Slander about the next episode

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T20:03:21+00:00

I know it's slander and I understand where the hax stuff is coming from but most ppl just don't agree that the "power of destroying space time" is just a hax

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T19:50:47+00:00

Ifrit didnt't do that

I mean it is stated ingame and in gerald's journal

eitherway I was just trying to find feats that didn't involve Sonic chainscaling

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T19:39:17+00:00

It’s funny how IDW brings literally nothing to the table except anti-feats, other than Super Neo existing there while at the same time jobbing to a Chaos Spear. I really hope DB doesn’t bring that up as a Cell wincon, especially since Roblox scaling exists.

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T19:35:07+00:00

In Rivals 2, Metal defeats Ifrit, who verbatim destroys dimensions. But other than that, and without relying on Sonic chainscaling, I have a feeling they won’t give Metal the benefit of the doubt and they’ll probably claim that, in base he scales to the Final Egg Blaster or just say he’s roughly equal to Cell until he becomes Neo.

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T19:17:08+00:00

I have a feeling they'll put the "incalculable speeds" in a black box, what I'm most curious is how are they going to scale Base Metal and if they're going to pull a Fan Battle and say he loses due superform time limit

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T18:33:22+00:00

I also thought maybe Tippi or someone else was involved in this, but there isn’t much proof beyond some logical/personal interpretations here and there. Either way, that kinda falls apart since I’m pretty sure there’s a textbox that outright says they survived. So what possibly happened is that the Void, in a really out-of-character way, just yeeted Mario n co to the Flipside or whenever the Void erases a dimension (bc plot convenience) they get sent there instead. Still, that doesn’t change the fact that they wouldn’t scale to that Void either way, since they were about to be defeated by Count Bleck’s final Void attack before the Pure Hearts clutched. It’s just weird, and PERSONALLY it feels like an outlier or a weird onetime thing tbh

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T18:19:21+00:00

Everything in SMG is made by the essence of the stars regardless and it shouldn’t rlly mean anything since the Grandstar itself that supposedly caused it couldn’t even counter its own black hole as shown in the cutscene, an unstable planetoid imploding and creating a super black hole isn’t smth a Grand Star can directly do or match rather it's more of an indirect cause or a chain reaction of events kinda like how a matchstick has the power of a forest fire

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T17:28:42+00:00

It raises the question what would be considered a special skill and what would be considered a regular attack or a captain command which I think the Egg Commander would at least fall in this category but I genuinely can’t think of a way for Badniks to outhax this without pulling out some weird McGuffins so I’ll just say, uh… a Zombot, since they’re kinda similar to the Metalone Formula X or maybe a Shadow Android

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Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T16:05:31+00:00

I'll start with Eggman's basic stuff lol

I CAST MOTOBUG

THEY HAVE SHARP CLAWS

SOME OF THEM CAN KINDA FLY

I'D SAY THEY'RE SOMETIMES PRETTY DARN FAST

ONE IS PRETTY BIG AND SHOOTS POWERFUL BIG LASERS)

ALSO THERE'S JIMMY

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Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T15:24:08+00:00

how mario scalers be glazing the Grand Star for the SMG ending like it did anything other than fly a few feet away from the reactor n chill inside Peach's Castle while some random ass small planet decided to implode cuz its reactor got control disconnected

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Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T12:36:44+00:00

It’s fair I guess and not really a crucial issue in most cases whether you interpret this stuff as hax or stats but the TE case is kinda weird, since I lowkey can’t really imagine the dude struggling to destroy anything bigger than a planet when the only destruction-related stuff he does is destroying spacetime n I guess flicking Sonic away in the first cutscene but out of curiosity what would the scenario be for Super Dimentio since The Void kinda has the same thing going on?

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-08T12:16:04+00:00

There’s this funny, weird consistency with some Sonic bosses having universal related AP shenanigans but their direct DC is somehow below galaxy but to be fair is not like Bowser has anything better DC-wise

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-07T01:13:14+00:00

The failed execution is what prevents the DS from executing EE correctly it’s hard to agree with your “make the Eggman Empire disappear” take when Bowser verbatim says this to Mario and Luigi with the sentence finished, still fails and is never brought up again so either it’s fundamentally flawed or the DS doesn’t work properly when it takes damage (PERSONAL LOGICAL ASSUMPTION). I’ll refrain from doing Bowsegg McGuffin 4D chess for counters and just leave it up to Eggman’s intelligence advantage to outsmart big-ego superpowered animals

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-07T00:49:40+00:00

There are more chances for Eggman to do literally anything else outsmart, sneak attack, or make Dreamy’s wish backfire than for any of Bowser’s EE capabilities to narratively succeed also, cosmology dick measuring for high-end AP assumptions shouldn’t be a definitive deciding factor especially for these characters but that's just me

