Welcome to the state of the game for October 2009. A somewhat quiet month but there are a few things to cover, so lets get started.

Wowza, those are nice character spoils for SCIV2 = wowza.

Thank you as per always, I am very excited!!!

Edit - power of the edge is legal as soon as those fight night kits are sent... right???

- dut (Garett)

dutpotd said:

OMGosh, Sophitia has fire and Order.  Really?  With all that stun access, she's gonna be faster than Cassie!  The first abilitiy may pay-off too.

Yeong-Seong will surely see play.  Poop, poor Lizardman might just be a little too predicatable for his own good though.

P.S.  Steve, it says the deadline to order is in August. 

On the spoiled characters:

Yun-Seong: Loves himself some Castle Twilight. We might just have our first Wind player. He can also do some dumb things with Communing with the Ancients, a la Float Like a Butterfly and his older self. I could also see the use of Weapon tech, and Relentless for massive draw power. Hell, Finacial Troubles plus Over the Shoulder will be pretty bad.

Lizardman: Wow. This could be interesting, though I think it will suffer as more Low blocks appear. Paid to Protect, Man Behind the Mask, Enemies Now Friends, will all see massive play with him. Throw in some Wipe the Floor, and Maliki+Keep them Down off Void, and Discard will be his name. Unfortunately, I think people will be able to simply hold Low Blocks against him, and keep him neutered fairly well.

Sophitia: Gee, love affair with Fire much. Talk about synergy. Pauls Gi and Toughest in the Universe will be auto includes in her decks. Mix things like Knightbreaker Combo, and Dragon Flame, and she will be super fast. If Paid to Protect (or other speed hate) does not make it into the prize support rotation soon, we will see her rocket to top tier very quickly. Not to mention the defensive capabilities. Any amount of damage boosting will be met with similar speed redux, allowing her to attacks to 0 speed after 3-4 enhances that commit as a cost. Persevering Despite Rejection might just see some serious play. Life might also see some interest. Yi Shan's Tiger Claw becomes at least a 5H5 with its own stun. Gut Drill becomes a 6M4 as well, as a reversal.

Overall, I think this Soul Calibur set will yet again expand the symbol disparity, though we may see some better things out of symbols that have not seen much play, like Water and Air. Life might see an affinity with Fire that could be very dangerous. And Yun-Seong had better have some form of momentum shielding, else he will just run around in circles until his opponant can burn down his below average HP.

-Tinman

Tinman said:

Keep in mind the symbols on these characters have nothing to do with the support in the set... These are promo characters, the SCIV equivalent of the Fury, Fox, and Heiachi release and will not come with their own support in this set.

- dut

Oh my god let's give fire MORE stuff! MORE commit effects, MORE DEFENSE! DEFENSE! Seriously, who the hell in their right mind gives the supposed most offensive symbol, which already has the three best defensive cards in the game (Stand Off, P2P and Valk' Shield), MORE FRICKEN DEFENSE!? Yes I know I make fun of capital letters, but seriously? James Hata, stop giving fire all the good support. You know, it wouldn't kill you to actually balance out this game.

Yea the deadline is November 13th, sorry about that.

Steve

ROTBI said:

OMG I LOVE STEVE AND JAMES....

You guys don't know how long I've waited for a new Yun Seong... I know what I am playing for the next two years...
Oh and please tell me you guys are making a new circling wing or bird of prey (even though there is no bop in SCIV) and make order more playable...

I was playing SCIV today and was using Yun-Seong a lot. This character makes me happy :D Awesome Mitsurugi AND awesome Yun-Seong? Yes please :D Steve and James, y'all are made of win.

How do we get setup with b2b. I've been trying to find out but I found no links. My store owner is a bit out of the loop on things. So the b2b stuff makes it harder on me as the scout. Is there anyway for me to get around this. There are a lot of good cards being offered I would like to get to my players but man it seems I'm locked out of this.

That fight kit is actuaclly pretty awesome, two boxes for $50 and it comes with those promos? Wish I still needed stuff from those sets. When do these promos become legal?

Because what Fire really needed is a character that could take advantage of Paul stuff by giving itself speed buffs of ridiculous proportions.

If there's nothing in the set that kills Stun or Speed buff, GG tournament season.

I think this is the first set I'm honestly DREADING.

What happen to pushing the pre-release into the First week of December as in the September SOTG.

iceman01 said:

I think the above is/was refering to being 'released' the first week of December, prerelease is always a week or two before the 'real' release date. Nov 20th is 10 days or a week and a half before the first week in December, I'm not so sure you could quote any inconsistencies between what we knew SOTG Sept and SOTG Oct.

- dut

You're thinking in the wrong symbol for Sophitia.  I'd say Life.  Re-readying Keeper of the Watchers is win.

guitalex2008 said:

I gotta go with Hatman on this one, bro.  The first thing I saw was fire stuns (dragon lifter, execution tehnique first rite, anything of Paul's etc.) and then I wept at a free speed boost on top of whatever else they might want to commit for abilities.  Stand-off likes her too.