An official Capcom ranking of the most beloved Street Fighters has been attracting attention – mainly for the yawning and rather embarrassing (though to whom is perhaps open to question) gulf between the preferences of Japanese and Americans, with obscure schoolgirls easily ousting the likes of Ryuken…
America and Europe select a muscular selection of bruisers:
1. Ryu – 15,856 – 30.6%
2. Ken – 13,511 – 26.1%
3. Akuma – 12,685 – 24.5%
4. Chun-li – 9,797 – 18.9%
5. Cammy – 9,260 – 17.9%
6. Sakura – 7,383 – 14.3%
7. Sagat – 7,324 – 14.1%
8. Juri – 7,059 – 13.6%
9. Guile – 6,527 – 12.6%
10. Q – 6,168 – 11.9%
Japan on the other hand…:
1. Karin – 3,348 – 27.4%
2. Ryu – 2,884 – 23.6%
3. Cammy – 2,410 – 19.7%
4. Ingrid- 2,393 – 19.6%
5. Rainbow Mika – 2,254 – 18.5%
6. Sakura – 2,134 – 17.5%
7. Chun-li – 2,125 – 17.4%
8. Juri – 1,656 – 13.6%
9. Ken – 1,547 -12.7%
10. Akuma – 1,516 – 12.4%
Japanese Street Fighter fans have been busily trying to explain away these results:
“Karin is just so cute, it can’t be helped.”
“Take away Japan’s moe culture and there is nothing left!”
“What’s more Karin and Ingrid are total minor characters from the game’s period of decline.”
“Must be something wrong with this lot if they like Mika so much…”
“Looking at their pictures it is hard to comprehend how they got to be ranked so high.”
“I cannot believe Chun-li is only 7th – it was rigged!”
“I think only long-time fans obsessed with the game for years would vote in this, accounting for why all these weird characters are in there.”
“I don’t know any of these girls. Creepy!”
“The American ranking is so much better.”
“Where is Guile!”
“Poor Zangief!”
“Look at the votes for Ryu, Ken and Akuma – are those Yanks all homos or what?”
“Ingrid only appeared in the truly awful Fighting Jam. I can’t believe these results are anything but the result of foul play.”
“I’ve never even heard of Karin.”
“The Yanks just want a simple, easy to use and strong fighter. Somehow it seems the Japanese are looking for something else though…”
“It’s because those characters are regulars in certain thin books…”
US poll not surprising, but karin #1? was pretty much expecting sakura or ibuki considering how much japaneese players play her
as a street fighter player and avid fan since aboutthe time i could walk. this may be the best thing i’ve ever read ever. i rolfmao’d for 14 minutes. jeez japan. i mean jeez america, but jeez japan.
how come we don’t get any pictures for our top 10
Americans chose based on who they liked to fight with… because it was a fighting game.
By the way there is a Kickstarter campaign for a live-action Street Fighter series that look promising
streetfighteraf DOT com is the official site with a kickstarter link for whoever wants to help out
The ranking is more or less even between male and female characters (4 women and 5-6 men). What’s the “homo” about? Ken, Ryu, Chun-Li, Akuma, Cammy, Sagat, and Guile are well liked because they’ve been around for a long time and no matter how cool Juri is, she’s still a newcomer. I’m sure she’ll get more popular.
Karin, Ingrid, Rainbow Mika???? Never heard of them
Hmm… Yes, the japanese list does seem odd alright… I mean, OK, we know they are a lot into cute girls and all, but I really, REALLY doubt it can go as far as having a top character list that extremist. I feel someone manipulated that list OR the targetted public was arranged to make those results appear. Even judging by some of those japanese comments you can guess something went wrong somewhere…
…some major trolling may be at hand.
Where if fucking ZANGIEF?! the ‘GIEF owns all.
