Thursday, July 2, 2020

Character Analysis: Ibuki (Street Fighter)

Background

Ibuki is a young prodigy ninja-in-training from the Glade of Ninjas clan. In the UDON comics, Ibuki was abandoned as an infant and found by the Geki Ninja clan, who wanted to mold her into the perfect assassin. A fellow clan member named Enjo opposed the Geki's plans and would defect from his clan, fleeing with Ibuki and raising her in the Glade of Ninjas. While Ibuki is a skilled shinobi, she would prefer to live the normal life of a high school girl. 

Equipment

Kunai
Versatile combat knives that Ibuki often carries into battle.

Smoke Bombs
Explosives Ibuki carries that produces smoke for distractions.

Nobusuma
A kite Ibuki uses to carry herself in the air.

Camouflage Blanket
A blanket Ibuki can use to blend into her environment. 

Abilities

Ninjutsu
As a ninja, Ibuki excels in the ninjustu fighting style, a form of martial arts centered around unconventional warfare and espionage that is purportedly practiced by the shinobi. Ibuki has trained in ninjutsu all her life.



Energy Sensing
Ibuki is capable of sensing the presence of others.

Teleportation
Ibuki has shown on a few occasions to be capable of teleporting in a puff of smoke.

Ki Manipulation
  • Raida: A technique in which Ibuki grabs her opponent, charges her fist with ki, and detonates it at close range, creating an explosion.
  • Yoroitoshi: A super-charged Raida. If Ibuki fails to grab her opponent, she will fire off the gathered energy as a projectile.
  • Kachofugetsu: A technique in which Ibuki kicks an opponent into the air, leaps up, and knocks them back down with a ki-enhanced punch.

Feats


Scaling

Sakura Kasugano
Ibuki fights on par with Sakura in Street Fighter IV, so she would scale to her. While Sakura herself has no notable feats for Ibuki to scale to, scaling to Sakura opens up more scaling chains for Ibuki based on previous feats in the timeline.

Birdie
Ibuki fights and defeats Birdie in Street Fighter V, so she would scale to him.

E. Honda
Sakura, who Ibuki scales to, fights and defeats E. Honda in Alpha 3.

M. Bison
Sakura was able to hold off M. Bison long enough for Ryu to come to his senses and knock him out, so she would scale to his speed at least.

Alpha Series Base Ryu
While Ibuki obviously can't scale to current base Ryu, she can scale to feats performed by Ryu around the time of Alpha 3. In Alpha 3, E. Honda fights on par with Ryu, and later fights Sakura. After losing to Sakura, E. Honda speculates that she might be stronger than Ryu. Regardless of whether or not he's actually correct, given that E. Honda fought Ryu before fighting Sakura, and could harm Ryu/knock him out, this should make Sakura comparable.

Accomplishments

  • Has trained in ninjutsu since childhood
  • Obtained the G-File from the Illuminati organization's leader, Gill
  • Fought off Shadaloo soldiers with R. Mika
  • Assisted in defeating the Geki clan
  • Is one of the few characters to harm Oro and made him consider fighting her with both arms
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