It’s been a while since Street Fighter 6 came out, but it has brought Capcom’s famous fighting series back to life. The last sequel, which took the game to the RE Engine, arrived in 2023 as a finished product with an online mode and a great single player career that wasn’t that great when it was launched back in 2015.
As previously mentioned, the roster of characters is quite solid from the start. However, a Street Fighter title wouldn’t be a Street Fighter title if there wasn’t a long-term plan to add new fighters to the game.
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New Characters Coming to Street Fighter 6 in the 1st Year – Listed
Capcom revealed recently which characters will be added to Street Fighter 6 during the first year – let’s check them out.
A.K.I (Summer 2023)
It’s amazing that Street Fighter 6 will have its first new character, A.K.I. She is Chinese, and it’s pretty amazing that she’s only the second Chinese character in the series, after Chun-Li. Although we don’t know much about A.K.I., her fighting style, or what that acronym stands for, those nails look dangerous.
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Rashid (Fall 2023)
Rasheed is one of the newer characters that were introduced in the launch version of Street Fighter V and were instantly accepted by players. His fighting style is based on parkour and wind, and it remains to be seen how much he will be altered.
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Ed (Winter 2023)
In Street Fighter V, Ed was also added relatively late, but his unique Psychic Boxing quickly made him one of the most frequently chosen characters due to his unique fighting style. With the new drive system in Street Fighter 6, I am curious to see how his fighting style will work.
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Akuma (Spring 2024)
Did you think this was going to go without him? Of course not. Akuma, also known as Gouki, is a legend in the Street Fighter universe whose popularity has never faded, and he was one of the most frequently chosen characters in Street Fighter V. It will take us a little longer to see Akuma in Street Fighter 6, but that’s only a sign that he’s going to be OP once again, we just need to confirm that we’ll be able to change his hair and beard to red.
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Those are all the additional characters announced for Street Fighter 6, from the day of release through next summer, when the game will be one year old – of course, there is a very high probability that this is only the beginning of additional content, so there will be more characters released in the future.