2025 premiere - Terry Bogard VS Ken Masters (SNK VS Capcom) | Prediction blog
Nothing to say here except this MU is FIRE
Before we start
This blog will be analyzing a comp version of both characters to make this MU more fun, Terry will be getting Fatal Fury and any other media relating to it, Kof, crossover scaling for series that have appeared in KOF canon, and lastly the Manga's, the only exception being Fighting EX layer and SF6 as it will cost overlap for both of their scaling. While for Ken it'll be the games, Udon comics, the Manga's, Final Fight, SF EX, Marvel VS Capcom and Smash bros will not be used for this.
Terry Bogard, the wild wolf of SNK
Ken masters, Capcom's fiery street fighter
Background
Is Terry Bogard truly just Ken with a hat?
- Full Name: Terry Bogard
- Alias: The Hungry Wolf
- Age: 24 years old in KOF, 37 in FF:Cotw
- Gender: Male
- Height: 6'0
- Likes: Jeff's gloves, vintage jeans, Ukee, Video games, Basketball, Fighting, his brother, Blue Marry, Ryu and Ken
- Dislikes: Geese, Slugs, bad fights
Terry Bogard and his brother Andy Bogard were both orphan's who raised themselves in the deadly street's of South Town, him and his brother would be adapted by a man named Jeff Bogard, Jeff would teach Terry and Andy martial arts, they all lived a peaceful life until one day Terry would witness the death of his adoptive father in the hand of Geese Howard, ever since this the two brothers would make an oath to not only train their marital arts skills but to also avenge their fallen father, Andy would venture to Japan while Terry would stay back and journey the country sharping his skills with what he learned from his dad, the streets and with the help of a old man named Tung Fue Rue, now a decade later the man known as Geese would host a tournament named The King Of Fighters, this would finally give Terry and Andy a chance to avenge Jeff, Terry, Jeff and their 3rd team member Joe would enter the tournament where they would kick everyone else ass and win the whole thing, this would piss off Geese would ask his men to bring Terry to his tower where they would have a fight to the death, after the toughest battle yet Terry would deliver the finishing blow kicking Geese off the tower, sending him flying to the ground which would kill him.
Terry's story wouldn't end here as Geese half-brother would hear about his death and host his own tournament, to which Terry would once again make it to the finals and face Geese's brother named Wolfgang Krauser, like he did with Geese Terry delt with him and win the fight, this would name Terry as the strongest in the world and be known as the hero of South Town.
Did i say Geese died?? I LIED!!!! Geese would still be alive and make his return this is due to the Phoenix scroll, now hearing about Geese searching for the legendry scroll's Terry and gang would look for it themselves to keep it of Geese hands, Terry would once more find his way to Geese and challenge him to round 2 defeating him again, after this Geese would flee the scene and Terry would come face to face with Yamazaki, then challenged the Jin brothers. Standing now as the victor. However, Geese had escaped with the scrolls. A year later, Terry and his friends heard word of another King of Fighters tournament hitting the streets of South Town. Managing to prove his resolve to South Town's finest and keep his enemies off his trail, Terry breezes through the tournament in hopes to face Geese for one final conflict to stop his evil plans, Geese would try to unleash his strongest attack but Terry would beat it out using his own special attack. At the end of the fight, he knocked Geese off the edge of Geese Tower again, but in a ditch attempt Terry would grab hold of Geese's hand to keep him from falling. But this was not to be, as Geese knocked Terry's hand away, plummeting to what is believed to be his permanent death with would leave Terry with regret.
Sometime after their final conflict, Terry did not take his final duel against Geese in stride, hoping to stop Geese than to kill him in blind vengeance and rage like he did the first time he confronted Geese. Seeing and being called out by Billy Kane, furious in anguish and grief, and learning Rock was Geese's son, Terry began to question his reasons for fighting and wondered if his path to avenge Jeff was the right thing to do, and in guilt for not being able to save Geese to his word. Finding Rock, he was then challenged to him to a street fight. Open to anything that would come his way, Terry silently accepted Rock's challenge. Rock fought fairly as a fledgling fighter, and impressed by his determination, Terry took solace in knowing that life would give him another chance. Taking Rock in, he would raise and take care of him as means to put the feud between him and Geese behind, and would teach him how to fight on the streets of South Town and his travels around the world, this would push the story of Fatal Fury into the events of Garou Mark Of The Wolves.
