Guy's back is really itchy so he keeps trying to scratch it on people, animals and objects by slamming his back into them.
A student of the fighting style known as Bushinryu, and one of the Final Fight reps added to Super Street Fighter IV, Guy is a close-range rushdown fighter with intense speed, strong mixups and plenty of plus frames to lock the opponent down with. His defining feature amongst his movement tools is his command dash, the Bushin Dash, a short-range movement option that's projectile invulnerable at startup and leads into a low, overhead, a combo extender, or his other core feature, his Bushin Flip, which retains all of its mixup potential that it's known for. In general, Guy isn't too dramatically overhauled from what you might expect of him, with the exception of his tatsus freely cancelling into his air throw, which in combination with his full chains, gives Guy extremely simple confirms into a hard knockdown.
From that hard knockdown, Guy can run his offense with great efficiency, abusing the safety and plus frames of his command run tools and air Bushin Senpukyaku, bullying the opponent into respecting his advantage. Just when you're used to dealing with his strike options and blocking the high/low, he sprinkles in another offensive tool in Bushin Muso Renge, a frame-0 command grab that crumples for full extensions on hit. Using his walljumps, run and airdash, Guy is one of the most mobile characters in the entire game, and he abuses that mobility to run laps around the opponent in neutral, before opening them up for good reward on each interaction.
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- Great Mobility: Guy is one of the most expressive characters in the game when it comes to sheer movement, with plenty of options to evade fireballs or hyper-aggressive play. Many times, if Guy is forced to play the long-range game, he'll be able to find a way to clear clean over a fireball, if not go straight through it one way or another, and he's very hard to pin down in the corner due to his solid walljump.
- Sustained Pressure: Guy has a surplus of plus frames and ways to stay in the opponent's face, making it hard for the opponent to force their turn back. The entire time Guy is locking someone down, they're simultaneously forced to guess multiple times in a row to escape successfully, and trying to reversal your way out may put you in an even worse situation.
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- Bad Meter Dump Options: Guy's selection of EX moves are strange, with most of them being reserved for reversals or movement tools, and the EX moves he does use offensively don't give you much of an additional reward compared to using the meterless versions. Additionally, Guy's supers aren't much better for this purpose, with Bushin Hasouken and Bushin Goraisenpujin scaling badly at the end of combos.
- Simplistic Gameplan: Guy's game is effective, but it's inevitably quite basic in its structure - he lacks a lot of powerful neutral skips or options that force a response out of your opponent, instead opting for a much more honest path to opening the opponent up. While Guy is generally not a weak character in most situations, it can be argued that his gameplan of rushing the opponent down and opening them up is done in a more efficient, and less honest way, by several other characters.
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