Julius (BCF)

Julius (ジュリアス Juriasu) is a playable character in Bean Cafe Fighters, being a starter character. Julius was teased before release, being shown in Popple's reveal trailer, and officially confirmed by the Cafe Fighters website on November 12th, 2014, alongside Zack and Cloud. His appearance is based off the one shown in the game Battle Heroes X: Army of Darkos. Julius is voiced by Antony Del Rio in English and Takahiro Sakurai in Japanese.

Attributes
Julius boasts power, above average reach, and good aerial attacks. His use of cryokinetic energy gives him strong zoning and spacing tools. Julius is not only good on the ground, but also has an above average presence in the air. He has two very effective edgeguarding tools in his neutral and back aerial attacks. He also has a great projectile game, neutral and side specials being able to play keepaway. Nonetheless, Julius has extreme flaws to counteract these great strengths. He is very slow on his feet (Having the 3th slowest running speed in the game and the 7th slowest air speed in the game.) and struggles to zone enemies unless he is already at a distance from them. Julius's ability to succeed is based on the player's ability to maintain space and keep it. He is also easily comboed due to him being a heavyweight. Finally, Julius's normals are not only below average, they don't really combo into each other or anything. Because of this, while Julius has decent matchups against high and mid-high characters like Cloud and James, he struggles against the top tier characters (especially Zack and Clocko).

Julius's forward throw can not only help him create space, but also secure kill as it is a very strong throw with good horizontal knockback. His side special, Ice Beam can deal a ton of damage and is fast coming out if it is not charged. His down aerial can soft spike and can combo into itself for confirmed kills. Julius's powerful attacks are counterbalanced by their slowness, but some techniques can help.

Overall, Julius is a zoning powerhouse with the strongest projectile kit in the game. He can easily zone out almost the entire Cafe Fighters cast at peak play. All that's holding him back are his low speed, so players must be patient and wait for their opportunity to land their powerful moves while being careful to not get heavily comboed themselves.