Reminds me of a old friend who refused to use female characters is games because they were “weaker” -_-
Karin is awesomeQ
Japan’s rankings really suck
“Look at the votes for Ryu, Ken and Akuma – are those Yanks all homos or what?”
I lol’d so hard. But in reality, maybe if capcom balanced females better you’d see a scale tip.
Cammy is ugly, and I’d probably have my dick broken trying to stick it in her stone-hard vagoo.
Blame how they made the ladies look in SF4. She was more “softer” looking in even SSF2, even compared to Chun-li. Then there’s the SFA series…
I’m still from the generation where if you play a manly game like street fighter and you pick a girl to fight with you’re a faggot.
I confess, I tend to pick Sakura a lot too. She’s like a female Ryu, so I get to have decent skills and have someone pleasing to the eye to fight with.
Sakura’s fireball sucks ass. Unless you’re a purely offensive player she’s no good.
Only, she does not play like Ryu at all.
Ryu is about landing few precise attacks and spacing with projectiles. Basically an all rounder with options covering all kinds of aspects.
Despite having a projectile move, Sakura is more towards aggresive gameplay that rewards being offensive and getting up close to perform combos.
It all comes down to taste, but ‘female Ryu’ is a misconception about Sakura, even for the storyline. If you still insist, she also needs to have the Incredible Hulk Syndrome before finally being worthy of the title ‘female Ryu’. lol
Cute girls rule Karin, Ingrid, Cammy, R.Mika, Sakura and chunli!
I don’t think any that visits this site has any right to belittle Japan for liking half-naked women.
Hmm top 3 for america/europe are the clones… japan is all about TITS or GTFO. Remember Rule #63.
The biggest surprise is that Q made it to top ten with 11.9%. Only true Street Fighter fans no of his brutality.
DAN FOREVER!
That list isn’t really that different. Just Karin, Rainbow Mika and Ingrid instead of Guile, Sagat and Q.
From a gameplay perspective, Karin is one of the most unique and interesting fighting game characters. She has a large variety of combination attacks for both close-range and long-range, as well as both defense and offense. Her regular attacks are also varied, fluidly animated, stylish and elegant.
Can’t say the same for the other female characters, though. Ingrid should have played like Lili in Street Fighter X Tekken, and Rainbow Mika has always looked too ridiculous to me.
Ingrind just a copy of Kula from king of fighter series, only different between them is her background story
Really? I always thought she was more like Athena. Same costume, facial & hair style, same body type (at least from KoF XI & before…), same usage of odd projectiles/reflection/odd command throws/etc.
I’m American and I voted for Ingrid, Karin, R. Mika and two others who I can’t remember, in that order.
As usual, Guile theme goes with everything. Well, except with Japanese.
Seriously…why not much love for Street Fighter 3?
Ibuki on the scene!
I love that picture of Ken. He’s like, “Lol, seriously? Number eight? What the hell, guys!”
Ooohohohohoho!
to put it clear
americans like WWE like characters
japanese like DOA like characters
I like Street Fighter and have played the games casually since the SNES days and did not even know Karin, Rainbow Mika, or Ingrid even existed until today…
Americans need to embrace their inner schoolgirl-self like japanese do.
I voted for Karin, Ingrid and Mika on the American poll.
And I don’t even play SF, but those three looked cutest, they’re the ones that would want to play with.
Karin and Ingrid I can understand, but Mika is cute? Come on, Mika is HAWT!!!
“but those three looked cutest.”
Dear god… please don’t go into politics.
Well, I think he would make a brilliant politician.
To be fair, at least America’s list isn’t: GUILE, CHARLIE, ALEX, KEN, RUFUS, BALROG, JOE, CODY… And every other Fuck yeah American in the franchise.
Guile’s theme goes with everything. You, however, go with nothing.
Guile is there.
Not because he is ammie, but because he is frickin’ epic.
No love for Zanigef? He is so cute!
And Blanka, our beloved electric tree guy, doesn’t seem to be in these lists, as well as Honda and Vega/Barlog.
