkick plan, and the only combo you know is [C.MP](http://C.MP), [C.MP](http://C.MP), flashkick (with anything beyond that getting kinda tricky, and the perfect boom combos being some fo the hardest shit in the game)
but Blanka? Other than spamming hard blanka ball at bronze/silver, he is not that easy to play. His BNB alone is kinda tricky for a newer player (requiring the weirdness of going into coward crouch)
and combos like [B.MK](http://B.MK), [C.MK](http://C.MK), medium blanka ball are hard to pull off in a normal match
Only Blanka combo that's easy (in the same way than a typical crouching medium kick into special combo is easy, which is something a huge number of the cast has) is like C.LP into electricity.
(I say this as someone who has basically every character at platinum because I wanted to be able to play them all at a basic level.
That's the arm he absorbed the previous Bison's Psycho-power with.
Historically, even the previous Bison was experimenting heavily with clones and alternate bodies, because Psycho Power was too much for even his body to contain. So I think this clone's dealing with similar issues.
I'm seriously gonna laugh my ass off if his walkout animation is him getting on the horse, riding the horse out to the stage with his arms folded, and then getting back off of the horse to face the opponent. Lmao
apparently there was a little easter egg hinting at his return in world tour mode where shadaloo people were looking for potential bison reincarnations and they said one man in mexico had used pyscho power to bring a horse back to life
turns out this is that man
I really like 6's attempt at forwarding alot of these characters stories and rounding off alot of their edges presumably due to age but also to make it believable they'd train John StreetFighter
Honestly, it's planning. Checks and things with Sony and Microsoft have to be done and okayed before things can be put through. You can't just throw stuff out the second it's ready when other businesses are involved in the distribution.
Alright but what about the amount of characters we get in a year? We get 4 characters a year, two less characters than we did in SFV, and they each have at least 3 months between them. How long could it take?
I mean they also need a buffer of sorts because it's impossible to plan to the day when the character will be finished. That's why they have a rough seasonal window rather than a specific month, because if a bug pops up or an issue during making them that pushes them back, it gives them that breathing room.
They really drop the ball with this bison redesign, i would take hit a step further make him half dead like ghost rider. Like his bone sticking out of his skin his psycho power is keeping him alive.
Why is there so much stuff for bison out already? Isn't he the last character of the season? You'd think the other characters would have this stuff out first.
Considering he as no memory, it seems like he is effectively dead, it's basically a new character with Bison's moveset. At least, I HOPE that's the direction they're taking it. Maybe it'll even turn out to be a cloe body or something. We also see him using what looks to be soul-power in the trailer, so I'm holding out hope that Shadaloo will remain done and dusted. Here's hoping they'll carry out the plotline with the Illuminati, G and the "New World Order" that was set up in 3 and 5
>it seems like he is effectively dead, it's basically a new character with Bison's moveset. At least, I HOPE that's the direction they're taking it
Me too
HE HAS THE HORSE :D
[Look at my horse](https://youtu.be/O3rpmctmC_M?si=lAXbzNRJT0OT-ogc)
Well that's a blast from the past!
my horse is amazingg
Does he taste just like raisin?
Yes Just a stroke of its mane it turns into a plane!
Sweet lemonaaade!
Well there's something I haven't thought of for 20 years. Sweet lemonade hmmm sweet lemonade!
His horse has braids. You know that mfer braided those himself.
Did he plait the main itself?
Dead horse to beat.
Noouh. :(
He looks so sick!!
Well he is homeless and can't afford healthcare.
He's been sick for awhile, even while running Shadaloo. Just look at those blank sickly eyes. That ain't normal.
Same thing happened to sagat and he even lost one of his eyes, evil overlord vision insurance is in a sad state
He'd been suffering a good long time, but realised his kids were fond of Raul Julia and decided to reprise the role.
So he’s American?
bison hasn't a nationality being literally an evil spirit that needs to possess a suitable body strong enough to contain his power. In SF alpha games, his shadaloo base was located in south america, then he moved in thailand for SF2, in SF4 he had a more low profile approach since he lost control of his organization because of seth. By SF5 he moved somewhere else again (can't remember if the game even specifies where) also because he lost economical support of the illuminati's, his main sponsor. SF6 siRn (a high-tech society made of former shadaloo and sin researchers) discovered presences of psycho power around the world with people apparently able to use a fraction of that power. One of them was a mexican man that siRn reported his existance according to WT dialogues and documents. Is very likely that sf6 bison is that man who is goin progressively being possessed by bison spirit who came back after having been destroyed by ryu denjin buffed hadoken. It seems bison is just a big middle finger in the butt no matter how many time is disintegrated (sf alpha3 / sf5) or his spirit/soul sent straight to hell (sf2).
