i still dont see how akuma and rashid dont at the very least have an edge on her too but not just purely for zoning issues. Right now in sfv, her bad match ups are menat, sim, guile, and honestly poison. kikoken only does so much as a projectile to get her in too. her jump is terrible, her slide is -3 on normal hit, -8 on block, and leads into nothing without vtrigger. people just jumped on the chuns top tier train cause they think "strong footsie character with mix ups on block and good confirms" and automatically think top tier.
TopTier - Find a fighting game event near you.r/NewChallenger - A beginner friendly Fighting Game Community.Frame Assist Tool (FAT) - Up to date framedata.Two minute tutorials - Absolute beginner help.Got results from your local tournament? Report them hereĪnd compare with players from around the world! Resources It’s fine.Welcome to r/StreetFighter, a subreddit dedicated to build the fighting game community, harbor a healthy competitive nature, and be welcoming to players and fans alike. Nonetheless! Chun-Li endures even among non-combatants as a style icon, as a shatterer of the 16-bit glass ceiling, as badass-lady cultural shorthand ready to be wielded by, say, Nicki Minaj: “I went and copped the chopsticks / Put it in my bun just to pop shit.” Fine. I was so offended, in fact, that I basically never played a new Street Fighter game again. I am a purist where she is concerned: When 1992’s Street Fighter 2 Dash Turbo first introduced her Kikoken move, a blue-fireball projectile flung from her hands and patterned after the Hadouken attacks favored by those dullards Ryu and Ken, I took this as a grave betrayal of her whole kick-dudes-in-the-head ethos. Chun-Li's Street Fighter 5: Champion Edition tier match ups. While you should always try to activate V-Trigger at least once per round, because Chun-Lis is based on a timer, you still want to make sure you can make the most out of it when you activate the Renkiko. Whereas I was into Chun-Li for the melodrama-rich backstory and the elegance of her speed-over-power fighting style. Chun-Li is a character that can provide constant offensive pressure in Street Fighter 5, and her V-Trigger is one of the big components of that strategy. (For the record, Maxim magazine gave it four stars.) the 1999 launch of the unnervingly porny Dead or Alive franchise, which would one day introduce the spinoff Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. But future fighting games would struggle with, uh, the opposite problem, e.g. Yes, as with Sonya Blade in 1992’s first installment of the super-gnarly Mortal Kombat series, Chun-Li is the only female character in Street Fighter II, which is not super progressive, no. This move, too, has stayed somewhat consistent across 20-plus years of Street Fighter sequels and spinoffs, a devastating attack indeed, though it does inevitably expose both her head (to dullard Flying Dragon Uppercuts and whatnot) and her underwear (to perverts). I imagined, as a 14-year-old, that playing pretty much exclusively as Chun-Li made me a progressive and soulful and fascinating person, and of course I was right.Ĭhun-Li’s signature move is the Spinning Bird Kick, in which she flips upside-down and shouts her iconic line that for 20-plus years I misheard as “Spinning hurri-cane!” and ardently helicopters forth, the better to kick her opponent in the head a bunch of times. The superior Street Fighter II: Champion Edition, which hit arcades in 1992 and soon dominated home consoles as well, added four new playable characters: Vega (perverts), Balrog ( Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! obsessives), Sagat (height fetishists), and of course M. Honda (steakhead cultural appropriators), or of course Chun-Li (sexy geniuses). To refresh your memory, Street Fighter II started out in arcades with eight playable backstory-rich characters with different movesets, and your personal favorite said a whole lot about you, whether you picked Ryu (dullards), Ken (dullards with shittier haircuts), Blanka (weirdos), Zangief (steakhead jocks), Dhalsim (cultural appropriators), Guile (military fetishists), E. She is the primary reason Street Fighter II as a whole endures, a legit global phenomenon of cartoonish medium-gnarly violence beloved by clueless amateurs and steely proto-esports superstars alike. Yes, Chun-Li, who as I type this is getting housed in The Ringer’s Best Video Game Character bracket in Round 2 by fuckin’ Donkey Kong, endures. The Best Video Game Character Bracket: The Elite Eight Character Study: The Oxen, the High-Maintenance Travel Companions From ‘Oregon Trail’