A cheat character is an in-game character in a fighting video-game, that is unbalanced with overly powerful unique attacks, combos, disregards frames, hit-boxes, cross-ups, does abnormal amounts of damage output to her/his opponent that can end health bars with one combination of unique attacks leading up to a critical finisher, and can use the same annoying unique attacks nonstop, disregarding counter-attacks or special moves.
1) When your opponent ends your health bar under fifteen seconds in an online ranked or causal match and you're an expert at playing this game.
2) "Dude, all he did was button-mash his controller and won the match. That's what you call a cheat character bro."
3) Using a character in a fighting game for the very first time, and destroying your opponents with zero experience, because all you did was randomly mash at your controller or fight stick, and now you're on a sixty-nine win streak.
4) Losing to a scrub or rookie using a cheat character that you can't defeat no matter how good you're, because she used a simple attack to end your health meter without any effort.
5) When a popular company releases a buggy unfinished product, and when you play the game, its full of cheat characters that you can win very, very easily with.
6) When a button masher beats someone more skilled then them in a fighting game on a regular basis.
7) Feeling robbed of your skills as a professional gamer after losing to your opponent who used a cheat character at a popular tournament.
8) When your favorite character no longer as an anti-air confirmed attack and loses to cheat characters.
2) "Dude, all he did was button-mash his controller and won the match. That's what you call a cheat character bro."
3) Using a character in a fighting game for the very first time, and destroying your opponents with zero experience, because all you did was randomly mash at your controller or fight stick, and now you're on a sixty-nine win streak.
4) Losing to a scrub or rookie using a cheat character that you can't defeat no matter how good you're, because she used a simple attack to end your health meter without any effort.
5) When a popular company releases a buggy unfinished product, and when you play the game, its full of cheat characters that you can win very, very easily with.
6) When a button masher beats someone more skilled then them in a fighting game on a regular basis.
7) Feeling robbed of your skills as a professional gamer after losing to your opponent who used a cheat character at a popular tournament.
8) When your favorite character no longer as an anti-air confirmed attack and loses to cheat characters.
by Psychic Chun-Li January 4, 2018