Your top 10 of EFZ.

[FFD]

I think we've given 4.02 enough time to tier it now: post your top 10. Top 10 can mean 10 characters you are most proficient with, or 10 characters you think are stronger than the rest. Please give me why you chose those characters. If you don't want to rank them, then you don't have to. Let's see how American(aka US/Canada/Mexico) scene think the best is.

I'll start it off:

1. Unknown
She can fight close and away, build meter fast, chips like a demon(no pun intended), and has a great unblockable move. There is nothing she can't do IMO. I don't like playing vs her, but I gotta recognize her potential.

2. Akane
When the game is in her pace, it's over. Incredibly fast A attacks, awesome crossover, and none of her supers are useless.

3. Mio
Her lvl3 might be useless, but majority of her moves cover so much areas and she can get combos near everywhere on the screen. Has a lot of invincible moves too.

4. Shiori
I ain't gonna lie, if I didn't see the character's potential I wouldn't have played her. Grab leads damage in corners, A and B snowman are great rushing tools, and too many safe moves.

5. Mayu
I see her as less crazy but more annoying version of Akane. Rush super gets 'em to corner FROM corner, and one of 3 characters who have grabs that can be followed up without IC.

6. Makoto
Very good specials, even though normals are kind of bad IMO. Her supers are A class, too. She has almost as many ways of crossing over as Akane.

7. Misaki
Shitty lvl 3s, and she's pretty slow generally, but man, when she got you with combos it hurts like hell. Her BS stuff like autoguard on C attacks, air fireball super or dish supers are REALLY BS, even though her weak stuff are pretty weak.

8. Misio
Incredible character that can do pretty much everything but runaway, IMO. Comboable grabs, fast overhead(when lightning charged), cool mid-field combos, and IMO one of the two best hidden lvl3s of the game. Her walking speed is pretty bad though.

9. Kano
The fastest meter building character. No useless super. Charge cancels. These are untapped potentials the way I see it. US needs a Kano specialist.

10. Mai
She's one of the harder characters to pull OTG combos, so it works really well on her favor(cutting half the combos out). AWESOME B attacks, very good reversal(rdp+C), and one of the best hidden lvl3 supers of the game. She can do OTGs, and she can poke like hell. Often it's easy to see her building opponent's guard handicaps. Only problem I see with her is that she is kind of on the slower side.

[linalys]

In no order, just really how quickly they come to mind:

Edit: I was kinda being cautious at first seeing as I wanted to carefully pick the top tier. Then half way through I realized 10/22 (23 with kanna) is half the cast. Then it became so much easier. I don't have to worry about missing a top tier, I'll probably get them through shotgun method anyway.

1. Misaki
All those japanese replays can't be wrong, and watching them I don't doubt it. Her rushdown has to be the safest in the game. People take throws willingly to avoid the combos and to let the guard bar cool down a bit. Combos last until 30% power, combos come off any real hit, and they all hurt.

2. Mio
Incredibly versatile.

3. Ikumi
An insanely fast and pretty mobile grappler? Ok. You have damaging combos too? Oh my. You have wakeup mixup options? To the top tier you go!

4. Sayuri
Quite possibly the most well rounded character in efz? Command grab check. Projectile check. Good normals check. Some form of overhead check. Unnecessary but nice to have high/low-all-in-one counter? check.

5. Mayu
Damage, high/low/left/right/grab mixup, damage, size, and damage.

6. Ayu
Damage, mixup options, good normals.

7. Kano
Damage in corner, projectiles for every occasion, charge cancel is pretty cool (if not the most useful thing), good range.

8. Shiori
Good normals, can switch between rushdown and keepaway sorta well enough to annoy the opponent into mistakes.

9. Mai
Maybe not top tier, but definitely at the very least mid tier and to have to choose 10/22 I'll definitely head into mid tier territory. Bunny assists are cool, bunny will absorb a hit, I still think her overhead is one of the best in the game.

10. Unknown
Her abilities are mostly unknown to me, but I respect her from what little I've seen.

[yar1030]

Sayuri
she can just start fucking winning, running grab combo business

Mai
she fucks just as hard, ghost bunny thing for lock down

2-in-1 is enough.

[jima-san]

yar1030 said:

2-in-1 is enough.

I agree. As a dedicated player of EFZ for several years (I started with Bad Moon Edition), I believe I'm pretty decent with all the characters, but like most I normally specialize in just 2-3 characters.

Mentioning that, my lineup would be...

1) Amasawa Ikumi
My best character. She's fast, has one helluva cool lvl3 grab-type Eterny Special, good as either a hit-and-run striker or a nonstop attacker, and has the potential of being virtually unstoppable in Genocide Mode. ;D

2) Tsukimiya Ayu
The first character I ever learned to play with, and also my fave character in Kanon. Sure she has a real sucky forward dash (if you don't know how to take advantage of it), but her combos are easy to pull off but just right in terms of strength. A good choice for beginners.

Those two would be my best bets in battle, though I practice regularly with the others as well, so my third choice varies by my mood.

[supermai]

1.mai, maybe not the most powerful characters but her move is fast

[efzlover]

1.Misuzu Kamio
Her super will get a great hit but short range........
Her crow is useful sometime~

2.Mizuka Nagamori
Her symbol is good if u use it many time and explode all will get great damage.
Her super power will be great if the enemy going to die.

3.Unknown
She can do long and short range move.
Her attack dmg high.

4.Kano Kirisima
Her ic recover veli fast.She have many move to use also.