Ok, so Ono has said this will be the largest roster in any recent SF game. Considering SSF4 AE has 39, this one must have atleast 40.
There are 22 characters officially announced, 4 more we pretty much know (Heihatchi, Rolento, Zangief, Lili,). That is 26. That is 14 more to make up that 40. 7 tekken 7 SF. My guess is there will be 42 to include ‘boss characters’ for each side. so 8 per side. Here is my predictions (Predictions =/= wishlist. If it were a wishlist, I’d have Hakan and Elena in it, haha.)
My predictions:==============================================
SF: R.Mika to team with Zangief, Guy/Cody (almost confirmed), Sean/Sakura, Sodom/M.Bison, Akuma
Tekken: Asuka to team with Lili, Law/Paul, Jin/Xaioyu, Lars/Alisa, Devil Jin.
Update to come later adds 8: Makoto/Fei Long, Lei/Feng, Dudley/Eagle, Jaycee/Zafina.
Did she even know AK1? Its still a mystery on why she’s teaming up with AK2 in Tag.
I don’t think she was working for Lee per se. IIRC she was sorta his spy at GCorp, and was sending information to Lee. This is fan speculation on my part, but I’m guessing Julia knows him through her mother and he probably become interested in her because of her intellect and how her research might tie to the devil gene (I know her T4 ending isn’t really considered canon, but T6 has established that she does have connections to GCorp so…).
Julia owes Ganny - since he putted his ass on the line to recover the data that Heihachi stole from her. Plus, she doesn’t even hate him (if you play with her at his stage in SC, she just doesn’t know what to do).
Julia is only friends with King II, but the TTT2’s canon pairs her with Armor King for some unknown reason yet do be discovered.
IIRC, Julia works at G Corporation, as Lee’s insider to give him updates and information about the company. Pretty flimsy relationship, but at least it’s better than pairing her with Bob.
And about Zafina, the same elder woman who talked about the prophecy to her is one of the people of Zaf’s tribe, etc. Better than Bob, again.
Lee/Julia doesn’t have a built in, if convoluted Full House joke.
Seriously though, it’s a reminder that Capcom is willing to go outside pairs that make sense in the canon, and reminds us that int he end, story and canon is secondary to roster selection.
Guys… we’re getting at 4 reveals a month… we’re on track for 42 characters if released in Feb or 46 characters if released in March. Ono said he wants this game to challenge the Tekken games in roster size… Tekken 6 has 41 characters, Tekken Tag 2 will have 44… so either way SFxT will be just behind TTT2 or beat it… and that’s not counting if TGS has more than the typical 4 reveals.
And Tekken Tag 2 is doing the exact same thing with the Jaycee/Armor King 2 teamup.
Did S.kill way back when said that we would get a character that was a big surprise and that no-one would expect?
Was he hinting at Poison back then or what?
Yes that was just his stage. Not a very big hint, but when I think about the Poison/Hugo cinematic trailer where a message was shown: “Sodom is behind you”, then I have the feeling that they want to tell us something with the fish in the Rolento teaser.
I’m hoping for Sodom big time, but I’m already super happy with Rolento so I’ll live.
I’m thinking with Rufus in new trailer.
Rolento paired with Ibuki(Hopefully with Sodom instead :/)
Gief/Rufus
And another character without partner(There is always one of these) Unless Rolento is the character with-out partner.
On Tekken Side Heihachi to go with Kuma
Lili/Asuka maybe?
Hopefully Law(But I’m really hoping for Feng)
Sigh as of now seems like R.Mika getting shafted again
