Super Street Fighter IV – The final character revealed, meet Hakan

The final new character featured in Super Street Fighter IV has finally been revealed.


We'd like to Officially announce Hakan, also show what he looks like. He apparently covers himself in oil before each fight and uses that to his advantage. Hakan is pretty muscular and it seems like he might be a grappler character.

The official trailer below will give you a better idea of what he is like.


This was probably one of the oddest trailers we have seen in quite some time. Especially since it’s for a Street Fighter game. We’re not sure if we should be taking this character seriously or not, but he certainly is unique. IGN has another video that features , so be sure to check that out too.

Hakan has been a rumored character for ages now and it’s great that he is finally confirmed. Hopefully he isn’t a joke character.

ill def check him out jus cuz he looks like king rau the conquerer

his appearance had potential...some crazy hindu god-look-a-like

but his moves are homo

dude is like blanka and zangief mixed..coulda been someone else

this...is retarded. they should've just brought in another SF character, not makeup some tan oiled up dude...lol wtf.

wtf...how did they come up with this guy?

capcom must love watching turkish wrestling because thats where he came from.

Worst new character confirmed

Here is info I found about Hakan from an interviewer who played him

"Oiling up will be a key part of any Hakan player and the move is executed by inputting Dragon Punch plus Kick. The light version takes less time to recover, while the Roundhouse version takes longer to recover but I assume gives him more time to be oiled up. He also has an EX version but I am not entirely sure what its exact properties are.

His command grabs seem very good, and the EX versions of them seem even better -- great for punishing any blocked attacks really. He has a standard 360 SPD-esque grab that grabs standing and crouching opponents -- it's the one where the opponent shoots out of his arms. The EX version of this grab as I said seemed pretty ridiculous -- it was very useful for punishing blocked attacks, seemed to have some sort of invincibility properties and has incredible range when Hakan is oiled up.

He also has another grab that reminded me of Alex's DDT in Third Strike although the properties are a little different -- it hits standing opponents and jumping opponents but seems to miss on crouching opponents. This grab was effective when the opponent would be up close, and then go try to jump away or go for a vertical attack.

His slide is his armor breaking attack and travels further across the ground the more oiled up he is. You can also follow up with a body splash attack by mashing on punch after the initial hit.

He does have a "coward crouch", the same move Blanka has to avoid projectiles. This move does not avoid Juri's low fireball though.

Over all he only has a small number of special moves so I think players will have to utilize his normals to set up grabs to do max damage."