Talk:Street Fighter Vs Killer Instinct/@comment-24183810-20160929225229/@comment-24183810-20161002202022

Here's the problem: A Street Fighter crossover without Ryu is like making a new Super Smash Bros but with no Mario, or a Guilty Gear Vs Blazblue but Sol and Ragna are not in it. Ryu may be boring to some, but he is undeniably the main character of the Street Fighter franchise and the original hero character in fighting games that started it all, not to mention he and Chun-Li are still one of the most loved characters in the series even after all this time.

Making a Street Fighter game or crossover but with no Ryu will be a very unpopular move if it came to be a real thing, Capcom almost did that with Street Fighter III (where it was going to be full of brand new characters and non-returning), but fans hated that so Capcom included Ryu and Ken in the initial roster.

And lastly, in place of Ryu, you make a character who, judging from looking at his movelist, may as well be labelled a shotoclone + Guile, that's already lost him some original points there.