In the King Of Fighters time Terry's story would stay the same to his mainline counter part until Fatal Fury 2
Why is Ken Master's known as the original Echo Fighter
- Full Name: Ken Masters
- Age: It's street fighter, it's all over the place
- Gender: Male
- Height: 5'9
- Likes: Spaghetti, pasta, family, skateboarding, Ryu and Terry, his other friends
- Dislikes: Evil people, boring fights, losing
Ken masters was your normal everyday spoiled rich kid who really didn't care about what he did well because he was rich, now with a misbehaving child Ken's father wasn't gonna have any of it, so when he was only 12 he would send Ken to Japan to learn some discipline under the watchful eye of karate master Gouken, at the start Ken was very hesitant to learn from Gouken, wanting to go back to the United States, but later he would grow to respect his master, Ken would train alongside another person named Ryu, who he would end up becoming best friends and rivals with.
When Ryu was 23, Gouken decided that both of his pupils had grown up to be fine fighters and decided that their training was over and could now leave the dojo. Ryu decided to travel the world in order to continue his training, whereas Ken was finally happy to be going back home to the United States after his years of straining his back for his master, Gouken, and finally learning the meaning of humility. After coming home, Ken competed in many different Martial Arts tournaments held in the United States, winning most of them. Ken did not participate in the first World Warrior tournament; instead, he fought in the premiere U.S. Martial Arts tournament that had been previously won by Charlie Nash, as well as meeting a very attractive girl named Eliza, who became his girlfriend and his wife.
Unlike Terry who's story is straight Street Fighter's story is all over the place so lets just get to the the new story line for Ken in SF6
In SF6 Ken has ben accused with orchestrating a criminal plot have forced Ken to abandon his family and business and go into hiding, this would make Ken lose much of his fire and not really have much passion for fighting but despite this Ken is still one of the best fighters out there, ask Luke after Ken beat him.
Abilities/Skills
Terry Bogard
Martial Arts
Terry and Andy had both been training from a very young age and have managed to form their own fighting style, Terry in his case uses a mix of styles and puts them all in one
- Boxing: A fighting sport where people just throw hands with one another, there's multiple styles of boxing which includes. The in-fighter, The out-boxer, The slugger, The boxer-puncher, Counterpuncher, Southpaw, Switch-hitter
- Karate: Terry uses Kyokushin to be exact, It is a full-contact style of stand-up fighting and is rooted in a philosophy of self-improvement, discipline, and hard training.
- Kung Fu: Mainly a Chinese martial art, there's multiple styles for this but its mainly used because of it's quick attacks to put down your enemy
- Kickboxing: This is like boxing's younger brother that includes punching and kicking alongside knee strikes
- Street Fighting: Just straight hand to hand fighting, no styles no special attacks just fist
Hakkyokuseiekn/Chi
Hakkyokuseiekn is an ancient kung fu style and it is recorded in an ancient scroll, which is passed down from master to chosen disciple and so on. It is primarily based on Bajiquan(Hakkyokuken), a Chinese martial art that features explosive, short-range power and is famous for its elbow strikes and shoulder strikes, and Tai Chi, an international Chinese martial art practiced for defensive training, health benefits, and meditation. This style is mainly based on energy flow with a strong emphasis on Chi gung and each individual fighter uses it with his own fighting style.
Hakkyokuseiken expects its students to be not only of powerful and skilled physical prowess but of strong mind, positive discipline and also good natured, not controlled by any negative emotions.
Hakkyokuseiken also works as Chi which allows it's users to gather energy from the earth and utilize it as a means of combat, Terry uses it for nearly all of his stronger attacks and can boost his own attacks by using chi, he can also sense people's aura which gives him a upper hand in battle
Unique attacks and Throws
- Rising Upper: While standing, Terry executes an uppercut with good vertical reach that can be useful to knock down airborne foes.
- Backspin Kick: Terry slightly reels back and then performs a spinning back kick while leaping forward. Can either knock the opponent down or into an another plane.
- Charging Kick: Terry rushes forward while performing a front angled kick.
