Help me build my Guyver!

[One IV All]

Hey all!

 

So I was watching The Guyver 2: Dark Hero with my buddies. Totally fun B movie if you ever get a chance to watch it!

 

Anyways, it inspired me to make my own Guyver hero. To me, it has to be a Scrapper and it has to be Bio Armor. Those just fit IMO.

 

Where it gets interesting is the primary. I feel that 3 fit best: Street Justice, Martial Arts and Claws.

 

Street Justice has a strong “violence” and crunch to it that seems to fit thematically with the character.

 

Martial Arts has a nice mix of punches and kicks. The combat style “flows” a bit like a Guyver.

 

Claws is a little more out there, but Guyver units are famous for their elbow blades… claws is kind of the best substitute for that. Brings some quasi ranged moves as well.

 

Do any of these primaries mesh particularly well with Bio Armor? Which one do you think would work best for a Guyver hero?

[StriderIV]

Love the concept. 

MA is awesome, but for this I'd probably go either Claws or StJ. Claws brings sort of the "feral" feeling you can get from Guyver going beserker mode and the ranged attacks (I think they can shoot lasers as well, so maybe laser eye beams?). StJ has that BONE breaking feeling to it, which I think could be awesome.

I don't know if anyone else has done it, but I hear StJ really shines on stalkers as well... althought you miss out on Rib Cracker. I LOVE that animation.

[Octogoat]

Why not savage melee?

[One IV All]

47 minutes ago, Octogoat said:

Why not savage melee?

Good call out, I just felt that is more in line with the baddies they face!

[Maelwys]

On 1/28/2025 at 5:25 AM, One IV All said:

Do any of these primaries mesh particularly well with Bio Armor? Which one do you think would work best for a Guyver hero?

Back on Live I had a Human-only form Peacebringer which was styled as a Guyver - their Bio specifically mentioned that although frequently mistaken for one they were NOT a Kheldian; but instead a Human bonded with an extra-terrestrial Bio-Boosting organism... and they were always the first into the mix to wallop Void Stalkers/Quantum gunners/Nictus Crystals (because obviously they were all Cronos Corp cronies and/or "Zoanoids"!)

Whilst I've watched the Guyver II Movie; I much prefer the 1989 Animated OVA (I still have them on VHS somewhere; but I ported them to MP4 more than a decade ago)
 

Anyways, Guyver's schtick is:

(i) Insanely high levels of Self Healing (Very Rapid Regeneration; and can fully Revive even from only a few cells as long as their Control Medal is undamaged)
(ii) Heightened Physical Strength and Resilience (their main weakness is Toxic damage) and resistance to mind control + psychic assault.
(iii) Flight (technically Gravity Manipulation; but they've never been shown to use it in this manner on anything other than their own body)
(iv) Energy Blasts from their head (Control Medal/Eyes) and their hands (the gravity weapon "Pressure Cannon") and their chest (the "Mega Smasher")
(v) Melee attacks in the form of punching/grappling plus extendable bladed weapons built into their forearms (vibrating "High Frequency Swords")
(vi) Shapeshifting into larger forms - the "Guyver Gigantic" (roughly 3m tall) and the "Gigantic Exceed" (roughly 50m tall)


If you're basing the toon on the movie version then you can skip (vi); but you'll likely still want Healing/Revival, energy blasts, punches/slashing weapons and flight.

For the Eyebeams and Gravity Cannon, taking the Energy Mastery Epic Pool (for Laser Beam Eyes/Energy Torrent) and/or possibly the Force of Will pool (the animations don't quite mesh; but they might be close enough) would work. The Mega Smasher is an issue - you can sort of recolour "Void" Judgement Incarnate and "Ground Zero" from Radiation Armor to look like a PBAoE bright energy blast... but Energy Blast "Nova" and Peacebringer "Dawn Strike" are tailor made for it.

If you're dead set on a Scrapper... I'd probably go Claws/ (with the Vanguard Blades) with the Flight Power pool and Energy Mastery. Willpower is probably the secondary that meshes best with canon... but if you're going /Bio then turn on Minimal FX and take Void Judgement (recoloured Bright/White) for the Mega Smasher.


 

Edited January 29 by Maelwys