Arcade Edition Abigail - The Most Unreasonable Character in SFV History
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Published 2024-04-22
While this version of the character wasn't in the game for very long, he's a strong contender for the absolute best character the game has ever seen, being incredibly overtuned in Season 3 despite not appearing to be a weak character in his debut season.
In this video, I'll be breaking down what made him so absurd at the time, and then we'll turn to how he was nerfed in the game's later balance patches. This turned out to be much longer than expected, but I hope you enjoy regardless!
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Music Used:
Zero Pressure - Streets of Rage 4
Primal Pummel - Streets of Rage 4: Mr. X Nightmare
On Fire - Streets of Rage 4
Character Select - Streets of Rage 4
Blood For Glory - Streets of Rage 4: Mr. X Nightmare
Nora - Streets of Rage 4
It’s Gotta Be You – Mother 4 OST
All Comments (21)
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Holy shit another hour long video on a character that you can’t play this is frickin sweet
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Do you think Abigail pretends to be a car because he cannot fit inside any vehicle himself?
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white boy speaks fluent car, flattens poor cammy player
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Honestly this stuff is basically lost media conservation and I love it.
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2:52 Maybe Abigail got so many initial buffs because the dev team felt bad about making him tall enough to take all 30 hits of Raging Demon directly to the crotch. "Die a thousand deaths," indeed. o_O
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The reason Abigail is not in sf6 is because he transformed into the workshop present in the world tour mode. That means you can be inside him
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27:10 watching ryu's fist straight up clip through Abigail's arm and do nothing is incredible
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do you ever think about how Abigail is a tire whisperer he can just summon spare tires at will & speaks fluent engine
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"It's April 1st, 2018" no it aint. it's april 22nd, 2024. you were wrong mx youtuber
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Abigail got to feel like he truly was a car with how he simply ran over everyone else, his ultimate victory
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Abigail was the reason i got back into watching SFV tourneys. In a game full of martial arts and crazy techniques, a giant of a man who throws you up and lets gravity do the rest was funny af to watch.
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It's really cool seeing discussion on now unplayable patch states of games. People forget how much a single bad patch or overpowered character/strategy can mess things up once they've been fixed.
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This Abigail feels like his revenge for that less than stellar reaction to his character.
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I love how so many of the comments are "one-hour video about a character I don't know for a game I don't play? Yes please", because this is my exact sentiment. There's a subtle storytelling quality to your vids and the way you weave the ins and outs of your video subjects that's just so compelling and enjoyable, and it's what keeps me coming back. Even if I have no idea what you're talking about, like in the Worms 3D videos, I always come out learning obtusely fascinating things. Thanks for doing your schtick, Yellow
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Using Streets of Rage music for a Final Fight character is very thematic, not just because both are beat-em-ups, but because I feel like this version of Abigail probably made a lot of people rage.
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"How big should I make the video discussing a FG character?" "Depends on how big the character is"
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anyone else incredibly angered by ryu's gi clipping into his legs
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"Working on an SFV Abigail vid and I feel like I'm more productive than usual because if I ever tab out and get distracted he starts continuously making his iconic Abigail sounds which is a great incentive to get back in there and stop him from doing that" -big yellow during the making of this video
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Abigail looks like his Ancestry results would come back with him being part bulldog and part Jeep Wrangler
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Honestly, the fact that Capcom got Xander Mobus to ham it up to eleven as Abigail is literally what made this character one of my favorites in SFV, balancing issues aside. Dude was clearly having a great time recording his lines. I’ll miss his “BIIIG SMASH! CRUSH YOU LIKE A CAN!”