Top Ten Puppet Characters in Fighting Games
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ธ.ค. 2024
- Puppet Characters are some of the most complex types of characters in fighting games. They usually involve one character taking the lead as they puppeteer or command a second character to fight alongside them, so you’re basically playing 2 characters. Despite these characters being referred to as “puppets,” the “puppet” is not always a doll. It can be a robot, random object, or even another person. So let’s take a look at my favorite Puppet Characters that Fighting Games have to offer.
Songs used:
Jazzeton by Quincas Moreira
Smooth Talker by Stuart Bogie - เกม
1:01 10# Cait and Sith - Chaos Code
2:52 9# Chang and Choi - Capcom vs SNK 2
4:52 8# Shadow Labris - Persona 4 Arena
6:34 7# Lieselotte - Arcana Hearts
8:17 6# Viola - Soulcalibur
10:20 5# Devo - JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
12:11 4# Chaos - Undernight: Inbirth
13:37 3# Zato-1 and Eddie - Guilty Gear
15:43 2# Carl Clover - Blazeblue
17:45 Honorable Mentions#
18:11 1# Ms. Fortune - Skullgirls
10 - Chaos Code sure is among the most criminally overlooked fighting games that need to be recognized...
9 - Chang Koehan and Choi Bounge sure do make good partners in crime no pun intended...
8 - Labrys-chan's evil counterpart sure is a real nightmare...
7 - Lieselotte-chan's whole thing screams puppetmaster incarnate...
6 - She's basically Lieselotte Achenbach and Menat fused together...
5 - Jojo's the big daddy of Persona and Arcana Heart...
4 - Chaos-kun sure does look up to other puppet fighters and is pretty much Lieselotte-chan's distant cousin...
3 - Zato-1 and Eddie are basically the inspirations for Blazblue's Arakune and Under Night In Birth's Merkava...
2 - Carl-kun and Ada-chan are also pretty much related to Lieselotte-chan and Elfreide/Zenia like Chaos-kun...
Honorable mentions - Ah... interesting choices...
1 - Catgirls and dullahans sure do seem appealing to me in so many ways...
You're a legend. Thank you for the time stamps!
Kankuro: Did somebody say Puppets?
Sasori: puppet go brrrrrr
Ah yes the “you brought a person to a fist fight?” character
I've got to give credit to Capcom for making the JoJo's puppet guy into an interesting character. I completely forgot about him. Still wouldn't play him though. Gotta rep my baby Kakyoin!
Devo, or D. Bo in the translation. and yes, it's a reference to the band
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Which one? there are 2
Hi Jm, would you do Top ten Times Kagome was Mean For No reason with MTTL or do an Inuyasha OPodcst on YourTube channel... ? It's almost been in year
@@DarkGekkouga the one that’s not banned I assume
8:31 "unless I'm forgetting someone"
Shows ein and zwei on the screen fighting viola when introducing viola
After “my wife is my arm”, we have “my dad is my hat”
It like “My Partner is My Sword”
@@UnclePaul1995 Or "Steel is my body and fire is my blood"
@@HeartAino193 Or "Padoru Padoru"
@@UnclePaul1995 Sakuya Izayoi: *Throws a knife but misses*
My girlfriend is my hand
My husband is my sword
it's still interesting to know that Miss Fortune was an afterthought
Skullgirls has definitively great designs as a whole !
*AMEN!!!~* :D
And so do Arcana Heart.
Every second is too much weird an wacky for a sane person
It’s the most thoroughly-thought-out and well-designed fighting game in the modern generation, IMO. It’s super well-balanced and has been since release. While there have certainly been balance changes, every character feels viable and as though you can be successful with them. The game is challenging, but super fair.
Zato=1 is such a great character
And his song in strive is probably my favorite
Gotta love the final 1:20 of his theme
Theme dope
Design *isleep*
@@senritsujumpsuit6021 you don't like DIO??
