Capcom has announced five new characters will be coming to
Street Fighter IV during a panel this weekend at the Evolution Fighting Game Championships (EVO). The new characters along with balance changes will come out sometime in early 2014, with a name and trailer to be shown tomorrow before the Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition Finals.
Rolento, Poison, Hugo, and Elena will be joining the cast. Each of the four new characters have been included in Capcom's Street Fighter X Tekken. The fifth and final new character will has never been in a Street Fighter game, Capcom said at the panel today. Along with the five new characters, six new stages also being added.
"I’m personally excited to be able to use Rolento in SF4," Capcom senior community specialist and former professional player Peter "Combofiend" Rosas said. "Yes, he was in SFxT, but SF4 and SFxT play very differently, so it’ll be a treat to use him against Seth, Hakan, and others that are not in SFxT."