Street Fighter (1987)/Retsu

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"Go to heaven."
Retsu (烈, lit. "Furious") is a non-playable character in the first Street Fighter game as one of the ten CPU Fighters.
Just before the first World Warrior tournament, Retsu was indefinitely excommunicated from his temple for using forbidden techniques. After losing to young Ryu, he has since strived for repentance and is training to further improve his martial arts.

Though unplayable in the vanilla build, he has been made playable in the SF1++ hack.

Retsu is a fairly strong but honest character, being able to play good defense and offense. His HK has some of the best range of any normal in the game, making him quite the wall. He's not without his shortcomings, however. Some matchups are a struggle for him and though he's good at what he does, he isn't as dominant as some of the higher tiers. Under his fairly honest surface, however, is a character with some truly obnoxious tools if you know how to use them. Retsu's a great character for those who want a solid, simple character that can still prove to be a challenge.

In SF1++, Retsu is selected by holding at the title screen or VS. Screen and pressing Start.

Advantages & Disadvantages

Pros	Cons
Intuitive and well-rounded kit	Poor launching options
Strong neutral options versus jump-ins	Borderline unwinnable matchups against the top tiers
Fastest forward jump attack in the game	Has a hard time getting opponents off him
HK is the longest reaching normal in the game	Not very strong on offense
	Almost useless block