You mean M. Bison? *ducks*
No, I mean that clawed ninja in tights.
Ingrid has been in what, two Capcom games? Her placing so high shouldn’t make sense but I would still vote for her.
So basically, America & Europe = gay?
More like we didn’t vote with our penis.
real men use their penis to think.
And yet Ingrid is first…
I’d like to think that the Japanese voters just had more respect for the female characters in general. It’s extremely misogynistic to think that if a female gets more votes it’s only because of her appearance and nothing to do with character or anything else.
How were the votes counted? Those percentages add up to WAY over 100%.
“Look at the votes for Ryu, Ken and Akuma – are those Yanks all homos or what?”
lmao, this guy’s comment actually made me laugh lol
I don’t think many of US voters were looking for fap material in the game…
Sagat was the best SFIV character til they detuned him.
>no Evil Ryu
Well screw you both.
Go home and be a salaryman!
So…I guess everybody likes Ryu? :-/
And this is surprising Sankaku..?
No, but we like to rage and make witty remarks about it regardless.
Q got 10th?
I somehow understand Karin being on that list because Alpha/Zero 3 had lots of moves and wasn´t limited as in other games where you have to choose your ultra.
Outside of main characters which are my favourite, my top 10 would be:
Guy, Balrog, Dan, Fei Long, Karin, Sakura and Dudley.
Wished they´d make SFA4 with all SF fighters and gameplay/world map like SFA3 or Rival School with hidden stages.
I would like to know the source of the artist on first pic mika and sakura
dont make fun of the japanese dude, its fucking street fighterm they will trash yu regardless on what charcter they used.
LOL american people playing fighting games hahah stick to your cod
…………………..what a lame joke
Japan’s legend, Daigo Umehara uses Ryu as his MC. This is clearly a bunch of pillow froteurs whining.
actually he happens to be the major character of the franchise….it’s expected for him to be popular….
I wonder why Q made the list in the US. I barely even remember that character.
I don’t get the Juri love either, but she’s the newest character so it sort of makes sense.
Simple, people thinked “if we show the char is popular, maybe capcom will put them in the next game”. It became reality with rolento (even if he was put in a bad game like sfxt), so why not try again? Plus, Q have a big fanbase among 3s players.
>“Look at the votes for Ryu, Ken and Akuma – are those Yanks all homos or what?”
This guy is almost certainly joking, but you could reply that the Japanese rankings are based on who they fap to and that’s pretty weird itself.
Ryu at 2nd lol….
these ratings….WHERE THE HELL IS DAN?!
Mister I’ll, make a DAN OUTA YOU!
He walked the man’s path! Oyajiiiiiiii!
AHAHAHAHA, so true.
Dan doesn’t need rating. No one compares.
Dan is God tier. End of story.
Wrong.
God is DAN Tier.
Yeah God Da_n Tier.
Looks like basicly the same list with minor difrences. Ryu and Sakura and Juri are on the same spots.
Also Id hardly call the american list the “Beefy Musscular” list…
Minor characters that aren’t even series regulars taking top spots doesn’t exactly seem like ‘small differences’. I suspect this was the result of vote manipulation, either by someone wanting their unpopular characters to take the top spots, or someone just wanting to troll the list. 😛
Not being a SF fan I can’t exactly tell but I remember all characters being built with balance in mind so in theory Ryu and Karin have the same gameplay potential.
However newer characters tend to have weird move sets driven by the need to make the character “different”. These unconventional move sets then may allow for game breaking tactics or just superior game.
What I mean is, I wouldn’t just count out the probability that Karin may actually be a the best characater, moe apart.
Moe-wise? Sakura is a million times better.
Actually, I agree with this comment. It’s relevant to almost any game out there that use real-time fighting gameplay, not just fighting game. And even MMO.
