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GOUKEN

Created By: Unknown


First Appearance: Street Fighter IV (2008)
Home Country: Japan
Role: The Mentor (to Ken & Ryu), Returned Dead Guy
Vague Martial Art Basis: Karate (Kyokushinkai-style) & Judo
PL 12 (207)
STRENGTH 4 STAMINA 5 AGILITY 5
FIGHTING 8 DEXTERITY 2
INTELLIGENCE 3 AWARENESS 5 PRESENCE 3

Skills:
Acrobatics 8 (+13)
Athletics 10 (+14)
Close Combat (Unarmed) 10 (+18)
Expertise (Martial Arts) 13 (+16)
Insight 8 (+13)
Intimidation 5 (+8)
Perception 9 (+14)
Persuasion 5 (+10)
Ranged Combat (Ki Blasts) 8 (+16)
Stealth 3 (+8)
Treatment 7 (+10)

Advantages:
Asssesment, Cunning Fighter (Uses Attack to Feint), Defensive Attack, Defensive Strike, Defensive Throw, Diehard, Evasion, Fearless, Great Endurance,
Improved Critical (Ki Attacks) 2, Improved Critical (Hurricane Kick) 2, Improved Initiative, Last Stand, Precise Attack (Close/Concealment), Ranged
Attack 6, Takedown (total 2), Trance

"World Warrior" Fighting Style: Accurate Attack (Jab), All-Out Attack, Defensive Roll, Extraordinary Effort, Fast Grab (Grab), Improved Critical
(Unarmed) 3, Improved Defense, Improved Hold, Improved Trip (Throw), Power Attack (Roundhouse), Takedown, Withstand Damage (Block)

Powers:
"Martial Strike" Strength-Damage +2 [2]
Leaping 1 (15 feet) [1]
Speed 1 (4 mph) [1]

"Special Moves"
"Warping Strong Pierce Wave" Strength-Damage +2 (Inaccurate -1) [1]
"Go Hadoken" Blast 7 (Diminished Range -1) (13) -- [16]
AE: "Strong Tornado Spiral" Strength-Damage +0 (Extras: Multiattack 6) (Flaws: Distracting 6) (3)
AE: "Shin Shoryuken" Strength-Damage +4 (Extras: Multiattack 8) (Flaws: Distracting, Tiring) (Inaccurate -2) (3.5)
AE: "Denjin Hadoken" Blast 11 (Extras: Multiattack) (Flaws: Distracting, Tiring) (Inaccurate -2) (9)
Offense:
Unarmed +18 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Pierce Wave +16 (+8 Damage, DC 23)
Go Hadoken +16 (+7 Ranged Damage, DC 22)
Strong Tornado Spiral +18 (+6 Damage, DC 21)
Shin Shoryuken +14 (+10 Damage, DC 25)
Denjin Hadoken +12 (+11 Ranged Damage, DC 26)
Initiative +9

Defenses:
Dodge +16 (DC 26), Parry +18 (DC 28), Toughness +5 (+6 D.Roll), Fortitude +10, Will +13

Complications:
Motivation (Teaching )- Gouken is the mentor to Ryu and Ken, and wishes to see how far their training has come. This will be accomplished by beating the
$#!% out of people.
Responsibility (Peace)- Gouken believes strongly in the peaceful and defensive aspects of the martial arts, and rejects the killing arts taught to he and
Akuma by their trainer, Goutetsu.
Enemy (Akuma)- The two fight over the nature of the martial arts (killing vs. self defense), the culmination of Ryu's training (Akuma wants to kill a
worthy, violent and bloodthirsty Ryu, while Gouken wants him to become a peaceful man), and the murder of Goutetsu.
Weakness (Predictability)- Gouken, like all Street Fighters, cannot simply "spam" out the same attack over and over again, as the opponent will expect the
attacks, and be ready for them (and a counterattack). The third time he tries the same technique (or same combo of techniques) in a short span, he will be at
-2 to Accuracy, AND to his Active Defenses in that round. All will decrease by 2 every successive round the same move is done.

Total: Abilities: 70 / Skills: 86--43 / Advantages: 24 + 14 / Powers: 21 / Defenses: 35 (207)

-Gouken's been rumoured about since the dawn of time... well, since Electronic Gaming Monthly made an infamous fake column describing the "Secret
Boss" Sheng-Long (famously named for a mistranslation of Ryu's "You must defeat my Dragon Punch to stand a chance!"- Sheng Long was presumed to
be his mentor's name by American fans). "Sheng-Long" would debut by beating the snot out of Bison (a debut actually given to Akuma years later) and
fight you. It wasn't for several more years that we'd get his whole story- Gouken and his master Goutetsu were both slain by the renegade martial artist
Akuma (Gouken's own brother), and now Akuma was coming for Ryu.

-"Street Fighter IV" had it's major announcement with the proclamation that Gouken had, in fact, survived (Akuma's "Murdering Art" has officially killed
one of the five people he's hit with it in-canon)! Instead of being another simple Shotoclone in a tattered gi, he was a big, burly old man, with HUGE
muscles and a one-strap outfit, which wasn't really what I was expecting. He eschewed the Dragon Punch for a RISING Hurricane Kick, and does a couple
other unique moves as well. Personally, I was a bit hesitant to accept ANOTHER "SF" ret-con (Capcom is BAAAAAAD for that), but really- it's been
rumoured since the early 90s, and it's not like retcons aren't part and parcel of being a Capcom game-player, so what the hey.

-Fighting Style: Gouken is another PL 12 Boss-level powerhouse, being much more powerful than Ken or Ryu (beating them by two notches each in
accuracy and power, and being much more defensive as well). He matches Akuma, and fights much like him, but alters a few things. He only uses
Shoryukens in his Super Arts, but his Hadokens are EXTREMELY dangerous, and his Hurricane Kick variant rises just like a Dragon Punch will anyways.
Gouken is bloody tough.

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