@@Aripuni1 he's just a dude in black with a visor :/ although the plot point of him being a corpse for awhile is awesome visually
Eddie will always be my favourite puppet character because of his godlike theme 'feel a fear' and the fact that since zato=1 is dead in xx the puppet is actually the one controlling the person
The Skullgirls make number 1 again hell yeah. Also I still have that top 10 Psychopaths in fighting games
As a Mileena fan, it sounds like a great topic I should cover at some point!
"Pom" the sheep from Them's fightin herds is one of my favorite puppet characters of all time.
Pom would be FLOCK character!
XD
I Wish Rosalina had her own entry slot.
I agree
BB have the most Puppet Characters in all fighting games I know
#1 and Chaos Code were a bit of a surprise and yet, not at the same time. I liked the Carl Clover and Jojos segments a lot!!
I think the 1 & 1/2 puppet characters from Them's Fightin' Herds are pretty cool.
You have Pom, who is the pure puppet character, having five different varieties of dogs that she can control for different situations and can (potentially) all be on screen at once. All pups can be commanded to reposition using one of her specials. You have the Digging Pup, which can perform a stationary 4-hit attack. You have the Growling Pup, which can attack backwards or forwards, with either a high attack with high damage and hitstun or low attack with fast startup and a minor launcher. You have the Pilot Pup, which can either attack horizontally to interrupt jumps, or an overhead that causes tumble on hit. Big Momma has a three-hit combo, a counter attack and command grab. And Big Papa (which is her LVL 2 super), which has a two-hit combo, an armored disjointed attack that causes tumble, and an anti-air.
Then you have Oleander, who is an all-rounder who turns into a puppet character for her LVL 2 super, where she summons the demon that lives in her book; Fred. Fred always follows Oli, but has a long range with his limbs. They can be used to extend combos, catch opponents from behind, sweep from mid-range, command grab midair opponents, juggle midair opponents, and wallsplat. All of them can be charged to be more powerful.
Naruto had some 3D fighting games that had Puppet Characters before Viola was even a thing.
this list makes me think of how Scarface and the Ventriloquist would make a cool puppet character in a batman fighting game. a Puppet Fighter with very strong zoning
Not really, since it's still his hand is still controlling his puppets and it's not like if it was independant and could move by itslef. Would have been amazing tough.
@@marin9412 but in a fighting game realm you could bend reality a bit, since in most media its never really known if Scarface is actually alive or just Arnolds second personality
@@Creepy___ Yeah but he's kinda just a guy with a gun powerwise but yeah it could make a pretty fun character.
Blazblue.
Best fighting game series of the decade.
True
And Kankuro cries in the corner
unfun fact, zatos voice actor died of cancer. when this happed they killed him off and let eddie take over
Fun fact: Devo is the first puppet character made in a fighting game. Also I won't consider forsburn a puppet character because his clone doesn't even attack and is just a projectile but I asked myself a question: could we consider the ICs from smash as a puppet character?
With super Clone he can be a puppet char. It's just that that never gets used in a serious setting.
> could we consider the ICs from smash as a puppet character?
most definitely, tho they work somewhat differently to most puppet characters in fighting games. typically a puppet character has direct ways of inputting commands to each of the two constituent characters separately, often making the main character in the puppet duo "call" for the puppet. with icies the secondary climber is instead almost completely a separate (but near identical) character who just acts on your inputs (instead of say, mimicing the main climbers moves) on a short delay.
this, combined with a few mechanics and move restrictions that prevent the secondary climber from responding to inputs in the same way that the main climber can, means that once you set up a desync'd state you are in essence controlling two seperate characters at the same time.
@@nickq8093 Yeah I saw a video saying that they're not because they have the exact same movest but imo that's not really a reason so I agree
I consider Ice Climber puppet characters, though not as maneuverable as Rosalina and Luma they are still mechanically puppet characters. They aren't as perfectly synced as Joker with Arsene which is ACTUALLY not a puppet character.