New Classes/Characters tend to have the potential to outplay or even outperform basic classes with even less effort. Be it better properties or easier to perform all the skills or movelist. Despite what the developer trying to do, with balance in mind, hardcore players always finds a way to abuse the hell out of them. While basic characters/classes are constrained by their default potential as they were the first being made so they has more things reduced out of them. Primarily because when a new game in production stage, all those basics are tested on any given scenarios and made to had something to compensate over another to counter such occasion. While the new class/characters, despite also being tested, were mostly never as deep as the basic since they usually made in such a rushed time.
Even with nerf by each update never really helps. Since the developers always thought, it would not be wise to nerf just the new overpowered classes/characters, they also nerf the basic class/character at the same time.
And after realizing this, I say there are no such things as balanced game.
Thus, which is why I stick to play the good ol’ Guilty Gear series. Every each characters has potential of unbalanced properties. Every single one of them are capable to outplay other character when they got trap on their momentum. After the intros are get, there are no escape. Unless you have BURST. Win or lose only depends on your move decisions on how to get to that intro. Whoever got that most, are the winner.
Ingrid wasn’t even created for Street Fighter. They just put her in that one version of Alpha 3 for the hell of it.
Yeah, characters mostly repeat with a few exceptions and some spots swapped.
But it’s still interestin to see those small differences.
WTF who’s the raingow whatshername and karin?? Did they even appeared in games released on the west? Why Chun-Li is so low? Japan and it’s wtfuckery ensues again
gee, I dunno… maybe ’cause china been dicking around with japan recently and spreading smog over too?
You must be a noob of the SF4 age. The good days of Street Fighter Alpha 2 and 3, and SF3TS must be beyond you.
I’ve actually played only SSF2 on gameboy, and don’t know who are these either.
No, I am different anon.
SF3 Third Strike is still the highlight of the whole series, though.
You’re full of shit. The SF franchise died at the third installment and you know it.
A hell of a lot of people played some form of Street Fighter 2 then abandoned the most awesome generation of the franchise (Alpha and SF3) and helped kill the fighting game industry, until those people basically got the same game again in SF4 except uglier.
I think this got lost in translation.
When you ask an American who is their favorite, we usually mean “who do you like playing the most?”
No Westerner is even considering the translation, “Who do you like masturbating to the most?” which seems to be primary the Japanese interpretation.
Japan: It’s ok bro
America: What?
Japan: You can come out of the closet now, it’s cool
America: W-What?
Japan: We know you’re totally homo America, it’s cool no one judges you man
And thus America comes to terms with the realization that it is totally gay for muscular men , cut to YMCA playing in the background.
Oh lawd
usually, I’d agree with the Japanese philosophy, but I can’t say that I’ve gotten off to Street Fighter girls very often. Darkstalkers, on the other hand. ^^
Darkstalkers has some damn hot girls. I agree with this. Bulleta (B.B. Hood) is one of my waifus
WTF? But Darkstalkers only has Morrigan..
BB Hood – too young
Lilith – too young (but I admit, dat ass!)
Felicia – 2nd hottest looking, but easily first if you’re a furry, but she comes off more like an actual cat than a human… bestiality territory
Hsien-ko – really?
Q-bee – REALLY?
Lilith is not too young. She certainly doesn’t act like it, but she’s as old as Morrigan, and this isn’t just the case of getting crap past the radar either.
Q-bee is my waifu.
@8:03 – he must really love Arcana Heart then
yeah, Morrigan’s enough*… which is to say, I’ve barely jacked off to ANY Street Fighter characters. They just don’t really do it for me, personally (must be all the short-hair and/or head accessories; not especially my cup of tea). There were some exceptions with Chun Li and maybe Karin, but only because I fondly recognized the artists involved.
*Morrigan, and I guess a some Felicia doujins where her “fur” turns out to be removable clothing.
@Anon 8:03
Nah. Loli’s really not my thing.
obviously you under-estimated his pedo levels…
Then I’d be worried about why Ryu is 2nd on their list, lol.