- Wild Upper: Terry crouches down and performs a fierce uppercut.
- Back Knuckle: Terry spins around and hits the opponent twice with the back of his knuckle.
- Hammer Punch: Terry takes a large step forward, delivering a low-aiming hook punch
- Combination Punch: Terry delivers a right hook and then quickly does a left elbow strike.
- Buster Throw: Terry grabs the opponent and then performs a Judo throw to slam them either forwards or backwards.
- Grasping Throw: Terry grabs the opponent and then performs a uppercut to hurl them away upwards.
- Neck Breaker Drop: Terry grabs the opponent, then leaps and performs a neckbreaker slam.
Special Attacks
Power Wave
A ground projectile that Terry can fire towards his opponent, it travels across the ground and causes a small explosion upon contact.
Round wave
Terry produces a small, short-ranged energy shockwave burst in a similar fashion to Power Wave.
Burning Knuckle
Terry gathers chi around his fist while flapping them out and then lunges towards the opponent with his arm extended for a energy punch.
Power Drive
Terry moves forward and spins before landing a slower, shorter version of Burning Knuckle.
Crack Shoot
Terry jumps into the air and performs an acrobatic axe kick by flipping forward with his leg extended.
Rising Tackle
Terry leaps into the air as he propels himself upwards, while performing an upward corkscrew kick.
Power Dunk
Terry leaps into the air, hitting the opponent twice with his knee and then performs a downward-angled diving punch towards the ground.
Max Dunk
Terry rams into the opponent with a shoulder charge and finishes with a Power Dunk.
Power Shoot
Terry moves forward and then spins, hitting the opponent with a front kick.
Power Charge
Terry charges towards the opponent and hits them with a shoulder tackle.
Passing Sway
Terry dashes forward with an elbow strike and then follows with a spinning kick.
Fire Kick
Terry dashes forward with a sweep and gets up with a high kick, sending an opponent into the air.
Quick Burn
Terry performs a quick, chi energy-amplified combo that consists of an close uppercut and then a downwards blow with his other fist, that hits overhead.
Super Attacks
Power Geyser
Terry punches the ground with his chi-infused fist, erupting a massive angled geyser of energy from it. He can perform this move repeatedly, increasing the number of geysers created and its power.
High-Angle Geyser
Terry performs a Power Charge towards the opponent. If he hits, he will perform a Power Dunk to send them flying into the air and finally punch them onto the ground with a Power Geyser.
Triple Geyser
Terry punches the ground with his fists a few times, creating a chain of three consecutive Power Geysers forward.
Heat up Geyser
Terry punches the opponent with a low punch and sends them flying with an uppercut. While the enemy is airborne, Terry hits them with a larger version of Power Geyser.
Trinity Geyser
Terry raises both of his fists behind his head and then slams them into the ground, creating a series of three powerful Power Geysers that fire out of the ground. A more powerful version of Triple Geyser.
Power Stream
Terry leaps into the air and smashes the ground with both fists, surrounding himself in a dome of energy and materializing a beam around him. Can negate practically any projectile and out-hit most attacks.
Buster Wolf
Terry's final smash in ultimate, It looks so cool in SF6, Terry rushes forward with a highly powerful version of Burning Knuckle at the opponent. If a move connects, he then creates a large point-blank chi explosion directly in-front of him, which either sends the opponent flying or obliterates them.
Rising Force
Terry charges towards the opponent and hits them with a shoulder charge. He then follows with a punch and finishes with a multi-hitting version of Rising Tackle.
Star Dunk Volcano
Terry starts by performing a brutal knee strike on the opponent's stomach, launching them into the air. He then catches them with a Power Dunk and upon descending, creates a huge geyser upon impact which surges through the opponent, launching them airborne.
Stardust Ignition
Terry starts by hitting the target with a power charge before hitting them with a full power punch releasing a massive geyser that sent's the enemy flying upward
Shatter Strike
Terry does a roundhouse kick which collapses the opponent. It can also ignore any attack when timed correctly
Advance Strike
Like a Shatter Strike, an Advance Strike is an offensive maneuver initiated while guarding against an attacking opponent.
