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| Iggy 8754th Post
 
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|  "Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 09:55
In a very old thread exhumed recently, our friend Rugal professed his interest for Birdie, a SFZero character I never really played. I always thought nobody played him after Zero 2, once Zangief came back, but obviously I was wrong.
At first, I was making a thread on 360° characters (from Victor to Hugo, from T.Hawk to Karin), but then I found out I had nothing to say on the subject.
So, let's make it on rare characters, those poor souls nobody uses in rosters that grow more and more insane (KOF XII being the big exception here).
You like Chin Gensai being in XII? You refuse to play a KOF game where you can't use Hinako? You have never seen anyone use Sean in Third Strike and you wonder if such a person exists? You think the only character SF4 misses is Maki from Final Fight 2 ?
Speak up! And explain.
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| nobinobita 451th Post
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| "Re(1):Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 11:23
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In a very old thread exhumed recently, our friend Rugal professed his interest for Birdie, a SFZero character I never really played. I always thought nobody played him after Zero 2, once Zangief came back, but obviously I was wrong.
At first, I was making a thread on 360° characters (from Victor to Hugo, from T.Hawk to Karin), but then I found out I had nothing to say on the subject.
So, let's make it on rare characters, those poor souls nobody uses in rosters that grow more and more insane (KOF XII being the big exception here).
You like Chin Gensai being in XII? You refuse to play a KOF game where you can't use Hinako? You have never seen anyone use Sean in Third Strike and you wonder if such a person exists? You think the only character SF4 misses is Maki from Final Fight 2 ?
Speak up! And explain.
I always forget that Todoh is in CVS2. I don't think I've ever seen anyone actually play as him.
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| Pollyanna 2602th Post
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| "Re(2):Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 11:26
Yay! Fun topic! I hope I don't miss the point.
Karin is probably my favorite character in anything ever. I couldn't get enough Capcom Fighting Jam simply because she was in it. I would be thrilled beyond imagination if she would somehow worm her way into SF4. I would suddenly become a very enthusiastic supporter of the game if that happened.
Similarly, Tabasa saved SNK vs Capcom for me...and even though I don't like the system in Guilty Gear very much, it has so many characters I love to use that I end up playing it all the time.
I've been hurting on KOF lately, even though KOFXI is probably my all-time favorite fighting game. My favorite characters are Jhun, May Lee, Hinako and Shermie...so I'm practically salivating over '02 UM. After that, I don't know if I'll need a new fighting game -ever-. The only character from XI I'll really really miss is Gai.
If I make this post any longer, I don't think anyone will bother reading it, so I'll conclude by saying I really miss Lei Lei and considering how many Capcom characters I love and want to see again, the Tatsunoko vs Capcom cast is a huge disappointment to me.
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| Maou 1535th Post
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| "Re(2):Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 14:18:
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I'll be back after some Eristoffs, it's Friday night after all
I like Toxico's plan.
Iggy, great topic. Let me see...I have sort of a thing for playing as Seung Mina in Soul Calibur 1 and 2 even though it seems that Kilik should be better in most respects, and he doesn't need to be unlocked.
In SFZero 2, I always liked Rolento. Did anyone play him? The top American players said in that legendary Versus Books guide that his Stinger projectile might be the best in the game. I don't know about that. But his "eat fire!" grab that always misses and his crouching strong that hits twice were delightful, along with his triple   even if it leaves you wide open. I've never seen a good one, though.
Same for Gen, who I hear can be devastating. Unfortunately, he seems like too big a pain in the ass to use, so I've never seen a good Gen among my crew. I alone used him just so I could make him say "you are a big fool" when I won.
Oh yeah, for Justice Gakuen! I was really a Daigo and Hyou man, but on occasion I would go crazy and only use...Raizou. He brings out the PSOne polygon hell like no fighter since Tekken 2, and he's disastrously uncool compared to other characters, but sometimes I would get an urge to keep playing as him and worse, I kept on winning. Like with some addictive but destructive drug, I knew I'd better stop or else I'd be all alone in playing this rare/retarded character. OH, I did the same thing for Gan one time, but this unused character also sucks. None of us ever played/saw a good Gan.
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| Toxico 4574th Post
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|  "Re(3):Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 15:25:
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In SFZero 2, I always liked Rolento. Did anyone play him?
