Top 10 Common Fighting Game Character Types
These are the most common fighting game character types your likely to see in most fighting games.Every ninja character in Mortal Kombat, Kage Maru from Virtua Fighter, Ibuki form Street Fighter.
You know the characters who are copies of already existing characters with almost all the same moves with slightly few changes.
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!
You really can't have a fighting game without at least one or more characters who are into the martial arts.
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.
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.
Best example: the robot characters from Mortal Kombat, Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, Fulgore from Killer Instinct.
The high-risk high flying acrobat-like combatants who jump off the turnbuckles and ropes to attack from above.
Street Fighter II is loaded with them in the Playable Characters group.
They may look weak but they can still deliver a good beat down.
Someone who’s big and slow, but can take little damage and deliver pain to their opponents
Zangief, Mike Haggar, Reiko Hinimoto, Hugo, Muscle Power, King, Wolf.
The kind of 300lb+ mountain of a man who towers over opponents and throws them everywhere in the ring.
Street Fighter, for starters, has Ryu, Ken, Sakura, Akuma, Dan, Seth, Oni, and Sagat
Chun-Li, Annie Hamilton, Carol from Savage Reign, all are spoiled to the core.
The sort who beat the snot out of opponents.