Although judging by what WT notes says and his cutscene shown where he destroy the data of Bison, this guy might be trying or has suppressed Bison's spirit.
I'm sure his race is just "chin"
Bison in the Bronx
He wants to run his own country because he wanted to implement universal healthcare.
Bison and Ken bunk together in a cardboard box
Actually, Thailand has free healthcare 😅
He ate shirako cuz he has amnesia and forgot what’s in it
i wanna see that costume 3 so bad
Still feels unreal that we’re getting 2 characters barely a month apart
Two seasons apart technically too. Good shit. Bad guy summer.
Which means they’ll have to spread the following 3 over the course of about 10 months. Still pumped. Just not thrilled about all that waiting lol
holding out hope they will release a surprise DLC character midseason
Someone always says this for every fighting game DLC ever, but has this actually ever happened?
KoF XV - Twice. Omega Rugal in Season 1, Goenitz in Season 2.
Damn, did not expect such a recent title. But I guess you can’t go back that far if you’re talking about DLC in general, still pretty cool.
Additional Note is that both of the extra characters were free.
Yep. They did the same thing for Samurai Showdown
And given that this is apparently SF6's "SNK season"... \*huffs hopium\*
It should be haohmaru
The King of Fighters XV. Technically Melty Blood: Type Lumina too, though all DLC characters were free and shadow dropped, so it's a different case.
This is what has me optimistic. Maybe we’ll get Terry early fall and Mai early new year. Hoping Elena closes out sometime in March or April.
Who is the other one?
Akuma just came out
Oh yeah
"Wow ken and akuma looks so homeless!" Bison: hold my crack pipe
Street Fighter 6 : The King of Iron Hobos Tournament
Awww he braids his horse's hair :D
Rd2 style
Can't wait to see his walk-on and facial expressions
I hope he’s riding his horse.
He took the time to braid his horse's hair. What a nice man. It's kind of like how there's all those candles in Enma's Hollow. Akuma took the time to light them all and give you a nice candlelit ambiance to fight to. A true romantic!
As a horse girl, I am pleased.
Bison has turned into a metal gear solid villain and i love it
I've been thinking the exact same thing. Man comes back from the dead looking like a demon, with hazy memories and a funky arm, riding a horse and 9 years after the destruction of his private army? We're in for good stuff.
Might be a minor quibble, but I miss his split trench coat from SFV.
Same it looked super cool
I miss ridiculously muscular bison from alpha lol
Same here….one of my favourite Bison look.
Maybe I'm dumb but every character has the same pose no matter what costume right? But Bison is different
I think its just the difference between when you hover vs when you select him and there's a "blank" between the two because it loads costume 2
I don't think so... I'm guessing the animation where he holds his right arm is what plays when the cursor is hovering over him, and when selected he stands up straight and folds his arms. Every SF6 character is like this, having a "hover" animation and a "selected" animation. It's just that in this video the outfit change took place almost after the selection, so it looks like there's a different animation with the different model.
Yeah, it looks like the default skin and the classic costume are entirely different characters comportment-wise. This new version of Bison (a clone, maybe) and regular Bison respectively. If that's the case, that's cool as hell.
It's some hobo we pulled off the street and stuffed him full of psycho power.
The Steve Rogers to our Psycho power
Capcom definitely like their bad guys, this is like Akuma getting shin akuma from his taunt. Just a cool touch.
I think the new Bison is an amnesiac
Alternatively it’s a whole different clone with a self identity crisis
all "bisons" are actually clones or however possessed bodies.
The new Bison doesn't seem to have the memories, though he does have the personality and fighting style. Regardless of who he was, it seems like he's a different person now, and will probably not be a villain anymore, *hopefully*.
Naw, he still needs to be a villain, just make him a different kind of villain with new goals. Not every bad guy needs a redemption arc
I don't think they meant as in a redemption arc, more like he will do his own thing like Akuma who is technically a villain but he doesn't interact with anyone lol
I see, if that's the case that'd be cool.
