Famous Players
SF Lingo/Tech shibboleths
Canonical Move Names
Character Nationalities
Before and After
200

The self-proclaimed best North American Super Turbo player of 2005, this hate spewing "king" is better known for a "climactic" moment that he accidentally streamed one fateful day.

DarksydePhil

200

This most anti-vegetarian of techniques refers to timing an attack to hit the first possible frame that your opponent stands up after a knockdown.

Meaty

200

M. Bison - Scissor Kick

Double Knee Press

200

Hugo

Germany

200

The World's Greatest Roleplaying game is often shortened to this acronym who also happens to be an upbeat Jamaican kickboxing musician.

D&Dee Jay

400

Unrelated to the cinematic pirate, Mr. Sparrow is infamous for his endless pool of rage, constant banning people from his twitch stream, and his pension for wishing suicide upon those who upset him.

Low Tier God

400

Once a mainstay feature of Facebook, this technique refers to using moves with good horizontal control to keep your opponent's movement in check.

Poke/poking

400

Zangief - Air SPD

Borscht Dynamite

400

Menat

Egypt

400

This cheeky Delta Red agent is also a hard seltzer drink with quite the cutting name.

Cammy White Claw

600

Known by a monstrous nickname and his psychic uppercuts, this player has won EVO six times, two of which were in Guilty Gear XX (which shouldn't be surprising, since he invented the technique that would later name their wiki.)

Daigo "The Beast" Umehara

600

Not to be confused with grade school kids playing games under their desks, this neutral-based technique refers to the act of stepping in and out of your opponent's attack ranges and then whiff punishing their crouching kick with your own.

Footsies

600

Cammy - Command Jump / Demon Flip

Hooligan Combination

600

C Viper

USA

600

Skittles is famous for this slogan about a flamboyant, masked, lady wrestler full of muscle spirit.

Taste the Rainbow Mika

800

Best recognized by his killer stare, this player has achieved 29 EVO Top-8s, is considered one of the Five Japanese Gods of fighting games, and fought his way through loser's bracket with Akuma to get revenge against Punk in Grand Finals and win EVO 2017.

Tokido

800

Sharing an etymology with the popular bar entertainment where one sings along to an instrumental version of a song, this technique describes "empty canceling" your move during the start up frames.

Kara cancel

800

Ryu - Donkey Kick

Joudan Sokutogeri / High Blade Kick

800

Dan

Hong Kong

800

This sadistic Korean taekwando practitioner is almost always seen accompanying her wookie side kick, Chewbacca.

Juri Han Solo

1000

Not to be confused with Charles Xavier's trouble making relative, this british player is best known for his oppressive Bison gameplay and straight faced airplane photos.

Problem X

1000

Exploiting a transitional state where the opponent is in-between standing and crouching, this technique allows the attacker to use an instant overhead to hit a crouching opponent as if they were standing.

Fuzzy guard break / Fuzzy

1000

Kimberly Spray Can Refill

Genius at Play

1000

Necro

Russia

1000

Capcom's flagship horror series starring the World Warrior Ansatsuken user now consumed by the Satsui no Hado

Resident Evil Ryu