Whatever your favorite flavor of fighting game and whatever your level of skill, what are gonna be some of the absolute best controllers?

The Raion is a wide, slightly curved matte black plastic gamepad with distinct PlayStation branding on the Home and face buttons, complete with the X, square, circle, and triangle buttons colored properly blue, purple, pink/salmon, and green, just like on the PlayStation's DualShock 4. Just remember that it doesn’t have analog sticks, so you simply can’t use it to play most modern games. The basic design of the Fusion FightPad is near-identical, with a very similar rolling D-Pad (more on that in a moment), six face buttons (perfect for Street Fighter II) and all of the usual Switch-related gubbins (Home button, Screenshot, etc).With standard 8-way joysticks, shifting the stick too much or not enough could result in accidental or missed inputs, which affects your in-gameperformance. You can personalise the faceplate or replace individual parts to suit your needs and preferences, so it's a controller that can grow alongside your skills. With Hori’s low profile arcade buttons and proprietary quick response arcade stick… this thing will react to your input about as quick as anything can. Even though there are hundreds of modern controllers, sometimes it's better to have a simple and classic controller in your hands.

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Many professional fighting game players will use fightsticks as their preferred controller in tournaments, but fightpads have been making a few appearances as a relative newcomer to the scene. Familiarity is a big reason, but it's also because the game was designed with that controller in mind. You might think that 8BitDo's take on the classic SNES controller would be a bad fit for fighting games, but that's not the case. Button boxes have opened the door for players who wouldn't ordinarily be able to play fighting games.Some advanced level fighters still think of a mechanical keyboard as the best controllers for fighting games. Your wrist will be supported by the controller, so you won't get wrist cramps from hovering over the joystick for the whole time. Moreover, having the quick-hitting arcade buttons makes it easy to tap out strikes as quickly as you need them to.