matthew pellett EDITOR

Fighter: Greatest Of All Time – aka GOAT Country: Italy Stage: Gran Paradiso Park dam Job: Goat farmer

Bio: A simple-minded goat farmer who trained by wrestling wolves away from his livestock, this mysterious man soon became known locally as the Greatest Of All Time – and took the alliteration to heart. Now he’s never seen without his trademark goat mask (horned for anti-air headbutts), his furry forearms and calves (with hooves instead of hands and feet for extra striking power), and his grass underpants (because even GOATs need to hide their modesty – no shaming them).

V-Skill Pasteurise & Fall GOAT squirts a small puddle of milk on the floor to make that particular patch extra slippery.

V-Trigger Fresh Bleat GOAT emits a high-pitched bleat that shocks his opponents, dropping their defence stats for the duration of the noise’s long echo.

Critical Art The GOAT Of Shame Making full use of his double-jointed elbows and knees, GOAT drops to all fours and charges forward at full speed, headbutting his opponent in the crotch with his horns and flinging them high up into the air. If it’s a KO, they smash face-first into the screen. Likes: Cheese, milk. Dislikes: Meat, butchers.

Ono says…

“This is just one step away from being like something in the Japanese manga Kinnikuman. The biography details are just like the kind of slightly silly, slightly crazy stuff we come up with ourselves for Street Fighter characters and I think it’s great; this kind of stupidity that the fans and players have come to love over the years. What is going on with that V-Trigger? Why would a goat bleat lower my defence?? But that’s the kind of fantastical nonsense that Street Fighter is made of, so for this reason I’m choosing this design as the winner! It’s a real hit with me and I think GOAT is the one that best matches the SF universe.”