Thursday, July 22, 2010

Kamen Rider Spear


Kamen Rider Spear is one of the 13 Riders the story revolves around. His original name 'Imperer" is based on "Impala", a medium-sized antelope from Africa. His true identity is Chase from Ventara, and his Earth counterpart is Albert Cho.

Albert Cho is Danny's younger brother who will always fight by his side. Like his brother, he was approached by Xaviax who of
fered him and Danny a big paycheck in exchange for participating in "the biggest heist on Earth." He ends up becoming Kamen Rider Spear, a Kamen Rider with a gazelle Advent Deck. He likes being a Kamen Rider, as it makes him feel much tougher. He is extremely inexperienced in fighting with Len quickly stealing his Advent Deck while transforming. Like Drew and JTC, he is completely aware of Xaviax's true nature and will go along with him to get what he wants. After Sting is vented, Albert and Danny ambush Kit along with JTC, but Kit repels them and uses his Final Vent on Spear thus sending him to the Advent Void. His Advent Deck is claimed by Kit but is then given to Len. Soon after, Eubulon rescues Albert from the Advent Void and erases his memories to return him to normal life. Chase is also rescued from the Advent Void and joins forces with the other Riders to destroy Xaviax.


Fighting Style

Kamen Rider Spear is a melee based Rider. He utilizes Muay Thai - Style attacks such as knee strikes enhanced by his Gazelle Visor. He also uses Spin Vent as his primary weapon. However, his biggest fighting advantage is in numbers, since h
is Contract Monster Gigazelle is accompanied by Megazelle and Omegazelle (later additions were Magazelle and Negazelle). His significant number of Contract Monsters can easily overwhelm other Riders.

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owever, Spear's numbers strategy can be disrupted, forcing Spear to fight Riders by himself. Another weakness is that the accompanied Contract Monsters are not really Spear's, since they just follow Gigazelle, and often prove to be inconsistent, either helping or attacking Spear.


Visor and Advent Deck

Spear is unique among the other Riders because unlike the rest of them, his color scheme is inconsistent with his respective monster (his color scheme is brown, but Gigazelle is purple in color). Moreover, he is the only Rider to have more than one Advent Monster from the start (unlike Kamen Rider Strike, who had to vent Kamen Rider Thrust and Kamen Rider Sting to gain Metalgelas and Evildiver). Being melee-based with Muay Thai-style attacks, Spear doesn't have much fighting experience, using the Gazelle Visor on his right knee to use his Spin Vent card which gives him a double-drill Gazelle Stab guantlet. Aside from his Spin Vent, Imperer relies on his mass amount of Zelles to do the fighting for him, after which he lands the final blow.
  • Advent (AP: 4000): Summons Gigazelle along with copies of Omegazelle and Magazelle (due to the fact that these Gazelle-type Mirror Monsters travel in groups). Although these monsters have aided Spear time and again, he possessesd no cards for the others, save for the primary Gigazelle; this sometimes results in Megazelle and Omegazelle attacking Spear.
  • Spin Vent (AP: 2000): Conjures Gazelle Stab, modeled after Gigazelle's horns.
  • Final Vent (AP: 5000): Executes Drive Divider. The Zelles stampede a target before Spear unleashes a powerful knee strike to the enemy's head.