Talk:Scorpion VS Ryu/@comment-25182985-20141006200930/@comment-70.30.29.69-20141006235208

I've also taken some time to get a good look at both fighters. Frankly, I'm a tad bit underwhelmed by Ryu.

First, I gave a good look at Oro and Akuma (I was already more familiar with Akuma), and found that both tend to handicap themselves, so even if Ryu is able to defeat them in a typical fight, it's hard to say if Ryu could beat them at maximum power. I am now interested to see what would happen if the two went at it full force to each other, but that's getting off-topic.

Anyway, I've seen what both can do. The moveset and weaponry Scorpion uses is huge compared to Ryu's moveset, who's limited to his 3 fundamental techniques (and his specials I guess). Scorp's weaponry and hellfire powers also appears way more lethal, and his teleportation ability would make for an easy dodge for Ryu's range attacks.

From what it looks, Scorpion just has more going on for him compared to Ryu.