Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown - How to choose your main character! 

So Virtua Fighter 5 Ultimate Showdown is upon us, and I have made this video to help you determine which character you should try out! Its hardly an exhaustive guide(each character is so in depth a proper guide would be minimum 1 hour long each) but should give you a decent idea of the basics of each character and hopefully help you on your journey! This game is launching on playstation plus so there is more than likely millions of people out there trying VF for the first time and I hope I can help make your experience a bit more enjoyable!

So basically Reject humanity Return to Monke with Eileen Love it

Not only are the animations beautiful to look at but I'm genuinely amazed by how different each character functions

VF has the deepest fighting engine I think of any fighting game

Virtua Fighter is such a dope series. I’m sad it’s not more popular than it is.

This game is a celebration of martial arts. Devs are not afraid of putting all sorts of crazy stuff. Hope a new Virtua Fighter comes soon

The father of all 3D fighing games.

Even if the game has no rollback net I’ll still support it it’s the art of realistic fighting styles in fighting games

Akira: big, strong moves Jeffry: BIG, STRONG MOVES Vanessa: Tackle and grapple!

El Blaze was the character I picked up thinking, "Oh, he's a luchador like King," only to find he's actually El Fuerte.

I’ve been loyal to Vanessa & I don’t intend to abandon her now.

As someone who will be going into this as a newbie, this will be of great help

Lei fei seems super interesting Edit: YOOO they have Rey mysterio fused with Tajiri

As a Virtua Fighter newbie this is exactly the video I was looking for! As a Tekken "veteran" I'm really impressed with how different the characters are from one another in terms of game mechanics and how those interact with each other in this game!

The weight system is so cool.

Jacky is my favourite character he literraly looks like an snk protagonist

So as of time of making this, Ultimate Showdown launches tomorrow(tuesday). I will have plenty more guides coming, including an essential tips guide, and an overall systems/game guide. Character specific stuff coming too! Next video will be essential tips, tomorrow. I am also gonna be trying to stream the game out over the next few days as early chatter is the netcode is actually pretty good, and turns out "absorb delay" might be the real deal!?

I've always been a fan of the Boxer (Kickboxer/Muay Thai) archetype, so Brad Burns immediately piqued my interest. Jean Kujo seems fun too.

damn you've put a lot of work on this beginner's guide to see how characters are. thanks a lot rooflemonger!

I train in Shotokan Karate so Jean is my main, him being a Karate user.

Haven't played since VF4E in the mid-2000s (QUEST MODE!). I like how after watching this whole video, I'm still only drawn to my trifecta: Sarah, Aoi, and Pai. They have just the right mix of speed, options, and elegance. Bless.

Vanessa is an easy example for why Virtua Fighter is so much deeper of a fighting game than even Tekken

I haven’t played Vf in YEARS I might actually consider playing this tho it looks GREAT

Thank you for doing this dude. I'm a life long Sega fan ( 46 years old ) and love this series. I hope one day it gets its due justice. Props for giving it some spotlight and giving us a deeper perspective of it. Can't wait for 6-1-21

I love this! the characters all feel so different. Shame I never played it when it first came out.

I have never played a VF game before. That said, Wolf? More like WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This is a series where my "main" character has shifted. In VF1 I favored Pai/Lau. In VF2 3 I favor Lyon/Shun Di. Then Lei Fei became my go to in the VF4 era. When VF5 dropped, I quickly became an Eileen player. My style in fighting games favors speedy close range mix ups over power. Also, my recommendation to anyone getting into VF for the first time as a veteran who hasn't touched a VF game in a decade ... use the block button. Defense matters in this franchise

Was a Brad main back in the day. Plan to pick him up again and refresh the skills.

I played Virtua Fighter 2 on Sega Saturn, and since it's free to play in definitely trying to pick this up! Thanks for the run down!

I’m sticking with El Blaze. “MY BODY IS AN UNSTOPPABLE... WEAPON!

Just imagine if we were in a perfect world and we were gifted with a VFxTekken crossover! Realistically, we'd probably see a VF vs DOA before a we'd see Tekken. But I'd give anything to see a King vs Wolf match. Any-hoo, great vid Roof. Thank you. Now I just have to re-create all my creation's from VF5-FS on PS3 to VF5-US. I'd love to have the training mode from VF4-Evo in U.S.

I was interested in Goh when you mentioned judo, but I was sold when you said "Weird zombie yakuza people"

Ryo Hazuki inherited so many of Akira's moves that you would be forgiven for believing that he was going to turn into Akira at some point of his journey.

