shotos

Noun

shoto (plural shotos)

1. In the Street Fighter series, either of the playable characters Ryu and Ken; by extension, several characters with similar attacks.
   • 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
2. (broadly) In 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.
   • 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