So sorta apropos of nothing, lets talk about Hakan today! Hakan is one of the coolest dang characters ever made for Street Fighter, and its one of my few regrets of the SF4 era that I didn't put more time into the character. So in this video lets talk about what makes Hakan so interesting as a character, and here's to hoping that maybe one day down the road our crazy oiled up greasy boy can make it into Street Fighter 6!
I won’t lie, I was actually hoping to see more of Hakan after SF4. Maybe in a crossover Capcom fighter. 😁 Then again I had the same hopes for El Fuerte once upon a time… 😓
@@rooflemonger Oh, snap! Imagine Splatoon adds Oil Wrestling as part of their annual events! 🤩 Hakan will make bank providing oil for the event and get some potential oil wrestling enthusiasts at the same time! Talk about killing two meteorites with one Sumo Headbutt! 😌👍🏾
When Hakan whiffs a throw he says "Seriously!?" in a really odd tone, and to this very day in 2023 I still say it like that every now and then when something unexpected happens. Thank you Hakan for changing my vocabulary forever 🙏
Literally same brother. The entire group of people I played Street Fighter with started doing it. We'd have an entire Xbox party full of people parroting it.
AAAAAH! I'M GREEK AND URIEN IS GREEK AND URIEN WILL KILL HAKAN! YEAH! HAHAHAHA! JUST JOKING! Hakan is one of the more interesting SF characters really, and his name sounds Turkish. Urien looks like a mister Olympia that likes to get into your personal space or something and his name means nothing in Greek.
@@atasukecetin90 Yes he's suppossed to be Greek and Gill his brother as well. But they look as much Greek as I look like a Philippino or something... I recognize they are powerful (Hell, Gill was even the SFIII boss) but I never liked them as characters.
Considering SF6 has big emphasis on stocks, buffs, power ups and all that, I could easily see Hakan be a DLC character beyond season 1! We really don't have a funny "joke" character like him yet
My little brother called Hakan The Lube Noob when he debuted in SF4 and mained him for months after we all started playing the game. Man I love Hakan. Such an underrated character.
One of the more forgotten newcomers of sf4 (well pretty much everybody except Juri aren't very popular) but certainly pretty cool. Would love to see him get a second chance at a playable appearance. And hey, when in doubt, create a waifu counterpart with his moveset!
Haven't read all the comments yet to see if anyone else mentioned this... With Hakan having a huge billboard for his oils in Metro City, I hope he shows up in the World Tour Mode!
He really is fun. I was sad he didn't return to V as a rival to Honda. He's one of those characters you think nothing of until you take him on the field yourself and see how fun and unique he is. I'd like to see him return one day.
Hakan was never my main in SF4, but he was always the character I had the most FUN with. I'd love to see him again, and with how much resource-building there is in SF6, Oil Stacks/Levels seems like a perfect fit.
I'd love to see an sf6 redesign for Hakkan. They'd probably get rid of his weird helmet hair and replace it with curls but honestly I wouldn't even mind that
i love characters with gimmicks, also his titles you get is "proud father" which came handy as a new dad back in 2013. i fell in love with this character since day one and i wished he would make a return
Hakan was my pocket character for when I wanted to embarrass a trash talker. Everyone I knew considered him super low tier, even after all the buffs. Also used Cody for this to use the "You're boring the crap out of me." line. Would love to see Hakan return.
Hakan was my main from SSFIV and onward, together with Honda. Yes I’m clearly a masochist. Also, his Ultra 2 is my favourite scrub killer move out of any fighting game ever, and the best “don’t jump in Street Fighter” teaching tool you can find.
best part is that Ultra 2 works on grounded opponents too, as soon as you walk inside the range it will grab you. You can focus attack and ultra and it will work cause the crumple animation moves you forward.
@@JhowBoy If it does, that’s a change they made in USFIV. Because all the versions I remember, it only worked on airborne opponents. However, you could still combo into it from a Focus Attack crumple, by doing another Focus Attack while they’re in the crumple animation which will launch them for a second, enough to FADC into Ultra 2.
@@s-wo8781 It does scale it hard, yes. But still did more than a command grab, so if you could close out a round with it, it was worth it. Also WAY easier than trying for his 1 frame link BnBs. Bane of my existence those…
Wow! I never knew Oil Wrestling is a thing in Turkey. That explains why Hakan pours oil all over himself. I think it's very cool how he can use the slippery movement to his advantage to improve his mobility and reach of his moves. He's done his oil-enhanced grab long before Potemkin learned how to kara-cancel his grab for that slippery reach. Perhaps he can consider trying out Hakan's oil to make his Pot Buster reach better than ever! XD
Oh yes we love it here in turkey. We call the fighters “Pehlivan” a fancy name for a wrestler. Like rooflemonger mentioned sometimes the match was going on for days. There is even a move where you grab the inside of the oiled pants right next to the nuts and sausage 😂
I never play grapplers but I always appreciate the weird characters, even Rufus and Sylvie, Xanadu from KOF. I find basic and vanilla characters boring, shotos, Mishimas etc., the weirder the more interesting for me.
