Street Fighter 6 is hard enough, imagine doing it without being able to see.
Capcom’s fighting game relies on precise hand-eye coordination to beat your opponent, emphasis on eye.
However, Twitch streamer BlindWarriorSven is blind (hence the name), and yet on Sunday he finally did the seemingly impossible.
In a clip from his stream, BlindWarriorSven was on a five-game win streak with E. Honda, the bath-loving sumo wrestler, facing Manon in an online match.
The streamer knocks out his opponent with a headbutt and a jumping kick and immediately burst into celebration, as he increased rank from Diamond to Master.
‘Yeeees! GGs [good games], GGs. I am Master, 1500. That’s… I mean at least I joined the party,’ he exclaimed. GGs indeed, Sven.
To put things into perspective, only around the top 2% of players in the world hold this rank.
Although his story is as impressive as it’s heart-warming, the reason he’s blind is a sombre one.
In an interview with Jake Lucky, BlindWarriorSven explains how he became blind when he was only a child.
‘When I was six years old we were on vacation and I was diagnosed with cancer that destroyed my eye nerves in about one week, and then I was blind.
‘I remember the first time I got home from being in the hospital for three months I went to my room and started up the Amiga we had to play games. Then I was like ‘Ah, no this isn’t going to work anymore, because I can’t see the screen.’
BlindWarriorSven has previously explained how he plays the Street Fighter games without being able to see: ‘When I play I can hear if the character is on the right or the left, if they walk forwards or backwards, and I can use those sounds to know how to deal with that.’
He’s become so good he had the honour of playing Street Fighter 6 on the EVO 2023 main stage back in August.
As always, with a bandana covering his eyes, he narrowly beat his opponent 2-1, again playing as E. Honda, to a roaring ovation from the crowd.
Is competing at the highest level his next challenge, perhaps?
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