Fight Your Rival

Fight Your Rival is a feature present in Street Fighter IV and all versions of Super Street Fighter IV. Once the player has defeated six randomly determined fighters in Arcade Mode, they will be then required to face their own character's predetermined rival as the penultimate fight (excluding bonus bosses), usually including a special dialogue before the battle. The rival battle is announced with a "Now! Fight Your Rival!" after the sixth victory.

In Super Street Fighter IV, six characters received an alternate opponent option for their rival battle, which can be activated by pressing the all kicks button during the "Now! Fight Your Rival!" screen.

Trivia

 * Ryu is the most common rival battle, serving as this for 20% of the characters in both Street Fighter IV (5 out of 25) and Super Street Fighter IV (7 out of 35), and 20,5% of the characters in Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition (8 out of 39).

Unused data
Ultra Combo videos indicate several characters would have been given second rivals in Super Street Fighter IV, but ended up keeping solely the same rival they had in Street Fighter IV, for unknown reasons.


 * Ken's second rival would have been Sakura.
 * E. Honda's second rival would have been Adon.
 * Blanka's second rival would have been Dan.
 * Balrog's second rival would have been Cody.
 * Vega's second rival would have been Cammy.
 * M. Bison's second rival would have been Cammy.
 * Rufus's second rival would have been Ryu.
 * El Fuerte's second rival would have been Guy.
 * Abel's second rival would have been Juri.
 * Akuma's second rival would have been Gen.
 * Gouken's second rival would have been Ken.
 * Fei Long's second rival would have been Gen.
 * Sakura's second rival would have been Cammy.
 * Rose's second rival would have been M. Bison.
 * Gen's second rival would have been Guy.
 * Dan's second rival would have been Sagat.
 * Guy's second rival would have been M. Bison.