Ken Masters
Ansatsuken/Shotokan
Like Ryu, Ken is a master of the Ansatsuken style or known as Shotokan, this style includes basics like punches and kicks, but unlike Ryu, Ken is more about style and speed along with a more notable focus on more brutal judo throws and with some aspects of Kyokushin Karate. Unlike Ryu who mainly uses the Hadouken as his main attack, Ken's trademark technique is instead his Shoryuken.
Due to ken mainly using the Shoryuken his overall style has become more focuses on attack that let's him pull it off, such as multiple hit attacks and rushing down his opponent
Unique attacks and Throws
- Inazuma Kick: Ken performs an overhead following-legged axe kick that hits the opponent two times via his heel.
- Thunder Kick: Ken slightly rushes forward and delivers an overhead axe kick with his leading leg. Ken can also suddenly interrupt the move, performing a feint.
- Chin Buster: Ken delivers a punch into the chest region, he can follow this by throwing an uppercut to the chin, launching the opponent into the air.
- Lion Breaker: Ken hits his opponent with a high roundhouse kick to the head, followed by a crescent kick which will launch the opponent into the air.
- Triple Flash Kicks: A sequence of three, long-reaching roundhouse kicks.
- Flame Strike: Ken lunges forward with a heavy hook.
- Lighting Crack: Ken blocks an incoming attack and replies with a powerful knee.
- Forward Step Kick: Ken steps forward and then launches a fast kick at the opponent.
- Focus Attack: A heavy move that grants an augmented defense to the user during the execution and, if it lands, makes the opponent crumple. Ken's version consists in a low roundhouse kick.
- Knee Bash: Ken grabs his opponent, delivers two knee strikes to their face and then hits it with a kick to the chin.
- Hell Wheel: Ken grabs his opponent, and falls in backwards roll, planting a foot on the opponent and applying pressure, causing them to flip back and land on the ground.
- Shoulder Throw: Ken grabs his opponent and pulls them over his shoulder, causing them to land on their back.
Ki-Sensing
Characters who can use Ki like, Akuma, Sakura, Ryu and Chun-Li have shown the ability to sense the Ki of others and Ken being one of the better users of said energy should be able to do the same
Special Attacks
Hadouken
A weaker Kamehameha jkjk, the Hadoken is a Chi-based wave of energy that travels towards the opponent, damaging anyone in front of it
Shoryuken
A strong jumping uppercut that can catch jumping opponents or just use it to end a combo or as you can see follow up with another one, he can also preform a stronger version of this attack that puts his fist inflames (as seen above)
Tatsumaki Senpukyaku
Ken jumps and performs a powerful spinning kick that hits the opponent multiple times. He can also use another variety, starting with a knee strike and then delivering several kicks in an arc motion. With the EX version, Ken begins the move with a knee strike, then performs a stronger Tatsumaki Senpukyaku which brings the opponent up into the air.
Dragonlash Kick
Ken launches a leaping roundhouse kick that pulls the opponent towards him. The enhanced version is empowered by fire.
A high roundhouse kick that can be followed up by one of three kicks. The enhanced versions of this attack and the following ones are imbued with fire.
- Kazekama Shin Kick: A low kick to the shins.
- Gorai Axe Kick: An overhead kick that hits with the falling heel.
- Senka Snap Kick: Another roundhouse that knocks the opponent away.
- Kasai Thrust Kick: An additional thrusting kick following any of the previous kicks when empowered by fire.
Reppu Hadoshu
Ken fires a Hadoken from his feet. He can able to fire up to two, each capable of traveling forward or upward.
Kamabaraigeri
Ken delivers a knee strike and extends his leg to hit the opponent a second time. Then, he turns around, ready to follow with another attack.
Zenpou Tenshin
An evasive move. Ken performs it by rolling forward
Zento
A variant of the Zenpou, used as a feint to mislead the opponents. Ken rolls, lands on his back and then returns to his initial position.
Super Attacks
Shoryureppa
Two Shoryuken delivered one after another. The last uppercut is imbued in flames. It was created to overcome a karate veteran able to counter his first Shoryuken, delivering a weaker uppercut first, and then, a stronger and unexpected one immediately after.
Shinryuken
Ken first performs a normal Shoryuken, then storms the opponent with a rapid combination of kicks and finishes with an extra-powerful, flaming Shoryuken, creating a vortex of fire while spinning on himself.
