Best unarmed character?

[Black Shroud]

Hanzo/Galford, Nakoruru/Rimururu for retaining most of moves
Amakusa & Basara for safe teleporting to weapon
Charlotte and Yunfei for powerful unarmed attacks

Anyone else?

[xm216x]

rimururu- i say rimi over hanzo cause she gains new good moves unarmed. Hanzo can easily knock you down unarmed making him good unarmed cause he can get his weapon back easy. rimururu is good at fighting in general with out her weapon she doesnt lose much attack power when she is unarmed compared to armed.

[Ophelian]

Definitely Rimururu. There is actually a style of complete unarmed Rimururu in Brazil (in SS4, but it allplies to ssv as well) where the player just put down weapon on purpose and spam dashing low kick and large pursuit. It works very well.

[R3z]

Very interesting. I will try this.