Ye Olde Soul Calibur II Tournament

[EdenMaster]

Well, the reason you percieve him as an easy opponent has alreayd been covered, it's purely mental.

The reason you do poorly when you play as him? That's easy. I've heard the hardest character in SCII to master is in fact Charade, in that you have to master all the OTHER characters if you truly want to master Charade. If you're good with all the characters, then you're good with Charade. If you're good with one or two characters, then you'll do okay if you get them, but you'll obviously die if you land on a character you're unfamiliar with. Happens to me all the time. I can't count the number of times I've been doing well with Charade, and then die because I simply get dealt a character I'm bad with like Xianghua, Ivy, or Maxi. If you consistantly get characters you know (or know all the characters decently enough), then Charade is a very fun character to play.

It's all in your head, man. Charade poses just as much of a threat to you as though you were fighting the character he was mimicking. I've been beaten by Charades before when he became a good character. There's no more shame in losing to him than to any other character.