Guren Senpukyaku
Ken unleashes a barrage of flaming Tatsumaki Senpukyaku kicks as he spins in a horizontal straight line across the screen. If it lands properly, he finishes them off with a final flaming kick.
Guren Enjinkyaku
Ken begins with a jumping kick that, if successful in hitting the opponent, begins the attack combination where he jumps off the opponent with the other foot, spinning on the ground backwards before he runs back up and hits the opponent with a furious upward-flying flaming Tatsumaki that ends with a final, slightly prolonged kick going straight across the opponent's face.
Dragonlash Flame
Ken sets his back foot ablaze and delivers a sidekick to his opponent that sends them tumbling high in the air if it hits. Ken then leaps toward the opponent and follows up a couple more Dragonlash Kicks, finishing them off with a final dragon kick.
Shippu Jinrai-kyaku
Ken moves forward and delivers a low roundhouse kick, two high ones, another low one, and follows up with a knee hit. He then launches into a vertical Tatsumaki Senpukyaku.
Shinryu Reppa
Ken does his traditional Shoryureppa; hitting the opponent with two blazing Shoryukens. Each hit increasing in power and knocking the opponent off of their feet with the second one sending them into the air. Ken then goes for a third uppercut, scoring a direct hit on the opponent's midsection. He finishes them off with a Shinryuken, launching the opponent high in the air before descending.
V-trigger
V-trigger 1 - Heat Rush
Ken channels flames through his entire body for a short period of time, which powers up his special attacks by increasing their number of hits and improving their trajectory, allowing him to perform even more damaging combos.
- Tatsumaki Senpukyaku: The Tatsumaki Senpukyaku now gains flame effects on it
- Shoryuken: The Shoryuken also gains flaming effects. Besides increasing the number of hits, this results in Ken performing the moves faster, juggling the opponent, which allows him to link multiple Shoryuken to deal a ton of damage to the opponent.
- Shakunetsu Hadoken: His regular Hadoken changes into the Shakunetsu Hadoken, which causes a knockdown on hit
V-trigger 2 - Shinryuken
Ken performs a vertical, corkscrew-like Shoryuken with flames and a "vacuum" properties that allows followup attacks. Tapping the buttons while performing the move grants additional damage.
V-skills
V-reversal/Senpu Nataotoshi
Ken blocks an opponent's attack and then replies with a flaming kick.
V-Shift/Shadow Thunder-Kick
Ken quickly dashes backwards to dodge an incoming attack and replies with a powerful roundhouse kick that strikes the opponent before they are able to react, knocking them down.
Quick-Step
Ken runs towards the opponent, closing the distance in an instant. He can also choose to step kick or input another attack closer to the end of his run.
Ryusenkyaku
Ken leaps forward and performs a wheel kick on the opponent.
Feats
Terry Bogard
Overall
Power
- Destroyed the top of the roof with his Power Geyser.
- Terry is strong enough to destroy a variety of things such as A food stand made of concrete, a large training dummy made of wood, a small house also made of wood, and a whole wall made of stone.
- Sends Geese off his Tower with a kick or a Burn Knuckle in the KOF show as he powered through his Raging Storm.
- Can destroy a forest with a power wave
- Clashed with Ryo (Ryo has fought Kyo and Iori)
Speed
- Dodged a bullet
- Dodged Geese's Reppuken and was fast enough to save Tung Fue Rue and Meitenkun
Durability
- Has taken hits from Geese
- Took hits from Krauser
- Took a hit from Ryo
- Took hits from Kula Diamond and got even frozen by her.
Ken Masters
Overall
- Defeated Vega while bleeding out
- Defeated Zangief & Charlie Nash
- Defeated M. Bison with Ryu's help
- Easily resists the Satsui no Hado due to his light-heartedness
- Defeated Birdie, Sean Matsuda, Karin, F.A.N.G, and Sakura
- Fought off Bison with the help of Sakura
- Won multiple martial arts tournaments
- Defeated Ryu on 4 separate occasions.
Power
- Managed to uppercut Dan up high 15 feet into the air.
- Kicked a punching back hard enough to the point where it exploded.
- Managed to knock a bull unconscious with just a single hit.
- Punched through trees with ease.
