Street Fighter 6 Devs Reassure Fans About Elena, Discuss Bison

The faces of the Street Fighter 6 development team, Shuhei Matsumoto and Takayuki Nakayama, have sat down for an interview about the second season of Street Fighter 6 with Japanese outlet, Famitsu. 

The release of Street Fighter 6 season 2 has been met with mostly positive feelings as fans are excited at the notion of Street Fighter finally having guest characters and the return of Bison and Elena. 

In the interview, the developers talked about Bison's return and explained that his body is the same one from Street Fighter V only that he has lost his memories. This squashes speculation about using another body for Bison. They also explained that he had been planned for quite a long time, and was even the main character for Matsumoto from Street Fighter IV meaning that there was some favor shown to the dictator. 

As regards his fight style, the developers mentioned that he would be more of a pressure character as was evident in his trailer. They also explained that they took away some of his more mystical elements like his teleport and instead focused on him as a fighter which would explain his incredible physical prowess displayed in his trailer. 

Another talking point was about Elena who many fans have worried would have her annoying Street Fighter IV technique which enabled her to heal herself. The developers have assured fans that they need not worry about that. As for why she was added, the developers stated that she hadn't been around for a while and they also wanted an African character. They played with the idea of creating one from scratch, but ultimately decided against it. 

Menat (Egypt) and Elena (Kenya) are the only playable African characters in the game and it would be nice to see them add another. 

Bison is the first DLC character of season 2 to come out and he will become playable from the 26th of June 2024.