He was easily the most overpowered character of the game (kinda like Guy in SFZ1). The speed, range and strenght of his normals where just to good; not to mention that no character in the game was prepared for his tricky defensive or feint intended moves. His wire SC was just too good, and the grenade SC was slow & hard to use, but powerful when properly understood; this comes from someone who played the game for years, facing every match up several times used by different players (and different cities sometimes).
The coronel stands strong  南斗無音拳. To put it simply, Ryu wasn't "Kenshiro" enough to stop you. 
Also, I wouldn't call Karin or Vice "rare", they are characters that where very carefuly designed in many aspects to properly applease a 'somewhat mainstream' audience (just like Guy, ha ha).
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I like Toxico's plan.
The second fase involves few more shots, man made food, some sleep hours and a better mp3 play list 
EDIT 1 : esuperingu
EDIT 2 : I used to get many straight wins with Jin Fuha in Ryuuko Gaiden. And even to this day, I don't feel ashamed nor dirty about it.
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リングで突然相手が消える!!
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| Nobinobita 452th Post
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| "Re(1):Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 16:18
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In a very old thread exhumed recently, our friend Rugal professed his interest for Birdie, a SFZero character I never really played. I always thought nobody played him after Zero 2, once Zangief came back, but obviously I was wrong.
At first, I was making a thread on 360° characters (from Victor to Hugo, from T.Hawk to Karin), but then I found out I had nothing to say on the subject.
So, let's make it on rare characters, those poor souls nobody uses in rosters that grow more and more insane (KOF XII being the big exception here).
You like Chin Gensai being in XII? You refuse to play a KOF game where you can't use Hinako? You have never seen anyone use Sean in Third Strike and you wonder if such a person exists? You think the only character SF4 misses is Maki from Final Fight 2 ?
Speak up! And explain.
This is a Great topic!
I really liked playing as Hauzer in Capcom Fighting Jam. The Warzard characters really made that game for me, especially Hauzer. I already liked the character himself (I like cool looking monsters with dignified sounding names like Ridley from Metroid)but I also liked how he played. I'm partial to charge characters, and I enjoyed the limitless alpha 2 inspired counters you could pull off with the Warzard guys.
I also liked how huge he was. It made him a gigantic target, possibly the worst character in the game, but I always had fun playing him, especially against my friend who liked using Jedah. It felt like I was controlling the boss character from a hack and slash game. FUN!
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| Time Mage 2730th Post
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| "Re(6):Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 19:47
Hm, I usually use all characters (or mostly all). I don't have any specially bizarre character as my favorites, though.
However, in CvS2, I tend to use some very underused characters. One of my favorite teams in there is what I call "Athena and Friends", which is comprised of S-Groove Athena and either two random picks or two of the following: Raiden, Zangief, Chang/Choi, or Todoh. Todoh specially is awesome in CvS2, with his bizarre style of play based on his multi-hit waves and his command grab.
More underused characters I use frequently in other games are Elisabeth in KOFXI (her design is great, but I don't see anyone pick her ever) or Necro in Third Strike (I love the character although I SUCK badly with him).
I was going to mention Faust in GG, but honestly... Most GG characters fit the "weird/ugly" profile, and basically no one is underused, so it's a game that you can't really say you pick the weird/underused character.
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| Nekros
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| "Re(7):Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 20:22
Well, I'm used to like strange/freaky designs but it doesn't mean that it ends up liking the gameplay of certain characters (like most of GG cast).
Also, being a goth myself, I find dark/goth characters in fighters are too feminine and gayish, and I'm not so pleased about it.
In terms of gameplay it simply goes this:
Street Fighter: although I don't like her design, I like to play Cammy a lot. Usually I like quick characters with long range "physical" moves (not energy balls or similar). Elena from TS is also one of my favourites. I like Zangief too, maybe the only 360-type that I play. Dudley is badass for sure, but I'm not as skilled playing him. Yang and Karin are good choices to me, and I like Adon in the Zero series.
Vampire: I used to be skilled with Aulbath. Is this lame? I like his chains and combos a lot, is perfect to afford most of the chars in the game (at an average level at least, I never fight a very skilled player). Gallon is one my favourites too. I personally like Jedah's and Lilith design (execpt that stupid bat thing on legs) but I don't like play as them.