- Ken’s Shoryuken punch is strong enough destroy a building.
Speed
- Has kept up with Ryu
- Has kept up with M.Bison
- Ken intercepts Bison’s Psycho Crusher which can tag a Satellite laser (Mach 1166 - 1.66% SoL)
- Has kept up with Karin, Sakura, Rufus, Birdie, Laura, and Sean
- Has kept up with Evil Ryu
- Dodged Balrog's punches
Durablity
- Got back up after falling 100 feet down to a cliff
- Has taken hits from Ryu
- Withstood blows from Karin, Sakura, M. Bison, Rufus, Birdie, Laura, and Sean
- Got back to his feet almost immediately after taking a Hadoken to the chest
- Shrugged off Zangief suplexing him
- Got right back up after being sent flying out of an Alaskan cabin by a punch from Evil Ryu
- Tanked a brutal beating from Hugo
- Took hits from Cammy
- Survived a vicious attack by Akuma
- Survived a blast from Rosonov
- In a fight against Vega, Ken lost a lot of blood, got stabbed multiple times, broke both his feet, got his foot (as seen above)
Scaling
Terry Bogard
Fatal Fury/Art Of Fighting cast
The OG's Terry scales to everyone in Fatal and Art of fighting since both take place in the same universe, he's also fought evenly with Ryo which pushes the case more.
- Everyone in Fatal Fury can destroy walls (2825709.54167 joules)
Kof cast
Terry has proven that he is on the top tiers of power when it comes to Kof, being able to fight on par with the likes of Kyo and Iori and even the ones with Orochi power, which if you know kof, is big boy power.
- Comparable to Kula Diamond who froze an area of a port in an instant when she awoke her powers. (2 Megatons of TNT)
- Iori blasts a hole in the sky (2.281 Megatons)
- Upscale characters who can survive or outmatch the Zero Cannon (13.9 - 49 Megatons)
- Goenitz creates a storm (5.46256686667783 - 8.74010698668454 Megatons)
- Orochi Yashiro has the power of geokinesis, and in one such instance, created a large amount of lava in a stage (5.88 - 9.606 Gigatons)
- Kyo dodges lightning
- Orochi Shermie is strong enough to manipulate the weather (32.96 Megatons)
- Comparable to Verse whose defeat caused clouds to part (910 Gigatons)
- Fighters can react to Orochi's Rounding Reaper (0.24c)
- Should upscale Bao, who shot a beam up in orbit to destroy the Zero Satellite. (0.113c)
- Comparable to Takuma who intercepted the Zero Satellite Beam and redirected it (1.53%c of the Speed of Light)
Samurai Shodown
Samsho has appeared in KOF 15 as a canon DLC as they been stated to be official additions to the story and not just guest, meaning that Terry should scale to Sam and their top tiers.
- SamSho characters could match Mizuki, Mizuki was capable of creating a storm that enveloped the whole world (4.8 Teratons)
- Shizuka releases a huge pillar of energy (9.37 Megatons)
Metal Slug
Metal slug is a bit debatable but is not out of leftfield, for starters KOF characters like Ralf, Clark and Leona have appeared in canon Metal slug games and the Metal slug characters have shown up in the KOF manga, where they were sent to deal with krizalid one of the stronger bosses in KOF, Terry has fought others on par and above krizalid, so him scaling to Metal Slug is in the ball park.
- The Evil Spirit Rains Hell (504 - 840 Kilotons - 7.35 Teratons)
- The Invader King's big fall (106 - 124.6 Megatons - 3.081 Teratons - 3.599 Teratons)
- Geweih’s heat was stated to be capable of melting the earth (9.399 Exatons - 38.8 Zettatons of)
- Marco dodges a laser (0.189c and 0.06c)
- The soldiers were able to react to an EMP (0.75c)
Ken Masters
Ryu
Ken's best friend and rival, Ken and Ryu have fought each other multiple times, with both having a solid win record over the other, and when they are not fighting each other they team up to kick their enemies ass while keeping up with one another.
M. Bison
Ken and Ryu have both fought Bison together and even won, plus with Ken being able to keep up with other fighters like Chun-Li who have fought M. Bison before, Ken should safely scale to M. Bsion
Street Fighter cast
Being part of the main cast of SF and Ryu's boyfriend/rival, Ken would naturally scale to the other world warriors.
