One Minute Melee

What an amazing fight. I'll always enjoy the connectivity between episodes they have going here.

This could've been avoided if you just...knew...how...to...

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODGE!

Is this another part of pony friendship? Telling each other what you learned all the time?

Technically, Martian Manhunter did dodge.

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But Piccolo didn't, and that got him hit by his own Hellzone Grenade at the end.

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Any ideas for future matches?

I have a few:

• Kat VS Shantae
• Lightning VS Aqua
• Lanky Kong VS Big the Cat
• Ghost Rider VS Jackie Estacado
• Captain Falcon VS Sweet Tooth (or Needles Kane to be exact)
• Pepsi Man VS Segata Sanshiro
• Ellen Ripley VS Isaac Clarke
• Ornstein and Smough VS Tarkus and Bruford
• Minions VS Raving Rabbids
• Regime Superman VS Goku Black (This one is an April Fool's Day joke)

edited 1st Feb '17 12:06:38 PM by GavsEvans123

Cortex should take a 12-step plan off a 10-step pier

New video is up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3UoyBfAW14

Yup, definitely playing out like a fighting game.

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There's no research and then there's just plain stupidity. I'm sorry, all those shotgun blasts and a fucking rocket and Snake just walks it off? Sometimes I wish whoever these animators are what have fight choreography that makes sense. I'm just tired of the bs reasoning given 'for this shit looks cool and I couldn't be bothered to make sense' instead of animating something that makes sense.

Eh...Snake is really tough. Tough enough to crawl through a microwave corridor. He is a clone of Big Boss, after all.

Also, lots and lots of rations equipped.

edited 4th Feb '17 11:06:52 AM by UndyingPhoenix

The numbers don't lie. That attack only does about 250,000 damage out of an average of 1,000,000 heath.

edited 4th Feb '17 11:11:24 AM by Moth13

... I think it's pretty obvious by now that the OMM setting is decidedly working based on vidoe game rules of reality, specifically the typical fighting game kind where punches, fire, and bullets do the same amount of non-lethal, non-maiming damage unless the plot calls for it.

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New One-Minute Melee: Ibuki (Street Fighter) vs. Valentine (Skullgirls)

I can tell by the end screen thingie mabob that Alice Margatroid from Touhou will be one of the next fighters, but can anyone guess who'd be on the left?

edited 18th Feb '17 1:34:43 PM by TheMageofFire

Broken link.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RnpIb7WiYc&t=29s

Looks like Painwheel will be showing up in a future match.

Comments say it's Alice from Touhou vs Sasori from Naruto.

Is this another part of pony friendship? Telling each other what you learned all the time?

I think he was referring to how Painwheel showed briefly at the end of the episode just like how ages ago Valentine showed up up the end of Peacock's episode. So Painwheel won't be next but she will eventually show up sometime in the future.

That contrast between pixel sprite vs animated sprite was weird.

Click Click Boom Boom

No, I was referring to the endslate after they show off the victor. They've been doing this lately where they have the silhouettes of two characters who are going to be in the next Melee. That being said, Sasori would make sense for an opponent, but I think Alice would take that fight because she had a giant Doll that could withstand anything Sasori throws at her. Though of course, no Research and all that.

I'd give it to Alice as well which leads me to this question: How salty would Naruto fans get if Alice won? Or would they be all "Where the hell did she come from?" and look into Touhou instead? I remember both of these things happening after the Sakuya vs Dio OMM.

edited 18th Feb '17 6:37:48 PM by MachThreeSlug

I find it amusing how Fei Long and Liu Kang have 0 tropes attached to them on the character page. Goes to show how interested people are in those two.

Then again, Batman vs. Iron Man is the same...

edited 18th Feb '17 6:41:50 PM by IceAnt573

A youkai magician and her army of knee-high puppets vs. a living puppet ninja and his 100 puppets. I anticipate that puppets will explode/be on fire. I'm torn between who I want to root for. Alice is a cute heroine, but Sasori is a cool villain.

Alice takes control of Sasori, due to him being a puppet.

Fei Long and Liu Kang... who are they again?

edited 18th Feb '17 9:33:41 PM by WillDeRegio

This episode was a good example of OMM's most common flaw, that fights don't really follow a logical progression. Chris can fill Snake with bullets and he'll be no worse for wear (which goes against the theme of the match-up: military badasses engaging in military warfare), and in this match, Ibuki and Valentine kept trading combos and finishing moves, but there's no good reason as to why Ibuki's last one worked where every other failed. It's like watching a fighting game where you can't see the health bars, and player skill is not a factor.

I'd rather see the show follow the example of Piccolo vs Manhunter or Sora vs Link more often. Those matches actually followed a coherent plotline, and were great for it.

I think that's the whole point: OMM is basically using fighting game mechanics, which it does not make visible to ensure that the viewers are immersed in the battle itself. It's basically like those times when I was playing DOA2, and I opted to put the AI in command of both players with no time limits and infinitely insta-regenerating health, partly to get a feel for who has the general advantage against the other when all other factors are equal (example: AI!Ayane seemed to have the edge on AI!Kasumi), and partly just to watch the two beat the shit out of each other with no end in sight (and the resulting fanservice, if one or both characters are female). Only in OMM's case, the health bars and other gameplay indicators are invisible, the whole fight is completely choreographed, and the OMM staff choose when to pull the plug on one character at the one-minute mark.

Reason: Rule of Cool.

edited 19th Feb '17 6:02:42 AM by MarqFJA

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It's about as close to a fighting game crossover as you can get.

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