KOF:King and Oswald are among my favourites (not the most played) in terms of gameplay. KOF has LOTS of good characters to hang up with, but I don't stand the grapplers.
Other SNK Games: Genjuro and Basara from SS, Setsuna and Yuki from GNK, Hotaru and Freeman from MOTW, HonFu from FFRB.
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| Time Mage 2731th Post
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| "Re(8):Rare characters and you" , posted Sun 7 Dec 00:22
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I think you don't see much Elizabeth because she's verrryyyy low tier unless she's leader and she's not very interesting to play as. Her counter is no good and her uppercut is difficult to place. Without her LDM and/or her hopping B, she wouldn't be worth much.
I use her quite a bit, myself, but she's just not as fun as some of the other characters. I thought "that's okay! She'll be better in the next game!" but now...
Yeah, she's not very good. But hey, that usually doesn't stop me from using many characters if I like them anyway. When I use her, though, she's always the leader, because her LDM is really good, probably her best move. Making her the last character with 2 or more stocks available (depending on who I have before, she can have as much as 5) makes her pretty good in the sense that the threat of her LDM is always present, so I can pressure a lot more and my rival will be scared to stick random pokes too often in case they get nailed by the LDM.
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| Zepy 1515th Post
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| "Re(9):Rare characters and you" , posted Sun 7 Dec 11:51
My KOF dream team would be Hinako, Kasumi, and Angel. I also like Chin, Chang, and Choi.
I love that warm fuzzy feeling when the opponent doesn't know how to play against the lesser used characters, because they've never really played against the characters you use.
Also I pick between Gai, Kasumi, Silber, and Adelheid in XI, it's not that easy to beat Kula Oswald Gato teams but it sure feels good!
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| kofoguz 645th Post
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| "Re(3):Rare characters and you" , posted Sun 7 Dec 13:50
Karin is probably my favorite character in anything ever. I couldn't get enough Capcom Fighting Jam simply because she was in it. I would be thrilled beyond imagination if she would somehow worm her way into SF4. I would suddenly become a very enthusiastic supporter of the game if that happened.
Similarly, Tabasa and Kasumi saved SNK vs Capcom for me...and even though I don't like the system in Guilty Gear very much, it has so many characters I love to use that I end up playing it all the time.
I've been hurting on KOF lately, even though KOFXI is probably my all-time favorite fighting game. My favorite characters are Jhun, Athena, May LeeKasumi, Hinako and Shermie...so I'm practically salivating over '02 UM. After that, I don't know if I'll need a new fighting game -ever-. The only character from XI I'll really really miss is Gai.
If I make this post any longer, I don't think anyone will bother reading it, so I'll conclude by saying I really miss Lei Lei and considering how many Capcom characters I love and want to see again, the Tatsunoko vs Capcom cast is a huge disappointment to me.
This is pretty much the same with me.
My friend called me "Master of the weird freak characters." Well to him Jhun is a freak, too.
I remember pissing a lot of "serious" guys by beating (much like owning) with Lei Lei in Pocket fighter, with Tabasa in SvC, with Rimururu in SSV (she's rare here), with Bao and Xiang Fei in 99, with Shermie, Whip, Athena, in 02, with Jhun and Hinako in 03. In 03, they were so pissed offonce I was really scared, they might pick a fight.
Also once I beat a guy who's pretty much good, 13 times with Hinako in 03, I'll never see him come and play again eventhough he was regularly coming.
Some people thinks something wrong with the game when you beat them with a little sumo girl or any other freak guys.
By the way Iori was a rare character back in 95 in my area and I was always picking him. He become popular later.
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| Iron D 3090th Post
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| "Re(10):Rare characters and you" , posted Mon 8 Dec 02:39
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Did anybody like to use Sentinel back in the day when Children of the Atom was new?
Oh hell yes. Sentinel was fun as hell to use back in the day. I'd love to see some tier lists for this game to see if he was broken or not, because he had a TON of offensive options at his disposal. Yet another reason why MvC2 pissed me off was because a crapload of Sentinel's attacks were just simply taken away, including some normals and command normals.