- E. Honda destroys a meteor (687 - 961 Megatons)
Final Fight cast
The final fight cast is canon to the SF universe and many characters have been in a canon SF game, these guys are shown to be on par with the main fighters of SF so Ken scaling is on the top
Street Fighter EX
Street Fighter EX have had their time to shine with the main cast of Street fighter and there's already canon scaling for them as they fought evenly with the main cast before, with Ken being playable in these games, so fair to say Ken should scale
Weakness
Terry Bogard
While Terry Bogard is my goat he can get cocky and has the Goku virus which makes him hold back as well as want to fight everyone at their best, losing fights kinda makes him depressed due to his pride as one of the world's best fighters, also people just call him Ken with a hat... yeah that's rough buddy.
Ken Masters
Ken is one of the best fighters in all of Street Fighter but due to this he's become pretty cocky, he overestimate his skills at times, leaving him open for an attack, and in Street Fighter 6 Ken lost most of his fire which makes him question himself and his fighting ability, also he's broke
Verdict
Oh boy... will let's start this, both Terry can Ken have impressive showings of strength and both being comparable to many fighters across their own games, both mainly get their best feats from scaling so lets start low and get high, both Terry and Ken can scale to Megaton levels of Power, but that's only the lower of their scaling, KOF and SF have feats that can reach Gigaton range and above, with Terry being able to scale to Yashiro crating Lava and Verse's defeat causing storms to part, Yashiro's feat requiring 5.88 - 9.606 Gigatons, and Verse being 1.71 - 910 Gigatons, Ken can compare to fellow blondes Charlie and Cammy who survived a 70 Gigaton blast and M. Bison who suicide blast is claced at 366.8 Gigatons, both of these being overall higher than the low end and high end for Yashiro lava clac, but nothing compared to Verse parting the clouds.
What about with the stronger feats?? Ken can contend with the high tiers of the final fight cast which includes both Cody and Guy, who are comparable to the one and only Mike Haggar, you know the guy who did the crazy pile driver, which may not seem like much since its a pile driver, but dude jumps all the way into outer space and pile drives you so hard that it creates an explosion, which makes no sense at all but hey we ball, this amazing Pile Driver comes out to 10.4 Petatons, which completely destroyers any feats Terry can scale to including Samurai Shodown 4.8 Teratons clac, except for one in Metal Slug’s Geweih is stated to be capable of melting the earth which can get 9.399 Exatons - 39 Zettatons, both of these being higher than Mike's pile driver and making Terry stronger than Ken by a good amount.
Speed is rather easy when it comes to their lower speeds, both terry and Ken can fight on par with fighters who can dodge bullets, which easily puts them at faster than eye speeds and have superhuman stamina being able to fight for long periods of time but when you compare them to others the gap in speed becomes a noticeably massive difference, with Metal Slug Terry can compare to characters that can dodge EMPs which can get to 75% the speed of light solidly putting Terry at Relativistic speeds, this is impressive speeds for sure but Ken takes this no contest, the cast of Street Fighter EX can get stupidly fast especially with Cracker Jack who can hit people to Uranus (ay yo) and Jupiter, both which get to MFTL+ this puts Ken thousands or even millions of times faster than Terry, a massive speed gap to say the least.
Going over these numbers it looks like Terry maybe cooked due to the speed but that's when your wrong, both Terry and Ken's durability can be scaled to their AP due to fighting the top tiers in their verse, which includes Orochi powered Leona which is the biggest factor here as she's comparable to the likes of Metal slug, which if you remember can reach 39 Zettatons of TNT. To put it short Ken takes speed by a massive gap while Terry does the same for power and durability.