By the end of SFIV, Hakan became my hands-down favourite character to play. I know he's super goofy, and we'll probably never see him again, but I would be thrilled if he made a comeback in SFVI :)
if he returns to SF6 I really hope he gets his own stage, whether it be an olive farm or a grassy field (ie Kırkpınar). out of all the bigbodied SF grapplers he's definitely my favourite
THE GOAT HAKAN! SF4 was one of the first fighting games I ever tried to get into and while I was absolutely terrible I found myself able to pull of a little bit of stuff with Hakan.
Hakan is 1 of the most interesting inovated characters that I like in SF and 1 of the top 5 characters that I want to see comeback in Street Fighter 6. Alongside with Adon,Menat,Seth & Elena.
I played tons of Hakan in SF4. Really fun character! I honestly don't think we'll probably ever see him again in a mainline SF entry - his uniqueness is both a blessing and a curse.
I have to honestly say that I overlooked Hakan. But I love videos like this because it makes me realize how powerful some of these overlooked characters can be.
Played him quite a lot, particularly later on after they buffed him to start the match oiled. Really fun toolset and also deceptively powerful. If USFIV would have lived on longer I have no doubt he would have ended up in the same tier bracket as Evil Ryu and Elena.
Just as I was thinking "I'm surprised you didn't mention his wife and kids" you did. I wonder if one day they'll have the kids grow up and take his place on the roster.
There's gonna be some big problems if one of his daughters looks like their Mom and fights like their Dad. Let's just hope Capcom is not gonna go there.
Awesome video, appreciate you highlighting this gem of a unique grappler. I really enjoyed Hakan and put a lot of time into learning him. He had a cool kit and the oil gimmick was just fun.
I love your look at different Characters Rooflemonger. You not only give a full breakdown of the character but you add some lore and highlight important things about the character. As far as Hakan goes, I think that people appreciate him more now than when he first showed up all those years ago. People saw him as a joke character I think. Never been a fan myself but at least he is something different.
Hakan's friggin' nuts, and I love him for that! I main him in Ultra 4 along with Elena, Sakura and Gouken. I guess I noticed a pattern with how I used the obscure characters in the SF titles, like with G/Q, Necro and of course Hakan :P
Interesting to have come across this channel. Never played a Street Fighter game --or any proper fighting game, for that matter-- but i've been growing an interest in them. And this video on a off-the-wall character like Hakan was very fun to watch. Thank you for making this video, and i think i might stick around to watch more. SF6 will likely be my first proper Fighting game, and the way you explain things is with quite the enthousiasm. Wish you a good new week, and take care as well as a cookie when nobody's looking.
Been playing an absurd amount of usf4 with my bf lately, and god damn have I learned what a mechanically interesting grappler Hakan is, his great movement and screen control in neutral when oiled makes him feel so much different than every grappler. I also love that you can move while you do his focus
I was really hoping that you would mention that when Hakan is oiled up he can slide forward and backward while holding focus attack. He’s the only character that can move while having focus charge
Great and informative video about Hakan, someone I knew nothing about until now. I definitely could see him being in SF6 as a DLC character eventually especially since he has to meet his old friend E. Honda again.🙂 Also, I'm down for more videos on fighting game characters that not a lot of people play or really know the backstory of.
Great vid love to see grappler love as always. If they put Hakan in SF6 we need his whole fam dousing him in oil before he launches his opponent into orbit as a super.
Man, his trailer was one of the most hype ones I've ever seen in terms of Street Fighter, up there with G's. He was the talk of the town, and for a good reason, so if I ever have to play SFIV, you can bet I'm picking him up. I LOVE MY DAUGHTERS THEY ARE SOOO PRETTYYYYY
Loved Hakan. A super fast reason Ultra2 when your opponent still has a bunch of travel time was the best feeling. It was also super hype that one time Infiltration busted him out at EVO... Man I missed street fighter. So glad the SFV nightmare is over.
Great stuff again! I think one thing you showed but didn't mention is how oiled-up Hakan can slightly slide while doing focus. It's kinda weird looking but it can actually get you in or out of range sometimes.
Hakan isn’t a character I think about much other than being the Super SF4 newcomer alongside JURI, but this video completely sold me on how cool and unique he is While not super popular, from what I’ve seen he feels like one of the more well liked “odd Ball” characters so I feel like there’d be a smaller group of really happy people if he got added to SF6 He’s at least on the dev teams mind if the ads for his oil in metro city are anything to go by
Love! I started using Hakan in his initial release, yes my main character...and I just kept getting better and better as he evolved. The most unique, viable and intersting additions to SF. MUST see him come back in 6
My favourite cheesy move with Hakan (mained him for many, many years) was to do the short slide attack while oiled up, which put opponents in a guarding position, but you would never hit them due to the short range of the slide, and then pull out a 360 grab or U1 during recovery of the slide. Really mean one.