As for the rest of the topic, there are too many weird/lesser popular characters that I like. I could go on forever. Heck, we haven't even properly determined who would be considered weird or unpopular.
I can say that I'm one of the few that actually likes the SSFII new challengers who AREN'T Cammy.
Saisyu Kusanagi is rarely talked about, and he's one of the few original KoF characters that I REALLY like (and by original KoF character, I mean characters that were first introduced in a non-KoF game).
I'm also a HUGE fan of Birdie as well as Sodom. Love me some 360 grapplers. Throw Raiden and Griffon Mask in there, too.
Gen-an, Nicotine and Earthquake don't get nearly enough love I think.
Yoshimitsu is a pimp, if not a proper ninja. Bruce seems to get no love as a character, Anna is cooler than Nina, Sergei is underappreciated and Kuma and Roger/Roger Jr. kick ass.
Voldo is just...The Man. He IS THE MAN. And you should all be bowing down to him right now.
Love all the freaks and weirdos of both the DS series and the Rival Schools games.
Most of the Fatal Fury cast tend to not get the love they deserve as well, especially Tung Fu Rue, Sokaku, Hon-fu, Cheng, Franco and Bob.
I could go on and on, and I'm sure I'm forgetting some series and/or characters but I think I'll stop for now.
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| Amakusa 779th Post
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| "Re(1):Rare characters and you" , posted Mon 8 Dec 04:57
Back when SF3 got its second iteration I continuously used Yang and I kept getting asked why I used him over Yun when I was clearly better with Yun. I don't know, really, although I guess mainly because I'm kind of a sucker.
In every KOF game I get my hands on the characters I almost always use include Kasumi whenever available, and the same goes for Whip and Chizuru. There's not a single game with all three characters in it, but what the hey....
In Project Justice I tended to use Edge in every team I used, but what I did usually run with was Edge, Gan, and Akira, just because I could (sometimes I switched Akira for Zaki).
In Samurai Shodown I tend to almost always pick Amakusa whenever available, and Charlotte otherwise.
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I will rule the world and find that truly good cup of coffee.
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| kofoguz 646th Post
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| "Re(2):Re(10):Rare characters and you" , posted Mon 8 Dec 05:26
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I also like Chin, Chang, and Choi.
Personally I prefer Ring, Rang, and Rung.
Seriously, I love Kasumi too, but didn't know she was rare / weird / unpopular.
Well I guess she's not she's getting more love than most of the KoF guys. Hell She should be the most popular AoF character. Other one's who's out from the series are Eiji(kof) and Lee Pai (nbc) and her father (CvS2). She's in '96, '99, '00, XI, SvC, 02UM. The only character out of Kyokugens / King to appear most non-AoF games from the series.
But in my area, she's a rare and weirdo character. No one picks her and my friend actually said "Why do you like to play with her, she's lame"
Like I said before, in my area in '95 it was all about Kyo, Iori was a weirdo. In Sf2 Chun li was rarer than Honda and Blanka. Everybodywas into Ryu and Ken, my passionate hate for Ryu comes from those times. He was lame to me then, he is succesfuly lame now.
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| Nate 959th Post
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| "Re(1):Rare characters and you" , posted Tue 9 Dec 05:27
Hinako - I actually liked her combo-friendly 2003 version. Are you forgetting about the mixup   grab that had four different follow-ups? It was awesome!! Hard to land sometimes, but awesome. I wouldn't mind her being strictly about grappling in the 2002 remake, though. I think she's wonderful but wish SNKP would give me a color palette where she has dark hair already. 1/4 RUSSIAN, 3/4 JAPANESE GIRLS ARE NOT BLOND.
Kasumi Todo - Basically what everyone else has said. She's really fun to play as and devastating people with the counter super is the best part. She keeps getting useful additions in every appearance she makes, too. SNKP likes making her better...when they decide to put her in. I don't she's a "weird" character necessarily...just an underused/underappreciated one.
Malin - I think she's weird mainly because between two games she had what amounted to a complete redesign. In 2003 she was all about annoying the shit out of people with air attacks and almost never bothering with attacking from the ground except to set up yo-yos. In XI, both her flying Choi-style attacks and yo-yos were made basically worthless unless you had a huge window to set them up, but she gained decent ground options. Both her  and  were taken from basically useless to a vital part of her fighting style. Though I don't really like her voice or looks all the time, I hope they keep putting her in games to see what new weird shit they come up with for her.
