{"id":48170,"date":"2025-05-20T17:30:27","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=48170"},"modified":"2025-05-20T17:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T08:30:29","slug":"street-fighter-6-elena-gets-special-mirror-match-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/street-fighter-6-elena-gets-special-mirror-match-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter 6 Elena gets special mirror match intro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elena is still a few weeks away from her official release in <strong>Street Fighter 6<\/strong>, but some players have already gotten the chance to try her out. One of Elena\u2019s more interesting additions to the game (apart from her <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/street-fighter-6-teases-elenas-divisive-healing-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">infamous Healing move<\/a>) is the return of her classic mirror match intro animation from Street Fighter III: Third Strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In the Street Fighter 6 Elena vs Elena mirror match, she STILL touches hands just like in Third Strike! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fPoUA6mE5A\">pic.twitter.com\/fPoUA6mE5A<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Emezie Okorafor (@emezie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emezie\/status\/1924620573478379595?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Though not a 1:1 remake of her original mirror match intro animation (the original animation had two Elenas touching open palms before switching sides), the Street Fighter 6 intro animation is still a homage to Elena\u2019s past Street Fighter appearances. Despite not being a true intro animation in which the character models interact with each other (it seems that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/emezie\/status\/1924633908848513481\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Elena holds her fist out no matter which character she is fighting against<\/a>), it is still a nice touch that both Elenas\u2019 fists align so that it looks like they are touching each other.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1346\" height=\"749\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1346px) 100vw, 1346px\" src=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520-48170-001.jpg\" alt=\"Street Fighter 6 Elena\" class=\"wp-image-48173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520-48170-001.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520-48170-001-380x211.jpg 380w, https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250520-48170-001-768x427.jpg 768w\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Given that Street Fighter 6 currently does not have any unique character interactions at the start of a game, players are hoping that Capcom will reintroduce them in a future update. It feels rather strange for Ken and <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20230612-19441\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ryu<\/a> to not acknowledge each other as rivals before sparring or for <a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/why-is-street-fighters-m-bison-called-vega-exploring-the-fighting-series-complex-naming-conventions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">M. Bison<\/a> to treat the former Shadaloo experiment Ed as just another opponent. While there is unique text dialogue that pops up at the end of each game, the lack of voice acting or character animations incentivizes players to skip them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Elena is set to release on June 5 for Street Fighter 6, which is available for PC (Steam),\u202fPS4\/PS5,\u202fand\u202fXbox Series X|S.\u202f\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Fighter 6 makes a nod to Elena&#8217;s classic mirror match intro animations from past entries like Street Fighter III: Third Strike.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":48172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-48170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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