@Onryoki I'm not asking for a guest myself, but I find it hard to believe we'll have only 2 unrevealed characters (Eliot? Brad? Gen? Leon? Ein? Raidou? Momiji? Rachel?) until launch... so a surprise guest reveal is the only thing I can see behind it...
Actually we have 4 characters left to be revealed for the base roster, the DLC characters are not a part of the base roster (would be weird If They were). Nyotengu and Phase 4 will get a trailer along with Eliot, Brad, Gen fu and Raidou.
Momiji and Rachel not being in 6 was pretty much confirmed with the posters.
Phase4 and Nyotengu being the 26th and 27th characters also has been pretty much confirmed by the DOAtec twitter account tweeting that there will be a 26th button for Nyotengu.
I doubt they would announce a guest character so early for the game.
Lol how do I not? Your suggestions got more and more disturbing. Eliot doesn't have the weight or power to pull off Genfu. Genfu is a more unique design and an og. Leon taking Rachel/Nicole moveset. Noooooo thank you. He's too human for that.