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Every Street Fighter Character, Listed

Maybe the real street fights were the rosters we made along the way

There have been countless characters across Street Fighter’s storied history. This guide lists each one and the games they appear in.

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Every Street Fighter Character Listed

The following table lists every playable and opponent character in the Street Fighter series. Entirely story-based characters, including those who are simply referenced or appear only in Street Fighter 6’s extensive World Tour Mode, are excluded (apologies to Retsu). Characters from the Street Fighter EX series are also excluded, since the games were developed by Arika and Capcom does not own the rights to their unique characters (although there’s no telling what the future may hold now that Street Fighter 6 has opened the door to crossover characters appearing in mainline series games).

Characters that are listed as playable in any given “series” are always playable in each subsequent version of the game (for example, a character playable in Street Fighter Alpha is also playable in Alpha 2 and Alpha 3). The singular exception is noted below the table. As such, you can think of the table below as listing each character playable in the “ultimate” version of each Street Fighter game.

Any other important information regarding individual characters will be noted in parenthesis under their name.

PPlayable in at least one version of the associated game
P [Ultra]*Playable in Ultra Street Fighter 2 (see Note below table)
P [2nd]*Playable in Street Fighter 3: 2nd Impact (see Note below table)
OOpponent only
Not in the associated game series
Key
CharacterStreet Fighter 1Street Fighter 2 SeriesStreet Fighter Alpha SeriesStreet Fighter 3 SeriesStreet Fighter 4 SeriesStreet Fighter 5 SeriesStreet Fighter 6
RyuPPPPPPP
KenPPPPPPP
RetsuO
GekiO
JoeO
Mike
(Not Balrog, known as Mike Bison in Japan)
O
LeeO
GenOPP
BirdieOPP
EagleOP
AdonOPP
SagatOPPPP
E. HondaPPPPP
BlankaPPPPP
GuilePPPPP
Chun-LiPPPPPP
ZangiefPPPPP
DhalsimPPPPP
Balrog
(M. Bison, or Mike Bison in Japan)
PPPP
Vega
(Balrog in Japan)
PPPP
M. Bison
(Vega in Japan)
PPPPP
T. HawkPPP
Fei LongPPP
Dee JayPPPP
CammyPPPPP
AkumaPPPPPP
Evil RyuP [Ultra]*PP
Violent Ken
(Originally appears in SNK vs. Capcom: SVC Chaos)
P [Ultra]*
Shin AkumaP [Ultra]*PP [2nd]*
Charlie
(Nash in Street Fighter 5)
PP
Guy
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
PP
Sodom
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
P
RosePPP
SakuraPPP
Rolento
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
PP
DanPPP
R. MikaPP
Cody
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
PPP
KarinPP
JuliPO
JuniP
YunPPP
Ingrid
(Originally appears in Capcom Fighting Evolution)
P
Maki
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
P
RemyP
UrienPP
QP
OroPP
NecroP
DudleyPP
IbukiPPP
MakotoPP
ElenaPPP
SeanP
TwelveP
Hugo
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
PP
AlexPP
YangPP
GillPP
DecaprePO
SethPP
GoukenP
OniP
JuriPPP
AbelP
C. ViperP
HakanP
Poison
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
PP
RufusP
El FuerteP
RashidPP
MenatP
FalkeP
KageP
NecalliP
KolinP
ZekuP
Akira
(Originally from the Rival Schools series)
P
LauraP
EdPP
GP
F.A.N.GP
Abigail
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
P
Lucia
(Originally from the Final Fight series)
P
ElevenP
LukePP
AprileO
ASO
EneroO
FévrierO
MärzO
PeterO
Phantom BisonO
SantamuO
SatsukiO
Two PO
JamieP
ManonP
KimberlyP
MarisaP
LilyP
JPP
A.K.I.P
Terry Bogard
(Originally from the Fatal Fury series)
P
Mai Shiranui
(Originally from the Fatal Fury series)
P
All Street Fighter characters, listed

A Note on Ultra Street Fighter 2:

Evil Ryu, Violent Ken, and Shin Akuma were added to the Street Fighter 2 series in Ultra Street Fighter 2, which released in 2017… 23 years after Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and 26 years after the original Street Fighter 2. While they are playable as part of the Street Fighter 2 series, they were introduced in “later” games.

A Note on 2nd Impact:

Shin Akuma is only playable (as a hidden character) in Street Fighter 3: 2nd Impact. He does not return in the final version of the game, 3rd Strike, and is the only Street Fighter 3 character to not be in a subsequent version of the game.

Street Fighter 5 currently features the largest roster of any Street Fighter game, but it also had many years to build to that point. Street Fighter 6 may bring back older characters, introduce new ones, or even bring in more crossover characters in the future—the possibilities are endless.


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Niki Fakhoori
Niki’s love for video games encompasses a wide range of genres, but she is especially fond of RPGs, adventure games, visual novels, simulation games, and fighting games. Her favorite video game-related pastime is asking her unwieldy backlog why she doesn’t have any new games to play. When she isn’t playing or writing about video games, she’s playing with cats, journaling, painting, or obsessing over the latest news in the world of stationery and planners.