[Trivial Psychic]

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Originally Posted by OriginalFire

Just looked up the character list for this game and no Blanka, but how the hell does Dhalsim make it into the game. I was really really looking forward to Blanka. Perhaps the will do him anyways

Among the FGC, Blanka has been consistently voted the most hated character in the series for a number of years now. The hatred for him became a fever pitch with both the CVS games and SF4 riding the wave of online playability, making an already frustrating match up even worse, as his mechanics and gimmicks made him a nightmare to deal with thanks to online latency and lag, not to mention a gimmicky strategic game that in many cases was 50/50, meaning that a wrong guess would cost you dearly. While many people will say that it was actually easy to shut down, the truth was if you ever had an easy match with someone online, you were probably playing against someone who was not very good or creative with the character, or someone who hadn't actually realized that his rolling attacks were actually a red herring, being the worst of his tools at his disposal.

Many players in the FGC community were incredibly vocal against Blanka and even threatened to boycott the game if he were to be included, so Capcom just decided to leave well enough alone, at least for the time being. In the final days of SF4, only El Fuerte and Elena were possibly hated more than old Blanka.

That said, Blanka has been a favorite of mine since SF2CE, but his SOTA Toys figure is quite good, and can be picked up for less than what these retail for, therefore I'd rather see a character made that we have never seen yet.