What would the Street Fighter Characters be and what would they be for classes and races?
What would Chun Li, Ryu, Cammy, Juri, Sakura, Laura, Ken, Lucia, Rose, Rashid, Ibuki, and etc be?
Right off the bat I imagine most of those listed would be Monks, at least all the Shotos; given various Monk abilities resemble and are possibly based on their moves. Spinning Crane Kick for example is pretty much the WoW equivalent of Tatsumaki Shinpukyaku, Chi Torpedo, especially in its earlier forms, is Bison’s Psycho Crusher, and Chi Burst can be interpreted as a Hadouken. Given Juri’s moves are mostly kicks, and kicks account for some of the higher damage Monk abilities I’d also categorize her there.
There’s a Chun-Li homage in the game by the name of Lun-Chi who is a Monk, at least according to Wowpedia…
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Lun-Chi
Being a Ninja I suppose Ibuki could also fit into Rogue, but I can’t really recall many moves of hers that match; though it’s been a while since I’ve seen anything Street Fighter. Much the same goes for Guy and Vega.
I don’t have many thoughts towards race but I figure Elena would fit pretty well as a Troll; not just for the fact that a part of her style, Capoeira, is the male Troll dance, but also I think her overall build is pretty close to theirs. Other than that I pretty much default to all the mostly relatively normal human characters being Human; perhaps otherwise Pandaren like with the Chun-Li reference.
Many of the grapplers could be interpreted either as Brewmaster Monks or Warriors due to their ability to take hits, if I’m remembering how those types typically work correctly. Q especially could be a Prot Warrior due to this.
Rashid I suppose could be a Shaman, due to his apparent mastery of wind.
From what little I remember of Rose her powers are reminiscent of a Mage.
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And you did not mention the greatest of them all! Compared to these others he is a GOD!
They’re all unarmed brawlers but since we don’t have that Pathfinder class in Wow, they’d be monks.