Street Fighter (1987)/Ken

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"Alright!"
Ken Masters (ケン・マスターズ Ken Masutāzu) is the deuteragonist of the Street Fighter series. Similar to his longtime best friend and rival Ryu, Ken's goal is to test his power against many different fighters and strives to become stronger, but holds more restraint due to not wanting to jeopardize his family life.

Ken is an upper mid tier in SF++ and just definitively worse than Ryu in vanilla.

Ken's is vulnerable for the first 4 frames although he can block during them. Ryu's Shoryuken, however, is fully invincible. Also Ken's Medium Kick has significantly more start-up although this is hardly relevant as this move is rarely used anyways.

Since Ken with perfect DP inputs is vulnerable for 4 frames between DPs and can be forced into chip-block by Hadoken which lacks end lag on hit, it is quite easy for most of the sf++ cast to create consistent counter play. In fact those four frames are pretty awful for Ken as most characters can just come in during the ending and throw out their unblockable. Leading to Ken not only being legal but actually upper mid tier.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Pros	Cons
Shoryuken is a mostly invincible move that is extremely lethal against close opponents	Shoryuken is very punishable by most of the cast.
Hadoken is very powerful and has very little end lag	Hadoken can be jumped by the whole cast and is easy to punish on whiff.
Has the most functional block in the game	Totally unintuitive in almost every way.
Has the most attacks of any character tied with Ryu	Most of his options are redundant or useless, or both.
	Can not do anything during most of his walking frames and has an awful nine frame jump squat.