Here we have, if I recall correctly, the first confirmation of further support for Honorary Professor in G-EB02. Seeing as Chatnoir is still a fan favorite, it always feels good to see more support for the card and I look forward to finding out what Chaverite as well as any other Honorary Professor support brings to the table.

[AUTO]:[Choose one or more cards with the sum of their grades being 3 or greater from your hand, and discard them] When this unit is placed on (VC), you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to two cards with “Honorary Professor” in their different card names, put them into your hand, and shuffle your deck.

[AUTO](VC):[Counter Blast (1)] When your G unit with “Honorary Professor” in its original card name Stride, you may pay the cost. If you do, search your deck for up to one grade 3 card, put it on your (VC) as a heart, shuffle your deck, and if you put a card, return this card to your hand.

First, I want to look at this card in the context of the card pool that we currently have. Chaverite’s on-Ride ability is very clearly intended as setup for your Break Stride combo. When you Stride it, you can grab a Chatsauvage and any other Honorary Professor in preparation to Ride him on top of Chatnoir. Beyond that, when you Stride an Honorary Professor G Unit, you get to turn Chatnoir into your VG, further setting you up for one big play. Those are the positives.

The main negative is that depending on what region you play the game in, you currently have between one and zero Honorary Professor G Units at your disposal. In English, the G Unit retrain of Silvest is an Honorary Professor. However, in the original Japanese, Silvest does not in fact share all of the kanji that classify a unit as official Honorary Professor support, meaning that Striding Silvest on top of Chaverite gets you absolutely nothing. What this means is that currently, the English version of the game has a leg up on the Japanese version of the game, though one may argue the leg up is not much of one considering that Silvest is not a particularly great card and rarely sees play in current Great Nature decks.

Next, I would like to look at what Chaverite’s existence may mean for the future of Honorary Professors. The most obvious thing is that this means we will be getting at least one if not more Honorary Professor G Units. Japan does not even have a single one yet, and Bushiroad certainly would not create a card like this and then not print a way to active one of its abilities. My money is on multiple Honorary Professor G Units. They may very well give us one G Unit that can be used as a first Stride and another that can be used as an ace for the archetype. However, I could just as easily see them printing a card that gets more abilities the higher your GB count to save set space.

The less certain thing that Chaverite means for this subclan is that it may actually turn into a full subclan. If Chaverite can only search Grade 3s with its ability, that is not bad. You would at the very least have an easy way to set up the Break Stride combo. However, if Honorary Professor is turned into a full subclan with units of all Grades sharing the title, suddenly Chaverite’s first skill becomes quite a bit more impressive, giving you the ability to tutor out any combo piece you might possibly want. Beyond that, if the units were not restricted to Generation Break, you may have the potential to do some serious damage even if you go first and are unable to Stride when you Ride to Chaverite.

This is, of course, all speculation, but even without a full Honorary Professor subclan backing it up, Chaverite is still a strong card. The full extend of its power is merely left to be revealed.

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