Ibuki is the third DLC character joining the Street Fighter 5 roster along with Alex and Guile. (Photo : Facebook/Street Fighter)
The latest details for "Street Fighter 5" will feature new game modes and more DLC characters soon, as well as a new character trailer featuring Ibuki.
Capcom announced the third DLC character for "Street Fighter 5" as the teenaged ninja from "Street Fighter 3" Ibuki joins the game's growing roster this month along with her new costumes, move set and trailer.
According to the Capcom-Unity, Ibuki will bringing some new tricks in "Strete Fighter 5" which helps players challenge themselves in using tricky and technical fighters as she now has the ability to glide in mid-air and throw several ninja bombs at opponents to distract, confuse and damage them making her more unpredictable in battle. Her costume is also new as it appears to be a mixture of a school uniform and her ninja outfit in "Street Fighter 3".
Ibuki's kunai projectiles can be utilized in a number of ways and can only stock five kunais at a time, thus, their utility is just as powerful as ever as she can send her entire stock flying at the opponent for serious damage. She can also build up energy which can be used to attack opponents and the damage it receives depends on the blast range on how long her tenrai is charged.
Like most other characters in "Street Fighter 5", Ibuki has her own V-Trigger and V-Skill. Her V-Trigger is called Isshaku Horokudama, where in Ibuki uses her bag of ninja tools to throw bombs at opponents. Players can launch th bomb depending on which direction is held upon activation and it can either go off quickly, after a slight delay or after a longer delay. Gamers will have time to explore as to how they will utilize her V-Trigger.
Ibuki's V-Trigger allows her to launch her opponents into the air and performs several ninjutsu seals culminating to a large tenrai blast to the enemy's skull.
In addition, the Ibuki character trailer also introduces a new stage in the form of the day time in the Kanzuki estate.
In other news, it seems that Capcom will be revealing more stages and DLC characters for "Street Fighter 5" very soon.
The Japanese video game developer apologized to the gaming fans about the lack of content within "Street Fighter 5's" development, not to mention the number of issues in the servers. CEO Kenzo Tsujimoto stated in an interviw that Capcom's revenue suffered because they did not give "Street Fighter 5" the proper treatment and attention before its launch. As a result, they must modify their entire development strategy and "polish" the game itself.
"Street Fighter" creator Yoshinori Ono announced that "Street Fighter 5" will have more "Versus CPU" modes and unannounced gameplay features for offline players as the sequel will also feature new story mode content next month.
As for the DLC characters, Ono added that there also a next wave of DLC characters coming to "Street Fighter 5" after the first batch which consist of Alex, Guile, Ibuki, Balrog, Juri and Urien.. Several character details such as Dudley, Gotch and Sarai Kurasawa are featured in "Street Fighter 5" which led to the speculations that they might show up in the game as possible playable fighters, EventHubs reported.
"Street Fighter 5" is currently available for the PlayStation 4 and PC platforms.
