Technician Versus Performer: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Street Fighter]]'': [[Ryu and Ken]]. To elaborate, Ryu is something of a [[Blood Knight]]-[[Spirited Competitor]] mixture whose main purpose in life is to perfect his fighting skill and have the perfect match. In that sense his fighting style is at its purest form and therefore does more damage without the focus on flash. Ken, on the other hand, is a showy combatant with a focus on fast kicks and punches and only cares about winning and putting on a good show. In this sense, he is more combo oriented and therefore, while not as damaging as Ryu's, his move do alot of damage if comboed into. This is best showcased in the UDON comic, where Ryu and Ken are both studying the Dragon Punch. Ken, with his natural abilities, gets the basic gist of the move, pulls it off perfectly and then throws some fire on it and calls it a day. Ryu on the other hand, continues to practice that one basic attack over and over with no variance in form or routine. In the end, Ryu ends up with a stronger, harder-hitting Dragon Punch while Ken winds up with a weaker but flashier one supported by other unique attacks and combos.

* ''[[Sakura Wars]]'' plays it straight in the fifth act of ''So Long, My Love'' when the protagonist has to take Subaru's place on stage after losing a contest to them. Subaru is the ultimate technician, while Shinjiro is the ultimate performer. Subaru also has a similar moment when she first tries to play Jazz music at a club. While she is technically proficient, it takes her a while to understand the performance aspect of the genre.

* ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' <nowiki>'</nowiki>s Kim Kaphwan and ''[[King of Fighters]]''<nowiki>'</nowiki> Jhun Hoon. Kim is a very traditional Tae Kwon Do practitioner and his moves, while pretty flashy themselves, are fairly traditional and get the job done. Jhun Hoon, Kim's rival since childhood, is very much pure flash: he fights with [[Extremity Extremist|only his feet]] and kicks out ki phoenix talons (someting Kim doesn't do). He also has a very flamboyant aura about himself and is obviously very showy with his moveset.

* Used in a subplot in ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. The Ramen Don's ordinary but very tasty and masterfully made Ramen is being ignored in favor of the mediocre, yet flashy and crowd pleasing Shadow Ramen, and Neku and Joshua work to reverse this by getting the celebrity supporter to try the "plain" Ramen and therefore support Ramen Don. Although in this case, Ramen Don is a guy who loves his Ramen, where as Shadow Ramen just views it in terms of cold hard cash, and this subplot is about integrity and doing whats right, not what looks good. It's also played straight with the characters of Shooter and Yammer. Yammer himself says he's more technical, but Shooter has more heart so he wins all the matches.

* ''[[Street Fighter]]'' vs ''[[Tekken]]''. ''Street Fighter'' is the 'technician' role, a game largely focused on trying to balance characters, but its very difficult to get into 'casually' vs ''Tekken'', the performer, a fighter game which is easy to play but has fewer special moves. Though considering that the 'Technician' here has spectacular special attacks and characters shoot fireballs, while the performer is focused largely on hand to hand combat, the lines can be blurred. There's going to be a [[Intercontinuity Crossover|two-game crossover series]] according to the other wiki, with one game built on each engine.

** ''Tekken'' is more realistic in terms of the way the characters fight. Although fireballs are present, they haven't been that common in recent years. Many people believe ''Street Fighter''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s retro appeal is the only reason it remains so popular, as it has not made use of technology like ''Tekken'' has. They did try with the ''Ex'' series, but it didn't work that well.