Back when I was a teenager playing vanilla SFIV and had little money for gaming, Hakan was the main reason I wanted to upgrade to Super. I'm a weirdo and feel drawn to the oddball characters of Street Fighter, so seeing all the creativity that went into Hakan just made me really excited. Sadly in Street Fighter we never know when a character will be back, but if Hakan ever does return I will welcome him with open arms.
i haven't watched this yet but hakan was my first REAL street fighter main. everything about him was so goofy and fun and it really finally made fighting games click for me. it's been a long time since i've seen my friend hakan and i've moved on to other games but my memories of finally GETTING why people play fighting games will never die
When I was getting into fighting games (around after Ultra SF4 came out) Hakan was one of the few non-classic characters that really caught my eye. Say what you will about his importance in the lore, but I just really liked his personality and voice. I didn't even realize some consider him a joke character. Hakan is just fun.
I feel so sad I wasn’t playing fighting games during SF4 era because I know I would have definitely maimed Hakan. As I Main Grapplers already and my dad literally used to Turkish Oil wrestle. Btw if you wonder why Hakan’s head is Turquoise it’s because the French brought the Turquoise mineral from the Ottoman Empire (which is what the country Turkey used to be) and they just named it “Turkish” in French (yes the Turkish man has Turkish mineral colored hair) Lol. And I am guessing he is Red because he super tanned himself because of the oil. But don’t ask me why he has so many children. Anyway goofy design aside I don’t get to see many Turkish characters in Video games in general (can’t really think of many other than Fade from Valorant that aren’t historical characters tbh)
I was a Hakan main back in SF4. I learned some secret tech with him and climbed the ranks of online ranked quickly of him. I was accused of being a cheater or hacker but I was simply devoted to the oil king. What's the secret tech you ask? With Hakan if you scored a knock down you could nail oil dive on the opponents wake up as long as they didn't have an invincible reversal like shoryuken that had invincibility active frame one. Every character had 3 frames of standing animation even if you held down when your character stood up. If you timed it right, Hakan could grab the opponent via oil dive on their 3 standing frames. If you got his spd and right after nailed an oil dive you almost did about 450 damage. Not many characters could survive that passed twice with an average of 1000 health...
Some stuff he missed. His focus. While his focus is charging, you can actually hold forward or backward, and he will slide in that direction. You can actually see right here at 6:21 in the video where he does it for just a second, but he didn't hold it, so he only slid a tiny bit. He went over this briefly but didn't really explain just how good him being able to cancel his dash attacks are. You can FADC after the focus attack lands. So instead of focusing through the projectile and dashing, just use his slide to slide forward let the focus attack land, and use the hit stun from the attack to decide whether to go for lights to get some plus frames or cancel to your medium buttons for a big combo. Not only that, he essentially can use his FADC to combo any button into another because he recovers so quickly (I.e. You can combo 3 fwd+mp into each other. That's normally a combo ending button.) His Ultra 2. Keep this one brief, but when he said anything that makes you airborne, he meant ANYTHING. Any move in the entire game that removes your characters two feet from the ground at the same time will get caught by his Ultra 2. Playing Juri, and you decided to press Roundhouse? Ultra 2. Wake up DP? Ultra 2. Wanna Sumo Smash, Sumo Headbutt, or use your Ultra 1 in neutral? Ultra 2. Wanna play El Fuerte? Get this Ultra 2 son! His Super. His super has 3 different properties based on whether you press LK, MK, or HK when doing it. LK: Hit Invulnerability MK: Throw Invulnerability HK: Projectile Invulnerability This also includes Ultras. Imagine Fei Long does his Rekkashingeki or Chun-Li does her Hosenka. Do his Super with LK and all of their punches and kicks do absolutely nothing as they inevitably fall into your oily grasp taking 450 damage. One of the best Supers in the game. Last one, his Oil Dive. This move is devious. He mentioned that the move will only hit on standing or airborne opponents, so if you're crouching, always whiffs right? So, in SF4, when you wake up after being knocked down, there are a few (Maybe one? I can't remember.) frames where the crouch input isn't yet "recognized," and your character is considered to be standing...You can see where I'm going with this. If you oil dive at the correct time on your opponent's wake up, you essentially get a guaranteed unblockable grab and their only option to get out of it is to do an invincible reversal. So Hakan can essentially spam this on your wake up over and over, baiting you to do a reversal, and once you fall for it, just hit you with a juicy combo. Go ahead, try it.
i don’t play 2d fighters, i adore them, i just don’t find them fun to actually play, but when i did play Street Fighter 4 long ago on my 3DS i messed with Hakan and had a blast. On the 3DS version you could map up to 4 specials onto buttons on the touch screen, and Hakan had a oiled slide that would send him flying across the floor. Figured out with good timing I could slide during the opponent’s wakeup to catch them and loop it again and again. Went online and spammed that move against an El Fuerte for an entire set. 11 year old me was doing meaties before i even knew what it was, truly a prodigy lol
One of my favorite fighting game characters and the most chad of them all. It's not even up for debate. Anybody who doesn't acknowledge Hakan's supreme chad energy is objectively wrong.
Can you believe there was a time where at round start, despite his intro showing him dunking oil all over his body, Hakan would not in fact be oiled up at the start of each round?
