Kyoko Shinsegawa is the only Japanese vampire (or at least the only one with a Japanese name) in the Vtes crypt selection at the moment, and she is a most preculiar Tremere. As a Group 3 vampire she is within the batch of vampires that are very versatile in crypt selection, and she is young enough to be used occasionally in decks just to "fill in" space, mainly due to her dominate discipline, despite her only having the inferior level at a capacity of 5. Kyoko is a very interesting vampire due to her special ability, and quoting Bann, she is most weirdly priced because of that. At 5 cap, she has only 4 inferior discipline, and without her in-clan THA. But her special ability makes her a formidable vampire in the right deck.
Kyoko cannot hunt normally, but she can hunt by stealing a blood from ANY ready vampire, at a +1 stealth. This makes her a Cryptic Mission machine. Given the fact that she has inferior FOR, she can be a one-girl Cryptic Mission machine, limited only by the number of Freak Drives you have in your hand, and the ability of the opponent in blocking. Robin's deck had used Kyoko as an offensive Cryptic Hunter against YY a couple of nights ago, and with Aaron's Feeding Razor on her she actually gets filled up pretty quickly. Against an opponent that couldn't handle that 1 stealth, this attack can be quite devastating after a while.
The problem she has is a lack of ability to generate stealth, limiting her hunting to a +1 stealth most of the time. Of course, her basic CEL allows for the expensive and inefficient Alacrity, but that's about it. Throwing in Sunset Strip will give her another stealth (and a single tap gives her a +1 stealth for the entire round, on ALL her hunts), and if you make her an anarch, Anarch Railroad provides another stealth.
Speaking of Anarchs, Kyoko makes an excellent Anarch. Her discipline spread makes her an excellent candidate for many Anarch possibility - Diversion for example. She has enough disciplines for her cost and her ability by itself works well with the extra hunting and stealth possibility given by the Anarch options.
Though I've yet to see a Kyoko deck, I've seen Kyoko appeared in many decks, especially those which favors the DOM disicipline. I'm sure she has way more potential than that, and I look forward to see a deck dedicated to Kyoko.
Perhaps I'll re-tune my Cryptic Mission deck to make her a star. Oh, she doesn't have THA.
Darn.
(o.o)
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I've just used her as a filler in the Carna deck, but its a good vampire. If only she were group 4, it would have its space on my Janni for/cel anarch deck, what a pity.
The combo Aaron's Feeding Razor + Kyoko is very funny, and I saw a deck with her as a star, exploding that special.
See you later!
She single-handedly remove pretty much every single blood on YY's vampires when Robin played her. But he played 48 copies of Freak Drive anyway~ :)
Deadly
(o.o)
just checked the vtes google groups--you can't use her ability with freak drive multiple times. you can only use her once because it's a special action based on a card in play (herself)
I think it is quite sad~ What happens when she is forced to hunt?
(o.o)
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