Your character in any game is just that, an avatar with more or less the same attributes as anyone else. It’s the way you manipulate your avatar that gives you any tangible weight during play.

Anyone can throw a hadouken, but someone with actual knowledge of their character knows the mind games, knows the advantages of a fake, can control vertical space, can time their crossups and throws, it’s a whole different level when you start playing your opponent.

Anyone remember fighting Guile in SF2? You were hardly fighting the character as much as you were trying to contend with the way the CPU manipulated him.