Editing Hadoken

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Ryu brings his palms back beside himself to cup them together, then thrusts them forward in an instant to shoot out a large energy [[projectile]] while announcing the technique's name. Only one Hadoken per player can be in play at any given time; attempting a second Hadoken if the first one is still active will result in them performing the animation with only a puff of harmless smoke appearing from their hands.

As with most of Ryu's special moves, performing specific direction inputs changes the properties of the Hadoken (this does not apply to Ken's variant). Each version has low speed and variable damage, and travels half of [[Final Destination]]'s length; because of these properties, all variations of the Hadoken are ineffective at KOing, but good for racking up damage at range, useful in Ryu's tapped tilt combos, and can be used as a option to wall off opponent's approaches, albeit being less effective than other projectiles like [[Megavitamins]] due to the limit of one active Hadoken per player. Shooting the projectile midair gives Ryu a tiny amount of lift, like Mario's [[Cape]]; this does not occur if Ryu fails to produce a projectile due to another one being in play.

All versions of Hadoken have extremely low [[priority]] and can be blocked by almost any attack, including extremely weak projectiles, which makes Hadokens easy to counter at a distance. Additionally, the projectile can miss certain [[crouch]]ing or prone characters due to its traveling height, while a select few can even [[run]] directly under one (such as {{SSB4|Little Mac}}).

Ken, who is Ryu's [[Echo Fighter]], shares this move. Aesthetically, his version has a slightly different shape and contains an image of his hands. Compared to Ryu, Ken's Hadoken is weaker, and its speed is less controllable; additionally, he does not have access to the Shakunetsu Hadoken.

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Pressing only the special button performs the standard '''Hadoken''', a small blue energy projectile, while Ryu voices out "Hadoken!" in a slightly stern voice. The damage and speed at which the projectile moves can be altered based on how long the button is held. It deals 5-6%, with low enough knockback that it can [[jab reset]] opponents.

Inputting the original arcade input for the move (↓ ↘ → + attack/special) makes Ryu perform a stronger '''Input Hadoken''', with him voicing out the attack with a fiercer voice. The projectile becomes slightly larger and minutely stronger in the process, doing 6-7% damage, but still travels slowly with similar range as the original. The attack emits a tiny spark if the player successfully inputs it correctly, similar to the spark seen by [[fastfall]]ing fighters. Ryu can also perform this while in standby after breaking the [[Smash Ball]].

Performing the move while moving the control stick in a semicircle towards the direction Ryu is facing (← ↙ ↓ ↘ → + attack/special) will unleash a '''Shakunetsu Hadoken''' ({{ja|灼熱波動拳|Shakunetsu Hadōken}}, ''Scorching Heat Surge Fist''). Ryu voices out "Shakunetsu!" as this Hadoken is unleashed. This variation is colored bright orange, deals multiple hits and [[flame]] damage before exploding upon hitting an opponent. The projectile deals a total of 7-8%; like other versions of the move, however, its knockback is weak and distance unchanged. The first hit doesn't make the opponent [[flinch]], making it possible for them to shield the rest of the attack.

 

In ''Ultimate'', the command variants of Hadoken can thenselves be cancelled into their user's Final Smash if close enough to an opponent.

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Hadoken, also sometimes spelled as "Hadouken", and colloquially called a "fireball", is a special move available to several characters such as Ryu and Ken in the {{uv|Street Fighter}} series. It involves the user thrusting their palms forward to fire a blue surge of spirit energy, or Ki. It is most commonly performed by the player moving the joystick or D-pad a quarter circle forward towards the opponent from the down position, then pressing a punch button, with the projectile's speed and distance varying depending on the specific button pressed. The creator of ''Street Fighter'', Takashi Nishiyama, credits the 1970s anime ''{{s|wikipedia|Space Battleship Yamato}}'' as the inspiration of Hadoken, based off of a weapon called ''Hadōhō'' (波動砲, lit. ''Wave Motion Gun/Surge Cannon''). An oddity involving the Hadoken in early versions of ''Street Fighter II'' is that there was a 1/512 chance a regular input would perform a Hadoken instead. This was done to slowly introduce beginners to more advanced mechanics. However, it perplexed those that witnessed it, who believed it was a glitch for many years until dataminers discovered it was an intentional mechanic.

The Shakunetsu Hadoken was formally introduced in ''{{s|wikipedia|Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers}}'' as a new move for Ryu, a special red fireball that could burn the opponent. In the original ''{{s|wikipedia|Street Fighter II}}'' the regular Hadoken occasionally turns red as an {{iw|wikipedia|easter egg|media}} (originally thought to be a glitch). While the easter egg is purely an aesthetic change, rumors eventually circulated that this "red Hadoken" was stronger; [[Capcom]] thus decided to make the "red Hadoken" a separate move with actual differences in properties (such as knocking down up-close in the ''Street Fighter Alpha/Zero'' games). The main reason for this decision was to differentiate Ryu and Ken, who were functionally identical except for some minor moveset characteristics beforehand. In the ''{{s|wikipedia|Street Fighter III}}'' (excluding ''Street Fighter III: New Generation'') and ''{{s|wikipedia|Street Fighter IV}}'' games, Shakunetsu Hadoken serves as Ryu's EX version of the move; Akuma being one practitioner of this attack still keeps it as a separate normal special move to this day, as he performs his signature focus stance as a delay before unleashing the move (Akuma's also has always done multiple hits prior to the EX move version).

Like with many of Ryu's other moves/techniques, this is the arguably the most codifying example of a projectile attack in any fighting game. While most games would only allow one copy of a projectile to be on-screen at a time, later games allow multiple copies of them to be on-screen. This is played straight for Ryu's Hadoken in ''Marvel vs. Capcom 3'' with the latter case.

 

In a majority of games, users of this technique will have an image of their palms grafted onto the projectile itself when one looks at the projectile itself closely.

In particular however, the Hadoken's size in ''Smash Bros.'' is more likely based off of the ''Marvel vs. Capcom'' series' version, where starting with ''X-Men vs. Street Fighter'', several ''Street Fighter'' characters' moves were given radical changes in order to look less pale in comparison to the ''X-Men'' characters, with the Hadoken's size increase being one radical change out of many.

[[File:SF2 Ken's Hadoken animated sprite.gif|200px|thumb|right|Gif of Ken firing a Hadoken.]]