Current Events > Who is your least favorite character to use in the original Street Fighter 2?

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Guile started off as my man, but once he became popular when it was discovered how broken he was, I stayed away from him like the plague. I like the "bad" characters, so I started rotating 'Gief, Dhalsim, and Honda.

Probably E. Honda. Would rather just play Blanka. Ryu is possible too because I just much preferred Ken.

The_Popo posted...

Probably Honda for me.

Honda is awesome if you can get the timing down, he does big damage and can crush with combos. That being said, his wide hit box also makes him easy to land hits on.

My least favorite is Zangief, mostly because he moves slow, has a tall hit box, and his grappling specials are very hard to pull off for a small amount of damage boost over every character's standard throws.

Dhalsim

He was too slow. Didn't like him much. His slide kick was also counterintuitive to his desire to stay far away.

Tyranthraxus posted...

Dhalsim

He was too slow. Didn't like him much. His slide kick was also counterintuitive to his desire to stay far away.

Dhalsim was great at one thing: owning new players to the point of rage quit using fireballs and stretchy attacks.

The_Popo posted...

Probably Honda for me.

Which is weird, since he has been my main in SF4 & SF6.

Thats because they can change a character and either improve or destroy them.

Let me give you an example, In Soul Calibur II I used to love going this female character in Talim. She was a good fighter and she had these excellent weapons in The Double Crescent Blades but in SC III Namco totally destroyed her and made her almost unplayable.

Same for Sophitia. In Soul Calibur she was my main but I found her very tricky to use in SC II - SC VI and much prefered going her sister Cassandra.

As for the topic at hand I can't really say as it has been 30 years since I last played Street Fighter but I do recall thinking that Dhalsim was really horrible to use.

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Just looked at the poll and nice to see no votes for this utterly gorgeous creature:
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I can't ever win a match with Chun Li.

Zangief by far.

I have always hated fighting grapplers, but even more... I hate being a grappler.

In most games I highly favor medium to long range characters with easy controls. So slow, big target, short range, circle commands is bleh to me.

My mains were Honda, and in Challenge, Dictator and Claw. Also not fond of using Boxer. I was good enough with Dhalsim to beat most people in my arcade, but while ranged he was not as speedy as I'd like, so if I started to pick him that meant I was bored with you and went through all the other characters.

But no matter what... I would never pick Zang.

Torgo posted...

Honda is awesome if you can get the timing down, he does big damage and can crush with combos

I loved being called a cheater in Capcom vs SNK 2 when I picked Honda as a solo team member and give him the Samurai Shodown meter. Damage was good, but his defense was through the roof. Plus, he's always felt like the forgotten character from SF2 so nobody was used to fighting him.

loafy013 posted...

I loved being called a cheater in Capcom vs SNK 2 when I picked Honda as a solo team member and give him the Samurai Shodown meter. Damage was good, but his defense was through the roof. Plus, he's always felt like the forgotten character from SF2 so nobody was used to fighting him.

I actually have a physical copy of that game in box for Gamecube - but I never ended up playing it much. I don't even remember Honda being in that, lol. For Gamecube my favorite fighter was Bloody Roar: Primal Fury.

Zangief

I actually don't dislike the dude, I just played as him the least.

Zangief is tough to play any good in OG SF2.

Zangief for sure

I never mastered how to play as him