10 Gaming Moves That Are Simply Humiliating

7. Consider Yourself Skinned (Street Fighter V)

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The whole concept of cherry tapping - that is to say, finishing an opponent off with an embarrassingly weak move - comes from Street Fighter, because of course it does. By the time Street Fighter Alpha released in 1995, competitive Street Fighter was sufficiently sophisticated such that the latest iteration even visually incorporated this part of the game's culture: KOs courtesy of a little bop! were represented by cherries on the win-counter.

Street Fighter's ultimate patience-popping cherry tapper involves a different fruit entirely. Birdie, a corpulent punk who gradually transformed from a non-player character into a series staple, can quickly eat a banana as one of three variants of his V-Trigger, Break Time. The discarded peel will give any opponent on their final slither of health the slip.

If you think that's a degrading why to eat defeat, make sure you're not on your last legs when an idle Birdie flicks snot in your direction - that'll booger you up in the same, slimy way.

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