“Perhaps you’d prefer to challenge me at a skateboarding game?”
Although he never uses one in battle, Yuns distinctive character trait is his skateboard. However, the board is never depicted uni-formally through out his appearances in the Street Fighter 3 and Street Fighter 4 series of games.
Yuns board in his official Capcom Street Fighter 3 art looks like this:
In these drawings his board is clearly based on the same idea minus a few differences in one having a tail guard, the other a nose guard. Both are red, have yellow rails and wheels, and similar graphics. The similarities here are not by accident because his board is 100% based on a real world skate board: One of Scott Oster’s Dogtown boards from the 80’s.
Its only in official artwork (and in his SF3: New Generation winning quote image) that you can get an idea of what the deck graphics are in the SF3 series of games. During a match you only see Yuns skateboard appear when he is the opponent being fought on his own Hong Kong stages. However, in those instances the design of the board is linked to his characters sprite colors, and usually will not match its representation in artwork.
In Street Fighter 3: Third Strike Yuns stage is changed and he no longer has as dramatic of an entrance as he does in the first two SF3 games. He merely hops in from offscreen on the right and the board rolls away, with the same color scheme matching his character sprite. The main wrinkle that SF3: Third Strike presents is an odd change to the shape of his deck that I dont think ive ever seen a Skateboard have. Its only visible in SF3:TS during his win quote:
For whatever reason the tail of his skateboard now has a very sharp 90 degree corner with no curve at all. Some old school decks did have a more flatter tail, but never to an absolute point like that, so its a very odd illustrative decision. That same shape carries over into his Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition / Ultra ending:
Its especially odd to see that in SF4 because they use a fully 3D modeled skateboard for Yun in that game and it does not have a tail like that. The Street Fighter 4 design also totally scraps the Scott Oster deck graphics for an original design.
The deck carriers over the star-burst background from the SF3 deck, but swaps out the central artwork and Scott Oster/Dogtown names for “White Dragon, Masters Foundation”. Im guessing with how much more visible the entire deck is in SF4 they opted against directly referencing an existing skateboard to avoid any potential conflicts. Yun has also moved past the trend of attaching plastic rails and nose/tail guards to his board.
The only other time that Yun makes a unique appearance with his skateboard is a minor role in the background of the Half-pipe stage in Street Fighter X Tekken. You never get to see the bottom of the board because he never attempts any tricks, he just rolls back and forth along the half-pipe as the fight in the foreground carries on but it is the signature red with yellow wheels seen in most official artwork. Now with Street Fighter 5s roster complete its unknown if we will ever get another change to see what may happen with Yuns skateboard next. We could have to wait for the rest of our lives.