There are women on the Internet too, you know…
Rule #16
but they’re overpowered by otaku, so their vote can’t possibly have that much influence…
Ryu is the Yayoi of SF lore. Always at a disadvantage, but he tries so hard.
probably leads to much angstwanking.
Ryu is always a bottom in yoai doujins.
typical fail interpretation of the first anon
I…actually agree with Japan as far as Ingrid is concerned. She’s my main in the PSP SFA3 & CFE, and I’d love to see her in more Capcom fighting games (hell, with her odd backstory (or what they wrote of it, including the Street Fighter vs Tekken intro-comic), she’d fit in just about any series.
She’s always been out of place among SF characters. Most people agree that she looks like she belongs in an SNK game.
Well, she DOES look and somewhat move like a rip-off of Athena Asamiya, so that’s only natural. Which is furthered when we all found-out in that comic that she’s some sort of Universal Being/Goddess who gets off from people beating each other up. That and she seems to dislike Pyron quite a bit, and thinks Bison is an idiot.
Hence why she sent Pandora to Earth.
Its not that different. Ingrid is the only one out of left field. the other girls a totally reasonable
American: They actually played the games.
Japanese: What game?
To be fair, Japanese video game franchises do tend to see a shitload of extra materials (artbooks, radio dramas, anime and manga adaptations, figures, etc.), and that’s just on the official side of things. Let’s not start with the doujinshi.
Kinda reminds me of my relationship with IdolM@ster: for years, I barely knew what the hell this franchise even was, but damn if I didn’t like me some Azusa.
Shit is unbalanced! Way more people voted on the US than the JP thingy
There are way more people in the US than Japan.
Chun-li thighs mmmm yeah.
Both lists are pretty fucking bad.
Was I not an option? Clearly I’m the best one.
A Japanese site is the source for the US votes..?
Guile is way to low for that to be true, lol..
Yea whoever fabricated this doesn’t know the love for Sonic BOOM! in America. it’s right there next to explosives, hotdogs and baseball… I mean fireworks, hotdogs and baseball.
Nor to they know the love of guile’s theme goes with everything.
don’t feel bad, i use you everytime i play.
Th-thank you ಥ_ಥ
YOU ARE THE BEST… joke.
While everyone can count to ten, Dan Hibiki can only count to potato.
No, he is the strongest. It’s called Saikyoryuu for a reason!
I ship Dan+Cirno pairing now.
Dan is GREAT choice, if you are really really good in SF and want CHALLENGE
wait 1…2…3…POTATO!?
did anybody say… POTATOES?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XRiGi1eofQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3CgeJED9SU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyVqtF71TXg
Not extremely different those lists, aren’t they?
If Sagat were ranked #1, the American list could be a list of who I hate seeing most online.
japan votes for sex. i thought we went over this internetz.
then juri should be #1
DEM FEEET
Americans project themselves into the game.
Japanese wants T&A whenever, where ever, however.
Ryu is at the top 3 for both countries because he’s the easiest to use. lol
You’ve never seen the h-manga where the kids bully their classmate for watching yuri porn, huh? In there it’s implied (Japanese) men self project as the female getting penetrated and that is why their classmate was weird. In other words Japan is secretly homo. As expected from a society of passive aggressive betas & drones.
Like no guy has ever wondered what it would be like to be female…and how no girl has ever wondered what it would be like to be male. Even if just in passing.
Of course, most straight guys I know are seriously into lesbians (especially if incest is involved and there are no wrinkled butts), and most straight girls I know are into (though less vocal about it…usually…) gays (the old, male-only terminology). Incest doesn’t seem to hold as much sway with women in these fantasies/video watching though.
