I do not want those to be claw marks. Because if a claw attacker is in the game, that reduces the possibility of Vega also being in the game.
wol V erine??? Blanka is Weapon X??
omg itās him!
Also crap. Theyāre not streaming the Capcom panel.
Someone will be tweeting the reveals for sure, fear not.
Ok so we know there will be 16 characters, 4 brand new. So that leaves 5 old reveals.
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Blanka- this is foregone conclusion. We see the guy playing w the toy, heās his fav character, thereās a Brazil stage. Cāmon guys itās all but confirmed. Likelihood- 99.999%
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Akuma- I canāt see this game without him.
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Sagat- same as Akuma, I canāt see the game not launching with him. Heās iconic and popular.
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Karin- Isnāt it basically a thing that sheās in this game? I saw that character poll and the rumors. I donno, seems like a lot of smoke for no fire.
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Zangief- The token grappler, Iād be floored if heās not in the launch cast.
The other possibles and leftovers. Urien and Alex. Same as Karin, I hear a lot of rumor that these guys are as good as in. I donno, Iām guessing they are first to be added. Boxer and vega. The token lackeys are prob in the pipeline.
Im guessing the reveal will be post grand finals tomorrow. SFV makes me happy.
The whole cast has a throw, they are all grapplers.
More Roster Speculation!
So the news from Capcom today means we are getting 5 more returning characters at launch. If Siliconeraās leak is true, we have:
-Alex
-Urien
-Karin
-R.Mika
-???
There are a few standouts for a 5th character. Juri would be an excellent homage to the SF4 series. Sakura helps tie Karin into the main story a bit more, while Gief helps R.Mika make more sense. There are some other dark horses in the form of Sagat, Dhalsim, Blanka, and Oro, but the first 3 seem more likely.
Otherwise, my best guesses are, judging by merchandise and emphasis in the recent UDON comics:
-Alex
-Urien
-Sakura
-Juri
-Oro
someone on neogaf came up with a cool idea for dhalsims v trigger - ability to air dash/fly/float in the air
Shit, MvC2 Dhalsim in SF5? Whatās next, is he gonna have unfly/refly combos and runaway like crazy with air teleports?
If Dhalsim can fly. If rose ever makes it as dlc let her fly with some orbs. But i really hope this new character gets my attention. btw i havent been interested in ken since i first tried 3rd strike.
The thing with Dhalsim is we donāt know how much they want to change him for this game. Their main goal, judging from the panel, is to create a V-system that is tailored to the characterās needs and style. Dhalsim is naturally a calm, collected character, so they arenāt going to go making him crazy fast for any reason. I can see them making his Yoga Catastrophe into a V-Trigger move. If they let him vary the speed like his regular fireball, I can see it helping him in multiple ways. People who want to play a range game can use it to shut down the opponentās options and force them to either commit to a move that passes through the projectile or jump, both of which are favorable for him if he can read the opponent and punish accordingly. It can also be used offensively to set up high/low and left/right mixups, especially if he has a way to land overheads consistently.
But then again, Iām not even sure if they would let him have a teleport in this game. Nash and Bison have to use resources to teleport, so a meterless teleport would seem out of place here.
Notice how UMvC3 is scheduled for 2 hours and 30 minutes? Yeah, Marvel usually only takes 2 hours, so the 30 minutes is probably the time when we get the reveal.
It was the same with the Decapre reveal. Right before finals of SSF4.
Better view of the roster screen:
http://i.imgur.com/1zVq7HE.jpg
The color sections really make me a bit sad. Because if green means = SF2 characters, blue = alpha characters and purple = new characters, that means no Juri. =(
I was thinking the same. The first thing that came to mind was, so where the flipping fuck would alex and urien be? They gotta be in. 
Fear not, the eight green characters are more likely from SF4, with the first five reveals also being from SF2, blue are returning characters from other SF games that werenāt in SF4, purple the new ones. It would be weird if its just a selection of Alpha and SF2 characters. Juri could be very well still included.
I Agree. I find it unlikely that the green section is reserved to SF2 characters, SF4 was the nostalgia revival and Capcom knows this, bringing all of that baggage back to a game they built from scratch would not be the best choice; if the color has any significance it could just be used to represent the area destined for āreturning charactersā aka those who were in USF4, while the blue section is reserved for returning characters not included in Ultra (though that would mean only two spots for higly requested characters like Alex, Urien, Mika, Karin, Q, etc.), while the last purple area is limited to the new additions to the roster; thatās what i think it is at least; having half of the core roster made of returning characters from the last installment and the other half composed by those absent from the last game seems like a solid roster composition.
True. Well, at least they plan to release characters continuously so weāll most likely get the characters we want, and Iām really glad that thereās 4 new characters. Wouldnāt have gone with less!
blue is guaranteed karin and r mika
green would be sim, gief, and juri
that means alex and urien would be dlc for laterā¦ seems possible
Whelp that kills any Akuma hope i had. Hope the new character is cool.
Actually thinking about it I can see them doing something like this:
Pre grand finals (or the start of top 8) - Reveal a character
After grand finals are over - SURPRISE another character reveal.