Any female grappler, basically. Especially Shermie.
Hugo is the only non-SNK grappler I really like to play as. I can even land Gigas Breaker reasonably often! That's how much I like him, I committed myself to being able to do a motion I hate.
Q is fun to mess around as if only because all his attacks actually feel like they have a lot of impact behind him. Much credit to the animation team for him alone.
A LOT of characters from Power Instinct/Gohketsuji Ichizoku. Just because they're so damn weird in both design and movelists. I especially love Groove on Fight for both these reasons.
Rainbow Mika and Karin. I agree with previous sentiments that Karin is like an SNK character done better than SNK. Rainbow Mika is one of my favorites purely for her bizarre assortment of attacks. Especially her crouching  tackle. Countering with that and smacking someone with it again on the way down, specifically.
The only 3d game where I have a character like this is probably Soul Calibur. I love Tira. They made her far less crappy in SC4 but it was fun trying to figure out which of her moves had the least amount of flailing and prancing to be useful in SC3.
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| Pollyanna 2605th Post
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| "Re(2):Rare characters and you" , posted Tue 9 Dec 08:19
Ah! I totally forgot about 3D fighters!
I'm usually wildly enthusiastic about one character and one character only. I loooooove Tira in Soul Calibur 4. She didn't catch my interest in 3, but her redesign, along with my ability to tweak it in the character edit mode made me really love her. Needing to tap forward five times to get the most out of some of her moves is annoying, but the result is so gratifying. Cassandra gets the "honorable mention award", but she's not quite crazy enough to keep up.
Other 3D favorites include Lili and Lee from Tekken (although I don't like USING Lee), Aoi from VF (who is subtly crazy) and to a lesser extent, Hitomi and Lei Fang from DoA. Lei Fang isn't that cool, but I'm crazy about her fighting style.
Zepy:
You're almost my worst enemy! Adelheid and Silber still give me trouble (along with Clark)...and Gato of course, though Kula and Oswald don't bother me anymore.
Silber is always 50/50...sometimes I wipe him out and sometimes he wipes out my entire team. He just does SO much damage and he's a goddamn wall. Would you mind giving me a sort of semi-analysis of his strengths and weaknesses, so maybe I could learn a better way of dealing with him? Like, give me a rundown of your strategy and what people do to counter it?
Adelheid, I just don't have enough experience with, I think. I only end up fighting him as leader and it's usually just the B Genocide Cutter that undoes me.
Kofoguz:
Athena is a nice "safe" character to like, since she pops up so often. Kyo is my "safe" character. He's not my favorite, but I like the way he plays (new-style, at least). So I can say "at least I can always use Kyo". I would be that way with Kim, but since Jhun came along, I don't think "At least I can use Kim," I think "I wish they had Jhun instead."
Nate:
I love using Malin, but I hate her design so much that I rarely use her. Her sprite looks kind of..."cheap" too.
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| Toxico 4581th Post
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| "Re(3):Rare characters and you" , posted Tue 9 Dec 09:06
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~Hinako~ ... I think she's wonderful but wish SNKP would give me a color palette where she has dark hair already. 1/4 RUSSIAN, 3/4 JAPANESE GIRLS ARE NOT BLOND.
Color edit is already confirmed (I'm looking foward to use the good, old school 'pink navy man' Maxima custom color palette  )
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Ah! I totally forgot about 3D fighters!
...Other 3D favorites include Lili and Lee from Tekken (although I don't like USING Lee)
Since their introduction, I have been using Lee, Jack, Marduk & Asuka. Of course, from that Lot only the Play mobile and the vale tudo are "weird". I used a lot the tin can in Tekken 1, even though he was ugly as hell, looked like a badly assambled lego toy and was the game cheapest character by far.
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Adelheid, I just don't have enough experience with, I think. I only end up fighting him as leader and it's usually just the B Genocide Cutter that undoes me.
He is strong~resourcefull fighting at close, with good pokes and good preemptive moves; but he takes damage like a little Heidi girl.