Japan wins for having R.Mika anywhere on their list. But… INGRID? The obscure, one-game-wonder, SNK reject?? Only in Japan… I mean, she IS a loli too. Karin being #1 is only slightly less WTFing.
this is their major weakeness! Different from snk (hotaru, li xiagfei, rimururu, nakoruru, akari) and arc system (may, platinum, trap-bridget-trap), capcom don’t have lolis! I guess even 3D fg (tekken, virtua fighter) probably have some lolis on it!
Tekken – maybe Xioyou or Lili? Maybe Alisa? They’re kind moe…
Virtua Fighter? best bet is Eileen
Ayane and Kokoro seem to be the most popular
Soul Calibur 5 traded in a lot of their women for younger girls too, but they took out their most lolirific and moe characters in Talim and Amy, no wonder it did worse in Japan. SC4 had it all.
SF is a Gar-fest, and now even SF4 has made many of their women seem more manly. Ingrid would look so weird if she was in it.
KOF and Arc Sys have the most variety, easily. Also Skullgirls, I wonder how Japan took to that game!
Guile is the worst SF character ever! Only diehard americans like him.
Shame that SF cartoon and that atrocious SF movie had Guile as main character.
Guile presented us the most universal song ever. The Guile’s theme. No music- no life.
*turns up his Sonic Boombox*
Yet it s the same command input for Psycho Crusher.
I hate super charge moves, but Guile is far from the worst SF character. Faggot.
Not Manly enough to play Guile!
Also, the cartoon was great!
Guile showed us the different uses of the Sonic Boom.
Like using it when you don’t know shit about machines and stuff, just Sonic Boom it!
Yes! Yes!
This is delicious!
(Though in all seriousness, I never saw the cartoon, so I don’t really have an opinion on it)
You need to go home and be a family man.
USA votes for staple characters.
Japan votes for characters they would like to see in the next game/update.
“USA votes for staple characters.
Japan votes for characters they would like to see in the next game/update.”
Dont you mean Japan votes for those they wanna see in those ero books?
Then explain why Ryu, Ken, and Akuma are in their lists.
the Japanese list is probably a mixed of both “Characters I want to see in the next game” with “Characters I like visually”…
“And Ryu as a bait.”
I laughed. Especially since Ryu is always the bottom in every yoai doujin.
@00:36 – this needs to be sent into downvote hell
No. Because if there will be only girls, there won’t be anyone to rape them. We need Akuma and Ken as rapers. And Ryu as a bait.
Slow news day sancom. Why don’t you report on the yapping NK chihuahua? That would make for an interesting discussion.
Nah, Japan just likes T&A more.
This better mean that Capcom will be making the next SF much more sexier and lady-filled. SF4, doesn’t matter what anyone says about the gameplay, it looked horrid. Chun-li even had man hands.
1)The west has a much bigger street fighter fanbase, so I highly doubt Capcom will change their formula all that much and any time soon, changes that will please some of the Japanese fans may have somewhat of a negative effect on the western fans, so more sexier and lady-filled……. a bit sexier maybe (but NEVER on the levels of dead or alive, I’m sure of that) but more laddy-filled…. yeah not happening, Street Fighter will never have a equal ratio of male and female character, let alone a “female majority” roster.
2)Chun-li is a martial artist, and unless you dont know its only natural for her to have muscular and somewhat manly arms. Intensive martial arts training results in ….well, muscles, regardless of gender.
Add Karin & Rolento to SF4AE ver.2014 Ono!
I’m not gonna ask for R. Mika, I don’t want to see her in the current ugly style. Hoping for her to be early in the SF5 roster!
I’d rather Karin shows up in Tekken X Street Fighter. Her moves are more suitable for Tekken’s engine.
karin plz loved her in alpha3 want it now still
Karin was fun to use in alpha 3. It’s like fei long but with 100% more flair.
Are you surprised?
USA = Guns and drugs [FPS]
Japan = Moe and schoolgirls [RPGS]
God, street fighter sucks.
since sf4, yeah it has…
as do you anonkun