Having Akira as the face of the game may be a very subtle form of communicating 2 messages from Yu Suzuki to the gen pop. 1. He looks like your standard middle of the road Ryu pick up and play character when he’s anything but. He isn’t just deep and hard to master BUT he’s simultaneously button mashing resistance personified and learning him requires a serious investment of time and energy but also if you DONT learn him you have no chance. Most ppl unfamiliar with the game will choose him cuz he looks like Ryu upon first playing and that will be their first lesson with this game; this is gonna be WAY harder than you think and there is depth here but you gotta unlock it. 2. Akira being 1 of the hardest to learn and certainly the hardest original character to learn and also being the face of the game is a message to those that know the game; This game is deep, difficult and rewarding. Ppl that know Akira is a bear to learn seeing him as the mascot can also recognize him as a metaphor for the entire engine itself. He speaks not only to the depth of the system but also the reward that comes from mastering it since he, once mastered, is one of the most powerful characters . Once one learns the game they can make any character a complete beast… Okay okay I’ll go take a walk!

Has always been Lau's main since VF2. I still cracked up when he yell "AH YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!!!!"

This was the quickest way to narrow my focus to a couple characters rather than testing all of them myself. Thanks!

Bro..... can you break down EVERY FIGHTING GAME EVER alike this? Golden. I have to buy this game and watch tournament level play

just picked up VF5 recently loving Pai so far this game is definitely weird to get used to but I'm loving it so far thanks for the video

As a guy who’s well versed in multiple different martial arts I choose the fake martial art of professional wrestling because “grappler” is all you need to convince me to play a character, burning hammer is amazing and I still know 60% wolf combos. I’ll also pocket Jacky and attempt akira as usual.

🎵 This is the Ultimate Showdown, of Virtua Fighter V! Arm bars, Flip kicks, and quick combos, As far as the eye can see. And only one can prevail I wonder who it will be? This is the Ultimate Showdown Of Virtua Fighter V! 🎵

Couldn’t have asked for a better breakdown. Man, the game has such interesting mechanics.

What you said about Vanessa just made her even cooler. She's definitely my main now

The coolest thing about this being a re release is having a resource this good day one. Good stuff roof

Played Akira back in the 2006 version and I’m gonna continue playing him now. All his hits are satisfying! He’s super hard for sure but I’m willing to stick with my boy till the end

Thanks for making this so quickly! Counting down until midnight. More hyped for this game than GG Strive now. The early reports of solid online performance are really encouraging. I doubt this series will ever match the popularity of the biggest juggernaut fighting game franchises, but I’ve got high hopes it’ll be able to maintain a decent sized player-base in the long term. 🤞🏼

Jacky Bryant. Jacky is always the answer, I never get tired of playing him. Once you get those flash sword kicks down to a science, you’re on the fast track to style. Played him in both VF and DOA, and had a blast in both

I found my man in Jeffry, and I also like Brad, but this video makes me consider trying Goh as well. Overall, I like this game a lot. Online is quick to get into, and rank progression seems well thought.

Monkey kung fu? Sign me up! Shun Di looks pretty interesting too.

Goh and Vanessa, they’re so much fun to me.

I always rang myself out with Blaze's run as a kid

Vanessa is my favorite. Used to play Kage as a kid back in the day. I used to pronounce his name as Cage 🤣

Hyped for this. Akira, Sarah, and my big Boi Taka Arashi. Let's go!!!!

Rooflemonger always come in clutch with these videos

You sang to my soul when you called it a Pop-uo Diamond Cutter ♥️

I was just gonna play Kage Maru because he looks cool.

Kage was my character when I used to play this game! But after I watched the full video, I will pick up Jean Kujo, and maybe Brad Burns. From my memory, Lion and Lei felt like they were very button mash friendly compared to most of the characters, and Akira the first time I played felt like he couldn't do anything HAHAHAH!!! One more day and I will be playing some VF5 :D

Kage is my main character since VF1. He is cool and his moves are so fluid. This series has the most badass characters.

It feels so good to understand games now and have these videos for games I had no idea what I was doing when I was younger lol Keep it up Roof, literally grow my love for fighting games with every video.

was waiting for this to drop. great work

This is the best video for introducing the characters to beginners, that I've seen.

Excellent coverage. What a phenomenal series. As "fighting" goes VF is above and beyond and there's no real way to convey the depth of the options and mind game layers in a short video. Great introduction to every character!

i love how wolf's burning hammer is as you said the single most damaging move in the game ...as in real life it was one of if not THE most protected moves in wrestling with i think only kota ibushi kicking out of it against the brian kendrick in a wwe event

I think I'm going with the Bigbois Wolf and Taka. Vanessa looks interesting AF

Wow what a useful video, you're in my top 3 of best fighting game channels

Haven't played VF since VF2, but I'll probably main either Akira, Pai or one of the Bryants as I'm still familiar with them now cos of DOA5

Played Virtua Fighter once and someone explained it to me best as Street Fighter is junior high math compared to VF which is senior year calculus.