Hakan is my favorite grappler in street fighter. Yes, more than Zangief. He’s absolutely bizarre in design and playstyle but that’s what makes him so fun. I know the SF4 newcomers are effectively just “Juri and those other losers” to many people and seemingly capcom as well looking at SF6’s roster leaks, but I’d give so much to have Hakan return.
Hakan was one of the reasons I got into fighting games. Saw the clip of Infiltration rocking him in tournament and wanted to try it out. I never got into SF4 and eventually got into Tekken with the help from my greater inspiration Yoshimitsu, but to this day I’ve felt if Hakan makes a comeback I’m picking up SF 100 %
He was goofy but l actually had him for a secondary and was pleasantly surprised. Some of my opponents couldn't believe l beat them and would immediately replay. I think these characters are good for fighting game in general.
I will always remember when PR Balrog was beating Infiltration who may have been using Seth at the time. He lost and switched to this unliked character and player, audience, and commentary were all astounded by what Infiltration was able to do with Hakan. Edit: 6:20 for Hakan switch. ua-cam.com/video/7XKYAayVY48/v-deo.html&feature=share
I tinkered with Hakan, and ended up maining him for a while in SF4. Went to my college gaming lobby to play, and someone said, "holy shit, there is a actually a real life Hakan player." I dunno why, but the interaction stuck with me.
My favorite fighting game character ever! Nothing better than sliding around with focus attacks catching people off guard. As well as zooming full screen to grab people throwing fireballs with EX Slide. I was a midtier player in SF4 but it was my fighting game peak. I was in the top 150 Hakans on Xbox 360. I hope maybe one day he will come back but I doubt it. Thanks for spreading the oily love.
Always been a huge fan of Hakan since he first appeared and before the updates. I loved to see him get improvements over time. It kills me that he hasn't returned yet even though he was such a cool new character. Some people say he looks weird, but those people clearly have no taste. Hakan looks BA AF. Devil red skin, classy mustache, lion emblems, unique hair, fun moveset, whats not to love?
So sorta apropos of nothing, lets talk about Hakan today! Hakan is one of the coolest dang characters ever made for Street Fighter, and its one of my few regrets of the SF4 era that I didn't put more time into the character. So in this video lets talk about what makes Hakan so interesting as a character, and here's to hoping that maybe one day down the road our crazy oiled up greasy boy can make it into Street Fighter 6!
I won’t lie, I was actually hoping to see more of Hakan after SF4. Maybe in a crossover Capcom fighter. 😁
Then again I had the same hopes for El Fuerte once upon a time… 😓
@@Flashshadow Add Hakan for Splatoon 4. His oil surely is a match for the inklings ink
@@rooflemonger Oh, snap! Imagine Splatoon adds Oil Wrestling as part of their annual events! 🤩
Hakan will make bank providing oil for the event and get some potential oil wrestling enthusiasts at the same time! Talk about killing two meteorites with one Sumo Headbutt! 😌👍🏾
Apropos 🤔 what a wild sounding word
@@scorpionsen4302 if apropos is a wild sounding word, then truly it is apropos of such a wild character
When Hakan whiffs a throw he says "Seriously!?" in a really odd tone, and to this very day in 2023 I still say it like that every now and then when something unexpected happens. Thank you Hakan for changing my vocabulary forever 🙏
He’s weirdly quoteable; “I’m ready for action!”
You can't beat Virgin Olive Oil!
Same here!
"So Much Pain!!"😂
Literally same brother. The entire group of people I played Street Fighter with started doing it. We'd have an entire Xbox party full of people parroting it.
As a Turk seeing Hakan in street fighter was so awesome and the execution of his oil style was really well done and funny
AAAAAH! I'M GREEK AND URIEN IS GREEK AND URIEN WILL KILL HAKAN! YEAH! HAHAHAHA! JUST JOKING! Hakan is one of the more interesting SF characters really, and his name sounds Turkish. Urien looks like a mister Olympia that likes to get into your personal space or something and his name means nothing in Greek.
@@arcotroll8530hakan means emperor of skies and lands(kinda)
@@sovnngarde Like that porn actor Hakan Serbes?
@@arcotroll8530 hahahah I never knew that urien was Greek that’s really cool 😎 his playing style is also awesome but a bit too complicated for me 😂
@@atasukecetin90 Yes he's suppossed to be Greek and Gill his brother as well. But they look as much Greek as I look like a Philippino or something... I recognize they are powerful (Hell, Gill was even the SFIII boss) but I never liked them as characters.
Considering SF6 has big emphasis on stocks, buffs, power ups and all that, I could easily see Hakan be a DLC character beyond season 1! We really don't have a funny "joke" character like him yet
I had the exact same thought. He'd be a perfect fit.
@@MrCactuar13 especially since Honda is a base roster character now, would love to see their rivalry!
We don't need one either.
@@JOmega2007 you are probably super fun at parties
Blanka is the closest character to a joke, but I'm down for Hakan anyways.
My little brother called Hakan The Lube Noob when he debuted in SF4 and mained him for months after we all started playing the game. Man I love Hakan. Such an underrated character.
One of the more forgotten newcomers of sf4 (well pretty much everybody except Juri aren't very popular) but certainly pretty cool. Would love to see him get a second chance at a playable appearance. And hey, when in doubt, create a waifu counterpart with his moveset!