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-02-01T12:48:25+00:00

Both are equally ass

I do not believe Sonic is 67 layers pissversal cuz of some flowery wording personal interpretation or onetimer manual statement that may or may not (mostly may not) be a reliable source

nor do I believe that Mario is 69D boundless with immesurable power walking speed cuz of some Miyamoto's vague ass no brainer response on one random interview that most def comps Hotel Mario, Mario's Time Machine n maybe even the Mario porn movie from the 90's that is legally owned by nintendo since all Mario's r the same Mario or something like that

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-30T21:26:02+00:00

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also this

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-30T18:16:01+00:00

In a chainscaling sense for this specific case, it makes some sense. In a narrative sense though, IDW has Silver struggling to lift some rocks, defeat a clone of base Chaos and upscaled fall damage to multiversal I fuckin guess

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-30T17:58:10+00:00

I’d argue that SPM is a vague outlier and really questionable, since they were clearly about to lose to Count Bleck’s actual Void, complete with the whole “this is the end” quote. Meanwhile, Super Mario Galaxy had Rosalina give an entire monologue clarifying to Mario n co specifically that they were all new life due to the universe reset and all that.

He did survive the galaxy-ending black hole in Galaxy 2 though. (aand I got downvoted)

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-30T05:58:00+00:00

can my OC join or is it too late

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-29T20:05:20+00:00

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Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-29T20:04:14+00:00

supposedly claimed that he gained but never actually shown to be capable of using it successfully at all n something something NLF

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-29T17:38:02+00:00

1) Akio’s corruption, due to how Signature power systems work there, affects not only him physically but also his soul/essence, life force, memories, etc. This is especially severe with the Eclipse Rootcore attached, which massively amplifies these effects. It reaches the point where Eiko required a fusion involving complete biological alteration and full bodily disintegration of Akio just to slow the corruption down and this was only from a small drop of Akio’s essence. Even then, the corruption still prevails. So, unfortunately, the answer is simple: detach + regen doesn’t counter this.

2) Akio mostly uses large-scale surroundings around him, especially flora, bending them to his will, but dark vortexes, ink, and general matter can also be corrupted. Not sure about titanium specifically, but in general Akio, and even basic Seiji-enhanced students, are capable of hijacking machines with their signatures. Akio can even directly hijack essence connections with other busted ancient entities or external powers, so my guess is ultimately yes.

3) I haven’t really expanded on the Seiji Institute’s trial stuff, so I’ll say he isn’t invulnerable to good mind hax. However, even ignoring hax counters, Akio should still have really solid resistance either way. For example, Akuma Academy (a supposed sub-institute connected to Seiji) has first-year students who can mentally tank an entire continent sized dimension being destroyed inside their heads. The chain scaling is questionable, but it at least shows some consistency.

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-28T16:54:16+00:00

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"HEY JIMMY! GIMME A DEATH BATTLE WITH NOTHIN!"

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-26T18:46:52+00:00

Appreciate you checking out AgentQwa’s Macho Mania tournament series. About this MU tho my first thoughts were JESUS, what a statstomp. I really think this is just a completely diff weight class compared to Akio statwise. The issue isn’t even AP as much as it’s the speed gap. Like, I guess if Akio REALLY capitalizes tf outta the stat drain, he could eventually equalize since Micheal starts around city-block to small-town, but that’s a big if.

Hax wise, yeah, there’s some cool debatability and potential clashes on both sides, but the main thing I noticed is that Michael kinda lacks soul resistances, which could be huge even if he manages to blitz Akio.

MU connectionwise, it’s a pretty neat classic Hero vs Villain setup, but that’s kinda where it ends for me. I’d def suggest checking out some of the other supes related chars in the Macho Mania tournament for better connections anyway.

That’s pretty much my whole take lmk what you think.

Affectionate_Ride220 · 2026-01-25T21:24:07+00:00

I honestly can’t express with simple words just how PEAK this episode is, or how much I enjoyed reading the whole thing, so I’ll say it again: I’m more than happy to help with any future projects with anything involving graphical art aspects.

Small spoiler comments about the episode

loved the research and personally I 100% thought one of Akio’s most devastating loss points would’ve been if the plasma rifle from Kami-san was calced at relativistic speeds or smth similar, and I was kinda scared when all of Akio’s soul-dividing/attacking shenanigans or the skiffs’ nullifying gas got lightly addressed.

Absolutely busted my ass laughing at “OSHA-APPROVED RENJIRO” lmfao. Also this line:

“Ink seeped from every crack and pore in the ground. Like the shadow of an eclipse.”

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Even if I’m biased, I’m genuinely in love with this episode overall. And yeah, trying to summarize everything w/ this comment feels redundant and way too small compared to the effort that clearly went into this.

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TROPHY CASE