Waldstein - General Discussion "Grumpy Uncle"

[Sahgren]

Discuss Linne's perennially grumpy guardian, Waldstein, here.
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"Battles are ruthless. Only power means anything. You'd best understand the powerlessness of those tiny arms!"

Height: 256 cm
Weight: 298 kg
Birthday: 9/15
Ability: EXS of Might, "Hecatoncheir"
Weapon: Goutessou "Hagun"

A mysterious old man who is said to have lived for hundreds of years. He acts together with Linne, the "Yato Princess", as someone related to the "Yato".

Speaking of that princess, due to how it seems that she lately has been attached to a helpless student who she apparently saved, he is revealing complex emotions similar to parental love for some reason.

In the midst of all this, Wald and his group are under the attack of Amnesia, the enemy of Yato.

The settlement will be during the next Under Night... Thus were the words left behind by one of their dying high-up member.

To not expose his master's life to danger, Wald resolves to set out to dispose of the source of the trouble. For the sake of his promise with his former friend and also brother to Linne, Kuon.

[GreatOldOne]

No love for the grappler from anyone on here? This dude looks like an absolute beast, with tricky tech traps and grab mixups, and heck he appears to have a standing overhead as well. The range on his command grabs also seems much larger than usual for the character archetype, which has to help at least a little with the usual grappler problems.

I'm kind of surprised to see such a 'pure' looking grappler from French Bread after Satsuki and Kouma in Melty Blood, both of whom were pretty atypical. It seemed like their solution to the usual weaknesses such characters have was just ignore the usual conventions and make characters that just happened to have command grabs.

Also, I took a list at his movelist on the Japanese BBS; is this move supposed to be a 360/full circle motion?

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[Sahgren]

Google Translate puts that as "Lever Rotation", so that's probably 360. I'm not quite certain of this, but it seems like he gets an attack rather than a whiff animation if one of his c-grabs misses.

I do have to wonder how his neutral game is. He has access to the Assault mechanic like everyone else, so his mobility might not be that bad. All else fails, he could probably just walk people into the corner and rely on his reach to keep them from jumping over him.

[GetBent]

man Walds lookin' crazy amazing, his grab mixups were beautiful, everything he does seems beautifully overpowering.
I love it.

[ZweihanderKnight]

Oh noes! Hsien-Ko's grandpa is pissed! D:

JK, but seriously, Waldstein's looking pretty scary. I like using grapplers but I'm on the fence on picking him up. Only time will tell o.o

[KingKaimon]

So... Waldstein is like a Grappler Akuma? I can dig it.