Will-o'-the-Wisp

Will-o'-the-Wisp
Biographical Information
Birthplace	Unknown
Birthdate	Unknown
Weapon Information
Weapon	Cursed sword, Soul Edge
Weapon name	Soul Edge
Fighting style	Mimicry
Series Information
Appears in	Soulcalibur III

Will-o'-the-Wisp is an unplayable enemy fought in Soulcalibur III as a Prepare to Defend Yourself challenge enemy. When fought, the player only has a limited amount of time to defeat it. Will-o'-the-Wisp is another "mimic" character like Charade and Inferno, but can only mimic characters who can use Soul Edge as their weapon. Therefore, Will-o'-the-Wisp will only use Tira, Nightmare, Cervantes, Lizardman, Mitsurugi, and Astaroth's moveset. It appears as a mass of blue or orange wisps of flames that are arranged in a shape of a humanoid.

Battle

Will-o'-the-Wisp uses random disciplines that uses the Soul Edge weapon. When fought as a CPU, its CPU level is quite high which makes it a pretty hard enemy. But its defenses are amazingly low, so you can defeat it with just a few strikes. Still, even with this disadvantage it still can bring on a hard fight.

Weapons

• Mitsurugi's Soul Edge
• Lizardman's Soul Edge
• Nightmare's Soul Edge
• Astaroth's Soul Edge
• Cervantes' Soul Edge
• Tira's Soul Edge

Trivia

• Will-o'-the-Wisp appears to be a rudimentary version of Inferno, sharing the familiar fire sprites and voice clips as he.
• The announcer has to introduce Will-o'-the-Wisp quite hurridly, as the name is quite long, and needs to say "Fight!" almost immediately afterward.
• It usually appears in Voldo's stage or Taki's stage.
• If a cheat device is used to play as it, it has a second costume which is just Seong Mi-na's first costume.
  • Strangely, Charade (eyeball form) has a green Will-o'-the-Wisp as its third outfit.
• It can be fought in Tales of Souls mode, if the player encounters Voldo in the Money Pit. If the player succeeds in defeating Voldo and has not used a Continue up until that point, they will encounter Will-o'-the-Wisp afterwards.
• It could be possible that the Will-o'-the-Wisp that is fought after Voldo is supposed to represent Vercci's ghost as it appears in the Money Pit, however there is yet to be any official confirmation on this.
• Will-o'-the-Wisp is one of the few characters in the Soul series to be immune to throws.

Gallery

Will-o'-the-Wisp (Orange)

Orange variant.

Blue variant.