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Welcome fellow fighters, long time no see!
I've begun to catch up with the updates of the profiles of the "recently" (read: june 2025 onwards) released characters for Street Fighter 6 and today I'm here to introduce to you the Kenyan Capoeirist, Elena!
Current file - new file
It's not a massive overhaul, so the changes are significant but rather tame.
Soundtrack for the read
General changes
New/Updated Powers and Abilities:
And that's pretty much it, follow the beats and let me know your opinions!
I've begun to catch up with the updates of the profiles of the "recently" (read: june 2025 onwards) released characters for Street Fighter 6 and today I'm here to introduce to you the Kenyan Capoeirist, Elena!
Current file - new file
It's not a massive overhaul, so the changes are significant but rather tame.
Soundtrack for the read
General changes
- Updated: Summary, age (still unknown but older), classification (her being a princess has been changed to being the daughter of a "simple" elder)
- Added references (they're on the file but not here in this topic)
- Gallery expansion
- Quotes addition
- Attacks & Techniques: New gifs, techniques and videos, to match with her new moveset.
- Added a new section for "combat skills", I've been implementing these little sections for all my revised SF characters, to add more insights on how they fight and what their fighting styles consist of.
- Removed the old, pointless and false weakness "Her friendly personality prevents her from taking martial arts and fighting as seriously as others"
- Stamina downgrade from Peak Human to Athletic simply because we lack solid evidences.
- I've added a possible scaling to Zangief because he's the new 9-A AP peak of the verse and the scaling chains eventually lead to him, although Elena has never directly matches his strength.
- Expanded on her intelligence, making her Gifted.
New/Updated Powers and Abilities:
- Acrobatics (Hypermobility and Self-Momentum. Elena's fighting style - capoeira- features a profusion of acrobatics and articulated movements. Her repertoire includes handstands, flips and flying kicks, and extends even further. She can also walk on her hands, use backflips to maintain her balance when struck in mid-air and recover her footing with a cartwheel when knocked down. Could switfly evade several hippos charging at her)
- Healing (The Majivu people have inherited the power of healing from their ancestors, who in turn are said to have obtained it from a fountain of life. Elena is one of the few children born with this ability and she demonstrates it via techniques such as Healing and Revival Dance)
- Energy and Life Manipulation (Akuma stated that Elena emanates "the very force of life". Zangief has commented on this ability, labeling it as "The power of Mother Earth". Her strongest technique, Song of the Grasslands, is said to be powered by nature itself. This power emanates from Elena's body as a green glow and it is related to the power of healing he has inherited from her ancestors. This energy is also seen empowering some of her special and super attacks)
- Minor Plant Manipulation (A side-effect of some of her strongest techniques is to seemingly make grass and flowers sprout from the ground spontaneously)
- Minor Extrasensory Perception and Telepathy (Elena has been able to "hear the voice of nature" since childhood; while she herself does not understand it completely, she describes it as the ability as empathic bond with nature which normal people do not possess. She has also been able to communicate with trees, although not perfectly)
- Empowerment (Song of the Grasslands turns into a different and stronger attack whenever Elena is at low health)
And that's pretty much it, follow the beats and let me know your opinions!
