Dante can stop time, block everything, clone himself, teleport, and fire his D.Eagles like 22's (without reloading). He went to hell and fukked up the equivalent of Satan, and has umpteen weapons on him at any time. He got stabbed, thrown off a building, shot in the head, and

that shyt off. DMC2 Dante (and DMC4 but that's excluded) are him walking around with God Mode enabled. Ryu would get gunned up and clapped quick. He don't want that smoke.
Capcom characters are as bad as Marvel characters, in terms of power creep.