Street Fighter 10 Most Powerful Villains Ranked
Street Fighter: 10 Most Powerful Villains, Ranked
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Street Fighter has no shortage of memorable villains but these 10 are the most powerful of them all.
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Since the first edition was released in 1987, there have been 36 total Street Fighter sequels and spinoff games to date. As the definitive combat game that all but defined a generation, the Street Fighter series has become one of the top-selling video games of all time. One of the chief reasons is due to its memorable roster of ultra-powerful villains.
In addition to canonical lore and dexterous gameplay, Street Fighter’s most formidable foes also boast specific skills and special abilities that grant them unique powers to wield over their enemies without an ounce of mercy. Many factors come into play when identifying Street Fighter’s most powerful villains.
10 F.A.N.G.
At first blush, newly minted Shadaloo boss and one of the Four Heavenly Kings, F.A.N.G., appears physically frail and impotent. However, his power comes from a deadly neurotoxin that he can administer through his sharp fangs to melt his victims alive. He’s also immune to poison.
In addition to being an expert martial artist, F.A.N.G. is also a cannibalistic murderer who creates poisonous concoctions as a hobby. The sadistic M. Bison sidekick kidnaps and mutilates children, uses Nishidoku skills to project toxic objects, and channels his Shishiruirui Art to launch enemies in the air and pounce on them.
9 Seth
While his inherent powers aren’t always activated for his own antagonistic advances, Seth still remains one of the strongest Street Fighter villains of all. With an evil streak and IQ on par with M. Bison, Seth is a cryptic silver cyborg powered by The Tanden Engine, the Eight Trigrams of Taoism embedded in his abdomen.
With superhuman strength, the ability to project objects, assume the fighting powers of others, and create black holes, Seth has unparalleled powers that often go unused. If he were more efficient with his powers, he might rank higher.
8 Zangief/Mecha Zangief
Whether in his normal or mecha form, Zangief aka The Red Cyclone remains one of the toughest and most terrifying Street Fighter villains. When he isn’t wrestling bears for fun, the powerful Russian is showing off his Final Atomic Buster finishing move.
With shapeshifting abilities and a deceptively high IQ, Zangief’s physical powers include the spinning piledriver, flying brain crusher, Bolshoi Russian suplex, flying powerbomb, Siberian blizzard, double lariat, Borscht dynamite, airplane spin, Russian aerial spin, and much more.
7 Urien
While not quite as strong as his older brother Gill, Urien is the ruthless power-starved President of The Illuminati who is also referred to as the Treacherous Disciple. The unscrupulous tyrant will stop at nothing to rule the world as a global elite.
Urien’s powers include a wide range of genetic enhancements that allow him to shapeshift into a metallic green form that can manipulate fire, ice, and lightning. He can wield the Metallic Sphere, a large ball of energy, the Aegis Reflector, a forcefield that can reciprocate enemy attacks, and the Tyrant Slaughter, a clothes-lining finishing move.
6 Juri Han
With superhuman speed, strength, agility, and durability, Juri Han is a mega-powerful Shadaloo leader with multiple skills under her belt. While the Tai Kwon Do expert and the skilled assassin can manipulate Ki energy, her primary power comes from her unique Feng Shui Engine.
The Feng Shui Engine is a small eye equipped with the powers of the Tanden Engine. Juri uses the eye to detect energy and defeat enemies such as Guile, Chun-Li, and the Dolls during Street Fighter IV.
5 Evil Ryu
As the devious and ultra-deadly doppelganger of one of the series most beloved heroes, Evil Ryu wields tremendous power. In addition to superhuman strength and stamina, Evil Ryu can replicate every skill demonstrated by his protagonistic counterpart.
The murderous mirror image of Ryu, more of a hypothetical notion than a physical foe, is an expert in the hero’s trademark Ansatsuken martial arts fighting style. While Ryu maintains his power by avoiding the path of darkness, his evil counterpart feeds on an unquenchable thirst for killing.
4 Gill
Despite the non-threatening namesake, Gill remains one of Street Fighter’s mightiest baddies. The final boss of Street Fighter III is a chiseled adonis with a god complex and an arsenal of extremely wicked weaponry.
With cryokinetic and pyrokinetic powers, Gill’s murderous moves include the Meteor Strike and the Seraphic Wing, the latter of which allows him to fan six wings and channel the awesome power of light to radiate a deadly emanation. Gill also has impervious healing capabilities that allow him to resurrect instantly.
3 Sagat
As the proclaimed “God of Muay Thai,”, Sagat ranks among Street Fighter’s three most powerful villains to date. The original final boss uses his expertise in Tiger-style Muay Thai combat to dispatch an array of inferior foes.
Sagat’s trademark fighting powers include the iconic Tiger Uppercut, a punishing blow that sends his enemies flying in the air. Sagat can also fire bolts of energy from his hands using the Tiger Shot skill. For his finishing move, Sagat goes ballistic with Tiger Genocide, a relentless assault of kick-jabs and a powerful flying kick.
2 M. Bison
M. Bison will always be included on the shortlist of Street Fighter’s most omnipotent baddies. The main antagonist of the series provides countless challenges, not least of which is his array of Psycho Powers.
Master Bison harnesses dark energy to attack his enemies with the Psycho Blast, Cannon, Crusher, Field, Inferno, Punisher, Reflect, and Vanish techniques. He can teleport through the Bison Warp, change directions midair with the Devil Reverse, and use his ultimate Double Knee Press Nightmare Booster move to swiftly take a life.
1 Akuma/Oni
The only villain who could eclipse M. Bison for ultimate supremacy is Akuma, the brother of Ryu’s master, Gouken. In addition to superhuman strength and stamina, and unparalleled martial arts mastery, Akuma can change form to become an inhuman force of evil called Oni.
Assuming Ken and Ryu’s fighting capabilities, Akuma uses the trademark Hadouken fireball as well as the Hurricane Scythe Kick, the Ashura Senku defense mechanism, the Kongou Kokuretsu energy punch, and the Raging Demon, a move that curses his opponents’ souls with the 16 hells. When Akuma morphs into Oni, he is the single most powerful entity in Street Fighter history.
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