Crazy Character Mechanics
In Street Fighter 6, these two characters share the same mechanic, yet one retains it between rounds, causing them to inexplicably sit on opposite ends of the tier list.
Who are Jamie and Manon?
Commentators TastySteve and Yipes coined this term for landing a grab, sharing a term with this method of serving ice cream.
What is a scoop?
This Doctor Doom move is typically repeated ad nauseum for both its assist effectiveness and comedic value
What is Hidden Missile?
In Dragon Ball FighterZ, this tick throw was commonly whined about especially early on due to its properties tied to the less than impressive netcode.
What is Dragon Rush?
This character is featured twice in Dragon Ball FighterZ, with each version sitting several tiers apart on many lists.
Who is Broly?
This character in Dragon Ball Fighters has the longest startup move in the game at over 60 frames, however if landed the move will kill instantly, no questions asked.
Who is Android #16?
This Street Fighter Character is a parody on the main shotos, who changed entirely following him gaining an infinite in Street Fighter V.
Who is Dan?
Who is Sentinel?
In Street Fighter VI, Jamie can instantly Armor Break Drive Impact with this Normal.
This Milk-Loving Luchador is denoted for having the audience cheer or boo for him depending on his performance to gain meter.
Who is Beowulf?
In Melee, Fox and Falco were known for this movement ability, becoming the stuff of fighting game legend.
What is Wavedashing?
During Smash Ultimate's life cycle, these two characters' announcement trailers had bait in them using other characters to make their silhouettes.
Who are King K.Rool and Banjo-Kazooie?
In MVC3, this character nicknamed "Jenny From The Block", had a super that instantly dropped if you used a wallbounce or DHC at any point in your combo.
In BBTAG, this mechanic allowed you to tech out of combos with the press of a button.
What is Active Change?
What is Zepp?
This character in Persona 4 Arena's Bases mechanic was considered so outlandish, Core-A Gaming made a video on how overpowered it is.
Who is Junpei Iori?
This era of Melee due to the strength of the Star Fox Characters was denoted by this Mega Man reference.
What is 20XX?
What is Turnabout Mode?
This Street Fighter V mechanic gave each character two unique special states/moves, which typically ruined or broke returning character's normal gameplay by making them easier or harder to access, such as Urien's mirror.
What is V-Trigger?
Who is Jax Briggs?
This Superman villain was banned in competitive in Injustice 1 due to a ground pound that could hit fullscreen and kill with chip damage.
Who is Doomsday?
This internet lolcow known now for masturbating accidentally on camera initially rose to stardom through a phony top 4 at EVO for Street Fighter 2.
Who is Darksydephil?
In Marvel 2, this character had a 1 frame low, making him the best in the game on round start.
Who is Magneto?
This Anime fighter was looked down upon by many because of its Rock-Paper-Scissors mechanic.
What is Melty Blood: Type Lumina?
In Street Fighter 4, this character rose several tiers due to possessing the fastest grab in the game at only 1 frame long.
Who is Zangief?