The Esports World Cup has begun in earnest with some games right in the middle of their torunament run. The FGC will get its spotlight in August when Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 take center stage in weeks 6 and 8 respectively.
When Season 2 of Street Fighter 6 was announced, four characters were introduced, there was Bison, then Terry Bogard and Mai Shiranui from Fatal Fury and Elena from Street Fighter III. The choice of Elena is interesting, considering she is the first character from Street Fighter 3 to feature in the game. Seeing as Street Fighter 3 is canonically the game that comes before Street Fighter 6, her addition must mean something.
During a recent stream, Punk compiled a new tier list for Street Fighter 6 in which he explained to NL where he feels each and every one of the game's characters rank. Interestingly, his first place pick was none other than Russian wrestler Zangief.
It's often sufficient to simply say that pros like Justin Wong, BST|Daigo Umehara or Falcons|MenaRD are "good" at fighting games, and while you'd be correct, there's surely more helpful analysis that we can take away from their top tier abilities.
It's time to change the way you see Street Fighter 6. Not in a profound, relationship-altering way, but in the spirit of fun GGROLER has produced a video showing all current character win animations with a camera that doesn't cut away or move at all.
Amjad "NASR|AngryBird" Al-Shalabi is already convinced that Bison is a top five character in Street Fighter 6, and goes into some detail as he talks about and takes on the evil dictator in his latest video.