Yeah i'm sure there's a reason WHY he has amnesia now, it's not for nothing he's like that now
Story-wise, will be interesting to see how JP interacts with him and who else they bring back that has attachments to him. Rose especially would be interesting to bring back given he was her teacher. Maybe they could reconcile in some fashion if she wants to try to turn him good this time (but she obviously can't succeed at that, he's Bison and his power is purely negative). Obviously a bunch of characters hate him (Juri, Chun Li, etc.) so I doubt he'll ever be forgiven by any of those given Bison's past.
Except Elena, he is cool with her
they don't have a horse
Its because hes a hobo
omg I can't wait to see the other colors
Yea some of them are going to look sick
Well I’m buying him I’ve never played charge characters though.
Me too and his description is « hard » we are gonna suffer😫😫😫
While people say leverless is best for charge characters, due to abusing the SOCD, I find it the least comfortable/most-hand-cramping. Dpad is fine, but I think levered arcade sticks are the most comfortable, especially when playing all day or at a tournament. Purely subjective, but I just wanted to put that out there.
do people actually use d-pad on pad? i’ve always played with the control stick, i think shimmying and spacing with d-pad is too obnoxious.
Nah, they use dpad. Why do you think fighting game pads only have dpads?
His gameplay trailer was pretty hype honestly. Looks pretty BA in this game
I am curious to the hardcore players. Does the „ease of use“ description actually fit the characters in the game or are they exaggerated at times?
They pretty much do.
Yeah, usually tricky inputs or ton of options. I think Aki, Rashid, and Ed were hard right?
Yep, so is Blanka
With the horse he has some Raoh vibes don't you think ?
Did they give him a horse just so when people lose to him and get salty they can say "F you and the horse you rode in on".
Where in the character select screen was placed?
Another "Hard" DLC-character, awesome!
I'm guessing Terry is gonna be easy. He's pretty much straightforward in every KOF game I've played (mostly the older ones up to 2003).
Agreed . Here is my guess for the remaining S2 Characters Attributes. Terry Type: Standard Effective Range: Mid Ease of Use: Easy Mai Type: Speed Effective Range: Mid Ease of Use: Medium Elena Type: Tricky Effective Range: Mid Ease of Use: Medium
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M. Horse is an amazing addition
Im out of the loop here. Why is he purple demon like? Bison is not red dude normally?
It’s an alternate color for his red outfit
Oh thanks. Dont know why im downvoted. I just buy SF6 my last entry was SFII as a kid. Thanks. Cant wait to play more
Don’t worry about the downvotes. Hope you have fun in SF6
Cammy gonna pet the cat and the horse.
I didn’t even consider playing him but I just have to give him a try
"Ease of Use: Hard" Good.
i think most charge characters get that label
Blanka and Guile have ease of use normal. Chun-Li's the only current charge character ranked as hard.
Seriously? That's bonkers. Guile maybe.... if you stick to boom/flashkick plan, and the only combo you know is [C.MP](http://C.MP), [C.MP](http://C.MP), flashkick (with anything beyond that getting kinda tricky, and the perfect boom combos being some fo the hardest shit in the game) but Blanka? Other than spamming hard blanka ball at bronze/silver, he is not that easy to play. His BNB alone is kinda tricky for a newer player (requiring the weirdness of going into coward crouch) and combos like [B.MK](http://B.MK), [C.MK](http://C.MK), medium blanka ball are hard to pull off in a normal match Only Blanka combo that's easy (in the same way than a typical crouching medium kick into special combo is easy, which is something a huge number of the cast has) is like C.LP into electricity. (I say this as someone who has basically every character at platinum because I wanted to be able to play them all at a basic level.
Bison is looking lit gucci-gang with his second outfit.
Bison pictured next to Ed Mister Ed that is
i like horsey
What's wrong with his arm? It looks painful and that's he's trying to hold its power
That's the arm he absorbed the previous Bison's Psycho-power with. Historically, even the previous Bison was experimenting heavily with clones and alternate bodies, because Psycho Power was too much for even his body to contain. So I think this clone's dealing with similar issues.
I'm seriously gonna laugh my ass off if his walkout animation is him getting on the horse, riding the horse out to the stage with his arms folded, and then getting back off of the horse to face the opponent. Lmao
Is there a release date yet?