Thanks for not going tge 30second clip route and providing actual content for us!! 💯💪🏾

Just wanted to mention that I love your tone in your videos: enthusiastic and friendly, always trying to teach and share your love for these games! You content is highly enjoyable, thank you :) Now I'm just gonna cross my fingers and hope for a PC version of VF!

Yooo this was a really great intro to all the cast! Great job man! Liked that you switched up the locals instead of just sitting in training mode with each character to boot. Haven't played VF in quite awhile so it was really cool getting to see all the classic VF5 stages again with a new coat of paint. Game looks beautiful.

Super helpful. Thanks for taking the time to break down the general traits and styles of the characters.

Great breakdown, I liked the amount of detail combined with the general style overviews.

Pick Jeffry, just to hear "I win!"

This is great stuff. Virtua Fighter experts are very rare

I've been playing since the first game and this was still an amazing video guide all around. Thank you for this!

Thanks a lot for this guide! I came from Tekken and MK games. So VF is quite unique after all. I'll be much appreciated for more guide videos. Have a nice day ✌️

Well goddamn, Vanessa is Marduk, Bryan and Lee all at the same time 😎 That's a good ass character

Great vid dude! Very informative and it’s taught me things about the VF characters that I never knew and I’ve played VF5 since the PS3 days! Definitely Subscribing!

A breath of fresh air from MK11 thank you so much for the effort you put to explain us all the characters, looking forward for more videos.

Maaan im so torn On one i wanna wrastle, but on the other hand i love fatti boi characters like Taka Thanks for the overview, cant wait to play tonight!

thank you so very much for this video, was actually waiting for this!

What an awesome overview! Great job Rooflemonger. Been playing Virtua Fighter since the original in the arcade. Wish they would make a new one or port this to PC with graphic options.

Akira is one of the most satisfying character to master in any game actually. He's rightfully strong. I didn't really play him in VF but i main him in doa5 haha

Excellent video! Thanks for this! Super excited to see VF5 back!

so many characters are so cool, I'm having trouble deciding who to use. I think I'm gonna try learning all the characters I'm most interested in, but I still need to narrow it down to like 3-5 before going crazy

thanks for uploading these VF videos roofle. i had vf3 when i was a kid but i was just messing around. this'll be my first vf to get into and it looks pretty interesting. i think i've come to realize that 3d fighters are more my pace. i tend to pick these up quicker than 2d for some weird reason. appreciate your content bro!

Awesome guide! I like Bruce Lee characters, especially Law and Jann Lee, so I plan on trying Jacky Bryant for myself, but I'll take Wolf and Taka into consideration, as I love big boy grapplers! :3

Brad Burns' moves draw from Muay Thai, especially the faints and the clinch, popularly known in MMA as the Thai clinch

This was great. Now I know where to start. Thank you as always from Argentina!

Big fan of the anime. 💛 Played the last one. Ive been waiting for this.

Talking about Jean: “I don’t think characters will get designed like this today.” Yeah, but you can’t deny that a French, goth, karateka with chain belts and a crop top under his gi looks rad as hell

Goh Hinogami since day 1. His damage with the grabs is just ridiculous, also his combos are very easy to follow.

The last VF game I played was on the Saturn, so thanks for this.

hey roof, i just wanted to throw some appreciation your way. you create and edit these long videos because you genuinely care about the FGC. and thats somewhat rare these days. you arent getting paid for this stuff, you’re doing it to help out newcomers and take make the FGC as welcoming as possible. so, thank you roof. we all appreciate you!!

Lei-Fei has always been my favorite character; I love his customization options too!

The character select screen soundtrack is beautiful. Oh... And how I forget the most important thing, Hotdoooooog!!!!

Got a PS4 recentlt and this game was on my watch list along with Bloodborne. Glad I could find a guide to pick a character

Man it's wild seeing this game comeback, VF5 and Assassin's Creed 1 were the first PS3 games I owned. All my buddies were so jealous lol. Great times kudos to Sega and Sony reviving this awesome series!!!

Great video. I'm really looking forward to the reveal of the Virtua Fighter reboot.

The crazy thing about VF is that how u unique each character is ,many characters have such unique concepts in combat than u will ever see in other fighting games. Like it's crazy how many unique concepts are just not in other games and i play tekken and DOA on a high level. I wish i was ever good enough at vf

Thank you very much!) Great quick char guide, learned a lot about roster)