Nah I don't think IC would be puppet character. The amount of special tricks you have to Emily just to disjoint them from each other is what kinda ruins it for me to call them a puppet. Because doing the disjointed combos kinda "breaks the game" and is isn't intentionallly apart of their character
They arejust an indefinite eieienbu (Yun from street fighter super)
10. Tag team, NOT Puppet user
9. Tag team, NOT Puppet user
8. Summoner, NOT Puppet user
7. ACTUAL PUPPET USER, via psychic manipulation
6. NOT a puppet user the weapon HAS to be an actual puppet!
5. ACTUAL PUPPET USER, via curse/possession
4. Summoner, NOT Puppet user
3. Shadow possession/magic, NOT Puppet user
2. The only puppetry is movement, its a soul vessel with relative autonomy
1. Immortal, NOT Puppet user
try again
I thought it was awesome; cool skullgirl love, im also thought about those potential new darkstalkers characters i think you talked about.
My favorite puppet fighter is probably Eddie in Guulty Gear XX Accent Core for the puppet being the true master since Zato-1 is dead at the time. Plus the draconic appearance and morphing merges between master and puppet.
I always thought zato and Eddie were actually the same person
And not to mention his godlike xx theme 'feel a fear'
@@aaronatkinson3050 Nope. Either after the first game or Guilty Gesr X, Zato-1 died and his shadow creature Eddie took over his body. It was because Zato-1's original voice actor passed away. After Eddie died in XX's story, Zato-1 and Eddie were revived during Xrd as part of the conspiracy in story mode.
Recently your buddy Software Agent was streaming Metal Gear Solid 2: a game about shadow governments and *puppet* rulers. Here, you made a video about *PUPPETS* in fighting games... Puppet *rulers* puppet *fighting game characters* COINCIDENCE or conspiracy?
Great work, MrTopTenList! I definitely agree with you about Viola. Although, Soulcalibur 6 confirmed that Amy is indeed Viola, it seems that their origins are different since like you said, this happened in a different timeline. But hey, at least it confirms our hunch.
I wish there was more puppets that weren’t on a meter. So many puppets have the drawback be that they can only be out for so long, but I also love the idea of the drawback being that it attacks with you while it’s inactive which increases stuff like damage and reach, but if you put them out your normals get worse in favor for more complex pressure, and puppet specific specials.
My favourite archetype honestly cant wait to see who makes the list
𝙃𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣:
Alice Margatroid from the Touhou Series (in the Touhou Fighting Games to be more specific)
Few ideas
Top Ten Evillest Characters in Fighting Games
Top Ten NPC Characters in Fighting Games
Capcom had a Godlike staff to make Fighting Games back in the day, that JoJo game is still the best JoJo game by many people.
Ps: I would like to tell you that there's a Tom and Jerry Gacha game, cool artworks.
I thought those were memes at first, so I was surprised to learn it was a real Gacha game lol
@@MrTopTenList it seems that sky is the limit when we talk about gacha games, now I wonder, does anyone remember Hannah Barbara's Laff-a-lympics? Because that could be a good Gacha game.
Yeah. 90s Capcom beats everything else when it comes to fighting games.
Ok bro I love your work but I think #1 should've been Carl from blaze blue. It's not even puppetry miss fortune uses for her head, it's just her still being able to use her body parts even if it's dismembered.
18:20 I had a feeling it was her, since Carl and Zato-1 were 2nd and 3rd.
I honestly shouldn't be surprised that Alice Margatroid from Touhou 10.5/12.3 isn't on this list since Touhou fighting games are as well known as a schmucks idea of Iceland
But point is: Alices puppet attacks in addition to the deck system, allowed her to be very flexible with her combos and control the arena
Puppet fighting characters: Alice Margatroid literally The Seven-Colored Puppeteer say hi
I never actually saw a list on grapplers in fighting games so here's a video suggestion
0:21 okay that was literally bayonetta up tilt from ssbu
Choi is one of a few characters banned in fighting game tournaments due to his small size.others include Gon in Tekken 3,Servbot in Marvel vs Capcom 2,Yoda in soul calibur 4,& Toro & Kuro in street fighter x tekken
cant forget that annoying bird from the hftf, along with stupid damage
What If Tim Henson was a Fighting Game?
