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Apparently guile is clearly the strongest character in the game, that makes some sense... but apparently at high level Dhalsim is the second strongest by consensus.

Now that's a surprise!

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It depends a lot on the version of the game: in the last version released in arcades (Super Street Fighter II Turbo aka Super Turbo or ST), Guile is roughly in the middle. It's fairly unanimous that the top tiers in ST are Dhalsim, Claw, Boxer, and O.Sagat.

Nice job on the international designations to avoid mix-ups.

>"...in ST are Dhalsim, Claw, Boxer, and O.Sagat."

In the US version, there were slightly different names I am guessing. Claw is most likely Vega and Boxer is Balrog?

Yeah but in japan Balrog is M.Bison, Vega is Balrog and Bison is Vega, so you reference them by Claw, Dictator and Boxer.

Capcom thought a boxer named Mike Bison might get them sued so swapped some of the names around in the non-Japanese version

Dictator: Vega → M. Bison

Boxer: M. Bison → Balrog

Claw: Balrog → Vega

I’m happy to see Dhalsim nominated as the dominant street fighter. One of the most difficult characters to play as a novice but street fighter rewarded defensive play and Dhalsim is the best character for defensive players. I worked in blizzards QA department and they had a slick X-Men vs street fighter machine with additional characters like Sabertooth. I was undefeated and Dhalsim was the only character I used. In fact only one person ever took more than 25% of my life meter away. Much less defeated me.

Yeah Dhalsim's dominance was something I only learned recently as an adult through random Googling. Dhalsim seemed like by far the easiest character to beat whether it was CPU or human controlled, because of how slow he was, and how fragile he seemed to be. Guess none of the people at my local arcades were top tier!

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