Why didn't they just jump?
Did they really need all those children?
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice....and that's the real problem.
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.I'm saying that it's a real problem with the writing.
That should not happen.
edited 16th Apr '16 5:51:53 PM by randomness4
Rules of the Internet 45. Rule 45 is a lie. Check out my art if you notice.Does it? I haven't seen a source on the "Miles and Kerry write fights entirely around coolness and plot" thing.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=13239183440B34964700 Alfric's Fire Emblem Liveblog Encyclopedia!Yeah, I'm all for Rule of Cool and all and I don't think fight scenes need to be overanalyized to the point of "but Yang can only punch things with a force of 12.8 tons, and she clearly hits with at least 35 tons of force here", but literally everything just being "it happens how the writers need it to" is too far in the other direction.
eg, if Adam can one-shot Blake and Yang at the end of season 3, and then in the beginning of season 4 Blake fights Adam and wins because that's what the plot calls for, and there's no explanation for the discrepancy, then that's just bad writing.
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.Still waiting on a source for that claim, since otherwise I think you guys might be overreacting to some hearsay.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=13239183440B34964700 Alfric's Fire Emblem Liveblog Encyclopedia!Personally, I don't think it's Rule of Cool that determined Adam's "fight" with Blake and Yang.
Element of Surprise, plus he had his Finishing Move ready.
If the tables were turned, who's to say it wouldn't have ended differently?
Eh, everyone's talking about a bunch of kids whose eyes are only just beginning to be opened to what the world is really like. Of course they're outclassed right now. That'll change. It always does.
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.Is it apparent? Roman's three fights are:
Roman vs Sun and Blake, which was a face to face matchup that ended in a rough draw (neither side was beaten, but Roman was holding his ground against the both of them), and he seemed to have the advantage against either one of them in a 1v1. He gets hit like two or three times in this fight
Roman vs Blake round 2, where she had the element of surprise due to an upgraded weapon (regardless of your opinion of the dust clips introduction, she didn't just randomly become stronger, she got an explicit outside buff, which is relevant to the setting) and capitalized on it in the only fight where she actually used a more tricky approach. The dust clip may have been lazy, but upgrading a weapon is not the same as out of nowhere the character themself becoming massively stronger. As for damage, he got blown up, air juggled, blocked by an ice clone and then knocked into a wall with a sword beam.
Roman vs Ruby, which started as a 2v1 in Roman's favor where he and Neo spend the entire fight clowning on Ruby, and after Neo gets Mary Poppin'd, he still keeps on beating her. Basically took no damage.
His record seems pretty consistent; he can beat the notable first year students alone pretty handily, but isn't so far above them to be able to take a really severe beating, which surprise would open up.
edited 16th Apr '16 6:35:51 PM by Alfric
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/lb_i.php?lb_id=13239183440B34964700 Alfric's Fire Emblem Liveblog Encyclopedia!Coco probably had some weaker bullets to use for the tournament, so she wouldn't accidentally kill someone during it via Nevermore-killing bullet storm. And Roman got his ass kicked because Blake caught him by surprise with the Dust clip, abused her clones heavily throughout that fight, and was essentially aiming for the jugular immediately once the fight started, so to speak.
Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!The dust clip really doesn't correspond to how she completely manhandled him. He was definitely beating her quite easily in their first encounter.
There's also Coco. Easily kills three Nevermores and a Deathstalker, turns out she's not invincible after all and her team loses to Mercury's team who goes on to lose to Yang - even if that went according to the plan, the fight looked genuine.
Coco also got fucked over because of Emerald's illusions, which helped her and Mercury take her and Yatsuhashi out. Cinder also had the whole "make Yang look like she kneecapped a defenseless person" thing planned out before the fight between her and Mercury even happened, so it's not out of the question that he planned to take a dive to make the plan happen.
edited 16th Apr '16 6:37:57 PM by Ssj3Gojira
Let's see if you can get past my Beelzemon. Mephiles, WARP SHINKA!For Coco, she has had one major fight, and two other showings. The fight was a loss where she was up against Emerald after she and Yatsuhashi got split up, where she never got a good chance to lay into someone with her bullets, and got outmatched by a roguish opponent. Her other showings were against Grimm (who have a... questionable record so far) and they weren't really dodging her bullets, and the completed Paladins, which were able to match a bunch of other students and needed Unlimited Bun Works and summoning to defeat. Still doesn't seem too off, outside of the Grimm, and those aren't covered in craptons of armor nor have aura.
Roman entered the fight with Blake cocky and overconfident, struting toward her since he, as you mentioned, had little trouble with her before. She surprised him with the dust clip and followed up, and while he was recovering she hit him with a powerful finisher. We don't really know how tanky he can be, since all his showings didn't involve him getting hit much, so him being relatively squishy is hardly impossible.
I don't even think Merc would have needed to be actively taking a dive to lose. He looked pretty surprised by Yang's revival after the finisher, so her sudden explosive attack could have caught him off guard.
edited 16th Apr '16 6:42:10 PM by Alfric
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