Looks great. For the style - a suggestion would be to not have the ability to jump around too much but be able to walk through fireballs to show true power (i've seen a ghost/phantom ryu do this). Maybe have the stage shake with each step which i've seen before with juggernaut. Like serious power with massive mallet attacks (like the movie) that knock the opponent across the screen which would look great in 1.1 long zoom stages.

Two things I've noticed.

1. Your animations are not fluid at all. I'd definitely consider adding more frames because as it is now, many limb movements seem to jerk a bit.
2. Your goblin helpers sprites clash hard. I see slightly edited Samurai Shodown sprites (from multiple games in that series) mixed with sprites from very different sources.

Magma MK-II said, February 13, 2017, 07:18:02 pm

Also drop the strikers. It is just a cheap way of making moves when out of ideas.

That's EXTREMELY subjective.  Plenty of properly designed characters in fighting games have moves that are just calling in assists.  See Captain Commando, Frank West, Orie.

Duos.act said, February 14, 2017, 12:13:45 am

Magma MK-II said, February 13, 2017, 07:18:02 pm

Also drop the strikers. It is just a cheap way of making moves when out of ideas.

That's EXTREMELY subjective.  Plenty of properly designed characters in fighting games have moves that are just calling in assists.  See Captain Commando, Frank West, Orie.

Depends on whether they make sense or not. In this case they don't, Sauron is an all-powerful evil overlord, definitely not one who would rely on this kind of thing.