7 Unique Fighting Game Characters That Don’t Fight Like Anyone Else

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• JO

  @joeschmo3844 · 4 years ago

  The One-Punch Man game had saitama as a character, but due to the fact that he would win the fight with a single punch, he always ends up being late to the fight. Basically you have to run out a timer with your team effectively down a fighter until he shows up and wins effortlessly

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• CA

  @cached_arts · 4 years ago

  For years, I've tried to explain this weird anime I watched as a kid to people as "people in bird costumes fighting aliens or something" and could never remember the name, so, thank you Andy for finally granting my mind solace.

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• KT

  @ktoon4725 · 4 years ago

  Steve may be the bigger odd ball character in smash but the first character with a really odd play style is still Olimar who plays more like his original game where you need to keep track of your Pikmin and use them for the right senecio.

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• JO

  @Jonathon_Hennessey · 4 years ago

  In the 2013 reboot of Killer Instinct one of the game's characters ARIA has three health bars instead of two they belong to her alternate bodies who can be called in to help out during a fight when when ARIA's artificial intelligence isn't inhabiting them, ARIA herself gains different attacks depending on which body she's using.

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• RA

  @rashkavar · 4 years ago

  Voldo from Soul Calibur is an excellent entry in the list of insanity.  His body bends in ways I'm not sure a human body is supposed to, which makes him genuinely confusing to fight against.  He's not as unique as characters like Steve From Minecraft, who bring whole new mechanics to the battlefield, but he's by far the hardest character to read in any Soul Calibur game that has him.

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• OT

  @OtakuJuanma2 · 4 years ago

  I want to add Hanataro Yamada from Bleach Shattered Blade (aka &quot;that silly medic boy from the anime&quot;).<br>In a game where you use your sword for whick combos and hurt your enemy, &nbsp;his sword HEALS the oponent and only his specials deal damage.<br><br>You can use abilities to charge your super meter, but healing the enemy charges it better, which makes your sword awaken and become a scalpel (it makes sense in canon) and become able to finally damage normally.<br>The scalpel has THE worst range of the game, and an average damage, but the reason why you use it is because once you&apos;ve awakened your blade you can unleash the second strongest move in the entire game, that being a giant explosion/energy slash that covers about 4/5 of the screen.<br><br>Only the final boss&apos; ultimate attack deals more damage.

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• RO

  @roguedogx · 4 years ago

  Andy:&quot;even in space! &nbsp;How&apos;s that possible?&quot;<br>Issac Clark:&quot;you don&apos;t want to know.&quot;

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• FR

  @frodobaggins7710 · 4 years ago

  Min Min is also a pretty unique fighter in Smash Bros because she doesn&apos;t have special moves in the same way that other characters do. Instead, her special moves are linked to her right arm whilst normal punches are linked to her left, and you can alternate between punches this way

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• CL

  @Cleanery-machinery · 4 years ago

  In PlayStation all stars (PlayStations smash bros like): You need to collect exp orbs to use your super moves which are the only way to kill your opponent, usually you can do this by hitting them, and the way to prevent your opponent doing the same is by blocking. <br>Sly cooper can’t do this, instead he turns invisible, this is inservice to his master thief origins, if he is able to do a combo from behind a player, some of their exp is transferred to them directly. He is the only player in the game that has an exp transfer and no block button.

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• EM

  @emberthefox4951 · 4 years ago

  On the topic of Nick Wright in UMVC, I think he could genuinely tank at least one hit from the likes of the Hulk. &nbsp;The guy has some crazy durability. &nbsp;My terrible memory can&apos;t keep track of the more significant blows but he can casually brush off things like whips and hot coffee being thrown at him at high speeds. &nbsp;Play through the Ace Attorney series and you&apos;ll see that he&apos;s taken a lot of beatings of varying levels.

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• PA

  @pamimoo · 4 years ago

  What I’m hearing is Jack-O’ Valentine is a great example of asymmetric gameplay design. Also a lot of these probably are too, but still.

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• HA

  @haouleo · 4 years ago

  Every time Andy makes a video about fighting games, the world gets slightly better

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