Top 10 Common Fighting Game Character Types

These are the most common fighting game character types your likely to see in most fighting games.
The Top Ten
1 The Ninja

Every ninja character in Mortal Kombat, Kage Maru from Virtua Fighter, Ibuki form Street Fighter.

2 The Clone

You know the characters who are copies of already existing characters with almost all the same moves with slightly few changes.

3 The Sexy Female Character

Its pretty much expected to see sexy female characters in almost every fighting game with way too many to name.

Street fighter : poison
Soul calibur : ivy valentine
Darkstalkers: morrigan
King of fighters : mature
And more!

4 The Martial Artist

You really can't have a fighting game without at least one or more characters who are into the martial arts.

5 The Playable Character with an Unfair Advantage
6 The Bruce Lee Lookalike

Its not surprising that so many fighters in video games were inspired by none other than Bruce Lee just to name a few Lui Kang, Marshal Law, Fei Long, Kim Dragon.

7 The Karateka
8 The Joke Character

You know those characters that either don't belong in game, the comic relief, pathetically weak or those characters who you just can't take seriously.

9 The Boxer
10 The Robot

Best example: the robot characters from Mortal Kombat, Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, Fulgore from Killer Instinct.

The Contenders
11 The Cruiserweight

The high-risk high flying acrobat-like combatants who jump off the turnbuckles and ropes to attack from above.

12 The Ugly Character

Street Fighter II is loaded with them in the Playable Characters group.

13 The Monster
14 The Old Fighter

They may look weak but they can still deliver a good beat down.

15 Characters Made All Wrong for Their Alignments
16 The Swordsman
17 The Tank

Someone who’s big and slow, but can take little damage and deliver pain to their opponents

18 The Wrestler

Zangief, Mike Haggar, Reiko Hinimoto, Hugo, Muscle Power, King, Wolf.

19 The Super Heavyweight

The kind of 300lb+ mountain of a man who towers over opponents and throws them everywhere in the ring.

20 The Shoto Clone

Street Fighter, for starters, has Ryu, Ken, Sakura, Akuma, Dan, Seth, Oni, and Sagat

21 The Submission Specialist
22 The Tag Team
23 The Spoiled Brat

Chun-Li, Annie Hamilton, Carol from Savage Reign, all are spoiled to the core.

24 The Mutant
25 The Brawler

The sort who beat the snot out of opponents.

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