Hakan maybe the strongest example for gender bend counterpart. Big oiled up lady would do well with the consumer base I think.
@@rooflemonger I guess they could always use his wife instead in SF6, leaving Hakan home to take care of their 20 little Toad gremlins
@@CrossfacePanda that would cause a cultural reset
So I need someone to draw what Lily is to THawk for Hakan now
@@rooflemonger that’s just sad😅
Haven't read all the comments yet to see if anyone else mentioned this... With Hakan having a huge billboard for his oils in Metro City, I hope he shows up in the World Tour Mode!
He really is fun. I was sad he didn't return to V as a rival to Honda. He's one of those characters you think nothing of until you take him on the field yourself and see how fun and unique he is. I'd like to see him return one day.
Hakan was never my main in SF4, but he was always the character I had the most FUN with. I'd love to see him again, and with how much resource-building there is in SF6, Oil Stacks/Levels seems like a perfect fit.
I really love Hakan's visual design. Like you said, it's not like they have to look realistic. For me design wise he's a standout.
Nah, the teal suction cup hair and tomato red skin combo is pretty awful.
@@MagcargoMan an example of a wrong opinion everyone
I'd love to see an sf6 redesign for Hakkan. They'd probably get rid of his weird helmet hair and replace it with curls but honestly I wouldn't even mind that
I like the color of it since in Japanese Turqouise is related to Turks but the shape(even though it’s iconic at this point) can be improved
@@trchdctr yeah definitely keep the colour
i love characters with gimmicks, also his titles you get is "proud father" which came handy as a new dad back in 2013. i fell in love with this character since day one and i wished he would make a return
Hakan was my pocket character for when I wanted to embarrass a trash talker. Everyone I knew considered him super low tier, even after all the buffs. Also used Cody for this to use the "You're boring the crap out of me." line. Would love to see Hakan return.
Cody was my main
He was fucking Deadly
I TOTALLY overlooked this character in SF4. He is honestly ridiculous. Very entertaining vid Roof
Hakan was my main from SSFIV and onward, together with Honda. Yes I’m clearly a masochist.
Also, his Ultra 2 is my favourite scrub killer move out of any fighting game ever, and the best “don’t jump in Street Fighter” teaching tool you can find.
best part is that Ultra 2 works on grounded opponents too, as soon as you walk inside the range it will grab you. You can focus attack and ultra and it will work cause the crumple animation moves you forward.
@@JhowBoy If it does, that’s a change they made in USFIV. Because all the versions I remember, it only worked on airborne opponents.
However, you could still combo into it from a Focus Attack crumple, by doing another Focus Attack while they’re in the crumple animation which will launch them for a second, enough to FADC into Ultra 2.
@@CrossfacePanda Wouldn't that highly scale the damage though? Sounds like you'd be better off just doing a command grab or combo.
@@s-wo8781 It does scale it hard, yes. But still did more than a command grab, so if you could close out a round with it, it was worth it.
Also WAY easier than trying for his 1 frame link BnBs. Bane of my existence those…
@@s-wo8781that should be 90% damage for 3 hit combos
Wow! I never knew Oil Wrestling is a thing in Turkey. That explains why Hakan pours oil all over himself. I think it's very cool how he can use the slippery movement to his advantage to improve his mobility and reach of his moves.
He's done his oil-enhanced grab long before Potemkin learned how to kara-cancel his grab for that slippery reach. Perhaps he can consider trying out Hakan's oil to make his Pot Buster reach better than ever! XD
Oh yes we love it here in turkey. We call the fighters “Pehlivan” a fancy name for a wrestler. Like rooflemonger mentioned sometimes the match was going on for days. There is even a move where you grab the inside of the oiled pants right next to the nuts and sausage 😂
It looks so methodical and passionate. Also every one of those clips both dudes looked winded as hell lol
I never play grapplers but I always appreciate the weird characters, even Rufus and Sylvie, Xanadu from KOF. I find basic and vanilla characters boring, shotos, Mishimas etc., the weirder the more interesting for me.
Hakan is underrated, hope to see him come back someday
By the end of SFIV, Hakan became my hands-down favourite character to play. I know he's super goofy, and we'll probably never see him again, but I would be thrilled if he made a comeback in SFVI :)
Hakan was a Grapplers with a unique style of combat with the power of Oil
Hakan got me into Street fighter and fighting games back in 2009.
if he returns to SF6 I really hope he gets his own stage, whether it be an olive farm or a grassy field (ie Kırkpınar). out of all the bigbodied SF grapplers he's definitely my favourite
THE GOAT HAKAN! SF4 was one of the first fighting games I ever tried to get into and while I was absolutely terrible I found myself able to pull of a little bit of stuff with Hakan.
As someone who grew up playing sf2 in the arcade. Theese lore videos are awesome!!!
Absolutely the character I want most for 6! I love everything about the guy, and I’m just begging for him to come back.
I loved playing as him in sf4.
