Virtual Card Set 2013 – Goten or Go Home

As was pointed out this week by Didier and last week by myself, Goten is an unremarkable character and personality in virtually all forms of media. It’s hard to do anything with him since he really doesn’t stand out at all in the show. In the game, he’s kinda all over the place with no real focus. His Majin Buu Saga Personality set has a vague “anti-discard pile” theme, as does his only named attack, but they are just garbage that doesn’t go anywhere or do anything spectacular at all. In fact, we never really set out to create a new Goten personality. We had actually been brainstorming ways to make Gotenks a playable main personality with his current levels as well as a new Lv. 4, but we just couldn’t come up with anything that didn’t either leave you with an overpowered personality or a severely neutered one. It seemed that cards like SPOOKED and Gotenks Flight would never see the light of deck. And then we thought “Well what if we just let a crap personality use Fusion cards?” Yeah, that could work.

31 Goten Lv. 1

So, Goten can now use all those awesome Vegito cards from the Fusion Saga as well as neat cards like Gotenks Kamikaze Ghost and Gotenks Potential. His power is a nice little boost to his level two, and while he doesn’t have a lot of great options for that level, you can at least have a nice combat the turn you use his power and even use it as a great jumping point to fuse into Gotenks Lv. 2 fairly swiftly. Since his new Virtual Lv. 1 power needs a Gotenks personality card in your Sensei Deck to go off, you are limited to only using the power twice per game at most since Goten lacks (and there’s no plan to add at this point) a Lv. 5. So while you can boost yourself to the decent World Games Saga Lv. 3 with Advanced Basics (one of my favorite cards), Goten is hardly suited for a MPPV deck (unless your gonna be bold and use Just Saiyan and add some anger, then that could be interesting).

But wait, there’s actually one more really awesome way to play the new Goten: NON TOKUI WAZA! Going this route you get a sweet beats stick with Goten the Brother.

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Going the NTW route, you essentially get a Gohan the Winner Lv. 5 as early as turn one (plus a slight damage boost the turn it’s used). You can keep up a steady stream of damage and even build it up with Master Roshi Sensei. You could try for the World Games Saga Lv. 3 in a combat with the slime anger Brother gives you, but this is probably one deck I wouldn’t use Advanced Basics in just because you could really only use it once after getting off Lv. 1 (since it won’t work on double use powers) unless you had some consistent way to get to Goten Lv. 4. Still, a double beats with Brother and then a Fusion in Super Saiyan Gotenks would be quite the impressive combat, if you could pull it off.

So there you have it. A new Goten and four new ways to play him that you can even mix and match: Fusion, Most Powerful Personality, Non Tokui-Waza and Fused Personality Only cards. What way do you all think is best? What cards do you think Goten works well with now? Post card combos and deck lists here.

Later BroZ!

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