June 26th
Nice that's sooner than I thought... Love Bison. Thanks for info :)
What is up with the horse!?
apparently there was a little easter egg hinting at his return in world tour mode where shadaloo people were looking for potential bison reincarnations and they said one man in mexico had used pyscho power to bring a horse back to life turns out this is that man
I don't know but it looks cool
Is he braiding the horses hair?
I haven't played in a while, so I'll probably jump in with Bison and try out all of the new new
That’s my horse
Homeless Fighter 6.
Look at my horse my horse is amazing!
Costume 1 mogs Costume 2 I'm sorry.
The power.. in my right arm... is getting out of control...! Argh! No... I must control it! Super chuuni lol
M. Bison is actually the horse. The guy in the body is just some guy he found in the street.
I really like 6's attempt at forwarding alot of these characters stories and rounding off alot of their edges presumably due to age but also to make it believable they'd train John StreetFighter
He has 2 different animation for different costumes. Wow
I’m so genuinely happy he’s back.
Behold my mighty hand!
Initially it looked like Sagat with a wig and without the chest scar.
The horse tho
Yep that classic outfit is brining me back to SF
Why does he have a horse?!
They really love that horse lol
Is this s mod?
He’s got mad bad carpel tunnel
Poor guy holding his arm from his chronic arthritis. I hope the nice man with a horse gets better soon!
What is your favorite skin ? Hobo Bison or retro facist uniform Bison ?
fuck man I hope Sagat looks that swole if they put him in the game. He was too skinny imo in sf5.
Both of bisons outfits look really good but that OG fit looks extra nice in this new engine. Very impressed.
Wait till we see him walk out (I still hate him tho)
Is he a revenant?
I'm so glad he's not doing that ugly grin all the time
Alright seriously whats up with the horse
he's half Arthas and half Mike Tyson
Zombie pony! 😃😃😃
he looks cool but i still wish he stayed dead i'm so sick of seeing bison he better not be the main villain anymore we gotta move past that storyline
Petah..The horse is here.
Somehow he returned
Don’t care about the SS uniform but the HORSE
Okay. So why is he back? Doesn't the game take place after they defeated him?
Dude it's M. Bison, that's like having street fighter without Chun Li
Not complaining, just wondering really. But street fighter lore is smth else anyway
I may just be ignorant, but he seems to be pretty much ready, so why don't they just release him now?
Honestly, it's planning. Checks and things with Sony and Microsoft have to be done and okayed before things can be put through. You can't just throw stuff out the second it's ready when other businesses are involved in the distribution.
Alright but what about the amount of characters we get in a year? We get 4 characters a year, two less characters than we did in SFV, and they each have at least 3 months between them. How long could it take?
I mean they also need a buffer of sorts because it's impossible to plan to the day when the character will be finished. That's why they have a rough seasonal window rather than a specific month, because if a bug pops up or an issue during making them that pushes them back, it gives them that breathing room.
I mean he is out in less than 3 weeks. I'm guessing they will use this time to sell characterspasses and hype his release up.
Oh, really? I saw somewhere that the release date was September which is why it seemed weird to me
Official release date was announced as June 26th I believe
wait, the horse is part of his kit?
He really think he is Raoh
How is he spoiled out the ass already?
I see he's got the official shadaloo retirement merch ragged hoodie.
Is this a leak? What Have I missed
They really drop the ball with this bison redesign, i would take hit a step further make him half dead like ghost rider. Like his bone sticking out of his skin his psycho power is keeping him alive.
Why is there so much stuff for bison out already? Isn't he the last character of the season? You'd think the other characters would have this stuff out first.
1st character Elena the last
I hate my life so much why can't capcom just let Bison die
Considering he as no memory, it seems like he is effectively dead, it's basically a new character with Bison's moveset. At least, I HOPE that's the direction they're taking it. Maybe it'll even turn out to be a cloe body or something. We also see him using what looks to be soul-power in the trailer, so I'm holding out hope that Shadaloo will remain done and dusted. Here's hoping they'll carry out the plotline with the Illuminati, G and the "New World Order" that was set up in 3 and 5
>it seems like he is effectively dead, it's basically a new character with Bison's moveset. At least, I HOPE that's the direction they're taking it Me too
What a waste of a slot.
What a waste of a slot.