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Street Fighter V - Ibuki reveal

She looks like she plays great, but bleh at that costume.
Still, I need to know if her command grab has been legitimized. Would really be a game changer.
 
What's wrong with short skirts?

She's a ninja

Her previous outfit was atleast close to a ninja-like outfit

It's kinda...pandery? Like, I'm all for pandering. But for a ninja character, that is an embarrasing outfit. It could be cooler, is what I'm saying. But it's not.

Edit-Oh, she's in high school? Carry on I guess.
 
Shallow reference pools.

Nah.

They were referencing naruto with ibuki in the last game.

Folks at street fighter might like manga other than jojo.

Odd I know considering they are still reaching down out of that jojo well, but they do. And sometimes they make references to those things.
 
uh

why is she wearing a short skirt

the old design atleast looked almost like a ninja outfit

uh

I'm going to say she looks horrible compared to her old look.

Ibuki has been wearing skirts like this since 1997.

Her SF5 design is basically a combination of her default look and her school outfit from her SF3 ending.

Heck, she even had it as her alt in SSF4.


Still in school? When does this game take place?

All through the SF3 series, she was in school. In her SF3: Third Strike ending she finally graduates. So, yeah, she should still be in school for SF5, since it's before SF3.
 
Gotta keep as many SF 2 characters in the tank for later because of how they deployed the game.

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Why do you suppose they picked her for a DLC spot? Just asking. Or Alex and Urien. Also SFIII characters?

Gotta keep as many SF 2 characters in the tank for later because of how they deployed the game.

Or.......

because, she's the 13th most popular characters in the series, and people like her.

Don't even ask where Balrog is on the list. (Hint: Not very high http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2013/...-fighter-favorite-characters-popularity-poll/)
 
Why do you suppose they picked her for a DLC spot? Just asking. Or Alex and Urien. Also SFIII characters?
I suppose they are idiots, to be honest. But honestly, I like Ibuki, so it's good for me.

But just look at most of the reactions from the mainstream on Facebook, YouTube, Shoryuken comments. Some people are crazy mad because it wasn't Balrog.
 
All these chaining normals are target combos, which are super easy to pull off. She might turn out to be execution heavy, but there's nothing in that vid to suggest she isn't.

Didn't she have a lot of target combos in 4 too? I remember her being really difficult to play in that game.
 
Am i too late to make not enough SP or RPG mode comment and derail this thread?

As for Topic she looks cool. Never used her in any SF game but i know shes a popular character among lot of SF players.
 
ibuki appearance in 4 had to be non canon.

In 3S, she was just graduating from high school.

Nah

sf4 with out directly saying it was effectively a reboot, ages changed. Sf4 and 5 take place before 3.

And when we get to 3 it might be a whole lot different,

Millennials thinking Naruto invented "ninja" in this thread, lmao.

Invented ninja crap no.

But she did a rasengan though.

you are trying to be condescending, and that's fun. but she did the naruto thing in the trailer, so what are you being condescending about.

That's like if Urien had a kamehameha and you were like
" oh you children think goku invented energy blasts"
But he specifically did the motions of a kamehameha.
 
Yes. She was always input heavy even with the target combos.

But that was in SFIV, the land of the 1-frame links. No doubt her execution will be easier on the fingers in V.

Does she still have her sliding neck breaker? The neck breaker in the trailer was just her back throw I think.
 
She's a ninja

Her previous outfit was atleast close to a ninja-like outfit

It's kinda...pandery? Like, I'm all for pandering. But for a ninja character, that is an embarrasing outfit. It could be cooler, is what I'm saying. But it's not.

Edit-Oh, she's in high school? Carry on I guess.

I see nothing wrong with the outfit. In fact, I like it. She is still probably still a schoolgirl also, so it makes some sense. A hybrid of a ninja and a schoolgirl is pretty cool imo. That is another thing I like about Japanese developers when it comes to designs. You never know what to expect.
 
Seriously if she doesn't come with a stage it's lazy and cheap

For 140000 FM it's the least we are owed

Sfv stages aren't great but atleast guile airfield has added some diversity
 
Millennials thinking Naruto invented "ninja" in this thread, lmao.
Naruto definitely popularized the hand symbols. I knew I thought Naruto created them a year or so ago. I just hadn't seen them in anything but Naruto, and then Xrd started using them.
 
Seriously if she doesn't come with a stage it's lazy and cheap

For 140000 FM it's the least we are owed

Sfv stages aren't great but atleast guile airfield has added some diversity
Hopefully they at least unlock the Day version of the Estate stage they used in the trailer for stage select.
 
Naruto definitely popularized the hand symbols. I knew I thought Naruto created them a year or so ago. I just hadn't seen them in anything but Naruto, and then Xrd started using them.
Even old ninja movies had the hand symbols in 198x.

It was always part of Ninja culture.

TV series like Jiraya had it.

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Seriously if she doesn't come with a stage it's lazy and cheap

For 140000 FM it's the least we are owed

Sfv stages aren't great but atleast guile airfield has added some diversity

Um they never EVER said DLC character would come with stages. The only time they ever mentioned a stage was for Season Pass owners as an apology for the Zenny store not being up. That was Airfield for Guile. Looks like Ibuki is coming with Daytime Kanzuki Estate though.
 
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