Hakan is 1 of the most interesting inovated characters that I like in SF and 1 of the top 5 characters that I want to see comeback in Street Fighter 6. Alongside with Adon,Menat,Seth & Elena.
I played tons of Hakan in SF4. Really fun character! I honestly don't think we'll probably ever see him again in a mainline SF entry - his uniqueness is both a blessing and a curse.
thanks for this tribute to my favorite grappler
I have to honestly say that I overlooked Hakan. But I love videos like this because it makes me realize how powerful some of these overlooked characters can be.
Played him quite a lot, particularly later on after they buffed him to start the match oiled. Really fun toolset and also deceptively powerful. If USFIV would have lived on longer I have no doubt he would have ended up in the same tier bracket as Evil Ryu and Elena.
That oil buff was a godsend. Also the fact that his forward Roundhouse knocked down whether Hakan is oiled up or not.
what? you could give him another 10 years and he wouldn't be anywhere near their tier.
@@Yoloslides With yolo slides he certainly wouldn't, true.
I was too busy playing Elf and screwing up but Hakan has ALWAYS been fun.
I'm so glad when he started with oil up at the beginning of the round now.
Forget face slapping, Diana White needs to bring Turkish oil wrestling to the fight card
So happy you used "Trailer park boys' clips for this vid.
I need the return of Hakan. He was my main in SF4.
Just as I was thinking "I'm surprised you didn't mention his wife and kids" you did. I wonder if one day they'll have the kids grow up and take his place on the roster.
There's gonna be some big problems if one of his daughters looks like their Mom and fights like their Dad. Let's just hope Capcom is not gonna go there.
@@michaelvossen7253 Let capcom cook
His kids are already teenagers in Street Fighter 6, hope we see him and his family again one day.
Put more hours into Hakan than all other characters I playsd combined in SFIV. Just pure fun.
Awesome video, appreciate you highlighting this gem of a unique grappler. I really enjoyed Hakan and put a lot of time into learning him. He had a cool kit and the oil gimmick was just fun.
I really enjoy these deep dives on the more underrated characters in fighting games. I hope you do more of these!
Maybe some of other games too?
I love your look at different Characters Rooflemonger. You not only give a full breakdown of the character but you add some lore and highlight important things about the character.
As far as Hakan goes, I think that people appreciate him more now than when he first showed up all those years ago. People saw him as a joke character I think. Never been a fan myself but at least he is something different.
Thank you so much for this! Hakan beside Blanka is my all time favorite character! I hope that he makes it to sf6 with these new mechanics!!
I fucking LOVED Hakan man! He's the reason I started playing grapplers at all
Hakan's friggin' nuts, and I love him for that! I main him in Ultra 4 along with Elena, Sakura and Gouken. I guess I noticed a pattern with how I used the obscure characters in the SF titles, like with G/Q, Necro and of course Hakan :P
I used to love messing around with Hakan during the sf4 era. Super ridiculous but super fun!
I didn't really play a lot of SF4, but man there really is no other character like him. It'd be cool if he came back
Hakan got me into Street fighter and fighting games back in 2009. He’s just so funky looking and fun to play. He made me the grapple man I am today.
Interesting to have come across this channel. Never played a Street Fighter game --or any proper fighting game, for that matter-- but i've been growing an interest in them. And this video on a off-the-wall character like Hakan was very fun to watch.
Thank you for making this video, and i think i might stick around to watch more. SF6 will likely be my first proper Fighting game, and the way you explain things is with quite the enthousiasm.
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Turkish culture isnt represented much in games so it was a nice surprise when our boi popped up!
Rly enjoyed the video!!!
I wanna see this guy do drive rushes and have his muscles glisten in 4K. The oil coaster MUST return.
Hakan is the Best, He should be playable in Street Fighter 6 :D
He's on a billboard in SF6 so I hope he comes back
Been playing an absurd amount of usf4 with my bf lately, and god damn have I learned what a mechanically interesting grappler Hakan is, his great movement and screen control in neutral when oiled makes him feel so much different than every grappler. I also love that you can move while you do his focus
I was really hoping that you would mention that when Hakan is oiled up he can slide forward and backward while holding focus attack. He’s the only character that can move while having focus charge
He can also lay down and move, I saw someone do it in a tournament it's on video. Commentators talked about it
Great and informative video about Hakan, someone I knew nothing about until now. I definitely could see him being in SF6 as a DLC character eventually especially since he has to meet his old friend E. Honda again.🙂 Also, I'm down for more videos on fighting game characters that not a lot of people play or really know the backstory of.
Street Fighter 4 for the 3ds is where I had my Neuron activation that I liked fighting games, and Hakan was my favorite. I hope he comes back for 6
Great vid love to see grappler love as always. If they put Hakan in SF6 we need his whole fam dousing him in oil before he launches his opponent into orbit as a super.
Man, his trailer was one of the most hype ones I've ever seen in terms of Street Fighter, up there with G's. He was the talk of the town, and for a good reason, so if I ever have to play SFIV, you can bet I'm picking him up.
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Loved Hakan. A super fast reason Ultra2 when your opponent still has a bunch of travel time was the best feeling. It was also super hype that one time Infiltration busted him out at EVO...
