Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24342386-20191210181621/@comment-35303794-20191221122419

Ahmeddilmi.2003 wrote: It's universally agreed upon that Shadow should've joined.

New character, lack of forwards for Raimon, unusual Wood element, cool hissatsu (Dark Tornado).


 * Could've joined to replace Gouenji before going to Hokkaido, play with three strikers (Shadow, Someoka, Atsuya) with Kidou, Touko and Ichinose as midfielders and Kabeyama, Kazemaru, Domon and Megane as defenders. (Hitomiko was using Kazemaru and Domon as midfielders for some reason)

I agree with you entirely there, but it looks like he was planned to be more of a game character/easter egg for you to recruit in the 3 games(IE 1 unique scout, IE 2 The Card with Malcolm & Feldt & IE 3 with the bunch of passwords)
 * Could've joined after Someoka left, since he was Wood element as well and I don't think they went to Osaka yet (?) so Rika isn't there and only Fubuki is left as forward.