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| Gojira 2494th Post
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| "Re(4):Re(10):Rare characters and you" , posted Wed 10 Dec 09:20:
If it's rare characters, my passion for Griffin is well-documented and I still feel he's pretty underappreciated, especially in his own game. But he's still the best damn pure grappler SNK has ever designed.
EDIT: Oh yeah, I also like playing Hibiki. When Professor posted some of the stuff about her personality change here so long ago she became my second favorite character. Now that I think about it that may have been the birth of yandere. :P
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~Kasumi~ ....hell She should be the most popular AoF character
She IS one of the most popular characters of the series. That just shows you how badly the series had aged to fans. In their prime time, many saw them as inferior & less popular than other more mainstream series, but the games still got certain amount of sweet love. Now that the time has pased and more series had popped out and became popular to the public, the general opinion of the game is simply lower than before. Heck, if Ryo wasn't in every KoF, people wouldn't even remember the game 
Yeah, Kasumi is far from unpopular. Her popularity is the only reason she keeps coming back and the only reason her movelist was upgraded from pathetic to viable over the course of a decade.
If we ever saw Mickey or John or Lenny outside of AoF, that would be a true rarity. Not that I ever used any of them.
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| Maese Spt 453th Post
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| "Re(4):Rare characters and you" , posted Thu 11 Dec 13:50
I love this thread, but unfortunately I was never very fond of bizarre/ugly/obscure characters, so I didn't dare to participate. Then I remembered that the very first character I played on the days of good ol' Street Fighter II was E. Honda.
I became quite an expert on him, even beating the game several times on the arcades. Being a 12 years old who had seldom touched a videogame before, that was quite a feat, mind you. I didn't even consider playing with other characters until Champion Edition came out. Ironically, by the time SF Zero 3 came out, bringing Honda back to the stage og history, my likings had already evolved in a way that I could not stand the fat guy's style anymore, hahaha.
I wonder how many Honda players are out there...?
Oh, I also LOVE playing Taki in Soul Edge/Calibur series, but I dunno if she counts as an obscure character... at least I don't know of any other (devoted) player of her.
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| Iron D 3095th Post
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| "Re(6):Rare characters and you" , posted Fri 12 Dec 02:58
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I'm going to include the entirety of the Plasma Sword/Star Gladiator cast. The game is mentioned so little that every character should count as being rare (and most are definitely weird except maybe Hayato and June). I'm not really a big fan of all the clones that were added to Plasma Sword (especially since in almost every case the original is a cooler design....Zelkin is sooooo much cooler than the lame Eagle). Oh, and Gore's created girlfriend was freakin' hot.
Plasma Sword used to see a lot of action at the arcade I used to go to years ago; it was something of an anomaly. It was at the point where really NO character was rare as everyone there actually used a different character every time just because they all were pretty goofy-looking.
I did my best game with Rai-On, Rain, Kaede, and Zelkin, with Zelkin being my favorite style. He's extremely fun to use and it was interesting experimenting how to incorporate his dive grab into a combo (which pretty much reduced the lag of using it by itself which left you incredibly open when you missed).
Yeah, there's pretty much no character I don't use (though again, I do use the original characters more than their clones in most cases) but there are those that I use more than others. Blood, Rain, Rai-on and Black Hayato. Also Gamof, because he's as much of a grappler character as this game has got. Gore is also fun as hell simply for being able to grow large and stomp the hell out of the opponent. That never gets old.
I was never too good with Saturn, though. I tend to have more trouble against the computer with him than any other character.
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| karasu99
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| "Re(2):Re(10):Rare characters and you" , posted Wed 17 Dec 08:21
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What about Sokaku?
Especially RBS Sokaku. He's incredibly interesting and weird.
I can't say I agree about some other the Real Bout competitors. Bob, for instance, always seemed remarkably bland to me, for some reason. Which is odd, since I had always wanted to play as Richard Meyer.
Alfred is fun because he's such a gimmick.
Now Laurence, on the other hand, is a characters I enjoyed playing in Garou Special, but who I didn't really like much when he was reintroduced in RBS.
OH! I have a great example of a rare character-- also from Garou, naturally-- that's where all of mine seem to have come from: Axel Hawk! I could absolutely decimate other players with him, years ago, but I can't remember anyone else ever using him. Not even once!
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"Re(5):Rare characters and you" , posted Sat 6 Dec 17:19