Man I missed street fighter. So glad the SFV nightmare is over.
That first reveal trailer for him back in the day was a trip.
Great stuff again! I think one thing you showed but didn't mention is how oiled-up Hakan can slightly slide while doing focus. It's kinda weird looking but it can actually get you in or out of range sometimes.
Hakan defiantly made a big enough splash in 4 to warrant a return. He is by far one of the only ones I remember in 4.
Hakan has some of my favorite Ultras in SF. I always loved how mad friends would get at landing Ultra 2 on them. GREASY!
Hakan is still my all time favorite SF character. I used to only play him ranked
Hakan isn’t a character I think about much other than being the Super SF4 newcomer alongside JURI, but this video completely sold me on how cool and unique he is
While not super popular, from what I’ve seen he feels like one of the more well liked “odd Ball” characters so I feel like there’d be a smaller group of really happy people if he got added to SF6
He’s at least on the dev teams mind if the ads for his oil in metro city are anything to go by
Great vid! I was just talking about hakan and fuerte, and how’d these grapplers would shine in this game
Love! I started using Hakan in his initial release, yes my main character...and I just kept getting better and better as he evolved. The most unique, viable and intersting additions to SF. MUST see him come back in 6
My favourite cheesy move with Hakan (mained him for many, many years) was to do the short slide attack while oiled up, which put opponents in a guarding position, but you would never hit them due to the short range of the slide, and then pull out a 360 grab or U1 during recovery of the slide. Really mean one.
Back when I was a teenager playing vanilla SFIV and had little money for gaming, Hakan was the main reason I wanted to upgrade to Super. I'm a weirdo and feel drawn to the oddball characters of Street Fighter, so seeing all the creativity that went into Hakan just made me really excited. Sadly in Street Fighter we never know when a character will be back, but if Hakan ever does return I will welcome him with open arms.
i haven't watched this yet but hakan was my first REAL street fighter main. everything about him was so goofy and fun and it really finally made fighting games click for me. it's been a long time since i've seen my friend hakan and i've moved on to other games but my memories of finally GETTING why people play fighting games will never die
When I was getting into fighting games (around after Ultra SF4 came out) Hakan was one of the few non-classic characters that really caught my eye.
Say what you will about his importance in the lore, but I just really liked his personality and voice. I didn't even realize some consider him a joke character. Hakan is just fun.
Played a lot of Hakan in SSF4/USF4. Love everything about him.
Was also excitedly chantin’ “CRISPY! CRISPY!”
I feel so sad I wasn’t playing fighting games during SF4 era because I know I would have definitely maimed Hakan. As I Main Grapplers already and my dad literally used to Turkish Oil wrestle. Btw if you wonder why Hakan’s head is Turquoise it’s because the French brought the Turquoise mineral from the Ottoman Empire (which is what the country Turkey used to be) and they just named it “Turkish” in French (yes the Turkish man has Turkish mineral colored hair) Lol. And I am guessing he is Red because he super tanned himself because of the oil. But don’t ask me why he has so many children. Anyway goofy design aside I don’t get to see many Turkish characters in Video games in general (can’t really think of many other than Fade from Valorant that aren’t historical characters tbh)
Hakan was my favorite character from Street Fighter 4, I hope he come back in 6.
Choose poison as the target for the oil themed moves... I approve
I was a Hakan main back in SF4. I learned some secret tech with him and climbed the ranks of online ranked quickly of him. I was accused of being a cheater or hacker but I was simply devoted to the oil king. What's the secret tech you ask? With Hakan if you scored a knock down you could nail oil dive on the opponents wake up as long as they didn't have an invincible reversal like shoryuken that had invincibility active frame one. Every character had 3 frames of standing animation even if you held down when your character stood up. If you timed it right, Hakan could grab the opponent via oil dive on their 3 standing frames. If you got his spd and right after nailed an oil dive you almost did about 450 damage. Not many characters could survive that passed twice with an average of 1000 health...
Some stuff he missed.
His focus. While his focus is charging, you can actually hold forward or backward, and he will slide in that direction. You can actually see right here at 6:21 in the video where he does it for just a second, but he didn't hold it, so he only slid a tiny bit. He went over this briefly but didn't really explain just how good him being able to cancel his dash attacks are. You can FADC after the focus attack lands. So instead of focusing through the projectile and dashing, just use his slide to slide forward let the focus attack land, and use the hit stun from the attack to decide whether to go for lights to get some plus frames or cancel to your medium buttons for a big combo. Not only that, he essentially can use his FADC to combo any button into another because he recovers so quickly (I.e. You can combo 3 fwd+mp into each other. That's normally a combo ending button.)
His Ultra 2. Keep this one brief, but when he said anything that makes you airborne, he meant ANYTHING. Any move in the entire game that removes your characters two feet from the ground at the same time will get caught by his Ultra 2. Playing Juri, and you decided to press Roundhouse? Ultra 2. Wake up DP? Ultra 2. Wanna Sumo Smash, Sumo Headbutt, or use your Ultra 1 in neutral? Ultra 2. Wanna play El Fuerte? Get this Ultra 2 son!
