shoto

plural shotos · alternative Shoto

1. video gamesIn the Street Fighter series, either of the playable characters Ryu and Ken; by extension, several characters with similar attacks.

   The roster could do with a few less shotos, so this is just Poison doing the right thing, really.

   2015, “V for Victory”, in Play, number 253, Imagine Publishing, via Internet Archive, →ISSN, page 11

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   No one else as an invincible uppercut. Why should Ryu/Ken. Why should you be magically freed of this "annoyance" if you pick a shoto character?

   1997 January 28, Tom Cannon <tom@vxtreme.com>, “Re:SF3 + SF EX (MIKE WATSON)”, in alt.games.sf2 (Usenet), via Google Groups, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2025

   Sean is basically a mixture between Ryu and Ken as far as strength and speed are concerned. You can use the same tactics against Sean as you would against them, and you typically have less to worry about than when fighting the Shotos

   2000 November 29, Kenneth Miller, “Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike”, in Dan Leahy, editor, Expert Gamer, number 77, Ziff Davis, via Internet Archive, →ISSN, →OCLC

   Akuma, as well as the other shotos, have many quick fake out maneuvers available to trick opponents on wake up.

   2005, Joey Cuellar; Mark Rogoyski; Adam Deats, Ken Schmidt, Chris Hausermann, edited by H. Leigh Davis, Street Fighter Anniversary Collection: Official Figher's Guide, Brady Games, →ISBN, page 128

2. broadlyvideo gamesIn fighting games generally, a playable character with the ability to shoot a horizontally traveling projectile, perform an uppercut and perform a horizontally travelling physical attack.

   Bro would put 20 shotos in the fucking roster just because they fit the "fighter/ brawler" archetype and call it fun

   2026 May 24, @MiniMasterR, X (post), archived from the original on 27 May 2026

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   The shoto character’s strength would be his wide toolset, which would give him an answer to almost any situation while not exceeding in any of them.

   2016, Miikka Ketonen, “Designing a 2D fighting game”, in theseus.fi (thesis), Kajaani University of Applied Sciences, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020, page 22

   This leaves him in a strange place. He’s kind of an all-rounder, but not a shoto-style all-rounder who has access to all of the game’s basic tools.

   2022 August 26, Renata Price, “Morty Is In ‘Multiversus’ And No One Knows How To Play Him”, in Vice, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025

   From the four selectable fighters in the test build, Hiro appears to be your go-to shoto fighter, but it’s actually rushdown-based Adrian whose special resembles a dragon punch.

   2026 January 29, “Poly Fighter: Fight like a Rogue”, in Edge, number 418, via EBSCOhost, →ISSN, page 42