SNK is certainly taking a more unorthodox approach to their base roster guest characters in Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves considering they’re pulling from real life between soccer super star Cristiano Ronaldo and DJ Salvatore Ganacci.
Although we had seen their trailers before, this week served as the first chance to see Ronaldo and Ganacci in action against each other in actual matches.
The very first match of the Evo Showcase event featured team captains WBG|MenaRD and E.T. duking it out with the guest fighters, and we got to see some interesting things.
It would be Diaphone who would put up the most work with Ronaldo to show off what he can do, which you can see more of in the highlight video from the exhibition sets.
Both characters seem to have some good slide kicks, but that’s the least of what they can do.
The first viewer-voted match goes to @Diaphone_ as he takes down MenaRD 5-2! | pic.twitter.com/KKRk4DPfPd
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Ronaldo is looking like he could be a setplay monster in the hands of the right players.
CR7 can juggle and kick his soccer ball multiple times for setups, blockstrings and mixups between his kicks and body blows, so it doesn’t seem like he’s going to be an easy character to master.
FIRST GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE BETWEEN SALVATORE & RONALDO! pic.twitter.com/z0pcm33L7S
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Salvatore is also a bit unorthodox in his toolkit too where his musical stomps are looking like a strong part of his combo arsenal.
Ganacci has multiple follow-ups he can perform out of multiple specials including his floating ability while his jump D actually gives him some extra air time and hits multiple times to boot beating out a REV Blow surprisingly.
It came down to the final round, but in the end it was @ET1120 who emerged victorious with a 5-4 win over Riddles! | pic.twitter.com/9SBP8siUWe
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We also get to see that one of his Gear Supers is actually a counter while the other looks like an overhead but doesn’t appear to be one despite the footage.
Both Ronaldo and Ganacci show up multiple more times throughout the Evo Showcase that you can check out below as well as the recently revealed Hokutomaru and a chunk of the rest of the cast.
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