To start it off while Ken's fighting style is a sight to see, Terry's much more inclusive style that incorporates boxing, karate, kung fu, kickboxing and normal street fighting allows him to just do more in the fight, plus Terry has fought someone similar to both Ken and Ryu, so Ken's Hadoukens and uppercuts would be nothing surprising to Terry, while Ken has never fought anyone with Terry's move set (Unless you include Terry Bogard dlc which we don't know if that's canon, but most likely not)
Abilities is a more of a a difficult thing to handle tho, both Terry and Ken have defense and offense abilities to throw at one another, Terry being able to cancel the Hadouken with Round weave, Burn Knuckle or Crack Shoot, and Ken being able to past by power weave with Tatsumaki Senpukyaku and catching Terry mid air with the Shoryuken, both also have good AOE attacks, Ken's fight with Sakura creating a massive explosion, and Ryu making a skyscraper size explosion with his Hadouken and Terry being able to cover the screen with Trinity Geyser or Power Stream, it's really fair to say that none have an advantage over the other when it comes to abilities, they both can throw and destroy projectiles, both have ways to deal with mid air enemies, both have ways to punish targets to leave them open and both have muti hitting super attacks to deal massive damage, and both can sense KI and no Ken's playing dead won't trick Terry, bro has fought to many people to fall for that, but thanks to his V-triggers Ken should take this category, his V-triggers let's Ken dodge and counter some of Terry attacks, along side with adding flames on them giving him some sort of status ailment which with his greater speed it let's him leave ailments on Terry much faster.
Tertiary Factors is also one that people may have a fun debate about, let's start with skill, both Terry and Ken have been training since they were kids and both have won their own fair share of tournaments and both are known to be some of the greatest martial artist in the world in terms of skill, but as said before thanks to Ryo Terry has already some experience when it comes to fighting people like Ken, while not a massive it helps in the long run.
In terms of experience Terry should take this, sure they both have been training since they were kids, but only Terry has actually had fights since he was a kid, while Ken was a spoiled Ken for his younger life up until 12, so while both had train since a young age, Terry should take experience due to have actually fought older martial artist in his younger days.
Terry and Ken also have superhuman stamina, with both being able to fight while bleeding out and heavily injured, but when Ken was bleeding out he was slashed by Vega while Terry was stabbed from behind, got the back of his skull bashed over an over, tanked orochi Leona's explosion directly on him, got frozen by Kula and got jumped by evil Kyo's clones and he just kept on fighting, Ken's stamina is impressive but Terry's just on another level
Advantages:
- A lot stronger and more durable
- One full power hit can take out Ken
- Ken is too weak to do any real damage
- Better overall fighting style
- More fighting experience
- Has fought someone similar to Ken's style in Ryo
- Terry own durability feats beats Ken's and his stamina is far greater
Equal:
- Both had train since they were kids
- Both have ways to counter one another's skills
- Both have ways to stun the other with focus and shatter strike
- Both have AOE attacks to throw
- Both can sense KI
- Both are in smash bros, Street fighter 6 and Garou
Disadvantages
- A lot slower than Ken, to the point that landing a fatal attack is gonna be a hard time
- V-Trigger give's Ken more reliable skills
- V-Trigger give's Ken flames properties on his attacks
Advantages:
- A lot faster than Terry
- V-Trigger gives him more reliable skills
- V-Trigger gives his attacks flame properties
Equal:
- Both had train since they were kids
- Both have ways to counter one another's skills
- Both have ways to stun the other with focus and shatter strike
- Both have AOE attacks to throw
- Both can sense KI
- Both are in smash bros, Street fighter 6 and Garou
Disadvantages:
- A lot weaker than Terry
- One full power attack from Terry can put him down for good
- Can't do any damage due to the massive durability gap
- Terry's fighting style is overall better
- Terry has more fighting experience overall
- Terry has fought someone similar to Ken's style in Ryo
- Terry has directly survived worst than what Ken has shown, and has greater stamina
Going into this, i really didn't know what to expect given how some view the stats of KOF and SF characters, some might even disagree with this to be honest, With Ken's massive speed advantage and his V-trigger letting him dodge and attack, alongside give his attack flame proprieties, you would expect that he has this one in the bag, but Terry's gap in power and durability not only let him one shot Ken with full power but tank anything Ken has to throw at him, along side his stamina being shown to be greater, means that sooner or later he will be able to outlast Ken to land a fatal strike
Well, Ken is outdoing everyone but meeting Terry in the streets was a fatal decision
The winner is Terry Bogard
Very special thanks to G1blog Sakura vs Gwen blog, Ibuki for the google doc about Terry Bogard, Tommy street fighter clacs, and the doc about Metal Slug clacs it all helped to push this blog forward
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