Imagine The Crossover with Sesame Street, Muppets, and Dark Crystal. Plot Take Place at The Muppets Games for Fun! Elmo Use Water Gun, Kermit Can Hop and Use Arms, and Big Bird use Ticket Feathers. The Rule said that Touching give You Point, and Who Ever Got 100 points Win!
The Final Boss is Chamberlain because He Sneaky Enough to Take the Crystal Trophy for Himself. He No Fighter, But He Don’t Play Fare! No Jumping, but No Knock Back.
Zappa 😭
Good list, great video…but I was hoping Carl was #1. Was getting worried that he wasn’t gonna make the list, lol. His character is so complex/complicated that it amazes me when I see people use him effectively.
Though for me Eddie is #1 because of the sheer irony of the puppet being the one in control of the puppeteer
No wonder I'm interested in playing Chipp and Zato, because Ms. Fortune was the I played in Skullgirls.
For flavor and the People who want to know the Names of the Puppet-Characters of Shadow-Labrys, Lieselotte Aschenbach and Chaos:
-Asterius
-Elfriede
-Azhi Dahaka
The Name of Relius Clover‘s Puppet that you can see in the Video is called Ignis and she is the mother of Carl and Ada/Nirvana.
I also want to say that I have the outmost Respect for everyone who mains a Puppeteer-Character in Fighting Games. The Fighting Style is not only unusual, but hard to master and there are often times where you can screw up your setups.
They are fun, but very hard to learn and properly use. Have a nice day everyone.^^
Would Kankurō in Naruto: Clash of Ninja 2 predate Viola as a 3D puppet character?
Do you sill collaberate with SofTware Agent?
Yeah. Since I capture a lot of my own footage now, I don't need to use their resources as often for fighting game videos, so they aren't involved in my videos regularly and they can focus on their channel. However, they're always willing to help if I needed it and we are planning bigger collabs like what I do with other cohosts for when they collab with me next.
I get that nobody plays mhoj2, but tokoyami is a really fun combination between puppet and stance!
19:30 Carl loses life if you hold D to move Ada longer
I love Fighting games and this video. ^_^
Cait and Sith look cool. Mundane yet effective (without magic hat).
Pretty good video, I’m hoping to see the top 10 psychopaths/sociopaths in fighting games!!
Top 10 best puppet character in Fighting games, Number 1: EVERY CHARACTER IN P4 ARENA AND JOJO'S BIZZARE ADVENTURE for the PSX
Top 10 characters with 1 monster arm -
Velvet Crowe (Tales of Berseria), Nero (Devil May Cry 4), Jack Krauser (Resident Evil 4), etc.
somewhat related 6:29 I have seen the Shadow Rise scenes from Persona 4 out of context and found them to be quite diturbing.
What about Sasori? He can literally control 100 puppets at once.
Carl should definitely be the number one spot
Capcom created a literal puppet character for the Darkstalkers called, appropriately, Marionette, but she’s merely just a fancy way of setting up a mirror match, and she’s has no moveset of her own, in fact she only appears on screen during the opening of the match and the character controls the body she goes into. It’s a shame we’ve not gotten more Darkstalkers to flesh her out as a real fighter, as the notion of a living puppet works pretty good for the franchise. Here’s hoping…
And Shadow became the opponent it just defeated for the next fight, right?
That's what ELEVEN should have been in SF5!
My boy Kankruo isnt on the list😭
Sadly neither was Sasori and Granny Chiyo.
Can you do a ten ten characters using weird robotic weapons?
I choose Relius over his son because his Astral Finish is so good and honestly looks more interesting.
An underappreciated character type tbh.