His Super. His super has 3 different properties based on whether you press LK, MK, or HK when doing it.
LK: Hit Invulnerability
MK: Throw Invulnerability
HK: Projectile Invulnerability
This also includes Ultras. Imagine Fei Long does his Rekkashingeki or Chun-Li does her Hosenka. Do his Super with LK and all of their punches and kicks do absolutely nothing as they inevitably fall into your oily grasp taking 450 damage. One of the best Supers in the game.
Last one, his Oil Dive. This move is devious. He mentioned that the move will only hit on standing or airborne opponents, so if you're crouching, always whiffs right? So, in SF4, when you wake up after being knocked down, there are a few (Maybe one? I can't remember.) frames where the crouch input isn't yet "recognized," and your character is considered to be standing...You can see where I'm going with this. If you oil dive at the correct time on your opponent's wake up, you essentially get a guaranteed unblockable grab and their only option to get out of it is to do an invincible reversal. So Hakan can essentially spam this on your wake up over and over, baiting you to do a reversal, and once you fall for it, just hit you with a juicy combo. Go ahead, try it.
hakan was my first grappler that i randomly loved but didn’t know how to play
i don’t play 2d fighters, i adore them, i just don’t find them fun to actually play, but when i did play Street Fighter 4 long ago on my 3DS i messed with Hakan and had a blast. On the 3DS version you could map up to 4 specials onto buttons on the touch screen, and Hakan had a oiled slide that would send him flying across the floor. Figured out with good timing I could slide during the opponent’s wakeup to catch them and loop it again and again. Went online and spammed that move against an El Fuerte for an entire set. 11 year old me was doing meaties before i even knew what it was, truly a prodigy lol
One of my favorite fighting game characters and the most chad of them all. It's not even up for debate. Anybody who doesn't acknowledge Hakan's supreme chad energy is objectively wrong.
Now that you bring it up, it does seem like SF6 was very inspired by Hakan's gameplay in SF4.
precisely how i felt from the beginning
This was my first street fighter game and I loved this character. Not a lot of fun unique grappler options, so ya gotta love to see it.
3:38 Hakan, the Turkish Rail gun - Pelivan Accelerator
"Grease me up woman!"
Can you believe there was a time where at round start, despite his intro showing him dunking oil all over his body, Hakan would not in fact be oiled up at the start of each round?
Hakan only finally really came together at minimum in AE 2012 update, before then he was a dumpster fire of a design lol
Hakan is my favorite grappler in street fighter. Yes, more than Zangief.
He’s absolutely bizarre in design and playstyle but that’s what makes him so fun. I know the SF4 newcomers are effectively just “Juri and those other losers” to many people and seemingly capcom as well looking at SF6’s roster leaks, but I’d give so much to have Hakan return.
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Keep up this series bro 💯 awesome
Hakan was one of the reasons I got into fighting games. Saw the clip of Infiltration rocking him in tournament and wanted to try it out. I never got into SF4 and eventually got into Tekken with the help from my greater inspiration Yoshimitsu, but to this day I’ve felt if Hakan makes a comeback I’m picking up SF 100 %
Bro I absolutely loved Hakan. If they brought him back for SF6 I would definitely buy it.
I used to think he was a weird character but watching this, he's actually pretty cool
Hakan wins the oiled up twerk-off every time
SF4 is the gift that keeps on giving
I always think of James Chen saying "Hakan is one of the strongest, if not THE strongest characters when oiled up!"
To be fair we need to see the other characters strengths when they are oiled up for comparison
i'm still hearing it to this day, and he was wrong then and it's still wrong now lmao. But Hakan is fun af
He was goofy but l actually had him for a secondary and was pleasantly surprised. Some of my opponents couldn't believe l beat them and would immediately replay. I think these characters are good for fighting game in general.
Honestly my most wanted character for street fighter 6.
I will always remember when PR Balrog was beating Infiltration who may have been using Seth at the time. He lost and switched to this unliked character and player, audience, and commentary were all astounded by what Infiltration was able to do with Hakan.
Edit: 6:20 for Hakan switch. ua-cam.com/video/7XKYAayVY48/v-deo.html&feature=share
I tinkered with Hakan, and ended up maining him for a while in SF4. Went to my college gaming lobby to play, and someone said, "holy shit, there is a actually a real life Hakan player."
I dunno why, but the interaction stuck with me.
Always thought it was silly that they didn't bring him back for V he was fun to watch in match ups
My favorite fighting game character ever!
Nothing better than sliding around with focus attacks catching people off guard. As well as zooming full screen to grab people throwing fireballs with EX Slide.
I was a midtier player in SF4 but it was my fighting game peak. I was in the top 150 Hakans on Xbox 360. I hope maybe one day he will come back but I doubt it.
Thanks for spreading the oily love.
Always been a huge fan of Hakan since he first appeared and before the updates. I loved to see him get improvements over time. It kills me that he hasn't returned yet even though he was such a cool new character. Some people say he looks weird, but those people clearly have no taste. Hakan looks BA AF. Devil red skin, classy mustache, lion emblems, unique hair, fun moveset, whats not to love?