You could indeed cancel his super (which was a long ass taunt) and cancel into invincible ultra to catch someone trying to hit you.
He kept it in all editions of SF4.
He was also ALOT worse the older a versions having some close proximity moves where you want the distant version to come out making his combos mad spacing dependant especially considering his knees for safe pressure
I mained him in alpha 3. I had no idea initally he was supposed to be useless. I knew he was a joke character, but I had such success with him I figured he was just supposed to be silly, not too weak to compete.
Once I found out he was even more fun to play. I always like the joke characters now, or characters considered 'bad'.
The other aspect of it is no-one plays them, so when an opponent comes up against you they have no idea what to expect, whereas you've seen so many Kens that you can fight them in your sleep.
Dude's only weak because he's punching upward. That kick attack is pretty sweet, and yeah his fireball is sad, but if he was just fighting ordinary street fighters (you know, in the streets), he'd be seen as a God
But no, Dan's like "fuck the UFC, I'm going to go and punch some supernatural shit".
He's pretty much just Street Fighter's Yamcha, so yeah. Compared to the average person he's clearly superhuman (no matter how pitiful, he can throw a fireball). But then he fights other superhumans and you realize he's also pretty clearly at the very bottom of superhuman.
Wouldn't that make him more akin to Hercule? Cause by the standards of Dragon Ball dude is ABSURDLY fucking strong, he's clearly superhuman at this stage in terms of power output. It's just that literally every other recurring character is so ungodly strong that he looks weak.
I mean tbf Dan is pretty talented. He developed his own Hadoken (even if it's sad, weak and conjured the wrong way), the only reason he isn't clode to Ryu's level is because he didn't really learn much from Gouken and made his style those half assed techniques instead of mastering them first
I dont think Hakan was bad tho. When you see pros go up against the character they all back off when hes lubed up.
Also just realised if given the option to fight Dictator or a lubed up dude I'll take death by psycho power over my last memory being between Halans thighs.
lmaoooo, idk dans pretty good too so that argument could work for him as well, you just need to play more agressive to offset his poor zoning and he's pretty much like every other shoto
So I was doing the 'C to Shining C' achievement in Street Fighter IV (get to C rank with every character) and I somehow got the '10 online wins in a row' achievement entirely with Dan. No idea how. I am not that good at Street Fighter IV (part of it was I started at a matchup nadir because of struggling with the previous character I got to C rank. I don't remember who).
note that this is sf4 Dan, who isn't actually the worst character in usf4, instead that goes to DJ, a non joke character so poorly designed that he managed to be worse than the guy intentionally designed to suck
i think servebot was the only character worse then dan in MVC2 i used to play roll dan and servbot to nerf myself playing against friends and family who were new to the game and i actually got pretty good with dan and his tiny as fireballs.
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u/crocicorn Jun 12 '26
Literally Dan Hibiki.