List of SF Ansatsuken Based Characters in known mention
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Street Fighter lesson #2:
They style Ken and Ryu use is called Ansatsuken. This basically translates into Assassin's fist, or style. This is a style used for killing. However, Ken and Ryu's master Gouken taught them the style without the killing intent, so thus was a somewhat watered down version of it. When it came time to bring this to America, Capcom USA disliked the whole killing aspect of their style and forced them to be labeled as Shotokan disciples, which is just wrong any way you look at it.
However, like I said before, shoto only really stuck because it was a way to generalize the karate outfit fighters in SF. While Dan DID train under Gouken, he was outcasted when Gouken learned of his revenge against Sagat. Dan developed what he had and turned it into "Saikyo" style, which is in almost every one of his win quotes (such as "buy the 10 volume video tapes of Saikyo" or whatever crap in SFA). Sakura is NOT a shoto, because she doesn't wear a karate uniform (which is the only reason people nowadays use the term), and she isn't exactly a disciple of Ansatsuken either, because she plays too differently to be considered one.
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They style Ken and Ryu use is called Ansatsuken. This basically translates into Assassin's fist, or style. This is a style used for killing. However, Ken and Ryu's master Gouken taught them the style without the killing intent, so thus was a somewhat watered down version of it. When it came time to bring this to America, Capcom USA disliked the whole killing aspect of their style and forced them to be labeled as Shotokan disciples, which is just wrong any way you look at it.
However, like I said before, shoto only really stuck because it was a way to generalize the karate outfit fighters in SF. While Dan DID train under Gouken, he was outcasted when Gouken learned of his revenge against Sagat. Dan developed what he had and turned it into "Saikyo" style, which is in almost every one of his win quotes (such as "buy the 10 volume video tapes of Saikyo" or whatever crap in SFA). Sakura is NOT a shoto, because she doesn't wear a karate uniform (which is the only reason people nowadays use the term), and she isn't exactly a disciple of Ansatsuken either, because she plays too differently to be considered one.
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Wes said:
...Fireball?
And Allen has no Hurricane Kick move.
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neo_X7 said:FuckI meet to put "muay thai" not "mai tai".
Hahha, meet.
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Wes said:
via Hadou Burst as a selectable Super, not as a Special move.
He doesn't play as a normal "Shoto" under your description, you can't and nobody does play him as a Shoto.
Allen is a SFEX+a Fighter, same as Kairi.
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neo_X7 said:Don't surf to internet after a night of drinking kids.
Indeed, I won't surf to anywhere. *chugs beer*
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DARK ANDY said:
Sean has the staple shoto normals. Let's not forget when SF3 was first made, Sean was the only shoto in the game. Due to loke test reports complaining about not having any old cast members at all, Ken and Ryu were added off of his sprite, so he's still a shoto in every sense of the word. Facts are, in SF3 you HAVE to play him as a shoto and zone with your normals and punish with c.mk -> super art (Ken and Ryu punish the same way).
SFEX is an abomination to the SF name.
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Wes said:
His s. HP is weird, and his s. MK is crap. /rant
And I rank SFEX as the greatest SF game ever made, with SFA3 behind it, so you probably shouldn't listen to me. I'd probably call it the best 2D Style Fighting Game ever.
First off, if Sakura is a shoto, that would mean Hinata is a shoto as well?
Anyways, the old teacher guy ( forgot his name
) would definitely qualify...
So 2 more :
Hinata ( only for those people who say Sakura is a shoto )
Old teacher guy
And here's one more :
Twelve
Why you say?
X.C.O.P.Y. into Ken, Ryu, or Gouki...
Anyways, the old teacher guy ( forgot his name
) would definitely qualify... So 2 more :
Hinata ( only for those people who say Sakura is a shoto )
Old teacher guy
And here's one more :
Twelve
Why you say?
X.C.O.P.Y. into Ken, Ryu, or Gouki...
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soulthug said:
This is ridiculous. You're trying to argue with me having half-knowledge of the SF backstory. I refuse to explain everything to somebody who won't bother taking any of it in because they have the attention span of a...14 year old.
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Read the 78 page storyline. Mmmhmmm?Hmkay said:Agreed... There's no shotokan stuff in SF, Wes reminded it in this very topic for those who didn't know yet... So saying Go Hibiki was a shoto ("official story" my ass) is a joke.
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Lolz, worst thread evar.
Wasn't SF invented by Capcom of Japan and not Capcom USA?
In my day we used the word shoto to describe anyone whose specials are performed using fireball or dragon punch motions. Back then there was charge or shoto only. Under this Sagat would indeed be a shoto. It seems that you guys are taking the story thing way too far, you're actually arguing over a made up story? lolz again.
I mean Gouken isn't even playable. Anatsuken this, Mecha Gouki that, bah its a freaking game. Grow up kids.
Lolz x3.
Wasn't SF invented by Capcom of Japan and not Capcom USA?
In my day we used the word shoto to describe anyone whose specials are performed using fireball or dragon punch motions. Back then there was charge or shoto only. Under this Sagat would indeed be a shoto. It seems that you guys are taking the story thing way too far, you're actually arguing over a made up story? lolz again.
I mean Gouken isn't even playable. Anatsuken this, Mecha Gouki that, bah its a freaking game. Grow up kids.
Lolz x3.