How about you make Top 10 Unevenly-Sized Characters or Giants in Fighting Games? I'm talking about characters like: Sentinel from Marvel vs Capcom 2, Hugo from Street Fighter, Iron Taker from BlazeBlue, Nemesis from Marvel vs Capcom, Master Hand from Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Catherine from Arcana Heart, PTX 48 from Tatsunoko vs Capcom, Kusara Geita from Samurai Showdown, G. Lighten - Tatsunoko vs Capcom and Faust from Guilty Gear Strive.
What about the one in unist
He takes up about 60% of the screen or more if I remember right
17:20 Volante (Flyer)
17:30 Con Anima (with SOUL)
Super Combo: Rhapsody of Memories
Carl Clover bean with a freak sibling elsewhere twins with hat daddy dammit these games are perfect
Thank you for mentioning Lieselotte Achenbach, Kei "Chaos" Asuma and Carl Clover in this video. And speaking of unique fighting game character archetypes/stereotypes like puppeteers, please do more of these in the future:
Top Ten Students in Fighting Games Part 2 (examples: Saki Tsuzura, Hinako Shijou, Hyde Kido, etc.)
Top Ten Fencers in Fighting Games (examples: Orie Ballardiae, Charlotte Christine De Colde, Asuna Yuuki, etc.)
Top Ten Gunners in Fighting Games (examples: Petra Johanna Lagerkvist, Noel Vermillion, Baby Bonnie Hood, etc.)
Top Ten Assassins in Fighting Games (examples: Seth (UNIB), Shiki Tohno/Nanaya/Ryougi, Millia Rage, etc.)
And if you have to pronounce Lieselotte's name right, it should sound like this: Lee-say-lot not Lisa-low-tay because she might actually be German or French rather than Italian or Spanish.
I think there are few naruto games, where you use puppets
Not sure if one of these games came out before Soul Calibur's character
Clash of Ninja 2 on the GameCube came out before Soul Calibur had their puppet character.
I don't know if anyone mentioned this, but Shadow Labrys' persona is Asterius, the minotaur from greek mythology. And yes, it is always angry, and can curse the user to madness after enough use.
Kinda surprised that squigly or Annie from Skullgirls didn't make the list, or at least an honorable mention.
A character technically being two characters doesn't automatically make them a puppet fighter. Annie/Sagan and Squigly/Leviathan still control as if they were one character.
A good rule of thumb is checking if the main fighter and the puppet can be in different places on the screen at the same time. If both characters are stuck to each other and can't be separated, odds are they aren't a puppet fighter.
@@lasatar6428 Ahhh thanks for the clarification.
Glad to see Devo as top 5 😂❤
As much as I like my Unga I appreciate puppeteer based fighters like Relius
Ooh Lieselotte looks cute!
Yeah. She sure does look cute in a way. But when you're looking into her heart, beware. Lieselotte has a lot of secrets and mysteries that hide within her.
Ferra&torra from mortal Kombat x
Honorable mention to Kankurō in various Naruto fighting games, he don't do much but his one or more heavily armed puppets do
Most people didn't know that Viola is actually Amy. The girl that vampire dude whose name I can't remember takes care of before she lost her memory, until long after the game came out
Surprised that Jack-O did not make the list even as an HM. She had the whole puppet play style.
Might not be on this because outside of buffing them or making them explode, the minions are purely automatic, thus not traditional puppet characters.
@@IppoX90 okay. What about Giovanna from Strive?
@@gilessaint-loup2426 Her pal is just something that gives passive bonus depending on your tension meter, not seperately controllable.
@@IppoX90 You mean pet right!? If this was a list of fighting game characters with pets, it would make sense.
@@akilcharles3473 Yup, that. I just tend to call it pal.
Zato is definitely my favorite
Wah, no Hisui and Kohaku? D:
#9 that was an interesting twist to CvS2!
the ice climbers not being here is a crime
Omg,Choi dabbs @ 4:48.this means Choi has been dabbing since 2001
I would say I want a character from darkstalkers or mvc but these are the only ideas I have
Qbee: she uses other small bees
Anakaris: uses khabit his servant
Marionette and shadow: literally mirror match characters
Amingo: uses mini cactuses
Carl Main here. Best puppet character.
Does Olimar count as a puppeteer character? I think he’s pretty neat. Who else has it written down in their game plan to cull the weak minions by throwing them off cliffs or into enemy projectiles. Plus the gimmick where your normals change based on which minions are in and out of rotation is really neat and surprisingly faithful to the games.
This video made me design an NPC for DnD thanks!
What about byte and barq from arms?
No Alice Margatroid? Aw.. *waves sad touhou fanclub flag*
Still a fun list tho, keep it up man!
#10 I bought that one this month!
XD
Along similar lines to this concept, could you do Top 10 summoner characters in fighting games? I dont know if there's even that many, I can only think of 4 myself, but If there are any others I'd love to see them
Id define a summoner character as similar to a Puppet character but you can summon multiple, they all have there own health and they act largely on there own with simple AI. The only ones I can think of are Pre-3DS King Dedede with his Waddle Dees and Doos, Nappa with his Saibamen and Gargos and Jack-O with all there minions
Edit: Strive Jack-O I would no longer define as a summoner
Robo fortune would be a summoner too right?
@@Crisisadvantage After looking Robo-Fortune Gameplay up... Unless she has another move I didnt see in action I can only assume you mean her heads, in which case, absolutely not
I always envisioned Poison Ivy as puppet characters where she zones using a Venus flytrap as her means of attack.
But she is another basic melee fighter is injustice which makes no sense for her.
The fact that miss fortune literally uses her own head as a weapon and as a puppet makes for pretty creepy in my opinion
after watching some of previous top ten, im wondef if you already did a top ten superb boss o secret boss . i mean like: kyo/iori at King Of Fighters 99, Order Sol at Guilty GearAccent Core +, unlimited Ragna/Nine/Izanami at BlazBlue CentralFiction, Akuma at Street Fighter 2
(bosses after the final boss not guaranted to appear only if certain conditions are met)
Secret Bosses is one of the few types of characters I have not covered. Definitely would like to do it some day.
Would Android 18 or Captain Ginyu in Dragon Ball FighterZ count? Two other characters (Videl and Nappa) have summonable assist characters, but I think 18 and Ginyu are the closest ones.
Would you do a video about VR or no?
I don't own a VR set, so I wouldn't be able to
i am sad that he didn't mention ken and koromaru form persona 4 arena ultimax
*MrTopTenList:* #5... with every side character imaginable!
*Me:* I like the way this man thinks!☝️🧐
So without spoiling to much of this Jojo character. The only way I could see Superfly working in a fighting game ( which would be the most invented thing ever or the most busted thing ever). Is that the stage itself is built into the character. Like if someone pick Superfly it doesn't matter what stage you or your opponent were going to pick. Both players are force to play on the Superfly stage. The other gimmick Superfly could have would be stage interaction ala Netherrealm Studios style. Tho I feel like that one might need a bit of tweaking.
Love the creativity! I was thinking something similar, where it would be like when Squigly is a tag partner for a team in Skullgirls. Her tombstone is always present on the stage you pick, but it can be on any stage, so she essentially brings it with her. Superfly would magically be on whatever stage you pick, regardless of when or where that stage is. Then it would function as the impediment/puppet that it would play like. Either way, you have a similar idea that I had, so good thinking!
Surprised that he didn't mention that Devo was literally the very first puppet character in fighting games
In guilty gear, Bridget is much more of the puppet character than that shadow guy ... her yoyo weaver skill is so sick :D
If this video came out this year, Tom and Jerry from MultiVersus would 100% be on this list
Zato is a copycat of venom.. also EDDIE?? Really... couldnt make it more evident? Eddie Brock
My friend was an Amy main and hated that Viola was implied to be her since he hated her crystal ball playstyle